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I have an Ampeg stack and a wee Markbass cat D CMD212 combo which sounds amazing. I also had a Helix which had an Ampeg SVT and 8x10 cab simulator. I have to say, while you can somewhat replicate the tone of big bass stacks in miniature, you can never really get the feel of them. The way they pulse the air, the harmonics, the bloom and the trouser flapping. Whether or not you think your tiny amp sounds like a big amp, it kind of does, but really doesn't. It's like looking at a video of an OLED TV though an LED monitor. For recording or hifi pop, yes I agree a small amp will do. For driving rock, funk, blues and metal it really isn't the same. Modern live music calculus says that you should mix everything through FOH, but not everyone wants to sound modern.

Are you using Firefox? My Firefox has stopped working with Ebay.

Deffo a scam website. This luthier is from California and makes expensive one-off guitars and basses. He has a facebook feed.

Some serious trouser flappage right there.

That is certainly a thing of beauty. Don't think I have seen a fretless 8-string before. Deffo one for an original and creative type I think to avoid becoming a case queen. I'd love to have a go on it.

Jubilee, that was it.

Yes of course you are correct, It might have just been the particular model I bought, funny how that changes your views of everything, I should be less short-sighted Maybe I should look at them again, although I admit to being an Ampeg fanboy. Massive silver thing it was, 400 watts but no punch at all, can't remember the exact model.

Not tried one of these, but I have had Marshall bass heads. Never seemed to be able to get the tone I wanted, they seem like one trick ponies to me. Ampeg are also somewhat one trick ponies, but it's a much better trick.

That's the worst sunburst I have seen since the Kay's catalogue Satellite basses in the 1980's

Might be worth it for the neck and pickups though...

I had my doubts, the construction is different to a Modulus neck (although I could have been sold on Status), while googling B-Quad, you can see that they do look like Modulus. Thanks for confirming.