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Blackstar Unity Bass Head Andertons £549 Thomann £599 inc vat. However I do agree that more items are cheaper even with the added VAT, 😮

In these days I think the rule should be that if you sing, you buy your own Mic.I use one of those foam shields too and wash it after every use. It is a health/hygiene matter and I would not trust anyone to make sure my mic is clean. Our band all have there own mics and another thing was to get a coloured cable.We did this by accident but it makes it easier to trace problems on stage.

You cannot judge on one product. Tho Ann may have been offered a desk by Rickenbacker to shift some slow moving stock and to be honest a 5 string 4003 is not mass market. Having worked in the sales/marketing dept of an electronics manufacturer, I can confirm that these deals are commonplace. They are always offered to the biggest companies as they can shift them easier.

I would add that there is no good reason NOT to go down the passive speaker/powered mixer route. the one caveat is that powered mixers are not usually as flexible as non powered mixers. A second point, if you are just buying for female vocals a good 10 will work as well/or better than a mediocre 12. There is a band (5 or 6 piece)in Hampshire, Chicago 9 that use a pair of passive Electrovoice (EV) PA tops with a powered mixer. All instruments including the Harmonica use backline and they set the adjust at sound check and forget. They have the best onstage sound I have ever heard.

As Phil said I had a PSX112, it was really well made. It used active filters rather than DSP for the crossover, possible proving @Phil Starr 's assertion that the drivers are of a higher quality than usual at this pricepoint. The amplifiers were a cut above those used in the usual budget PA speakers and much better than those in the Mackie Thumps of this world. Wharfedale's HQ is in the UK and we suspect that most of the designwork is still done here so there is good technical support. At £228 for a pair these are a steal.. Get youself a small mixer and you will soon be rocking and rolling. The boss AKA her indoors said it was the nicest sound she had heard form any my speakers,

Coukd only have bneen bettered if Her Grace Slick were singing.

To be fair the reason to buy from Thomann was often the range of stock they carry, none of the UK shops could compete especially with Harley Benton. When uK shops had stock you could always get a price match. So what is the alternative to Harley Benton for quality low cost instruments?

It does make you think however that we might be better off buying from say Andertons etc. I bought something from, them recently and changed my mind, no problem.

I do agree, it is a complete disaster. Although of course Thomann et al were already doing this with VAT. VAT is companies collecting tax on behalf of the government. Several things have changed including the fact that before Brexit anything under £15 was VAT free, this was also true in the EU. the irony is that the EU have followed this and now there are no exceptions. Those companies that do not register with HMRC will be forcing their customers to pay the VAT amd customs duty once the goods have arrived. In theory the cost should be the same but the handlers, Royal Mail, Fedex, TNT etc will charge for customs clearance. I will admit that I do not know whether the EU also require overseas businesses to register too. I think I have found the benefit of Brexit. Royal Mail and the others will make more money. The old adage "If it ain't broke don't fix it" springs to mind. Still as they are not spending £300+ million per week on the NHS, perhaps they could give us each a share to compensate. Still at least the Fishemen are better off..... oh no.

Thomann could ease things. They only have to register for VAT with HMRC and they can put the vat back on and things wouls go smoothly. of course that means they collect tax for HM Gov but I bought so goods for the US that arrived to day, no fuss and easier than it was before. Hands up those whio still think Brexit was a good idea?

Krist are you kriticising my typkos? Seriously if it suits you then that is all that matters. My opinion does not matter. Did I really write that?

In that picture it looks much better akthough the font is still an issue.

You are unlikely to get a circuit diagram for Pascal/Icepower/|Hypex etc. They guard what they believe is their IP closely.

Having just looked at a Mark Bass Nano, Italian Style has taken on a whole new meaning. I have nicknamed it the NoNo.

I'll just get my sunnies to look at that. 😎 OK even with sunglasses it looks like the cosmetic design department at MB is still run by visibly impaired people.

I fondly remember microphonic valves.... NOT. On a serious note and getting back to the topic. |I don't need my Fender Aerodyne, my £50 Peavey P bass in more than adequate and has been gigged many times. However there is a wonderful feeling when I pick up the Aerodyne. I think some people get the same feeling from some valve amps. You don't need a valve head. However you may want one and if the itch is persistant why not scratch it.

I could not agree more, if only someone would make an offer for my Greg Bennet. It's almost the same honest.

Nice fellow, easy to deal with.

If we are looking at pedals of vcourse the other issue is buffers. Some have them and some do not. in the world of 6 and 7 strings, many favour the "true bypass" method where the input signal is wired directly to the output when the pedal is ,or bypassed. Boss pedals usually have a buffer but many boutique pedals favour the true bypass route. Running a few pedals (many guitarists use more than a few) means the signal passes thrugh lots of pedals through lots of switches. If all the pedals are true bypass and the guitar/bass is passive it can relly add lots of capacitance and screw your signal. An active bass can usually handle this better. On the other hand you don't want your signal to go through many extra electronic buffers that could add noise. I am doubtful that all pedals use the best components so the fewer pedals the better.

Some manufactureres do state the imput impedance of their amplifiers, some do not. Usually active signals are low impedance although that does depend on the design of the onboard preamp. If the volume control(s) are before the last opamp in the preamp, the output impedance will be between a few ohms and a few hundred ohms. If the volume control is after the last opamp, it will be determined by volume potentiometer. In a passive bass the potentiometers, capacitor(s) and pickups determine the output impedance and it will vary depending on the position of the potentiometers. In general the output impedance of a passive bass will be in the 10,000-100,000 Ohms region.

Hopefully you will hear today, give them a call.

Happens to us all.

Give it to me and I will make sure your wish is carried out.🤞 I have always wanted a Status Bass to help a fellow bassist with his final request.

If you are OK with DIY. how about one of @stevie 's cabs. The BC112 MK3 is 15KG or the new 10" Lockdown Cab will be just over 10Kg.

I think that is the situation in two sentances. My HiWatt 120 was my pride and joy, then it was stolen back in the 70s. I began working for EMI on the electronics side in 1968, the only devices that looked or worked anything like a valve/tube were the magnetrons used radar (this was well before microwave ovens). Working in electronics, I knew valves were obsolescent so never bought another valve amp. Nowadays there is no reseaech into thermionic valves/vacuum tubes. All the big makers have gone, RCA/GE/Mullard/Telefunken have either gone completely or moved with the times. As far as I know now all the new valves (and the vast amount of NOS) are made on the original machines that are older than me (69 and counting) either in China or Russia*. I have no idea how close these are to the original specs but I suspect many woukd have been out of spec when produced. Neeless to say I have not changed my mind. * Having done more research, it seems that ,JJ Valves are made in the Slovak republic.