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PS - it might sound like it, but I'm not a fanboi.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1425813979' post='2710887'] I agree - but as I have argued many times before with people, I think it was an idea whos time was waiting to happen... I believe that if they never happened, someone else would have happened to do the same thing at the same place. [/quote] I disagree. They wrote their own brilliant tunes. They were great musicians, They could sing incredibly well, with loads of energy. They had a fantastic ear for arrangement and harmony. They looked cool. The girls loved them. They were masters of stagecraft. They were ambitious. They knew about the power of brand. They knew what the media wanted. They were nice lads. They were picked up by a powerful record company and were schooled by one of the greats. If the Beatles hadn't happened, someone else would have come along and ticked a lot of those boxes, but not all of them at that critical time. The Beatles were a freakish perfect storm.

The Streamliner was the best of the micros I tried, but I still thought - in keeping with the others - that it lacked backbone. The Walkabout gives me the tubey tone, and small-ish size, with the heft of a transformer. I've been happy since.

...and moved to General Discussion :-)

My money's on Mellotron, too.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1425806473' post='2710768'] The connection I was making was that , during the 80s when I was a teen, many youth cultures paid respect to the Beatles and Stones, and they where idolised as cream of the crop. Ive over the last 10 years witnessed a large group go through their teens and their focus was on what the Chilli Peppers did in the late 80s and early 90s, just as we looked back on the Beatles. The Peppers where and still are their Beatles [/quote] Everyone has 'their' Beatles. It could be Zeppelin, Nirvana, Oasis..whoever. The Beatles were the flashpoint for a global cultural ground-shift, though. There'll never be anything else like it.

I don't think chunky necks were a QC thing, especially as they started appearing in the late 60s well before the rot set in.

Rod Clements of Lindisfarne... http://youtu.be/46ZPzgPTmho

Wings: the band the Beatles could have been.

I believe the necks are Allparts, and the bodies are made in Scotland. That's all I know.

EBS Microbass II. It's a SansAmp with more features that doesn't suck mids. Fantastic, but a bit more pricey...

[quote name='mazdah' timestamp='1425634769' post='2709192'] TC and Genz? You mean the ones who cheated about the power rating of their amps (250w instead of 450) and the ones recently shut down?. Very ahead indeed. [/quote] Dunno about Genz... if the Little Giant can be a 'real' 1000w, no reason why the Streamliner can't be 900w too. *cough*

[quote name='Dazed' timestamp='1425506951' post='2708112'] Some crummy phone pics for maple neck colour [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/dazer/media/BASS/E6B16E12-9FD4-4FA9-92E0-BED353942290_zpszmdl883z.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/dazer/media/BASS/179EFB28-E6E7-49DE-B92C-025C76991A1E_zps1mhfyy8w.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/dazer/media/BASS/294452FD-57D8-47E0-A876-6895BDBCAF8A_zpsmxcqr36m.jpg.html"][/url] A couple next to a non aged neck [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/dazer/media/BASS/66FA1106-8FC3-448C-9970-681B56E55A6C_zpssgacvagh.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/dazer/media/BASS/2EE4D474-A10D-4013-ADD2-121A88564193_zpsdkheefuw.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/dazer/media/BASS/EF63791D-E6EB-4E6B-8BC9-19FE7C3502E6_zpsombdzwm6.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Great - thank you!

Better still: watch The Beatles Anthology, and get a real feel of what it must have been like at the time. Incredible.

Ah, the amp of kings. There's a sweet spot on the input where it goes fat before it drives. FInd that. FWIW, there's a lot of conjecture as to what the bass, mid and treble on the heads actually do. There's a lot of in-depth analysis and graphs over on TB. Generally, for my mid-rich fingerstyle prerefence, I have all three around 2 o'clock, and leave the para flat. If the room is boomy, I'll roll the low para right down to 30Hz and pull it back a few dB to taste. Some else will post up their completely different but just us useable EQ settings, no doubt.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/237894-ncd-tks-enginnering-content/"]This thread might give you something else to consider...[/url]

A friend of mine uses BEAD on a '63 Precision. It sounds great.

Lovely colour. The headstock is kind-of growing on me too, but I'll never get used to the font used on 'basses'. (I quite like the oval bridges)

Portability, tone [i]and [/i]budget, in one awesome package... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/251931-ncd-tks-engineering-s112-cover/"]TKS Engineering S112.[/url]

Lush.

Check out the H115 from TKS Engineering, too. www.tks.se I only have experience of the MK1 - if the smaller MK2 is comparable, it'll be remarkable.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1425250443' post='2705629'] I just don't understand it. Ampeg come out with massively unreliable Class D amps and people defend them to the hilt. Ashdown come out with new technology and everybody uses this as a chance to get the boot in. If British bassists defended British manufacturers the same way American bassists defended theirs then this forum would be a slightly more positive place perhaps. Not sure we need pages of Ashdown bashing, and I'm glad to see a rep coming on here and kicking some backsides. [/quote] I can only speak from my POV: I've bashed Ampeg for bringing out massively unreliable class D amps before. Everyone knows Ampeg are a shell of what they used to be. My current view of Ashdown is clouded by the likes of the Superfly and Little Giant - even though they were both years ago, nothing has come out since that's set my world alight. The MiBass, for example... in a world where TC and Genz were blazing ahead on the features and design, they needed to pull it out of the bag. And they didn't. I'm not going to defend a business just because they're British. Why would I do that? I'd love to see them back where they belong, but the products and marketing are responsible for that. Not the opinions of numpties like me on the internet. By the way, did we find out where the B:Social is being manufactured?

According to Google, the one bolted to the wall in the previous post, which may or may not be the one in the OP, is an Alex Axe custom build.

This is all very useful. Thanks everyone!