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Thanks mazdah and Lozz196. I tried two ABM600s and a RM800 at different times and each time I quit because I couldn't quickly and easily find the tone I was looking for. I just took the easy way and switched back to my Eden, Ampeg and Mesa amps that seemed to have tone-shaping centred around the tones in my head. This time I'm determined to find the right sounds that I'm sure are in the ABM600 somewhere. I'm doing this because a) I believe Ashdown have earned my money and b) with them I won't have the complicated and expensive experience I had recently getting a faulty American-branded head repaired.

Hi all, This was my bass, absolutely gutted that it went missing. Hopefully we can get enough eyes on it can be found. Mark has been amazing throughout the experience and really helpful as anyone who's worked with or ordered from him will testify. Thanks again all!

Hmmm...not really. You tend to pull the cover from one side - at the most breaking the pull of two magnets as one half of the hatch lifts up with the other two acting like a hinge. But, even with that said, they are surprisingly powerful for such teeny things. 👍

A very talented man, used to love the skids! Bass break in ‘out of town’ still makes me tingle when i listen to it even after all these years x

I used 3mm dia x 1mm thick magnets with a 0.19kg pull from First4Magnets on my last build. I've used 5mmx1mm at 0.3kg in the past but that is a bit overkill for a standard size/weight hatch.

I stand corrected, it happens occasionally 🤣

This one and the XB Driver, I reckon.

Top knowledge there, Steve!

I think it's all sorted and straight up with Thomann, I bought recently a £380 bass and didn't have to pay over any extra

Definitely go via music store as you won’t get any nasty tax surprises.

Nope.....price @ thonamm are inc of VAT+Duty "The total price we quote you includes the relevant local VAT rate for that country and no more taxes or import duties are necessary." https://www.thomannmusic.com/faq_question_am_i_liable_for_import_tax.html Im guessing Andtertons are doing the "previously listed at" trick so they can make it look like your saving money after they adjust the price at launch...a very common retail con....

Wait, you're trying to say I can't become a cancer prompt doctor? Damn, guess I better cancel that custom shop preorder...

He was also a huge Be Bop Deluxe fan and tracked down, and bought, the white Hoyer Les Paul on the back cover of Axe Victim.

My good sir, May i please inform you of VAT & import fees ? https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty

@Woodinblack's post really nails where both danger and opportunity lie in industries where LLMs and other gen AI are taking hold. In some ways humans are a lot like LLMs - we use prior experience to apply a quick solution to a novel situation, and it's often "correct enough" to be effective. But our biases - our personal data sets - can misguide us. We're also intrinsically lazy (energy efficient, in my case) so we will tend to take the easily available shortcut if one is available. Good enough is good enough. The key then is to continue to cultivate the skills that an LLM can't replicate: programming needs critical and logical thinking, the ability to incrementally problem solve (<-- non-programmers take), so we will still certainly need those with a programmers skill set. The AI takeover has a feeling of inevitability because we can't see past the neoliberal world we've all been living in for the past 50 years or so. It's catnip for the >=management class because the "logic" that market forces and efficiencies must rule over everything else is unquestioned. This is why it's hard for me to separate generative AI from the larger picture of political economy.

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