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One band I was in had this scenario. I took the amp home and measured 60volts to earth. It's not static. It's caused by the 0v of the transformer output not being at Earth potential as it's not grounded via the mains plug. The potential problem is a fault inside the amp causes a fire or the case to become live. An RCD detects an imbalance between the neutral and live. Which you won't get as the 240v side of the transformer is working as expected.

The BC Vetting Committee might want to take a look at your suitability for continued membership 🤔

What, the Walker Bro's?... 🤣

I actually interviewed Rod for a local newspaper while he was on site. It was hard getting him to open up about the work, when quizzed he said he didn't want to talk about it. Then he said he was only joking and proceeded to explain the house building process. Foundations to begin with and apparently the first cut is the deepest. He said they were making good progress due to the dry weather, I asked if he'd ever seen the rain, to which he replied he'd had to start wearing shorts as his legs were always hot, some guys have all the luck I thought. He asked if I thought his hi-vis vest made him look sexy, ooh la la. I told him he wears it well. I had to leave it there as Rod had to wake up a co worker called Maggie to catch a train downtown to get supplies.

That's pretty much where I'm coming from with it. Nice bit of kit, but not right for me. If I spent more time recording on my computer and tweaking sounds for recording purposes, and wanting to do it on a physical unit rather than using plugins, I'd probably get a lot more out of it. It's interesting though, I was reading the FB Darkglass Anagram group, looking for answers about my expression pedal issue, and a lot of people have been complaining that there's been something wrong with this current batch that have just been sent out to dealers. Darkglass are denying it, but there does seem to be issues - the noise thing is one, the DI output being inconsistent and noisy is another, and lots of complaints about the performance of the compressors and various other things. Wouldn't be surprised if the current batch end up being recalled.

Still enjoying the fact that Scott Walker has been reduced to “this Walker Brother” in this thread! 🤣

These don't really come up often for sale. Last one I saw was from a dealer who was looking at close to £2,000. I would have thought for a private sale it would clear somewhere in the £1,600-1,800 allowing for some inflation. It really depends however on how much you want it, it's definitely a bass that you want to snap up when you come across it if it feels right. I have been keeping an eye out myself for a faded sonic blue one and they just don't seem to get sold!

Yes Magellan amps are quiet and neutral sounding if you want it Build quality is awesome too

The V4B is very nice too 😉

I have a rule though. I have to spend more time practising and playing than I do looking at gear online!

I think I paid the same back in 1993 for my beaten-up trans red maple 4h 2EQ! I got it in a store in Cardiff, if I remember right, along with a Peavy 160w combo. Honestly though, I am very much starting to feel that I want to move it on. At last.

I really f***ing wish someone had said it to me the day I joined BC 🤣

The only way I can see that any fretted/fretless combo board can work satisfactorily is to have the tops of the frets and the fretless board at the same height. If you simply remove the frets, from say the 6th fret upwards to create a fretted low end, fretless high end board, then the fretless part would have far too high an action to be useful. Therefore, the simplest way I see to create a fretted low/fretless high board is to use an already fretless neck, then use a radius jig and router to lower the board from which fret you choose, saw and install frets in that routed down section and then level and crown those new frets to be the same height as the fretless section. Bother sections should then play as normal. This should be possible to do with as many fretted or fretless sections as you wish as long as the tops of the frets and the fretless boards are all level.

Bought a neck from Will, and a bloody lovely neck at that. Easy process made even better by super-quick delivery, extremely good packaging, and strong after-sales support. Highly recommended BCer 👍

I needed to hear this.

I've played that bass. It helps that Ian has a phenomenal technique, but the tone is the best I've heard. I keep up with Overwater basses, I even went to an Overwater event they held in London a few years ago, but every bass I've played has been way too heavy for my back!

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It's a bass, sell it and move on, if only because you will feel better for doing so. That hope that our lives will somehow be better if only we had the bass/amp/pedal that's just been listed on BC, or that fear that our lives will be worse if we let go of bass/amp/pedal to which we have a sentimental attachment but never use, is best dealt with surgically and with as little deliberation as possible

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I got my (trans red, maple, beaten up, 4h) Ray for £450. Mental innit? Told you you should keep it, now you know.