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I think the Japanese made ones were neck through. Not sure about the ones made by Eko. I was looking at the tuners and hardware. Anyhoo, I'm well out of my depth here. @Bassassin and @prowla , can you help the nice man please?

started getting problems with our Digital Aggregator, Soundrop, first of all they took down one of our Albums claiming unusual streaming activity when they'd hardly been any streams according to their own figures. the latest statement show a lot of streams for one of our songs (by our standards) but we finished up with a minus net Amount Due. Trying to get to talk to a real person is proving very difficulty

I have, I didn't and I would be happy to do it again!

TE Elf and a decent 4ohm 210 cab

I don't think so? Look at this one that my friend found, doesn't it look like a neck through? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/644756101568102/

I've been playing my lake placid blue squier classic vibe bass vi a lot recently — It was a little underwhelming until I shimmed the neck and raised the bridge, but now it is a lot of fun to play. It has a set of LaBella flatwounds on it and although I have not noticed any obvious shortcomings, however I can't help but wonder whether I should upgrade to the vintera II bass VI? I'd appreciate any comments from anyone who has spent some time with both the classic vibe and vintera II versions of the Bass IV.

Visually out of place basses and guitars. I was in a pop punk band for about 9 months and I played a sea foam green, maple necked G&L SB2 because that looked great. My replacement (who does an otherwise fantastic job) plays a sunburst jazz with a rosewood board. I wouldn't play my purple Spector in a blues band, I wouldn't play my sunburst scpb in a doom metal band (although that's not as egregious and you arguably could because p basses go with everything). If you only have one or two basses then crack on, but if you have a collection and you bring the Musicman Bongo to an indie rock gig then more fool you. And I should know, because I did and I felt silly doing it.

Just joined by way of a great deal on a somewhat tinkered-with FCS. over the last 35yrs I have played anything from 2-12 strings and owned more gear than I can remember. When work and chauffeuring 2 young kids around allows, I try hard not to buy any wonderful gear offered at a decent price.

After using a Behringer U-phoria 1820 for years, I just took delivery of a Solid State Logic SSL 2+ Mk2 and I am blown away. The Behringer has served me well for nearly a decade; totally reliable, well put together, the line inputs are decent, lots of connectivity and monitoring options and the headphone amps handle high impedance headphones easily. The only real downside is that it can be a bit noisy and that can be an issue with recording vocals and acoustic guitar (which I’m now doing more of). So I decided to treat myself to a new audio interface and narrowed down the choice to the Motu M2/M4 and the SSL. In the end, the SSL won out because GuitarGuitar had a decent price on it. It’s a different form factor to the Behringer so I’ve had to rearrange the desk a bit to accommodate it but that’s freed up space elsewhere and given me a bit more room overall. Construction is reassuringly solid with the exception of one of the low-cut buttons which wasn’t seated properly - a bit of jiggling has dropped it into place now and it works perfectly. Headphone amps are good and strong, as good or better than the Behringer, sound quality is excellent and the noise floor is virtually inaudible. I haven’t used it in anger yet but my quick tests have been very positive - the mix preamps in particular seem really good. There’s a “life” to the recordings that was missing from the Behringer and my acoustic guitar sounds fantastic. Well, up to the point where I try to play it. So, very happy….. …..and yet the GAS keeps coming I’m now after a matched pair of small diaphragm condenser mics specifically for recording acoustic guitar (and possibly as ambient mics for recording a choir). With a budget for the pair of £150 or less, I’ve narrowed it down to the SE Electronics SE7, MXL 603s or Thomann’s Tbone SC140. Does anyone have any hands-on experience of any of these? And, specifically, any issues I should be aware of? At £99 delivered, the Tbones are the cheapest and have excellent specs so I’m interested to know if there are any reasons to avoid them?

^ this I do this with our acoustic Americana’ish trio on double bass. I used to use the TC BG250 208 for ‘personal monitoring’ but now prefer to use in-ears with the bass going into FoH via the Stanley Clarke’s DI.

If I remember correctly, the Shaftsbury’s were bolt on necks?

Only two? I'm disappointed! 🙂

Oh alright then, if you insist. I'll blame you.

Thank you very much both of you! For the time being I will tell my friend to investigate the Shaftesbury trail. 🙂

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