NancyJohnson

In that budget, just the case then.

I've got a sticker on mine for Lovibonds Brewery in Henley. Henley Dark...slurp. The Darkglass sticker is off now.

Mott The Hoople. None of the really early stuff, so kicking things off from 1972s All The Young Dudes and I'll go through the post-Hunter Mott albums (Drive On/Shouting & Pointing) and then swing back to the 2009/13 live albums. That's me set for the day. Might watch the documentary tonight too.

Has anyone watched the video? Jeepers.

I've squirrelled away enough over the years and while I feel I have some dreamy basses, if a decent 60s Thunderbird II came up, I'd consider it. Anything else, nah.

I'd concur and I'd also maintain that we, bassists, are in general a bit smarter than our six string bretheren and can generally see through the sales and marketing guff that alludes to support Signature models, whichever manufacturer is producing them. I saw an interview with Geddy Lee one time and he was extolling the virtues of the Jaco fretless the Fender custom shop had made for him' he was saying something along the lines of how perfect it was and how he wouldn't change anything on it because, '...it's Jaco's bass.' Frankly, I almost did a little bit of sick. It's no more Jaco's bass than the guy over there who's playing Flea's 60s Jazz is playing Flea's 60s Jazz. It's a copy.

Over the years there's been a few instruments I'd have been over like a tramp on chips but for some part of it that just ruined the look of the thing. Many of you will know that a while back I was haemorraghing money on Gibson Thunderbirds, I loved the look of the Gibson Nikki Sixx Model but (three pointer aside) two things ruined it...the inlays and the scratchplate. Just thinking about it, I've never seen a photo of Mr Sixx actually playing one, so I don't know what that says. Moving forward, I have this on/off (mainly on) desire for a Les Paul Junior or a Gibson Melody Maker. Imagine my delight when I saw the Michael Clifford Signature Melody Maker: As I'm not 15, I had no idea who Michael Clifford was so I Googl...woah, wait a minute, red crossed inlays?? Gibson, Gibson. I could live with the red Gibson logo and swapped out the truss rod cover, but come on. It's a half decent looker, might have put a HB sized P90 in there, maybe some Sperzels later down the line, but the red Xs are a total put off.

I'm listening to a load of Max Richter today. Orchestral.

Just throwing this in. Has @Swaffle88 actually removed either of the pickups to determine what they are? Also, how would he/she feel if the non-matched pickup was something premium/expensive, like a Lollar or Lindy Fralin? Would the opinion then be that they had got one over on the seller?

Probably not... I'm fortunate enough to have a decent sized (brick) extension on the back of the house that serves as a TV/garden room; despite it just being an extension, it's effectively #2 lounge (as anyone here who has been to my house will testify) and I try and keep things tidy in there. My gear has moved away from racks/cabs to something more bijou...wherever this journey takes me and whatever I end up with, it has to look nice as well as doing the job; I'd prefer to go with a pair matched cabinets.

I'd concur with this; I've listened through studio monitors, AKG in-ears, over-ear phones. I would like to hear these cabinets driven at some point in these videos though...credit to Alex for demonstrating these with a flattish and clean tone, which if nothing is highlighting the nuances tonally between both the enclosures and the basses, but in my gigging circles nobody I met played with a flat/clean tone.

There was a clamour for them like bog paper at the start of the pandemic. I never quite understood how or why it all started. Never saw one in the flesh, headstock looked a bit shonky ('Where can I borrow a drum sander?').

I have a EuroLT in this configuration, bought it about six months ago. Can't fault it, plays nicely (it didn't when I got it), suits me tonally, lovely for recording, drives nicely when pushed through my talaent boosters. Over many posts I think I've harped on in debates about pickups/preamps, active/passive, neckdive (whaaaaat?), Gibson v. Fender etc etc. I'm currently running six basses, covering an extremely broad purchase price range. I'll go again here and say that in general, I know what I want to sound like (dUg/Geddy) and that I don't have any really issue dialling that in, whatever the bass. Insofar as Spectors go, I prefer the visual aesthetic of a PJ pickup configuration over soaps, but to be honest irrespective of the preamp/pickups, you should be able to dial in what you want easily enough. Try a few. See what you like. Buy.

