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Sweet really interested in hearing some thoughts after hands on experience. It does sound like the things I enjoy in a preamp.

Hey everyone, the necks are on their way to me and should be delivered tomorrow. I'll give them an inspection and, hopefully with all things being well, I can send them to the shipping warehouse before the end of this week.

A lot of us seem to have the same experiences with this. One friend of mine has asked me every time I've seen him for the last 32 years how the band is going. "How's band life?" Is his favourite question. Every time I see him he says that he'll have to come along and see us play one night. He's got no concept. I've been in at least a dozen regular gigging bands in that time doing a vast variety of material, covers, originals, playing different instruments etc. My response is always the same, "Yeah, good, thanks. Busy as ever." I bumped into a former colleague last year that said to me that he was still intending to come see me play because him and his lad were such massive fans of the Blues Brothers. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I quit that tribute act in 2007. I go out and see friends' bands and I pay if it's ticketed!

I bought a Dingwall Combustion from Paddy before Christmas. Communication throughout the process was amazing and as a new-to-5-string player, he gave some awesome advice as well. Would not hesitate to buy something from him again and neither should you, you're in good hands!

If it helps I can probably print a square port of that approx size

Something must be seriously wrong. Two years ago you were told it was almost finished and should be delivered in February 2024. I'll assume you've been speaking with Andrew since then; what's the reason you've been given ( if you're content to share)?

Interesting fact. Everyone's ear canals are different lengths and shapes (that should not come as a surprise) which means everyone hears things differently to everyone else. If you swapped your ears for someone else's, your brain would really struggle to understand what it was hearing. The same is true for eyes. What one person's eyes present to the brain as red is different to what someone else's do. Which is OK, because we calibrate our ears so that an F# is an F# no matter who you are. It does mean that one resonant frequency for one person would be different for someone else.

When I ordered mine in May 2021, I paid £500 deposit and was only asked to pay the balance prior to shipment.

Second hand Gigrig is good stuff. It's very low profile. You can pick up the units 2nd hand and then buy any specific connectors new. T-rex Chameleon fuel tank is a good option. I use both.

Getting a good fit was always the problem with me - hence why I went down the custom route.

I would assume they arrange insurance elsewhere for the shipment.

What’s the best power supply unit to fit under a D’Addario XPND board please guys? Looking for the best bang for buck

If you want to use a port with a square cross-section rather than a round one, I think you just need to make the length and the cross-section area the same. So if the area of the circle (pi * r^2) was say 25 cm^2 then a 5 x 5 cm square port of the same length should give you the same tuning. By ‘slot port’ I understand a slot in the baffle with no extra depth behind it and I believe the dimensions of that are harder to calculate correctly, especially if the slot is at one end of the baffle. Can you sketch what you had in mind, and is there a particular reason not to use a cylindrical port? Personally I’d just go with the latter, I found it easy enough to construct.

Lots of people use Parcelforce. Bass Bros shipped a vintage '73 Jazz to me via Parcelforce.

I've been waiting 4 1/2 years so far (ordered 1st Aug '21, paid in full March '22) for my Series 1 with crescent inlays. It'll be a shock yo the system ehen i hear that my bass is underway! Hahaha

Mantle is here! Won’t be able to plug it in until later 😬

I’ve had a Japanese Geddy ale body hanging around for a while, did contemplate selling it at one point but never got round to it, then I started looking at a few options for it I did consider until very recently a fretless neck, I did see a mex’ neck for sale recently but didn’t take it any further The local Cello player tried to persuade me to sell it and he had a Japanese 70’s neck lined up for it in the meantime a very neglected Mexican jazz bass came into my possession for some much needed TLC, so I borrowed the neck off it and it worked well, but only a short term solution as the neck needs to go back from where it came at some Point so I continued to casually look for an alternative This came up last week, a Klos carbon neck, slightly unusual looking compared to a traditional neck with the 3+1 head stock and off set position markers but it appealed to me, after some research a deal was done It’s a very wet and windy day in Manchester so a good day to play with necks After I told the local cello player what neck I’d night, he did suggest adding a black pick guard, sounds like a good idea, so if you have one knocking about, let me know