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I took the advice here, thank you all. And this is the result...

Yes... These are the pictures. The amp was well packed in my view, it may have had some small room to move in the box but not a lot.

I sold my little SWR Combo on eBay. It was fully working. I posted it to the buyer and he claims it had zero output, he tested it using an external speaker and the amp is all fine. He has since done some poking around and sent me this message: "Ok, as I said earlier it wasn’t well packed enough and was able to move around inside the box. Here’s the problem. The speaker connection panel has broken off. I suspect the cables that attach to the coil are damaged, hence no output. I’d rather keep it but will need to get a new speaker. Are you willing to compensate me for that?" Two questions... Does this sound likely/ reasonable and is it a new speaker required? For a 10" bass speaker for a 100w combo what kind of cost would be reasonable here? Thank you!

Getting really sick of ebay. Selling items on there is so much more hassle than it's worth. It's not necessarily eBay, but just some buyers I've had bad experience with. Sold an effects pedal. It's about 20 years old, maybe more. Got loads of snarky emails because one screw was missing for the battery cover, absolutely no effect on the functioning of the pedal. Loads of cagey "what do you suggest to remedy this?" Ummmm I can post you a screw? Now going through something similar but with a different and more expensive item of equipment. Buyer says it has arrived DOA when I know it was in perfect working condition. I have a feeling I might be getting done by having defective parts placed in mine and it sent back for a full refund with me left carrying loads of cost and now some knackered parts. Had a bad experience with DPD (I think??!) losing a parcel when I sold a bass to some bloke who eventually received it and stole the knobs before sending it back!!! The tight g!t should have just bought some knobs online and saved everyone the headache. People eh?

I have only ever played one. And I bought it!! I know the 2 band EQ version has a massive following but don't dismiss the 3 band. Having that mid control makes the bass really versatile if you're playing covers, so boosting the kids to play something that has more of a traditional P bass sound... Bit it keeps the punch and overall massive sound of the Stingray. It's a clever thing and very useful if you need it to do that. Of course there are many other tricks with it, like cut the treble completely to take the sizzle out, or boost bass and treble and cut the mids to go for a Flea type sound.... It's a really well done EQ.

Never had long hair, sadly.

I think it's from a kit, for various reasons... Hardware is average to poor, pickups unbranded and not working, no shielding, screws are odds n sods and the paint job is very poor.

Generally with second hand gear, especially a little older, people chance their arm with the asking prices. I had one, great for my 80s band but when that folded I sold mine. Being left handed it's perhaps more rare and I got somewhere near £800 three years ago, but it was in excellent condition and a very rare left hander.

So, you know when you nonchalantly chuck an eBay bid on something not expecting it to get accepted... Forget about it.... Then find an email saying PayPal is taking money off you to pay eBay and you have no idea what for??! That's how you end up with this. Keep in mind I am big fan of jazz basses and stingrays. It's in a bit of a state. I have no idea if it even works. The fretboard needs a clean, well the whole thing does tbh. Going to unscrew every part, clean and rebuild over the next few weeks. No idea if it will be a keeper or not.

Because in it's most simple form having it all on one single unit removes several points of failure, and allows me to experiment with effects I might not stick with or might not want to buy. Over time I will do presets, etc. but from the plug n play perspective it's a good halfway (not halfway as such but a few steps towards maybe) house between the all powerful mega FX units and loads of separates.

It's perfectly usable... All you need to do is turn the relevant knob to what effect you want then step on a button to engage it, tweak from there.

More updates... I'm getting used to this now. I still haven't programmed any presets of my own and probably should. Good points: the sheer simplicity and having physical knobs and written descriptions is good for me. I can really quickly tweak my effect type, e.g. from one overdrive sound to another, in between songs. Using the foot pedals for on/ off for particular effects is great. It's easy to see on stage, simple to use, and sounds very good. I've not yet used it for DI out though, still using in front of a physical amp. I have some nice amps so I'm not using the amp SIM. I might be brave at my next gig and go DI from the pedal just to see what happens. Combining fuzz and chorus makes a nice synth sound too. Bad points: it's so easy to roll the knobs off the desired setting when lifting this in and out the Roland backpack. If the unit is off this doesn't change anything, so you can power on and still have the same settings as when you switched off, but as soon as you start disengaging and re-engaging effects the settings change to the knob setting. Without using presets I just have to remember some things such as the level value for the distortion bank needs to be at 33. This is no big hardship, really. I find the Bluetooth connection to my phone really hit and miss. I managed to change some settings but it's often unreliable and I don't have the patience for it. So far, when rehearsing or gigging, the sound quality has very little perceptible difference to my individual effects. No more mini jacks and 9v cables and interference noises is a huge bonus. I think for the amount of faff there is with individual pedals it's just not worth it. While I could enjoy the more complex digital effects if I had the time on my life to program and explore them, I think I'm happy with the ME90-B as a swiss army knife gigging tool.

