Woodinblack

It is a bass that is hard to love isn't it! And I would say no, the guy might have his ideas on ergonomics, but that doesn't mean his ideas are everyone elses. Are you trying to tell me that those controls are ergonomic? As you are saying that you want to use it with sausage fingers, how are you going to use those controls, they are way too close together. So I guess they are their for aesthetics (beauty being in the eye and all). Then there is that tailpiece - so is that ergonomics (seems it would move if it isn't fixed as that is where I put my hand) or is that sound (how do you adjust the intonation on it?). Seems also aesthetics. Ergonomically speaking, how do you stand that bass on the floor? And on aesthetics, what the hell is going on with that front pickup? Why is it rammed into the neck like an afterthought? I am sure it is nice if you like that kind of thing, and maybe it sounds nice, but I would take the ibanez every day over that, even if I wasn't paying. I do however agree about the locking jack, but luckily as it isn't 25 years ago I will be using wireless.

It will stop - there is a break when send is plugged in.

Oh yes, that bit. it does, the input goes into one side of a ECC832 valve and the output of that goes to the send. Under normal circumstances, the send output is shorted to the return input which then goes to the gain control.

All jools holland posts are a broken record, I am not sure why we need another one!

OK, I wondered if you were doing the stomp thing. I have all my effects in line before the amp, but I did think of doing the 4 wire thing with the HX Effects, as that way I could use the overdrive of the first preamp valve as an effect, which might sound good. Trouble is I would need to replicate the patch as I don't use my CTM often.

Don't know if this is necessarily accurate but on thomman, all the basic 1000 series and the non fanned 1500s are 1-2 weeks, the 1500 deep blue is 5-6 weeks and the other blue and 6 strings are 'on request'

Bold. There will always be a group of people who believe a bass is a p bass and nothing can top it, but that is not their market, that is fenders market so there is no point trying to appeal to them, they can't put a fender logo on it so those people won't look. but for the rest of us, how great it is to see something like this, or in fact anything that wasn't designed in our grandparents age.

Well, there is a little lumpy thing where the headstock goes. In fact, I wonder how those strings fix at that end, it isn't very clear in the images.

Yes as previously mentioned. They are on all the major bass suppliers now, andertons, gak, PMT, dawsons etc, but all 'for order'. Last time I ordered a 'for order' from andertons was last september when I was told it would be available around march. I will wait for 'in stock', in fact I will wait for in stock in PMT so I can go and try one!

Or maybe going back to old, that is exactly the setup on my SR1000 prestige, which is from 2005. Hope the pots are better than they are on that!

Well, you are in luck then, there are no 4 string multiscales

On second thoughts, if the same body is sold with nordstrands, these must be a standard size, so other pickups should go straight in. I already have one big split pickup.

Excellent - I hadn't noticed that, gets the string spacing down to closer to what is normal for me, certainly close enough. I like the jack at the bottom too. Makes it easier to put a wireless in. Wouldn't have chosen locking myself but as I don't use a cable it is not too much of an issue.

They do non multiscales of the 4s and 5s, but no 6. They also don't have that finish on anything but the 6.

Where does the send and return go to on the CTM?

I play that one. It is a noticable one for me as I sing, play bass and do the synth part with my footpedals in the guitar solo. I did mess myself up by having a 4 string in my hand when it started!

My wife met blackie lawless (who she knew) in a bar in LA with a woman. She said 'Hi Blackie, its nice you are bringing your daughter out'. Apparently he didn't find it funny

I thought, not too bad, you can get one less than 1k. But no, not with BH2 pickups. Seems that some people will be happier though, the string spacing is very wide (18mm). I think I might need to try one of these first.

Hmm.. Problem is, all my basses are on hangers - where do I hang this one?

I was just coming here to post this. Oh dear, this is supposed to be my year of cutting down on basses. Looks like that resolution may be failing at the first hurdle! Luckily they are all listed as pre-order so I guess they won't turn up for a while.

First year for ages I have been in. Singer wanted to spend time / singers wife wanted him to spend time with his kids on NYE this year, so no gig. i saw bits of jools, but found that mostly it was better by not watching it but luckily my remote seemed to work, unlike many here!

I was once taking the back seats out of a PT Cruiser so we could load it with thing to take to sell, as I often did and bounced the chair off my knee. I noticed it, but it didn't hurt. However, I had to have my knee replaced in the end.

Well, that fat 6 string precision at the end probably sounds different!

Apart from the TC (which I havre no idea what is in there), my amps are ashdown which means I can just look at the circuit diagram (although also to be fair, there are no input opamps, just fets or valves but same sh*t, different package). So either 20k or 2m for one, and I don't have the CTM diagram to hand on this machine. eta - I don't think the high and low on the CTM is anything to do with impedance (although I am sure it is different), I suspect it is specifically so that you can overload the input on high and not on low.