The Last Bass Outpost

Yes, I'm going to take some pics this evening.
BTW I'm not arrived at a final decision for the pickup ...and as for now I'm even using the...ahem..original six poles one (p100?) ..that is not so bad by the way, but of course not presentable..I loved the neck of that guitar and the fact that it is mahogany w/ set neck...a very cheap ultrashort scale bass in the end...Of course it is very strange to havea pickup sooo close to the bridge and this is the reason why it is still a work in progress...I have the temptation to route for a mudbucker against the end of the neck...but then the thing wont be anymore revertible..

As fas as I have seen I can confirn that the warwick bridge is too high without routing. I have placed one on a guitar-to-bass conversion and I had to find a workaround for making it work. I have converted into a bass this epiphone here:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rosetti.co.uk/products/epiphone/pics/ltd57lpJunior.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rosetti.co.uk/products/epiphone/ltd57lpjuniorreissue.htm&h=500&w=164&sz=9&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=_JxU0U7rOlvd_M:&tbnh=130&tbnw=43&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlp%2B57%2Bepiphone%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DBuB%26sa%3DN

by changing the nut and the bridge and I wanted to use a bridge with a tailpiece because I wanted to fill a bit the empty space behind the bridge and maybe give a little more tension to the strings.

Instead of routing I have used a dirty workaround and I have used just the upper half of the warwick bridge not mounting the base but only the part with the saddles directly attached to the bass body. It works pretty well like that and without routing I can revert back to guitar someday.

Hi,
I'm thinking about getting an amplifier for studio needs.
It should be ideally:

--integrated/combo
--small-ish enough
--all valve (or at least valve in the preamp)
--able to deal nicely with mudbucker bass

old or new...

Any idea?

I' bumped into this on ebay UK and I
 thought it might be interesting (no relation at all with seller). I bought one (in candy apple red awhile ago, the only Fender bass I o wn) a while ago and I think that it is very very good. Tone, aesthetics and quality are top notch and it vas a very limited run in 2000/2001..

http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130193764802&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=003