chris_b

Go as far as you like into the future, Fenders best sellers will still be Precision and Jazz basses.

Collect gigs, not stuff.

If you have no other option, just keep the 2 basses you play the most and sell the rest. That's what I did and I don't even notice that the others have gone.

You might have to wait a little longer, but it just seems to be simpler to me to buy the right bass in the first place.

I agree, which is the reason for the post before yours. Hopefully some clarification for the OP.

I don't understand. Why buy a bass that that you immediately need to upgrade to make it sound right? I'd sell it and buy the right bass or get a good outboard preamp pedal.

A bricks and mortar music shop will survive in the short term if it has a successful online store behind it. I used to think the only shops that would survive in the town center were those that the internet couldn't kill, ie food and drinks, but the online delivery companies are now trying to put them out of business now. As usual the Governmental hasn't a clue or just doesn't care about the issues that are killing the high street that they aren't even on the same continent let alone page. Supermarkets started the decline of independent shops. My son was nearly 18 before he went into a butchers shop That was with me. He's probably never been in one since. I go out into the world to shop, because I'm old and old fashioned, but the kids don't so the high street will continue to wither. In reality live music is spiraling down to a niche event. The audiences are getting older and fewer. There won't even be a need for online music stores in another 20 years.

Who cares about this stuff. . . . what does it sound like and is it loud enough?

Playing bass is a mental process. Whether we think we play better with this bass or that bass is half the battle to actually playing better, but if we rule out basses that are just plain bad to play, the bass doesn't influence whether you play this scale, that riff or the other groove, you do that. . . . . and Bootsy was just as funky when he played a Jazz straight into the amp.

Depending on the taper of the volume pot the maximum volume could be anywhere, so the OP can try an experiment. Plug in the 410 and see how the volume changes when the volume control is turned all the way up. Does the amp get louder across the whole travel of the pot or does the volume only change across a limited section, ie the first 50% for example. Whichever one is true, the OP has identified the point of maximum volume of the amp and he can back off the volume to a point where his personal volume level sits. Noon was just an example that works for me and most of the amps I've owned. If that works the same for the OP, and I'm assuming that Markbass will be the same, then the OP is running his amp in a way that is very unlikely to damage his cabs. The experiment will tell him how his amp operates. My opinion is that with these particular cabs, mixing a 115 and 410 is not what I'd do, but the OP has to decide that for himself.

The sound of a bass is secondary to the lines I'm trying to play. I've gone from a 4 string Framus Star Bass to a 5 string Sadowsky Jazz but, while I do it better these days, my playing style isn't so far removed from how I played on that first bass.

HL is a fantastic player. I'm jealous and sad that I never learnt a fraction of that technique. Good technique never goes to waste, look at James Jamerson on Higher and Higher and My Girl.

Good move.

If Paul Herman can step up to make Wal basses of the quality he does then these makes can also continue without losing any of their quality when the main man goes.

Very strange to let a quality brand go under like that.

This is news to me. I have never had a tuning problem since electronic tuners were invented. I've also never used the same tuner as anyone else in the band.

Both cabs will see 250 watts if you run everything flat out. I don't know anyone who does that, as most bass amps don't actually sound very good flat out. So let's assume you're running your amp at half power. I usually run my 500 watt amps with the volumes at noon, and that's 250 watts which is 125 watts per cab. Unless you're doing something weird with boost pedals you shouldn't damage anything. That's also assuming your amp is actually only on half power when the controls are at noon. The good ones should be set up to do that. I would assume Markbass would be fine. I had both of those cabs at one time and I always ran the 410 on its own. I thought the 115 just made the sound too woolly.

My preference is to be next to the hi-hat and as far away from the guitarist as I can be, but I'll set up anywhere if I have to.

Put castors on one and you're off.

Jack Bruce Ginger Baker Eric Clapton Could be interesting.

Are these gigs the only reason you want to upgrade? If you are playing any gig outdoors, other than your back garden, you have to DI the bass through the PA system. There are very few bass rigs out there that will fill up a whole field with great bass tone. Even a new rig will struggle on an open air gig without FOH support. Having said that, an upgrade is easily done, as is upgrading the performance and power of your back line, but keeping the GK sound you have now? That's unlikely to happen, but do it right and you can upgrade your gear and get a better sound at the same time. If you want to keep the GK sound then I guess a GK head is the place to start. I'd look at the MB800 because you need headroom and this will give you 500 watts into a single 8 ohm cab. I bought Barefaced cabs because they are light, loud, and have great tone. They should sound exactly like the amp you're using, but much louder. BF cabs are pretty sensitive so will put out more volume for your watts. That might be a bonus if you find your festival monitors aren't as good as you would have hoped. The other BF bonus is you can try the cab and send it back if you don't like it. I started with 800 watts and 1 Super Compact. The next day I ordered another SC. 2 just sound fantastic. Now I'm using an SC and a Super Midget and probably sounding better than I ever have. YMMV You have a lot of choices. Have fun finding what sounds good to you.

Mine too. But I don't care, so basically anything by Delbert McClinton, Keb Mo, Bonnie Raitt, Bobby Bland and Little Feat.

The early cabs had issues with the glue, but since it was fixed there is no problem with BF cabs and peeling Tolex.

A Rickenbacker was the first bass I played through an amp. I was about 15, the place was in the Baldwin Burns showroom under Centre Point in central London. That was also the last time I played one. /memory lane

Talkbass doesn't seem to have banned threads about fake Rickenbackers. There are thousands of them including some posted this month.