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Good on you sir! Enjoy! Got my pro 2e back from Paul about a month ago, it had been de fretted but i wanted put back to original. He’s da man alrighty! and a thoroughly nice one at that! X😊

Thank you, and great to meet you

Interesting, thanks. I'm currently visiting in EU and may order a set of HB flats as delivery is cheaper at €5.90

I had excellent service when I purchased my MarkBass MB58R cab Very impressed

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I've had nothing but positive experiences buying from Bass Direct over the years. I've had a couple of very nice new basses and various pedals and accessories from them. I've never been to the shop but the staff have always been pleasant and helpful by phone and email. I'm just glad that there are still a specialist bass gear vendors with retail premises in the U.K. We all take it for granted but they would certainly be missed if they were gone.

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not to be confused w the other brand AMT 😁

Uh... tried the EUB through the C8. Spent ages tinkering with the Zoom B3 for just the right smidge of compression, chorus & reverb. Compression, it transpires, was a mistake, so I switched it out for EQ. I leave the reverb on, simply to make it sound a bit more organic. Notice that I've bought mentioned any of the amp/cab part of the signal chain? Nothing to say. They're both great. Except for the unerring accuracy; reveals my playing to be slow and sloppy! More practice needed. Oh well. Never mind! 🤣

Speaking of Superlight TTs… this popped into the inbox today… Super chuffed as it was listed originally for delivery by the end of April, so gaining a few months on it is great news. As a new build, ordered last September, I’m a little intrigued to see whether it will have the solid paulownia body or the newer maple core with paulownia wings design that they announced over the summer. Not worried either way but it adds an additional little element of surprise into the anticipation. Can’t wait to give it a run out a church on Sunday evening and at the weekly jam on Monday. Watch this space…

Enjoy it!!! I so very nearly pulled the trigger on that one - or it’s close clone - last year but decided not to as it duplicates the pickups on the VM I got last year. I was really looking for a TT SL for that Jazz look and feel. That said, the VM is a great pickup combination - both sound great individually and the blend sounds are lovely too. Do give us your in depth review when you’ve had a chance to properly put it through its paces…

The Fallouts that I've gone on about ad nauseum. Complete with replacement Schallers and OK from a distance DIY competition stripes. I very gingerly swapped the La Bella DTFs from the white bass to the red. The combination seems to work even better this way round; weirdly the flats on the red bass sound like my old fender messed up tele bass modded into a P bass with TI flats ( now owned by Ash)....somehow the bass sounds 50 years old with flats a year older than they did on the white bass! The white bass is much more polite in a good way...it left the factory with a nicer setup. The rounds really suit it. The red is more of a bass of extremes; glassy with rounds and more boxy / tubby in a good way with flats. It's useful to have them sound more different from each other. Thanks to Shepster for stoning the frets on the red bass ( initial setup as stock was a 'Friday afternoon special ') and to Beedster Chris for the Schaller BMs.

I visited Bass Direct for the first time Saturday, wanted to try a Gibson LPB. I phoned a few days before to let them know of my interest. No complaints from me I had a great time there. Left alone to play for I guess an hour before being asked what I thought. Sadly, and I was gutted, I didn't get on with it but not a wasted drive up they bought a the fender p I took up as part exchange. Two great guys working that day.

That’s fabulous news, Rich. You’re going to love playing it!! I still love my Pro 2E a quarter of a century after getting my hands on it. Going to sound great at the ska gig. Paul is such a star, he did a similar job on mine back around 2010ish, including changing the pops for ones with integrated shafts and it really gave it a new lease of life. Enjoy!!

There's a lot in what you say, I put some Resolite tuners on an old Fender and it really thinned out the sound, a lot of low mids disappeared. I suppose it could help some basses but in my case the old tuners went straight back on.

Hi folks I've just acquired a 2 tone sunburst P Bass copy from around mid 70's I think. Neck plate is stamped made in Japan. Happy to upload pictures but can anyone shed any light on these basses? It looks like my 70's Maya bass. I've done all the usual searches but as you can imagine as soon as you search custom bass etc it's off to Fender we go. Appreciated Ian.

Those keys are on there for a reason. Dead spots are nothing new. Instrument designers like Jim DeCola, currently headman at Gibson/former headman with Fender/designer of DynaBass for Peavey, are well acquainted with them and how to tweak them. It's simple physics, peghead mass. You take a bundle of loaded necks, with overly thick pegheads, stick some piezos on them, hit them with frequencies and record the results. Pegheads get gradually thinned by a sander to arrive at the average thickness causing least offense. Neck dive is caused by a poorly balanced bass. What device do we use to suspend our basses from ? It's not the tuning pegs so beats me why folk ignore the obvious. Buy another strap and adjust the bloody thing.