Woodinblack

A bass is always a very poor investment unless it is something incredibly rare or owned by someone famous. There are a lot of actual investment things that will make you orders of magnitude more than any bass.

Harsh? How? It is a clearly measurable and demonstrably true. When comes to deaths per capita head we are the worst of any country. By any comparison you are trying to bat away (yes, we are bigger than NZ etc) there is one that is the opposite (yes, we half the population of Japan and 20 times the deaths, and they are right next to China). every other modern nation (and many of the others) with our skills and our resources managed better. However much flag waving you want to do (and you really seem to want to do a lot), we have been presented with a crisis and we have failed to rise to the challenge. This thread is, but not that part of the thread, that is a change of subject. they are doing a brilliant job now the government have largely got out of their way. I applaud them too and always will. they are doing well for a government entity run by donkeys this much is obvious although again, although once this is over I am sure the government can demonstrate how it shows how great they ran the nhs so they can sell more of it to their mates I am not bothering to look until there is a reason to assume that things are going well by the summer

Wow - that is nice. Really the thing that makes the prestige a prestige is the made in Japan thing.

It would be harder to explain a variable resistor better than that, just the basic principle that if you have a material which is resistive, the more of the material you have, the more resistant it gets, so you can just vary the length of it and change the resistance. Do you mean variable regulators or variable resistors - variable regulators are a lot more complicated.

Yes, ibanez don't seem to have got the hang of those unlike some - the ones on my Maruszczyk are much more useable. They are in a separate section under accessories.

Post has been here for 2 years so no excuse!

Yep, sparkly is good, might have gone for a brighter colour but looks good!

I have an old old ABM in the corner, and a shiney new ABM600 Evo IV, and the knob looks pretty similar to me.

Same here, before I changed it. That was a bad choice, but at least they now have the premium EQ. Hopefully they will swap to the EHB Eq

Suppose it depends how you look at it. I wouldn't think twice about importing (or exporting) to the states, the rules are clear, everyone knows how to do it. Its currently far harder to import / export from europe.

Braver man than I, certainly would risk that at the moment!

Never noticed that, but when you have heard it you can't unhear it. Hard to find any information on who played on those songs. Recorded at argo records, a subdivision of chess, but it doesn't say who played on it.

Well, they have - as I said, the SR1000 prestige had a parametric EQ with 2 stacked knobs, bass/treble and mid boost/mid frequency. The standards had 3 way bass, middle, treble, while the more budget end had bass and treble. The SR5005 prestige has (had when I got it) a parametric EQ with 4 knobs originally and has now gone to the same style as the premiums in having Bass / Mid / Treble with originally a 2 way selector for mid frequency, and later a 3 way selector That is quite likely with the fixed middle frequency being 'what ibanez do', as in noone is crying out for them to change it. A 3 band EQ is just a parametric control where you have fixed the frequency rather than letting the user change it, there is no more to it than providing a control.

I would take issue with the word 'become'

Over £135 its free

And fees for carriage as it is getting very expensive to find companies that will carry things to the UK at the moment, so those companies can charge what they like

I agree, I am not sure why they went away from that in the first place. My SR1000 from mid 2000s had a parametric, it seems later they went to the bass / mid / treble, which is not as useful a control I didn't know that.

Didn't change the preamp, perfectly happy with that, just changed the knobs, its still an active passive switch.

Fitted the John East knobs to it today, I think they go pretty well with the tuners. Took the opportunity to take the socket apart. If you take it out, undo the little security screw (panic a bit as it makes one of the terminals fall out), then pull the black bit out of the metal bit (noting which way round it goes as I didn't), then under the orange tab is a little spring. You can make the spring shorter if you want to reduce the pressure of the release mechanism on the socket, or what I did, take it out as I never got the point of those things. Now you can plug in and out like a normal socket.

I mentioned it fitted in the hercules hanger, but I don't do it and I must admit with all that said, I would be rather reluctant to hang it in a hanger like that with the presure of it only going on the piece of wood that broke on mine - the part held is entirely the part that is glued on. Good case. Although I am ok with the existing one.

For that price you could probably get a new one that wasn't so worn out!

Its not a legal enforcement, it is a contract term. Your contract doesn't let you sell outside your area, if you sell outside your area, you lose your contract terms, which may have been more favourable than others. We had some contract terms on my wifes web shop that precented selling things on eBay (which we didn't do anyway). Within the european economic area, but we are not protected by that now, so people can charge what they want.

I have a TC Electronic BAM200, which sits above my EVO IV 600 connected to my BC speaker that I use in the house, it is perfect for that. No, I couldn't gig it but it was £85 new and it is the best practice amp I have, far better than the PJ combo and even the bose S1 that preceded it (the bose is still there for vocals).