Good to hear! I think it would be a real miss if this is great for guitar but not so great for bass. People who play both and want a flexible, portable rig could be disappointed. I liked it when you said you could use one mains plug for the cab and "head" but then disappointed when the connection is via the headphones mini jack, that just doesn't scream "gig capable" to me. Hope Andertons get you sorted quickly

Posting to Northern Ireland would be exactly the same as posting to England, Scotland or Wales. I don't see the issue from the seller's perspective.

When using an electric kit our drummer wanted the sub next to him on stage otherwise the sound and visual just didn't line up right. Once he pointed it out I couldn't get away from the drum sound not coming from the actual drums. With a mic'd acoustic kit we have it out front then it's not flooding the stage with low end.

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Good evening. My band wants to do an ambitious medley. We have a few medley type bits in our set but as we need to specialise more in a particular era we want to do one big medley arrangement to cram in some songs with recognisable parts but that are a bit too weak to play all the way through. In order to get us a rehearsal reference point I want to take sections of various songs and make them into one track. In my head I know which bits of which songs. But I don't know technically how to do this without a double tape deck! In the MP3 streaming world I'm a bit lost. Any help or advice is gratefully received. Thank you!

My parents had quite a few of these albums and I spent many summers before being old enough to get a part time job listening through them and thinking "this is not quite right!" Got me searching out original versions by some decent bands though.

I would try asking some of the big bass shops what they would pay you for it in cash and what they would want to price it for on a commission sale. Then you might get pleasantly surprised and you can decide whether you sell through them or privately.

Guitarist in my band has two of the Tom DeLonge (the guitarist in Blink 182 to save you a trip to Google) signature guitars and they are absolutely lovely. He couldn't decide which colour so went for two of them, which is great for his local music shop. They are fantastic instruments for the price point and something really different for Fender. So there is hope in the Hoppus bass. People who grew up on Blink-182 and have the cash to treat themselves may well buy one or two of these. And there's actually a little thought in it with the pickup orientation and position, which is better than just churning out another p or j and calling it a signature because it's in a slightly different colour or some other factor that doesn't affect sound.

A rope light is relatively cheap and easy to use. People tend to not want to step over one of those. One of the guitarists uses in-ears and he has emptied a broken wedge monitor to make some kind of case to carry stuff to gigs and use as an "idiot barrier" on stage. There's one venue we play, the Crooked Crow Bar in Leighton Buzzard, where the security staff are very quick to stop people trying to put drinks, coats or bags down on the stage, they are awesome. It does not happen anywhere else that I've played, sadly.

If they weren't lightweight I don't think I'd do it. I would love to try a decent 2x12 that's portable and can handle 600w plus but absolutely no plans to change anything now unless something breaks.

I think that's it... We can all GAS after this and that hoping that spending just a little more helps us get the exact sound we are after... Or we can get as close as we can with the gear we have/ can afford and concentrate on giving the audience a good time.

I play pop and indie covers from the 2000's in my band, which I guess is what counts. I've tried 15s and 2x10s but for me it's two 15s. I play fingers or pick, often it will depend on what mood I'm in or what bass I'm playing rather than anything else. I will use overdrive, distortion, fuzz, clean... Two 15s is just my preference. If I could try anything I'd like to have a go with a 4x10, if weight were no issue then a couple of Trace Elliott 18s could be fun... But for me there's a more rounded and deeper sound from a 15, the focus of a 10 is just something I don't like. I used to have the Ashdown RM 2x10 and 1x15 at the same time and I didn't like them together, it did give me the opportunity to compare them. The 15 was always my preference. So I now run an ABM600 through two ABM NEO 15s. I've got a Fender Bassman TV 12 which has a 12" speaker and that sounds special, bit that's probably more down to the valve preamp. Perhaps the most sensible cab combo for me would be a couple of 12s if I could run a 600w head through them.