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I'm not a fan of it personally.

Oops, have we just opened the valve on another GAS pipe? This is my gigging amp This is my practice amp This is my recording amp What have we done?

Is recording a separate use case for a bass amp?

Because there's no message being quoted in my previous post, you can rest assured it was not directed at you, but at the thread in general and I guess the OP in particular as the instigator of the thread. I'm at a loose end, filling in time before a gig tonight, my wife's away so I've got the house to myself and honestly, I think I've gone a bit peculiar. To be brutally honest, the whole tone of the OP's initial post (and subsequent same again, but longer post) just got up my nose, and it probably shouldn't have. So, sorry all and @la bam in particular. I clearly have got too much "me" time right at this very moment and I overanalysed things. My bad.

Well, each to their own. Personally I think the whole "too loud for home practice" thing is a false argument - amps have got volume controls. Until I got my Joyo 30W Vibe Cube, I was using my TC Electronic BH250 just fine for home practice - although mostly in headphones because I couldn't be arsed trotting out a cab. The only reason I got the Joyo was because it's more plug and play so I might practice at home a bit more (so far this seems to have borne fruit). I also don't really see why a 200W amp has to justify its existence to one particular person - the market as a whole will decide if it works or not. You buy one, or don't, and that's absolutely fine. There's a whole lot of IMO going on here, and while that's fine and dandy, it just gets argumentative in the end. You don't like/get them - fine, don't buy 'em. There are plenty folk who do. Like I said, I'm going to gig my 250W backup head tonight in a pub gig with no PA support and I'll report back as to how lacking or not it was, how does that sound? Does it even matter? I'm not you after all, I don't play in your venues or in your bands, so maybe I'm just wasting my time.

Depends - quite a few basses come with D'addario XL nickel rounds as stock strings. As these are my strings of choice, I'm ready to hit the ground running. I'm not being lazy, I genuinely like the sound and feel of bog standard D'addarios and I feel very fortunate indeed, because they're relatively cheap, readily available and like I said, often come as standard equipment.

From my NBD post about the Fazley "Hot Rod" bass "Of course, the stock strings are hot garbage, thin, rougher than Rotos and went straight in the bin." "The stock strings weren't giving the truss rod much to do - after I put my beloved D'addario XL nickel rounds on it, the neck was a banana and I had to tighten the truss rod three quarter turns!" TL:DR - they're just awful, chuck 'em in the bin and put on your preferred strings - just be ready to have to tighten that truss rod!

Well damn, have I missed the boat in spectacular fashion - my first order from Thomann was in 2007

My backup head is 250W and I wouldn't worry about gigging with it. In fact tonight I might gig with it, as a proof of concept/fire drill.

Right, I've taken the screw out of one of mine and can tell you the following about the screw: Size: M2.5 Thread: Metric Fine (0.35mm pitch - course is 0.45mm) Total length (including head): 18mm Now, I have a set of GB7 knockoffs which I was going to raid for parts anyway and I took the screw out of one of those. It is slightly longer at 19.75mm, and has a slightly smaller head, but I put that screw in my genuine GB7 tuner and it tightened up fine - there must be some tolerance built into the design to accept the slightly longer screw. Here they are side by side (and length difference heavily exaggerated by the macro lens - I measured them both with digital callipers) If you'd like me to send you this screw, noise me up in a PM and we'll get it sorted. But if you just want to take the info above to find your own screw, then no worries.

What are these super special capacitors which can only be sourced from the States?

I'll update this tonight with my findings... stay tuned.

OK, well for my own curiosity if nothing else, I'll still see if I've got a suitable replaceable screw anyway and if I find one, I'm happy to send you it.

I have these tuners on one of my basses also: They're good tuners, well worth replacing that screw if you ask me. Let me have a rummage in my spares boxes and see what I can find.

Oh and another thing, you won't find those Gotoh GB7s (if indeed they're even called GB7s) anywhere but the second hand market, especially those ones with the plastic, fluted bit below the button. The modern day GB707 has a different shaped button.

Take another one out, and measure it, then get a replacement? It's just a case of getting the correct screw. Perhaps a local, friendly fastener supplier could help? Contact Gotoh?

Well, keep your beady eyes off of mine!

Let's not dirty up January any further, I'll have to check back previous years but I think it might be a record breaking one. Plus international bass purchasing can be stressful so let's not jinx it with a declaration just yet, eh? We eagerly await your imminent arrival and I'm taking an executive decision to mark your failure down as date of safe arrival. Not the same thing as getting a next day delivery from Andertons etc. is it?

Well, your post seemed coy, I was unsure how final it was. Plus we don't know what it is yet, so I can't accurately record what caused your exit. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Thanks for pointing that out. First page edited, Jan summary will be amended shortly.

Well, if no amount of settings tweaking can make them work satisfactorily then I guess they are "defective" and it's not your fault they've been insufficiently spec'ed... As for the iPad, I wouldn't even bother reporting it, IMO it's consumer electronics and out of the scope of any tier of this challenge, regardless of what you use it for.

Boss Poly Shifter to the rescue. -4 semitones will be pushing it though. Be good enough for live.

Oh god, that reminds me, that song's on my to-do list as well. Fscking bricking it, mate. Apart from some of the intricacies, it's as much a memory test as anything else!

A fiendish and convoluted plan I wish I had thought of now!

Back at one of our favourite venues, Wilsons on Market Street in Aberdeen on Saturday 7th Feb. Free entry. Please drop by if you're in the vicinity!