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Quite why they changed absolutely nothing about themselves other than the name continues to boggle the mind.

You really ought to get one in your hands and make your own mind up. I can't help you having either never played a Sandberg, or not recalling a time when I had a brief go on one. And even if I did, that would just be one data point - not really worth much, coupled with the vagaries of instruments in general - any factory can issue a Friday afternoon special... Just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's going to blow your socks off either. I've drank disappointing 30 year old whiskies... Well, that was just a total downer, so let's pick it back up - if you get hold of a BBP34 (either by trying it in a shop or simply buying it at distance knowing that you can send it back if it doesn't work out) and it does blow your hair back then you're right!

Make your own out of some 1mm thick metal?

Probably best to end this now before you drown in a thousand contradictory suggestions

I think you're going to struggle - most concentric knobs are a bit tubbier than single ones by design and function. Don't you get converter rings to put inside 6/8mm knobs to turn them into 6/4mm knobs, or did I dream that somewhere?

https://www.thomann.de/gb/allparts_stacked_pot_knob_set_chrome.htm https://www.thomann.de/gb/allparts_stacked_pot_knob_set_bk.htm Helpfully, they neglect to give inner dimensions, you could enquire - https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_parts_ebony_dual_knob.htm - https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_parts_tintul_dual_knob.htm I take it this is what you're trying to replace? https://www.thomann.de/gb/warwick_potiknob_tandem_metal_2b.htm - https://www.thomann.de/gb/warwick_potiknob_tandem_metal_2c.htm - https://www.thomann.de/gb/warwick_potiknob_tandem_metal_2_g.htm

I meant the bass. I wouldn't grudge anyone a bit of fame/infamy - that can only come from a place of jealousy.

I'm sorry, I missed it, can someone please explain to me what the fuss is about?

I'm not aware of a British/ISO/ANSI standard amount of leg separation when playing bass

We soon will be... my eyes!

Then you're out, on general principle!

IMO (as that's all it is) - Tier 2 failure, it's gear. Doesn't matter what it's for. That's the hardcore level. On the basic, bassy tier 1 level, you'd still be in.

You have to pack to to be as courierproof as possible. You have to assume the worst.

Excellent, replaced one distraction with another

How far down the rabbit hole you want to go is entirely up to you. I bought rubber feet this month to complete my pedalboard project. Am I out because I bought something which got attached to something which is used to house something that is gear? No, no I'm not. That's maybe a silly example, but perhaps illustrates how easy it is to overthink things.

If you want to declare yourself out because of VSTs then that's your call, ultimately you will have decided that VSTs count as gear, and bass gear specifically.

I don't think loans count. It's not yours at the end of the day. Also, it's a drum pad - on a tier 1 level (bass gear only) who cares? Would only be of concern to people going hardcore, zero music gear of any kind. TL:DR, I don't think you're out because you borrowed a drum pad.

I'm not the ultimate arbiter of this endeavour, I'm just keeping records. I've already offered my tuppence worth in this particular justification/appeal/enquiry/whatif, and it is no more valuable than anyone else's. It's just a bit of fun at the end of the day.

Yes. Our rehearsal room is an electromagnetic hellhole. Shielding helped a bunch.

Ok, I'm going to try to be objective about this. On the plus side (versus a regular 60's/Vintage Pro Thunderbird): It comes with a hard case. It has a Babicz bridge (although the picture on Thomann's site has a classic three pointer on it) It has a brass nut. It's got a famous person's scribbles on it. Is that enough to justify the uplift? Maybe. The amount you'd need to spend to get a regular 60's/Vintage Pro up to this spec wouldn't be too far off. OK, I'll shut the hell up now.

In this scenario I presume they're just going to jack (pardon the pun) up the price of the Jack Casady, seeing as it's their flagship product. This sucks. Just playing into the hands of the likes of Sire, who will occupy the vacant hole in the price range left by moves this. EBMM/SBMM have already done goofed and the Sire Z3/Z7 is coming along soon to occupy the Ray and Ray-a-like space between HB and the likes and SBMM. Epiphone will vacate next and if a Sire "T-bird-a-like" doesn't appear soon after I'll be very surprised.

You'll need to raise your action if it's too clanky for you when you're playing at your hardest. I set my action to be as low as possible without appreciable clank/fret buzz when playing hard. That is likely to require higher action than a guitar - strings are bigger and they travel further when plucked. Raise the pickups a little to meet the strings to reinstate the tone you want. Raising the action affecting the intonation? Depends how far you go. No harm in checking it after you've got the action how you want it.

No encore in Aberdeen...

Who's going to pay this much for an Epiphone? This is as bonkers as some SBMM pricing...

Have you tried contacting Gibson? They're useless when it comes to old, out of production stuff, but when the bridge pickup on my Gibson EB (2014) failed they sent me a replacement without an issue. Mind you, they wouldn't/couldn't supply me with a gold three point bridge, but that was me not replacing like for like - the bass I was working on never came with a gold one and I was chancing my arm If you approach it from the point of view of repairing a broken product then you might have more success - I was too honest...