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I use a small TC head and a 1x10 cabinet for making noise at home, I prefer that over a small combo as I can just take the head to rehearsals and use the provided cabs which means less for me to carry. Most of the time just practice via headphones and a small USB Mixing desk. There's someone in the classifieds selling Ashdown Mi cabs for £150 each with nice covers, a friend of mine pairs one of those with a Warwick Gnome and loves it.

I used one of the generic metal cases from B&Q when I had a LMII. Best thing about buying cases from B&Q is that you get a free hire of one of their tape measures when you're checking the fit!

Love that GT, somehow manages to look like its own thing despite being incredibly derivative.

Basically a Korean Cort with Duncans in, watch out for people overpricing them because they have Fender written on the headstock.

Basstheworld Cort demos with Rene or Lars ususlly give you a much better idea of what the instruments can do.

A Hofner is probably a terrible choice unless they want a specific sound and are happy with the limitations of what can be done on the instrument. What sort of music does she like to play?

Cort also do a Junior version of their Action bass which is 30", I would expect that to be very lightweight:

Scale length is probably going to be the deciding factor, my daughter is a tall 11yr old and 30" is ok for her. An Ibanez TMB30 might be a good shout, they do some nice colours too.

I use a TC BH250 for taking to rehearsal rooms with supplied cabs. I chose it over other heads as it has an inbuilt tuner, mute function and also the Toneprint feature so I can have onboard compression, all of this means I can be lazy and not bother setting up my preamp pedal at practice! You can pick them up used for £100 - £120 usually. There's also a Markbass 250w Blackline head in the marketplace for £150

I seem to remember it being explained more recently in more depth but can't remember who by, may have been Alex or BFM. Essentially embelished on that post in that the class of the power amp isn't particularly significant.

🤣 The extended upper horn, think they were known semi-officially as Longhorn and affectionately as boner basses!

Ya got the "boner" Jazz? There was a cream one of those in my LMS a few years ago, really nice bass.

I think she was a bit misleading there. Markbass LMII is class A/B and that's no more loud or "hefty" than it's class D successor,

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If you like the Hohner preamps from the Korean Cort models then I have one I can stick in the post. It's from a Hohner JJ Pro and has the mini adjustable gain pot on it. https://i.ibb.co/kDtStZ7/Hohner-pre-1.jpg https://i.ibb.co/R9yfSS1/Hohner-pre-2.jpg

An East MMSR 4 knob might be a nice drop in replacement, unfortunately that isn't one of their preamps that has an active/passive switch as an option. There's a Musicman 5 string pickup in the classifieds here for £60 btw

I stuck a SD Basslines in my IGB55 and while it was better it wasn't a great deal better, the MM pickups on those basses are absolutely fine on their own. The first port of call for tone improvement on those old Korean Samick builds will be to swap out the preamp for something more capable IMO.

Being able to completely block out Keidis' awful attempts as rapping and singing is a rare and special power you have there, use it wisely.

Top tune that. Don't really get the OHM comparisons with that new song though, sounded like generic modern RHCP to me with genuinely terrible vocals. Tried 3 times and not made it to the end of the song, just the standard of monotonous rubbish they churn out these days.

Looks great that, John Deacon on the cheap!

As a cab of unknown performance it might be worth a punt if someone is interested in tidying it up and rewiring it to 4ohms. Realistically what would a good condition Two 10 be selling for, around £550? A shabby example with tolex peeling all over the show and a knackered handle probably £100 less, then factor in whatever the cost would be to restore it to original spec means there probably isn't got a lot of wiggle room and you might as well just wait for a nicer one to appear.

Any issues with the Evostik spray? One of the foam pieces on my Gramma isn't as secure as it was (13 years of gigging so fair dos) and I could do with sticking it back down before moving it on. Was a bit worried about regular glue or spray adhesive reacting with the foam.

Which models were they? When we got our old 725 cabs the previous owner told us they'd been sent back to have a revised power amp installed as the original ones had a known issue causing some of them to blow.

Had the same issue when I blew the Deltalite in my EA cab, original cost was around £70 and that had doubled by the time I needed the replacement!

eBay sold listings are your best bet for accurate market value, if there's a few take the median for a good starting point.