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Paul Young's Love Will Tear Us Apart is not his finest moment. I also heard an absolutely torturous version of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game recently, it was a male singer, completely changed the rhythm and ruined an amazing song. It took me quite a while to work out what I was listening to.

Took a half stack for the last gig. Plenty of low end volume though for a big venue with a smidge of low end in the PA. Played the fretless for the first time with this band and had a touch of valve drive on for the whole time, occasionally dialing it up and down as needed. Lovely sound.

My school careers service didn't really exist. They had a basic software version that asked what my GCSEs were and anyone who did History and a language was told to be a diplomat. I am not now a diplomat. I don't think I ever will be.

Isn't it just jealousy that you have a job that sounds infinitely more fun than some carp like corporate accounts manager or not as menial as council tax supervisor or some shtit like that? My brother is a football coach for kids, and making a good living out of it. He was never more than a pub player and has a degree in history. If anyone gets sniffy about his job it's just jealousy that he can make a good living out of doing something a lot of people have a go at on a volunteering basis.

Last night's half sized rig. Experimenting with fully electronic drums and eventually convinced the band we should put a smidge of bass through the PA so only took the one cab. Still very loud though! ABM600 into an ABM Pro Neo 15". Lovely sound with a fretless and a touch of valve drive.

The Ashdown RM amps don't have as much of a "baked in sound" as the Orange amps I've tried. So if you want a clean sounding amp the Ashdown is very good, you can use pedals or its onboard tube drive to rough it up. All Orange amps I've used seem to have no clean setting at all (I've never owned one, always used on shared backline or rehearsal rooms so I am likely to be wrong through lack of patience with these).

Is anyone else using one of these? I've got one and use it as a practice amp for both guitar and bass. Thing is, I can't seem to get it to connect to my PC so I think I'm missing a lot of the functionality. I've got the android phone app so I can change the amp types by Bluetooth but then it's restricted in terms of the effects, I can switch them on and off but not rearrange them or change them... Any tips for these? Thanks

Last night our drummer did his first gig with a Roland electric kit but normal cymbals. The drum sound was so much more manageable, more space on stage, less stage volume and just an overall much better sound. The gig itself was good as always, the Horn in St Albans is a decent venue and with live bands playing late and free entry it gets a decent crowd.

That's a cracking deal on those basses. Wish I'd paid that!

Kramer Striker fretless. Quite niche I think. They were dead cheap on the old Musicyo website in the very early 2000's and you could get two dollars for a pound. I have to say it's not an especially deep neck, I've had precisions and played Warwick's with far thicker necks. It's just when you have a few basses and some you use more than others the transition can be noticeable.

Instagram just says "North Yorkshire". I darent look into this further in case it's on my way up to family visits!!

Serious Hofner GAS here too. I've never had one but I currently have an Epiphone Jack Casady so I'm very tempted to add a Hofner. I also really want to get some vocal lessons to sound a lot more like Sir Paul, sadly my days of being able to grow a Beatles haircut are well behind me.

Oh great. Mortgage has sky rocketed, energy bills through the roof... And I've just read that these guys are based in North Yorkshire, where I was born and raised ... And they don't discriminate against left handers. Bad case of GAS setting in.

Six months on.... Mixed reviews on this I guess. We all love a bass at first sight don't we? I find myself not using this as much as I'd expect. It comes out for wedding gigs mainly, but I also took it to the biggest gig of the year in a rock club in Amsterdam! I deliberately took my "cheapest" gear because I didn't know what to expect in terms of risk of stuff going missing in transit, the hotel and the club. I've never been let down by the sound of the bass and it makes me play in a different way to how I play my Stingray or Jack Casady. I think I'd be happier with a four string though. I got a fiver because I joined this band in October last year and their set list is huge. Some songs need a low D but it's not been necessary to venture lower than that.... Yet. I have a drop D tuner on my Stingray so it's not like I bring the Sire out just for two songs. I guess I just find the neck a bit wide because I don't play fivers as much as fours and my other fiver has a very shallow neck and I've owned it twenty years so it feels completely natural. The satin finish on the neck is better than the glossy finish on the old V7 I had but nothing, absolutely nothing, feels as good as my Stingray neck. I still can't believe the value for money on this bass. Even so, as good as it is, I guess it's just the kind of music my band plays that has kept this on the rack more than I had expected.

