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Thanks for that. I just always assumed that direct drive meant less maintenance with belt replacements. Interesting to see the trend is more towards belt drive. I'm guessing belts are made from better quality materials these days. Dave

There are hifi buffs who swear by Technics decks, spending thousands on arms, carts, isolation, "clean" power etc, though not many other turntable brands (not even EMT!) use direct drive motors, preferring the extra level of isolation a belt gives (on my TT the motor is in a separate very heavy billet aluminium cylinder, and a new belt is £50! Even Verdier use belts, despite having a magnetic bearing meaning the platter effectively levitates... Still, I've heard Technics decks sounding very good indeed.

Here’s an interesting serial nr K999 87 from a fretless thumb bass. Sounds like something special as it’s the last number of a month? emailed with warwick, he said it has no original pickups, passive pickups and electronics for active pickups. The pickups are beige, the electronics has a little block with “Dale” imprinted on it. Can’t upload photo’s . My brother says he bought it new in a shop around 1987 but is not so sure anymore if it was new. Does that happen that you buy a new or almost new bass and it is already tampered with?

If you're not afraid of botox...

I think I know what the problem is. I put a small rubber gasket around each SpeakOn socket to reduce air loss. I think this has changed the distance from the plate to the socket enough to stop some plugs working. I'll pull the panel, remove the gasket and see if that works.

I put a set of Gotoh Resolite GBR640-XN (X Nickel) on a custom shop P I used to have. They were a perfect fit and not new shiny chrome. They looked the part and were so much better in operation and balance. Reverse wind gears like the originals. I don't think they do the forward gear version (GB640) in X-Nickel unfortunately, soon got used to them though. Recommended. https://www.thomann.co.uk/gotoh_gbr640_4l_xn_bass_tuners.htm

I'm no bridge pickup guy.

So sorry to hear this man and yeah I always use UPS as had bother with Parcelforce before. If I get offered anything at Vintage Bass Room I’ll get in touch immediately @knicknack

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I wonder if it's one of those Limelights with a Fender logo? I can just about imagine a situation where, for whatever reason, the shipping information goes awol and ,after checking the headstock, the undeliverable bass is recorded as a Fender on whatever database they use for such things. When the Limelight is reported missing they check the database and come back saying 'the only undelivered bass we have is a Fender, Then because no one has reported a Fender bass missing they have no idea where the one they have came from and it ends up at the auction Just a thought. Edit. The final step would be the auction house correctly identifying it but not telling the courrier company, and so the circle of f-ups is complete.

I don't know how these things normally work but , if I've understood the timeline correctly, 30 days from initial postage to turning up in an auction for unclaimed goods seems like a ridiculously short period for a fairly valuable item, especially one that is so unique and easy to identify after it went 'missing' in the first place. I agree it's far more likely to be error that criminal intent, but something has clearly gone very wrong here.

Yes - if the jack socket is a skeleton type and you've got a 2-band EQ so the jack socket will be sitting on the same shielding, the shielding should be grounded by the jack socket. If you've got a 3-band EQ with the jack socket in the side then you'd need to ground the shielding by connecting a pot body to ground. It would be worth checking that everything is properly grounded by going over it with a multimeter afterwards.

Maybe I should haver applied Hanlon's Razor before I posted previously, but it seems whatever system is in place to ensure that a parcel has a fighting chance to reach its intended destination before being disposed of and profited from is clearly broken.

But as the sockets are NL4 and the plugs are NL4 something isn't right. I understand the theory but reality has entered the room. As far as I can see, I have NL4 sockets and an NL4 cable. The NL4 cable will not lock in. I push the cable in, pull back on the silver connector and attempt to twist clockwise. I cannot twist it clockwise. The NL2 cables both work fine. However the NL2 cables have 1/4" sockets on one end. I suspect crap connectors on the NL4 cable

Unless you have a speakon/jack socket in which case the 4-pole will physically fit and make contact with +1 & -1. David

probably.. i like the way it sounds. need to play around with it more tbh

I've lusted after an 80s Aria Pro II for years and years, ever since seeing that Day on the Green live clip which got me into the bass in the first place! However it feels a bit rich paying the big bucks for one. Something more affordable would be right up my alley, even a decent used alternative with a few mods thrown on it.

At least he didn’t call him “captain”…

Putting on the Ritz - Fred Astaire et al.....

"NL2 Speakon cables (2-pole) are compatible with both NL2 and NL4 panel jacks, while NL4 cables (4-pole) only fit NL4 jacks, creating a one-way compatibility. A 2-pole plug works in a 4-pole socket because it uses the 1+ and 1- contacts, but a 4-pole plug is physically too large for a 2-pole socket."

Just watched the video. That deer eerily reminds me of Hartley Hare...

Thanks all for your comments .. I’ll certainly give it some more thought & read up on Thiele/Small parameters etc

I doubt BotGazz uses a phone keyboard with auto correct that changes a misspelling of "tube" to "time".

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