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Well cor blimey guvnor! What a sound. Apart from a small trip round a couple of other basschatters before it came back home I have owned a Status Energy for years - and had Rob build a fretless neck for it about 10 years ago. Most of the time I had Chromes on it, and sometimes light rounds. But after watching endless vids of Rob Allen basses strung with Black Nylons I thought I would give them a try. I went for the lighter set that was 50-65-85-105 - but even they the nut needed a little widening. I don't have any nut files so I stole my daughters metal nail file and took it slowly. They have much less tension than an all metal set of similar gauge but they sound immense - deep and plummy with the tone control all the way off, but still bright and slappable with it up. I should point out that the bass has a Quarter Pounder in it - in between the jazz pickups, with a separate output with a vol and tone. That's the pickup I use mostly. It's just awesome. I may well move up to the heavier set at some point but that will need more nut work as that set is 60-70-94-115. The music trust band I play with meets again in about 2 weeks, so I think I'm going to take this one with me and apologise for the wrong notes and excessive sliding. Also - it looks damn cool with black strings!

Well this thread was interesting. I've been playing for 27 years and I've never heard of being intentionally out of tune. I've heard of selecting individual notes that technically clash (usually by some prog band) and if heard of using microtones in music from different countries. But having the entire instrument out on purpose? I remain unconvinced and I can see why a listener would find it annoying. It would make my teeth itch.

Yes. On bass and then again on sax. Love it!

Weights and comparison https://www.hipshotproducts.com/files/all/ulite_weights.pdf

On a 5 string with old big plate tuners like a EBMM or Fender putting on Ultralites will knock off almost half a pound. That's why all my 5 strings have them! And as the weight saving is all at the end of the neck, the balance is much improved too.

After trying a loads of mics out last year I bought the TC Helicon 75. Lovely thing, and really suits my voice.

The Alusonic sounds brilliant.

I have have a status where I installed Seymour quarter pounders in it, and it sounds brilliant. Far better than it was.

That's interesting. My Demeter has loads more welly than my Genz.

Lovely! Stick some La Bella Black Nylons on it and use the piezo for some ace almost DB sounds.

I'm after a nice swirly thing. But, I do not want "Jaco" chorus or "Jeff Berlin" chorus or any of that over used cliche type of thing. So, what's good these days?

If you are going to order online, do check Thomann prices. Sometimes they are significantly cheaper.

[quote name='Lenny B' timestamp='1441397616' post='2858694'] +1 on the Kinsman. I saw this site mentioned as well; www.[b]kabl[/b]online.com [/quote] I get mine (and other cables) from Kabl. The chap that makes them is a regular on The Fretboard. Always good stuff.

Never tried a Moog - now I must!

I have them both - but I use them the other way round to Kev! Awesome things.

I wonder if they'll do a combo version. That would be cool. I will bitch and moan about the US -v- UK price for ages. And then I'll end up buying one. As usual.

Rob Allen Mouse 30

It's Westside Distribution. They set the UK pricing. At £739 the shop price is likely to be £699 - much like the Genz Streamliner / Shuttle 900W models were. So - anyone know how much the Genz stuff was in the US? Just for comparison?

I'd love to buy it, but I need to raise a few pennies first!

I use my iPhone with Amplitude via a line 6 Sonic Port for headphone practice, but I'm not a fan of eating my phone battery when I might need it. So the Big Head has caught my eye. Is it any good? Worth getting for headphone practice? Is is super clean or has it got a bit of grit? Ta

For Sandberg pricing it's far better to go to a German dealer. I got my California TT4 passive with ebony board, matching headstock and pearl block inlays for £920 ish.

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. I love it but smeg it's hard work Habanera -Bizet. The notes are easy. So easy and dull it causes narcolepsy. Which in turn throws the timing off and makes it suck. I'm sure there are more.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1441047326' post='2855675'] I'm running a Boss tuner, Boss overdrive, a Sansamp BDDI, Sansamp VT Bass DI and a Morley ABY. I'm planning on adding a chorus, but no rush. They're all 9v and the PSU outputs at that voltage. No issues. I suppose if/when it carks out, I'll simply replace it like for like. Still can't see the point in spending any more. [/quote] Until you get a Digitech Whammy which needs 1300ma and won't even turn on with that power supply. Or an Empress delay pedal. Horses for courses as always. I've got the Gigrig set up because of some high current pedals. For ages I used a Voodoo Labs PP2 for the 9V low current pedals and then separate power supplies for the really thirsty ones, but it took up too much space on the board.

I'm hoping they've ripped off the Demeter power amp!

That is brilliant!