That looks great. I generally like the look of their basses but this has the retro futuristic style I love.

Don't give Ryanair ideas. They'll charge you per string!!!

I was expecting to see £5k or something crazy. As far as second hand Fenders go, particularly a rare one in lovely condition like that, I was surprised it's under £2k. I've never seen one of those before, looks right up my street!

CIJ PB70 reissue in white with black plate. I had one of these. Sold it to buy a jazz. Sold the jazz. I want my old one back for my current band! It's on at a fair price too. Everyone seems to want a grand for MIJ basses but £750-£800 seems a lot more realistic to me.

Thanks everyone. I'm gunning for a Corona Chorus, either mini or full size, seems like that will do what I need. I'd love to love the EHX one but the number of their pedals I've had that just turned out to be disappointments is too many. It sounds great on demos but their pedals just don't seem to be up to much when I play through them sadly.

I also love Mick Mars' style. There's so much feel in his playing. Anyhows... I was saying just the other day how I don't have any Fenders anymore but somehow have a few "Gibson" instruments. At one point I had a Fender MIJ P Bass, MIM Jazz, Fender acoustic guitar and a Squier Tele. Now I have an Epiphone Casino guitar, Epiphone Jack Casady bass, and the old faithful Kramer (while owned by Gibson) fretless bass. I have a Sire jazz so that's Fender inspired but tbh I hardly play it, and my number 1 is my MM Stingray, made by Leo but he didn't put his name on it. I was thinking "am I a Gibson man now?" Then realised I never want a Thunderbird ever. I'm an Epiphone guy, that's it!

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a good quality chorus pedal. I'm liking the Duff McKagan style sound rather than anything too radical. I'm also on a budget (aren't we all these days!), so don't want to be spending more than £70ish. I'm open to secondhand but wary of buying from random people after a few bad experiences. Chorus pedals I've owned in the past: Eden 18v thing, hated it. Behringer bass chorus, bought two brand new, neither worked. Hartke, was dead cheap and surprisingly good, sold when I went to multi fx. Boss Bass Chorus, just found it so bland and not effective. I like the look of the EHX Bass Clone but to be honest as much as I want to like EHX pedals they just never, ever stay on my board.

It's been a while.... I dallied with multi fx. Thought this is great, got an HX Stomp, but added a wah. And added a Boss SY-1. And an outboard tuner. And a Boss OC-2. Realised I was barely using the HX Stomp so I sold it. Now this is my board.... Bass>smoothound wireless. Smoothound into Fender Downtown Express with compressor engaged, drive and EQ ready to go. Tuner out going to HB micro tuner. Fender Downtown Express going out to Boss OC-2 Boss OC-2 into Darkglass Duality Fuzz. Fuzz into SY-1 that has the Nektar expression pedal. Finally, the AMT Bass wah. I love sending the OC-2 into the fuzz set low on the old school setting. And sending that fuzz into the SY-1. The wah and SY-1 don't get used that often. I'm still finding places for the OC-2 but when I used it live at the weekend the sound-man jumped 😄 Happy to take any advice on pedal order and setting etc.

If you absolutely want to save every penny and this is the same as the Caline ones (it looks like it is) then go for it. It won't cause you any issues at all. Problems may come if you like adding cheaper pedals, or more expensive and more thirsty pedals. Then you might get some noise bleeding through and having a decent PSU at least rules out that as a source of unwanted noise. I'm on my second Caline PSU. Nothing wrong with the first one, I just gave it to an old friend who's still using it when I went to a massive multi fx unit. I'm now back to separate pedals and I went straight for a Caline PSU because I know it works.

I pop in there occasionally, there's always something interesting in there. They had a secondhand Warwick double buck I would have bought online but went in and played it and the neck was thicker than the Hulks thighs.