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I find fender stuff laughably mediocre for the money, especially as you go up their ranges, the CS stuff being Hurracan money for a Hyundai Elantra equivalent. The options they give are fairly limited and the price so high, hard pass. I'd rather build my own from Warmoth. I've owned a ton of them over time, and played more, but I don't think I'd spend my own hard earned on one if I was after something like they offered.

Sure, why not? I also played my cheapest 6 at a local village gig a while back. Depends on my mood.

MultiFX. All the modern units have enough presets to allow setting up for a (long) pre-determined set list. I almost never adjust the rig on the fly.

They sound pretty good to me, but I'll listen to it later on the big system before I make a final decision.

Measure from the nut to the 12th fret and multiply by 2.

Can't go wrong with the older Peavey gear - my BW15 and Mark VI head have seen maybe 1000 gigs and 40y of use. I hardly use it now as I use my rig for bass, guitar and baritone so I'm building a large FRFR rig to cover everything. However, I could put it in the car in a minute's notice and use it happily for a bass gig. Living in the sticks now, there's little point in selling it as it's not worth much and shipping would kill that.

I have yet to have a battery die mid gig since I got my first active bass in 84. Agreed as I love my 375 and have trouble trying to justify what a 2605 would cost, even though it it very purdy. The 375 will likely het a set of EMG E4Ws when available, just because. The 375 was $829 new 2ya, also very purdy in a subtle way, and the best I can find the 2605 for is $2850. The EMGs will be circa $450. My 655 used was not much more than the EMGs will cost with a HSC due to a stupid error in the listing that meant it didn't get any interest. Japanese Ibanezes are superb, but not for the price tags, so I'm not seeing a valid 'upgrade' path.

It's no different to any of the other bajillion relic'd instruments out there. Yawn.

Yeah, a long time back. It's OK, nothing special.

This awesome...

Alembic Series II had the widest HF bandwidth, but unless the Q has set really high, there was no 'sizzle', which I take to mean excessive brightness / hardness at the top, ie a negative quality.

I should have followed up with a post back then as they told me it was the same IcePower 700AS module too.

Lowthers weren't remotely SOTA hifi 50ya let alone what you can do with horns these days.

Och aye, ya dinnae ken.

No true bass man, would ever play anything but a P.