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I do. It's weird, incredibly hot, and a lot of fun. We don't make much money - it's mostly just a laugh and a chance to play some nice venues for other fans who appreciate the music too. Got quite good at changing costumes in less than thirty seconds too.

Always liked the vibe of this one, about 30 years ago at the Crypt in Hastings.

They will almost definitely remove the neg. You should also report this guy - eBay don't like multiple identities and accounts.

So, this guy is really quite unpleasant. He has numerous eBay accounts including godisforme7, vintagepluslondonguitars, reverbfireguitars, fireguitars and no doubt many more. He's just left me the first neg I've had in 15 years on eBay saying that I didn't send a bass to him with the usual "AVOID AT ALL COSTS" rubbish. He has also has just emailed me to say the police are involved. I imagine the crack anti-bass fraud group are as I write doing 90mph down the M2 in response. If they lock me up and throw away the key, it's been nice knowing you all. A nasty guy trying to bully me with threats; he wants me to refund the fee for the courier I told him not to book. I have no doubt that the reasons he messed about so long on the courier thing was because he was going to send the bass directly to the new buyer, and I told him I wasn't going to. I suspect that he has now sold the bass and taken payment, and is sitting in a pile of his own mess. I think however that this is indicative of eBay these days, so I'm about to close my account. Good idea while it lasted, but these days often populated by clowns trying to pull a fast one.

I used mine a lot over the weekend, still into the power section only of my Tecamp and then into a couple of Barefaced One10. It's very impressive. I started with the recommended Dug settings but then backed off the bass, the compression and the drive, but would up the mids to 12 o'clock. I;m getting a thick, chewy half clean / half dirty sort of sound that reduces the drive when I play gently and then gets gritty when I did in. Sounds superb - it's a great rock sound. I doubt I'll be using it for jazz stuff, so I'm next I'm going to try to use it in front of the amp and see if I can make it sound the same when activated but leave me with a more jazz sound when I turn it off completely. And I ran out of time to see what happens when I stack it with my DG and EBS drives and fuzzes. Soon.....

Mine arrived on Saturday (sorry I haven't been online since!) just as I was heading out the door to a covers gig. Took it with me and tried the suggested settings in soundcheck (blowing the rest of the band across the bar!!) lol! Ended up just using it for a tuner/mute but had a bit more of a basic play for 1/2hr yesterday and already it's sounding sweet. Looking forward to giving it more of a work out this week but I'm already finding that less is more as it can give just that 'right' amount of bite/harmonic overtone without losing the low end. Tasty!! Big thanks to Darren for sorting this for us!

I have enjoyed the process of integrating this into my existing setup; unaffected output from the GED2112 preamp gives me a decent signal into the dUg. Outputs from both units into an ABY box, then into a stereo poweramp running bridged into one enclosure. I can switch between the two easily enough now. Peachy.

Not physical appearance, but early 90s, around 10am, I was walking round the house, wearing nothing but a Telecaster, and swigging from a bottle of spirits. I looked up to see the window cleaner staring in at me. I did the only thing I could in the situation: raised the bottle in greeting then wandered off. I like to think it looked pretty rock n roll

I think its about time we have a place where all the Sandberg love on this forum can be focused. I want to see pictures of all the beautiful Sandberg flavour basses ill kick things off with my most recent 5 string purchace... california VM5 in Surf green

As previously promised, a pre production glimpse...

What I've been saying for years..... As soon as they invent the hover lift machine which will carry things for you, everybody will be buying Class A/B amps again.....and my plan to take over the world will come to fruition!!!!

I reshaped the headstock on my PB-50 today. I’d been trying to get somewhere and getting nowhere with a hacksaw. I was in the office today so I took the neck to work with me, one of the lads in the warehouse had a jigsaw and he let me borrow it. I’m pretty pleased with how it came out; I printed off a template of the Mike Dirnt Signature and drew around that. When I got home tonight I sanded back with 80 and then 120 grit paper; it’s nice and smooth now and ready for lacquering. I sanded off the Harley Benton decal too. The only downside is that the jigsaw tore up the edge of the corner I was rounding off, next to the E tuner. That meant taken off a bit more meat than I’d intended to, to hide it, but not to worry, it’ll do.

