Sean

He's from Montana. IMA is the most active and vocal Spector endorsee there is (not a Spector in the pic).

Lakland has better resale value and are easier to sell generally, if you need to move them on. G&L can be a tough sell and depreciate heavily. This can be good or bad depending upon where you are in the buying/selling chain.

This is off my '03 Euro 4 this morning... There's a new bridge incoming. 538g-195g = 343g. That'll take Amber down below 4kg.

Laney has got an amp especially for you https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335754368078?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rpbRlok9T1C&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=6MnoMIQiQQC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY I've got one. It's right up your street,@Beedster

Is it any good for metal? Probably... https://metalinjection.net/news/nathan-east-confesses-to-playing-on-one-of-judas-priests-album-in-place-of-bassist-ian-hill?fbclid=IwY2xjawJo4y9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtmcamQRvYoMv9qgV4OzjdYtqL9OnaSUgYmZ7_zpGdZm7hk4tM5Kc0T5-UZU_aem_gysVhpuD3Pt9Y_ZzEItZ2Q

It's good to see Laney doing a quality analogue head. They're going head to head (Boom, tish) with the new GK Legacy analogue monsters that are due soon. I must say that it looks better from behind. The FET/Valve pre in my Laney is outstanding. And although the 500 has enough power, think about the difference between the GK 700RBii and the 1000RBii. Different heads for different applications, one being a cleaner head and the other being voiced for more grind. Maybe there's enough of a difference in voice.

@Basszilla, alright, mun? Tell me you didn't sell the Euro 4. 🤔

I thought Duff used GK amps. Boom, tish! I’m here all week, ladies and gentlemen.

That's a really good point. 3x ECC83 @ £23 = £69 1x 12BH7 @ £26 8x KT88 @ £40 = £320 Total= £415 in valves. That's based on JJs, you could go 8x Gold Lion KT88 @ £80 = £640. Plus some spendy preamp valves taking the valves up to a total of £800+ Then you've got the labour on top at prob £200. It's a veritable bargain. It's cheaper for me to buy this than to revalve the one I have.

I'm going to give Ashdown a shout out but in a weird way because it got me where I needed to be and where I am now. In about 2006 I bought a new ABM600 head and 410 to replace a Trace 410 (or was it a 412???!!) combo that burnt out. The Ashdown broke down intermittently and was really difficult to get a decent sound out of. Fair play, they took it back, fixed it and returned it no hassle. When I came back I thought I'd get the sound I wanted but it just wasn't happening. This led me through searches to find Bassworld, which led to me discovering what DI preamp pedals do, it enabled me to sell the Ashdown rig and buy a GK RB700ii rig. And ultimately Bassworld became Basschat in May '07, and that's how I got here.

Where's the bass made?

"I noticed that you've got a Yamaha bass guitar. I bet you dream of having a Fender one day." - random punter at a summer festival gig some years back when we were packing up my BB2024x. It wasn't the only time I heard that.

Someone once suggested to me that, "we should do a Dead Boys tribute band, it'll be awesome. " That's a true story.

I went to a jam night and it was brilliant. I played my Zebra Spector through the house Peavey Nitrobass head and 410. The soundguy told me it sounded epic - HAZ clone and EMGs on a neck-thru? Come on. I played 4 songs with people I'd not met before and very quickly felt like I'd been adopted. I ended up chatting with the regulars until nearly midnight. I really enjoyed myself and it taught me that it's possible to leave Gloucestershire and have a good time.

I was chatting to a guitarist last night about his "new" guitar and he said it was bought specifically for jam nights for this very reason

It was in Swindon.

I went to a jam night tonight for the first time and it was fantastic. I was made to feel very welcome indeed, chatted to so many people. I did some songs with one of the Spectors and had a cracking night out. The sound was great, everyone was chilled, the music was good. I'm going back.

Go and try, that's a big bonus. Make sure you play it standing up with a strap if that's how you'd ever gig it, this is where some folks get issues. The geometry of strap button position, strap hang etc puts some people off. It's not like a Tbird. Those strings are gimmicky rubbish. I bought some sets years ago, they last about 2 gigs. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. That looks like a peach and worth investigating.

That's a white neck-thru Euro 4 LX, maple board, black blocks, black hardware? There's people on this forum that would sell someone else's granny for that. You'll see a unicorn Euro with a maple board next week 😉 but that one is right up my strasse. What are the black inlays? I'd make an offer but it's not really overpriced at £1.6k.

I ordered some stuff, I asked in the special instructions that the pen and sticker wasn't included, so that I didn't get any stick at home, and it happened. Can't argue with that.