Marvin

If you were to want to put all your eggs in one basket I think you'd need to try that 'one' bass first (not that always helps). I stopped gigging before the current unpleasantness and had 3 basses when I finished, a P bass, J bass and double pickup modern looking BRIGHT RED bass. I sold the last one as it never got used. It seemed pointless just storing it in a case in the corner of the dinning room. Most of the time I play the J bass, as it's the nicest bass I've bought. BUT, I won't sell the P bass because you always need a P bass Neither of my basses were expensive though so keeping them isn't really an issue...unless I need the room. I did think about selling both and putting some money with the sale and getting something I really wanted...but I'm too lazy to advertise them and all the other faff

I don't play things wrong, I play them differently

Mentioning Talkbass is a bit like saying 'the game' to anyone...you forget it's a thing until someone mentions it. I can't remember the last time I logged in or even looked at the site. I don't like the interface at all. It's so big and busy that threads almost instantly end up on page 2084 because of replies to other threads. It's just too big and a bit clunky. It seems to be taking longer to get up and running than my old laptop is to install the latest Windows updates.

I received a promotional email about these a few days ago. They look considerably better than the last incarnation of the BA combos...which looked dreadful. I know we should concentrate our focus on how something sounds, but still, they looked woeful. These on the other hand look great, they seem to have quite a straight forward set of controls as well. I'm not fan of overly fussy controls and gimmicks on amps and combos, if I want to modify the basic sound that's what effects pedals were created for. I just checked GuitarGuitar and you can preorder the 210 combo for £639. I think that puts in between the cheaper Rumble and the more expensive Ashdown. From experience the Rumble takes some beating to be honest.

Thank you for the info and links. That's a great looking greyhound We're rehoming a 4 year old female greyhound from the local branch of The Greyhound Trust. She's quite small apparently, about 26kg, quiet and a bit shy. She has to be neutered and given 10 days recovery, but hopefully she'll be with us just after Easter Bank Holiday.

Is that a greyhound? We're rehoming a greyhound in a few weeks

I've borrowed Laney bass combos on a couple of occasions, The first time was an abused Laney Linebacker. I think it must have been broken somewhere because it sounded a bit weedy. The last time was the last time I played in room with other 'musicians'. I borrowed a Laney R500 115. I quite liked it. It kept up well with 2 guitars and drummer. Easy to use, decent sound, not that heavy. A good combo for doing the pubs around my way.

The vast majority of the places I play if you move around you'll be knocking into something or someone. If I can move around a bit I will, but that's mainly to stop cramp in my legs. For quite a while, mainly due to vanity, I looked very grumpy when playing. This was almost entirely down to refusing to wear my glasses, hence not being able to see anything properly (including the set list taped to the floor at my feet) and frowning for almost the entire set. Just one minor point for the OP, if you're in a shoegaze band, staring at your shoes is pretty much part of the gig.

This thread needs to be deleted...or something. The title is way too long and it's upsetting my OCD every time it appears, it looks out of balance with the other threads

I was going to buy one of those a few years ago but couldn't justify yet another bass in the house. The only thing wrong with that particular Squier is that it looks like a biohazard and may get confiscated by a special UN chemical weapons inspectorate. 🤢🤮

Generally I don't listen to radio, most DJs irritate me more than if fibreglass loft insulation got stuck in my underpants. (Someone mentioned TalkRadio, I'd rather ram a carving knife through my temple than listen to that). The only time I listen to radio is the small amount of time I'm in the works van, and that'll be Absolute Radio, which is meh at best. They tend to play the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin more than the Beatles, but mostly it's late 80s onwards.

This

I liked both. Which isn't very helpful is it...

