LukeFRC

I agree up to a point - when you've got a bass that's just in specific colour with a signature on the end of the headstock I don't get that... but when there is a custom bass where someone has customised it to the point of it being quite different to anything else then that's cool with me. The Fender Roscoe Beck being a good example - I'ld love one of them.

+1 this is a really nice bit of kit EDIT: though the new Zoom software I think does everything that TineLib does too now? How you finding your B15 model?

Any bodger can download some cab software and have a semi-literate guess at a cab design* - but seeing the software I've seen either lets you spec square or round ports I would just be sceptical that someone would have measured the area of the shape of handle shape the ports accurately.... *and hopefully realise quite quickly that there's more to it that bodging it...

there was a green 5 string one that got sold on here a few times, @warwickhunt was one of the last to sell it... I always wanted that bass. Though probanbly I would have remembered I don't get on with jazz basses. I would buy it if it came up again at a sensible price!

And you realistically probably wouldn't spend 4 times the amount if these KZ are that good...

Heft? (Runs)

Your amp is I think converting the signal to a digital one and back again, doing all sorts of clever power management and compression and simulating a certain sound - the RH450 is a pretty awesome bit of kit ... but very different from an all analogue setup - where the more stuff you put in the signal path the more possible distortion, phase issues and anomalies you will get from them. If you look at the guts of a lot of valve amps they will look quite simple in terms of number of parts. There is a difference I think in terms of the sound. Live, by the time it's gone through a pa the RH450 will work well and it's feature set will help... but I doubt you would ever mic one up in the recording studio...

Two for me: Trace Elliot/Status T-bass - my first bass had been a Status Shark so the T bass was the top of the range GAS machine I had wanted for years. Finally got myself to the Gallery in Camden as they had two secondhand ones in stock - both of which sounded dull and lifeless of all the basses I could have tried out in that shop... Fender American vintage reissue series '74ri jazz bass and that era- I had tried a fair few of the previous vintage reissue series basses and they had been seriously nice instruments - I wish I had had the money to buy at least 3 of them. The old '75ri Jazz is a bass I wish I had owned but never have... so when Fender updated the series and brought out the newer 74ri jazz I went to try one.... cheap wood covered in thick cheap finish with a dull sound and just cheap feel and finish and a worse sound plugged in... so tried another one the same. A-B comparing to a Squier and the Squier was a better instrument!

Drop Alan a line and see what's possible in your budget...

If I have used up all the foam tips on my UE900s would you recommend spinfits over comply foam tips?

I can't find output VP as an effect to add - am I missing something?

@Pete B, @Daz39 we all must live within 10 miles or so of each other (I'm in Farsley)

I know some folk who had a big old 5 bed tenement on Castle Street - they let it out to students for 11 months and festival for one month - they made twice as much in one month as the other 11

Edinburgh is an amazing place to live... but only IME if you're a student, or have a decent paying income. If you're in the lower pay grades it's not that amazing as you'll have a good quality of life, but kinda no be saving very much. Plus if it's music opportunities surely it would be Glasgow you would move too? Way more open city to blow-ins too - Edinburgh can be a bit cliquey sometimes. On the plus side if you do similar to lozkerr and buy somewhere on the royal mile, factor going on holiday every august.... the rent from letting your flat out will pay for the month holiday, plus the whole year of mortgage payments! Halifax - super cheap and easy distance from Leeds, Manchester and at a push Sheffield Hebdon Bridge if you've a bit more money and want people to *know* you're a musician...

Exciting - it's odd that Yamaha buy a good brand and my natural reaction is "cool" if fender had bought them (not that they could afford) wewould all be like "oh no"

So you've got a top end amp already - if you like the Eden sound look at Thunderfunk as it's a similar amp but done really well. But it's not an upgrade, it's just a different sound. Cab wise I personally would just buy barefaced but use your ears and decide what you like!

Nice - and supposed to be a pretty amazing combo

Really the only options to reshell are a company in Singapore or convincing you?!

whereas the Tecamp M210 i had was just bad engineering IMO

Cab design seems to be either a super complex science, or a black art... and I'm not sure some of the "tonal" differences are anything linked to price or quality of design. There are exceptions to this of course, Alex C and Bill F seem to know what they are doing, I've backward engineered a cab once and it was clear they didn't know what they were doing...

forgive my ignorance but what would that let you do? the way I'm thinking it would work would let the B3n become a really powerful tool...

Almost definitely - Eminence arn't the cheapest over here compared with EU made speakers. I think if I were cab shopping I would just build my own, or head over the FRFR thread and go by the recommendations there to pick up a PA cab

There's now a B15 on the B3n