I’m a relatively recent member of the Sandberg club myself. Had this Electra VS4 for a few months and love it. Upgraded with a passive tone knob which works in active or passive. Had the neck sanded down from gloss to satin finish. I invested in some rather nice Delano knobs too. Strung with Labella Black Nylon Tapewounds. Supposedly Sandberg’s “budget” range of basses but my god it’s nice! And its soon to arrive sibling:

Lots of octavers fare surprisingly well near the end of the chain, and many people have never even bothered to try it after other fx due to having it drummed into them that octavers have to come first. I don't like feeding octave into most dirt pedals or compressors, but they do kick donkey into a filter. Best way around the whole situation IMHO is a filter with an FX loop so that it can react to your raw bass tone but blend it in at the very end of the chain. I see the COG T65 has an fx loop but it isn't clear how its wired up, e.g. if it applies the loop to the clean or sub octave?

This is exactly what we do.

I am indeed. So excited that I now cannot be bothered waiting to post pics - I’ve already let the cat out of the bag elsewhere so... A review will be in order once I receive it methinks!

FWIW, I think you did the right thing. Good people do the right thing. He sounds like a derrière (french for behind lol, I used the word that rhymes with grass)

There are those shoite ads for the postcode lottery or some such that use Wing's ubertwee ' Let Them In' but an even worse version with 'someone's knocking at the dawwwawww'. Brings out my inner psycho

And it begins! I bought the top and body woods today from Kirk at Exotichardwoodsukltd.co.uk - excellent 2-piece swamp ash set for the back and a lovely bookmatched set of poplar burl for the top. I took along a dimensioned paper template to make sure it was going to be big enough for a bass and to get a decent idea what kind of figuring will show on the finished shape: I think this piece has everything! Got it home and routered the join line square and straight using a rigid aluminium beam as a guide. Then glued and clamped it with sash clamps - the small grey clamps are just to stop it bowing under the clamp pressure and so are just loosely tightened: With luck, I will be able to cut the shape out later this afternoon or evening. This afternoon, I will order the neck wood (already have the maple fretboard wood) and a square-block/34" steel template from G&W for the block inlay routing and corresponding fret slotting - Neil's preference is maple fretboard with ebony block fret markers. While the template is on its way, I'll be trying to work out how best to use it. Bit of experimentation is going to be needed!

I wonder if he'll mention Darkglass at all.

Been playing it a bit more, it’s getting a there, and trying to balance it across all bases and getting a setting to work clean and dirty and with a 12 string. Current settings: To be the Dogman........ my sound engineer

I got a half page in Bass Player magazine this month. What a hoot! I think I did the Q&A about ten months ago...I reckon half that gear and rig has found new homes now.

UPDATE: as recommended, spoke to Ashdown, fantastic response as people said on here, so they stepped up to the mark, main option was to pop into Ashdown, they’d sort it there and then...then take it home...fantastic service but then the problem of location popped up....so me and the guy had a good laugh about that...genuinely nice guy to talk to....hadn’t heard of that type of problem with that model....so next suggestion , get in touch with retailer for exchange. Past experience, some retailers to be truthful don’t have the player at heart but this time (and I’m happy to name them now) PMT stepped up to the mark, said it’s not good an amp should fail on its first outing, arranged for a new model to be delivered and the faulty one uplifted at the same time...THE NEXT DAY! and as I’ve said, there is a stretch of water involved which usually complicates things and adds to cost as well. So new amp working well and I’m really happy. Apologies to other replies on here, I’ve had a hectic week, our “original” band has just released our first single and video to accompany it, and our covers band has been rehearsing non stop and playing at the same time...3 gigs this weekend coming , one a big outdoor show....so again, apologies for delay in replying and a BIG THANKS to those of you who offered advice, even the lend of gear and especially PMT and ASHDOWN for the fantastic service... heres our video by the way, love it if you could like our page and like and share our video. https://www.facebook.com/EndlessDivision/

The problem with moving from here to there is the cliquishness of musicians. It's very difficult to move from being an outsider to an insider in many areas.

