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Yep, that's a good bet 👍

Might have to suck it up with Thomann 😕

Thanks @Jakester, apparently the way to do an 8-channel flip involves not a soldering iron but a sharp blade. Either way not just one but two tools with which I generally underperform badly!

Thanks @Jakester I have the Art unit running into a D-25 I/P on a UAD Apollo x8p to which I’ve added a SSL Fusion using the Apollo’s D25 O/P and have 1u left to organise 16 XLRs. I can get surgical on the Art and flip 8 of the I/Os but suspect it’s not as easy as it looks, Thomann were a bit messy last time I ordered, so was hoping there might be somewhere in the UK 👍

Can't find any in the UK, might be forced to make my own. Please save me and my family the pain Something like this.....

Well, in the seller's defence, had they put it in the right place they would have really struggled to access the strings at all given the size of that bridge cover

I love the bass line in Wordy Rappinghood, utterly iconic 👍

Many thanks @WinterMute 👍

Hang on a second..... Adam Clayton Neil Tennant Bet you've never seen them in the same place?

It's just so boring to look at, how many more times are Fender going to use the same old box "Got any of those same old wooden boxes we put all our guitar and bass combos in Chad?" "There's about 10,000 out the back Brad" "Oh man, how we goon shift those flipers Chad?" "We could always use 'The Fender Algorithm' Brad" "What you mean make the same item but call it something different, or say it came from the Custom Shop (sniggers) Chad" "Yes, but we'll use the even better and updated algorithm, make more money still if we can find a well past their best rock star to allow us to call it their Custom Shop Signature Amp Brad" "Ah, I can see why you're Worldwide Head of Horizon Scanning and Innovation at Fender Musical Instruments Corps Chad"

Fender breaking new ground yet again

Thanks for the above guys, I think the reality is that if I go the D-style route they'll go in and stay in, I'll always have the option of using the XLRs as the DB25/XLRs are switchable. Not fixed in this as a solution yet but it's looking the best compromise all around at present 👍

BTW, @Dad3353I hesitate to ask having just looked at some prices, but what do you consider constitutes a well manufactured DB25?

Thanks @Dad3353, just checking I'm not missing anything in assuming that by taking the DB25 I/Ps from a female XLR patch-bay and send the DB25 O/Ps to a male equivalent gets around the flexibility problem?

Thanks @BigRedX, thought so, seems that using DB25s for both in and out might save me a bit of cable mess, keeping an 8 x XLR input patchbay on he front of the rack unit and a 8 x XLR output on the back I get your point re the channels, that could have tripped me up 👍

I've been using XLRs so long that to use anything else just feels odd