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I'd love a stingray. But until they make the SLO neck available easily to us over here they won't convince me to buy one.

I've asked Sandberg UK about the pickup placement. Hopefully get an answer soon.

I believe it's mainly about the pickup placement. It's now in the right ray position. On the Basic it's a bit further forward.

Sandberg have always offered more stuff if you ask. If you want a pink one with ebony then get a quote. There's loads of stuff that isn't on the configurator - all California basses are available as 32 inch medium scales too.

If the Central sells well I expect more colours to be made available. It's up to us! We must do our duty! I'm really picky about bass weight so I'm going to raise the money and then hope that a suitably light one arrives with Bass Direct / Thomann / wherever.

Looks like I'm going to be selling some things then. I really want one. I've got an amp, a PRS I hardly ever play, and I might let one of my Mezzo's go too. Should get me close enough.

It's quite a bit further back towards the bridge - the 24 fret on the basic makes it look different.

Damn that's good value. When is it coming?

When she finds out - give me first refusal please! (On the bass, I've already got 1 wife and mother in law)

Lovely strings!

The fuzz models are based on real pedals. If they don't have a blend in real life then they don't have one in the Helix. Would be nice if L6 did a few more of their own ideas for the pedals like they have with a couple of the amps.

I enjoyed that!

IRRC even some of the Marshall cabs are now made abroad. Not that I care. It's either a good product or it isn't.

You can use patch cables and IN OUT blocks to effectively give other blend options. So you are basically using the OUT to then jump to a new IN location somewhere else in the chain - or even onto the other path. I've not needed it personally so I haven't tried it, but a few guitarists I know have done it that way.

Different body shape, 22 frets, different neck profile (I believe) and the pickup is now in proper ray position. On the Basic it was much further forward, more P sounding. I'd still rip the Delano out of it and put in something I like more!

There's a guy on the fretboard forum who powers his Stomp with a power pack and gets an entire gig with it. It is possible if you get the right kit. In fact he's a member here too... @digitalscream

I'm guessing it might not be the unit for you. But just in case... 1. The tuner is crap. Therefore I still need to use my Polytune. (It's not great, but turn the bass down a bit and always pluck at the same spot) 2. You CANNOT use the polyphonic drop-tune pedal unless you only want an amp, cab and compressor. It literally devours all the DSP. Ergo, I still need my Digitech Drop. (6 months ago the Poly model wasn't even in it. There is a simple one, but L6 customers just wouldn't shut up about it even when they were warned it would eat all the DSP. To be fair to L6 - every modeller of any brand and money suffers in a similar way for poly tuning shifting. And none of them - even the stupid money Axfx3 or the QC are as good as the Digitech Drop is. Task specific kit wins every time. Tune your bass to the lowest it needs to be for the entire set and then play the other stuff higher up the neck.) 3. There is no fuzz model with a blend control, so I have to use my Big Muff in one of the loops and blend that way. (They can all be blended with a clean signal. Just drag the Muff downwards and you'll automatically get a blending signal path) 4. I’m far too lazy to make patches for each song so I still need to use my Sadowsky preamp pedal for level matching between my basses. (Can't help you there) So that’s 4 pedals plus a wireless on a mini board next to my “all-in-one” solution. (2 pedals and the wireless. You can learn the tuner and you can blend the Muff, or indeed any other block)

It will no doubt be lighter in weight, have my favourite neck in the world, and as Gregor has said the price will be the same as a VS of similar spec (1 pickup, active) it will be £1000 cheaper than the competition too... (aged ones not included).

I really want one!

I have the BF and used to have the MB Club 121. I thought the Club 121 was a very good cab - wedge shaped, great tone etc. The BF is not a million miles away tonally, apart from the MB does have a tweeter and will go up to 20Khz (I always turn tweeters off) The BF is tiny - really tiny but doesn't sound like it. I've not tried the MB New York cab to see if that escapes small cab boxiness syndrome. The weights are both low, but the BF is still only about half the weight of the MB. It's a difficult choice really. Both make great cabs. I decided to go for the lightest option as that at the top of my importance list.

The one that made me laugh most was the vid about his vintage B15 and his settings when it was clear the recorded signal was from his board!

This only works if all parties know what note they are playing and they don’t continue to use the note names from standard tuning. The amount of times I’ve had to put up with that…. 😤

The OC-5 is excellent. If you can find one. Worldwide stock is very low due to supply chain issues.

The jump between notches on mine is far too much. Maybe they are all a little different?

Sonny T (Prince, Cory Wong etc) started that way. Now he has a custom Warwick left hand, strung the wrong way. B on the bottom.