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All I can say is "oi oi, Triad gang represent!"

I wouldn't mind knowing what sets these apart from the Squiers being made in the same place, save for a change of decal.

Finally a five string version of the Reverend Triad. The (stock) pickup switching is identical to a Strat, yes - N, N+M, M, M+B, B.

There's no way that's factory fitted.

I think this will make quite a few folk happy. I'm sure I've seen people lament the lack of a fiver whenever I mention my 4 string Triad.

Bloody doppelgänger!

More new Sire stuff (as noted by Bigwan above - because I hate it when people come along after me and pretend like they're the first person to ever mention something) - it seems that the 6 series is focusing on being lightweight - that'll please a bunch of folk for whom weight is an important consideration for them. There's a P6 (PJ) and V6 (J) been unveiled in addition to the M6 at the start of the thread... active/passive with 3 band EQs but no mid sweep. You gotta buy a 7 for that. P6 - 4 https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqt P6 - 5 https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqy V6 - 4 https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqq V6 - 5 https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqe - although a couple of the pics are the 4 string, oops. Blue and red ones are 5s.

Well, as I understand it, it goes like this: You give Andertons money Andertons give you the bass.

What fun would that be? Boo! Also, none of you are thick, you know damn well what is and isn't gear, but don't stop squirming, it's most of the fun (because abstaining from buying gear roundly sucks - we need the entertainment!) Bags/straps are accessories/consumables as far as I'm concerned. Hell, you could argue that straps are safety equipment, or even clothing! Straplocks are gear though - so unless you're replacing a broken one - tough luck. Go buy a couple of Grolsch and use the free straplocks that come with them instead. Or enjoy the free beer which comes with those "straplocks", depending upon how you look at it. I've already told you about the straps I ordered using my D'addario Player Circle points (accumulated from strings not bought this year for added piousness!) and I'm not out. I debated whether or not to even mention it, that's how innocuous I consider these items to be in the context of this challenge, but I figured transparency would be appreciated - as well as give folk ideas for "legal" ways to calm their withdrawl symptoms...

From the rules - "There used to be a convention that things not in the signal path didn’t count. So straps, stands and the like were allowed. I'm cool with that - what do others think?" I for one don't think something as paltry as a bag counts. Protecting our gear is only prudent and perfectly in line with the mantra of using what we have (in this case, protecting it so we don't have to replace it).

I've been playing Russian roulette with FB Marketplace a few times a week. The day we stop looking is the day we die...

"Peaches" by The Stranglers. Learned it on the bottom four strings of a guitar so I had something to play when I went to the music shop to buy my first bass.

https://www.andertons.co.uk/search.php?search_query=sire m6

Last year's thread - https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/486962-nw-bass-bash-2024-sat-may-18th/

Scarcity plays a part. I could probably sell my G&L Tribute LB-100 (or my wunkay) for more than I bought them new, that's the way it is right now because G&L seem to have gone utterly AWOL in the last couple of years as far as the UK market is concerned.

If you say so. To be honest, I only see nods to each other, rather than slavish copying. Just looking at the regular headed M2/5/7 versus the MTD, the bridge end of the body is different (the taper to a point - an exaggerated version of a Ken Smith, perhaps?), the top horn is a bit sharper, the bottom cutaway looks a bit different (slightly less deep), the bottom horn looks a bit different too and the headstock is different (in the case of the 5 string, the 2/3 arrangement is also reversed). Looks more like influence than out and out copying to me.

It's fan fret time... as someone alluded to in a thread about fan fretted basses, Sire have unveiled their new M6 range: Looks like fretless is probably on the table also, dunno about lefties yet. Skeleton official pages (subject to change and probably removal when things go proper official) 4 - https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bq-36831494282 5 - https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bq 6 - https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqs So have at it - the headstock's gone, they're using their own body shape (adapted from the M2/5/7), so you're going to have to find new things to complain about

It would appear that part of Great Britain has broken off from the rest and is floating away...

PM me your deets if you want it. You can even have the rusty bit of the thread, for free! (man, the zooming in makes it look so much worse than it is)

So that's what that round, sticky-out thing is for!

Really? I was using an SB-2 on neck pickup only and a sound engineer asked me if it was active because it was so hot. Each to their own, I guess!

SB1 won't give you a trad P bass sound with that split MFD. LB-100 would be closer to trad P territory.

Any shape you like with a P shaped pickup in it. Not P sounding enough for you? Change the P pickup.

Oh my!