I've got a Peavey MiniMax that I bought from a fellow basschater for £180 (could have been a bit less, I can't remember, but it definitely under £200) and I've put it together with a Fender Rumble 210, that I bought new. It's light, not cheap but not expensive, and it has volume but not what you'd call LOUD! If I needed more headroom then I'd add another cab I suppose. I've done gigs with similar set ups and they've managed well...but then I've got to an age where I refuse to play loud

Mrs Marvin and I went along to a gig with the singer in a previous band to see a local band at a small venue. The band play decent support slots for bands doing 3-4000 capacity venues (?), but this was a tiny place where they were doing a gig for their home fans. I'd never heard their stuff, they were ok. I was stood with Mrs Marvin far enough back from 4 guys trying to mosh at the front (it wasn't that well attended). One of the guys insisted on falling back into my wife and I. After the 3rd time I asked him to stop. The 4th time he got a stone cold stare, the 5th time I told him if he did it again I'd drag him outside. The 6th time my wife said we should leave early.

I wish I'd had remote volume control or mute for one guitarist I did a few gigs with. He always angled his speakers across the stage...so more or less at me. So for those gigs I had him at full volume, it was really irritating. I usually use my tuning pedal to mute, but will use my amp's mute, or pedal if I want to put my bass down and not change any settings. It seems most guitarists have everything on '11', so if they turn a dial, let's say the volume, down to mute then they just turn it back up to 11

As @Reggaebass says, @KiOgon his wiring looms are great.

I don't know why he's gone in this direction. The song sounds like it came from the second Mumford and Sons album and not at all what he's really known for. It's an inoffensive, radio friendly sort of song. I'm not sure it'll be a 'pub covers classic' so to speak.

These are the only basses I've owned for the last 4 or so years I think. Sire V7 and Squier VM Precision. They didn't cost much, the Sire was under £ 300 and the Squier was £150. I really like both of them so can't see me selling them unless I needed the money or couldn't play anymore. (and that is about all the gear I own in that picture. 2 basses, a cab (not that one though) an amp and a box (now a bag) of cables and a few pedals. Travel light )

Plywood isn't a bad thing at all. As with any instrument if it's constructed correctly then ply can be very good, and as good as any other wood. My old Korean Squier P bass was made of ply. No one would know unless you took it apart

I can literally only play the bass, and that's a stretch sometimes. I have been dabbling with the riff to Black Dog over the last couple of days on guitar, but that's only because I couldn't be bothered to get my bass out of its case. (I bought a guitar so the kids could learn> It lives in the dinning room. Only one of my kids is learning guitar and he bought his own). However, I've struggled with the whole getting my hands making chords thing with guitar and just gave up. When you take 10secs to change chord it's not really going anywhere.

I'm no expert, but that's not a Fender. The body looks all wrong. And the pickguard doesn't fit properly. It's a mess

We have dreadful issues with wi-fi, especially getting into the extension of the house. Our house isn't even that big, just a normal sized 3 bed box. The router sits in the dinning room, which is right next to the living room, however maybe because the wall between them is the old external wall, or the foil covered insulation in the new walls, the wi-fi signal is awful in the living room. For the TV and Playstation I bought home plugs which provides a stronger more reliable signal. With this second lockdown the kids need to work online all the time. My eldest is fine, his room is directly above where the router is. For the other two (who share a room) the wi-fi signal is so unreliable. I ended up buying Ethernet to USB adapters and plugging them into another homeplug. This has really worked wonders, they're getting good speeds and it's very reliable. I just checked the speed in their room and they're getting 25mbps, which although isn't fantastic is still better than no mbps. The computer I'm on now is connected straight into the router (they actually sit next to one another) and it's getting speeds around the 55mbps. The kids room may seem low, but homeplugs aren't supposed to work that well if the plugs are on two different ring mains apparently, which mine are...so I'm quite pleased I always prefer to be 'wired' in. Wi-fi, bluetooth have their uses but it's not as good as a cable.

Absolutely this. If I'm not in a band, or if the band I'm in aren't doing anything, I just haven't any enthusiasm to just play. I've picked up my bass a few times and played along to a few tracks and learnt/relearnt some however, because I don't keep playing them the next time I pick up my bass I've forgotten them.

P5 in Fiesta Red please. Ta I notice that the US price for the 4 string P5 is 💲499 (the 5 string 💲599)