I had seen these. Tonally, I'm very much in the Geddy/dUg area, so I guess my preference is for something with a little more top end frequency capability, to adequately pick up the dirt. The Big Baby II has (allegedly!) a usable frequency range 30hz-20khz, the non-tweetered/horn TKS give more rumble but feel the highs would be restricting.

When I see headstocks like this, I always wonder whether the first thing that goes through people's minds is to sand off the logo and re-shape it on a drum sander to something more Fenderesque.

The things that hit me immediately and observations are (just talke these as a whole, not individual points): i) I didn't like the Two Ten (but...), ii) I really wanted the Super Compact to 'win' this, but the Big Baby 2 sounded better when Alex switched to it, although as the BB2 pieces went on, I felt there was little to distinguish between the Super Compact and the BB2. My feeling was that in a band context, the nuances that make the cabinets what they are would maybe be lost on the mix, iii) I would have liked Alex to perhaps change the rotation of cabinets. It's feasible that had he played through the Super Compact, then gone to the Two Ten, my ears would have registered what the cabinet was doing differently.

The only things that irritate me about this whole torrid issue (aside from the stupidity of Frances Bean Cobain giving the guitar away as a marriage present and Courtney Love, generally), is that the whole guitar thing pretty much stopped Cobain's daughter's ex-husband Isiah Silva's band The Eeries dead in their tracks. They were on a sharp ascendency, possibly because of the Cobain connection and were (or perhaps still are), a wonderful band.

As I'm doing less and less *proper* band stuff, long been on the backline downsizing route and currently run a Darkglass A/O head into the Barefaced Big One prototype that I snagged in the SE Bash a few years back. Been thinking of going with a pair of 1x12s fulltime; actually bought a pair of Aguilars a couple of years ago, but felt they lacked the aggression I was looking for. I ran my gear through a pair of @graemeross Barefaced Super Compacts, but didn't really feel the benefits were enough to warrant moving the Big One along and/or throwing £1.5k+ at a similar enclosure set up. So now Darkglass. They look nice. Size is good. Weight is good. Umm, beyond that, that's it. Until I can get out and try them, no idea how they would sound. Anyone?

I was just perusing Talkbass and there's a thread up there about this bass. There's a degree of conjecture, but it appears it's a 1978 model, built for John Glascock of Jethro Tull. Serial number 0119. The bass was shown on the Hamer stand at the 1978 British Musical Instrument Trade Show, before it was passed over to John (John died in 1979, aged 28, of heart failure). Somewhere along the line, it changed hands and the owner was the late Paul Raven of Killing Joke/Prong/Ministry (also deceased, also of heart failure); someone on Talkbass found a video of him using the bass when he was with The Hellfire Club. The guy who got it appears to be a dealer (there's photos of the bass in a shop) and only joined TB in March looking for information on the instrument. Given the questions he's been asking, reckon he's pinching himself at his good fortune and didn't know anything about what he was buying...he's already mentioned on TB that he's going to flip it ('It'll be on sale soon'). How that bass ended up on eBay for £800 is still beyond me, but given two of its previous owners died of heart failure, I don't know whether it's jinxed! *The owner has a Reverb page. https://reverb.com/shop/homzs

Isn't like like saying, 'I'm a vegan, but I bloody love a bacon sandwich once in a while!'

Bears are caniforms. Mods! Do we let anyone in here? lol

This is the colour you want: Incidentally, and this may be a case of word blindness considering I used to refer to the much loved Beano comic caniform Biffo The Bear as Boof the Bear until quite recently (I'm a very youthful 50+ years old, BTW), imagine my horror at discovering the colour Daphne Blue was pronounced Daff-nee and not Dow-fan as I had been reading it for just about ever. This probably explains why I used to get stared at blankly when I was talking about the colour dow-fan blue to halpess guitar shop employees. /anyhow. Damp Squibb. That's what you need to ask for.