Bigwan

It was a red Sunn Mustang precision, the one that looked more like a Yamaha RBX than a Fender. I had it 3 months before moving up to an Aria Pro MAB20/5 5 string with my 16th birthday money. I spent most of my formative years playing the Aria and still play it on occasion. Sold the Sunn. Never really missed it. It may have been my first, but the Aria is the one I'm sentimental about!

... and willing to ship at buyers expense...

Have you tried it on a separate power supply? These are thirsty blighters if memory serves. Worth a try!

Ooh that is very nice... Looks like a warmoth neck, so better than even chance it's a warmoth body.

The LED ring was my first thought, but not an easy DIY effort. I had considered prototyping something similar just using rows of LEDs for proof of concept but the OLED display was simpler. You'd also have to either put up with your controls not pointing to the same value as the stored preset value a la Sansamp (yuck!) , or use 4 (in the case of the vintage microtubes clone) rotary encoders (knobs that turn continuously for the uninitiated) which adds complication, although it's all possible. Again, there's a reason the likes of TC use plastic for faceplates in such instances (all the ugly LED gubbins hidden behind smoked plastic), but I can't see it fitting with the aesthetic of what Darkglass are doing. There'd be some quite expensive and intricate milling required to get a similar effect in an aluminium enclosure - although do something similar with the machining for the Super Symmetry metering. There's also current consumption to consider with a pedal. LEDs are thirsty little gits... Motorised knobs are right out I'd imagine.

I did a bit of work on a wee arduino project to implement presets on a Darkglass Vintage clone. I was really trying to see if I could improve on the implementation of the Tech21 preset functionality I'd seen in the VT bass deluxe I owned. Which was stinky poo... Not the sound, but the fact the position of the controls bore no resemblance to the actual preset settings! Having played around a bit I can see why it was done the way it was, but I wouldn't buy another pedal with that sort of preset implementation. As with many of my projects, I didn't get it finished, but I did enough to know while it's not difficult to do, I doubt my implementation, or anything like it, would be good enough for Doug's asthetic vision for Darkglass products. It's not in the same league of difficulty as what DG have implemented with their DSP work (it's probably around the same order of difficulty as the workings of their intelligent footswitches for their amps). I got as far as storing 3 different presets and recalling these values to a quad digital potentiometer. The issue is the design of the user interface. I was happy enough to implement mine with a single rotary control with integrated push button, a little 0.96" OLED display for indication of settings, 2 footswitches and 4 LEDs.

It might be marmite to look at, but ACGs are worth every penny of that starting price and more. Been playing my Recurve 5 a lot over the last few days and it is GLORIOUS...

Red Hot Chili Peppers album Blood Sugar Sex Magik... There's a bit of slap on there so ignore as you see fit...

Different strokes for different folks. If Doug released the Vintage Ultra with the tone control from the Darkglass amp I MIGHT be interested...

Meh, we've heard that before...

Reasonable deal I think... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ashdown-ABM-BP1510-Bass-Guitar-Speaker-Cabinet-1x15-2x10-HF-Horn/223000003312?hash=item33ebd602f0%3Ag%3AblAAAOSw1nRbEFNG&_sacat=0&_nkw=ashdown&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xashdown.TRS0

You'll pick up an Ashdown ABM combo for not much more than that if you look around. A vastly superior amp in every way, IMHO.

Pure guess 1971 is 2, Lakland is 1...

Da hotness!

Thomann has the full fat variety in stock. Don't see anything but the custom variety online in the UK at the minute...

Tempted... But her indoors would be a little upset I think...

I used to have a Laney DB300H head. Only Laney product I've ever owned. It wasn't bad, just big and heavy, although that impression may be tainted by the other half of the rig - a Peavey TX810... Traded both against my Ashdown 1x10 ABM combo about 16 0r 17 years ago and haven't looked back! My only subsequent contact with Laney gear was a 1x15 combo a guy brought along to rehearsals for the band I was in the process of leaving. It looked pretty nice, like a trimmed down version of the head I'd owned, but it sounded totally gutless! I had my rig in the corner of the room (Orange Terror bass, Tecamp 412) and the Laney was shuffled back into the guy's car in favour of mine which was louder ticking over than his was giving it full welly... Current Nexus micro head looks very interesting, but I imagine the subsequent resale value would put a lot of potential buyers right off.

Yes, and it's sods law that there will ALWAYS be screw-uppage at some point... usually at the most inconvenient moment possible!

Your mate drums for Tesseract doesn't he? From about 15 or 16 minutes in with the rather awesome Amos....

Cool! I owned one of these briefly - the heavily modded one that did the rounds here a number of years back with the funky Villex pickup and tone controls. Wasn't for me at the time. EDIT: GAS has struck... bloody hell, that's P GAS twice this week!!! First the Fender American Original 50's, now this!

You'll regret selling the combo. Mine is one of the only pieces of gear I've ever owned that I would NEVER sell.

Ocean turquoise with matching headstock... Parchment pickguard...