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There's a link to my review on the EBS product page: https://ebssweden.com/content2/combos/magni-500-bass-combos/ (Reviews tab). Really liked it!

I have the same stereo "head" Mic used at the start of the video. It is absolutely brilliant for the money.

I'm going to ask if I can review it, so hold that thought!

If I recall correctly I did find mine for about £250 as it happens. After extensive testing "sitting-in-chairs-in-all-manner-of-office-outlets" I agree with you. 90% of stock was uncomfortable and thus I went to look for a specialist. I'm not sure what the prices are like for these chairs now, but I do recall the company I used (I found the link: http://executiveofficeseating.co.uk) were super helpful and made sure that I was choosing the right chair, especially regarding the fold away arms. Ahhh yes, back in my IT days I had an orthopaedic chair sourced for me. It was about £800 and that was about ten years ago.

Hi, as I spend a huge amount of time in my studio space I bought a "24 Hour chair" from one of PSI's resellers: https://www.psiseating.co.uk/zircon - It's a "posture" chair designed for long hours use and has certainly helped my lower back pain too. The model I have literally has every adjustment known to musician on it including lumbar support. There's all manner of levers and adjustments too. This thing has probably done about ten odd years service and it looks barely used! Yes, it wasn't cheap, but necessary. It has more than made it's money back. Oh and the best thing is that I ordered mine with arms rests that slide backwards out the way. Proper beefy, non-wobbly arms rests that can be moved back so I can play guitar or bass in a comfortable position and then, when it comes to typing up my magazine reviews (just finished ten thousand words) the rest pop up for maximum comfort.

I have one of these sat on my desk at the moment. I'll be back down in the studio doing more bass reviews this week, so I'll be doing something on the Stomp too. Looking forward to it!

Yay! I was there too Raslee! The TV footage never seemed to do the vibe of the concert justice but it is great that the show was captured for posterity.

One of my all time favourites, but my back disagreed. I gigged one solidly for probably 15 years in a rack set up. Never let me down once. I’d love another but it wouldn’t ever leave the house 😂. I paired mine with non-Ampeg cabs and the whole stack sounded massive.

Oh wait a second!!! I’m on my mobile and didn’t see the headstock logo!! ❤️❤️🤪🤪🤪

Mmmmm maple neck on a TBird!! Very nice!!!!

Yes and whilst you’ll get signal, the reason why I mentioned “preamp” is that the instrument level signal from the chorus pedal might not be “hot” enough to drive a power amplifier (expecting line level signals) to its full potential. The disclaimer being that A you might not need to drive the amp to full tilt or B. Some power amplifiers can receive instrument level signals (can provide enough gain to get the input level up high enough). It will work though and will sound great in stereo. Yes, you could insert a stereo DI box in between the pedal and amp enabling the two channels to be picked off to a stereo PA. Though I know that there will be thoughts being shared about running a stereo PA, but that’s a story for another day!

Great communications, fast payment, all the good stuff, thumbs up from me! Dan

I still have my Marlin Sidewinder. It was a P/HB and the neck is a skinny jazz neck. Yes, the body was ply and I upgraded the pickups, but I guess I got lucky, it was actually quite a good player after I set it up properly (I was 13!)

Well, there's a bit more to a learner-beater than high action as you have mentioned - so, it could be possible that the action alone was enough to provide additional exercise for the muscles, but bad necks, rough fret work, poor tone, boat-anchor weight and general unplayability I would say in my experience as a teacher is an impedance to progress. Students have actually said they would have given up a long time ago if they had to carry on playing the "examples" they were told to endure at school. That said, there is no doubt that after playing my high action bass for a week teaching, my gig bass feels like it has guitar strings on in comparison. Both basses are decent tools though.

I appreciate it's another expense, but for those who really want to angle the cabinet further upwards, a flip out kick stand as an added option?

Make the input socket a combo XLR / 1/4" and have the gain control (volume) take in to consideration the live difference between line and instrument. - Thus, folk can feed the active cabinet with either Mic or Line level via XLR Balanced or Instrument / Line level via the 1/4" Unbalanced. This would cover all possibilities coming out of preamp pedals or mixing desks.

For (good) reviewers there's a balance to try to meet. It's like, "one person trying to please the needs of 10's of thousands of viewers." I do try to meet certain criteria every single review, I do - but you know, sometimes after recording probably over 300 videos, I slip off-piste sometimes ha ha. Hopefully not to the detriment of review quality!

I have had two of these (one in each size) and as yet they have proved durable: VonHaus Tablet Mount Clamp... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00N7FR3AK?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share The larger model fits my iPad Pro 10.5 with a leather case on and the smaller version fitted my old iPad Mini also with its case on. hopefully this is the link for the smaller version: VonHaus Black Mount Clamp for... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00N7G4YQ0?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share I prefer using these rather than taking a whole stand as I can either clamp it to a Mic stand or fix it to my little stand that holds my IEM mixer etc.

Sadly I didn't see the post in question hence my question. A shame if that's the case. - Yeah you are quite right, JH "can't" sue anyone, but it didn't stop him waiving his will(y) around on BassChat threatening all sorts. Some may say he is well within his rights to protect the brand of course..

Weird stuff also happens in my phone too. ^^^^ like this - I want to add another post on my iPhone and I can’t delete the previous post because it seems to have auto quoted me. Really frustrating.

Weird stuff also happens in my phone too.

Maybe John Hall threw his toys out of the pram and threatened legal action like he did here on BassChat. Which is why the mods here have very specific rules regarding Rickenbacker?