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If it was a four I'd be interested in taking it off you. But if it was a four, you wouldn't be selling. 🤦🏼‍♂️ What a pointless post.

I had exactly the same experience! Ric copy, bought some flats, loaded them up, sounded pants!

Some basses just sing with flats don't they?

Had a masked meeting in a Tesco car park with Geoff today. I left with one more cab than when I arrived and fewer sheckles in the bank. A really great guy to deal with, Geoff had to put up with my headless chicken routine when the cash machine refused to play ball, but remained patient and friendly throughout. The communication prior to today's face to face, was easy, swift and clear, and I'm 100% happy to recommend this fine Basschatter.

OK thanks.

OK, thank you everyone. I feel guilty now for the total thread hijack. Sorry @ClassicVibes. Back to the build...

OK so it's solderless, but what does it do differently from the stuff already in the bass?

Ah, well that explains it. I just need to know what 'it' means in this particular context.

Can anyone explain the Line Selector on this little box of tricks? I have read the manual and it didn't seem to shed any useful light on it.

I also read this. But cannot agree. Nothing wrong with it at all. However I am a passive bass kind of guy so if the preamp made it too hot or zingy I would have disliked it. Don't be fooled by talk if starter or back up basses. Harley Bentons are only cheap in one area. The price tag.

Never played the 5er but the 4 string is utterly faultless to my fingers and ears.

I often hear of these "Ki0gon solderless wiring" looms, but have always been to shy to ask what they are, why they're desirable and how do you know you need them.

Looking forward to this. Lots of pics of the wiring please!

I'm in.

I use a fungicidal cream

Oh you're expecting too? Congrats, I think mine might be twins.

It's not just neck dive, it's the way a bass tilts away from the body worries me

Folk on Basschat are famous for using an IKEA laptop stand for just this purpose. I bet someone will come along with a picture of it holding an amp. a link to help you out. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GMM74T0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_-8-5EbKS0T0YW

Remember it like it was yesterday. Still using the RCFs too.

SG shape is on my ever expanding bucket list. Thing is @Dood could play a badminton raquet and make it sound better than any bass I ever played. Even having said that I liked the tones he was getting. My question is simple. With the strap button at the heel - how does it hang?

Been happily revisiting Basschat's dusty end this evening. Threads like this one in particular being very close to my heart. In a couple of days I will be rejoining the BF C/M club. I bought this superb set up from @Happy Jack a couple of years back. I loved it And who wouldn't? Then, a little way down the road, I spent the last of my pennies on an SVT. Can't sit an SVT on top of a Compact /Midget stack. Not unless you enjoy the precarious overhang of a 25 cwt head wobbling on top of a couple of cabs weighing no more than 2 polystyrene ceiling tiles. But lay the compact on its side, and presto! The world's loudest coffee table. So, being out of cash I offered my Midget (settle down at the back) in trade for a second Compact. Score! Basschat came through for me. Did the deal and the SVT was upon a throne worthy of such a piece of bass history. But I never ever stopped hankering for that Midget. I used to sit my Orange Terror on it, wait for the rest of the band to finish laughing at it, then turn them to blast shadows on the rehearsal room wall. I have my ultimate set up, with my Ashdown gear and my two Compacts. I don't need this. I have the flexibility I need for all the different bands I work with. But either on its own, or paired as the good Lord Alex intended, with its 15" pal, this, to me is one of the greatest boxes I've ever owned. Colour me excited.