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I just noticed this. I love these strings on just about every bass. I had used the long scale 45-100 set on a shortie but they were just a tiny bit light for the E&A.

The short scales are available in 45-105 and 50-110.

Amazon have the 50-110 on sale at £29 at the moment so I've ordered a set. The 45-105 are pretty much at RRP.

They are excellent. They feel a lot nicer under the fingers than La Bella's which I find a bit grabby, and they have a bit more articulation too with the tone up full.

https://www.ernieball.com/guitar-strings/bass-strings/stainless-steel-flatwound-electric-bass-strings

Long Scales are now available as 45-105 for the first time too.

You are not helping my GAS! 
 

59 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

I was ready to buy one - put it in the basket and then.. £193 for shipping? I think not.

It's not. That includes all the VAT and Duty.

bout £110 for shipping from the USA for a bass. That's pretty cheap.

It's a very good cab.

I swapped back to barefaced 10 inch cone stuff just because I preferred the sound. My amp is quite uncoloured so I needed more colouration from the cab.

But if I had an amp with more character then I'd be very happy to have a Super twin again. 

Anyone ordered one?

I'm tempted but this year I have 18th and 21st Birthdays for my kids and my mum's 80th etc etc

On 26/02/2024 at 00:10, BlackCrow said:

I always went with no religion, no politics discussed within the band, from either end of the spectrum. And no drunk girlfriends at rehearsal.

How is that Neil Young tribute band going?

1 hour ago, Fil1ip said:

It's scarily cheap! Compared to the 'real one' shipping is a little high and assume there would be some import on this too. But wow 😲 

If you add it to the baskets and out in the address it calculates all of it for you.

FedEx deals with the tax / import on it. 

6 minutes ago, Killerfridge said:

£326 is an absolute bargain

+ shipping + vat + duty. About £520 total. 

I've got the Cioks DC7 as well. It's excellent. Very quiet and will run just about everything. It can even be expanded later.

There's little point in having high quality pedals like the Darkglass stuff and then feeding it with crap power. 

For power supplies my own view is: buy it once, buy it right.

I used to like pressure wound strings and would always use the GHS ones. Then for some basses I went to flats and rounds for others for many years.

Then I developed an intolerance / allergy to nickel so now I have to use stainless steel strings and there aren't many pressure wounds that are steels.

I gave up looking for ages and then youtube recommended a string demo of the Roto Solo 55. I investigated further and discovered they are steel rounds that are then squashed to reduce finger noise but keeping all the mass of the metal. They are not groundwounds.

I had Dunlop Superbrights on my Sandberg Lionel and I like them a great deal, but even though they are very low noise for a round I wanted smoother and even less noise.

So I tried out the Solo 55 set.

Result: Far higher finger noise than the Dunlops. The Solo 55 are advertised as having lower string noise, presumably compared to normal Roto rounds. I hate to think how rough and noisy they are.

In short - I found them to be bloody awful. Horrible feeling under the fingers and more noise than Dunlop rounds (they do not make a pressure wound). I have no views as to sound quality as I tuned up and was just playing through a little practice combo. The feel of the strings just made my skin crawl.

Disappointing really.

Everything over 7.5lb and everything that doesn’t balance properly.

I genuinely don’t care about much else. 

So - this is basically going back to the original Genzbenz Streamliner that had 3 valves in it.

It's an amp!

Could be just the thing then! I've ordered the 45-105 set and I'll see what happens. Hopefully I won't need the 110 for the E.

2 hours ago, Ashborygirl said:

Controversal opinion warning.......

 

The Nordy Acinonyx is the most impressive new bass I've played in 40 years.    It's short scale.

 

Oh & I'd be pretty happy to have this tone as my only one too.

 

https://youtu.be/-Qylhk6jsT0?si=iRDmdrRwgALy3kIV

That sounds ace. I have a cheap as you like Jim Deacon shortie P bass with flats on it that sounds like the link.

I love that bass. It's by far the cheapest in my collection and I'd be heartbroken if anything happened to it.

I might give some a try. I don't mind if they are a bit heavier.

I have a nickel allergy so I can't use Pure Blues etc.

Here you go:

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/435365-the-short-scale-bass-appreciation-society/#comments

Lots of us like them. I have a couple, and I think they are great.

I love Dunlop Superbright Steel Rounds. They are not actually that bright - not as bright as Prosteels for example, but they have a lovely feel under the fingers with lower noise and a round core for flexibility.

However, the biggest set they do is 45-105 and for my shortie I really wish they had a heavier / less flexible A and E - just by a little bit

Dunlop do standard steel rounds in 50-110. Does anyone know if the wrap wire is the same on these so they have the same low-noise as the Superbrights?

The Standards are hex core so I would expect them to be less flexible, maybe even to the point that a 105 would be plenty with the hex core.

Has anyone played both of these?

ta

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1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said:

Maybe there was a reason Ashdown put the Octave button on their amps after all. Can't say I ever used it (ive had a few of their amps with it). 

As they went to all that trouble they could have at least made it a good octave.

Maybe it was a Friday...

4 hours ago, krispn said:

I’m gonna check that out. If you have the link handy do you mind posting but I’ll dig it out later when I’m free. 

https://youtu.be/1x_kg6pOvGU?si=s_UUeBJOmd6Bvik7

Dusty Hill used to have a microPOG on all the time, with a Thumpinator after it to stop anything lower than an A getting through.

It was on the Rig Rundown when Elwood was still the tech.

It was set to just have a tiny bit of the octave happening and he never turned it off.

Ever since I watched that I've had an Octave and a Thumpinator on my board.

Could be handy! 

That looks like it would be amazing fun!

I wish I had the time to dedicate to something like that.

https://www.eich-amps.com/212s

Maybe?