Jack

Can somebody please point me to the parts lists and/or plans? I'm lost between the different threads and versions of the cabs. Thanks!

They moved from using off the shelf (although very high end) PA drivers to their custom-designed drivers. I didn't really notice too much in terms of sound or output to be honest.

I haven't played any of the new new stuff, but I have had 5 Barefaced cabs so I'll give it a go. The 10" models aim for a much more old school sound. The 10" speaker doesn't have a great deal of high highs or really low lows. They're still quite clean by olde worlde standards actually and they're not really 'vintage sounding' as such but they are in the ballpark. Ever cab apart from the 1x10" uses a low pass filter on one side of the speaker cabinet in an effort to combat some comb filtering issues with side by side drivers. As for the 12s, they're all a bit more modern sounding than the 10s. Very 'new', clean and punchy. If anything they kind of lack a little character, with the HF models getting pretty close (apparently) to being quite flat. The new 12s are my absolute favorite bass cabs. An FR800 (which is essentially a self-powered Big Baby II) covered any gig I ever asked it to do. The Midget aims to be as small as possible whilst still being giggable, so it's a little more mid-focused than the rest and somewhat barky. As for the others, it's a case of: do you want one speaker or two? And then do you want the (very nice, pa style) HF driver or not?

From 100mW to 1200W!

I find their videos quite entertaining. The style is very 'of it's time' and not really my thing but they certainly wouldn't be where they are as a shop without their social media presence. Mrs. Jack is the social media coordinator for a very large museum and I find it a fascinating world, just not for me! Factually they always leave a lot to be desired, doing homework on the products before hand would be nice but then I think the counterpoint to that is that most people probably don't care, wouldn't understand, and that specs are easy enough to find if you really want. Apart from Barefaced. And when you DO find manufacturer's specs they're often lies anyway. Whatever, it's nice to see Lee back. All about the bass wasn't the same without him.

Oh good, I thought I was the only one. Everybody else on BC is all "I've had this one pick for 84 years and it's my best friend". Dunlop sell them by the 72, which I've bought two sets of my favourites. They changed the colour of the 1.14 a bit over the years.

Did anyone ever get one of the Dave Ellefson basses? The only real review I can find is a passing comment on the American site about it being too neck-divey.

Interesting as I play the D'addario balanced nickels (I hate non-bt strings) so I'll definitely try a set of the GHS next time. Thanks for the tip.

I grew up on pop-punk bands so I was pretty much all pick for the first few years. Now I'm maybe 75% fingers and 25% pick, mostly depending on song or how I'm feeling. After a lot of searching (which was fun in itself!) I decided on the Dunlop Gator Grip 1.14mm.

Don't think so. I paid vat at point of purchase, I was worried that if it cleared customs after the new year they might seek to add vat on top even thigh I'd already paid it. As it turns out I didn't have to fight, there was no trouble.

Not quite irrelevant because (buying in December) the Thomann prices included vat. Having to pay twice (I mean, I wouldn't, but having to fight it) was actually a worry of mine.

Nice! What's the power amp?

FWIW I got my Thomann order yesterday! Ordered 23/12/20, arrived 6/1/21 so technically I squeezed in before the changes but I was still expecting the worst...

...... at least one! And I think @Matt P is about my age too!

Somewhere in rural middle England a nice local cycling shop is having a brown trousers moment now that the brands discussed above aren't supplying to the UK any more. Local music stores are going to find it much harder to stay open when they are hit with higher costs of import (from the suppliers that will still supply to them) at the same time as losing many of their brands (as some suppliers stop supplying to them).

To continue this on-topic comment, Thomann were very clear to me (and I have in writing, at least pertains to my order on 23/12/20) that they will be honoring warranties, accepting out-of-warranty repairs (although shipping costs may go up) and choosing to continue to offer their 30-day trial period. Of course, that could all change at any moment, but they were clear that they intend to keep things as much 'the same' as possible.

All true, we're just in a situation where we could have had nice sunny weather and no traffic, where the majority voted for traffic jams and drizzle. Personal impacts, big and small, will be coming to all of us soon. They are particularly egregious when they were all avoidable.

I think a big part of the issue, for those of us who didn't want it, is that we are very much of the opinion that the B word will impact all of us directly. At least 2 businesses have been mentioned in this thread about not selling to the UK any more, at least for a bit. That's 2 fewer options that we all have now.

I think that that's hopeful at best, they've still got the rest of the EU to trade with without all of the added hassle. They may just be able to do without us. We, on the other hand.....

I just put an order in on the 23rd, when I spoke to somebody a few days before that they said that they would be listing prices without VAT. They also said that the UK was one of their biggest customer bases and that they would endeavor to continue to do business with us. There are no extra charges due to HMRC, so no import duties or anything, only the VAT. It was a little embarrassing to have that conversation to be honest, I had to say about 15 times that I didn't want any of this.

Whilst I'm sure somebody will be along with a counterexample within 5 minutes of my post, I'm unaware of any class D amp for which the sound of the power amp is a selling point. As you've said, tube amps and vintage amps yeah, but I bet the sound from (for example) a GK Fusion's preamp out and speaker out are near enough the same, one's just bigger. 9 - 49.9V bigger, if you believe certain people in this thread. 😉 So yeah, why would you bother? People though, right? Can't trust 'em.

One of the industry standard DI boxes even obscures the pad behind the labeling of 'pickup' and 'speaker'. Good for over 3000W iirc.

Those preamps have the cardinal sin of a tube that was installed by the marketing department and not the engineering one, but if you can get past that they're actually decent units. Loads of gain, choice of inputs, balanced out on both trs and xlr. It'll be great for this application.