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I didn't moderate the thread.

it goes on and on, my friends Some people started watching it not knowing what it was and they'll continue watching forever just because this is...

Me too, I used to cite that as an excuse for not being able to play as well as Mark King many years ago. Then I discovered he was one too...and that was the day the excuses ran out.

Not now we ate them all.

Oh where to begin...engineering firms in China generally don't do small and none of them are local in the sense they're within reasonable driving distance - they locate outside main cities to keep costs down. The best I could hope for would be a friendly guitar manufacturer with CNC capability but most of them aren't that friendly unless I'm going to order hundreds of instruments from them. Apologies @Andyjr1515 for what I now realise is a thread hijack. I'll retreat back into my cave.

I only play fours if they give me something I can't get from a fiver. I have four fivers and two fours. There can be a tendency to play too many super low notes on the fives though which can muddy things up a bit. Some extra discretion is needed on when to flap those trousers.

I saw promo vids for this so long ago that I wasn't even building back then...

Thank you so much!

Do you guys know a place where I could get perspex templates made off a scaled CAD drawing?

And there are the criteria that need to be met for a libel claim to be valid, one of which is demonstrating that damage has been caused to reputation. I'm no lawyer but I'd speculate it's a bit difficult to damage something that is already in tatters.

It would cost about £250,000 to bring a case in front of a judge. He's not serious in the slightest.

Steve never sold the rights, just a license. The license ran out. BTW, a pickup maker in Finland has started offering reproductions of the Wal multicoil design in different configurations to suit a variety of humbucker equipped basses and string spacings (15-19mm): https://www.rautiaguitars.net/multi-coil-bass-pickups.html?fbclid=IwAR1lrAqnXDSXEV9oRuoWwuiYv9dHfBb02OQKQ1GmPSPJ_hAKCqXeBWxkn1s He's been mentioned already but Lustihand Devices offer a Wal/Alembic style filter based preamp as well, low pass with shelving frequency boosts. I'm going to let him know I've posted on here and maybe he can contribute. He only has a FB page at the moment, no website as far as I can tell. Information on the preamps is available from the pickup maker's website, PDFs on some of the products are below: https://www.rautiaguitars.net/uploads/1/0/1/7/10174351/nfp_manual.pdf https://www.rautiaguitars.net/uploads/1/0/1/7/10174351/double_nfp-special_4s_document_text__2_.pdf https://www.rautiaguitars.net/uploads/1/0/1/7/10174351/double_nfp-special_56s_manual.pdf There are sound clips as well.

Technically, the Mad Cat was a homage to the Hohner TE80/The Prinz...which was a homage to Fender...

I'm going to wait 10 years until they're selling on Reverb for £143 because software updates are no longer supported.

Some REALLY clever directing there, they're all socially distanced in a TV studio but, thanks to depth of field, and tasteful location of accessorised shelving, the shots are framed in such a way that you never get the impression they're so spread out.

Not so far away from my own situation, Alex although my kids are 8 and 3. Then slap a significant business loan AND mortgage payments on top of that, too. We're desperate for the borders to open so my wife's business and my export start up can pick up again. It's been a horrendous year financially. The one good thing I can say is that one of the other businesses is still managing to grow albeit slowly but it's a real balancing act to stay out of the red at time. I hope you see the light at the end of the tunnel soon.

I agree and it's even more crowded for instruments which have greater reliance on precision for quality any way. The margins on pedals are better than amps once the R&D is done, the cost of parts is peanuts when purchased in bulk and the upfront capital investment in tooling etc. is lower. Anyone can start a pedal business if they have the knowledge. For example Land Devices started with one pedal in 2017, a tribute to an obscure fuzz pedal called the Interfax Harmonic Perculator which sparked the interest of people behind Premier Guitar and Reverb. They featured it and pretty soon the $500 investment in parts for the initial run of 20-40 pedals snowballed into a fully fledged production line. For someone who is tone hunting, pedals are way more accessible than amps, players are more inclined to buy in greater volume so there's less risk to some degree. If I was Alex, I'd be thinking about what customers would most likely use with the cabs. Amps seem like a natural choice but they'd have to be game changing in the same way as the cabs were game changing. Some amp companies offer voicing options, some offer features you'll probably never need, others go down the vintage tribute route, yet more target price points. I'm not sure there's much to do there unless there's a shift in technology or construction. But hell, I wouldn't mind a reasonably priced valve amp with tuner, parallel and serial effect loops, 400w/50w power scaling, easy to replace parts and self biasing to reduce reliance on an amp technician for maintenance. That's been missed in the bass market so far but guitarists have many of those features already.

It was a Chinese company, they used to ghost build valve amps for Peavey amongst others and are trying to move into instruments as well. But the 'engineer' who worked on mine had absolutely no clue...luckily I didn't pay a lot for it but it's still money that could have better spent elsewhere. The bass is with me so there would be shipping involved to the UK, I doubt it would be feasible to sell.

Prolly a bit late now but EBS Session combos are outstanding value for money. Stunning quality sound from such a portable package.

I don't have a best bass purchase because I can't afford the basses on my GAS list. But I did purchase a guitar amp - a collector's grade Fender Princeton II to replace the player's grade Concert II. Worst bass purchase was a custom instrument that in all seriousness a total joke and built by someone who had no understanding about musical instruments. A complete and utter waste of money that makes some of the junk on Youtube seem masterbuilt in comparison. I still feel guilt about the trees that were used in it's construction. If I strip all the finish off, remove the body wings and run the neck up against a belt sander for a bit, relaminate a new top on the lower wing and reglue it all, I MIGHT...might end up with something vaguely playable. But the company did send me a hand wired 5F2 Princeton Tweed amp as compensation and it's quite good. But I didn't really need another guitar amp. I have four already. Lessons learned: Do it myself. Get the parts made and shipped unfinished, check dimensions and tolerances then sand as appropriate. Assemble myself and finish.

I haven't tried many Class D amps, just the old Peavey Databass combo and Peavey DPU1400 rack power amp. But I bought one of the first GB Shuttle 6 heads to come into the UK and gigged with it solidly for two years before adding a second and leaving the UK. Given I don't have access to an amp tech, the thing I likemost after the sound is the fact that the power amp module is by B&O and available on EBay for about 100 quid if I need a replacement... which I did for the second amp.