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My experience with the two band EQ Ibby preamp is that it is horrible! Far too aggressive and it will amp up any single coil buzz. Shielding always helps with jazz pickups but I reckon it is worth spending about £100 on a Glockenlang two band replacement. It is much more civilised, transparent, has a passive mode, is pre-wired and is pretty well a drop in replacement for the Ibby OEM junk. Otherwise go passive but by the time you have bought 4 decent pots, caps, etc and paid to have them wired up, you will be well on your way to the price of a Glockenlang preamp. Other two band replacement preamps are available of course.

You guys are making me feel even older! 70 this year and I don’t remember whether we had Vim in Oz back then. Probably had another name if we did.

No probs here and they stock stuff you can’t buy in the UK. They are not the cheapest for everything but normally very competitive.

Looks good and you don’t have to shield it as it is already conductive. Just need a couple of bits of conductive tape from the graphite paint in the control cavity to a screw hole on either side and you should have really good shielding. 👍

Think I would be inclined to plug those holes with short lengths of toothpick and wood glue. It won’t make them entirely invisible but they won’t be quite that obvious. P.S. Those Gotohs must have cost about half what the bass cost!

Thanks for the reassurance. I’ve basically been doing that for more than 3 years. Unfortunately, he seems to be moving in the opposite direction politically but that is his prerogative. Of course, there is always the possibility that he is right and I am wrong🤔. As far as I am aware he doesn’t actually participate in physical acts against immigrants. I think that might be my red line.

Just came across this thread and it is actually a situation I have on my mind. No names, no pack drills: a bandmate in one of the bands I play in expresses very anti-immigrant views, given the chance. He is a radical Reform supporter and reposts some really poorly researched, utterly false claims on Facebook. He seems to be a sucker for far-right conspiracy theory. I am OK with people holding opposing views to me but I lose sympathy when they are based on the most transparent misinformation and involve little to no critical thinking. Trouble is, this apart, he is a really nice person. The only person in the band who expressed any real concern, or interest when I was in hospital for 10 days a couple of years ago. The only person who visited me at home, to see how I was doing, once I was discharged. He is also very generous and willing to help friends out. I can’t reconcile his political views with the rest of his character. I think he has realised that I don’t share his views (I am not sure about the others, equally divided I suspect). Consequently, we just don’t discuss politics at all in the band. I once pointed out to him that, although I hold British nationality, I am a dual national and an immigrant myself, as is my other half. Apparently, that doesn’t count. I suspect because we are both white and not Muslim. Apart from that instance, subjects that could cause contention are avoided and I never acknowledge, or mention his Facebook posts. Am I being a coward, should I leave the band on principle, or is this respecting other peoples’ right to hold opposing views? I am inclined towards the latter position: there is too much polarisation in our society. However, it still troubles me.

All this talk of GR Bass gear made me look at Bass Direct. Now I’ve seen the Dual 800 head I have serious GAS. Wow! What a lot of bang for the buck! Returning to the subject in hand. The One 350 does seem to be a good fit for @andyhaines requirements and much better value for money than the Mini One, which is only about £70 less but has much fewer features. I guess the only reason you would choose the Mini over the One 350, is if you absolutely needed to fit it in a gig bag pocket but then it is a lot more expensive than the Gnome, Elf, BAM, etc.

My main gigging amp: Blackstar U700 has some built in effects as well as pre and power amp modelling (character settings). I occasionally use some of the drive settings and definitely the character options. After that, I sometimes use the compressor and very occasionally chorus. This is often because we are covering certain songs where the bass was processed in that way. The only pedals I use with it are a tuner and an envelope filter for some funk numbers. I am sure I could get by with the amp models and the drive. Everything else is fluff really (except the tuner). Chorus is nice for fretless but not all the time. My accuracy is poor enough to provide a chorus effect most of the time 😏.

Fender high mass bridge: good choice and pretty good value as high mass bridges go. 👍

Sorry I may be a bit behind the curve here (I tried to read all the posts above but my other half was insistent on telling me about somebody, whom I have never met, kids latest news, despite the fact I was clearly reading something). I see @Phil Starr stepped in about the Warwick Gnome. I think they are far from transparent in the EQ sense. I have owned the basic 200 watt version and now own the iPro 280 watt. I also have two LFSys Monzas and the first time I tried the iPro through a Monza it sounded horrible to my ears. Fortunately, @Phil Starr clued me in about the Gnome’s baked in EQ profile and I now have the weirdest looking settings, which make it sound good through the Monza. Conversely it sounds OK through my Barefaced Two10S without the tweaking but that is because it is unravelling the Two10S’ default vintage colouring. It is definitely the antidote to vintage; does that make it HiFi? I have never found the jack out on the Gnome a problem and all my cabinets have speakon sockets. Just get a jack to speakon loudspeaker cable, available for very little on fleaBay and the like. If you want an effects loop, pre-post DI out and speakon sockets on a Gnome, you are going to have to go for the iPro 600 watt v2. It is still within your budget but is a bit bigger and heavier than the lower powered versions. It may still fit in a gig bag pocket though and it also benefits from 4 band EQ. I have no idea whether the baked in EQ is different from the original.

Matter of interest: how many people on here are still using an Acinonyx? There was a great deal of enthusiasm for it when it first came out but quite a few got sold in the BC classifieds. For a while it was my main gigging bass with my blues band but I got so fed up with the buttons, I left it at home after the first flush of enthusiasm. I’m probably going to play it more now that I have done the mods above but I am favouring medium scale at the moment.

Two very different views on the Satellite: Not everybody likes the Satellite.

G4M have just knocked a few quid off it and they have sunburst lefties in stock.

For a bit of balance, not everyone likes the Hartwood Satellite. I have to admit the sound is probably a bit marmite but then he seems to have only tried it with the horrible OEM strings: