Marvin

Price listed at £177. 😮

I live down in rural Devon. A round trip to even Bristol is +5hrs. Work (I work most weekends now) and family just don't make it feasible.

The Ashdown is where I'm leaning to at the moment I must admit

I don't bother with a tuner, I made sure the shop tuned the bass before I bought it...sorted.

I bought a Peavey Minimax recently and now need a cab (I sold my last rig 12 months ago, Aguilar TH350 + Schroeder 1212l). I've got £300 available. Second hand can be difficult due to where I live, most cabs seem to be 100 miles away. Occasionally someone will courier a cab, but we all know that's rare and a bit of a faff. I need something compact with a small footprint, just for home and maybe practice rooms, but could eventually do pub/club size sort of gigs. The last amp/combo I used was a borrowed Laney RB 500w with a 15"driver. It kept up with the drummer and 2 guitarists On my list of possible Ashdown RM210t Fender Rumble 210 Markbass Black 151 (would have to negotiate the release of extra hour funds for that 🙂) Markbass NY121 (this one is second hand, but seller is willing to courier). Ampeg PF115LF GK 210MBE-II All opinions gratefully received.

Blocks and binding on a rosewood fretboard.

Clear/wood/unpainted finishes, call them what you want, I don't like them...but I have bought them, and currently one is a keeper. I shouldn't like this bass at all. I like painted finishes, rosewood fingerboards...but it is really nice to play.

Perhaps the courier deemed or thought the case made up part of the actual package and wasn't just packaging. I suppose a 'layer of cardboard' makes it clear that everything inside is the package. Still, seems a little unforgiving.

Thick as mince. Can't begin to imagine why the infection rate is beginning to increase

That's what I do. I've got a Zoom B1on I use at home and that's all I use, I've not got an amp at all at the moment.

I've always loved music, however I shan't say I hated music lessons at school but my word were they boring, dull and a complete waste of time. I can't remember learning anything. If you wanted to learn an instrument you had to pay, quite a bit, and my parents simply didn't have the money. At Junior School you could pay to learn the worst instrument of all, the recorder. At Secondary the only fun was, if you are allowed i on an instrument, to hit the xylophones so hard you tried to make the keys bounce off. The best place to learn an instrument was to join the town Silver Band. I've been in bands with 2 people who learnt to play drums in the Silver Band. Unfortunately not much call for guitarists in the Silver Band 😊

I'd go for the Rumble. I owned (and have always regretted selling) one of the larger ones, and they're nice combos. Great sound, good features at a good price.

It all looks well equipped. Coming from Thomann you get a 3 year warranty. However, as we leave the transition period and fully leave the EU as such on 1st Jan, I'd be a little concerned about how that effects us in the UK. I looked at the cabs, not sure on the porting. The equivalent Ashdown seems to have a bit more. Anyway, I won't be buying one 😎😁

I bought Patrick's Peavey Minimax from him. Great dealing with Patrick, I contacted him on Saturday, by Wednesday morning the Minimax arrived (..and Monday was a bank holiday). Fast, good comms, well packed. It's Basschat isn't it Many thanks.

I've bought an amp, so... I still don't expect gigs to be back to anything feasible for some time. I'll bide my time. It would be nice just to have a jam or murder a few songs in a practice room to be honest, it's been a while since I've played with others.

I suppose I started the thread saying I leant towards a flaccid pick and have steered towards something bigger and stiffer?

Listening to a lot of these guys. I was in a band a few years ago and the guitarist suggested I might like them. I couldn't get into them then, but I just happened to try again a few months ago and now I can't stop listening to their material. It's also got me back to playing a bit of bass again.

I've not played much for the last 2 years after my last band folded. Given the hiatus in all bands now I thought perhaps I'd try and improve my pick playing. I've always been awful at playing bass with a pick, I don't know what it is but I just don't seem to be able to co-ordinate it all properly. Along with a nice new stand for my Jazz bass I bought a packet of picks of various thickness. I always thought I should use as thin as pick as I could. HOWEVER, mucking about with this packet of picks I noticed I faired better with the thicker ones. So, I dug around in my old box of bass stuff and found one of those Jim Dunlop Big Stubby picks that was 2mm thick...and that was even better. I'm beginning to wonder what other preconceived notions I have about what's best for my playing that I need to ditch.

It used to be available on Freeview some time back. It'll be good to see it back.

The last band I was in the drummer was incredibly quiet, to the point the rest of us kept on asking him to up the volume a little. His response was, he didn't like to play louder because the volume annoyed him.

I've been toying with the idea of just getting together with some others, if for nothing else, just to play some tunes in a practice room. However, the last gig I played was over 2 years ago and I haven't mixed with the local musical fraternity since, so I'm a bit out of the loop. I'd have to get an amp first though

For bands doing pubs, clubs and the occasional party I'm not convinced backline amps will be disappearing all that soon where I'm from. It relies on someone in the band owning a PA that will take everything in the band, shared ownership is fraught with problems. In ears maybe ok for actual monitoring, but for out front in the venues I've mostly played the PA will only take vocal so you have to have your own amp. I don't know of any band around my way that has gone down the IEM route.

I'm always looking for different bands and artists to listen to. I wouldn't say it was new music as such. For example, at the moment I'm listening to Rival Sons A LOT! I'd not say they produce new music as such, it's very much blues/60's-70's inspired rock music. But it's new to me and they do what they do incredibly well. It's been a long time since I've heard a new artist or band and thought 'wow! that's different'. So in that sense, I don't listen to new music. There are good bands etc, but in the main most are incredibly bland and unexciting.

Aside the ponderous single speakon out (unless it's something to do with how their own cabinets and how they link up together) it looks like a well designed, well equipped and very decent looking amp.