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Still loving mine, it's a very versatile and easy playing bass, one thing I have to to watch is the jack socket on mine is quite tight and has a sort of two stage action so I have to be sure the jack plug is fully home or I get the same thing as BassApprentice had distorsion and intermittant signal, not a fault but it's quite easy to do if you are not used to it. This one is a bit of a gateway for shortscale gas for me, I have just bought a Sandberg Florence which is superb, the cort was less than 1/5 of the cost of the Sandberg and really holds it's own in fit & finish

Lovely piece of work.

I think it's new wood. The skip was outside a carpenters I was parked by. They were refitting and in the course of that were also clearing up. I got talking and had a couple of large bits of quite decent ply that had been shelving and this random lump that looked quite nice. I should have asked! I thought I might route it out for deep pen tray type thing. Or give it to someone who can make use of it. Dunno really!

That'll be 5 minutes of my Friday evening accounted for then...

Great thinking @LukeFRC! I wonder if an analog delay would do the job. Setting the feedback quite high and increasing delay time might get you most of the way there. I don't remember a note being repeated at the end when messing around with this in the past.

Look at this old Warwick with a cherry body:

It was going so well

Maybe. One Fender copy is much like another...

This is exactly what record labels used to do to showcase new artists' material. Why not a person? The advert isn't great and I think probably clumsily worded, maybe they are a Russian Oliogarc's son/daughter. I too, very recently, have been involved in a vanity project, however it wasn't clearly advertised as such and I was writing my own basslines and paying a share for rehearsal rooms. It was fun as I didn't expect it to go anywhere and the music was reasonable, but I got bored in the end of endless tinkering and changes to songs that were already written and ready to gig as far as I was concerned.

Except firewood, it looks like cherry to me. Check my Le Fay which has a crazy cherry (as called by the Dobbratz brothers) top and regular cherry for the body itself.

Or on video?

Thanks for everyone’s feedback on this. I’m leaning towards some D’addario chromes i think. But, like with everything bass related (or life related) I won’t really know until i try myself. I think my plan is to see if i can pick up some used short flats off this very forum when they appear and give them a whirl to decide if i like them on that bass before i chuck a sizeable chunk at some new ones! (I’m being a StringCheapSkate, i know. But the prices are ludicrous for a smaller string) Up until very recently I’d come to terms with just not being able to get on with flats but since putting some cheap ones on my Jaguar, it’s transformed the bass so I’m wondering if its just a case of finding the right strings for the right instrument… go figure 😅

There's been a few. A detail-perfect reissue of the passive SB Elite 1 B&G that Cliff's best known for, and as well as that a sort of Elite/SB1000 mashup that had the SB active electronics, with the Elite/SB-R inlays & conventional neck proportions. Got an idea there was a more modest spec budget version as well at some point, a bit like the current SB-One. But yes - this current thing does look like it's the current SB1000, only painted black. Nice to see that that it has the period-correct bridge & knobs, even if the neck shape's all wrong!

I cannot find any bugs in the B2 Four but was thinking about the B14 that had a few firmware updates.

Sounds like the sort of ad David Brent would write after cashing in his pension to get his music on the road.

I think I'll start complaining about people complaining about people complaining about the ad. What a glorious use of free time and technology!

This afternoon I felt like listening to the '92 Seville blues night again. It was great when I heard the original broadcast; I'd not heard of some of these players before.

I think this is actually a vanity project rather than a scam. I’ve depped with a couple of outfits that I would describe in this way as vanity projects. (1) Successful entrepreneur who was convinced his much younger other half was the next big thing. Turned out she wasn’t. (2) A band playing the country music club circuit, fronted by a wealthy businessman. Most such clubs can only ‘afford’ solo or duo acts with backing tracks, but the BL books his band in at whatever the club can pay and makes up the difference from his own pocket so that the other musicians get a decent wedge. So I’m guessing this person is sufficiently well-off to pay a retainer to the performers so as to be sure of being able to put their material in front of an audience. The non-existent company still bothers me though!

Darkglass stuff is stupid money, and I own a pair of their 1x12s.

Just got my amp back from a bloke who's had it for about a year, old Line 6 Spider IV 75 combo (incidentally @jonno1981 sold me this when he was in the business); that said, I'm not really a huge fan of this amp, only really used it for home recording. The pickups are really quite decent, suprisingly so; I'm actually wondering whether it's worth dropping in a new pair of P94s to be honest, although I do prefer the visual aesthetic. It's completely silent from a grounding perspective. Nice!

The jack end of the cable is easy enough, I've always hated soldering DIN plugs. Especially when you forget to put the body onto the cable before doing the soldering.

Well, if you're happy then I'm delighted.

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