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Ah, right. That'll help, then

I wouldn't raise your hopes up. It looks like they're pitching the Stadiums [Stadia!] at a price level above their HX equivalents. Rather than making the HXs undesirably obsolete, I think it'll just reinforce a market for something which offers 90% of the experience for 33-50% of the price. I think we'll only see a real change once the Stadium Stomps come out, if those were to be aggressively priced for the larger market. Note: this is my uninformed ad-hoc reckon. I am not John Maynard Keynes.

Oh, I can tell you that now: the new amp modelling will be indistinguishable from the HX's amp modelling in a blind AB test.

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I had something more like this in mind, if I'm honest! [hat tip to the Maruszczyk 'Phoenix' configurator 👍]

Oh god... surely, SURELY someone must have done this to a collection of Thunderbirds! 🤞 EDIT: "4" would have to be a uke bass or an Ashbory or something, obviously 😁

Maybe you'll find something to your liking in one of the excellent Fat Bass Tone demos: https://www.youtube.com/@FatBassTone/videos Just check out any of the ones featuring the blue Ibanez SR. Also, the usual follow-up for anyone asking about MK1 replacements: in MK1-equipped basses, it's usually the preamp that's the weak link, not the pickups. See this recent Space 5 owner's post on Talkbass: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/cort-artisan-space-5-my-experience-one-year-later.1670985/

On the surface, that seems reasonable. But what about when you're not performing? Are you okay with having to either crouch to the floor to make changes, or put the unit on a hands-friendly raised surface where you can no longer use the footswitches/expression controllers? Wouldn't it be better to be able to program the floor-mounted controller while it's... I don't know... on the floor? Anyway, I don't want to drag this off topic. I'm going to be interested to see how the Anagram UI holds up to real-world user feedback.

Yeah, after watching a couple of YouTube reviews, it seems like there are some real UX compromises in order to keep to a small form factor. Or maybe it's simply been under-designed. I was so amazed at the "trying to paint the hallway through the letterbox" touchscreen that the knobs being above the screen didn't even register with me. On a related note, why are all multiFX param controls knobs that can only be operated by hands? Why hasn't someone come up with one that uses rollers that can be operated with the feet?

Love that Olive top! Such an overlooked wood. Welcome to the "ACG 33-inch singlecut with an R-Type lower horn" Club! 🙂 EDIT: Oh hang on, you already have NINE ACGs?! You're probably already in the club, then. Hell, you may even be the president 😄

Many, many bass manufacturers give no thought to their instruments' user interface, and sadly Dingwall are no exception. Congratulations on solving a problem that Dingwall couldn't be arsed to solve for themselves 👍🙂

I may have slightly mocked the name early in the thread, but I ended up buying a Soloking Meteora-style guitar from Andertons last year, and it's a brilliant guitar for the money. I was extremely surprised/impressed by what I got for £250 [iirc]. £150 for one of those basses is just mental. Alder body, stainless steel frets, rosewood fretboard... what a ridiculous bargain. Go grab!!

There are also the Yamaha YH-WL500 wireless headphones, that are specifically targeted for musicians, and have latency on a par with the Waza Airs. I use them for monitoring my non-critical DAW/hardware synth jams, and they're more than up to the task.

Wow, that looks positively Soviet-era 😲 I remember when I was researching for my own Maruszczyk build, it became apparent from other owners' testimonies that carbon rods were an unspoken must-have. So would this explain why Maru truss rods work in the opposite direction to most other truss rods? Is that a symptom of the shonky ghetto nature of their truss rods?

That's a brilliant idea! Do this!