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X2 and you are looking at the Barefaced of the day but half as loud, except with your amp it would have been twice as loud.

#3 board.

Bought a BF Compact from Muzz in another dodgy BC car park meet 🤣 Cab exactly as described. Always good to put a face to a name too. Deal with confidence. Thanks again Muzz. Cheers Dunc

There’s a Spector at a certain UK dealers that I’m hoping someone will buy so I can’t/don’t. I would say only harder to sell in so much as you have to exclude 4 string only players as potential customers.

Ooh nice. what you getting?

Bought a TC head from Mike. It arrived the next day, well packed and exactly as described. Great communication and a great experience all round. Thanks again 😁 Cheers Dunc

Try it and see if it returns enough brightness for your playing style. I'm not convinced doing this removes significant grime as the video maker suggests; I think it could be something to do with the winding being relaxed from the string core.

I am so unlikely to buy (and retain) a 4 string bass, I often get annoyed that the sales area doesn't have a filter to filter only 5 strings, then I remember it would have to be me that did that and I let me off

Really excited by this. Can't wait to see what a production version might look like.

As a newb to Spector this could be a silly question, but here goes... Why do a lot of 4 string models come with PJ pups and then you get to the 5 string of the same model and they have humbuckers?

Ill bet if you plug them all in, your bass will sound like a fridge door opening.

Very nice indeed. Great review! I’m still eternally happy with my Silverstone. I’ll have to paint the baffle blue though to make it properly authentic now! 😝 Great work by @stevie. I cannot find a reason to buy another cab that hasn’t been made by him.

Despite being sired in the 50’s, they’re still considered the industry standard for some reason. I think it’s mainly because engineers find them easy to place in a mix, compared to something which cuts through and refuses to be buried sound-wise. I’ve got a couple of nice American Original and FSR Standard Jazzes, and principally play them for my professional engagements with a 50’s/60’s Tribute Show. Otherwise, I use much more modern instruments. Interestingly, I’ve also got a Player series Mexican Jazz which is one of those ‘one in a batch of twenty’ ones that seriously punches above it’s weight. I don’t have a Precision at the moment - instead I have two Mustangs (one on rounds, one on flats) which do the job just as well, according to the engineer/producer at the last couple of sessions I did.

In this case it's not so simple, as the ports are tapered. Basic ported box speaker modeling software can't account for that. You can do it with a more sophisticated tool, like HornResp or Akabak, but they require a high degree of expertise. However I do happen to have that high degree of expertise, and my rate is reasonable. Free. ☺️

So I guess that means it has a slightly shorter E string than the 5?

See if you can pop along to Bass Direct and try out a Pulse II, a Euro LX/Classic and a Dimension HP. See which you prefer....

Your Mum etc.

The HB 800 Block is a cracking amp, I’ve read somewhere (probably Thomann haha) that it uses the same power amp as some amps significantly more expensive than it - I don’t know how true it is, but I have used it with a preamp in the return and it was excellent, sounded excellent flat too going through the amps preamp normally, for £299 great value. I don’t know much about the Bugera’s altho I almost bought one in the January sales a couple of years ago as they were like £120 or something ridiculous, I’ve actually never heard a bad thing about them - people who have them seem to like them, although I think most people agree that the whole “1000w” thing is stretching it a bit

Good news travels fast on the interwebie thing. Dave

All their songs seem to be in C#. The Dimension 4 just has the bonus of the 36" scale on the E string which will give extra tension or allow lighter strings.