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Gear4Music has bought out some stock and IP from PMT but not assets or liabilities. Any PMT customers with unfulfilled orders seem set to lose their money which seems a little rough. https://www.gear4music.com/us/en/information/PMT https://musictech.com/news/gear/pmt-closes-all-stores-sells-stock-gear4music/

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It's not DTC.

Maybe but the M9 has more knobs for on the fly tweaking.

Yes but the HX doesn't provide the same accessibility to settings that the M9 does. It's a nuanced difference that maybe only appeals to hardened professionals under time pressure.

That was for the M5, I haven't seen the same comment for the M9

https://www.jhv3.com/ This is the guy who didn't reply. There may be others offering something similar.

It's been a fairly popular unit (after mods) with Nashville session guitarists because you can basically grab a know to tweak on the fly if a producer requests it. No scrolling through menus.

I have a couple of M5s on pedalboards. I did look into an M9 for my guitar pedalboard, tried it and discovered it smothered the dynamics a little too much for my liking so sent it back. There was a guy offering upgrades to the M9 but he hasn't responded to messages or emails for quite a few years. But the mods basically made the M9 a studio quality effect.

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No, not at all. Just sounds different because of the filtering by the electronics. EMGs are quite bold sounding and have their own flavour. Acoustically I can both hear and feel the amount of upper mids that are dampened by the amount of wenge and bubinga in the neck. In particular the wenge fingerboard will absolutely dampen some treble content. You could try your Thumb bass against a Status Series II at some point acoustically and see what differences you can hear. We've occasionally had discussions in this forum about the sound of backline and I've played through some bass rigs where it sounds like there's not just pillow over the speaker but a complete four poster bed. I've been at a loss to understand how the owner can actually hear themselves on stage amongst all the cymbals and guitars. And the answer is they can't but they are so used to it that playing based on hand position and the movement of their trouser legs is their normal and a yardstick for what sounds good to them. Perhaps "good" really means normal.

I'm tempted to be coy as I'm negotiating a guitar build with him at the moment and have another in the works which will be a 5 string version of my Alembic. He exhibited at the Shanghai guitar show in October and came away overloaded with orders and I have already been waiting two years for the guitar build. After he's priced my build, maybe I'll reveal who it is. The craftsmanship is outstanding and he's entirely self taught. His instruments are priced at the same level as a UK custom build as well. I wonder how many of his customers are in the US though.

I think the point I was trying to make, perhaps poorly, is that there is a huge difference between how the Thumb sounds AND FEELS acoustically and what it sounds like amplified. Perhaps I"m still trying to get my head around the difference and I need more time with one to reach any kind of lasting insight. I can't think of any other bass where I've felt like that.

To be fair, there is a certain amount of micturational extraction by Aliexpress sellers. I have found the sales people are often obsessed with commission at the expense of everything else, including their jobs. In their minds, so long as they are selling something that looks like the photo, any deviation in materials from the agreed specification isn't important to them. Their mindset is opportunistic, irresponsible and at times disingenuine...a bunch of cowboys. I had dealings with a company called Shenzhen Grand which left me out of pocket and with a bitter taste in my mouth at the games they were playing. They were good at making amps but their instruments were less playable than a wishbass. The good luthiers in China (and I have found one that could rival Fodera) don't need to sell on Aliexpress.