Woodinblack

I am sure when I first looked at thomman, anything less than 135 already had the vat added, maybe it was the first few days or something.

I have, which is why that is what I want.

So they are doing the vat again now on less than 135? I looked and it was just listed with its ex-vat price so I thought maybe they dropped it. I was looking recently as they had a very good price on something, but checking everything on the net, effectively it is a 25% import charge plus a fixed fee on top (still a good price but my wife had one of her items she ordered from the EU take just over 2 months to get here). Certainly if it comes in at £90 its not a bad deal.

Mine are all active - I don't even want the bass / treble, I just want the buffer.

Which is kind of my point, why not have a socket so you can connect to the strap rather than a plug to hang out of the guitar Is it? I don't know how much it would be - I can only see it in thomman, so £69, £8 for vat then who knows how much for UPS delivery - minimum £11.80 brokerage, 20% vat, 4-5% handling charge? - seems like over £100 to me. Certainly interesting if someone in the UK is selling it

Saw that, the bug part looks massive! not sure I would want it hanging out of the bass. Why don't they do it with a socket instead?

I bought a bass from Bax (I know) last month, it was £195 inc vat on the site, it started off in rotterdam and got to me via UPS in a few days, no extra costs. Would like to know how thomman are bearing up now as I would like to order something big from them.

Apart from the experience here, which is as i mentioned unusual, as i have never heard the Mk1 barts to even be in the same ballpark as the big singles (and I have had a few of both), with a good lead and a high input amp, it should sound no different to a preamp (run flat). Also the blend control is wired before the preamp, so again should be no difference passive or active.

Well, if you don't notice it, that is probably good because basses with the bart pickups on are much cheaper, so you can save a bit!

Very odd you don't notice the difference as they are night and day from everything I have used

Doesn't that effectively give you an ABM600? A trace elliot class A/B head and a preamp with a tube.

We don't? What circles do you move in?

Going to need something with wheels!

Same here - although I suspect there isn't much they can do, I assume they have been promised by their provider that they are going to get it fixed any time soon, or they would have probably gone elsewhere There is a lot of that in the UK, but not really any here at the moment, we have a lot of American visitors here, so it isn't an issue. But ultimately coming in and saying 'I am offended at that' is just going to get a quite a few more jokes. Not much is that serious here, unless it is in one of the serious threads.

for me its no #1 or might as well not bother!

The ABM600 isn't a valve head though, so not really the same. I think I would probably use the CTM100 more if it was more powerful, but at the same time, that would make it a CTM300, and I would be even less likely to want to carry it anywhere!

Might have to rewrite that 100% figure a bit. Quite a bit Its an english common expression, certainly, not one that I have ever used. The irony is that the only time that happened to me was in the states. Only they didn't umplug it, and it wasn't a vaccum, it was them plugging the floor polisher in the UPS. Every week for a few months until we figured out what was happening.

They had 10M, the tsunami reached 9M where that was, but unfortunately the earthquake caused the land to drop by 2M.

We had a friend who we helped through it, and it was so totally frustrating - both her, and it is worse because you know it isn't their fault, but dealing with the demon in them is very frustrating, and trying to get some service that is interested or able to do something. Got something in the end, and things got a lot better, but as you say, the damage is always there, both phsycologically and mentally. Glad to hear your daughter got through it and sympathies to anyone else out there who has to deal with it

I also wouldn't want one with a big led, it would have to be very small and flashing obviously better than on all the time. Preferably flashing once on startup (to let you know it was working), and when the battery was low. and off the rest of time.

Anyway, you can see we have a lot of new members because of it!

To be fair from the japanese handling of the tsunami, they did have huge sea walls, which sadly sunk due to the earthquake. Portsmouth flooded in 2000 (I remember it well, it was my wifes birthday), it failed due to the volume of sewage and luckily the backup generators were below sea level. It took a while for them to pump out the pumping station to get down to the top of the generators.

Interesting pickup update for the short scale jaguar (it was P/J before). Not a usual config.

I have a TC-450, an Ashdown CTM-100 and an ashdown ABM600. I haven't had a chance to gig the ABM600, as I bought it since the pandemic, but the idea is that that will be my gigging amp. No doubt the CTM-100 sounds better than the TC, but I don't gig it, as I never had the space of the energy to lug it to a gig with everything else (I have the PA as well). Really I should sell it, but its not something that is easy to ship!

That car looks really angry!