BillyBass

The 350s come up 2nd hand every now and again; usually for about £300 give or take. You don't see many 800s coming up for sale 2nd hand. I got mine off eBay, sold it on here. I would say they are worth £500 new, if you want that sound. They are well made, the feature set is excellent and they go below 4 ohms. But £500 is a lot of money.

Following @BassAdder60's suggestion... the Magellan 350 would be cheaper, smaller and still relatively uncoloured and neutral. I had one for a few weeks in 2023, I got it from eBay and sold it via the for sale section quite quickly. Its a perfectly good and neutral amp, with a couple of filters if you don't like it too neutral.

You could always try the latest Fusion range. Andertons stocks them and they have knocked £150 off the price of the Fusion 800S, it's now a mere snip at £1149, just in case you have a kidney you aren't using at the moment. I have a legacy 800 and a Fusion 1200S. I love them both but the Fusion S through Barefaced 10s sounds lush and warm but still retains the GK toppy bite.

I think it is quite brave to spend £4k on a bass without seeing it and playing it first.

I have a Legacy 800. Noise when playing certain basses has occurred, but after shielding said basses all was good. I am an electrician and as a consequence of my work experience, there are no dimmer switches in my house. Overall, I am very impressed with my GK amps; they are well made and sound great.

I concur. Gallien Krueger and Spector are a sonic match made in heaven.

I like the peach colour and I like Pau Ferro. I'm not a roadworn fan and I have a strong aversion to not being able to adjust the truss rod without unscrewing the neck. If on playing both I decided that, in spite of the above, the Flea was worth an extra £500, I would buy it. I really doubt that would be the case though. Good choice.

I'm a bit of a Jam pedals fan boi but I moved my Rattler on. I found it sucked too much of the bass out, even with the blend. I've had the Lucy Dreamer for a couple of years and I've just acquired the Red Muck. They won't be sold.

How the hell does Steve Harris do it? It make me wince every time I think about it. I clip my plucking hand nails constantly.

They look class. You can sometimes tell just by looking at a picture that a band are true superstars that deserve our devotion, and these definitely come into this category. Stand aside Taylor Swift.

I've bought 4 basses, 2 heads and several pedals. It's difficult to pick a best purchase but my vote goes to my Reverend Decision P, bought in August My worst purchase would be the Rafferty HPF, never used in anger and sold at a loss.

Ok, as there is a bit of interest... https://theshfl.com/album/Utopia-1 https://www.deezer.com/en/album/72535512

I'm not sure if you are new here or are a long time lurker and occasional poster, but, judging from the above, you are going to get along just fine on Basschat.

I've always found it difficult to buy a bass with a headstock I don't like and the I really don't like the Sire headstock, it reminds me of a Roman nose from an Asterix cartoon. Nevertheless, the 4+1 of that Z series fiver takes my attention away from the end, I don't mind it. I won't be buying one though. I have 10 basses and any additions to the collection would have to be special; these aren't.

Weirdo!

I only joined this band initially as there was a drummer. It was a drummer and guitarist advertising on JMB for a bassist. Anyway, a drummer I have played with before got in touch and we had a rehearsal today, all seems fine. I got back from the rehearsal to see a message from a singer/guitarist on JMB, so we might be alright. Myself and the guitarist have put a lot into this band so we are not going to give up without a fight.

Thank heavens for that! I thought we had some rival competition there for a minute.

Our drummer left...it looks like we have a replacement. Now the singer/guitarist has decided to rest his dodgy vocal chords for 6-12 months, so we are now looking for a replacement singer too. ☹️

Last night I saw the Claire Martin Trio at the Pizza Express in Dean St, Soho. The (upright) bassist was a bloke called Jeremy Brown. He was outstanding, playing walking bass lines all evening without looking at the fretboard and often not looking at his music either. Googling this morning, it appears he plays for the BBC Big Band and various other groups and is a professor of Jazz Bass at the Royal Academy of music. Every now and again I get a bit complacent and start to think I know what I'm doing. Then I see an expert play and I get brought down to earth.

'All I Wanna Do' by Sheryl Crow. It doesn't fit our music, it needs a bit of slide guitar and when I mentioned it to my band they all gave me funny looks. I just really like the song.

I'm neither a short scale guy, nor am I a semi-hollow guy either, at least not at the moment. The music the band I play in cover makes the Triad or Decision P more appropriate. I wonder how neck-divey those Dub-Kings are?

I wonder why they did ? Apparently it was there most popular colour. I'm not complaining, I like the 'Periwinkle burst' but I would prefer purple to 'Periwinkle', which is a sort of mauve/grey finish/. Maybe there is a shortage of purple paint in Korea?

I was expecting the Periwinkle burst to be more purpley. I might have gone for the Korina burst had I been able to compare the two colours in the shop. That looks really nice.

Here is a link to the sweetwater site. They show the weights of all the basses they have in stock: https://www.sweetwater.com/c580--Reverend--Bass_Guitars?sb=popular&params=eyJmYWNldCI6eyJBdmFpbGFiaWxpdHkiOlsiSW4gU3RvY2siXX19 As does Peach Guitars in Essex, but they only have a single Reverend bass in stock: https://www.peachguitars.com/reverend-mercali-4-gunmetal.htm