Woodinblack

I guess that is handy if you busk in the rain a lot

Well, logically by your post, Lee Sklar does, and he is not a metal player. Maybe he covers it on one of his videos. is a detuner for a b different from one for an e as they are a lot cheaper than £100. I must admit I had a detuner on my last 4 string, and ultimately ended up seeing little point on them as manually retuning one string hardly takes more than a second so unless you are doing it in a song, which seems hard, I am not sure what it really solves, having on on a 5 string more so as I would think it would be hard to get it accurate

Its a complex sort of arrangement, but I would suspect that they have done it to clear up there weak spots, improving the quality on a dying effect, so the tails of reverb and the dying of an echo, which could be pretty noisy on the zooms. I would suspect that the B6 would be an upgrade in sound quality anyway

I always have 2 basses, so I have never had a lack of strap. However, the guitarist has, a couple of times!

Seems fair.

never noticed an issue.

They probably will have all the cables but never rely on other people having the things you need for your sound, have your own stuff. If you have a ¼" jack DI, get a ¼" to XLR lead anyway, just in case you need it.

They didn't increase the price after payment, they cancelled the payment saying that the goods were no longer available which is almost certainly in the T&C. Every shop will have this if they are trading as a shop as well as online, as someone could buy it on the shop at the same time as it is being sold online, and then the order would have been cancelled. In this case, the reason it isn't available is because it is available at a new price, but although that is bad, it is covered by above. Certainly wouldn't be happy and would complain about it on all review sites, but there is no legal redress to it.

Oh that will be good. going to be the start of something great.

Do you know where yet? I have done a few gigs in dorset

Good review - yes, the finish coming off doesn't sound good. My Maruszczyk is redburst on swampash textured, and I do love that finish (not as extreme as this). I saw it in the shop in bristol or in fact my wife noticed it and liked it, which is always handy

That was I assumed but it was so bad I wouldn't buy one unseen, I would have to try it and love it first!

I chose yes, because I like multiscales, although I don't have a problem with normal frets. In fact I don't have a problem until someone takes the frets away (then I have real problems). However, not because the B is better as I never bought that much into the scale improving it, just because I find it more comfortable on my wrist. I love the multiscale EHB I have, would also like the short scale version, hated the combustion (although to be fair, the neck was really nice, it was just the sound that was terrible). Wouldn't mind trying one of the spectors.

Anyone tried the pulse - I saw a red cinder pulse 5 in bristol and it looked quite good, although seemed a little expensive for what looked a bit like a legend. Still interesting though, although I assume it is 35" (I am assuming as it says different things on different sites)

I am at about 50% on responses to emails now. Last time I mentioned it here I was told I should just phone, which is fine if I did that.

It would actually add value to the buying process if you know that a fake was going to be reported fairly quickly, so you could tell what you were looking at was genuine.

I haven't had a problem with the gallery, they have been friendly enough, certainly no less friendly than BD. I didn't go in the first few times I was there as I assumed it was closed, so I have only been in a couple of times.

No, they never would or could. The idea of asking them would be a waste of time.

Certainly easier to disprove!

It will be once you have learned to play it, yes!

I played that in my last band, was a fun one to play

Genuinely I can't see it affecting the value that much, but if you were a real fan I guess maybe you would be more interested. Given that is more than the full price, you would have to be quite the fan to go for it I would have thought, although probably not one to judge as I never really understood why you would pay a lot more for something a 'celbrity' didn't want.

Without the letter of authenticity or whetever, it can only really be described as 'a ric that looks like the one that that bloke in hawkwind used to use'

I was going to say that, but if I had a £ for every time I had to, I would have probably bought a few more basses! You should remember when talking of them presurising cloudflare and domain companies, that Rickenback are not a very big company at all, they are not like a big tech company at all.

Seems to me the issues I had with them are all communication based. I think it is like old guitar shops, they used to be often not great places to go because you didn't have the choice, as soon as you did a lot of them went to the wall. There arent a lot of bass shops and they carry some good stuff and a wide change so are fairly niche. If it was less of a niche it might be less viable