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Ooh, which gives you the most mojo?

UHF FTW?

Gibson did that to me twice when I tried to buy a Grabber 3 70s Tribute bass... The second one had faulty wiring - buzzed and hummed all over the place. I sent them both back and gave up. Thing gave me zero vibes of the OG G-3 anyway - it was like someone had described the G-3 down the phone.

Maybe they've changed since you formed that opinion? The IV stuff onwards has only one filter instead of two (VLE, VPF), and it's been renamed "Old School" with clearer OFF and MAX labelling to make it clear that you are dialling in zero or some "Old School" rather than it being a centred EQ point. The mid scoop is a simple switch rather than a pot. I find the flat tone to be somewhat mid heavy (suits me fine - great for live). I run mine "flat" (is any amp truly flat?), with a bit of "Old School" and do any small shaping at the graphic EQ on my Monomyth at the pedalboard.

Internet hate is irrelevant - it is usually an amalgamation of the parochial viewpoints of a few malcontents who may well have had an individual bad experience, snowballed by a bunch of sycophants parroting what they've heard like a scary story round the campfire, because they want to belong to something or because they want to curry favour with whoever they heard it from. You'll notice it's mostly vague, people can't pinpoint a particular model or speak in depth about it, it's just generic. Most of the people who talk trash about something have probably never used the product in question, or did so many moons ago and are too bitter to give it another go. I pay it no attention. I let it wash past me as I make up my own mind. I've been very happy with things "people" have said are utter garbage. Maybe I do sometimes pay some attention though. If I listened to the internet hate, I'd have never owned a Gibson bass. I think I bought them because of the internet hate

If you think my Roqsolid covers don't have yellow seams, you're sorely mistaken

Pfft, "hate". It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. Trust your own ears. If you like Markbass, you're not wrong. If you don't like them, you're not wrong. FWIW, my rig is a Mini CMD 121P IV on top of a New York 121 and I enjoy it very much - not only the sound but the modularity, the compactness, relative light weight and the fact that both of my "tone cubes" fit in the back of my wee Mitsubishi Colt (just).

I disagree with the "stay in your genre" bit - we do guitar based songs with no guitars and drag them kicking and screaming into our world. Goes down well, familiar but different. Variants of "you guys do a kickass version of X" have been said to us.

Ebolacaster

You pray for them. I'm not saying they're unobtainium, but they're not far off, sorry.

The few times I've found it necessary to shim a neck, I've used an appropriate sized piece of wood veneer (0.6mm). I went through a phase of applying wood veneer to headstocks. CBA now, like

I came into this half expecting a full on rant about some recalcitrant piece of tech which is supposed to make life easier and does everything but. Nice to see that the thread subject is not sarcasm

Sad sauce - missed out on a sibling for my BB1200. You snooze, you lose!

I wonder where the red one went...

You have to actually go look at the status fully to access it - click on the comment count in the summary on the main page to get there.

As a former owner of this amp's predecessor (Tecamp Puma 900) I can confirm that the Taste knob is wonderful witchcraft.

Lovely. These basses were the reason I modded my Epi Les Paul to black n gold - I'd have bought one of these if I didn't already have a G&L Tribute LB-100 taking care of the Precision side of things. So instead I made my own black and gold bass.

That's not going to stop them forgetting though, is it?

You're a good looking, cantankarous old so-and-so. You give me hope for the future.

I own up to a dozen basses at a time - it's not the friend of my wallet!

There doesn't seem to be a thread for this particular combo, so let's see 'em. Either black bodies with gold hardware etc, or gold bodies with black hardware etc. Wait, that's not my bass! Except I couldn't leave it alone, now it has full gold pickup covers and a brass nut. Short of replacing the frets with gold ones, and using gold coloured strings, I think I'm done. Over to you...

I leave myself passive/aggressive notes on the setlist - MATT TUNE TO D, MATT TUNE TO E FFS! etc