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My head is also on this particular block in August. I've already concluded, with help of a titanium ring, that I can't play with a ring anywhere on my left hand.

Nanoblock owners club!

'Well I thought it'd keep you quiet for an hour, ' she said. Cheeky cow. It did...

I used a spare grey block to give it a Stingray style 4th tuning peg

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This one's here. I'm not going to write too much as I'm on my phone atm. Generally pleased but only got there with a serious truss rod kerfuffle and a shim in the neck pocket. Thomann customer service were pretty good about it. I guess one takes one chances at this sort of money.

Parametric. The treble filter on my eq3b is thin notching a nasty clack noise a bit at about 4 or 5k, at a guess. The treble is otherwise pretty pushed on both amp and bass, for clarity. that said, the fridge isn't the last word in finesse so the treble push might be somewhat compensating that.

I've never had a bass device with a presence control, but on a guitar amp it is generally a super - treble. perhaps this becomes the high pass and the treble pot becomes a bandpass on such devices.

Thanks KB. Not really my style to jump in feet first like this but rather impressed with some of the demo videos I've found in the meantime. Technically we're chalking this up as her engagement present to me so it's guilt free too.

anyway. I'll do a thread when I've given it the beans. Thanks for the impromptu inspiration

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Eyeing up the white 5 er for the same price. The Mrs has said yes. I'll get round to buying it when the shock paralysis wears off
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Alright so the button is pushed. Without wishing to thread-jack, what should I expect? There's not a lot of info online about that B550 model. Looks ok though

Eyeing up the white 5 er for the same price. The Mrs has said yes. I'll get round to buying it when the shock paralysis wears off

I clicked on this thread with high hopes. Turns out it's just someone telling porkies.

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Remember that iPhones and Macs are made in China too...
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Probably 80 or 90% of all musical instruments are made in China. Down at individual components, regardless of where the assembly is/ who's doing it, and you're probably approaching 100% - something, somewhere, within the item. A sampler will always be the factory's very best and most attentive work, especially if you're able to convincingly suggest that you're in a position to initiate a steady rate of bulk purchases on satisfactory inspection of said sample.

Take a $ price. Add 20% for bulk shipment, 2.6% (iirc) to HMRC, mark up for each stage in the distribution of the product from warehouse to retailer, and 20% VAT, and you're probably looking at $80 on here for £400 (more?) on the peg in your local music shop. As I recall the Chinese postal (international) service is improbably fast, and cheap.

As a sweeping generalisation, I think Chinese designers still misconstrue some of the subtleties of western tastes so they come up with some really wacky stuff, but most of their creative output is usually to copy specific western designs as closely as they can, and some plants are brilliant at it.

[url="http://afantimusic.en.made-in-china.com/product/wovQWJTdANpI/China-Hot-Afanti-Jb-Bass-Guitar-Electric-Bass-AJB-016-.html"]http://afantimusic.e...s-AJB-016-.html[/url]. Better go to bed before I ask for a price on a mahogany body and spalted top...

If I might throw 2 penneth in, I'd say you've got a couple of different voices in the Fusion pre. Channel a is pretty clinical imo, if that's your bag, even as you wind it up. The valvey fun is all on the b channel and, ime of it, weights up as you wind it up, getting thicker before it starts to grit. Going all the way gives proper overdrive

A visit seems increasingly likely. I'm really interested in the BF gear, I'd be holding out for an accessible bass bash but this could do the trick too. Now does anyone feel like treating me. ..?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JACO-COLLECTIBLE/151344808530?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D8129792181070252292%26pid%3D100033%26prg%3D20131017132637%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D151344808530

Seems legit...!

I'd give this a try

Why Metallica, and not Maiden? They'd have made way more sense.

I'd be inclined to prioritise the mics, get the main one clear louder than you think you'll need, then pull it back where you think you'll really need it. Repeat with the 2nd and 3rd mics so now all 3 mics are open where you think you'll need them. You may need to revisit mic 1 just in case the spare headroom has dropped but hopefully you've still got filters to spare at this point, and bear in mind you probably want a few filters spare anyway because the acoustics will change when the room is full of soft and absorbant punter shaped bodies.

Give yourself extra time at the first gig, and have a play with it in practice. Every venue will be a bit different.

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If they are passives, are you sure it's smoke and not just steam. There is no circuitry in a passive speaker, maybe it's just dampness
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It might just be knocking a bit dust off, but smoke and a bad smell probably means either toasted voice coils or crossover. I'd open the cabs up if poss.

The original Srms were way better than the later models. The main difference being the drivers, which were made by RCF in Italy. They swapped to Chinese drivers and electronics around 2007 and were never quite as good after that.

I went for these on looks. They sounded great at first but thought they tailed off fairly quickly, sounding generally passable, which I guess would've been where they'd have stayed...

Then the E snapped on me. Tuned to D. Not in a rush to get back to them tbh.

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If I really believed better = more then I'd be a guitarist, wouldn't I?
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^ Yngwie falls out of a Ferrari to like this.

I've had a TU3 for nearly 2 years. My biggest tuning problem is strings that even finger warmth makes them temperature unstable. I'm pretty pleased with it; a trusted servant.

15" at 8 ohms, paralleled with the oddity cab re-wired using only the 16 ohm 10, and the 4 ohm as a passive radiator until a matching 16 ohm 10" is found, [i]should[/i] work ok and keeps your amp in not-on-fire state.

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Many thin strings in here but most finishes can be put on their range of basses. I have a submission for a Carvin in the GAS thread. Soon...

Personally I think it'd be instructive to anybody to plug their bass into a mixer, through a di, and listen to the tone difference. Any decent pa rig should be aiming for low distortion (transparency) and, having done this, it felt immediately clear how much any bass amp colours this.

It could be argued that the dosh you pay for your bass amp is that default colouration to the tone. The EQ is the table salt, pepper and condiment that you add, to your taste, to chef's preamp circuit dish.

Another vote for an electronic fault. If it's an early powermate its what? 15 years old? The psu might be knacked.