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I'm a big fan of Noel. The flippant manner of his opinions is no different to how my friends and I talk about music and I suspect most of it is exaggerated on purpose anyway. A quite intelligent and interesting bloke underneath the bluster. Granted Oasis's output post 3rd album is awful but those first 2 albums are just frigging genius.

I'll throw him the number 0.

£1000. REALLY?!! I honestly wouldn't pay more than £20 for this shower of s***e. But then again the price of a bass directly corresponds to the amount of strings. MOAR STRINGZ = MOAR $

My Flea has the obp-1. All I can say is it has an almost unreal amount of power on tap. So much gain (almost too much). The bass control is very powerful and subtle. The treble has a wide range and almost acts like a tone control too. Great pre-amp. More musical useful settings than the Glockenlang I had on my Sandberg.

^this

Modern class D stuff I've tried on the whole definitely seems to be lacking that all encompassing shove that my Trace has. I'm sure the manufacturers will get there though. Until then, its big blocks of iron for me! (That said even though my gp12 smx is heavy for a head, in the grand scheme of things it's not.. I can still lift it easily)

I love the first two Oasis albums! Irrelevant after that though. Noel is actually quite a sound guy, always interesting to listen to. Liam on the other hand is a second rate Ian Brown wannabe. Definitely agree he'd be in prison if not in a band.

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Saw them at V Move 2004/5. One of the best live performances I've ever seen, Pete's Ashdown kept crapping out towards the end though. His Les Paul bass sounded huge!!

[quote name='halibut' timestamp='1423666232' post='2687667'] Cheers for the ideas. Yorick, I had raised the pickup slightly. I'll try raising it a little more. 40Hz, I didn't even know about the string twist issue. I'll slacken the string off and see if I can see any twist in it. I'll also be a lot more careful when stringing up in the future. H. [/quote] I never even knew about it myself until recently, restrung my Flea and the E just sounded absolute pants, lifeless and dull and just weird. Restrung it again, making sure it was straight from the ball end to winding with no twist and it came back to life. Odd.

Kanye is just the poster boy for this modern day rubbish that passes for hip-hop. His brand of dumbed down urban music is so unbelievably awful I can't believe people listen to him (personally speaking of course) he seemingly, in his songs, just mumbles crap about money and clubs over a jumbled skeletal beat with a weird sound effect of two thrown in (usually a dog being *anked off or the like) his ego is stratospheric and yet musically speaking, he's not anywhere near the hip-hop/rap legends (run dmc, 2pac, dr dre, snoop, notorious, nas, a tribe called quest, beastie boys etc etc). Rant over (sorry if anyone is offended, it's just so disrespectful to Beck it ground my gears) Edit - beyonce is a talented girl but one of those singers that is constantly oversinging (she's more of a brand than a bona fide artist imo) so instantly has me reaching for the skip button.

Much much better from Warwick, IMO this is exactly what was needed. Pro series Streamer here I come!

Sort of sounds like the effect of a twisted string? Edit -used to have an Epi T-bird. Superb bass and a great growling punch across the neck so this sounds odd.

GP12 owner here., 2x10 much more clarity and punch. 1x15 fine enough (prob more growl) but not much definition. Bit of a clichéd response but holds true

I absolutely love Fender but, for me, the new designs and models are all still very 'safe' I think that's partly why nothing else has really taken off. None of the new models have ever really had a 'wow' factor Or do anything drastically different.

Every 3-4 months with D'addario Flexsteels (and Prosteels) I find they keep that fresh sound and feel for that timespan, but then again depends on brand. I find Rotos and Ernie Ball Slinkies die within a week.

The unfinished neck is one of the main reasons I never bought a full fat Ray.

Kim Deal's tone on dig for fire, that is just beautiful! The Pixies as a band always had a great mix. Sounds like her Aria Cardinal bass on this particular track, although she used a P around this era too.

This looks pointless.

[quote name'Merton' timestamp='1422021199' post='2667845'] I think they will have some fairly soon. They certainly expect the Rootmaster 800 head to be ready mid Feb, and this uses the same power section [/quote] Excellent, cheers Merton

Is there a release timeframe on these yet? My Trace has died and this looks a perfect replacement.

Another Trace man here. Well I was until it blew up at practice tonight! When working its a GP12SMX AH300 . Beautiful amps with a nice clear punchy tone. congrats! Looks awesome!