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  1. fretmeister
    Does anyone know of a steinberger shape shortscale headless? I’m thinking of something properly tiny to take on holiday and that sort of thing.
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    @merton @Merton I emailed them… Scale length - 27 Nut width - 45 mm String spacing at the bridge - 16 mm They are building one for a customer at the moment but will let me see pictures when it’s ready.
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    I’ve been listening to YouTube demos and it sounds great. Particularly the blended tones.
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    1. Slot loads every time.
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    Isn’t that a VM4? The PM name was only used on the very early ones way before the body shape changed.
  6. fretmeister
    Do these have a fan?
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    These sound interesting! I’m going to have to try one!
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    On long scales I use 40-100 On shorts either 45-105, but sometimes 50-110
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    It's a cracking amp. I'm very pleased with it. The dynamic range is massive. Really responsive. As I swap a lot between fingers, slap, and pick I always use a compressor just to sort that out a bit. Otherwise that little slap lick in the middle of a fingerstyle tune has a habit of waking the dead.
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    Looks a bit like the early Warwick Just-a-Nut versions. I wish they had the 5 string specs up. That really interests me.
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    That's a nice looking thing https://valiantguitars.com/collections/mini-bass Really mini - 27 inch scale Wood: Hard-rock maple, quarter-sawn, titanium-reinforced Profile: C profile 1st fret - Depth: 21 mm/0.82" Width: 38 mm/1.49" 12th fret - Depth: 23.5 mm/0.92" Width: 50 mm/1.96" 22nd fret - Width: 54 mm/2.12" Scale length: 27"/685.8 mm Fretboard: Roasted hornbeam Radius: 12" radius/305 mm Frets: 22 Nickel silver frets, extra-hard, Jumbo, width: 2.8 mm/0.110", height: 1.65 mm/0.064" Truss-rod: Easy-access, stainless steel truss-rod wheel Electronics Neck pickup: Valiant Guitars B-system single-coil Bridge pickup: Valiant Guitars B-system single-coil Controls: 2 volumes, 1 tone Jack: Pure Tone Hardware Bridge: Valiant Guitars duralumin Swift-RS-bass, quick-release, with bell-bronze saddles Nut: GraphTech, 38 mm/1.49" Tuners: Valiant Guitars proprietary Other features "Trinity" ebony inlays Duralumin enhanced-grip knobs with wooden pointer Full shielding Duralumin cavity covers Valiant Guitars hard-shell case included
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    He's a fantastic player. I bought the AG1000 signature amp because I do love his sound. I have to say though - his solo stuff is a bit pants compared to the legendary tunes like CK's one in the vid. I was a bit disappointed in his solo album. Fine playing - just in desperate need of a tune.
  13. fretmeister
    I'm pretty sure the Speak To Chat can be turned off. I'll have a look later.
  14. fretmeister
    If it helps - I have the Sony WF1000XM4 and I've been very impressed with them. Sound is good, no dropouts. The noise cancelling works well and the buttons can be programed in the app. There's even a clever thing that turns the NC on while sitting / standing, but allows ambient noise through when you start moving again.
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    Wireless ones that also have noise cancelling need a mic to control that feature. I have a great suspicion that the Non noise cancelling ones are actually the same, just with that bit of firmware turned off. That would make scale manufacturing far easier - the internals of the products would all be the same.
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    I like EB Group flats on my shortie - they are long scale but work with large tuners. I kind of like La Bella DTF but only for specific use really - and always with the tone control down at least 50%. Above that and they lose all their deepness. Bit odd when the old Fender style tone control is just really a LPF. I love Dunlop flats, but the price has doubled over the last year. The do not tolerate even large posts very well, so it has to be the specific short scale set.
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    I'm going out on a limb here - but maybe he wants to because he likes it? Wild shot in the dark and all that!
  18. fretmeister
    Definitely. Certainly gauges, but in some cases I change brand as well. Sometimes I even mix and match brands. For my 32 scale 5 string I use a 4 string DR Hi Beams set with a Newtone Platinum roundcore tapered stainless steel for the B.
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    In my experience long scale strings are fine if the tuning post is a traditional large one. If the post is a mini sized then the coil is much tighter and the string can break there much more easily - especially with flatwounds. As much as the OP's janky engineering approach is quite cool I could not be dealing with that faffing about.
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    Sunn amps are back. However... 100W SS that weighs 26lb? $799 https://www.sunnamps.com/amplification/betabass/ 65W all tube, weighs 32lb and costs $3199 https://www.sunnamps.com/amplification/200s/ I can't help thinking they'll struggle to sell these. The 65W guitar amp will be fine for volume but it's also $3199
  21. fretmeister
    Ola explaining an IR in very simple terms... And a bit more detail
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    I'd love to go back to a 5. Unfortunately almost all of them are too heavy for me. I did have a Sandberg Superlight 5 which was under 7lb but the neck was too chunky for me. In an ideal world I'd have a Stingray 5 that was only 7lb! I love that 44.5mm nut and the 17.5mm string spacing. As that will never happen outside of getting something custom built like it for silly money I am stuck with 4 strings.
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    Alex's vid is very informative. I don't blame him for also using it to confirm that he is an expert. Because he is. Unlike the rest of us he had the balls to put his money where his mouth was.
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    Not necessarily. An Impulse Response of a cab does include time so it does change over time. That time is very short - in milliseconds, but within that time there are very significant changes. That is something that a static EQ cannot do. Have a look at some YT vids about making your own IRs and you'll see the process. The concept of amp capturing takes it another step to include the amp at the settings being used. The rest of the signal chain makes a big impact too. For example, heavy use of compression will minimise the EQ change over time.
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    Partly. A speaker is effectively a really complex EQ curve. But a speaker is not a static EQ curve - it changes depending on what is feeding it. So an EQ with enough bands / parametric can get you close it will never be exactly the same. The image below is one that bass nerd Jon Willis made showing his best shot at duplicating an Ampeg 810 (old one and modern) using an EQ. He did it in the Helix to get the freqs right. I use it quite a bit with my Helix. Jon is really god at this sort of thing - he even helped Billy Sheehan set up his current Helix based rig.
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