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I've only ever bought a bass off a Reverb seller once, and it was a complete success. Ergo, there's absolutely nothing wrong with Reverb, you're all crazy, what the hell are you all talking about?

I'm not a luddite - I'm on board with the likes of Toneprints - I've plugged my phone/computer into my TC pedals to edit Toneprints and tailored them to my requirements - tamed the make-up gain on the Spectracomp as I felt it was giving too much of a volume jump when engaged vs. disengaged, and got stuck into the Brainwaves to set the custom interval to be a single semitone - not available in the stock configuration. But these are one time adjustments, now it's done I just crack on with using the effect - by going straight to the pedal I want to adjust settings on and just doing so.

It all just leaves me cold. All of these multifx units do. I don't want a single point of failure. I don't want a touchscreen. I don't want something which cost more than many of my basses did on the floor in front of me at the Dog and Duck. I don't want to have to go through menus to get to what I want. I want physical switches and knobs that don't change purpose depending on what mode you're in. I could go on, but you get the gist. Any time someone's shown me one of these devices, either in a video or in person I just think "why?" while giving my best "mmm, this is delicious" act so as not to offend. I'm just offering my personal opinion, not trying to yuck anyone's yum, if you're on board then more power to you.

Don't you dare chlorinate my sausage rolls!

I'd like to think my berk-ness is well known round these parts, yes

It's a pickup, innit? Same thing, innit? What are you moaning about?

Did you miss the part where I said I was physically there? My bad, I got my year wrong, it was 2008.

Pfft, the golden age was when it was £1 == $2. I visited the US then (2009?) and chuckled heartily about getting on a bus for 50p ($1).

If you have an original, get it copied. Brian Pillans (he's on ebay - username/store name earlpilanz) or TinyTone are the two places that spring to mind for this service.

It's "forever", isn't it?

TGI Ultimate gig bag for £110-130 TGI Extreme gig bag (less padding but still substantial) for £60ish

Also would avoid ebay sellers - I heard that many of these are people putting things up that they don't actually own, they're in shops, they tack on a "finder's fee" and then go buy it on your behalf. That's why you often see the same thing with the same photos up on ebay from different sellers for completely different prices and postage methods (some charge postage, some lump it into the cost and offer "free" postage etc.). Feels a bit grubby to me although I guess it's no different to a "personal shopper" thing in practice.

Another +1 for Ishibashi - smooth transaction, sent in a nice sturdy box, and even with the VAT etc. it still worked out cheaper than local market prices for what I was buying (a Yamaha BB1200, for reference)

Strings deffo consumables, I presume the skins are too? Don't really know anything about banjos. Are you replacing a broken/malfunctioning bridge, or are they consumables also? Anyway, it's not a bass, so at worst - tier 2?

I should point out that my BQC was before all this solderless stuff. Honestly I don't know how you do it these days - surely you don't have to hack one end off the cables if you're not hooking it up to EMG stuff?

I had a BQC control in my Epiphone Les Paul. BQC control is just a preamp, it will accept whatever you feed it, so you do all the trickery you require (volume, passive tone, pickup selection, coil selection) first in whichever way you see fit, then feed the results of that to the BQC instead of it going to the output jack. In the case of the Epi LP, it was a pair of EMG-HB pickups, going to plain 25K pots (EMGs need that low value), then onto the usual Les Paul pickup selector switch, then the output of that fed to the BQC.

As a long-ish term owner of a 4 string Triad (almost 3 years now), let me put your mind at ease on a few points: The fretboard overhang beyond the heel of the neck is not vulnerable - mine's still attached fine. The overhang is probably so they can make 20 and 21 fret necks using the same neck dimensions and therefore have them be interchangeable depending upon what they need. I've seen this done on some necks intended for Fender Shaped Objects to give them 21 frets also. I've not noticed any weakness in my bridge pickup (in fact I remember remarking that it's one of the few bridge pickups I've actually enjoyed the sound of), hopefully you can adjust it out. If you feel like you're missing options (like the ability to use all three pickups simultaneously or neck and bridge minus the middle pickup) then you're going to have to mod the bass. I believe you can replace one of the pots with a push/pull which switches one of the pickups into the circuit independently of the 5 way switch, but I fitted a Freeway 10 way switch to mine. This practically invisible mod replaces the stock 5 way switch and gives you the missing options l alluded to above (as well as a few of them in series in addition to parallel). Dunno if you saw my NBD thread about the Triad, but in case you missed it, here it is (documenting how I got on with it in the beginning and showing me part way through fitting the Freeway switch) - https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/467579-nbd-reverend-triad Enjoy your new bass, it looks lovely in that silverburst!

Well, I appreciate that clarification, but my point still stands. I don't think it's worthless information - it's true, isn't it? There have been many a disappointed noob get one of these thinking they can just join in on an acoustic night armed with nothing but an acoustic bass guitar and dreams. People tangential to this conversation read this stuff after all. There's no need to get personal about it, and calling people "completely clueless" just because you don't like what they have to say is a bit rum, old chap.

You hold the iron by the handle - that's the fatter part of it, not the thin, pointy, extremely hot part...

Aw no, that's sad news, and very unexpected. RIP Sam.

Are winking smileys placed at the end of text to denote that they are meant amusingly or not to be taken 100% seriously a thing any more? Did I miss a memo? Stop the world, I want to get off!

And? Tell me you didn't wake me up just to condescend to me about how choices work, is there something else?

I was having a laugh (as indicated by the winking smiley after my text), and I didn't make it personal. You can stick your "clueless" comment somewhere else - I've owned two, and it was two too many for me, that's my clue, it is derived from personal experience. If you like 'em, you're not wrong - I'm not going to call you names for liking them, so how's about a bit of respect for those whose opinions you disagree with?

I strongly disagree that they're similar. I am not going to filter everything I say online lest it be interpreted as some sort of call to action or intended prompt for someone to do me a solid. You make out like it would be my fault if someone noised me up and offered to gift me an example of the Fazley bass I had ordered back in September last year and now will not receive due to the collapse of Bax Music, just because I've been documenting the saga on here. Nuh-huh, I'm not having it. I don't control what other people do as a consequence of what I write online (unless I've got the begging bowl out - which I don't). I didn't ask anyone to help me out, and as such I would consider myself blameless and having had no involvement in them choosing to do it. It's not even remotely similar to me trying out basses in the physical presence of my surprise benefactor, save for the most mean spirited of argumentativeness, which I'm concerned that's the route it's starting to go down. I think it's been mentioned before, but this thread is ultimately supposed to be a bit of fun, so I'm going to stop the discount Asda SmartPrice Perry Mason routine now and return you to your scheduled programmes.

They're as useless as any other acoustic bass, I guess