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Inspired I checked my Markbass F500 - no discernible noise after an hour of playing. I think that in comparison to my old wind tunnel-esque DB750 anything would be quiet.

The best rig I ever had was a db750 into a Bergantino hs410. Regret selling both.

I'd be interested to see a photo of the fretboard. My celinder has the celinder-signature heavy lacquered neck which I really like. It'd be good to see how different it is to yours.

Bump.

Are they socketed in the Redhead or is it a soldering iron job, synaesthesia?

Sorry, I mean that a lot of people say they sound great, and they're relatively rare which drives up the price beyond what many comparable tubes cost. Expect to pay £40 to £50 when most other tubes would be around a tenner.

It's a hype valve so expect to pay a premium.

That's the fella.

The search messages function within the private messenger always returns a "database error" screen for me. Is it just me, or a known fault? It'd be a great feature if it worked. Joe.

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1332074652' post='1582775'] But this Ray is new. There are probably some sold as new which have been played more in the shop. It's only my opinion but to expect to pay half of the new price on a bass like this is disgusting. [/quote] It's the nature of the market.

Well rays normally seem to go for £600-£750 on this forum depending on which shade of ugly they are. So £900 is above market rate.

Don't you have a Trace V8?

Pearce BC-1 like a bawce.

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1330550172' post='1559380']If it`s a bolt on, just take out one of the bolts and put the strap button on with a longer screw. Easy peasy![/quote] This.

Ive got much love for the Hartke 410 - it's a really brilliant cab that punches above it's weight. Myself and CHRISDABASS spent a long time a/bing one with my Bergantino AE410 and you wouldn't have thought the Berg was 4 times the price.

I'd expect to at least be told the chords and changes before we started playing if it was originals that they didn't have recordings of to provide me with before. Glad you had fun - for most of us that's what it's all about

I had one. Wish I didn't sell it.

[quote name='deaver' timestamp='1330602264' post='1560039']TheBigBeefChief[/quote] Sadly missing from the poll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rSwv_F28GbE Not mine, but a sweet local band to Leeds.

I think it's probably a mistake to assume that it's done for cheapness. I don't think anything on a Sadowsky is done for that reason, metro or NYC.

[quote name='achknalligewelt' timestamp='1329920580' post='1549751'] I know this might be a contentious question, but hear me out. I have just read the thread discussing Blur's perfomance at the Brits last night. I didn't see it, but I gathered from reports today that it was pretty messy. The post on Basschat bore that out, but it also has quite a lot of people criticising Alex James as a player. I'll stand up now and say that I think he's a great player, but that's not quite the point I want to make. Because other names were thrown up as unremarkable, such as Mick Quinn of Supergrass and Mat Osman of Suede. I think they're great, too, playing excellent and fitting lines in some great songs. But the more I read Basschat, I find the conversation dominated either by the classic rock basists of the 60's and 70's, such as Geddy Lee and John-Paul Jones, or super-duper bass soloists, like Victor Wooten or Jaco Pastorius. Where is the flattering reference to Mike Mills? Colin Greenwood? Or even Andy Rourke? Are these players genuinely inferior to the giant rock players of the 1970's? And if so, why? I'd also like to say that I am not attacking the canon of leading bassists, nor those who admire them. I was called a troll on a post here a while back for a passing criticism of John Entwistle, and I don't want to raise hackles. But why are more recent bass players so readily ignored or criticised on these pages? What's wrong with them? [/quote] It's an age thing. The core of Basschat regular posters is dominated by the 40-60 age bracket.