Kev

Ah, they’re sold by weight then, maybe? 🤔 🤔

That’s fine, you just ran it at 9V instead and it was identical! Save yourself a few hundred quid and buy the TX! 😁

Not too worried if it does to be honest, I have a more than adequate audit trail to show that Musik Productiv would need to reimburse all costs, would just be a faff!

The biggest clue is that, generally speaking if not in your specific situation, the cost of most things listed on Thomann has just dropped 20%, and will be approx 20% less than the UK price. You would think that would prompt the thought process of why a little, particularly if theyre no stranger to Thomann. By the way, 5 days now since I received my Musik-Productiv order that charged a price including all VAT/Duty, and no letter requesting any money from UPS yet...

Nice board, may want to get some filter sounds on it though.

I don't know, to me the excluding VAT warning jumps out at me, and I'm sure it warns you in the checkout too. I don't really buy this "surprise" thing, as without putting in bold on the page UK BUYERS YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY MORE, I don't know what else shops can do.

Thomann are listing Ex VAT, so that £499 and £511 will be 20% more, before considering duty/handling.

Why would you say that? I haven’t seen a boss board for a longggg time.

It appears that Andertons, whilst they do for some instruments, don't put up actual pictures for the Stingrays they stock, with the serial number etc. So its difficult to tell, but if its still listed on their website, I find it highly unlikely the last time they sold one it was built three years ago. How about this one https://www.andertons.co.uk/music-man-stingray-charcoal-sparkle-roasted-maple-ebony-black-pickguard Pretty special looking Stingray in my eyes, available for preorder now but does not appear to be part of the 2021 run as its available sooner, and its £1,999 (not reduced)?

Walk me through these two? https://www.andertons.co.uk/music-man-stingray-dropped-copper-roasted-maple-maple-white-pickguard £1,899. https://www.andertons.co.uk/music-man-stingray-special-snowy-night-roasted-maple-maple-matching-headstock-white-pg-chrome-hardware £2,999. Bear in mind I have very little knowledge of the current Stingray range, but all I see here are two basses identified as Stingray Specials, in unique finishes, one 2020 (presumably) and the other 2021, and an £1,100 price increase (£900 if you take the price before discount, which would be fairer).

On that basis, presumably we will see identical rises in Europe? Ill keep an eye out for them, but as already mentioned, other brands will suffer the exact same increases, yet these increases haven't been seen elsewhere, yet. But we shall see. I'm not sure why you keep talking about old prices, there have been comments in this thread showing live listings that are still on Andertons now, showing an £800 or so difference older stock and the upcoming stock. I don't think anything highlights the difference better than that....

https://reverb.com/uk/p/origin-effects-cali76-tx-limiting-amplifier?hfid=38296310&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=1726164661&utm_content=campaignid=1726164661_adgroupid=70264195649_productpartitionid=973400953367=merchantid=242570462_productid=38296310_keyword=_device=c_adposition=_matchtype=_creative=391637461803&gclid=CjwKCAiA9bmABhBbEiwASb35V8pQmhSibiZ3C2cNbloLRTCuV-hyHb5OD0xafIqrDreQgyPre4T7FBoCoRgQAvD_BwE And the £950 Bass Gallery one was a standard? 😂

Insane!! The CB nails the tone of the big box non-transformer version comfortably, having owned both I can't think why someone would spend 4 times more and sacrifice all the board space for the big one. They're the same! Transformer ones are different and they do sound different for sure, but still. Silly money.

I think it just shows contempt for their devoted players who will, undoubtedly, defend and keep buying.

For some reason Thomann always had them much lower than other shops anyway, think it was £43 before...

Not experienced that, not even sure where any noise could come from. There is nothing to them really, just hardwired sockets. Ultimately, there is nothing about the MOD that I NEED, it just makes life easier. Thomann reduced it to £20 so I just grabbed it. The boards look fine without one though 👍🏻

I’ve not had it long! It’s really cool, the plan was to use it add some “ambience” to make clean parts more interesting, but it has some crazy modulation in it, real wacky yet usable tones, so much experimenting will be done!

Just finished rewiring my RockboardTres 3.1 with the Mod 3 module, it works great! I went for this Mod so I can split the DI signal to IEMs and FOH without having to remember to carry a splitter around with me. And the little jumper cable is wired so that when I want to plug my bass in with a cable, rather than wireless, I just unplug C and plug right in 🤘🏻 Warwick have really nailed this pedalboard system, I love it! Oh, and new Darkglass ofc 😁😉

That bass is comfortably the best sounding off the bunch for me! I really like the character of it. I honestly found the multi scale to be the worst in the comparison riffs, closely followed by the poplar euro. Super glassy and sterile in comparison, very scooped sounding. Which is particularly odd for the bart loaded one, as they're literally the opposite of that normally, if anything. What's with separate volume controls on these?

Very well balanced. I haven't had an NT 4 Thumb that has had any neck dive issues. The 5 strings and bolt on models suffer a lot more from it.

It does indeed

Well, that parcel and the sub £135 parcel were just delivered. No real clue whether they passed through customs correctly or not as I know UPS invoice post-delivery. No markings on parcel of any kind, label on the front of the Expensive one with a customs fee/duty/vat receipt but it seemed sealed. We’ll wait and see! Delivery time was two weeks from dispatch, on a 2-4 day delivery service.

It's nothing new in general though, anyone buying stuff from the US will already know all about VAT and handling charges, its just understanding that buying from the EU in many ways is the same as buying from the US now.

Now then, I didn’t say that 😂 I am a Darkglass user and have been since before they were cool 😉 but I would actually say in my experience they are very sensitive to what goes into them, if you use them properly. But most just set it to that over saturated clank tone and leave it at that. Even the B3K is capable of a LOT when you spend enough time with it. The Warwick/Darkglass tone is very different in characteristics than the Dingwall/Darkglass and emulations thereof. Ha! Perhaps if it is successful Spector will consider doing more with the design etc, but as it’s stands it’s a firm No from me. I do want to play one though, and see if that first position is as far away as it looks (and this is coming from a Thumb bass player!)

HA! I knew I recognised it as a model name. Whilst I don't like the design, the fact that there is another bass in that price bracket for people to buy is good. In certain genres such as prog and tech metal (in which I am involved), I am SO tired of seeing those Dingwall basses and hearing that tone, everyone is beginning to look and sound the same. I'm hoping that next time we're out gigging again Ill see plenty of the Ibanez headless offerings and perhaps some Spectors now to add variety that is desperately needed.