Ugh! Take care, man.
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I vote for the ATK @T_dub but you know I’ve always wanted one of those. Both look pretty stellar.
What’s the love for that amp? The parametric eq looks cool
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Thank you, @howard . No worries. I don’t have symptoms, and my neighbour dropped off a 26er of rye. I’m set to ride it out.
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Oooh I like that Ibanez
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Yeah that Ibanez is interesting. Is the switch active/passive or a coil split?
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Love the finish on the Ibanez.
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Take both, you get 50 only once 
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Moah bass moah betta. As is the tradition on the B2B forum, let us help you spend your money. Take both basses 
AND the amp. Also, a few sets of strings while you’re at it 
Seriously though, I love that ATK. It would get my vote.
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My vote is on the ATK. Looks good in any setting, the one I had in hand, felt for both weight and balance and it had a good tone overall.
Enjoy.
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I just love Carvin. They make great amps. When this amp came out people were trading in their back breaking SVT’s and getting the same tones with this 5 lb amp.
I found one on Offer up for too good a deal to pass up at $170, but I had my knee replacement and it was gone when I got home.
Fortunately, I just found one, and it was a little more, at $250, but still it is an awesome little amp.
BTW, it has a solid state EQ and you can bypass with the parametric tube preamp, so it has tone for days, it is not a one trick pony, but you can get that one trick sound out of it.
Plus it takes up less real estate on my desk (or should say on my 4x10 cab with my table leaf on top of it to make it into a desk). It is great because I can plug into one source and either play live thru the amp, or I can use the Direct input to go into the computer. it makes thins much easier.
My GK that I had was a little on the worn side, and the direct out was not in the best of condition, so to play live out of my cab it worked great, but I didn’t get the best dry signal out. Of course, I could have bypassed thru the fx loop, and used my Tech 21 VT bass for the dry signal, but eh… It was a birthday gift to myself, so I pulled the trigger.
Quick peek, and then I am going to be updating my practice space as I have hung more basses on the wall, and now have room to put my pedal board back together and access it quite easily.
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Take care of yourself man, hope for a speedy recovery.
Me too. I already made one offer on it, and was countered. I can probably live with the counter offer, I just need to make sure it is the one I want.
I did get a chance to play one from a guy selling one of offer up. He lives near me, so it gave me the feel for it, and it will take some getting used to.
It is not an Ibanez neck by most standards, and even Lobster warns about this. It is on the very chunky side, close to 1.7" I believe. I can live with this, and if I can’t, I can always sell it.
yes.
this was marketed as the Music Man Killer. it has an active 3 band pre-amp, volume and a 3 way toggle for parallel, series and single coil. I played it for about 10 minutes at my house, and I was more then a little impressed.
Unfortunately, the one here that is local is a burst, and one of the horrible bursts that I can’t stand.
The one on Reverb, if I can get him to work with me, I like that color.
you and me both
I did sort of. I am getting one bass, and I got an amp too. Probably gotta draw the line there.
Well there goes my theory right out the window. I guess I better get to work on that Frank Bello bass. That LTD might be a big out of my budget if I also get the Ibanez, but I can swing the Squire 2010 - 2012 era Frank Bello Signature series. It will also go well with my Squire Pete Wentz Signature P bass. So, either way, maybe I can swing a Frank Bello. Either way, I will be dripping in the EMG Active Frank Bello pick ups, whether I go LTD or Squire.
I was warned that they are on the heavier side for basses. I think upwards of 12 lbs or something crazy like that, but TBH, that doesn’t bother me at all. And the tone it produces is crazy good.
Being on the heavier side, at least it iw well balanced, with no noticeable neck dive
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When the doorbell cam alerts me and it’s a delivery for someone else 
XD
I have a Nektar Pacer out for delivery I waited nearly a month for. TL;DR it’s a USB MIDI foot controller that will allow me to basically operate my DAW and effects like a pedalboard. I have two expression pedals for it, too, and if for some reason its built-in switches aren’t enough, I can add four more switches and two relay switches. It did cost more than some of the competition offering similar functionality. But it’s the one I wanted.
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They are not as light as the SR line but even the cut dictates that. I would say that it has weight to it but nothing compared to my old Vampyre that hit 13 on my scale even though the Warwick specs said other wise.
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I should weigh my basses since people are talking about it. I’m not sure how. I have a postal scale that might do the trick with careful balancing… (my kneejerk reaction was using a hanging scale)
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@Koldunya , if you don’t mind knowing your own weight 
, take your bathroom scale, weigh yourself with and without the bass and then subtract as appropriate.
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i’m aware of that, too, it’s how I guestimate my cats, but I want something a little more exact than me trying to stand the same way when it’s just me, and when it’s me holding an instrument and trying to balance on the scale again XD
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If the platform of the scale is big enough put a smaller guitar stand on it (like the small fold out ones), zero out the weight shown with the stand on it and then add the bass. That should be pretty accurate.
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I always put the scale at the corner edge of a counter or table so the headstock or anything else doesn’t touch the table or counter. You don’t have to let your hands get too far away when you get it to balance flat for a good reading.
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I certainly wouldn’t kick this Squier off the guitar rack…
$500 for a Squier anything seems pretty “out there” when MIM was this price not long ago o.O
But I do like it anyway, and tbh $480 for an active EQ 5-string isn’t necessarily a bad price, either.
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Everything’s more expensive tbh.
Someone here has one, I don’t recall who. Maybe they’ll chime in
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