This app used to be £35 but is now free. I actually paid for it a while back as I found the sound quality of the time stretching to be superior to the other options I tried at the time. Worth checking out if you need to slow down tunes to learn them anyway! https://pro.riffstation.com/download/

Right?! It’s gotta be one of the very last old shape Californias. Will match my Electra nicely, though they have different shaped pickguards. There will be a family photo at some point tomorrow

I've seen his beef bag. It's monstrous!

Looking very nice! Love the Burl top!!

Engineers don't use subjective terms like 'tight', which mean different things to different users. Marketeers do.

Not watched it yet - but I bet it will be 5 mins of "duG pedal is awesome" and then 35 mins of "I hate DG"

I can't quite see what is wired to what, but it looks like your J pickup may be connected back to front. Ie the black and white wires are going to the wrong holes in the little terminal block. That would cause noise to add and signals to cancel. Try swapping the wires around (no guarantees). If you really want to do it properly, then a) get a stacked coil J pickup, b) twist the pcikup wires together and keep them as short as possible (better still, use co-ax cable from the pickups to the control cavity) c) use screening foil or conducting paint inside the pickup cavities and the control cavity and make sure the surface of the cavities is connected to the bridge / pickup / jack-socket grounds. A lot of people swear by copper foil for screening, but if you look inside a quality factory made bass (certainly, both my Wal and Warwick) you will find they are use conductive paint. My project J-bass has painted cavities and has been totally silent, even with standard J-Bass wiring (as you have) since I got the stacked pickups. The problem is, you NEED the pickups to pickup magnetic fields otherwise they can't see the strings, but really don't want them to pickup anything BUT the strings .. screening the cavities can only do so much as there is always a dirty great hole in the front of the pickup cavity!! If all else fails, I'm only down the road in Derby and happy to take a look for you. You'll probably find another guitar playing electronics engineer closer, but the offer stands.

Well I got it last October-ish so the wait may be more like 6 months?

Band #1 = 27 yards (my garage) Band #2 = 27 miles Thank God I don't play in The Proclaimers ...

Well the pedal gets a big thumbs up from me! Playing along to my (ex) band’s albums which were pretty light in the bass department, it delivers such a ‘produced’ tone that it just sounds like they’ve been remixed / remastered with better bass! I thought I was getting this effect from my B3K also, but now that tone sounds completely off. It’s funny how our ears adjust - I’ll probably change my mind next week! It’s made me change my technique for the better too, forcing me to play with a lighter more consistent touch and only dig in when I want to hear distortion. You can get a lot of sound variation just from how you play.

I reckon this one has more groove

Natural with the neck through is stunning. How's the neck profile on the S1?

This used to knock me out as a kid, I used to hear this every Sunday lunchtime when my dad used to watch Weekend World, it’s still amazing now. Little excerpt from Mountain’s ‘Nantucket Sleighride’.

So mine came....... Its miniscule! For me it needs a lot of tweak time to get it right and the controls interact with each other all over the place. I am starting from dUg settings and seeing where it goes, already backing off his compression. To get the best out of this IMO so far, you need a big signal push up front, and re-EQ. Seems to like an active bass better if you want a grind sound Early days yet

Right, just reporting in. First off, thanks to Darren for sorting this all out. So, what does this baby sound like? I plugged it direct into a power amp and just had a noodle. Immediate opinion? Well...I also run a GED-2112 and to be honest the dUg is like one of those but on steroids. While I love the GED, sometimes I do/did kind of feel that while it is a great emulator, you just wanted it to go a little further if you get what I mean. The dUg just does this in spades, so much so it's more like you want to roll it off a bit. I've never gotten on with compressors, so the one knob solution does it for me. So after a brief foray, I'm very pleased. The one immediate thing that struck me was that it makes you sound so different, the bass would become an instrument that drives song intros. You just have this huge tone that sounds so amazing out of the box it would obviate the necessity of have guitar as the lead instrument. Does this make sense?

I have told the story here before but I have killed a man by playing that.

Got round to taking a couple of photo's outside now.

It arrived earlier in the week, a 2018 Wal MK 1. (I'll get some better photo's once there is enough light)