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I realize it's 55 pages. In summary: Yes, people do it and they think it's great. I'm not aware anyone who tried it was unhappy with it and switched back to amp/cab. As for which speaker - what is your situation (band style/line-up and how loud) and budget? Most have gone for 10" or 12" speaker. I recommend RCF. Others get on well with QSC which is similar quality/price. Some are happy with the Headrush 112 which is cheaper - I think the difference with the Alto is that the Alto has a mic preamp? Consider going straight to in-ears instead if that would work in your band

First, have you checked this thread:

I don't have a Helix but I wondered previously if this would work: Physically connect upright bass to Input L, and bass guitar to Input R Upright preset has a 'Split > Y' block with BalanceA panned to L100, followed by a mixer block with B Level set to zero (followed by my upright effects). Bass guitar preset: same, except BalanceA panned to R100 (followed by my bass guitar effects). Then the tuner should be available for both? I'm chronically umming & erring about getting a HX Stomp. Doubling is my scenario as well, so it's good to hear it's working for you.

I think it's cool that people make videos to give their thoughts or share knowledge. But from what I can tell, he just dumps his YouTube links on basschat and never contributes to the forum. For example, in this thread there have been many very good and detailed replies with more information, from people who know what they are talking about, but he does not return to discuss any of it. Something about it seems against the spirit of a forum.

I'm currently trying to use my 735A only in passive mode; I prefer having fewer controls to fiddle with. I might have bought your BBP35 if it had been sunburst! I had Fender 9050 flats before the Dunlops, which are brighter. I find the BB pickups have a lot clarity, which I like. You can dial it out if you don't want it; but you couldn't add it in if it wasn't there in the first place.

I've got Dunlops. I think their underlying character is quite a dark flat, but the 735A allows to coax many tones out of them. Good price at £35 and they'll last for years.

To clarify what I wrote - I meant if the house bassist was playing upright. I would have a bass guitar with me, but I would ask if it would be ok if I used their upright. If they were playing bass guitar, I wouldn't ask to borrow that.

Why wouldn't you want to ask to use their amp? I think the house bassist would be expecting that people would want to. I've never been to a jazz jam where I felt it wouldn't be ok to even ask. I wouldn't expect anyone to bring their own upright, drumkit, or keyboard - but I would kind of expect people to bring their own sax, trumpet, guitar, or bass guitar.

What gear are people taking to jams? I just ask to borrow the house bassist's. As for the reason I'd go to a jam - to play with other people, ideally who are better than I am. Found the best way to improve is to get slightly roasted every so often 🙂

I'm generally in the "P bass with flats" camp I'm not sure I'm ever "lost in the mix" - I don't really want to "cut through" for the style of music/my playing. Having said that, I have been experimenting with blending in some J particularly if there are bad room acoustics. Sounds better to me to slightly favour either one pickup or the other, i.e. as long as it's not both pickups on full. I couldn't have done this on my previous BB which had a selector switch, instead of now having a blend knob (or two volumes).

They snared me as well with this strategy I ordered a sunburst Vintera last week, arrived on Friday... heavier than I'd hoped (4kg) and more to the point, had some neck dive; but otherwise it played and sounded quite nice - but ultimately for whatever reason I didn't love it, so it's going back.

I think I agree with you re what is the the point of the mixed setup - but fwiw the One10 can take up to 500W. I suppose at lower volumes, perhaps the blend of SC and One10 sounds nice? I.e. one does it for the tone, not extra volume.

Is the BB2 facing in or out? Either way, what purpose would that serve? Let us know how it works out, but what I did when I was in a similar situation was sell the BB2 & One10, and get a powered wedge speaker (or in-ears).

I'd almost made up my mind to pre-order one of these Classic Vibe Mustangs... but then I saw this! 😍

From whom? I didn't see any such requests.

Agree - although I don't think he wrote Girl from Ipanema; that was Antonio Jobim.

I don't think Jerry Jemmott's been mentioned yet, who played a jazz with flats. Jaco once described himself as "I’m doing a very bad imitation of Jerry Jemmott"

What is your bass? (P bass with flats...) Try a SolidGoldFX Beta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcDP4uYwKsI (Not me.)

On a similar vein - perhaps it's anachronistic, but a 5-string Limelight.

Ampeg Micro-VR has it:

This would be cool. There's a couple I've seen that on the face of it might have it - Warwick LWA 1000, Phil Jones BP-800 - but I'm unsure if the aux signal is routed through to the speaker and DI outputs - in which case it wouldn't be that useful.

I double on acoustic upright and electric bass guitar, and I've just picked up a MicroBass 3. Primarily (of course) it needs to sound really good on both instruments; but after that what stands out for me are the routing options: I can connect and level-balance both my basses; DI (in fact it has two); aux input for receiving a monitor feed, if I'm using in-ears. whether using in-ears or an on-stage speaker, I can adjust the volume I hear my bass without affecting FOH. I've been noodling about tonight at home and it sounds good. Next gig is on Saturday so can test it out for real then. To answer the previous poster's question: as well as the drive knob itself there are two additional switches affecting the drive character: LO/HI and THIN/NEUTRAL/DEEP. I'm getting a nice hint of break-up using LO and NEUTRAL. Photo, including almost-matching-colour custom in-ears monitor cable (XLR to mini jack):

Personally I am confused by drop D because the intervals between strings change - but I did play for a while in standard D (i.e. all strings down a tone: DGCF), for me it made a lot more sense; so that might be another option.

Perhaps for solid colours - but no bass should ever have a sunburst headstock... (IMHO)