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I think we can all agree that Steven Seagal singing "Me want the poonani, see for make nice" in a Jamaican accent is perfectly acceptable:

No escape for me….

Apparently this has happened several times before and they got through it in the end. I hope they'll live through this too! Would hate to see them go. They're owned by BBE, who don't exactly appear to be very relevant anymore as a company. Their Sonic Maximizer pedals, rack units and plugins were succesful for a while and they made some cool preamps in the past, but when you visit their site now it still says "2016" at the bottom and the button that should lead to their Products page is very much dead. Not a good sign. Their website for their plugins is more up-to-date though (2025).

Yamaha’s next buy?

He retired and lives in the UK now, so not likely.

Yes

I know the model. It's the S1 American Standard before the big 2008 overhaul. Nice basses

2004 with the S1 switch…… I’m not entirely sure where that falls in terms of models.

I've had a look at that schematic, what about turning the BG's Volume knob down to 0% as in fully off, does the problem still appear then? This assumes the BG is causing the problem and could be acceptable procedure, turn BG to zero then switch on/off. I notice the drawing suggests the EQ board is a Mark Bass product, I may have misunderstood that.

Many cabs have rubber feet on bottom and sides now ( MarkBass 58R series ) If I recall with the Monaco the compression Driver is angled / designed for standard vertical use. Stevie offers the option of rotating it 99 deg if you lay cab on its side

Silicon Carne - The Monochrome Set

Probllably done with Photoshop, so OK?

You can purchase such a thing in pedal form. There may be extra sorcery inside this one, but I'd guess it is just expensive packaging around a capacitor, albeit in a high quality metal box. https://www.lehle.com/Lehle-DC-Filter

A 21kg 210 is pretty manageable in the greater scheme of things though. If your big rig was a 810 I would understand.

What you need are my 2 sealed 2x10 500 watt RMS each Kustom cabs. That would do you. Not that I'm looking to downsize or anything. 😉

We all have a habit of eventually coming full circle to what we originally liked and settled with. Very nice example you have there. I see it's through body strung too. Is that an American Standard, or the American Professional?

Interesting point in question - if the grain pattern doesn't actually line up, why do they call it "bookmatched"?!

Finally…… I have got my hands on the one. I was 16, when I first got into bass. A mate played me “Live Xcert” by The Stranglers…. and I was hooked. Jean Jaques Burnel playing a black/maple Fender Precision. Yes mate. 44yrs later, and 100’s of basses…. like all the basses, and finally I have the one I should have had in the first place….. I’ve owned most brands except Fodera , but one bass always eluded me, the one that started it, at least in my head. I have no idea why it took so long tbh… Anyway, there you go, better late than never eh?

What do you think Jon, 150 quid for it with a couple of violins, an acoustic and a keyboard Should I risk it?

What I really need is to not live one floor up with an awkward flight of stairs to navigate with a heavy cab to get to a trolley to put it on!