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That's why they own the likes of Charvel/Jackson etc.? No?

I would, if the price was right. At the moment, they're going through a bit of a "rose tinted spectacles" period. There's a Modern Player one local to me but they want like £500 for it - get poked - they were like £300 new back in the day.

Purple is the new black...

I liked the Dimension, especially the Modern Player one with the triplebucker. Unfortunately, when Fender was having its short MIC adventure, my head got turned by the Starcaster, and I ended up disliking it very much!

Well, that's your opinion, but I have had a couple of reasons to change them - on an Epiphone Embassy where the play in them was unacceptable (like an eighth of a turn of nothing when changing direction) and a cheapy G4M bass where none of them were great but the D string tuner was particularly weird where it would get tighter and more difficult to turn as the string came up to tension.

Come see me, I play a BB live from time to time

What's the point in it? When I go to a gig, I want to hear the musicians, warts and all. I don't care about wee mistakes, in fact I am reassured by the odd bloop because it means that A) they're human and B) makes me feel better when I'm up there and I make the odd bloop. I would be utterly bored in a setup like this. Hard no from me.

They're going to have a hard time selling that. It just looks knockoff to me. Also, have they ever heard of staging a photo? Sure, I'll come pick this bass up from you, even if I don't get stabbed I will probably contract ebola or something. Bloody hell!

It's getting harder and harder to eff up making a solid bodied instrument. Not quite that cheap, but I picked up a £150 G4M bass last year and was pleasantly surprised by it. Of course it needed work, the tuners were gash and the pickup left a lot to be desired, but the bones, the wood and the basic construction were sound. Oh, and it was far too heavy for those who's first question in a sale or NBD thread is "what's the weight?" If it ever arrives, keep an eye out for a thread related to this - I set myself a challenge - "New, 'giggable' bass for £150" - all new stuff, no second hand stuff. The starting point for the project is an £82 (new) bass...

Hardly gave the pickup change a chance, did he? From a stock Squier pickup to a Quarter Pounder, ooh, that's different! Not. Now if he'd swapped the pickup to a split MFD, or a Lace Aluma P, I think they'd be having a very different conversation...

I think it's pretty galling that such a fancy bass doesn't come with the choice of endpin/tripod. Why is the tripod the standard? That's weird to me also. Honestly, I feel like you're addressing a design (or at least product staging/packaging) flaw. Cheeky barstewards!

I bought a second hand pedalboard PSU from them a couple of years back. All good, no complaints. A perfectly unremarkable transaction, the best kind.

Additional: I just realised that your opening statement could mean that you're in the process of selling on Reverb for the first time. If that's the case then sorry the opening of my reply will seem harsh and doesn't make sense. The rest of it is sound, though and you definitely did the right thing by asking around when you weren't sure.

Total fake, and I don't know why you're even questioning it when you start with "Having not sold on Reverb before..." Don't question yourself just because it's an electronic message. It's a 100% phishing attempt - look at the link - it's not even got the slightest mention of reverb in it. The gentle persuasion of "you'd better do this or something will/won't happen". It's all 100% guff.

Given the choice of ebony or maple (even roasted maple) it'd be ebony every day of the week and twice on Sundays for me. So that narrowed it down to white or burgundy (mist). Toyed with the idea of the white before deciding to go loud (colour-wise) or go home...

I was hedging my bets - I'm not traditionally a fan of bridge pickup sound. Also at the time the Z7 was the only way to get a dark fretboard.

Also, I think the lower horn of a Stingray looks goofy - can't unsee it now.

Good for you - and thanks for taking the banter in the spirit of humour with which it was intended. Where I'm coming from - I don't chase tones, I've got this ill-defined, nebulous range of what "good" sounds like to me and if a bass tickles my ears in that range then it is deemed "good". Beyond that, it's aesthetics. Now I have a bass with one of those types of pickup and that kind of vibe and I'm done, because variety is the spice of life.

I got a butt hurt Stingray fanboi answer...

It was a rhetorical question. Look at the context of the thread...

I feel your pain. I was a hardcore apologist for them for years but I'm done now - they really don't give a s#it about basses or bassists, have moved from disinterest to naked contempt in the last few years and I'm done.

Do you think I have any desire to purchase an EBMM Stingray when I have a Sire Z7?

The Wunkay doesn't have an active pre-amp, it's 100% passive. I did own a Tribute L-2000 back in the day, and honestly I never used the active bit because it's just a line boost, or a treble boost which I never liked the sound of. The Wunkay does have OMG mode though, and I do enjoy engaging that from time to time...

Oops, I forgot to report about last weekend - a double header so I must have been knackered on the Sunday! Friday night with Nine Lives at the Butchers Arms, Inverurie. Two people in the bar when we first went in, lots of car parking spaces nearby, we feared a "paid rehearsal". Thankfully some more folk came in and made a night of it so in the end it was quite an enjoyable gig. Gear was G&L L-1000 then Epiphone Thunderbird into Markbass toan cubes. Then Saturday night, on to the Harbour Lights in Peterhead. Again, we arrive and the place is empty. And yet again, it got better as the evening progressed and by the end we had a small but enthusiastic audience, including one guy who was performing backflips to some songs! Gear was Sire Z7 then Yamaha BB1200 into the Markbass terrible duo. Had a great sound because the place has monitors which they let us use and it made for a great onstage sound (yes, there was an actual stage - luxury!)