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Paid my vat / import / handling and it should be delivered on Thursday. That's far faster than I was expecting. I was thinking about selling my Darkglass head as I almost always use my Mark Bass, but now I can have a 3 way shoot out.

IIRC at the moment I have TI Flats (P bass); EB Group 4 flats (Sandberg); Dunlop flats (5 string Ibanez Mezzo); D'Addario Nickels (the rest). So that list is completely wrong!

Ooo I have a dispatch email! Probably take 2 weeks to actually get here these days!

You can custom order any Sandberg with a 32 scale. Same cost as opting for 35 on a bass that would normally be 34.

It’s becoming my favourite bass!

Aargh. I need to sell before I can buy.

I hated the RH750. I wouldn't buy another for £25.

Thomann.

Definitely! I've ordered the head - £159 + vat! Madness. Andertons still showing them at £699. And I've just seen they've sold out. I do have an order number so I hope I got one.

Is that excluding Vat? EDIT - I've had a look at the prices. I think you've forgotten the Vat that will be charged when it arrives.

The overall cost of making a Mars Bar and getting it into the shops is under 5 pence. Customers have decided we'll happily pay a quid for one.

I've just found one on the sold page at BD - looks like it was about £1700!

Sandberg do this one

The scale isn't the issue - it's the strings. Low tuned short scales can be amazing - but I'd be expecting a 130 instead of that 105.

This is why I joined an educational trust band that my kids attended. Multiple ensembles if various sizes, doesn’t matter if someone doesn’t show up! As long as it isn’t the drummer. Or the bass... damn it. No days off for me!

I'd be amazed if EBMM would let him tell that level of financial whopper in an advert from EBMM. There are rules!

I missed that bit. I really like those strings, but I'm amazed they work that low!

You are referring to the people who got a silent album onto Spotify and got paid for it!

I think it's tuned up, not down. More of a baritone range I cannot see 45-105 working at low C.

Limited first run of a hundred or so sold out in about 5 mins so they made it into a production instrument. Now they've added another colour.

THE EMG FAQ is quite good - under General https://www.emgpickups.com/emg-faq

Yes and no! Many active pickups have a preamp built into them. EMG coils for example actually produce a very low level sound and the internal preamp boosts it to a useful level. But that preamp is not really tone shapingl, it's just bringing the level up. There are no controls for the internal preamp. Then you can add an external preamp / EQ system on top of that if you want. EMG do have a couple of guitar active EQ systems and as said elsewhere - Dave Gilmore is quite a fan. But then sometimes (usually on basses) a normal passive pickup is connected to a an active EQ / preamp. This can be done on guitars as well, it's just that the choices are fewer.

Loads of EMG / Fishman Fluence / Seymour Duncan Actives loaded new guitars out there. Just not many with more than a tone pot. The benefit of the pickups is extremely low noise / hum, and low impedence to drive longer chains. They really are everywhere.

I am now rapidly calculating what I could make from selling some unused stuff... Close. Damn close...

It's a shame the link is broken for the download. Also - sticking that in a pedal would be ace.