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3.4kg? I want one...I thought they'd be 8, 8 1/2 lbs...

I noticed the same in Glasgow. A few weeks ago they had maybe 2 shorties and 2 other Ricks. Now 4 shorties.

As a London shop, I reckon £18,500.

You have read correctly. It's definitely good enough for the Dog and Duck! To be fair I have only had a chance to have a little play and only through a couple of basses (e.g only just realised from reading the TB thread that I might need to change some global settings OOTB!). IMA has had time to perfect technique and, I suspect equally importantly, work out which bass and which settings work best. It's certainly not a massive detractor for what is an amazing little pedal! I had a quick scan through the thread and my review would be more favourable. I play in two bands, one is very much soul/funk covers where I might need the pedal for 2 or 3 songs out of 20, and for that, this is perfect. It's taken me long enough to play bass to a decent standard and I have no interest in learning keys to get those sounds. I would also argue that the presets decently cover the sorts of sounds I'm after. Its definitely a million times better than trying to build the sounds on the Helix - I guess I could have bought IMA's HX stomp patches, but they're not far off the cost of this. Ultimately it's 'horses for courses' but worth trying if you get a chance.

@uk_lefty is looking for an '80s style bass. I'd say it doesn't get more '80s than this! Seriously though: It looks like it was kept in a rather damp environment, judging from those screws, the separated fingerboard binding and the peeling finish. It needs some work, and the right loving home because this is definitely niche! It's also really cool though, and USA-made Jacksons have always been built to a very high standard so I'm sure it's lovely. It looks like it's mostly the clearcoat that's flaking, and most of the graphic is still in place? I don't think Sims do finish work anymore, but only pickups and LEDs these days? That's a shame, I couldn't think of a better man for the job.

Bought a pickup from @Grassie Perfect purchase, great item, fast shipping, and excellent comms. Cheers Grant, much appreciated 👍

My Gear4Music Chicago 5 string weighs in at 6.5 pounds and feels very good on the strap.

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NBD! Back with Yamaha again but went with the Ice Blue BB434. Sticking with 4s now. Might get a clear pickguard or a vintage white. 3.4kg bass, my shoulder is happy!

Stuff like that is eminently possible, but I can’t see that most folks would want it to come at the expense of the engage/bypass switch. Besides, that has other functionality (tuner and access to global menu) that would become inaccessible due to long-press-to-scroll if replacing it with program down.

GuitarGuitar now have all 4 different finishes of this in at £3499 (!!!) Doesnt seem like many (if any...?) have shifted from any of the UK dealers?

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I'd done a cursory search, but hadn't yet tried various Reddit and Gearspace threads that might have been more promising. I suspected that it might be possible to recreate some things manually, but TBH that's more messing about than I am prepared to undertake for the sake of a few interesting looking Kontakt-based instruments. It a pity because the Logic Sampler instrument is great, but could do with some updated conversion utilities like the Akai sampler library one that would even allow the Mac to read Akai formatted discs to make them available for the conversion process.

I saw this listed on the Peach guitars website yesterday when I was ordering something else, I hadn't heard of it before but the demo sounded good and it looks practical, so I added one to my order. I'll have a play with it when it gets here.

Not who you were asking but the program change footswitch already lets you do up/down based on how quickly you click - not perfect of course, but once you get used to it it works well.

These are my favourite straps ever

I think I've bought a bass from the guy before - the Burny LP shaped confection which I put lipstick pickups in. He's a sound bloke, got a pretty nifty collection of instruments, had a fine yap with him when I was picking up the Burny. Should have just bought his one (as it looks minty fresh if I recall correctly), but then what fun would that have been?

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John Shuker replaced a fret board and truss rod on a US Fender Stu Hamm Mk1 . Absolute fantastic work. John's work is in great demand so be prepared to have neck fixed by slotting in to his busy bass build schedule. Worth the weight!!!!