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Probably worth 50 notes, seller a little optimistic I think: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124929204556?hash=item1d165c614c:g:wxkAAOSwSxtd3vB6 Just about all of the bridge missing, pickups gone, headless hardware stripped out, truss rod shot to pieces. Also no knobs, cover plates or knee rest.

The thing is even if those tuners were the only option it could have been 100x better simply by plugging the old holes with wooden dowels.

Can't see any crack on the headstock. What's more likely is that one of the old tuners failed and they were replaced with those F style ones, new holes had to be drilled as the much larger baseplate would hang over the edge of the headstock - you can see the corners slightly protruding in the pic.

Gan get a 735A for around the same price as a Super Compact, a few places have the 745 for just over a grand. Not saying either option isn't valid, just a lot of the reasons given for dismissing alternatives to traditional amps aren't based in reality - the main one being that unless you have a dedicated bass amp you somehow can't provide bass out front without PA assistance and also that it would somehow be automatically inferior because it isn't a wooden box with a known bass brand on the front.

After a night out in Lagney maybe?

That bathwater is shared by the whole family as well remember. My uncle came to visit earlier this year, he told us some lovely tales of when him and my dad were kids and they used to race to have the first bath as both knew the other would wee in it.

Can't go wrong with a Cort as a first 5er, I still use an old Korean C5 as my backup bass.

Be careful if you're driving there, I heard the motorway is cobbled! I live close to Preston, in all seriousness I quite like it although it is lacking a decent chippy.

Yeah I knew it wasn't one of the crazy money MIJ ones, didn't even know they made them in the 90s tbh.

Dunno of this is legit or a bargain but thought these went for a fair bit more: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304171260289?hash=item46d2051981:g:X2QAAOSwl4dhWYfO The downside is that you have to go to Preston but some things are worth the hardship.

I don't think it's getting carried away at all, there's no magic sauce involved with bass amps and dedicated bass brands will be well behind the curve when it comes to integrating everything into one box. Is there a 1x15 bass combo that could outdo an RCF 745 for example? The last 1x15 I enjoyed using was a Markbass Jeff Berlin and I would take one of our old RCF 725a cabs over it every day of the week. As I said I love bass amps and still spend more time perving over them than any other bit of kit. There's no desire to use them live over anything else though, especially if I can cut down on load in and setup time.

A decent FRFR will easily do the whole room and then some, is one self contained box and a one hand carry. It will also be incredibly consistent not just with on stage sound but will be closer to FoH if you're going through the PA as well whereas your amp will probably sound quite different to what the audience hears. Towards the end of my amp using days I had tilt back cabs which I used in a wedge format on most gigs anyway, YMMV of course but for me it was a logical progression.

Even then you could just use an FRFR cab as conventional backline and it would obliterate pretty much every similarly sized bass amp on the market, then when provided with a PA just use it as a wedge monitor and have a full band mix through it. One box to fit every situation, if I was doing a wide variety of gigs that's what I'd do. Amps are cool and I still like looking at them and using them at rehearsal (albeit through cabs I don't like), they're just the 3rd option for live use now.

This entirely. I also made a small profit when I sold my bass rig even after buying an FRFR cab, IEM setup and also a cheap TC head for home use! I'm quite tall so the chances of finding a pub stage/playing area that was optimal for both the audience and myself was very slim and there was always going to be a huge compromise one way or the other. Moving to a wedge monitor and then IEMs sorted this straight away and also meant I could have a full band mix if I wanted with full control over it. Wouldn't go back, in fact after a recent band reshuffle I made the decision that if that style of monitoring was no longer an option I'd look for something else. Never been happier with my stage sound and it's never been cheaper or easier to achieve a great sound.

I don't think there was much of a market for these back when they were in production, £1k might be a little optimistic. A pal of mine had a GS guitar many moons ago, a small bodied thing with a single pickup. Played and sounded ok, he paid about £300 and it was worth that.

Always liked Eden rigs although my only relatively recent buying experience was ordering a small practice combo for the house and it turning up completely lifeless. Marshall are such a cheesy, legacy dependant brand now it's a wonder they even bother buying up companies like these, not like they are ever going to make serious inroads into bass amps so taking R&D shortcuts by acquiring tech is pointless really.

Also means less pictures of them to offend the eyes.

I wonder if taking it to someone who does board repairs for laptops etc might be a better route, probably much cheaper I would guess.

MSL are taking care of MarkBass stuff now, I use the term loosely as the cost of repair will most likely be greater than buying a used MB head and switching it out. The combo heads are rebadged LM heads. https://www.mslpro.co.uk/customer-support/ Probably worth just seeing if it's a scratchy pot or something obvious first though.

Funnily enough those are the tops that we'll be using to tide us over (think ours are a slightly newer version) so that's good to know!

We used to play with a drummer who had a tiny little kit, kick drum was only a little bit bigger than a floor tom. Always sounded great mic'd up, he used to leave it set up in his van and carry it out in two trips!

I'm also reluctant to add extra kit, we had a discussion at rehearsal and the aim is a small rack with the mixer, two full range powered cabs and a cable box on wheels as the main bulk of the PA. We sold our van and aren't looking to run another one really, as good as our old PA was it did get tiresome lumping massive subs and a huge rack wheeled rack unit up fire escape stairs in the middle of winter.

Lack of stereo monitoring is the only thing that niggles tbh, 3 of us are from the old band where we ran a DL32r and could all sort our own mixes out easily. Shame there isn't something within budget that has 10 aux sends. Would you say a pair of RCF745 cabs could handle bars and medium sized rooms without subs btw?

Nice logo you have there Warwick, would be a shame if someone were to... make a waterslide decal out of it.

Looks fantastic (motorised faders!) but way over budget for the time being. We're basically starting over but with a few bits and pieces, once we have enough in the band kitty when it'll be a pair of 745s to take care of most gigs. After that we'll probably think about a more expensive desk. I've had a play around with the X Air app, layout seems fairly comprehensive and not too dissimilar to what we're used to.