Kev

How much are they? Used Alpha Omicron must be somewhere between £110-£130 mark with almost 0% depreciation if you choose to sell again, so saving needs to be really quite decent to risk the knock off?

I'd love if you presented the comparison as a blind sound sample test; stick up three recordings of the same part, one with the Wal, one with the new neck and one with the Fender neck, and set up a poll for each track to see who thinks what is what?

I still like Mi-Fi

Its rated at 500ma and you're going to want to give it at least 400ma for it to function right (youll get away with that, dimmer leds etc), but no less. The Voodoo can only manage 250ma which won't cut it I'm afraid, unless they do a current double cable and you can combine both of the 250ma outputs.

HiMi As in High fidelity, but in a midi controller way. Simple but effective.

Midi McMidiface

What a comedi-hen. Looks a bit clucked to me.

That preamp sounds good! Seems a big step forward from the ACG, which I'm not too surprised by from my experience with that pre. Exceptionally clean and lacking in character. I'm still truly sceptical of the impact of the new neck, but I'm definitely keen to be proven wrong!

Amazon winning out for me, NYXL set I use is £29 at the mo, which makes it a good deal, when Stringsdirect sells the same set for £40. Also, its worth watching Amazon strings. They walk the price down over time, before increasing it after a certainly number of sales. The last NYXL set I bought I watched it fall to £26 before buying, next day it was up to £32. Get them added to your basket and keep an eye on them.

A little off topic but nice to see you on here bud!

It doesn't look like it competes with the Trace Elliot and the like for size, and presume its still IEC powered, so I don't see any point unless its silly cheap, which I can't imagine it will be.

There was a time when Darkglass innovated and shook the market with game changing products. Now we have releases like the B1K and this.

That shell pink jazz!

I've been looking for a while now for an alternative string to the NYXLs as I hate paying so much for strings. But I can't find anything. There's just something about NYXL strings that I can't move away from. They are comfortably the most stable string I've used (bar extreme weather changes i've never needed to retune when taken out of the case) and their broken in sound seems to last an age, long past when XLs/Prosteels would be completely dead. They're brilliant. Haven't tried the XTs!

Nice choice of pedal for the demo

What is the controller capable of, that other controllers aren't? Couldn't find anything when I skim read, other than the idea of it being as "cheap" as £450 was unrealistic? What is the ballpark figure we're looking at? I presume there must be one if suggestions are dismissed? Edit* Swear when I first looked at the website there was nothing really on there, bit more clued up on what it can do now. Is it fair to say the USP is the interface and ease, as opposed to it actually bringing previously unheard of functionality to the table?

Looks tasty! Baited breath for the price though. If there's one thing I hate about midi switches, it's paying for them, always hard to get my head around having the functionally but having to pay more to use it. Hopefully it can come in low enough to stir things up!

I think everyone knows the advantages, and sometimes disadvantages, of buying and selling on here, rather than from a shop. I'm glad you enjoy it, but unfortunately the marketplace is open to all and you've got to be quick off the mark to get what you want. If a shop does buy a bass and sell it for more elsewhere, there's not a lot we can do! Just don't hesitate next time

And none of them hold a candle to BSSM, but they're good records in their own right. Their sound is just different now, and it's heavily linked to John's music progression, which has never ever been financially driven. Although perhaps his decision to rejoin may have been. RHCP could release something completely not-safe and it would still sell the same, if not more.

I really quite enjoyed this. Contrary to other opinions in this thread, I think they are writing EXACTLY the music they want to write, without a thought of what makes money. All they need to do is release another BSSM album and the old fan base would go wild, but instead they're doing this. I wish they wouldn't, I wish they would find the love for that raw funk again, but I don't think John especially will ever be in that place again. Given how close he was to losing his life to drugs, it's probably not a headspace he's keen to get back into again.