Darkstrike

Nice one, congrats!

You can get the new style in brass too, but they're bloody pricey.

Who cares if it's "just a variation" when it's a variation on awesome? Eh?

I'm not sure if anyting was applied to my bass stock, but it doesn't feel like it, I tried the conditioner stuff that I use on fretboards, but it made it feel awful.

Wenge necks are fantastic, very solid and feel great.

Congrats mate! Looks magic!

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That's really really nice man! Is that a VM5 Supreme then? It's the necks that have always really sold 'bergs to me.

The best thing about the hardware upgrade is the bridge saddles. The locking screw used to be at an angle on the inside of the saddle (hope that makes sense!) so you had to remove the string to get to it. I believe they're now more easily accessible. It was always about my only design gripe with Sandberg!

Hope you enjoy it!
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Yup! A Supreme, I'm loving it more and more.

I get you and the saddles, I have basses with that setup, and it's just awkward, these are fantastic, nothing is in anythings way.

Dang! That really is a nice hat!

I already want a second, so I can have one with flats too!

That'd be amazing, a pair of wee buttons hidden in the headstock or some such, one flicks through colours, and the other swaps to transparent.

My 'Berg arrived today, and man am I happy! The neck is magic, true magic, Plek'd too, that's a hell of a surprise! The sound is fantastic too, won't be screing about adding switches that's for sure! Also, the Thomann pics aren't up to date, I got a new one, with them sweet new knobs with the guide marks. Treble and bass were reversed to what I expected, but it makes sense, as I find I'll be using the treble/tone a lot more.

Feels good to be playing a P again.

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I'll need to see the hat...

Hmmmm, they've managed to pretty much remove all the interesting features.

Man, that is gorgeous. After seeing the body though, if it were me, I wouldn't be able to have it painted.

Something very similar happened to me this weekend, installing a Aguilar OBP-3, right down to the crackling wires, though I had no blend.

In my case, it was the volume pot itself that was wrecked(possibly overheated when soldering), once I swapped it out for another one I had handy, everything was perfect.

This is gonna be amazing!

I'd only consider flats or tapes on a fretless for tone. I do have a set of TI's on my Roscoe, brilliant sound, and all the mwah I want.

Least she didn't ask about your red "guitar".

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completely rubbish responses to her questions...i'd have been in her knickers within 10 minutes............honest....
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I very much doubt cross dressing would have helped the situation.

I like it, I'd prefer black blocks and binding, as they'd stand out on the mape more, but the pearl/white ones look quite good too.

Not unless I needed the space or cash.

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The hiss is not loud enough to bother me on mine, but it is there. It's quieter than my old AI Clarus was. I think the more annoying noise mentioned in some of the Talkbass threads might have been a lead dress/QC issue on the earlier batches. The MB200 sounds good, is tiny and is plenty loud enough for my needs with my cabs, so I still feel like it was a good buy.
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Mine arrived a while ago, and after a quick ram through it with a few different basses, the verdict is good!

The hiss is there, if I have my tweeter rolled on, and the treble at 12 o clock+, which is just too much treble(even for slap, IMO). If I rolled the treble back to an acceptable, yet still bright setting(about 10:30 +/-), the hiss is ever so slightly there, but completely unnoticable. Running the trebele anywhere with the tweeter off was silent, and honestly, I find that slight hiss with most amps anyway.

Also with considering was the entire time my head was between 2 and 3 feet away from the MB200.

More importantly, dang lovely sounding amp, grindy when I dig in, harmonics sing, loud as heck(I only needed the gain at 9 o clock for my high gain basses, and 10:30 for lower gain/parallel humbucker settings) and light as a feather.

Dead happy, it'd be worth every penny twice over.

Class, pure class of the man.



Sorry for your loss too.

Super long Thomasics might fit, but then again, at that price, might isn't good enough.

Might be worth checking out what flats Dingwall owners are using.

Or a set of upright strings.

I have one on the way(the GK), should be here any day now, for just....
[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1349305075' post='1824666']
[i][u][b]Really unless you're going to use it primarily for home practice through a cab with a tweeter[/b][/u][/i], I wouldn't be worried by reports of noise.
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....this purpose. Though I'll probably turn the tweeter off.

I figure I'll be keeping the volume low enough that the noise, if there is any, should be no issue.

Their diy kits look very interesting.