Newfoundfreedom

I'd just seen the number on Amazon drop 2 two as my finger as hovering over the buy button. I was hoping you had taken the plunge. I'm so tempted to buy one myself, but I have to pay a extra £25 for delivery, and while it's still dirt cheap at that. I've got a heavy financial month and I'm trying to talk myself out of it. Well done for buying one. I'm sure you won't be disappointed. I absolutely love mine. I'm sure @stewblack would also tell you the same.

I'd take their arm off at that price! I'd do it quickly too. Only 3 left according to Amazon. I've got the Mosfet version, and if i'd paid £500 it would still be the best money i'd ever spent. In fact I'm tempted to buy the valve version myself at that price, just to see how they compare. These things are unbelievable! Absolute tone monsters and the power that just keeps coming. I've had mine over a year now and it's all I ever use. The noises it makes are sublime. Not sure how the 3 year warranty would work buying from Amazon, but you definitely get it buying direct from Thomann.

Yay! Working in condensed mode fine for me now. Cheers

The head is fine, but for what it costs to pick up a decent second hand bass cab these days, I wouldn't even bother risking the guitar cab.

Sup wi ya? Banter is the best part of being in a band. Without the banter I wouldn't be interested.

Cool. That's done the trick. Thanks!

Bookmarked for later perusal. Thanks

No idea how to do that. I've just looked through the menus and can't find anything about custard creams. 😂

Same here. It's really wearing thin now. It makes browsing the site on mobile a total ballache.

Around 12 in 10 weeks, which was way too many, so I quit the band. 12 in a year would be plenty for me. Maybe 2 a month in summer at a push, but only if they're afternoon gigs.

The only thing I've learned so far is I prefer humbuckers to J or P's. Purely aesthetically, I prefer natural wood to paint, and I like the look and feel of through necks more than bolt ons (although I don't currently own one). I prefer modern looking basses and the old Fenders or Fender style basses do nothing for me at all. Everything else is still up in the air. I'm just starting to experiment with 5 and 6 strings. But I have no idea about string spacing and haven't yet developed any taste for a particular brand of strings. Although given the option i'd probably take Elixirs, having used them on my acoustic for years.

I love all the technical explanations we get on here. To be honest, most of it goes straight over my head, but it's great to know that someone in the "community" has the expertise to point us in the right direction, should we need it.

I've never yet had them on a bass, but I swear buy them on my acoustic guitar. They last for years and feel great on the fingers. As said above, they're not as bright straight out of the packet as regular round wound strings, but whereas regular strings lose their zing pretty quickly. Elixirs just keep on trucking. Definitely worth the extra money in my opinion. The only reason I'm not currently using them is because I'm currently getting Diddarios at half price from a friend who used to run a music shop.

30 years is pretty good going. I think I lasted about 2 months before i'd had enough. in fact, here's a thread I started a few months ago on the very subject. 😂

I'm sure there must be a real calculation, that someone far more clever than me will know. But I usually go with half, and minus 10 percent (of the original fugure) for safety. So 2000w peak would be around 800rms at the lowest ohm rating. I'm happy to accept this is probably miles out, but anything rated at 2000w peak is far louder than I'm ever going to need, so there's plenty of room for error. My Veyron is rated at 2000w peak, and I can't get it anywhere near half volume before my ears start to bleed. Incidentally, people who have run it side by side with comparable 800w (rms) amps reckon that 800 rms is about right in the real world.

I never even knew music in churches was a thing in the UK. The USA gospel churches, yeah I get that. But the only type of music I've ever seen in UK churches is an old organ and maybe a choir. Certainly never any kind of band.

It's not like they're the only ones doing it. Even top end manufacturers like Trickfish list their wattage as peak rather than RMS. That's all the higher figures from Bugera are.

Dunno, but I wish they'd sort it. It's really annoying! Come on! Holiday time is over. Get your fingers out! 😝

Totally agree. I'm generally really not into musicals, but I love Grease!

Android phone with Chrome browser here. No problems until this morning.

Is anyone else having trouble viewing the mobile site in condensed mode? For some reason, today all I can get is expanded mode. If I click on the condensed mode button it just stays in expanded mode, and every time I refresh it just defaults to expanded mode automatically. Is anyone else having the same problem? I'm just wondering whether it's a site issue or something's gone haywire with my phone.

I was watching one of these the other day. Cracking quality to say they're just an ornament. Mind you, I could buy an actual working bass to hang on the walls for less.

Shouldn't have to worry about neck dive. 😂

Well having asked the initial question, I would agree with what a lot of the others on here have said. My main two players are around 9lbs, and I wouldn't want to play anything much heavier than that for any length of time. I could just about manage a 90 minute to two hour set with those, but I can certainly feel it afterwards. Having said that, as I stated earlier, for me it's not so much a weight, as a position issue. So I don't know if playing a lighter, or indeed heavier bass would make a massive difference. I shall have to continue to experiment. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to keep buying basses, purely in the interest of scientific research. 😉

No problem. For bass players the prognosis is nothing to worry about. It's almost certainly just GAS.