LukeFRC

I think, especially with Fender, they went from being a small company making basses and stuff to a big company/corporation making basses and stuff. I guess the question is, did the quality change - or more importantly, did the quality control change, and what effect would that have? Similar with Warwick, started out as a tiny company, grew, then in 1992 moved to a bigger plant and stopped using solid brass hardware, then late '90's early 2000's on the back of the nu-metal phase started making lots and lots more instruments a month... then later by 2012 or so scaled back to making less again... ask yourself did the quality change - and why, and I don't think the link is exactly to 'vintage'. I would rather have a custom shop Jazz made in 2017 than a vintage Jazz from 1978... The other aspect is desirability. If there are limited numbers of it then it stands to reason that it will be desirable to some folk. An example is my old JV precision. It was a really nice instrument. But because it said "Fender, squier series" rather than "Squier" it was one of only a few hundred, and because of that worth more than the later ones. Much different to a later one? Probably not! That said sometimes construction tequniques change, nitro sounding "better" for example but not safe to apply. The slab and laminate fretboards Fender used, Musicman changing their preamp, Or my current G&L only having the pickups it does for a couple of years....

Neon...

I dunno, sounds like an unlicensed fake copy to me...

nothing. really nothing.

There's a moral in there for you!

only one of those pickups could be in the correct position!

Again a note of caution - if the PA speker is designed to cross over to a sub then the bottom end might be compromised compared to what we would expect of a bass cab - they will have made different compromises when designing the bass cab

Secondhand Warwick corvette $$ fit the bill or does it need to look more traditional?

Update: over two months without an amp - it's been painful But it's fixed, primary winding on the transformer has gone, new replacement sent from the USA and fitted - price for transformer is not cheap - £250-300 ish But it works

I think the example of Roger Glover and Vigier I like. It feels like there's a relationship there that both benefit from, Roger gets the bass he wants, and helps a smaller company get a bit more publicity. I bet people have ordered Overwaters based on Scott from Scot's bass lessons using them on his online thingys - things like that that move sales from massive corps to smaller builders I like. I still wish I had bought the copy of Herbie flowers jazz that Wes Steed built - it was up for sale here a couple of times, most recently by @molan To be honest I have no idea who Herbie Flowers is, and typically don't get on with Jazz basses, but Wes built an amazing looking bass and.... GAS! This is why, even though we moan about it, they really should stick to Precison and Jazz basses... If you can't actually get hold of the video anymore... how unethical is it to share it with someone in your community.....

So while I completely agree with you and are tempted to go buy a good PA speaker I think it's worth pointing out that it has to be a specific set of speakers on the market that will go low enough and probably have DSP and some thing protecting the speakers excursion in the lows. If you read this thread and picked up any PA can it might not be designed to excel at the job you are asking it to do like the RCF you own are able too

Here's a question: When I was looking a few years back at using a PA speaker as a bass amp and cab there was only one downside at the time... In PA world the bottom end would normally be crossed over to a sub, so they weren't designed to have as much lows as a more specialist bass cab does. This matters very little if you've got PA support (actually a good thing) but meant that the way they were designed wasn't nesserally a direct like for like substitution for a bass cab.... Is this still the case with the RCF and QSC speakers you're talking about, and which ones, (I guess the bigger ones are fine.)

cheers for the first reply, and you could' help yourself with the second could you?! :)

Out of interest.... what modelling amp/pedal/preamps would you recommend? Both the mega buck end right down to cheapies....

if you need a stopgap while it's being made the Ciatlinbread SFT is worth a look....

by all means everyone go and spend on nice stuff... but I'm no longer convinced that for much of what we do as bass players, the technology that is commonly used is the best for the job.... and I think I've seen too many bands pink torpedo up their own sound cos they don't know what they are doing.... YMMV

I think it's crazy that folk will go drop £1k on a wonder cab to go with their £1k amp ... but then IEM or good wedges are too much... I almost went that way last time but if I ever change my amp again I think something like the setup the OP has is the way I will go.

Why not try it and find out? I mean like all engineering, maths and understanding how things work are optional extras aren't they?

555 each my calculator tells me

Nice necks JVs - but seriously if you had a mint, big fender, small squier logo export one then that's probably worth a bit .... because there's not many of them and some folk collect rare stuff. later ones - nah not so bothered. modded later ones... not worth silly money. Mind you when I first joined this site the common thought was that you avoided 70s gender cos they were rubbish (except @wateroftyne who would say his '71 ones were the last good ones and they were sunburst so better anyway) now look at the price they make!!!

To maintain plausible denyability for her that must be obeyed?