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Also worth adding that playing heavily with the bronze/wrapped bronze strings like that guy in the OP's video will always result in an overabunance of clacky, squeaky noise. Acoustic basses with brighter strings reward a more restrained approach, in fact they're a really useful practice tool if you tend to dig in too much at gigs as they force you to pay more attention to your technique. Rein it in a little and they usually have tons of dynamic response.

I love my acoustic basses, have an Ibanez 24" scale and an old fretless Ozark I've had for 23 years. When people claim they are useless what they usually mean is that they don't play like a conventional bass or fulfil the same role - they aren't meant to and you can sorta tell that by looking at them! Depending on how they're set up and what strings you use you can get a lot out of them - a fretless with nylon tape wound strings can have loads of old school upright style thump and have an entirely different palette of sounds to a fretted acoustic bass with bronze strings. Similarly my little Ibanez with the bouncy multifilament core/bronze wrap strings sounds different to both, almost like a bass version of the bottom three strings of a classical guitar and is a very lively little bass to play, not to mention pretty loud acoustically. The focus on here has always been about volume - "but they aren't loud enough, use a Precision" which is rather strange unless your only goal is to rehearse unamplified with a guitarist in which case then maybe they're not for you. If you like the sound they produce - and you really need to try a few of them, preferably with something other than the standard phosphor bronze strings - and feel yourself wanting something convenient for sofa practice then they might be up your street.

The TGI Extreme states 106.5cm (assume that's internal length) so maybe a decent cheaper option at £50 https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/210422368434025--tgi-extreme-electric-guitar-gigbag

The EHB1505 is about 102cm, multiscale version will be longer. With the overall length and the elongated upper horn it's about the max I'd want to put in the Pro Go with the extra padding but it does fit nicely, combined with the neck support it's safe in there.

About 101cm with the padding in, removing it gets you about an extra 6cm.

I use an Ibanez EHB1505 and it fits in the guitar Pro Go with the removable base padding still in. It's tight but not so tight that it puts strain on the neck. I think with a longer headless you'd have to remove that extra padding which just velcros off. They did redesign the bag not so long ago (changed the straps and rain cover) so maybe that accounts for the different sizes? I'll measure mine and post it here.

I contacted the seller for more infomation, he's done some work on it including different pickups and wiring so possibly the same bass. My main interest was string spacing as it looks too tight for me, seller said it's 15.5mm so very narrow at the bridge.

The eBay listing looks like the legit one, Rob Armstrong is Coventry based as is the seller. Dave Pegg and Rob are also quite good friends I think.

The boner bass! Played a Jazz years ago, was very nice but had that uncanny valley vibe to it. Look far less odd being played on a strap than they do on a stand IMO. Might be one for future collectors given its unusual appearance and limited production.

This has turned up on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/192391876912240/

It's a Cort thing, they've had that license for donkeys' years and it's just a way to cheaply add name brand spec to an instrument, I've fallen for it in the past. They've slapped numerous names on their in house/offshore pickups over the years like EMG Select, Mighty Mite, Duncan (in the EDB 5 series) etc and have used the Fishman license on preamps as well. I quite liked the Might Mite pickups and Fishman pre (long gone now due to failure) in my Cort C5P, much better than the old Bart MkI and it's dreadful accompanying preamp in the supposedly higher spec B5 I owned (nice bass though). The Ibanez T1 pickups used in that 1006 sound great in demo videos, a vast improvement over the Lic Barts in the other 1000 series.

@jassbass I would be hitting them up for a free bass or two!

Act Like You Know! One of my favourite bass grooves right there, nice playing!

If it was normally priced then it might be worth picking up just for the lefty ebony fretless neck.

Worth about £300-£400 these days, they're ok basses. As said the precursor to the Rockbass, passive pickups are quite tame and don't really sound like any flavour of Warwick. I had the 5 string single pickup version, never really got on with it and I moved it on. That one is seriously overpriced, can get a proper one for that much.

There's a big thread abour Sire upgrades on TB, I don't think there's any drop in replacements which is a shame. When I put Schallers on mine I had to drill two new holes per tuner (I think, was a while ago) however these are covered by the baseplate so aren't visible. Even if you put the stock ones back on theres no visible holes.

Lobster has one of the fretless EHBs, sounds great and doesn't need a pickup swap IMO.

I'd probably look at a used TC BG250-208 which has a far more capable amp section, expect to pay between £150 and £200 when one comes up. Peavey do a current equivalent in the Max 208 but new prices will be over budget. A mate of mine had the Rumble 25 which was perfectly OK, he sold it when he got a Gnome/Mii110 setup which was far better.

Well that's fine, they can do as they wish. I aint gonna line a nonce's pocket so I will also do as I wish. Not sure what your point is or what relevancy it has to the OP's issue but you do you.

There was absolutely no evidence of Jackson doing anything abusive. The OJ SImpson case is controversial, the two MJ trials aren't. In fact they're alarmingly conclusive if you want to look into them, nobody ever does though. He was no doubt a very strange man, he was also someone with a lot of mental health issues and extreme social anxiety. At points literally terrified to be around adults but at ease with children. Guy Pratt provides a some insight into his behaviour in a working environment in one of his YT videos. Put simply people think Jackson was guilty because they have been told a series of carefully selected and manipulated lines. The same people think Paed Townshend is innocent because they have been told a series of carefully selected and manipulated lines.

He admitted guilt and accepted a police caution, got off very lightly by all accounts and was put on the sex offenders' register. He paid to access images of very young children being violently sexually assaulted. His PR did a very good job of reducing the impact on his profile which is why we still get people thinking he was innocent. Contrast to Michael Jackson who had the opposite - trial by media where he was assumed guilty from the off and when the evidence was examined he was found to be innocent. Twice. I used to assume Jackson was guilty (just like everybody else) but as soon as you start digging it's quite alarming how he was treated. It is indeed very different to Pete Townshend who is a child sex offender yet seems to have gotten away with it and can remain in the public eye.

Micheal Jackson was found to be innocent in court. Twice. I have and would still play his songs, wouldn't have anything to do with Paed Townshend's music though.

Wait, it's hundreds of trillions of pounds? I knew Warwicks had gone up but I didn't know they were that bad!

Yeah I agree with this, there's no "chops" requirement to own any level of instrument. The guy in the video can play decently enough too, does some fast metal w/pick passages in his videos and sounds very good doing it. He's just not a fretless fingerstyle player yet so understandably sounds like he hasn't got to grips with it. I wish I had the spare cash lying around to justify splurging 5 figures on a bass unsuited to my gigs and playing style, hell of a bass to learn fretless on that's for sure!