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I find fender stuff laughably mediocre for the money, especially as you go up their ranges, the CS stuff being Hurracan money for a Hyundai Elantra equivalent. The options they give are fairly limited and the price so high, hard pass. I'd rather build my own from Warmoth. I've owned a ton of them over time, and played more, but I don't think I'd spend my own hard earned on one if I was after something like they offered.

Sure, why not? I also played my cheapest 6 at a local village gig a while back. Depends on my mood.

MultiFX. All the modern units have enough presets to allow setting up for a (long) pre-determined set list. I almost never adjust the rig on the fly.

They sound pretty good to me, but I'll listen to it later on the big system before I make a final decision.

Measure from the nut to the 12th fret and multiply by 2.

Can't go wrong with the older Peavey gear - my BW15 and Mark VI head have seen maybe 1000 gigs and 40y of use. I hardly use it now as I use my rig for bass, guitar and baritone so I'm building a large FRFR rig to cover everything. However, I could put it in the car in a minute's notice and use it happily for a bass gig. Living in the sticks now, there's little point in selling it as it's not worth much and shipping would kill that.

I have yet to have a battery die mid gig since I got my first active bass in 84. Agreed as I love my 375 and have trouble trying to justify what a 2605 would cost, even though it it very purdy. The 375 will likely het a set of EMG E4Ws when available, just because. The 375 was $829 new 2ya, also very purdy in a subtle way, and the best I can find the 2605 for is $2850. The EMGs will be circa $450. My 655 used was not much more than the EMGs will cost with a HSC due to a stupid error in the listing that meant it didn't get any interest. Japanese Ibanezes are superb, but not for the price tags, so I'm not seeing a valid 'upgrade' path.

It's no different to any of the other bajillion relic'd instruments out there. Yawn.

Yeah, a long time back. It's OK, nothing special.

This awesome...

Alembic Series II had the widest HF bandwidth, but unless the Q has set really high, there was no 'sizzle', which I take to mean excessive brightness / hardness at the top, ie a negative quality.

I should have followed up with a post back then as they told me it was the same IcePower 700AS module too.

Lowthers weren't remotely SOTA hifi 50ya let alone what you can do with horns these days.

Och aye, ya dinnae ken.

No true bass man, would ever play anything but a P.

A 6x2 string arrangement. Sweet.

I still have a pair of Yamaha PB1 pres, one of which was my main pre, used with a matching Yamaha P series power amp in a true biamp configuration crossed at 300Hz, and so looks a bit second hand now. Mine are in storage awaiting time to do full cosmetic and technical restorations. So here's a pic I found via goolag.

The Bart sizes Nord offer are BC/P2/P4. I didn't ask EMG about 4 string sizes as all my main players are 5s and 6s but might add it to the question list when I email them back.

The 5 string is the 108mm long version (magnet is 77.5mm wide) and the 6 string is 117mm with a longer 87.6mm magnet, info I got from Alex at EMG. I suspect, as I didn't ask, that these are actually P2 and P4 sizes (108/117x32mm). This means that they won't fit in my Ibanez SR or Cort A6 6 strings with the 108x34mm MK1 pickups without routing. The later BH2s in my BTB846 are the same size. Looks like I need to get out the router for at least the SR so that'll get DCXs or maybe TWXs. When I email back, I'll also ask if this new PU internal structure will also be available in the 35/40/45 sizes too - it would make no commercial sense if they weren't, assuming they fit.

According to Alex at EMG, nope as the magnet is 77.5mm long. Some of these might then suit the SR375, providing the early reviews online are good, which I'm not really worried about as I've yet to use an EMG I didn't like.

I have a Hercules I got on special on Amazon ages ago. Seems very well made. https://herculesstands.com/international/products/fretted-and-bowed-instrument/accessories/ha206/

If you find one you love at a price you can afford, just buy it. If the idea you're not good enough so you shouldn't buy it was based in reality, only a handful of real high performance cars would have ever been sold. If I won the Powerball, I'd get another Alembic S2, this time a custom 6.

Neither am I, and I understand well how speakers actually work, but... ... but that isn't a tiny phone, laptop etc speaker which will have nothing below 200Hz, if not higher.

I've had a couple of these, especially in the 90s when I was importing direct from Japan, mainly lawsuit era basses and the Bass Collection basses were really very good. I think they're why I like Ibanez SRs so much nowadays. One thing I have noted though, is the PUs seemed moved bridgeward compared to classic F positions. This is most noticeable on the P.

I think I'll get a set of the Dunlop 30-125 for the Cort.