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[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1404589251' post='2494033'] I've asked them where the Mark King signature is....! [/quote] Nice one, I was toying with the idea of doing the same...

Thanks for confirming. I have never played one, but I like the look and idea of them, hence my automatic alerts on eBay.

Someone is selling a Status Groove Mark King Signature bass on eBay. Is there really such a thing or is he making it up? It certainly looks no different to a standard Groove. I would also assume MK models would be headless... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=261522955449&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

Arf... I'll sort out the pictures tomorrow... a bit late now!

So I asked Ashdown, I was probably too nice and they kinda said no. I trawled the internet and eventually found some suitable knobs on ebay US, shipping directly from China. They are not perfect but they fit nicely, no grub screws. I have only just put them on, I haven't had much time to fully appreciate the change (?) but I think it is pretty obvious that the amp face was designed to have smaller knobs in the places I replaced them: Before: After: (Edited with links to pictures)

I never knew such a thing as antigua existed. I really like it, especially the slowly matured deeper shade. I personally wouldn't refin, but the P pickup is an eyesore.

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1402121988' post='2470198'] But you need at least a P with rounds, a P with flats, a Jazz, a Ray, a 5-string, and a fretless. So that's a minimum of 6 basses right there! [/quote] Add a semi-acoustic and a short scale and we're about there.

Is there anything like that near Nottingham? My son, 13, is in his school band with two of his mates. He plays the guitar and considers a career in music. Now, the bass player IS a bass player, not a frustrated guitarist, the drummer is looking to buy himself a bass after I lent him one and even my son has nicked my practice amp and has been playing the bass since I bought one he approves the look of! Maybe Nottingham is a hotbed for bass players?

That said Prolapse was a pretty good band. The male singer would down a can of beer per song then move on to bottles of red. The musical performance was impressive too!

I have used a Line 6 LowDown (Studio 110 I think it was), it was very small yet plenty loud when needed. It has a D.I. out too, headphone socket an aux in.

I'd say for the price you can't go wrong. My only observation is that the body looks a bit small, more like a 3/4 bass, say compared to a Squier Mustang or Bronco. Maybe more like a travel bass, but it may be the picture. My only short scale bass is a semi-acoustic, so quite a big body.

Pervey bass on Gumtree, made me giggle. A bit. http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/pervey-bass-guitar/1063299458 Schoolboy humour aside, £30 for a Peavey Milestone is not bad?

I can't answer the question, but I would imagine that yes it is possible to damage the speaker in this way. My amp has a VU meter and I stay clear of the red zone. Anyway reminded me of seeing a guy play the guitar with a spanner once. A good old metal spanner.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1399739098' post='2447208'] Over the years I've had to shout Ashdown a couple of times about things and have generally found them to be pretty accommodating...they've never actually charged me for anything! P [/quote] I think I'll have another stab at them. The guy did say they use them on the newer models (the Evo III ones?) but they don't sell them separately.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399740011' post='2447220'] How about these? [url="http://uk.alibaba.com/product/628541376-Davies-1510-Clone-push-fit-pedal.html?s=p"]http://uk.alibaba.co...-pedal.html?s=p[/url] Of course it depends on the size of your shaft. Edit: Just noted that the minimum order is 100. Not that useful, then. Unless you can find 50 people with the same problem. [/quote] Yes, these would be the ones. Now someone must be buying these in bulk, surely. But where are they? It seems nobody sells those by the unit. Hmm, it does say free sample available...

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1399719769' post='2446947'] wayhey! [/quote] To be fair I was baiting for that one

I have an Ashdown EB 15-180 combo, and all the knobs on it are the same size. The thing is that on all the sales product pictures the Lo-Mid and Hi-Mid knobs are smaller, like so: [sharedmedia=core:attachments:162383] And indeed as I took out one of these knobs I realised that their larger size was hiding some of the markings on the front panel (the 0 and full dot markers). So it seems that they were always intended to have smaller knobs, to me it makes a lot of sense and it also looks nice! So, does anyone know where I can find smaller knobs to replace mine? I looked at pages and pages of knobs, large ones, small ones, soft ones, dull ones and shiny ones but I haven't found the perfect knob. I am not really sure what they are called but I could find some that are very similar (davies 1510 19mm I think) but they have a screw to hold them in place. I'd rather have push-on types like the originals. Oh, I did ask Ashdown and the ones they sell are the larger ones, they don't supply the smaller type.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1399535959' post='2445046'] ... Finale is another one but that seems to be just as expensive as the Sibelius options (£240). It never used to be able to play stuff back to you but I think it can now (which is probably why it is more expensive than it used to be). ... [/quote] There is a free version of Finale for notation, Finale Notepad: http://www.finalemusic.com/products/finale-notepad/ and it does playback and tabs for bass and guitar. Mac and Windoze versions. I am not a good judge of this, because I am rubbish at music, but it seems very good for notation. It's free, worth a try?

I mis-understood ahpook's post a bit. I thought he was saying that some semis had a contoured body. Anyway, I have just had a go on the Stylist and I do hold it differently. The body, as well as being deeper is also much bigger than a solid body, so instead of my forearm resting on the body it's really the crook of my elbow. I also tend to pluck closer to the neck.