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I just wonder if he could have got the bass a bit higher...his left hand at head height and his scrunched up right arm make me ache just watching... 😕

Nice tone, and an even better bass line; it's what he doesn't play in this that sets it apart - there's air and space in there...I had to learn this a while back, and it surprised me...

That Thunderbird (ish) - no raised section, terrible scratchplate - sounds awful...

Have you ever actually needed both QSCs? I have low-level GAS for a FRFR rig, but I've only ever tried (at shop volume) cheaper wedges (like the Headrush), and they didn't sound like they'd cut it at higher volumes...

Oh, they're too old to change now*, plus it's only a very occasional band....to be honest, the order in which those rigs get used the most is left to right... 🙂 * Though using a rehearsal room up a long flight of stairs and carting their 412s was starting to wear them down more than the db level... 😀

Oh noooo, no need to apologise; I wasn't snipping - it's just head-scratchingly odd that something so loud sometimes gets described as not loud enough; I'd suspect it was my ears had I not been told to turn down by so many people... 😕😀 Edit: lack of smileys on my part... 😕

Ooooo, a 3000A - just to put me out of/drop me further into my misery (having sold my VW 3000A a while back and always regretted it), can you tell me the neck/nut size compared to the 414 (that is a 414 on the right, yeah?)? I had a 1024, but thought the neck was a bit big - having Jon Shuker make necks just the size I want (skinny) has spoiled me, I'm afraid... 😕🙂

I really cannot understand it when people say that - with the Super Twin it's very, very loud (plenty for hearing-protection-in rehearsals with 2 x Marshall 100w/410 geeetards and a shed-building drummer) and with both cabs it's stacktastically deafening...I had the chance a while back to run it through a rehearsal room Ampeg fridge, and it was huuuge through that, too...

Three rigs (well, actually four) for the price of one 😁

I'm just glad I missed this, for all sorts of reasons...

To be fair, the bodies are Alder and Maple, so the seams would be more apparent. Still a bit odd to have that under a translucent finish...

Yeah, they're much more about the limited edition - strange PMT aren't making more of this... ...and Hooky doesn't even appear on the Yamaha site...

Is it a limited edition? I'm not seeing anywhere that it is, apart from Hooky signing 5 of them.

If they ever do one in Vintage White, I'm buying it. Which is a bit giddy for me, but there you go...

We do a couple of Smiths songs (This Charming Man and There Is A Light), and they're two of my favourite songs to play; the bass lines are great fun, and they always go down a storm. People like to think they're singing along ironically, but they're really not... 🙂 Sadly, Morrisey himself has personal opinions I'd rather not contemplate, although that can be said of quite a few people in the business. That's where the phrase 'Never meet your heroes' comes from... Musically and lyrically, The Smiths were an important band, and yeah, they were very Marmite - at the time, I, like some people in the thread, couldn't get past Morrisey's schtick, but in later years I've come to like the tongue-in-cheek lyrics, some of which are genuinely brilliant. Oh, and it's a measure of the 'love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it' nature of Morrisey's delivery that any time someone sings a Smiths song, they're irresistibly drawn into a Morrisey impression...our singist tries very hard; he starts off in his own voice, and three lines in he's hooting and parping... 😁

Where's the Jaw-Dropping Performances thread? 😁

Oh boy, this is firmly in 'small treat for Xmas' territory... Hang on tho; the pup on this one is in a verrrry strange position...

That's just a bit sad, really; 'Look how crazy and wild and untamed I am, I'm spontaneously smashing my gear...hang on...just a sec...let me get the right bass...' 😁 If you're gonna do it, this is how it's done: 'Keith Moon was known for destroying his drum set. The most famous episode of this occurred during the Who's debut on U.S. television on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967. Moon overloaded his bass drum with explosive charges which were detonated during the finale of the song, "My Generation." The explosion caused guest Bette Davis to faint, set Pete Townshend's hair on fire and Moon was also injured in the explosion when shrapnel from the cymbals cut his arm.'

PH's Hondo was in a glass case in PMT Manchester for a while, I think they might have been selling it for charity or summat...I've seen recurve archery bows with less of a gap between string and wood... 😕 😁

I've just looked at that, and I can't tell what 'Softness' means - is it that the Ultimate is highest tension and the Vintage is the lowest?

The bridge on an original Thunderbird is very close to the rear edge of the bass (and therefore the strap button), that one looks like it's been designed, like the Warmoth bodies of old, by looking at the bridge placement for a Firebird (and, as I said, with an eye to upper fret access), which on a bass pushes everything too far to the player's left. The forward strap button on the Thunderbird is place on the recessed (kinda) top horn, which puts it too far back for easy balance. I've always immediately moved it to the neck plate (on my bolt-on Frankenbirds), which can cause some 'flop forward' (fixed by the strap over the rear horn - oh, and no buckle rash unless you use straps with metal buckles, which I've always thought were stooopid things) or better still by a button on the left hand edge of the body directly behind the neck. Trickier on thru-necks, but some Hipshot Ultralites make all the difference to neck dive tendencies. On a side issue, why they changed from the original two-part bridge to the three-point thing has always eluded me...I've just this week had to re-seat and epoxy in the push-fit collars on my Fenderbird, which had started to lift out of the body...

The only thing I've bought this year has been a set of those new Markbass strings...whether they'll be the best or worst* remains to be seen, as my Elixirs on every bass aren't getting much wear; at this rate, it could be 2025 before I get to use them... 😕 * I know, I know; philosophically they'll be both...let's not split hairs...

Ahhh, the catchily-named ABM-112H-EVO IV-PRO NEO...can't think why I missed it...😁 The description is peppered with terrible grammar and looks like it's the same as the 210, but the 12" cab is apparently 'sealed to deliver powerful attack and clear definition as well as lower bass frequencies.', which seems...interesting...hmmmm...

I've just looked on the Ashdown site, and the Neo cabs are discontinued?