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Bigwan

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  1. That neck does look like it's been fitted a bit off center! I had a Roadworn Jazz that was about that far off, but played 100%. There's usually a bit of movement in the neck pocket to allow it to be straightened. Tuners look like standard MIM fair... Wouldn't spend £375 quid on it.
  2. Really tempted after playing my brother's Eko 12 string recently...
  3. If it's not a P I'd be on to the solicitor quick smart!
  4. There's always a B15... Precious little in small valve amps for bass. Hughes and Kettner did one called the Bassmaster (5 watts) but it's like hen's teeth. You could try the SWR Interstellar OD (10 watts), but it has the baked in SWR thing going on around the aural enhancer circuit. Check out @disssa's website: https://www.disssa.de/
  5. Looking forward to getting my mitts on it!
  6. Real answer? it's a 50 watt valve amp that will sit on top of my vertical Barefaced Two10 without annoying my OCD... and I've never owned an Ampeg (other than a noisy SVP) so the time felt right. I'll give you first refusal!
  7. Hmm... I've owned both the CTM30 & LB30 and really enjoyed them. I own the CTM15 and am not convinced yet - I'm a tinkerer and have a few ideas on how to improve on it, but I may part ways with it since I have a PF-50T incoming. I wouldn't go the Orange Terror route myself. The LB30 sounds nicer and won't try to take your head off... The Ampegs have a dummy load built in so silent recording is a built in option, which is rather nice.
  8. 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!
  9. ... and willing to ship at buyers expense...
  10. Have you tried it on a separate power supply? These are thirsty blighters if memory serves. Worth a try!
  11. Ooh that is very nice... Looks like a warmoth neck, so better than even chance it's a warmoth body.
  12. These are absolutely outstanding basses. Will always regret selling the one I had...
  13. Lovely...
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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...
  17. Red Hot Chili Peppers album Blood Sugar Sex Magik... There's a bit of slap on there so ignore as you see fit...
  18. Different strokes for different folks. If Doug released the Vintage Ultra with the tone control from the Darkglass amp I MIGHT be interested...
  19. Meh, we've heard that before...
  20. 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
  21. 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.
  22. Pure guess 1971 is 2, Lakland is 1...
  23. Slightly unexpected PPI windfall... Pay off CC or go nuts... What to do?

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    2. Grangur

      Grangur

      Then pay it off b4 the 15% starts to bite.

    3. discreet
    4. JapanAxe

      JapanAxe

      Pay off the card. The feeling of a cleared debt is wonderful, whereas buyer's remorse on a debt-fuelled purchase is a hideous thing.

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