Frank Blank

Here's my two... ...both gone now, sadly. Blimey I miss the single cut more than any other bass I’ve owned. That was dumb move.

We've had a very similar thread on here lately... ...if I were you and wanted to get started now but (obviously) aren't able to get out to try everything (which you so need to if you are spending serious money), I'd get a Sire similar to the one settled on by @pepsi-abi in the above thread and put your remaining 1k+ in the bank until the lockdown is over. Once we are free to mingle your location is ideal for hooking up with BC members to try basses and you are no doubt within reasonable distance of several music shops. Just bear in mind that if you spend that £1500 right now at the beginning of your bass career you will almost certainly regret that initial purchase within months after you've tried loads of stuff out, you might not of course but that would be a fluke. Within months of joining BC I had a whole new set of gear, top to bottom, amps, cabs, basses. Hold on to that grand until you've tried everything you can and get something way cheaper if you are itching to start playing right now.

I'd agree wholeheartedly with this, if you can't stretch to a Rob Allen this is going to be a good bet.

Hubba.

Never worry about it, all I ask is beginners questions and I'm 58.

Morning.

Obviously... RIP Dave Greenfield.

I've been gigging for just a shade over 40 years and every single gig I've ever done could have been done with the rig @BigRedX uses. Likewise I have a QSC FRFR speaker and a HX Stomp, most gigs I just use the Stomp direct to the PA unless the monitoring isn't up to much when I'll go Bass > Stomp > QSC and take a line to the desk from the back of the QSC. For gigs without a PA the QSC is fine as backline.

^^^ This, with potentially expensive bells on.

Hello *waves*... ...Rickenwhatnow?

Foolish nostalgia somehow led me, some thirty one years later, to rewatch Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Apart from the “...and I’m the Duke of Ted” line that still raised a chuckle, it was thin and dreadful, one might say bogus. However I did recognise the opening music and a quick Shazam revealed it to be Australian pop/funk/rock band Big Pig. I quite liked their first album Bonk, which, unlike B&Ts EA, is still sounding ok...

Welcome to the low end.

Totally, leave that beauty as is.

Gerrard appears to approve, albeit with abject coolness. A footballer possibly? “Jeeves, Google Gerrard would you, good man, I'll be in the library.”

Humus, dix, poo... *head explodes with the overpun*

I thought it was a place where one could enlist the services of a taxi?

He means ‘Hessex’ obv. Welcome.

My personal lockdown anthem...

I agree totally, Wals are way overpriced. As I’ve said before, by a fully customised ACG and spend the 3-4K change on two more!

I think this is entirely down to your own preference, which usually correlates to how they are on your first fretless. I favour lined with the dots in the usual place between where the frets would be.

Oh that’s sweet.