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  1. About half the current market price surely? Bargain!!
  2. Can confirm the Vertigo guitar case is a perfect fit for my 105cm headless, highly recommend 👍🏻
  3. So I went with the Mono Vertigo guitar case and can confirm it's a spot on fit for my Leduc! My Leduc measures 105cm long and it still has a teeny bit of room to spare at the top, so we'll worth considering for shorties/headless basses of a similar length.
  4. AH okay didn't know that, fair enough then! Perhaps I am also talking of my experience with a different preamp, the one I had (and found transparent, and thus quite revealing of the chinese Bart character) was the one fitted to an SRMS805?
  5. I didn't have any issues with the preamp, seemed pretty transparent. I found the BH2s themselves to be very lacking in high end clarity and deep lows, "woolly", as I think someone put it, describes them well. They're just not very exciting pickups. The upgrade I did to real Barts was night and day, and Nordstrand models naturally have a ton more high end, but in fairness they're a different type of Pickup altogether (single coil models in the ibbys, aren't they?)
  6. I've just taken a risk and ordered a Mono Vertigo guitar bag as it should fit my Leduc Headless, which is around 105cm long. Ill let you know if it fits, but I imagine your ibby will be a similar length?
  7. There are a few bits I don't like. The contour on the back feels odd, I really don't like how there's an odd space between the bottom of the fretboard and the body on the treble side, but otherwise I like the concept, just not the execution re: specs. As for so many for sale, typical ibanez really, they make tons of the tons of different types and as such there's a lot around used too. Nothing unusual I wouldn't say personally.
  8. Not sure what you meant to post but that's just a search for every time Hiscox has been used in a post? Incidentally, no-one seems to have given an option on the OPs (a) or (b), just the usual suggestion of (c) 😂
  9. Think the simple answer is any one bass can technically cover any song, just as one shirt can cover any social event, but naturally you may want something better suited to the gig. You wouldn't wear a hawaiian shirt to a funeral. You could, it would do the job, but there are other choices that would do a "better" job.
  10. Sounds insane. We will of course have to insist that you share what you can do with this on bass!
  11. I feel like Paul is watching this thread in a manner not too dissimilar to how Thor views others trying to lift his hammer.
  12. Moderator perk, being to be able to see every edit 😉 We need something to keep us going 😅
  13. When you said it, I had visions of you saying it had a regular Warwick 3D bridge 😅 that makes much more sense.
  14. And you were so close to getting a like from me, before your inaccurate sweeping generalisation. I embody modern metal and yet agree with everything you say about this 😉
  15. Yup, a Rockbass (though I don't think German ones have tailpieces?) but a lot of bass for the money. Nice one!
  16. Probably not unusual. The very early thumbs had a different shape than your 87/00 and the modern thumb is a slightly different shape again. All quite subtle but noticable to a Thumb aficionado, just can't remember the actual years they changed. I did think there was another change in the 90s so its interesting your 00 and 87 are completely identical.
  17. Not good at all, I agree he should have sent you out a replacement bridge in that case, or taken the bass back for remedying. Did he at least offer to pay for the suggested local shop's work to resolve?
  18. Did you buy the bass new, and how long after delivery did you ask for help?
  19. These are wonderful, wonderful basses. A real class above older Stingrays, the neck is divine!
  20. Totally agree! The trade off for the chinese models seemed good value when they were introduced at £1k or so, but now that they're getting to £2.5k (the price of an AB1 the last time I bought one in the not so distant past), I don't know anymore. There are a LOT of basses out there you can get with that kind of money.
  21. Not a bad shout really, they Chinese basses do seem to be going up in price more than the Canadian, relatively speaking?
  22. The red is certainly the highlight of the range, don't mind the black one though.
  23. I'm lost again 😅 so it does allow pitch changes, or can this only be achieved with heavy bending?
  24. That's wild. Is the exchange rate that bad? £3k for a combustion is just nuts. Proper Canadian Dingwalls were a good deal less than that in the not too distance past...
  25. Thank you, that's made it click for me. It's certainly clear that it's not for me, as it sounds like it'll suck the life and dynamics out of a bass line even more than what normally happens in a studio! I can perhaps see the application, but have to say in all the years I've been tracking bass, I've never run into that tiny variance in pitch ever being an issue. And what on earth happens when you bend a string then, what would that sound like, just the same?? 🤔 So presumably this bridge locks in place somehow, so changing tuning mid gig would be an issue?
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