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The Quad Cortex came out 5 years ago in 2020. They are still selling used at over £1000. Much better value retention than my smart phone!

The little blue Mooer is a perfect clone of the Boss CE-2. I have both. The Mooer also has a volume control so it’s actually more usable.

Yup, this is why the Joe Dart sig has a single 100k pot as it makes up for not having the load from a tone control.

And this one is passive as stock

Like this

This is a bit weird to me. "Obsolete" definition is being stretched a bit too far. I have a Line 6 Pod XT. It stopped getting updates donkeys ago. It still sounds as good today as it did when I bought it. This is not the same as a PC not being able to use a new version of anti-virus, or even a new program / app that has been designed for a newer operating system. My pedal is still working the same as it always did. It is not obsolete in the slightest. It's just old. There is a real difference.

Nordstrand have announced the end of the far east built Acinonyx basses. So if they go ahead with a 5 string it is likely to be a USA built one and will be a lot more expensive.

The Mark Bass Advanced SS "soft touch" strings are low tension and very flexible. Andertons have them at a bargain price at the moment.

Construction is the most important thing for a good B string sound and that usually costs money. There's lots of 5 strings at 34 scale that sound pretty bad and it would get worse with a shorter scale. But if it's done right it can be excellent, but unfortunately excellent = more expensive. Marleaux make a 34 scale 5 string that is way better than any Dingwall I've ever heard - but at £4K and above. There's also this "wisdom" that longer scales are needed so the market demand for shorter scale 5 strings is probably limited due to this incorrect assumption. You might find a good one, but you'll probably have to play a lot of them to get a good one. I found a good 32 scale Ibanez Mezzo 5 but Ibanez have now discontinued them. I don't play it very often but as I went through 3 of them to get one with a cracking B string I'm not going to be letting it go any time soon. Sandberg will do a 5 string at 32.5 inch scale as a custom order but they are in the region of £2000 depending on options.

Well in that case...

Nice! Have you picked the colour / active or passive etc?

I weighed mine on kitchen scales.

My Lionel SL is 2.6kg / 5.7 lb

Ha!

Update video… it’s even worse Seems there is instrument theft as well!!

Congratulations!!!

Mine are perfect. Problems are usually with the string stretching or getting caught in the nut or shifting in the saddles.

Not quite what I meant - I meant about continuing the fraud in general. I should have been clearer. The tour / ticket sales etc are all based on a lie. Anyone who already has a ticket can demand a refund, the promoters are probably going to sue him, the venues might too. The USA allows for punitive damages as well as compensatory ones so that might mean monies on top of refunds and direct costs to the venues. As most of the people buying the tickets before the exposure would have thought it was his own work he might have to introduce every single tune giving credit to the right person to get away with it. Or redo all the advertising to be "Giacomo plays the music of..." Unless he takes positive steps at least equal to the original advertising then he would probably be deemed to still be passing off.

@Linus27 I forgot about this video - 26 different preamps all used in various styles - reamping to hear each with each player. Hopefully that will be of some use to you.

the guitar magazines are running the story now as well https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/giacomo-turra-accusations Yesterday his signature model was heavily reduced on Andertons - now it's gone completely. If he goes ahead with his US tour using other people's music then he's going to get sued to oblivion.

There aren’t any. You’ll have to drill a mounting hole.

I wish the compressor could be used with the other 2 preamp tones. Then that would be ace.

Giacomo Turdo.