lemmywinks

Asking why people wouldn't buy from Amazon is a question entrenched in politics and ethics. Btw a lad who used to work for us started driving for them, the stories about drivers not having time to eat and use the bathroom are true, as are the ones about them using an empty soft drink bottle to pee in. This lad would skip breakfast and lunch as he had no time to stop for a toilet break later in the day. He does patient transport for a private hospital now so at least the delivery experience was of some use to him.

There are plenty of reasons not to buy from Amazon, speaking to the CEO is not high on the list. There's two things I only ever buy from specialised online stores due to the high risk of fakes - Micro SD cards and bass strings.

Was that the cheap one off eBay, if so did it all work out ok in the end? Sweet cab for not much money.

Have no idea, whenever I get the discount codes through I check for bass stuff and post it here. I grabbed one to retire my Behringer BD121 as my backup DI as this apparently has very nice compression (possibly optical), sounds great and is the same as the Hotone B Station according to a TB thread. Gut shots here (from the same thread): Can't think of a half decent preamp DI with decent compression for that sort of money, plus I also like bargains!

It's a bit wider than most micro heads (14"/355mm) so you'd need the Gator 1515 or the RokSak RSM 4040, both are about £35.

As it says, use the code ANNIVERSARY25 to get it for £35.62 with free delivery. Think these are usually around £55-£60 but that code is 25% off their already discounted price: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315276816222

Phil Jones also do some narrow amps: BP-800 is 7.5" wide (albeit really long so may overhang at the back) D-400 is 9.6" BP-200 is 6.9"

TC BH250 is 9.6", the BQ250 and BQ500 are both listed as 10". Was looking at the HB Block 800B recently, looks like a crazy amount of amp for the money. Remember the colour has to match as well otherwise the width is irrelevant and you'll need to buy yet another amp.

Went with a TC BH800 in the end, picked one up off here for a very good price. Sounds fantastic and is frighteningly loud, can be heard over an enthusiastic drummer at 9 o'clock and just keeps going past that with big clean lows. Obligatory awful lighting practice room shot, possibly a bit overkill for a rehearsal rig but it's easy to carry and was sub £600 for the lot. It's a knee high beast of a setup!

We ditched the backdrops for a pop up thingy either side of the stage, contact details and web links are clearly visible to punters and they're no faff as well as being lightweight. Can put them up or pack them down in a few seconds. Ultimately we binned those off as we just didn't think any sort of banner looked great for weddings etc and they take up valuable space in bars, a lot of the time band photos in a well decorated venue look much better without an intrusive banner, even with my mug in them. YMMV of course.

One went for £310 last month, later model with the LMIV combo head: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266840471683 Always the risk you run with collection only auctions and relying on someone being after one at that precise moment within a reasonable distance. Personally if I wasn't willing to post then I'd do a BiN and just leave it up there.

Whooaaah Lobster has new glasses ?!?!?!?

If you're able to collect and can dig up an extra bit of cash this is a good deal: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335453331506 Same pre and hardware as the EHB1005 but with a nice top and Nordstrand Big Splits.

Squier did a Deluxe Active V a while ago, they turn up on eBay and usually sell for around £200-£250: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266788464335 Very nice basses, not your standard Fender radius either as the ebanol board is wide and flat and the neck quite shallow which is an improvement IMO. There's also a very similar Aria version with a rosewood board which is also excellent. Cort GB series are well worth a look as well, one for sale here: I'd be upping my budget and grabbing one of the Cort GB Modern basses currently on sale at Guitar Guitar!

Seller has negative feedback for selling fake stuff: https://www.ebay.co.uk/fdbk/feedback_profile/humphrely

I think a lot of amps now have some form of HPF built in, some more agressive than others. The Thumpinator operates at around 30hz or something like that and I'd be surprised if many modern heads aren't filtering somewhere around there already.

It's been about two decades since I last matched amps to cabs based on watts, besides you can blow a driver with an "underpowered" amp if you're an idiot, I have a knacked Deltalite I can stick in the post if you don't believe me. £60 when I bought it and £120 when I looked for a replacement, there was a lot of swearing involved mostly directed at myself.

Exactly this, Fender make Fendery things because that's what people will buy, to the point where they'll pay a massive premium just for that name on the headstock. They're a heritage/legacy brand like Gibson so there's no point in angering shareholders by producing something your target market won't buy and the people that would be interested won't pay the Fender tax anyway.

Peavey also do good budget 6 strings, I'd be looking at a used Grind or Ibanez SR5xx over a new Squier really.

Weird double post

I'm guessing the graphite rods may have worked out cheaper than a 2nd truss rod and the tuners look like generic Gotoh clones with F style elephant ears.