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YAY!

I’m actually waiting to do a review of the @Bergantino Audio Forté HP as well as the NXT and NXV cabinets when they ship to our distributor. I’ll also ask to do B|Amp MK 2 as well. I adore my B|Amp MK1 and can help answer questions about Forté. Anything I can’t answer, I’ll call Jim himself

My old 7 string was tuned with the high C and high F. The C was either a .30 or 32 and the F was a 0.20 - on a 34" scale. At the time I was using either Elite or Rotosound strings. Rotosound only did a plain 20 though iirc. These days I use D'Addario who do a wide range of single strings (I'm not tuning to high F anymore though) - but if there's any string they can't make, then its absolutely Newtone Strings for custom winding.

I'm wracking my brains, but I have been told about them and they were recommended - I just can't remember who sent me the link, but I am sure it was a pro player.

You've reminded me that I still have pages that I tore out of magazines from when I was a young impressionable teen. One was from 1989. I'd stuck it on my wall and would look at the bass in the picture with wide eyes. It was a proper "Oh she will be mine!" Wayne's World moment (interesting as the film wouldn't come out for another three years lol) Oddly, given the amount if basses owned in between, It took me until around 2003 to finally get one ha ha and, by an interesting twist in the tale, the actual bass is a 1989! I have it and use it nearly every day. I also have a model from 1987 too. Dreams, as they say, can come true!

Nathan East: Attitude + Aptitude = Altitude And one from an ole IT Manager: "Always be aware of your audience", which also translates to being a musician. This isn't just about stage craft, it's about how you interact with those around you; customers, band mates, security, friends, parents, the toilet cleaner. Treat them well as you never know which will be scraping your face off the road one day and saving your a**! Which takes me on to Ozzy Osbourne in the rockumentary 'The Decline Of Western Civilisation, Pt 2', where he dispenses this rather useful piece of advice whilst failing to pour a glass of orange juice: "You meet a lot of people on the way up, don't f**** them, as you'll meet them on the way down too."

Cheers Bagsie! I know that I'm going to be proper fussy but at the same time have to expect a certain quality given the price. Would love to check out a build at some point in the absence of picking up a stock P bass in the config I want.

Are they any good? Do they make good project instruments? Or is it worth just saving the cash and going for something like Warmoth? Let's see (and hear) your project part basses - and let me know what you used for bodies and necks!

Agreed on the clean tones - it's something I try to cover in all my video gear reviews. I'll do the same with these if I can get hold of them.

oooh! Best I have a chat to get these reviewed ASAP then! I always thought the Laney SL kit was rather good - interested in these for a spin.

I'm sorry for the difficult conversations you have had to have with your bank manager 🤣

Definitely one of the reasons why I love B|Amp! - and there are plenty more.

I can profile my HD112 cabinets (when I get round to it) and I'll be comparing the IR with the real thing.

I hadn't, but I absolutely know that I've had a long conversation with Jim Bergantino about using the system that Bergantino employ to create the B|Amp profiles could produce IR's of all of their cabinets. Of course, as Celestion make the new NXT drivers, they can do this process in house and, well, it looks like they have!

Car? Car? ... some witty heckler once asked me if I land fighter jets on it... 🤣

Apologies if I’ve missed it in the thread, but, have you been out and found a really great teacher yet? Everything you have mentioned in the thread has been at least one of my students over even just the last ten years of teaching.. many of them were saying the same thing. it sounds like you need some 1-2-1 with a patient understanding teacher who knows their stuff. Good luck, I hope that you are reunited with the joy of playing music.

What do you all look for in a YouTube video? What do you want to see more of, what do you want to see less of? Are short five minute videos touching on the key areas better for you than 15-20 minute offerings that go in to greater detail? (How to use something or more available sound examples) Please quote me and comment as I (like I am sure all videographers and vloggers) would be interested to find out!

A very pleasant meet up that we arranged with no fuss whatsoever and a fun opportunity to geek out on bass toys. It's a thumbs up from me!

Ahhhh, memories of the pre-smoking ban, those halcyon days.... 🤢