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To a very different budget, I'd imagine! I've got a Cort Persona 'Lavender Phase', which has a poplar burl top - and they sure as hell bookmatched it. While I wouldn't be expecting 5A mirroring from Cort, both the examples the OP received are unacceptable in my opinion. It's not like it's a rare/exotic/endangered wood [which is why Poplar is the facing du jour for budget/mid instruments].

Two basses. Major issues. (scratchy pot on #1). Try another brand.

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...I smell a book matching conspiracy - I wonder if he has a family member who works for Gibson?!

They don't really offer a wide range of basses. However, I remember the brand featuring a lot in bass player magazine in the mid 90s.

Thanks rao, that’s a very early one by lee Perry, probably around the same time as Long shot by the Pioneers , actually I just found this, In 1968, reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry launched his first record label, Upset Records, with the single “People Funny Boy

I believe there are some nuances that tend to get ignored or downplayed when it comes to people's subjective preferences, despite the subject being done to death in other ways. Especially when standing right next to a cab, dispersion matters, and related to that, comb filtering (from multiple drivers) matters. Multiple stacked 10s only sum to a coherent point source well below 1kHz. Above that you're going to start to get lobing. Everyone's heard this when adding a second cab. It doesn't just get universally louder, it gets bassier. Cab shape, especially height, matters. A generic single 15 mounted low down is going to sound smoother than a generic 410 (limited HF dispersal, no comb filtering). The filtering aspect isn't necessarily obvious in a single listening test - but put that cab into different acoustic spaces and you're going to get greater apparent inconsistencies between spaces. I suspect one of several reasons an 810 is favoured is that the comb filtering gets smeared out at a given listening position due to the complexity of the summing pattern. Add to that the use of similar/same drivers across multiple manufacturers and you could easily develop a 'sound' you associate with a particular speaker size. Especially drivers like Eminence with characteristic breakup peaks for particular models. TLDR I believe there are some practical differences in how different size drivers might be perceived standing up close.

Well, I guess you can only sell so many Beatles basses.

I'm very curious too. I have one from 2001 which I absolutely love. I'm a big fan of Blades. I hope this one is decent too!

My partner cut me 3/32" dots from white high-stick vinyl. They last about a year before needing replacement and don't cause any harm.

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And there goes all your bass.

Absolutely. It's just good sense to be nice to the sound guy (or gal). Wherever I've worked, whether at the day job or in bands, I've made sure to be friendly to security/door staff, sound people, bar/wait staff and similar. They can ensure you have a pleasant experience or make life awkward, so, even if you look at it from a purely selfish point of view, it's a smart move to be nice to them.

Thats the one I use instead of the U4, although mine cost me £32! But the switch can be a bit intermittent, sometimes the quality can slip and after a lot of gigs and practices the receiver battery life is starting to get close to the end of our gigs if I forget to plug it in at half time.

Here's an example of a club that does it right. One thing they do is allow promoters to puit on gigs in 'the Hall'. In the last few months we've had Focus and Curved Air (not tributes). I've got five gigs there across three bands next year. It's a brilliant place to play.

Also Johnny Hammond check out Gears album

Absolutely - I wouldn't want to go back to mono. In my metal group we have P16 so you connect via the network like plug and you can adjust your own personal mix. Live, there are only 2 of us with IEMs, so I just use two channels of that. No, I didn't have a problem with range or bandwidth, its just mono.

Yep, probably best to wait for another production run. Or head to a shop

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