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Struggling to sleep and got thinking about how I’ve never seen the basses I’ve sold on here a decade or longer ago for sale again or even a twin. Some of these are what we would term “mass produced” therefore I never thought them as particularly rare but now I’m wondering if they are. The basses in question: A year 2000 Fender AM DLX Jazz Bass 5 in trans red with a maple board An EB MM 2006 3EQ Stingray in trans teal (was more green than blue) with a maple board A Warwick Thumb NT FL 5 - think it was 2000ish Are production numbers actually lower than we (I) think or is it a coincidence the basses all found happy owners. Anyone else experienced this? PS Wish I had pics!

Love that colour way…ace.

So many of you will have seen my thread on here entitled, "Do I reeeally need a Precision..?" Well, I ordered this on December 22nd and finally went down to The Bass Gallery in Camden today to get it. Thankfully, with a lot of people still on Christmas holidays, London was relatively quiet and traffic free. I plumped for the new American Professional Classic as it was sonically quite similar to my previous American Professional I, but considerably cheaper than the American Professional II, which doesn't sound anywhere near as good. From the videos I studied, the new Classic with its Pure Vintage series derived 'Coastline' 60s pickups has a very clear upper register and a subtly warm bottom end. I also really like the 'modern C' neck profile. It's very slim [fingers to thumb] for a Precision and the usual modern 9.5" radius/1.625" nut, almost like a '63 neck, minus a little thickness. So after driving all day (went to Bridgewater in Somerset too!), I've only had a little play, and first order of business is always to get those awful stock Fender strings off and put some nice 40-95 Elixirs on instead. Better. After a brief setup, it's a very nice sounding bass. Very easy to play and sounds really nice. Just what I was looking for - a mix of modern and classic. Being as this new series is supposedly the replacement to the long serving American Performer basses (and all the previous incarnations, such as American Special, Highway One, etc), the quality has been upped by a huge amount, bringing these much closer to the Am Pro II. This particular bass is flawless and everything lines up perfectly. The bridge is the same as the ones on the Vintage/Original/Vintage II basses, (which I've never had any issues with on my American Original Jazz in seven years), and the Gotoh Lollipop Tuners and high quality Domed Control Knobs are lovely too. More to come when I give it a good playing tomorrow...

Is there a circuit/sound difference between the Nano and the LTD?

Love it

I haven't used them, but some of the newer Aquila strings seem to be designed around similar concepts to the Velvets - relatively low tension, synthetic cores, copper windings etc.

Basically just don’t put the main footswitch into preset selection mode (long press); just leave it as an engage/bypass switch.

With anyone, one cannot always tell

Joking, wasn't I?

Should have added a smiley, sorry 😞

I travel. Simple Minds

Just picked up 2 Barefaced One10's. Oh well, there's always 2027!!

Well, this is a way I haven't been insulted in yet.

Ok. I'm in. Stop sniggering at the back! I only failed on two basses, an amp and bucketload of other gear last year.

Hi Phil, I think, about a year or so ago, you commented that the D-A/A-D on cheaper mixers was noticeably inferior to that on dedicated interface units. Where do you feel the Flow 8 sits on that line? I have the option of 'upgrading' to a Flow 8, or connecting my analogue Alto ZMX862 with my Steinberg UR22C interface to achieve the same functionality, so I'd value your (and anyone else's) feedback. David

I’m not sure that six abstained out of about 20000 members really constitutes a statistically significant “not everyone” - have you considered a future in Government?