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Can't be, quote from the Digital Music article "Notwithstanding the buyers’ Fender holdings, Reverb went ahead and pledged not to provide preferential treatment to the instruments giant." Of course they may well be lying 🤣 Serious note though, if Servco/Creative have dropped $3-400 million just bolster FMIC then, even after dumping 300 staff to lower production numbers, sales must be really pi$$ poor.

I won't use Reverb any more. A few years ago I bought a guitar and left a 4* review for the seller - one star knocked off because it arrived with a ding that wasn't disclosed (I asked the seller about condition and was told no scratches or dings) and the setup was so bad it was virtually unplayable. The seller left me 1* feedback as a buyer, with the comment being the text of the email I sent explaining the issue... so I had 1* feedback and they made it look like I was the one at fault. I complained to Reverb and they sided with the seller. They supported the seller when he said they would remove the 1* feedback if I changed mine to 5*. At that point I lost all confidence in the platform. Ratings are clearly fake. As a business I used to sell through Reverb, but stopped immediately - as a small business owner, integrity is central to everything I do and I refuse to support or be associated with a platform that endorses and supports bullying. It's great for searching for things. But I only buy them if they're from a dealer whose website I can visit - and usually pick it up a few hundred quid cheaper direct!

There's a chap whose work features on here occasionally who could do that for you...

Bought a lovely tube preamp DI pedal from Peter. Exemplary transaction with full photos and documentation and rapid delivery. Top class!!!

I'm not a luddite - I'm on board with the likes of Toneprints - I've plugged my phone/computer into my TC pedals to edit Toneprints and tailored them to my requirements - tamed the make-up gain on the Spectracomp as I felt it was giving too much of a volume jump when engaged vs. disengaged, and got stuck into the Brainwaves to set the custom interval to be a single semitone - not available in the stock configuration. But these are one time adjustments, now it's done I just crack on with using the effect - by going straight to the pedal I want to adjust settings on and just doing so.

Be careful with paulownia - I found that it it drinks paint and is very soft as stated above

TBH for a used Fender this is not a bad idea. There are so many fakes out there buying online is becoming a gamble even for people who know what to look out for.

Thank Cue - Led Zeppelin

yeah I get that, I feel the same way about some things, and especially touch screens and needing to plug into my laptop to edit... But if you get something where the UI is good and simple enough it becomes a tool to let you do things that are either really hard or expensive to do with analogue pedals then who cares what tool is used, if it sounds good enough, it is good enough.... What I find more strange is that this will be the flavour of the month for a while and feature on 50% of the "post your pedalboard" threads on here and talk bass but in a years time be replaced by something new... it's the unsettling changing that somewhere I don't understand

Couple of years back i got a Custom P Body made... Enjoyed the whole Bitsa Experience, so got a custom J Body made... Both are Paulowina for cost, it is a soft wood for dinks. Now defunct or rebranded Luthiers Warehouse / Luthiers Crafts, via the Bay. Got a Jazz Neck from Twin--Cam on the bay. There is a company Wild Rainbow Music on the bay, might be worth dropping them a line.

Looks/sounds great. Nice to hear octaves/filters from a multi fx that sound good. May try this in place of the stomp

To be fair... it was a 4 day bank holiday.

@rwillett @bigthumb @neepheid @ead @80Hz @GreeneKing @stevie @nekomatic @ossyrocks @peterjam @doomkeeper @Frank Blank @zbd1960 @bagsieblue <-- TBC Also nobody has stated any food requirements, such as vegetarian, allergies or similar. Sadly Chateaubriand is not a requirement Thanks Rob

I've decided to base my build on the Fender Bassman 100, with a circuit more or less like the one below. In the past I've reduced such circuits to one channel with a single input but I like the idea of being able to use this as a guitar head too. Rather than jumper the inputs (which would work, as the channels are in phase), I'm thinking of having a single socket that connects to Input 1 (high gain) of both channels. Then I'd have a 3-way switch to select channels (Bass-Mix-Guitar) and use the channel volumes to mix their relative levels.

Pool Hall Richard - Faces/Stewart

remember that (not sure if real) story where some guy got an actual octopus delivered by Tesco, as they did not have the specific brand of bread the customer asked for? 😁

100% this.

Hmmm interesting. I can guarantee you will see "Certified Pre-Owned Fenders" for sale very soon. Bascially a second hand guitar with a warranty that costs less than new, but more than a private seller would charge. I've seen Mike Lull do it as well as Rolex. Basically a market control exercise.