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Thanks for this, I'll have a look later.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1424101132' post='2692578'] I prefer to call it the Water Closet. But then, I am a bit of a snob... [/quote] Huh! I bet you say 'bowel movement', instead of 'release the chocolate hostages', don't you?

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1424087632' post='2692366'] ...that alt-folk, mumford & sons thing. [/quote] Agh no! Save me from The Posh Wurzels.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1424085395' post='2692309'] You want to see a doctor with that [/quote] Nah. Just take LOTS of Immodium.

[quote name='sk8' timestamp='1424084103' post='2692294'] ...I've missed the Valve Power amp, having had a 3 tube pre with class D power amp. There is something about it that all my class D stuff can't touch... [/quote] It's true - nothing beats the heft and slam you get from huge iron transformers in a tube power section. The only two SS power-stage amps I would say have any kind of balls in that direction are the G-K MB500 Fusion and the GB Streamliner 900, one of which you may have used already if you've had a 3-tube pre. The best overall for me was the Burman SL100 PowerPak which was huge, full-range and had custom-wound transformers. Greg Burman found Partridge transformers were not up to his requirements... I've got seller's remorse now.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1424081079' post='2692230'] I think there is, its called modern digital recording. You know where everything get compressed and shoved up to Zero and made as loud as possible with no space for any dynamics. It all sounds the same, any style, any band, BANG BANG GRUNGE. Surely a new subculture. [/quote] This has been the case since the early 1990s. However the end of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war"]Loudness War[/url] is in sight due to something called [url="http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/pro-tools-10-the-benefits-of-32-bit-floating-point-audio"]32-Bit Float[/url].

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1424080889' post='2692227'] "comfort zone idleness music" [/quote] The world's most popular genre.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1424044665' post='2692033'] GASing for a black jazz bass for some reason [/quote] Marcus Miller V7 incoming..?

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1424036152' post='2691910'] It's difficult to have brand snobbery when the brand has been devalued. [/quote] Yes. The continuing commodification of everything continues apace, and concepts such as quality and workmanship are in the bog.

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1424034235' post='2691876'] ...a fair few knobs there? [/quote] There's a fair few knobs here, too. Ha! *Runs away*

I like the wood and the colour, but I don't like single-cuts much. YMMV.

Muscle Shoals one was fantastic. I could watch that again for sure.

[quote name='BassAgent' timestamp='1422661656' post='2675509'] [/quote] I have uncontrollable GAS for exactly this machine in exactly this livery. Oof!

[quote name='howdenspur' timestamp='1424031032' post='2691815'] Tho I can feel my discs twinging just thinking about it! [/quote] Ow. I can feel my scrotum bursting. It's a sad day when you realise you'll never use an all-valve amp - if you want to keep your balls. Ironic really.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1424030881' post='2691809'] I thought that was what forums were for ;-) a distraction from playing lol [/quote] No way! I play while I'm reading posts and practice my pull-offs (fnarr) while typing replies with the other hand.

Very nice indeed! Order your truss now.

Looks like yet another device designed to make bass players obsolete!

I don't play bass unless I'm learning or rehearsing songs for a set. I don't play it solo, it seems a bit pointless. Bass is not a solo instrument in my view and those who make it so do it very deliberately and are generally good at it. I'm not such an animal - I'm a team player me, and I don't think a bass fulfills its proper potential unless it's heard in the mix, as has been said in another thread. I'm not a fantastic technical player - I do what I need to get sounds I think are good - but the most important thing for me is to play to support the song and do as much as possible to enable everyone else in the band to come across as best they can. This is a totally different skill from practicing scales and so forth. Practice scales if you want to be good at playing scales and play in a band if you want to be good at playing in a band. Though they're not mutually exclusive of course. All IMHO.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1423989944' post='2691116'] Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, So wrong it actually pains me [/quote] You're on the list for a an early-morning visit too, mate! Tort is only acceptable with white, sunburst, natural and fiesta red. Anything else is an offence against good taste and common decency!!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1423753355' post='2688642'] Perhaps naively, I hadn't even realised that the term 'experimental FX guru' actually HAD been invented. I must try to find ways to drop that into my conversation ... [/quote] You just did.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1423980137' post='2691080'] .I've never seen that model with anything other than dot markers 'til I came across this pic on talkbass (the one on the left). I suspect they've been retro-fitted (like the naff gold tuners). Any ideas? [/quote] See the diamond at the 21st fret? These are third-party aftermarket stick-on jobs. I bought some a wile back, but couldn't bring myself to apply them. I sold my Legends and bought a Euro instead, which luckily has proper MOP crown inlays... I quite like the gold tuners... or would do if they were matched with a gold bridge...

Good luck with it, well done. It's a shame you live so far away really or I would come and kick you up the arse, too. Black and tort??

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1423954889' post='2690958'] ...black and maple [/quote] No. Black basses are as an abomination unto the LORD. [quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1423977188' post='2691078'] ...black body tort plate maple board mmmmm [/quote] What did I just say, ye HEATHEN?? Also black and tort is actually [i]illegal[/i]. Expect a visit from the authorities.