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The Super Twin tops out at about 4Khz. The rando cab you used with a tweeter probably goes to 10Khz at least - maybe as high as 20Khz there's not a lot of fundamental anything up there but it does allow more harmonic content to get through. So it depends on what element of the sound you are looking for. If it is more top end then maybe a Barefaced Big Twin 2 as that has a tweeter in it. But also the Super Twin is a quite neutral speaker so to make it sound like other cabs you'll need very different EQ setting. Definitely adjust with your ears and not your eyes!

My favourite traditional one is the Aguilar 60s wind. The AG 4P-60 And I’ve got a Dimarzio Relentless that has just been fitted. Very different!

It's dead easy - I've done it on mine. Takes 5 mins. I hate them too!

I like that a great deal.

Far easier option. Undo it and slide the black plastic part out of the housing. You'll see a little screw. Undo that. Then slide the Red plastic thing out of the way. That will show you a spring underneath it. Remove the spring. Then put the red bit back, put the screw back and stick it back together. Ta-DA! Now it's just a regular jack socket without any locking nonsense.

I'm using an RM800 Evo2 at the moment and it's very good, but before that I mainly used Mark Bass and I really like them. I suppose I could buy from Thomann and have the 3 year warranty.

Could well be. I don't blame them or actually the shop for the shortages, that would be silly in the current component shortage situation, but I've sent several emails to the shop and the first was "we'll send it out next week" and the ones after that were "I'll check that for you" And then never actually getting back to me. I've sent an email now cancelling my order. I might just buy another Ashdown and have done with it.

U Does seem to be like that. I think I'm going to cancel and then look at something else. I've never had a MB amp go wrong but I would imagine the supply chain for spares / repairs would be equally bad and that doesn not give me any confidence really.

I agree for large companies. But that doesn't scale to small outfits. BF only have 6 employees. I run a little company. There's only 2 of us. There is no way I can avoid price increases if I want to stay open. Paper has doubled. Energy has doubled. My prices have gone up but my income hasn't.

I never think to have a look on Reverb! I'd be surprised if that went at £2500 unless they really are rare and someone really wants one. That's not the original case either. The lower sum seems far more accurate to me.

I cannot find any past ebay sales and the most recent one on here seems to be over 10 years ago. I never play it anymore as it's just too heavy for me these days. I think it's 9 or 9,5lb It's the slightly sparkly blue colour. The scratchplate has yellowed with age a bit. I've had it for at least 10 years and it's a fantastic sounding bass and very versatile with the JPJ pickup system. Any ideas on value? It's gathering dust now and I could do with some funds to start buying the things that the eldest spawn will need for university in September. ta

I needed to order a load of paper for work - just A4 printer / copier paper. I usually just buy the cheapest 80g stuff I can find, and yesterday even that had doubled in price! Astonishing increase. I'm slightly insulated as it's a business expense to set off and I can get the vat back but even so that's just mental. How long do printer cartridges last for? I'm thinking about stocking up before those go even more silly than they are already.

Bizarrely I was on the receiving end when I was playing my old Marleaux. A "do you think you'll ever get a Fender?" type thing. I said "Well I suppose I could sell this and buy 4 of them, but why?" Cheaper instruments have never been better, and some expensive ones are only expensive because of an artist name. I don't have my silly money Zon or Marleaux anymore and now my most expensive is a Sandberg Superlight (don't know the value of my Fender Urge 2) but I'm just as happy to gig my £200 Ibanez Mezzo. Probably less chance of it getting nicked too.

@ikay This is what I've got so far I'll do more as I go through the box of things. I've taken the scratchplate off my Ibanez and the screws and replaced the knobs and just those small changes have knocked off 127g. If I make it passive and lose the battery, clip, preamp, and 2 pots and 2 knobs I reckong losing another 99g would be quite simple. That would be half a pound off for very minor changes. I did notice that the Aguilar P pickup is very light for it's type too. Instead of a bitsa I'm now wondering about modifying my Mezzo instead. I wonder how much paint weighs...?

I have a pair of Yamaha HS7 monitors. They are marvellous. Great at all volumes, more than loud enough for deafening home volumes and really clear. I use them with my helix and for all my PC audio (using helix as my soundcard and interface). 99% of my home playing is with them.

No - Bass Direct. They really need to improve their website game. Live tracking of stock levels has to be the bare minimum these days.

Now that I remember I did have an issue in the house. I eventually discovered it was whenever the tumble dryer was on. It's an ancient dryer and it makes a racket and the bushings are shot. I suspect it was putting out a lot of EM signal. I really need to replace it. I never took the dryer to a gig for the Rush look so it was never an issue at a show!

I would imagine a set of .175 .135 .115 .095 usually used for basses with a low F# but tuned to E standard would be as high a tension as anyone could ever want.

Yes. Unfortunately the shop website didn't mention that it was out of stock and the follow up email that said "We'll send it out next week" turned out to be bollocks. I've chased for another update, but if it's too long or I don't get a response in a day or 2 then I'll cancel and buy something else. I have gigs coming up (the first since lockdown) and I need to take 2 amps, just in case. There's no PA to use as DI box with in an emergency.

I've got a couple of Line 6 G70 units. They are discontinued now. Some reported drop outs in use - I only had that when I didn't follow the start up scanning process to look for a clear frequency. When that is done they've been rock solid. If I was looking for a replacement, I'd get the Shure GLXD16. I nearly bought that the first time round, it was only that Andertons did a really cheap clear out price (50% off) that made me go for the L6 ones.

Existing owners would go nuts if Wal suddenly flooded the market driving the used prices down. And then we'd also get the Klon like "this one pre-dates whatever" price gouging just because one had a different logo on it type nonsense. Maybe Ferrari should scale up their production and sell the cars for £30K as well.

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It is now installed. I like it. But ye gods the output is MASSIVE. Cut the bass in my amp quite a lot to make it sound more mid pushed like a traditional P pickup and lowered the input gain. I’m using 250 pots with it. Dimarzio suggest a 500 vol and 250 tone, but the 250 pair sounds good to me.

Sounds like you have a nickel allergy. It's actually quite common. Some people have it so badly that some coins cause a reaction. Finger slip is just practice I'm afraid!

TBF I think BigRedX wasn't talking about moving around or off-axis mic'ing etc. Just that you cannot guess what a 15 is going to sound like until you plug it in. It might be deeper sounding than a 10 but just as likely it won't be. Crossed wires a bit I think.