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Blue JJ arrived today. Plays as nicely as the PJ. Looks lovely. I'm really a P pick-up guy at heart, J pups seem a little gutless in comparison, but in a band context they often excel. Anyway another HB triumph.

Not surprised.

Oh God. What have I done

I gigged one regularly - back when I gigged regularly - and it's plenty loud. A fantastic piece of kit.

Not at all! I think it looks fantastic. I won't ever pay that much for a bass, but the shape and colours are great

Hilarious how even experienced musicians believe there is a right and a wrong way to get a bass sound. There is no such thing as the right bass sound. And therefore no right way to achieve it.

I loved Dire Straits. First three albums at least. But that wasn't my point. Popular had become bland, manufactured, and safe. Oasis and the rest of their ilk brought it back. It goes in phases, or at least it did. I don't know what popular music sounds like any more

It seems we must disagree. I hope the forum can cope.

The gap between the strings I assume. So middle is my guess.

Well, I use oasis as an example to signify the return of guitar pop rather than suggest they were the best band ever However compared to simply red they were genius

I love the Joyo amp, mine is sat on a 1x10 but those TCE cabs look great. Are they 2x8s?

For me The 80s started really well, by 84 it had begun to be very slim pickings and almost nothing of note from 85 onwards. Music started again with Oasis. These are obviously broad brush strokes.

Apologies I was responding to your offer to try not looking to buy right now

Looks great @mcnach Funnily enough, I'm getting the blue JJ with the white guard. Even though I believe tort is the absolute gold standard colour for a pickguard, it looks very wrong with the blue.

Very kind, but London is a bit too far for me

That seems very fair. Considerate even.

The four string is light as a feather

Well, I do have too many effects and not enough gigs, so really I ought to sell some. But no! Hands off! I still love my Plethora.

Gigged with it in memory mode on Saturday. I was bedeviled by the same problem I have whenever I use preprogrammed effects patches. No matter how assiduously I set them up at home, get on stage and there are glaring differences in volume between the patches, and what sounds amazing at home seldom sounds great live. Nothing wrong with the unit just my cack handed inability to program stuff properly.

Wow! You must have spent more on strings than on the bass 😜

Thanks for the response. I'll have a dive in and see

Oh god yes. Not just the audience numbers either. If I let myself mither on anything beyond playing, these days I totally lose focus. Must be my age. Last night it was altering an effect and wondering why it was so far out of kilter when I'd spent so long balancing it with the other effects. Couldn't get my head off that and onto the job in hand. Also a problem with the PA was on my mind and I felt I let myself down when that surfaced. Weird.