Kev

Have to admit, the passive natural full scale with black hardware is a classy looking bass.

The Adam, along with the Boss ES-5 and midi, is the heart of my pedalboard now. I use all 6 presets for different basses, different EQs for certain pedals, different distortion modes etc. My only issue at the moment is the noise gate. Being last in line with no key input, I’m finding it needs to be at different levels for clean and distorted to be tight, and at present it’s only a global plugin. Hopefully it will be updated to be assignable per preset on the next update, as its hard to use as it is.

I actually really enjoyed the prototype model I played at the Guitar show, it played really nicely and finish was good. The two I subsequently tried at guitarguitar in Birmingham were not good at all, poor QC and generally didn't feel great to play.

There seems to be very, very few about. Forever intrigued by the decision to hit the market at that price point. If they were £1k to £1.5k less (still not cheap given their manufacturing and apparent QC), I think it would be a very different story, and we could see premium models out etc.

What an interesting bit of figuring, never seen a dirty blonde quite like that, almost flamed in the middle and burl top/bottom. Lovely. Nice bass. Had a 4 string model a while back, back pickup is brilliant. Sounds nothing like a Thumb bass, which is preferable for some!

Another new Ray! So what’s sets this apart from the Stingray classic? Passive pre and ramp?

Honestly, if I saw that before this thread, I'd have thought someone was taking the mick out of my band's level of support.

Temple Audio is what you’re looking for. I moved back to Velcro though. The pads are an absolute nightmare to remove from pedals once stuck. The boards aren’t very sturdy feeling either.

Oo, talk me through the Collider and Nemesis combo? Would have thought the Ventris would be a more obvious choice to pair with the Nemesis, if the Collider wasn't enough alone? Killer board though buddy!

I used a Bottle Rocket for years, loved it but far too large a footprint and didn't do enough that non-valve pedals didn't already do. Can't say I've tried one of those, looks even bigger! What valves are you running?

Last year one of these was on Reverb for £350, I thought it was overpriced. What did I miss?

Have to say, grabbing an ES-5 has been wonderful. Something quite glorious about not having to worry about where a pedal goes on your pedalboard, or playing the endless cable roundabout testing various orders.

So, Parcelforce steal parcels? Where in conditions of service do Parcelforce tell you that they will claim property when the label falls off, without making EVERY effort to identify who it may belong to, which they would have very quickly identified upon opening? Absolutely shocking stuff.

Where did the money from the auction sale go to? Charity, Peacocks back pocket, parcelforce's back pocket or somewhere else? This is bizarre.

Ah I just commented on this on YT! But yeah to repeat, wenge's depth, smoothness and richness in the low end and low mids wins out, amazing to hear the differences. Blind test, I'd have thought the Ovangkol was a bolt on! (I know you have another vid showcasing that difference too!)

Have Spector yet commented formally on the problem? Sounds like a recall job if the pickups are not fit for purpose for lower tuning, if that is what this is, especially given the marketing relating to the 37" B, although its odd its never come up for other basses using these pickups.

You may be better off just grabbing a phaser that has a volume control or doesn't have the same level of drop? I don't particularly remember the Phase 90 being too unique amongst phasers. Although I'd double check meter readings etc to measure the apparent drop, as ears can be deceiving due to their nature.

Yeah, really hope he waived any fee when he just gave the broken bass back?! Glad it's getting somewhere now, but fill in the massive blank for me; what on earth caused three preamps to break?? I have been using preamps in basses for 15 years and have never had one fail.