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The promo material for the gig put me off Steve, hence my quoting the Wales comment 🤔

Every time I see Ian playing I go straight to the Mayo Clinic website and start planning a hand or talent transplant!!! 👍🤔🤣 As with all Ian’s videos incredibly interesting, engaging and insightful. Those bass lines don’t leave any places to hide and just show what a talented and skilled player he is!

Great content? It would indeed be great to be content, but the Gear Abstinence thread suggests that it is a rare attribute. Nevertheless, we strive to be content...

I have watched this twice now and although it is biased towards guitars, the fundamentals work for bass too. https://youtu.be/wcBEOcPtlYk?si=otak2Z475-79ypb- Jim Lill is a professional guitarist based in Nashville and although no electronic engineer he does use a vigorous way of testing things. His other videos on cabs and mis are also worth watching. Watch the whole video and post your comments on it below. Please keep an open mind.

I've got a Stingray Special four string and it's by far the best Stingray I've had the good fortune to have known. The Specials have their own flavour of Stingray tone and I really like it. The new neodymium pickups and redesigned preamp are incredibly punchy. The whole package is well thought-out and ergonomic. Nicely built, too. Enjoy your new bass.👍🙂

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Lack of shielding is a possibility, but also poor earthing practice. Wire has a small but significant resistance, and if you daisy-chain the earth connection from the input socket through the amp to the power supply, those small resistances can cause problems. Better practice is to pick one earth point, eg the power input socket, and run a separate wire from the amp, the input socket and the output socket to that point. It's known as star point earthing. David

Hello folks - I took delivery of this right before I sold this cab. Drop me a PM if anybody wants it!

I just wanted to provide some feedback on @Manton Customs and Robin's work in general. In short, it's absolutely amazing. I had a body lying around at home that came off a bass I bought just because I wanted the neck off it. It had some old EMGs in it with a Bartolini preamp, but I've always wanted a Jazz bass style bass with a couple of 60's style, vintage style Thunderbird pickups in it. The reality is, it should have been just a cheap, buy a neck, put it on, pay someone to route out the pickups and away you go, but it ended up being one of my favorite basses to play now. The whole order process from start to finish was fantastic, there was an order form, things were made clear, I chose all my options. Nothing was too hard for Robin. 34” Scale, 20 Frets Radius 12” Birdseye Maple, Ebony Fretboard Nut Width: 38mm Binding: Vintage White The neck has the most amazing, in between Jazz/P-Bass feel, it's SILKY smooth, the action is low, and it is just effortless to play. The fretwork is some of the best fretwork, I have ever seen on a bass, perfectly polished and finished. I supplied the pickups, Thunderbird Bass | Mojo Pickups - https://www.mojopickups.co.uk/product/thunderbird/ These also fantastic, not cheap though. If you are looking for any custom work done, I would highly recommend Robin, he's a fantastic guy and well worth the drive from London. BEFORE - AFTER -

What were traditionally the topics to avoid at polite dinner parties: politics and religion? It might just apply to bands and whole music industry.....

I have the 10s. They're excellent for the price.

Looks good and you don’t have to shield it as it is already conductive. Just need a couple of bits of conductive tape from the graphite paint in the control cavity to a screw hole on either side and you should have really good shielding. 👍

Very lovely. Enjoy!

Sorry I forgot controls, they are 3 way pickup coil selector, nfp filter preamp q amount, volume, then a killswitch.

Yes people spotted the g string when I originally posted it in the build thread. I already swapped it over I just couldn't be bothered taking new pictures. Haha The neck is a status graphite MM neck with a jazz bass nut width. Well spotted that is indeed a Herrick pickup, it's an 8 coil. Wired with a three way switch so it can do 4 coil humbucker p and reverse p as well. It's also got an nfp filter preamp. I cannot recommend Martin at Herrick enough. Brilliant guy and the best customer service!

Think I would be inclined to plug those holes with short lengths of toothpick and wood glue. It won’t make them entirely invisible but they won’t be quite that obvious. P.S. Those Gotohs must have cost about half what the bass cost!

Good luck! I'll make sure that I'm beaming out lots of positive vibes, as I'm sure half if BassChat will be too. I'm sure you'll absolutely smash it.