warwickhunt

Believe it or not, that font won't allow certain characters, as a result I started putting all of the poster dates like that.

It isn't even reissuing the original it is a 'Vintage II'... that's TWO!

https://www.fender.com/en-GB/american-vintage-ii.html/?dc&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=consideration_amvintii_ouat&src=pm_OUAT_amvintii

His fret lines are all wonky!

If you are taken as a given that we have spare leads, batteries, strings etc. I would say that I take spare fuses. Of the larger items; I have spare amps and cabs at home (to get me through the next gigs till things are fixed) but I take a Sansamp pedal which I have in-line and I've been running an XLR line-out to our PA (vocals, guitar [guitarist has no backline] and kick drum), which I can switch in 'IF' my rig went down. It only takes 2 minutes and 1 XLR cable to set up my back up.

Pressing in 3 of the 4 pup selector buttons gets you a different tonal setting to all 4 buttons in. Nordstrand seem to think you can't do this but you can on my bass.

The 'science' says that you will get a more predictable outcome if both cabs are exactly matching but sometimes mixed drivers can work; tbh stacking any pair of cabs means that you will get more output, dispersion and a driver will be closer to head height. I have to confess that I stack a pair of 2x10 cabs vertically (vertical 4x10) and the tweeter being closer to head height is achieved but wasted on me as I am wearing attenuated ear protection.

There is the 3 buttons in AND 4 buttons in.

There will be a little bit of difference if you move away from the cab but the greater difference would be if you stacked 2 2x10 cabs on top of each other vertically! The higher any cab is, the closer to your ears so you should benefit from any vertical alignment.

I was tempted to buy one of those about 6-7 years back and it was £500. Played nice but the noise threshold just irritated me, it'd have been unnoticeable at gig volume I'd expect. I can't see how they will have tripled in value especially when one of the big UK stores had a sell out of newer/better Mesa gear a couple of years back!

I have 3 Sandbergs; x2 34" scale 'P' basses & x1 Lionel (fretless). The heaviest P bass comes in at 8lb 2oz, the other is 7lb 10oz, neither of these are a special 'Superlight' model, they are regular Sandbergs. The Lionel is 6lb 13oz. They balance and play beautifully, hardware is a notch up from USA Fender... imho

Indeed. IIRC the Tech Soundsystems 115 used a light weight Sica driver (spelling could be wrong) which made the cab a very reasonable weight.

I get sick of trying to tell bands that 2 subs 5-6m apart is worse than just 1 sub on its own... the looks I get when I say that max effect will be gained by stacking their 2 subs!

Saw the first pic and hadn't read any comments and my over riding first impression was... wrong headstock!

So you/we could hear something different and it explains our differing preferences on the contour of the older version. Nice to know you're not as cloth eared as we feared!

Tried it but the TC is right place but upside.

...or the V1 is more desirable and ends up costing more! LOL

Doesn't say if this will replace or supplement the original.

Tech Soundsystems did a 1x15 that had a 2/4/8 ohm switch; I remember opening it up and I'm sure it was dual coil.

Exactly. I've also never had a speaker cable fail but they do fail and my suggestion of running the 2 outputs that way is simply that in the event a cable did fail you would still have output. If you elect to daisy chain and the first cable fails you are in panic mode trying to establish WHY there is no output. I probably take this approach as I have witnessed it once in 40+ years of playing. When an amp/cab suddenly goes silent on stage, I can almost guarantee that the first things checked will be instruments, connect to amp cables, pedalboards (and cables) and the amp... the last thing expected or tested is the speaker cable (for the very reason you said they rarely die) BUT if it was to die then my suggestion gets you through the gig.

My train of thought with 2 out to 2 cabs V's amp > cab > cab is that they are both equal and the same BUT... if any one of your speaker leads fails when using the 2 out option, you'd still have 1 cab in operation and a song/gig wouldn't need to stop while you sort it. Whereas if cable (A) from amp > cab (1) failed, you'd be in silence while you sorted it. Of course if you are using a full valve amp you could have a cooked amp either way if the cable fails. Does that make sense?

@cd_david

I really wanted a Hamer 12 (or anything Tom Petersson might have played) but this was the only 12 string bass for sale in the UK in over a year, so I got it. I'm still looking for an alternative and then the Musicvox will be moved on.

The guy I got this off was gifted it by the owner/CEO of Musicvox (they were good friends) and he was told it was the prototype for the Space Cadet 12. I'm assuming they swapped to regular stringing, no pinstripe/binding and a narrower neck (this one is WIDE even for a 12er).