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I think I complain too much. I just received this update. "Hey everyone, acoustic @Motor Sat 8/17, patio again if it's nice 👍🏻 " I'll take it. Daryl

My warwick WCA 211 Pros are front ported.

SWR Goliath JR. Eden. Trace Elliot 2x8, punches like a 210. Like they (mostly) said, doesn't matter sonically. Lows are non directional. Could be a proxy for extra width in a vertical cab to have stability and/or avoid muffin top.

That looks like my kind of event. Very nice photos. 30 minutes is really cool and easy to manage material. I've done a few 40 minute shows, I love them. I always get jealous when I see photos like this. Do you get to play a lot of these upscale type gigs? Daryl

To my ears, front porting sounds better. I have had the opportunity in the past to directly compare front ported with rear ported, and the front porting always wins. Also helps massively if a cab is in a 'live in' flightcase when touring, where rear ports would be blocked by the case itself. There might be data to suggest otherwise but there is nothing to my ears that sounds better than luscious bass spilling out of a port in the same direction as the speaker is projecting.

KLF set fire to £1m cash and deleted their entire back catalogue. So they still have a way to go to match that.

I used to have a front ported Ashdown 210.

The necks on these are fab; wide and flat. They make good defrets, too.

You are putting a lot of faith into numbers that can be totally made up, or perhaps mean nothing.

Jump around. House of pain

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When I joined basschat (probably was 15 years ago) I was initially attracted to the bargains that could be had in the classifieds. But I quickly realised that it was because the BC community were passing bargains on to others by selling on for what they paid. I didn’t see much obvious flipping for profit but once I saw it on a sale of mine I lost a bit of respect for that basschatter. Also, I think since the charges came in there isn’t the same basschat spirit that used to exist in the classifieds, all be it with a few exceptions. Apart from being legal, immediately flipping for a profit isn’t a million miles away from ticket touting.

Not fixed. Language is organic, and usage is the final arbiter.

I played a Harley Benton at a party on holiday a couple of years ago. No, it wasn't as good as a US Fender, it was rather heavy and a few things on it were a bit rough & ready, but it sounded OK and played great! It was owned by a rather bizarre Belgium chap with an even stranger wife, who also owns a WAL 5 string and seems to gig them pretty much in turn! I'm not looking to get one myself right now, but if I needed a cheap bass for some reason then I could do worse. It certainly wasn't bad at all...

Bear in mind I've only been playing for less than 3 months. One of the things I'm doing is playing major and minor scales starting at the bottom of the E string going as high as I can and then back down. So if I've got this right and I play, say a D or D# minor scale my little finger is above the 12th fret.

Yep!

I think this fits as it's a Bongo so definitely weird and ugly (IMHO), but I'm going to suggest that at this price something might be amiss... https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2516561958523355/