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Given the amount of quality micro heads you can get for well under £200 these days (not even including the Peavey on clearance) I think MB need to rethink their repair pricing, personally I'd just sell it for spares and look at something else.

B-Stock on Thomann for £208: https://www.thomann.de/gb/markbass_little_mark_250_blackb_stock.htm

I did this on an old Hartke VX215 which had started to sound raspy, got my mate to play bass through it while I put pressure on each side of the cab until it sounded normal. Had a look inside to see what would be separating from where, put a few screws in it (cut a square U shape out of the carpet and glued it back over the screw) and it held up for another year of gigging until I sold it. Was still trucking on when the buyer sold it on eBay years later, think he even made a profit on it!

Has anybody directly compared the TE208 to the TC version? Seems like it would be massively inferior given the £142 price tag compared to the £412 of the Trace.

Here's mine, put together on the cheap from an old Korean Cort (Hohner) body, Mighty Mite P neck (ebanol board) with a piezo bridge and Bartolini buffer pre. It's my around the house bass as I can't practically gig a 4 string now but can't bring myself to sell it, it sounds beautiful and has seen off some posher fretlesses even before getting the piezo bridge and Bart pre mod. I have a 5 string version of the Fishman piezo bridge squirrelled away for when I find a suitable body/neck to put it on. It goes mwah when you so much as look at it and it's effortless to get that classic tone, I always thought when you get a fretless that you click with you should keep it forever. My upper register laying is getting more tuneful now too!

Cheaper one, dunno how many gigs you'd get out of it though: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rolling-Tool-Storage-Box-On-Wheels-Portable-Mobile-Plastic-Chest-Mechanic-Large/372738988271?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131231084308%26meid%3D4ba4ceaa7af84682979ca720c6bebcc3%26pid%3D100010%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D162057203114%26itm%3D372738988271%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100010.m2109

This one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dewalt-DS450-Toughsystem-Rolling-Mobile-Tool-Storage-Box-Trolley-DS300-DS150/311959215215?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D61009%26meid%3Db2b2c5f70a854032a06d6de6ba5e70ac%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D132012361481%26itm%3D311959215215%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

If you just need one big case rather than a few stackable ones then Peli do some massive cases with trolley handles and wheels, you'll pay for them as they're not at all cheap. Should last you a lifetime of gigging though and will hold value, used one here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Large-Peli-Case-With-Foam-Wheels-and-handle-o-/223780060155?_trksid=p2385738.m4383.l4275.c10

I'd be looking at that little £80 Eden cab in the classifieds with a TC BAM200 (£105 from Bax). Super micro setup and the amp would fit in your coat pocket so nothing else to carry. For low volume and home use I've got a TC BH250 paired to an EA CXL110, the amp sounds ok as it is but with the Spectracomp patch it's far beefier and louder than it has any right to be, might be an idea if you need to get the maximum clout from a cheaper mini cab.

Kinda defeats the point when he changes technique from bass to bass - muted thumb picking on a Sadowsky then next up some slapping on a Status. The KS and MTD basses sounded superb.

Ah I seem to remember Status having something to do with them, always fancied one since seeing a natural 5 string in the window of a local shop years ago. Wasn't even into Fender shapes at the time but it jumped out at me, looked great.

It's a poor implementation of a good idea, the T-Bass had it (the designer may currently be at Ashdown due to their TE connection) but it was a more elegant design.

Dan Lakin is known for his own take on Fender basses with inspiration from Musicman and G&L - the bass commonly associated with him has MM bridge and Jazz neck pickups, a high end preamp, 35" scale and other niceties like Ultralites and coil tapping options. It's an amalgamation of Leo Fender designs with a big dollop of his own vision to make them stand out and you don't need to look at the headstock to identify the 55 series bass. Fender also offer their own take on the crowded super Jazz market with high end appointments, a decent pre etc. I just don't think we need any more keenly priced passive P/J clones as there are numerous great options at every price point already. The Trace T-Bass was a cool take on a Jazz, these Ashdowns are just pretty boring IMO.

Maybe it's the natural evolution of multi-scale fanned fret instruments. Graduated string spacing will be cropping up on DIngwalls in 2020 - put your house on it!

"Could have been better" is some of the most diplomatic language I can think of when picturing this atrocity!

Wow Fender knockoffs, that should make them stand out from the crowd!

Are you trying to load the bass amp specific toneprints or just the regular pedal ones? The ones for the BH amps are called "Toneprint Bass Amps", click on this then you get a selection of compatible effects which is limited but still pretty good for free. The regular ones don't work on the amp.

Btw Nick if you ever feel like selling me that 5 string Tobias for a comically low price just shoot me a pm! 😁

That looks like the one, metal plate at the end of the fingerboard too: "And next to that is an E Bass, which I built in collaboration with Ian Hancock; we went into production with it in 2000. It’s got Kent Armstrong pickups. I must say, it’s a cool bass, and it had some pretty good reviews." https://guitar.com/features/private-collections-nick-smith-bass-desires/ Familiar green flake paint! Apparently built by the luthier Ian Hancock, BC member @doctor_of_the_bass (presumably Nick Smith) had something to do with him according to the recommended luthier thread here: Listing has ended now but could have been an absolute steal at £150.

Have a look at the M series?

Hard to look past the Sire V3 for £300: https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/electric-bass-guitars/sire-marcus-miller-v3-5-string-bass-guitar-natural-mahogany?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqLPvoOrJ5gIVFeDtCh14WgVOEAQYASABEgI6dvD_BwE

Spotted the TC BAM200 for £105 on Baxmusic the other day if anybody wanted a pocket head, they're usually around £120: https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/bass-guitar-amp-head/tc-electronic-bam200-bass-guitar-amplifier-head?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvvja6IzF5gIVBbTtCh1FkQSKEAQYASABEgK_9fD_BwE Nuts how little you can pay for amps these days.

Sadowsky et al are basically Jazz clones though, they don't just take cues from the body shape they copy it closely. Not saying that's a bad thing as everybody copies everybody else - Fender didn't exactly design that famous headstock themselves either. They have developed the design into something of their own but there's no denying what they are and they still have that core Jazz tone in there. The Streamer/Spector isn't even in my top 5 Warwick shapes (it goes Fortress, Infinity, Dolphin, Corvette, Thumb if you're interested!), it's better than the Vampire, Katana and Buzzard though. Say what you want about Warwicks but they aren't a one trick pony that relies entirely on licensed NS designs, they've forged their own path over the years.

I thought it looked familiar too but I can't place where I've seen it before!