LukeFRC

sooo... I really dislike that fin ish on the stingray special or 5 ... but it looks nice on the bongo - it seems to burst to brown on the edge - whereas the rays burst to black on further in. But hey ho - we don't all need to like thee same thing do we?

this?

there's a thing with Ikea furniture - as we construct it ourselves we have a stronger emotional attachment to it

@AndyTravis - enjoy this site... https://www.specialistpaints.com/products/passion-paint

I thought that a lot of us thought I had nailed it with my GAS classification list. One of my greatest basschat posts that!

Instant banning that would probably be!

I think that might be the bit that folk like the guy @Killed_by_Death was talking about doesn’t get - there comes a point where it goes from being musicians who have lots of nice instruments, to being collectors of nice instruments who dabble in music.

Good yardstick

whoosh straight over my head

not you. It was a general comment rather than replying to your post

Who cares? Some investment banker could afford a new custom instrument every month and not have the time to play them, some keone else could be playing every night with their only Harley Benton. Some people have 4 cars, some drive a 15 year old saxo. by all means examine your own GAS sickness but externalising it starts to go places where we all end up looking like judgemental Richards

I'm looking forward to first practice/gig. Either I've forgotten everything, or a year of noodling at home on work lunchtime and I've improved

its been a very long 12 months hasn't it?

saves me googling that one!

You know I don’t think that’s something you’ve meantioned before

This is basschat - surely he can have the Bulex for going on flat places and the peppa pig for going round in?

Agree. Main reason I sold my L1000. Lovely sounding but just took more effort to work if going direct to board It's almost as if they should design amplifiers with an input stage to allow adjustment for different outputs...

So now we’ve cleared up why a East uni pre might sound better even If turned off ... are you getting one?

I would put money on the east using MN taper on the blend- the blend in passive is very similar to in active in sound - and the Active buffered blend will be doing the Equivalent of an MN pot. if the bass had a AC pot then the change to an MN alone could be the bit that sounds “better” - - even if all values of pots are the same mid point On an MN is a fair bit different to a AC

My point was more that measuring one pot doesn’t tell you thst the circuit is the same

There’s 4 potentiometers - the passive tone pot, a volume and two in the balance....