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I've owned a Spector NS6 Euro and still own a Shuker 6. I've discovered the c string on a 6 is hard to hear in the mix. It overlaps with too many other instruments in the mix and it's rarely required for meat and potatoes type songs. Plus it makes the neck really wide if it's rarely used and, if I'm honest, finding the A string with muscle memory can be a little overwhelming sometimes. I've concluded that the 6 is probably best left for trios or duos where it has the space in the mix to be heard. I find fours kind of limiting in the low end. I like having that B string to stamp some authority on things. I did consider at one point restringing the Shuker F#-B-E-A-D-G for an experiment but it's days in my care are probably numbered now.

I've tried a lot of onboard preamps and Mr East has hit a lovely sweet spot with the higher frequencies on his preamps. Plus for the 3 band U retro if you nail the sweepable mids and bass in the right place, you can get a serious amount of mid range growl. I have three of them now and the one in my Status has turned it from Series I into a Series II in terms of timbre.

There have been some great updates on here over the last few weeks - thank you to everyone who has posted in this thread over the last 4-5 weeks. Some of you may have noticed them appearing on the BC Facebook page. I've tended to go for updates that have an 'ooh' factor about them, posts that make you sit up and take notice. Posts don't have to be celebrity based, a relatable story is sometimes just as good! For example an anecdote about arriving at a gig only to realise you had left your bass behind on the pavement outside the front of your apartment (yes, that WAS me). Or maybe an interesting sit in with the band. Keep 'em coming, it's a great way for everyone to check each others gigs out!

This is usually what happens with any guitar or bass related technological innovation that claims to offer an overwhelming number of options. It's why sliding pickups never really became a thing. Or those passive mid filter circuits that were on Gibson basses in the seventies.

So much yes!! I remember playing one in the late eighties and feeling impressed by how firm the midrange sounded. That was back at a time when my gear knowledge was virtually non existent. At one point about ten years ago i even started hunting one down on ebay but never found one within the available window of interest. Good call.

I traded my EBS Neo212's for FEARless 1x12's. Lot much of a weight saving unfortunately but really articulate with a sweet presence. No regrets so far but I've not gigged with them so far.

They need a hell of a lot of power so the rig has to be planned around this limitation. I had a couple as well but sold them because I couldn't swap amps. I had one too for a short time. Very heavy and I think mine might have been wired with a pair of the speakers out of phase with the other pair. I didn't know enough about speakers back then to look into it but it definitely lacked mids. I had a pair of RB700 combos and really liked them. That boost control in particular was fabulous. The only thing that let them down was the disintegrating rubber on the wheels. GK replaced them but the same thing happened with the new ones. The rubber was too soft and perhaps not vulcanised properly. I had a couple of Loud cabs as well, and they were pretty light for a non neo cab. So light that they sometimes went walkabout on stage. My vote goes to the EBS Session 30 combo - a really modest little thing if you look at it but it put out a really, really full sound for a 8"speaker. Perfect for low volume practice. I ended up buying another after I sold the first one.

Charlie Chandlers generally seem to get glowing feedback on the internet, despite not being bass specific. I'm probably going to take a few bits of guitar kit to them to sell on consignment next month.

I know why they went under, because one of their sales people was a mate at the time and told me. I'm not going to share it publicly because I have no proof other than what they said, but the BC going under had nothing to do with the internet.

Hi Pete, First thing is we should probably take this conversation offline for the sake of your privacy. I can dig about in the transaction records and see if a reason has been given for the transaction being declined. Let's discuss via PM.

We appear to be under attack from accounts with IP addresses originating in India. Many thanks to those of you so far who have flagged the handful of spam accounts that managed to get through the automated Spam IP detection and blocking. New registrations are temporarily on manual approval so hopefully they'll get bored eventually and go find an easier target somewhere else. We will probably have to introduce tighter security measures for registration in future though. Keep calm and carry on groovin'

Consider also an active PA cab like the QSC K12.2, it's popular with some members on here and Kemper Profiler users like it too.

This would require customisation. Any customisations to the standard forum software become exponentially more nightmarish to manage when there are forum software updates pretty every month.

I couldn't agree more. I tried pedals a few years ago but found them frustrating - once I went rack I've never gone back.

So far we haven't needed a cookie permissions pop up because the site doesn't store anything other than the barest minimum of information. So we understand that gets us under the radar for a cookie permissions thing. For what it's worth, Google Chrome will no longer be storing third party cookies, that change is due to happen in about ten days.

@TheGreek This relates to your issues.

I'll put my hand up for that. I was doing something in cloudflare and it had unanticipated side effects. So things have been put back the way they were and everything should be back to normal. Sorry.

There is a report link in the top right corner of every post, where the three dots are. The three dots access a pull down menu.

Something similar has been happening on the Facebook marketplace recently too.

But...

For those of you brave enough to throw up some photos here, I'd like to share some of the more interesting ones on FB from this point on.

Yes the price field can't be edited so a new ad will be necessary.