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Rdiculous! I absolutely detest thieves..... May karma strike them down and hope they get nicked.

That is very yellow indeed

Suffragette City And I love love LOVE the bass line in China Girl A sad sad day...

Gutted, mankind has lost one of the greats. RIP Mr. Bowie

XL sounds good too!

Great stuff, I like the tone of it. It is less grindy than a B3K and the switch B15-Hi Gain is a cool feature. I never liked the DG VMT much it never felt as if the dirt and clean gelled. it appears this may be a great alternative to that pedal and would be a good in addition to the B3K on my board.

Great to see someone now has the Pike's to check out! For the rest I see all of this is down to a number of bad decisions made by the owners/CEOs of 2 companies and neither is any better than the other. BassDirect should have kept on selling the Pike's, business is business. Or he should never have started selling them in the 1st place. All he has achieved now is raise lots of question marks about his reasoning for stopping all of a sudden. Mark sort of got himself caught up in this as well now.. And lets not forget this entire thing is about as important as deciding what colour socks to wear in the bigger scheme of things.

To me it is like Rolls Royce bringing out an MPV. $4000 for a P, not in a million years. But that is me, there will most certainly be a market for it.

Been doing 30-40 gigs per annum for many years now. Used to own lots of basses, now down to only 3. A 4 string PJ and 5 string JB which I will generally take to all the gigs, a Mono double keeps them safe. My 3rd is an acoustic that rarely gets used. I must say that I like having fewer basses, makes things much easier Basses wear, it's all mojo imo.

Yes, Dunlops, Schallers, Warwicks.... Personally I often use Dunlop flush mounts, least leverage on the screw but you can screw up your bass. Luckily I am quite handy and can install them myself.

It is also more expensive. The MB pedal is fine for what it is. The new version is a lot smaller than before too. I quite like it (although I will most likely buy the FI at some stage).

I tried, cannot order from Bassdirect........

The US partner: http://www.austinbasstraders.com/about/4/glenn-talks Incl. link to buy direct from tecampusa.com http://www.austinbasstraders.com/newgear/281/tecamp-s-212-now-in-stock

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1451759248' post='2943201'] that and Markbass had made him a new amp... [/quote] Sure, but he did not have to go ballistic just because he switched brand, he didn't do that when he went to Tecamp either...

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1451753769' post='2943136'] I contributed to the TB thread as I'd just picked up a Bonafide amp, which is brill btw. I was talking to Thomas Eich just before Christmas, so this is very recent, but I can't believe the Bona situation killed the company? My guess is they are being bought out, based on [url="http://tecampusa.com/page/4-about-us"]this[/url] [/quote] Same here, I think they've been bought and he does not like the direction they are taking. The Bona thing may even be a result of a takeover too, Eich cannot honour prior arrangement due to new owner.... That could lead to a very upset Bona perhaps, his reaction was clearly very angry. Glenn Kawamoto owns Austin Bass Traders.

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1451752241' post='2943117'] He didn't disappoint, friendly, warm and very passionate. It's a huge buzz to know that the guy who built my fave bass is a top man. [/quote] Same with my de Gier, it is an extra bonus that he is a really nice guy who cares about his clients. I used to own 2 Lulls, still have very fond memories of them. Mike Lull helped me out with a bespoke passive wiring loom with seperate tone knobs for each volume knob on my MV5 pretty much at cost. I moved back to 34" due to a minor hand injury that makes playing 35" for long stints a challenge, would still have them otherwise.

Isn't it also about budget or how much you feel is a justifiable spend? Nobody needs a Merc or BM, yet many people drive one. The added "quality" over a good Skoda or Mazda is often elusive yet people still spend the extra cash. I have a custom JB5 (not much more expensive than a Fender Deluxe Jazz V by the way) that is exactly how I wanted it. Is it better? Probably only a little, would a Fender do the job? Yes, could I get the same level of bespokeness? Unlikely. I would never feel a Wal is justifiable, but if someone wants to have one who am I to judge. I also do not drive a Merc or BM whilst many of my colleagues do, it's their money.

I wish him the best, great look and it will undoubtedly sound very good for the money.

Must have been bought by Fender then...... We'll see, my L212s won't mind whatever happens.

Years ago Boss had the TU50 Pro (I hope I remember it correctly). Had one but sold it as it did not track a B string, wasn't great anyway. Why not buy a bigger one and transplant it into a half rack case?