A really tough decision is at hand.

[RaginRog]

If you love your SR5, I wouldn't sell it. Save the cash ($800), and once you have it, sell the Conklin, and the 350 head and get what you want. My .02

 

[cellkirk74]

You need to investigate Peavey and forget about ampeg. The Peavey works equally well with any bass.

Check ebay and you won't have to sell a bass to fund one either.

tk

true, the older Pro 500 or the tour-heads do sound very decent for the price. They are also a good backups.

 

[pearlredburst]

Good point. I am a MM fanatic as well, I just don't have the money to display that fanaticism through a collection of basses.

Not all of the specifics have to be the same. Let's say you have multiple MM basses, but your favorite one would sell for the same price as the last, very important, piece of your rig would cost. Would you sell it?

I thoroughly believe that the BASS itself is a large portion of your rig. If you sell your main bass, but then buy the "final" piece of your rig, you still don't have the final piece cuz the bass is gone!

 

[oli@bass]

I thoroughly believe that the BASS itself is a large portion of your rig. If you sell your main bass, but then buy the "final" piece of your rig, you still don't have the final piece cuz the bass is gone!

Never ever sell your favorite instrument to buy a different piece for your rig. In your example, I'd rather sell two of the others than my favorite. That said, with "favorite" I mean favorite player/best sounding bass.

 

[high mileage]

Most of the tone is in the bass.

Yes. When you're going thru a PA (which I know you said isn't all the time), the PA is what most people will hear. Most sound guys will want a pre-EQ (flat) DI signal anyway so the amp really isn't doing much other than giving you a monitor. 810's are fun, but also fun to sell. BTDT, twice now.

Even for the times you don't have PA support, most of the tone is in your fingers, then the bass, and then the other stuff. Don't sell the bass. Or your fingers.