pete.young

I hope it's a great evening @bass_dinger . I well remember the time that Steve Lawson graced a SE bass bass with his presence, he's a phenomenal talent and a very nice chap. It's good to see that he's out and about again.

It's not that Phillips guy from ebay is it?

With a parallel loop, you're only applying it to part of the signal (probably 50%) and the un-EQd signal will still be getting through. My guess is that the signal sounds fatter and fuller with the EQ off when in the loop, because your EQ is filtering out the things that make it sound fat and full in the first place. Some Markbass amps (for sure, the LM2 and LM3) had an internal jumper that allows you to change the loop from parallel to serial. That means you get the whole signal modified, at the expense of getting complete silence if the effects chain fails. The other thing to be aware of is that most effects loops are designed to work with line-level voltage equipment (think rack effects) whereas most stomp boxes work at instrument level voltage. So they may not work properly, may require gain changes, or they might be absolutely fine. And with house amps, not only do you have to worry about whether they have loops, you also have to find out whether they're serial or parallel. My experience is effects loops on bass amps are best avoided altogether, unless you have something like a rack-mounted DBX 166 studio compressor and want to apply it to the whole signal, all of the time.

It's income, not profit.

To be fair to Ebay, they have no choice in that. Once you sell more than £1740 Ebay is obliged to notify HMRC under UK digital sales legislation. You're required to pay tax on anything you earn over £1000 p/a. Might be an idea to fill in a self-assessment form if you're in this position, to stave off any unwanted interest from HMRC.

Carrying a DI/pre-amp is all very well, but unless you actually test it at a gig all you have is a theory.

Played there earlier this year. I think they provided 3 monitors: right, left and centre on the stage apron. There is a sound guy there who sets everything up and operates it.

I'm ooking forward to hearing how this works with your Monza.

You could try running the search in google with site:www.basschat.co.uk/<the for sale area you want to search> and -sold

I don't know whether they did or not. I think they made various copies in the early 70s for Rose Morris, but not which ones. I'm not an expert.

I think the Japanese made ones were neck through. Not sure about the ones made by Eko. I was looking at the tuners and hardware. Anyhoo, I'm well out of my depth here. @Bassassin and @prowla , can you help the nice man please?

I'm not an expert, but it looks like a Shaftesbury to me.

I had an Aria Pro II RSB for a while and it was definitely 34" scale. @kristo has a nice looking medium scale Jazz for sale.

I think you'll find it's paid by the buyer.