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It depends if you're ready to break the bank... 🤔😉

For some reason as it's the award winning ugliest headstock ever made...

I own this @LukeFRC...

And maybe the same one in Germany as I don't have Facebook: https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/darkglass-anagram-bass-multieffekt-vom-feinsten.62198/

The maximum input of the TL061 chipset, they certainly use as the LM4250CN is very hard to source, is 18 Volts, so, theoretically you can use 2 batteries to get that 18 Volts, but as it will be around 19 Volts, it might start distorting with new batteries...

You could open it, disassemble it and reassemble it, it's really easy to do. In fact, the fast connector of the B channel could be loose hence not having full contact... After that, and, before, trying it with a brand new battery, if it's not working, you could definitely say there's a problem and send it back to EBS or the seller.

Do you use it with a battery or a power supply?

If you are spraying inside a room, simply slightly spray water on the ground, walls and ceiling, it will avoid dust deposit, that's the trick my late father used back in the 60's/70's when he was spraying cars or making spray repairs as he was a mechanic (you know when they were making everything on a car). All my uncles who were all mechanics too did the same before buying a spraying booth.

Maybe my favourite solid colour. 😍

My Beedster II:

Is the colour Daphne Blue?

Very nice looking!

This is the way I do since so many years as my ears are meant to hear mainly from the front 😂 , but it seems that musicians ears are designed the other way round as they always put their amp and many cabs in their back, or maybe they listen through their butthole... 🤔🤪 Joking aside it's simply a thing from the past when there was no P.A. or F.O.H., so use your amp the right way from now on @ped. 😉

You found a real rare fair teacher and the eye (ear) opener is more than worth the free "lesson".

It could also be a dry solder, which is kind of a nightmare to find, so the only easy thing to do do is make new solders everywhere. It's not that long to do, but it's a bit of a pain in the derrière to do.

And here is the Beedster II: An all maple varnished fretless Shuker Precision neck with wonderful rounded edges coupled to (what seems to be a Northwest) two parts swamp ash body (nitrocellulosic natural finish), fitted with two Seymour Duncan SJB1 pickups (CTS pots), Gotoh lollipop tuners and a Fender (slotted grub screws) BBT bridge with threaded saddles. This fretless is fitted with Thomastik flat wound strings and is a real delight to play with an ultra low action and very straight neck (the double action truss rod is just very very very slightly tightened), loads of mwah when needed, but also more double bass tone on the neck pickup with the tone rolled a lot off. So a very versatile bass and, to me, better sounding than all the fretless Jazz Basses I had and that neck is just pure joy to play. Furthermore it's not a relic sunburst à la Jaco like mainly all fretless Jazz Basses... Yes I was having an overdose of these and needed a more sober classy fretless. And even if I'm a Jazz Bass guy, I've always preferred the width and feel of the Precision Bass neck. Thanks Chris! 😊👌🏻

I bought the Beedster II from Chris. Everything was fine as usual. The fretless bass sounds excellent just as Chris said. Cheers.

Amazing!

I'm receiving adverts from them since a few days and the Dutch branch seems to be back on tracks now as you can order what they have in stock.

The SPB1 is an excellent pickup without any issue when bought new (some people are selling defective items without shame), so I'm guessing a not fully grounded shielding (the pickup cavity must be grounded too) and maybe too many grounding wires creating ground loops... A neat and clean wiring is always the best.

Buy some Rotosound RS66, they will be bright for a few days and will have the same tone for at least a decade afterwards.

These were equivalent to the Realistic/Tandy gear of these old days, not very powerful, but totally usable.

It was, in fact, a light version of the Nautilus programmable preamp. 😉

Okay, so this 1986 Vigier preamp was meant to have an extra memory slot thanks to a cartridge which is a RAM (Random Acces Memory) meaning you can store your sounds (EQ settings) and recall them afterwards. The ROM (Read Only Memory) is almost the same, except that the sounds (EQ settings) are factory prerecorded and can't be edited. There were a few ROMs available back then, but mainly for guitar...