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If I can offer a little advice from watching my wife (pianist and flautist with very small hands) learn bass over the last couple of years: - 4 strings will be simpler to start with to help learn technique - Short scale is absolutely viable: my wife started on an Ibanez Mikro bass and swapped...

Looping back in here: I saw a Black Friday deal at PMT on the Laney for £106, so pulled the trigger as it seemed like a good deal. Have only plugged it in at home so far, but it seems like a great little unit, and is an instant upgrade on the bass patch I’d been using on my Atomic Amplifire 3...

As mentioned, looking for a ‘cheap’ option- less than £150. Already have a Helix. Want a small portable option. NUX, Laney etc all good options.

Thanks man… limited run tho. Leaning towards the NUX. Will wait to see what Black Friday brings in the sales!

Helpful summary guys. The units are all about £130 in the UK, give or take a bit. Maybe about £30 less used.

The NUX, Laney and Palmer units all cost roughly the same. Any communal consensus as to which is best? Don’t do much in the way of slap etc, so warmer or punchier tones are better…

Thanks everyone. This has given me a few decent options which I didn’t have before!

Cool. Just challenging myself as to whether I should just get a parametric EQ (have got a good active DI anyway) or whether the bass pedal is the way forward

Actually that Nux pedal looks pretty decent. Good shout.

Yeah, when we get to Noble prices, I’d just grab a HX stomp and load my patches onto it. Couple of hundred quid is the limit for what I want to pay.

Sound cheap or sound decent?

Thanks - I had the BDDI years ago but was never wowed by it. Maybe I should try it out again! Any other suggestions or recommendations?

Hi folks Newbie (UK) here. I’m hunting around for a backup to my Helix floor unit. I have a couple of Warwick Corvette basses (Proline 4 and FNA Jazzman 5), and the missus plays a little Ibanez P-J Mikro bass fitted with Tonerider alnicos. I’m looking for something to use as a backup to the...