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AFAIK they are still concentrating on the USA due to supply chain issues. I believe @agedhorse is the man to ask though.

Lovely! I've ordered the guitar version as I want that too and after more research I have discovered that the Flat setting is very usable for bass with a bit of compression. I don't need anything more than that for bass use.

They do. Steve Harris of Iron Maiden is a famous user for the brightness, but they get old and thuddy like John Deacon after a couple of weeks solid playing.

Has anyone got a list of the bass amps and effects on the Bass version? I am in two minds about whether to get the guitar version as I play a lot of guitar as well, and it has a flat setting for keyboard / bass etc, but I can't find a list of amps / effects for the bass version to compare. Can anyone help?

Definitely Rotos!

I have fewer than 50 people on mine and I know almost all in real life. And I also use the Facebook Purity browser plugin to clean it up a lot more. Adverts / Keywords / Subjects / People I might know etc etc. All vanquished.

Perhaps the person has googled but in the 20 million results there were dozens of different answers and they don't have the personal knowledge to know which is the right choice. At some point we have all been that person. Far better to ask a group of people who have more personal experience than trusting a random search engine. Being welcoming to people in a community is part of being in that community. Discussion is part of being in a community. If someone has a problem with such questions perhaps that community is not for them. There is little more off putting to new people than the 'elders' mocking a person for not knowing something. That sort of thing actively discourages the next generation and ends up killing the thing we love. Either answer the question properly or scroll past and ignore it.

Sandberg California VT/VM/Central/Basic are all adjustable for 18-19.5mm at the bridge.

Nope. It's a video hosted on facebook.

Joel bought my SA C4 - fast comms and payment. All good!

they claim it’s a brand new material they invented.

Amazingly this popped up on my Facebook feed.

I start with the bass tone at about halfway so I’ve got some movement available. Then on the amp everything at noon and then cut the bass as I get louder. And I’ve always got a HPF in the path to help tame the mush.

Those are excellent combos! Get out and gig it!

Sandberg Lionels don't neck dive. They already use super lightweight tuners. The body shape is slightly different from a usual Fender to make them lighter and have better balance. Replacing Mustang tuners with USA Hipshot Ultralites will knock off nearly 1/3 of a pound from the end of the neck - that makes a massive difference for balance. The Mustang shape just isn't great for balance otherwise. Grippy straps can be a help but really all they are doing is causing a weird forward pulling on your shoulder that causes its own problems. Having the bass designed properly in the first place is a far better option.

I started with Stuart Clayton's Sight Reading Bass books, and then using example sight reading tests for double bass. There's lots more available for double bass than bass guitar. Just ignore any bowing instructions! Clayton beginner sight reading Double bass sight reading samples I like using samples / examples because there are loads of them and it means each time I am actually reading something new rather than remembering them from the last time. Then it's just realising it's a language. When you start talking as an infant you copy. Then when you start reading everything is broken down into phonetics - but that is only a stepping stone. As a kid you look at a word and split it into the little parts, but eventually you don't do that anymore and instead recognise the entire pattern. The same happens in music after enough practice - even high speed shred metal runs have patterns! So eventually you don't see individual notes like F/B/A/Bb/C/D/E you just recognise the pattern is the F Major scale. Maybe the Bb has been left out and it's a jump to the C - you end up recognising that too, much quicker than actually reading each note. But the secret really is - 10 mins per day, and play as slow as you need to get every note right. Never be embarrassed if you have to consult a picture with the lines and the note names on it before playing the note - just get it right. There's loads of easy remembered filthy mnemonics to help! It's also a good idea to say the note name as you play it to help reinforce it. As with any skill though - having a good teacher will really help. They can stop bad habits before they start. Good luck!

I've recently sold about £800 worth of pedals and stuff and I'm looking at amps and pedals and absolutely nothing within budget is screaming "buy me"! These days I almost always play one of my 2 Sandbergs so I'm not gassing for a new bass, I like my 2 amp heads a lot, and I refuse to use a pedalboard larger than a Nano+ as I don't want to carry it. I always come back to the same favourite pedals so I don't need more of them. It might be nice if I had a tablet to put my sheet music on. That would be a lot lighter than carrying around folders! The only other thing I look at regularly is some of the Boss Waza Air headphones. Would be a great idea for practice.

I can sight read flat containing keys way better than sharps. That's a side effect of spending a long time in a big band. 99% of the stuff is in F / Bb / Eb with a smattering of Ab and Db.

Sometimes. I don't think they really know what they are doing though!

I think it was on an outtake of the backstage stuff with Metallica with the SF orchestra that had one of the violinists talking to Hetfield.... 'How did you come up with the idea to go from that scale, to that scale but with that mode?' To which the mighty Het responded... "I don't know what you are talking about. It just sounded cool."

I get that - but even at the simple end it really just allows for easier communication between band members. That's the entire point of the rules really - to give a common language for the musicians. Anyone can go from zero to reading Grade 3 in a year by only giving it 10 mins a day. Little and often. None of that 3 hours on a Saturday crap. 10 mins a day. That's it.

It's not just import tax (about 2% iirc), it's VAT (20%) as well. So if you get caught (and it is an offence, BTW) then you'll either pay about 22% on top of the sale price - or the value they think it has if they don't believe the sales document you have. If you won't or can't pay then they'll confiscate it and you'll have a little time to make payment. Then if not it will get destroyed. Your choice!