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The blue is lovely, but I vote red because that way you avoid the soul crushing shame of the tort.

Can you post a picture?

I must admit the various reports of the ABM compressor doing that is probably got take it off my list.

I swap between slap, fingers and plectrum through a show so I need it. The differences in dynamics for those 3 styles is immense. And I like what it does to the tone of my basses.

Anyone tried the new Mark Bass Vintage 1000 or AG1000 yet? They have adjustable Limiters and I can’t find details of the settings - it might be as useful.

At the moment I'm using a Tech21 VTbass 500. In the past I have also used the Darkglass MT900, Mark Bass Marcus Goldline, Demeter 800W thingy. I have the Super Twin and One10 cabs and use them for different things, and actually for different cars depending on boot space!

What pedalboard is it? Some are very low and that limits the supplies that can fit underneath. Like the Pedaltrain Nano - the Truetone C6 will fit under it, but not a lot of other things will.

Send Dave Green an email. He'll tell you.

Or just find someone with the right kink.

Cool. I'll have a go on some of the configurators over the weekend. Most of the established brands have good ones - of course the fees includes a build fee so that can be ignored. Although sometimes a prebuilt can actually work out cheaper if they have economies of scale. I know you are not interest in graphics performance, but just as an example - it is cheaper to buy a really really crap entire PC and spec it with a high end GPU like the RTX3090 and then throw away everything apart from the RTX than it is to just buy the GPU off the shelf on it's own! It's madness caused by supply shortages and that non-scalped units go directly to builders and not to the shelves in the local parts shop. I know a few people who've bought entire PC's that are actually incapable of even turning on while the RTX3090 is installed! Not enough power to even get the lights on. But it saved them nearly £1500 even after binning or ebaying the crappy stuff. AMD and nVidea have no downside and they are raking in the money due to low supplies. Now that Intel are coming into the GPU market and have 4 times the combined revenue of AMD and nVidea it should shake up the market and bring the prices back down. Intel can actually afford to launch their GPUs at a loss to gain market share and cause a price war. Fingers crossed!

I remember when Danny Filth was on the TV answering questions about Cradle of Filth's (in)famous "Jesus is a C***" t-shirt When pressed to give a reason it was "Because we sold 100,000 of them" - and it was after that they started to get festival bookings too. So as a bit of advertising it was genius. Some art is specifically created to appeal to a demographic that will buy it. Some is created just because of the love of the artist. It's almost impossible to decide which is which if the artist won't say. I have slagged off Nickelback in the past, but then saw a great interview with Devin Townsend where he explained meeting Chad wotsit and that despite the saccharine pop rock reputation, Chad was as obsessed with his music as DT was about his. No cynical marketing / writing approach at all, no aim for chart success. Just writing what he loved like we all do. I'm far more sad at most of the top 40. Formulaic, no risk, all auto-tuned, brickwall mastered, identikit crap that with very few exceptions won't even make it onto a "Now that's what I call music" compilation. That really is a factory, and it's not the artists making the money.

That was the first song I heard that really spoke to me from a 'regular friday night' point of view. I miss university.

This. And they are far far better players too.

Not quite - the version the Bass Channel did was carefully constructed from watching and listening to live performances of the tracks. Ok, the guy from the Bass Channel used his fingers instead of a Pick, but they are Jason's parts. It's this one: They also have individual tracks with much louder bass to learn from. They did have individual proper mix as well, but Metallica's record label got upset about that. I don't listen to the original anymore - I listen to this version. It's much better.

5 or 6 years I reckon. Kids will be starting university this year and I'm going to have to make my strings last twice as long!

I not bothered where anything is made if the product is good - I was just wrong in my assumption. I just thought all the ABM's were made here. I still want one - I just don't have any money at the moment!

I'm really glad that it is actually being taken out and played. I also enjoyed the meltdown when Kirk actually took it on tour with him. For years GM fans had been complaining that it wasn't getting used, and now they got upset that it was. Loved it!

The M.2 drive will be for the operating system and anything else you want on start up. The larger SSD will be for anything you actually do. But you should have a 3rd somewhere or a web-based back contract with someone to keep your data safe. That Power Supply is too small. Modern Power Supplies can have manufacturer warranties of up to 12 years so over-spec that to allow you to be able to power any future upgrades. I'd want a 650W in there at least. There's no mention of a GPU on there at all. While onboard graphics are tolerable for many things if you want to do any video work with Reaper or OBS or Da Vinci Resolve then you will be underspecced. Doesn't have to be a stupid money GPU like the current generation that cost more than the rest of the machine put together, but a RTX1060 (That's 2 generations ago) would do the work far better than whatever onboard graphics are on that motherboard, and at a reasonable price. 32GB Ram is pretty much essential when you start adding plugins into Reaper otherwise you'll bog down quickly. It might be an idea to give us your desired budget and we can all go off to the various companies Configurators and have a play.

oh - I thought the ABM's were made in the UK.

It does say Country of Origin: China. Is that a mistake or were some of them made over there? Zooming in on the back of it says Manufactured in PRC

Doesn't Stockman use the Darkglass Alpha Omega these days? A pedal is a lot cheaper than an amp!

Searching is your friend

Get an Ibanez Mezzo for £200, then send it to Feline Guitars to have the headstock removed, and get it modified as you want. Just like @therealting did with his. (His was a 5)

I don't think they are taking orders at the moment. No idea how long that will last for.