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Another vote for Sandberg. I have a TT4 Super Light and I love it.

Add roughly 25% to cover the VAT and import duties.

Shame the audio is all from the di and nothing from a mic on the speaker. I’d like to have heard that. A di can be made to sound very different.

Sandberg do off the shelf 35 inch 4 strings. I think it’s called the Grand Dark

I read a translation of a Japanese article that the OC-5 was nearly called the OC-2W but that the new tech moved it away from the 2 sufficiently that it needed a new name. so the OC-5 is the 2 Waza really. Can’t see a separate one coming.

There’s an interview on YT with him about it.

Hot Rox have some as well. I've never used them before. But I'll try the starter pack and then see which of them I get on with, if any.

I've done the same. But no to France!

While my finger is injured I've been using a pick and I've tried some normal thumb picks but the position of the pointy bit is much more forward along my thumb than the way I hold a normal pick and these look far more adjustable. I think I might try the started pack too.

I was hoping for a sensible UK supplier!

Used Sandberg or an Ibanez Mezzo and £300 of upgrades!

@6feet7 They look interesting - where do you get them from?

Update. It seems that I have now developed something called a "Swan Neck Deformity" where the joint nearest the knuckle is hyperextended causing the last joint to be unable to straighten. It's slight at the moment but needs to be fixed before it gets worse. I'm in this extended cast for a week. It has a rod along the underside of the finder to help it stay in shape, then next week I get another new splint made that will keep my finger in a "slightly odd" position to try to fix it. I am getting quite bored with this.

I have a lot but I tend to play 3 of them. if I need a low B it’s my Ibanez. Then my favourite is my Sandberg 4. And a cheap Ibanez that I keep in C standard tuning for writing stuff that I will be singing on.

Me too. Apart from "The Real Me" - I'm sorry but Johnny Rod's version in WASP was far better than the Ox (yeah, I said it!) so they get that. It's epic.

Really? I had no idea! I've only really heard the No1 songs that end up on compilations.

Well, 1 of them should really take them all for the team...

Covers band isn't the same a a tribute band. and U2 is always improved with slap. Always.

Markbass should now be limited to the Marcus models and the rest. The Marcus ones have a much better EQ set up and all the freqs are useable rather than the LM3 etc versions. It's a real shame they haven't used that EQ on the rest as I'm sure there are plenty of youngsters who have never heard MM and plenty of oldiewonks who wouldn't try it because they don't slap. But it's the most versatile amp I've ever owned.

And he’s confirmed he doesn’t write the bass parts as Stratton does all the composing. JD is happy to be a sideman.

Fan noise is a problem on the PA cabs at lower volume.

Flatter is always good for modelling use. Can really hear the differences in IRs particularly.

I've never tried the HS5 but for the 7 there is tons of low end - to the point that I usually use the hi and low cuts in the Helix somewhere between 30hz and 80hz to tame the lows. Annoyingly they are also better than my 5.1 system in the lounge for films!

As it happens I've got 3 of them! A pair for my PC (and native etc) and a third one that is in a wheeled rack with my helix kind of like a combo set up. It works very well for guitar and bass, although of course for guitar there is no point using any stereo fx. I've recently had a bit of a change around so my physical Helix is now next to my PC and is now my interface and soundcard so I use the pc pair almost all the time now. But one alone is great. Good sound and more than loud enough. Plenty of low end too. Sometimes I think about making Wet/Dry/Wet patches and using all 3... but that's guitarist thinking and should be stopped!

In the house I use a Helix (or the Native plugin) into powered Yamaha HS7 monitors. Sounds fantastic and lets the Helix do all the tone shaping work. In the past I also used the Helix into a Yamaha DXR10 powered PA cab for live work. Was very good. I really like the approach. It's simple and allows lots of routing options for PA support etc.