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Grab a secondhand version of whichever you fancy from the classifieds on here (they both pop up pretty frequently and the guys on here are a good mob) If you don't get on with it you can always turn it round for pretty much what you paid if you dont get carried away and spend over the going rate. Then if you find you like the Sandberg and really want one to your own spec just move it on and order a new one....that way you won't lose £500+ selling on a new bass. Seriously, you could get a USA Sub for about £400-£500 and a Sandberg for £800+ secondhand reasonably easily - thats a lot less than just a Berg from the factory. Find out which one you gel with and go from there.

Stingray - single pickup 2 band eq so has more booty than the 3 band, chunkier Precision sized neck, weighs a bit, rosewood/black, built like a tank, loads of sizzle, can knock walls down with the bass control maxed, get the mids back into it by rolling tone controls back to midway and upping the volume. The 3 band version is closer in sound to my Sandberg... Sandberg - old PM4 style so reversed P pickup in the neck and a MM in the bridge position, skinnier jazz style (but not quite so skinny) neck, flatter fingerboard - feels lightning fast, about same weight as Stingray, still has sizzle but not quite as much as a Ray, does a very good Precision sound on just the neck pickup but tightens right up if you roll back to bridge pickup, can't do a Stingray sound but has a similar flavour, built like a tank as well, can run in passive mode so you get a slightly rounder old school tone that you can't do on a 'ray. Love them both........ You could grab a USA Sub for £400/500 - has almost exactly the USA Stingray sound/feel on a budget. Fab value.....

This....... get both, i did ;-)

Alter Bridge - Blackbird Queensryche - Empire Hughes Thrall - Hughes Thrall All rock, sorry..... Hughes Thrall is a bit under the radar but its probably one of the best rock albums ever released imho - great band...

First gig out with my new 50's Lacquer Precision and EBS amp last night. A nice lively rock pub in Essex....we had a great night and it sounded good. Even the other band guys noticed and a few bass players in the audience said it sounded good. Happy days..

I just had a look - its the right sort of stuff for the crowd in that place imho, you should have an ok night Have fun :-)

Thats the same guy....nice bloke. The volume problem is linked to the size of the place - the punters tend to stay up the far end, you're playing up the other end and the grumpy neighbour was the other side of the car park which is behind your end. The audience were asking us to turn up 'cos they couldn't hear us and the landlord was asking us to turn down 'cos of grumpy bloke. Hopefully the grumpy neighbour has moved or they've calmed him down somehow. Whats your band called?

Looks great, lovely colour....and they're a bit under the radar too which is nice

We played it about 6 times 2 years ago. It's a big place and had a resident crowd of mainly 50+ year olds but not particularly friendly. It's more of a Sunday lunch and big screen footie place. Load in is from car park at back and you go up a ramp thru 2 doors into the the area just behind where you play so not bad. Small raised stage with handrails around it. Wooden floors and quite big and echoey sound. The guvnor (may not be there now as he had some health issues before) had a big problem with a particular neighbour re the volumes with all the bands. He used to stand outside in the car park and keep running in saying to turn it all down. To the point of it being a waste of time and we cancelled all our future gigs there. The guitar amps physically couldn't get any quieter and the drummist was already using rods and couldn't get quieter. Shame because we always went down well there but it was unworkable. i thought he would end up scrapping live music as a result but the fact he's still doing maybe means they have resolved things a bit. When are you there? I may drop in if I'm free that night

EBS TD660..... Just grabbed a used TD650 off here a couple of weeks ago, gigged it, loved it and then this new one fell on me. It would have been rude not to...... Might be a used TD650 for sale soon, i cant justify having 2 :-)

Sparky just grabbed my Ashdown ABM.......top bloke, swift, reliable blah blah blah......... Cheers Mark

I did ok..... the amp i was looking to buy at £800 (originally £1200) was reduced to £649 :-) If only DPD could manage to actually deliver it to me............

Theres a couple of cracking bits of kit massively reduced at gear4music - some good basses and amps here.... Musicman Reflex bass reduced from £2200 to £1100 here https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Music-Man-Reflex-H-Bass-Guitar-RN-Vintage-Sunburst/1A7J A rarely seen Musicman Game Changer reduced from £2500 to £1300 https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Music-Man-Reflex-Game-Changer-HH-Bass-Guitar-RN-Black/1AAS And this iTrack recording microphone thingy looked useful down from £83 to £15 https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Focusrite-iTrack-Pocket/13CV

Queensryche Specifically from the Operation Mindcrime album onwards....

I just bought a Fender Classic 50's Lacquer Precision bass from Bridgehouse. Great bloke, easy transaction, nice tea, nice dogs and now missing a very nice P bass 🙂

Bought Neils EBS amp off him - great bloke and very easy transaction with great comms!

We're usually £800 - 1000 for a pub NYE gig but we're doing this year for £600 because we really like the place and they've been good to us with gigs for the last couple of years. We'll have a great night there so i don't mind doing it cheap - it'll be fun.

But it is quite broad....:-) Cant remember where i heard it from - it was pre internet definitely - and i'm probably wrong anyway

I think its Broad Bass.......