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I misremembered my story. I did exactly what you did - there was no custom in there. Squier, standard and American. Thanks for reminding me!

I've got a theory that because you can play just off the end of the board, through the string, a little further up the string (towards the head), then it's the equivalent of plucking over the bridge pickup vs the neck pickup, as it were - with a 24 fret neck, on the same scale bass, the 21 fret bass would have a little more room to play through further up the string towards the head of the bass. Scott from SBL says he prefers 21/22 fret basses for slap and it got me thinking why.

A friend of mine put it rather eloquently - never sh@g the payroll!!

Watch Phillip McKnight's recent tour of the Cort factory...

I was thinking the halo outlined the shape of the coil. The curious thing with your pic is that it doesn't seem to show any mag flux along the centreline where the poles are.

I’d like one, if I were still playing 4 strings. Totally 5 now. Green would be my choice as the others are just a bit 1987 Ibanez

@rwillett glad for you to join the club of cabinet builders 🙂. We met at the SW bash (I played your EMG loaded Strat). Sadly I left my BC112mk3 in the car to save space but had I known you were interested in what someone with two left thumbs can do I would have brought it out to show you. For the braces in the same direction, there is actually some theory involved around standing waves: you want the brace gaps to not be equal to each other, else you encourage standing wave resonances. Saying that, there's a joke Q: What's the difference between theory in practice? A: In theory they're the same but in practice they're different. For a cabinet of sizes we're talking about I wouldn't be able to hear a difference, but you may have more sensitive ears. On the subject of wadding, again I don't think I could hear a difference at gigs, but that may just be because I forgot to remove the wadding in my ear canal. If you're a weight weenie and are considering putting holes in braces to shave grams off there, no-wadding would be much easier.

Firstly, this is a cab I wanted when Genz Benz still existed. I never had enough bass tokens for one though. I'd not even heard one though. 2 12in drivers with a tweeter. 4ohm. 600w. 23kg. I bought this from @wavydavy Dave on here, and it was a great transaction (prompt and well packaged etc). I was going to buy a new bass, but I saw this and thought... let's get it. I used it for the first time last night at practice. I am really happy with it, especially in combination with the Bugera Veyron I bought recently. The lows are really tight and focused. It sounded really punchy . It's quite 'sparkly' even without the tweeter in use. I'm really looking forward to using at the weekend, especially as our drummer is using his Gretcsh kit not his electric 😁

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Rather lovely that! Good to hear you’re enjoying it!

@ikay : There's most likely a frame of some kind made of metal. That could explain the halo.

During the last 10 years of my career I was lucky enough to benefit from corporate hospitality, and I saw a whole load of big name bands from the 70s (Stones, Who, Fleetwood Mac, etc) as freebies. Pretty much without exception they were disappointing, not a patch on who they once were, and frankly nowhere near as good as most of their own tribute acts. The Actual Rolling Stones at the O2, for example, were absolutely blown away by The Counterfeit Stones, who I'd seen three weeks earlier (and paid for with my own money) at Kew Gardens. I genuinely can't remember the last time I bought gig tickets for a 'name' band and I can't say as I've missed it. I'd much rather be gigging with my own band down the Dog & Duck than watching a bunch of octogenarians through binoculars.

Yeah, Ashdowns SS is similar too, except it’s a slightly different truss rod adjuster I think

I don't go out to 'big' gigs anymore. I'm priced out of it these days. Instead, I take advantage of everyone having their phones out and watch it for nothing on YouTube over the following days. Cheers

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Sadly and not exactly about cost, going to gigs for me now means unless seated I can`t go, standing for a whole evening just too darn painful on my back.

I appreciate that they've rescaled the headstock to a smaller body size - or at least, cleverly used black to help 'shrink' it optically. Also, the pink and yellow colours are fab. Maybe a bit too bold for my tastes, but at least they're taking some risks with statement colours, rather than black or wood.

Spent £80 on a couple of tickets to see Maximo Park at the Birmingham Academy early next year. 20 years ago tickets for the same venue were generally around £20. Suprisingly, according to the BofE inflation calculator that's roughly in line with inflation with £20 in 2005 being worth around £35 today. Booking fees, on the hand, would have been around £1.50-£2.00 a ticket in 2005 if memory serves, whereas for these particular tickets it works out at £7.50 a ticket, considerably higher than the same rate of inflation.

The neck looks just like the one on the G4M Hartwood shortscale, headstock and all. There must be a factory in China churning out these roasted maple necks with wheel truss rod adjustment.

I *almost* posted about it, but then I thought it was surely the one album that anyone talking about his double bass playing would already know. It's a great one, he's all over the bass and it certainly changed the whole business of latin jazz bass playing, but the focus of the group setting steers away from some of the excesses he might go for on solo albums.

To be fair - I think this is a feeler for Cort (although they can surely see the SS market is pretty well established now...) The Action Jr is very basic, this has a few nicer aspects (roasted maple neck, Mark Bass preamp) so it probably will be around £250 rather than my previous comment of £160. If it goes well, I reckon you'll see a Fusion SS in the future.

Ditto, Royal Albert Hall last night. Front seats of a box, £60 each. Ate at a Lebanese restaurant beforehand (yum), £65 for us both. Travel to and fro with a railcard £40 for both of us. Been looking forward to last night all year and considered it to be fantastic value. I guess it all depends how much each individual values going to see live music - there is no 'one size fits all' opinion. Personally, it is one of the things I enjoy most in life, more so than making music, so I am more than happy to pay for it.

Our drummer in the EDM dance-rock band is bowing out due to painful tinnitus (from another band, I hasten to add) so we'd like to find another electronic drummer. It could be pads, triggers, e-drums but not acoustic... We have a sequence on laptop plus bass, 2 guitars and vox. As we're currently spread between the west of Ireland, Manchester, Shropshire and the South of France the new recruit could be from almost anywhere, but must be willing to get together roughly annually for a couple of gigs and rehearsals before - next year we're aiming for very close together gigs in Chester and London. We're also putting together new material for another album - this is collaborative and invariably remotely done...