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You won't want to sell this! Just ask @Kevsy71, he sold his to me and couldn't bear to be without it. He went and bought another one. Bruce played with Elvis in the Attractions for many years and used a P Bass which he had extensively modded for much of those years. He had it stolen and recently teamed up with the Bass Centre to have a replacement made. This is no vanity deal where he received a lump sum and they stuck his name on the headstock. He was involved from the beginning. He wanted to capture all the advantages from the way he'd upgraded his original bass. At 500 quid this is a steal. Worried about 2nd hand value? Buy one second hand. But you'll wait a long time. People don't seem to want to be parted from them. edit: some links

I have the privilege of starting a new feedback thread. I did a deal for an Asdown cab with @phil-m had no idea I was his first, I hope I was gentle with you Phil. Let me say straight off Phil is an excellent Basschatter; prompt to respond, helpful, courteous, polite and sold me a cab in excellent condish at a fair price. We had a couple of hiccups on the way which were easily sorted and I couldn't have asked for a better transaction. Thanks Phil, happy to recommend you to the Basschat Massive.

Woah - for the record I have (and like) both MB and TE gear and this isn't a gypsy's kissing contest between them. I was asked about getting a similar sound not which the better, louder or more desirable. Trust me I would never have sold my MB NY 151 cabs if I hadn't got fines to pay. The Trace AH500X through those two was a sexually stimulating event.

They are isolated. I watched a guy take one apart and run a meter over it

Looking forward to your review. This is one of the two remaining HBs on my hit list. No funds right now as I'm selling to buy amps and cabs but it's sitting winking at me evry time |I glance at my basket. I wouldn't have said the blue would be my first choice. How does it look in real life?

Ah I have been misled on this, thank you @Noisyjon

https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_powerplant_iso_2_pro.htm

Ah that's fine. Was going to recommend a good one for about the same price new. But nowhere near as much fun, and as you say you get to choose the components this way.

Is this for financial reasons, or for the pleasure of a self build?

As has been said there isn't anything like an old school Trace stack. However I have used my Trace, Ampeg and Ashdown rigs through Barefaced cabs for a couple of years now. I would say nothing beats a Trace, biamped into a TE 15 and a TE 2x10 but I can't lift them anymore and the Barefaced is good enough. My conclusion: a good solid Trace amp on top of a BF Compact or ideally two Compacts will give you all your heart might desire. I am also happy with the Elf but early days yet, and will be trying an Ashdown EVO amp into two 12s soon. I'll report back as and when.

So my downsizing continues apace. Bought an Ashdown 12" RM cab from @phil-m and paired with the little Elf I have recently acquired, it's just lovely. The sound is a match made in heaven and I very much look forward to hearing them in a bigger setting. And with the Zoom B1Four this is a great multi functional lightweight mini rig.

Couldn't let me in next week lottery numbers could you? 😉

My first choice bass if I were auditioning or recording. The P basses from the Bass Centre are very good, the Profile is superb.

Congrats @mcnach I love mine. I call it my make an average bass sound awesome pedal. I've even used it as a preamp at one gig just to see what it sounded like. It didn't disappoint.

Even looks don't tell the whole story in a photo. I have bought plenty that continued to look great when pictured but not so good in front of me, and vice versa. in any case the looks aren't really worthy of that much debate when they're based on such familiar designs. We all know what a P or J looks like. The devil will be in the detail and the balance and the neck and the sound.

Also one traditional double bass and one electric upright.

Ha ha, good point. I'm projecting my issues onto you. Sorry.

Amazing the many and various solutions we devise to finally close that revolving door. Congratulations, enjoy the tranquility while it lasts. Let's be honest though, you'll see something you fancy then fall for, then can't live without. The nagging voice telling you all this was supposed to be over will only be quiet when you remember the solution: begin the immediate search for the bass which will make this new love a pair. Storage space? You'll fill the room with basses and sleep outside before you stop. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This has been fascinating! Thanks for sharing your cunning solutions. However I can't help thinking that @MrDaveTheBasscame up with simplest, cheapest solution in the very first reply.

Yep I remember that from my lessons! But thank you nonetheless I really appreciate the help I get from people like yourself.

BL wants us to do some recording while we're locked down, which is a great way to use the time. He sent out a demo/click track and this is what I've come up with. Left a bit of the guide track in so it's not just an endless noodle. I have played the song live but totally jammed it following the chart on my tablet, so it's been good to acrtually think about it!

@Ashdown Engineering HELP!!!!!!

Misleading title alert. Just in case one of our resident pedants starts chewing on his logarithm tables, I know what I'm about to talk about is two thirds, but you see I preferred the title as is. A bit snappier I'd say. Anytwittwoo, I was thinking of that old saying, with which I am sure we're all familiar, 'a bi-amper is just a tri-amper who doesn't really mean it ' This thread is also my 'best thing delivered during the lockdown' thread but you can have too much of a good thing where titles are concerned. Hands down the bestest thing I've sprung for since being holed up is my Super-X-Pro crossover by Behringer. It has opened a Pandora's box of sonic possibilities and is, in short, enormous fun. Having played with the two way crossover for a few weeks I decided that it's time I looked at the possibility of a three way. Fnaar. I pressed my little monitor into service and oh my golly gosh! Sounds like nothing I've ever heard before. At first I thought the experiment was a bust. Muting the low and mid outputs produced something akin to the old plastic radio which I used to listen to Luxembourg as a boy. But this is actually where the magic is. mix with the mids and the little speaker is actuallyadding purely the fresh, sparkling edge to the sound. Being able to control that without affecting any other frequencies is a joy. Similarly the bass. On its own just a huge wamping blooob of a sound. But compress the bejasus out of it, fold in a but of mid from the two 8" speakers and ay curumba! I spend hours just muting the outputs, singly and in pairs, and chuckling. With just a hint of manic about it. I'm probably just doing something everyone else has been doing forever with Helix and earphones. But I don't care. It's amazing. It's fun. Honestly it must be great to find what you're happy with and just stick with it. But I can't be what I'm not. I'm a restless soul, the joy for me is as much in the journey as it is in the destination. ps Oh and did I mention how simple it is to set up? Everything stays connected, just one mains lead two speaker leads and the input on the little top cab. OK I keep a couple of pedal snakes coiled in the back of the rack box in case I decide to use effects for a gig. But again, they're right there. No rummaging for them in a box or bag. The psu for the effects already plugged in and attached to the amp end of the snake. Different effects for different parts of my sound. Oh what fun it is to be alive. pps The Super-X-Pro has an adjustable limiter AND a HPF. ppps 😁