Dan Dare

It depends. I have my GPS set to the female voice with an Irish accent. My missus was Irish. When the GPS tells me what to do, I reply "Yes dear" 🙂. Can't help myself.

Good shout. I had an Epifani 3x10 that I really liked. I moved it on because it was wide and quite deep - almost the same size as a 4x10 - and difficult to fit in the car or get up the narrow stairs to the flat I lived in. Couldn't argue with the performance, though. Many amps will work happily into 2.6 ohms these days, so three 8 ohm drivers would not present an issue to them.

Novatone Switchboards, anyone? They were around in the 1970s. There were issues - the amount of wood that had to be removed from the neck to fit them made the neck potentially weak and they were attached via magnets that lost adhesion after a while and made them prone to slipping out of position, for example.

A click is what I heard, too. Happens on the attack of the note. One would tend to assume something mechanical - strings hitting frets, etc, but it may not be. Was the bass heavily compressed on the recording? I've heard similar noises when recording from badly set attack and release on a compressor. Are you able to check by listening to the bass part in isolation with no fx?

I'd have said thanks but no thanks. He'll be lucky to get 100k miles out of a new Merc. They're not built like the old ones were.

Without knowing what car you have or its dimensions, nobody can really offer meaningful advice. There are 15s and 15s and large family saloons and large family saloons. Fwiw, I can get a 15 in the boot of my Camry with ease, but it has a huge, deep boot with an opening that is quite close to floor level, so no surprise there.

They look like J bass covers, which are larger than those made for P basses. The one over the bridge looks ridiculous, too.

Of course, the only people who care about who is the "number one bassist" (assuming such a creature exists) are bass players...

He'd probably be off his face, more like.

The reason it "hasn't been tuned in about a year" is likely due to the fact that he knows those headstock cracks will let go if the strings are taken up to tension.

Mine was the mosfet version, too and I picked it up at a silly price in a sale. I only sold it - for almost what I paid for it - because having three heads seemed a bit excessive.

It's actually a pretty decent budget head. The claimed output is a bit of a fairy story, but it works well, especially for the money. Used to have one as a backup amp and it did the job very competently.

Rather partial to this one.

Exactly. We oldies aren't supposed to like it. Even if I do, I tend to keep quiet about it. Don't want to be seen as a groovy grandad trying to get dahn wiv der kidz.

"Modern music" is not some discrete entity. It is, as music and art has always been, enormous and diverse. You aren't going to find interesting or original music or art on any mainstream media, which chases ratings/viewing figures and therefore adjusts its output to appeal to mass taste and opinion. Don't go looking for gold in a tin mine.

Given that this pertains to legal protections for purchasers, which vary according to where in the world you live, there is not very much point in asking on here if you live outside the UK, where BC is based. We will try, as Dad and others point out, to offer helpful suggestions, but we cannot give you a definitive answer. BC has some members who live outside the UK who may be able to offer useful advice, although there are not a great number of them. If that is not satisfactory to you, I'm afraid there is little more we can do. You need to seek legal advice that applies where you live - Latvia in your case.

I used to hanker after a Ric' in my prog days. Whenever I've tried one, I've always felt the string spacing tight. They definitely feel to me to be a pick player's instrument. They do some things very well and you can't argue with the looks. It's a classic design that just works visually. Being a confirmed fan of the big F, they're not for me, but to each his own.

"Signature" instruments are just another wheeze to relieve punters of their hard-earned.

It's a Jackson. It's brown. Nuff said.

My tartiness ranges a lot wider than just basses. I'm just an old tart full stop.

Judging from the above, there's a pretty clear demarcation. Band that is a business (exists primarily to get work) - dictatorship. Band that is a bunch of friends who play primarily for enjoyment (with the odd paid job) - democracy.

It's definitely a first world problem to be able to have everything one has ever wanted, to live in comfort and to not need anything. I'm 70 this year. If someone had shown me when I was in my teens what I'd have towards the end of my life, I wouldn't have believed them. My father said a similar thing to me shortly before he died. The majority of people in the world simply cannot say it.

I'm in that position over quite a lot of things I own. I've reached the age where I have all the toys I ever wanted (and then some). Whilst I'm not tripping over stuff (mainly because I have a decent sized attic) and don't need money, I recognise that my excuse for owning much of it - that I grew up poor and had b*gger all - doesn't really cut it any longer. Can't take it with you and all that. It applies to a lot more than musical instruments and equipment. I've been fortunate and can afford to indulge myself (within reason, obviously). As a result, I've bought a lot of things in recent years simply because I wanted them years ago and couldn't afford them. I'm beginning to dip a toe into the murky waters of selling stuff I rarely if ever use. It's hard. I sort through things and put aside those I never use and think I can bear to part with and then the trouble starts. I pick up each item to take photos of it for eBay and it suddenly becomes something I can't live without. First world problems, eh?

Bill's right. I use C4s. The cone area of a C4 is the same as a 1x10. I love them tonally and for smaller gigs, two cabs is great, but I add a Berg' 12 (no tweeter - can't stand them for bass) on occasions when I need to fill a larger space (my head will drive 2 ohms, so three 8 ohm cabs are fine with it). I reckon one of the current compact high quality 1x12 cabs, driven by a spare amp if you have one, would work for you.

I assume you're looking for a new replacement value for insurance purposes. Bunion's and asingardenof's posts above are helpful. Won't your receipt be sufficient proof of the price paid for the insurer? I doubt EB would give you an exact value for an instrument because retail prices vary. It's moot, anyway, as, should the worst happen and you need to make a claim, you will want replacement value at the time. If it's a few years hence, it could be more than you paid, so you don't want to insure for a precise amount as it may leave you short.