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The Ric one is the BT5.

Generally, in the UK, getting a lot of gear repaired seems a right royal pain in the behind. First, trying to find someone and second sourcing parts. Then of course some gear can be obsolete in it goes pop. I thought my Peavey Minimax, which died recently, wasn't worth fixing. By chance someone Mrs Marvin works with repairs amps. He diagnosed the problem, said how much it would cost and I said go for it. Here's the hitch. The parts aren't available in the UK, they had to ordered from the States. And here's another hitch. Those parts have been held up in US customs because they're suspicious that someone ordering 2 capacitors for a couple $s might be assembling drones for Russia 🤔🫣🤪 I've had similar with other gear, like a battery compartment for an Ibanez. It took months to sort out. Not available in the UK seems to be a constant mantra.

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Pino Signature fretless Stingray is $21500 by gum plus freight and tax crikey dickens I need to stop looking at reverb and ebay

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Bass Bros yeah last year they had a lovely Red unlined fretless 5 I was talking to my Wife about it , she said you'll be thinking about it , I said yes next day it was sold - I need to be more decisive lol

I had a look at Japan sellers( they tend to offer Aotearoa free freight) and obviously we are not a big market It's about $4000 NZ for a good looking 2EQ 4 string Stingray About $9000 for items described as "pre EB" A brand new 3EQ Stingray is about $6000 plus freight and import and GST there is 1 Stingray on Trade Me ( the NZ Ebay) for $3200 In my opinion these prices are for the determined player (serious) or the higher economically able citizens

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I think everyone has that little element of music related retail therapy (or GAS as it's otherwise known). Especially when you frequent music related sites such as this. You can also swap the term "music related" to any hobby or pastime really.

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My ding a ling - Chuck Berry

I've enjoyed reading this thread as I've owned and enjoyed a few US Stingrays over the years; 2 USA subs and 5 USA rays, nothing newer than '07. My most ornate, and the one I wish I still had for nostalgia, was a maple neck blue burst 2 eq from '94. Lovely object and really harked back to impoverished late '80s music shop window shopping. Contrary to opinion, and this could be more due to a defect in my playing, that '94 sounded the worst in my hands out of all that I owned. The US sub 2 eqs sounded good ( rw board) and in general the best in my hands were the 3eq rosewood board rays...I.e totally opposite of what is usually the archetypal maple neck 2eq. Some basses I seem to drag a nasal quality out of sometimes unfortunately. Great fun to play though, I never experienced the weak G either. I just had a look on the Bass Bros site; a good mix on there from EXs that look great through to pre EBs. Prices looked representative and reasonable from a quick glance.

If that's with guitar amps the speakers are contributing to that clipping, by virtue of the short xmax and break up modes of guitar drivers.

I've not played a Stingray that was not well constructed the weak G syndrome however I have never experienced it I've got an 2EQ SUB USA Slab 5 , it went straight to the luthier - now it's magic , wasn't poorly made, just poorly looked after by the previous owner I'm well keen on an unlined Fretless 5 now however the numbers made will be scarce

That's interesting to know and weird as I owned the MS-70 CDR forever (had 2 until recently) and downloaded their latest/last firmware update which gave me more fx from the other units in the range including some bass effects, but I still wasn't happy with it. I wonder if there's something different in the MS-60B. Today I watched the Octaver shoot-out on Scott's Bass Lessons that Scott and Ian did, and also the one that Janek Gwizdala did, and I'm going to experiment more with the HX Stomp as that seems to be closer to what I like but as that unit resides on my guitar pedalboard, I think I still need to find a standalone one. Cheers folks for the suggestions so far

Yep, very interested to hear some real life opinions on these