Woodinblack

Sounds more like a squier vintage modified rather than a classic vibe. I don't recall there being any classic vibe pjs as they are based on old designs

No, like none of those. It is very flat, very wide and very thin. Speaking as someone who whinges endlessly about necks being too wide, I found it very nice, I assume it must be the thinness of it, as it is pretty wide. Both stingray and p necks are like baseball bats. So I guess it is a bit more like a wider thinner J. Closer to an Ibanez really.

Not expecting Ibanez to do it, but I think most of dingwall basses are available fanned fret(less).

The combustion could easily do the background thuddy noise on Dock of a bay.

But the combustion I had really did sound like that first video, it was very lifeless. I was always hoping that the other dingwalls sounded different to the combustions. I loved the neck on the combustion but couldn't live with the tone, never had a chance to listen to one of the canadian ones in the flesh. Maybe these ibbys will have a more combustion like neck (the SR805s didn't).

Yeh, I think he needs to include screws at that price

I was looking at the input and I am not sure if it will work now. My original assumption was that the input stage was being overloaded so you could switch between putting loads of signal in the input, and reducing in the send return loop, or less signal in the input and more in the send return,. but looking at it, it doesn't look like you could overload the input. I know if I put a bass in the lo input and turn the gain past 1/3 it will start to saturate, whereas in high it pretty well doesn't until you get to flat out, but now I see the gain control is after send / return, so its the second valve that is used for saturating. I suppose the idea could still hold with a greatly reduced input and flat out gain.

Isn't the spacing bigger on the BTBs? Hmm.. I see they are only 17 as well, so not much different. I know they did a few specials but always tricky to find.

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!