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If I was in a function/wedding band, I'd opt for no backline. Just a decent FoH & IEM. Much easier to set up & get everyone balanced properly. May be worth employing a soundy if needed.

Aye! You and your bloody tyres!!!! On that, My £3k Honda Del Sol got Falken tyres at £250 a wheel. My £25k Nissan QQ gets £75 no name tyres.

Splashing out on a good set of strings for your Ibby or Squier could be a better option than selling said bass & buying one for £500+. I haven't bought strings for some time (I play flatwound, they last for years), but a good set of roundwounds shouldn't cost much more than £30 & flatwounds ain't much more. I'd never be happy with "getting the job done". I want to play something I'm happy & comfortable playing. For me for now, that's a 28 year old Ibby SR with D'Addario Chrome strings.

TBH, putting a good set of flatwounds & better pickups on a £200 bass makes sense. Often the cost of a bass is reflected on the hardware used rather than the build quality. I played a Fender MIM fretless Jazz & a Squier fretless Jazz. I felt that a change of strings & pickups for less than £200 on the Squier would make the £250 bass a far better instrument than the £700 MIM.

I've been a 4 string player for over 30 years. I've got an octave for getting the lower notes. TBH though, I'm hankering after a nice 5er, most likely a fretless too. For less than £500, the Sire basses get a good review & you can't go wrong with an Ibanez, even their budget stuff is fantastic.

Oddly enough, I only use .73 (or as close as). Anything from 1mm upwards, I find loses flexibility for my playing style, anything thinner & I’d be as well using a Rizla. I use the same gauge on guitar too. Thinner ones are fine for strumming, but I’m hopeless with them for any pick work.

I've got a BBOT, which replaced the original hi mass super adjustable thing (a saddle broke). No difference in sound, but the hi mass looked far better. If I was replacing the BBOT, a Babicz FCH would probably be the choice (just for looks).

Yeah! Now we're talking. I'll give this mumph a go.

I prefer the one on the right. Why not try a tweed or patterned grill cloth? The black looks like a black box.

Here's mine... Comes in at e2359, but that includes a leather gig bag, flatwound strings, aguilar pre, nordstrand pick ups & luminlay side dots.

It is. I meant to put e2300. which is just under £2k.

Mine's £2300. It's at the top of my budget, but I think it's a goer.

AAAAAaarrrggghhhhh!!! I'd finally finished designing the Frog to how I want it & then this happens!

That's got to be the thread title of the year so far.

Personally, I love the look of MarkBass cabs over those that go for the old cloth grille. But then it's each to their own. We all have different tastes.

You're probably spot on there!

Though with Apple, they probably put a lot of that profit back in to development. I'm not so sure the same can be said for Aguilar if they still use an off the shelf driver.

If there’s more than 1 driver, then you could make it 16 ohm.

There's many great looking & sounding cabs that are a good bit cheaper. Yes, the Aguilar SL series look like cool 1950's TVs, but the DBs look just like EBS Classic Line or Ampeg SVT cabs, but with a different badge & an amp handle in place of a grab.

Makes the Darkglass cabs seem mid priced!

I've always set it by bringing the input up to just clipping & then backed off a bit. And like Dad says, listening for any unwanted distortion.

For most amps, this means the minimum load you can hook up is 4Ω total. So that would mean 2 8Ω cabs. Doesn't matter if it's one to each out on the amp or daisy'd. 2 x 4Ω cabs =

Yolanda's face agrees. I'm restricted to £2k But it's 2 months away... Things might change.

Love that there's now more than just the Elwood. The Frog is a great looking bass. I'm tempted by this a lot!

They look fantastic. I'm about to be in the market for a fretless 5, but these are that wee bit out my reach (like £600).