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Thing is with Mark bass its gonna look like trace Elliot Gear to everyone in a few years. Its looks - as distinctive as they are - will guarantee its future life in a thousand garages. Once it isn't trendy any more to have an amp that looks like Wasp synth from the 70's they'll be history.

I don't understand why so many people don't get this product. I don't personally see any use for it this for me, but Ashdown is trying to broaden out into a market which really isn't being served well. They have a name for Bass gear and they are using that reputation (like it or not) to expand their business. Its not a backline bass amp it is a tabletop music platform. British names are very marketable and if they can get a boutique product out there and make more cash then why not. I really don't think anyone who hasn't tried one should give them bad press and I think we should all be careful about being negative about a British manufacturer. If this product fails for them perhaps it might do them a real disservice and that would be regrettable. On the other hand if the market it as a viable bass amp for the bedroom or otherwise and it doesn't cut they only have themselves to blame.

I have seen a few early Warwicks up for sale and I was wondering if they would become collectable as well as being the very usable instruments that they are. Will they ever be seriously sought after?

My AER Amp Three Mini Rig.........Huge sound madness! Stacked or stereo. Works so well and one trip carry from the car.

This is my new toy 2 x AER amp three ( all 2nd hand) stacked for a mini biamped or stereo portable rig. It is fekin monstrous. Low and to kill a pig and awesome. Works so well and stupidly portable.

I think we are all too close in to this time wise. We are, on this forum, mainly within the birth of the modern guitar and bass. I'm over 50 and so I only need to think back a further 10 years and there was the birth of modern music. I dare say that Mr Stradivari's grandchildren practiced their scales on Grandad's old sh*tt*r. We are today only in the after flush of the start of custom luthiers. I think we will never know the value of what we are playing, however, something from the 60's full stop will always have kudos and value. I think values have gone down and if you shop around you can get a bargain. We will all spend 4 grand on a knackered Corsa or Focus and loose all of that value in 3 years. A tidy 65p will be worth at least another 2 grand in 4 years. I'd lay odds that you wound buy a 66 J bass for under 9K in just 5 years from now. That's an investment and you get to play something and enjoy it. Where do you hear people saying hell I can't take my 5 years old VW Polo to Tesco Its worth 6 grand! i'll walk! I think its all relative. The one thing I can guarantee is the reissue you buy today will be worth 30% of what you paid for it in 5 years.

I have just bought an Eventide H9 plus after doing some research on here. I can't stop playing with it which is good cos its going to take some serious playing with to get through the 100 pre-sets and then the 500 which are available free before you even start filling with your own stuff. The bandwidth is superb and whilst there are some sounds which really are more guitar options if you plan an e-c the you're in there too. The quality of the sounds are superb, full studio stuff and stereo. It bluetooth links up to your i pad so you can control everything without bending your ass down. I have tried main options recommended (not everything) and I wanted different and very high quality effects. If price is not an option (£500+ )You can't be disappointed with this but you need to work at your own sounds.

Do what works, that being what [u]sounds [/u]consistently good and clearly defined. If it gets indistinct simplify. I play guitar also, I use thumb and fingers 1,2,3, fingernails, and whatever gets me the tone I want.

There seem to be holes for the mutes, perhaps the holes are real Fender holes, just not any of the wood, screws or metal parts :-)

You spend a long time dead, get out there and do what the other feckers can't play some bass notes. Good or bad, do you stuff, be yourself and don't give a brass sh*t about anything else!

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1459302381' post='3015321'] I'm surprised that the suggestion of a Pentabuzz hasn't recieved comment! [/quote] I have heard but not played one. I know they come with a reputation.

Oh, OK the internet is dead. Guess that cans that idea , where's my finest quill and parchment, I shall write to the finest purveyors of the said bass guitars and seek their deposition before I settle to tiffin!

Guys, Recently looking at options to buy I am frankly disappointed at the generally poor quality of Luthiers videos/ Audio Demo's. I've seen good musicians slapping away in empty rooms, others where its obvious they have been pres-ganged into doing something on the quick, The amount of poor audio, is shocking. It seems that Luthiers are simply obsessed with presenting a girlie mag website full of curves and sharing little or anything about the way the instruments actually sound. There are some notable exceptions such as the magical Rob Allen - Peter Kastner vid and I have to say Degier does a pretty fair job on some. I know we are all obsessed with posing and have to have the latest obscure wood combination and a top wood that looks like melted cheese - but what about some well constructed, well recorded meaningful thought out demos. When are Luthiers going to catch on that if they can present that unique tone proposition that we are after all bass players, musicians, people also obsessed with sound, musicality and tone. We can't possibly get to try every bass we might like but if we had a good idea what we might be getting then we would make the effort and maybe even buy one on spec. I can honestly say that I know three people who bought a Rob Allen (myself included) on the strength of the Kastner video without ever trying one. I have no regrets because I heard what I wanted and I could reliably buy it. I bought the sound. is the RA pretty?, well its ok. But the sound....... I know that not every vid shown on a maker site is created by them but they post them so fair game. What do you think? a good one and a bad one: off you go. This is my easy good example: The Rob Allen Kastner - 10/10 Shows the character and potential of the instrument, the rich resonant thick tones and the bright harmonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycN9x_5MqHQ This is a poor one if you ask me: Marleux Diva - 4/10 A very limited demonstration of just one sound and its dull as sh*t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmZ1ZAbmrY&list=PL6669E9EB39E28A55

Thanks again. I have tried a couple of these open questions and each time I have always had a great response from BC members. I am lucky to have a PEB Ray fretless and a Rob Allen in the armoury. I wanted to canvas opinion because there is a hole in the sound palette for something to bridge the richness of the RA and the old school of the Ray. I have tried a couple of Wal's but incredibly they didn't grab me ( I know how is that possible - Philistine!) I have leanings now toward, Zon, Overwater and ACG. I love the look of the Diva but I haven't heard one for myself and pretty as they are they are closer to the RA I already have in terms of tone. I think want something that 'sings and growls'.

Just wipe them down down and when they start to die , do what Marlowe DK does. Loosen them and 'spank the sh*t out of them'. Works fine so long as you don't have round cores and didn't crimp when you put them on. Try it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8OYeN9mAL4

i'm not hearing Zon here? is there a reason?

OK that's cool. how about pushing the price range out and up a bit? what's the one that you'd go for if you weren't on a tight budget?

Try your local furniture restorer. They are always patching and covering. Its all fabric, glue and stitching to those guys.

I'm interested in views of the best fretless fives out there. Looking for lots of wah and growl and naturally a firm bottom

Ohhhhhhh FEK...... it is a beast....... i wanted different and I got it. Thanks so much for the recommendations, its the shidt!