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I have a B Social and a PJB Suitcase. The PJB is leaps and bounds ahead of the Ashdown in terms of build quality, the Ashdown is strictly a stay at home amp. I like Ashdown gear (I've had a lot of it) but the lack of any physical speaker protection completely rules out using a B Social for any kind of gigging situation, something will end up going through the speaker, either in the car or at a venue. Even putting it in a non rigid case would wreck it. The PJB gear is built for gigging, the Ashdown stays at home looking pretty for practicing and the PJB gets slung in and out of cars, vans and venues without having to worry.

Until I saw the upper and lower bouts I thought I was choosing seats at a venue!

Bloody fanbois! 😉 My 25 and 27 year old tattoos. Yes I was young and obsessed. 😁

I do the same with the good old Line6 X3 Live, one channel clean and with effects. It really helps keep a fat punchy tone especially when using distortion or fuzz effects. I used to, in my early days when money was tight and knowledge was low, run a bi-amped rig. I built a 2x15 sub cabinet and had an old pair of H&H 4x12 tower PA speakers which I built a 4x12 cab from. I made a head/rack unit housing a Peavey max valve pre-amp cross over unit, a stereo graphic EQ and a stereo power amp. The lows went to the 2x15 and the highs to the 4x12. It was Heath Robinson but it sounded great. Clearly this wasn't mad enough so I added an Akai Unibass, which splits your signal and leaves one channel unaffected and adds a fifth above to create a power chord to the other which can be fed to a separate amp (it does more but I didn't use that) and fed the fifth above to a 2x10 overdriven guitar amp which was housed in a matching cab which sat between the 2x15 and 4x12. Sadly no pictures but it was huge, and mental. It ended it's days as a more sober 2x15 and 2x10 bi-amped rig which is still wrapped in plastic in my workshop as it has little to no resale value but it too good to get rid of.

I saw The Levellers last Friday at Falmouth Princess Pavilion. Great little venue, only 600 capacity but a great sound. It was immensely loud but very clear, so much so I felt my knees go a couple of times with the bottom end. The band had great lights as well, insanely bright Motorhead style strobing. The band were absolutely bang on the money, very tight and very enjoyable. My wife is the fan really and I got her tickets as it was valentines night but I really enjoyed myself. Massive brownie points for a valentines surprise and a night out I enjoyed. Everyone's a winner 🙂

That looks far better than your description made it sound. It looks great. Did you use a heatgun/hair drier around the edges? A bit of heat shrinks the edges to stop the excess material creasing up around the curves.

As a buyer I don't quibble over price, I turn up when I say I will, I'm always polite through communications and will make the transaction as easy as possible for the seller as this will in turn make things easy for me. But last year I had three different sellers back out of an agreed deal for various reasons/excuses and it's really annoying and frustrating. None of these were on Basschat BTW.

I don't know the answers but I don't see how we can be "Global Britain" and massively cut down on travelling. I know this is getting off topic but surely we will have to regress into smaller more local communities in all areas if we want to cut down the insane amount of fuel we burn on travel. I've waded into a thread I'm out of my depth in, things change all the time and I just learn to adapt and get the most out of it and enjoy my quiet little life. I'll do the same with all these changes. I was merely trying to point out that it's not all closing doors, some will be opening.

That's a fair point but I'm just trying to find the positives. There's so much negativity in this thread. If there will be a flood of UK folks travelling to the EU to see bands now then surely the other side of that will be all the EU folks coming to the UK to see UK bands if we're not over there, bad for the environment but great for our tourism industry, so other sectors will benefit from this.

So EU bands won't come to the UK to play and UK bands won't go to the EU to play, so the UK bands can take the EU bands gigs in the UK, and EU bands can take the UK bands gigs in the EU, everyone keeps gigging and there's a lot less travel involved which is great for the environment. Yes that's a very simplistic view but we all seem to focusing on the gigs we'll lose rather than the new ones that will be up for grabs.

Fender 9120m tapes. Not thumpy like 'normal' tapes, very much like played in rounds. Not thick gauge like a lot of tapes. Feel like rounds in texture, albeit a little slippery. Low tension and very easy on the fingers.

I think this is his fx25. Mmmm squelchy!

Geezer Butler has to get a mention for the intro to N.I.B.

I don't even know exactly what it is but Tim Commerford has an absolutely filthy line going on in RATM's 'Calm Like A Bomb'.

@hiram.k.hackenbacker I apologise as I completely forgot to message the chap I bought this off about the TRC. I have now but he just said he bought it off some guy on the FB faker group. Someone has just asked the very same question on the FB group which is what jogged my memory, possibly even you.

That vintage white Mullarkey is lovely, starts at £1500 though.

It true you know. I let a lovely bass slide yesterday as I just have no more room. Bloody kids won't bugger off! 🙂

Yep, I'm constantly fighting the urge to buy a Takemine TB-10. I'm in two bands, one Mod band and I play exclusively fretted electric, and a oddball covers band where I play exclusively doublebass. I would never use it in a Mod band and don't want to get away from the sound and aesthetics of a doublebass, I could use it on a few of the songs but realistically I'll never be swapping between a doublebass and TB-10 due to size shenanigans so it'll never get used. So why have I got the Thomann page permanently open in Google checking the daily fluctuations in price?

I'll PM in a minute but just want to first say that this thread is slowly becoming a, "Where can I buy or get a faker built?" thread. Now I have no problem with that but I don't want to risk putting anyone on the wrong side of RIC, be that this site for indirectly promoting the sale, or the luthier that is building these copies. In future, anyone wanting info on anything Rickenbacker copy related would be well advised to join the 'Rickenfakers' facebook group. There are two main builders (that I'm aware of) on there that will build to order. Whether they build a substantial amount or only a couple a year I don't know, or how willing they are to build for strangers. So far RIC seems to be leaving them alone but I wouldn't be surprised if that changed if too many start getting built. Pop on there and all will be revealed. 👍 P.S. The discussion of fakers on Basschat is fine, to be encouraged in my opinion, but promoting sales is not. 🙂

Glad you're liking it, great little pedal for very little outlay. 🙂

Not with my playing, I'd be a sitting duck! Gotta keep 'em on their toes with a moving target.

I'm not 100% sure but I think there's a threshold for charging import duties, around £30 or so.

Oh dear, I just looked it up and it was poor old Megadeth again.

Most definitely. Then two years later Downset opened for Pantera and although maybe not better they absolutely blew the roof off. Also remember Corrosion of Conformity opening for someone and being excellent but can't recall who, so by that reasoning they must've been better.

There's very little in life that I could get jealous about but this sort of gig is one of them. An audience that size must be such a buzz. The most I've ever played to was about 1500 and I absolutely loved it, an audience of 7000 or more would blow my tiny mind! Congratulations on the gig 👍