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Manual is now on Tech21's website. Curious that there's no John Entwistle setting considering what the pedal does. Unfortunately there's a McCartney setting..... euurrrgh. On the plus side there is a Cheap Trick, Muse and Yes settings. This is going to be brilliant.

Traveller. The "p" is for piezo in regards to the tweeter.

I'm really excited about this. As someone who likes his dirt/grit/filth, this is going to be quality. Now of course, all of us have to do reviews when we get the beast. As many different basses as possible. Videos as well will be fun. 😀

I was hoping that everyone would subsidise me down to a fiver. £7.50 is price gouging and totally unacceptable. Do you work for Westside Distribution?!!

@Tech21NYC I have a question. I was hoping that the manual would be out or that a video demo would address this. Is it possible to turn the unit on straight into mix mode or does it always default to the clean channel when you press the on switch even if you've turned it off in mix mode? Just curious.

You've forgotten me! I was first on!

I played through the ultra version at the bass show in Saturday. I thought it was brilliant. I would say as well on an unrelated note, I was one of the first people in on Saturday and as such played the darkglass stuff while the place was quiet. The cabs are good. I tried a lot of permutations of fx and and settings and the vast majority of them sounded good. On the other hand, I was playing a dingwall, so stuff should sound good. It was also quite funny that the two said to me it was refreshing that I didn't immediately start slapping. I started playing something I was working on. "Tool isn't it?" No, that was me actually, I said. I've always liked darkglass stuff and for the sorts of things I do now it works perfectly. Then again, it should as I'm their target "progressive metal" bass player. I had a word about midi and they said they would see. Hopefully, but they seemed to suggest that I was in the minority wanting such functionality. That's a pity, but still, really good cakes.

True. That which cannot be named. On a serious level though, how many are they going to sell at those prices? How did we get to the point where that was even remotely okay? Naturally if one could get away with it you'd continue, but it's still way too expensive. I find it funny that people moaned about Alex putting his prices up but yet they're nowhere close to this nonsense and nobody seems to bat an eye.

Let's be fair, at £1760 for a 4x10 and (if memory serves) almost £900 for a 1x12, I'm pretty sure Aguilar can afford to be there. What I thought was especially funny was that if you walked 2 stands along, Peavey were selling their 4x10 for £350. Five times better? I doubt it is, but that pricing is tonto. Nobody with any sanity will pay that much. Aguilar are now having a laugh.

That guy is a world class tool. I hadn't been aware of YouTube idiots as I never really watch things like this, but, a tool who plays variations of the same 5 slap licks is nothing more than he is at least on cursory glance. I'm happy to avoid it. However on a lighter note as he's known as Davie504, it does conjure up images of science fiction dystopia where people don't have full names and have bar codes tattooed on their arms. I seem to have went off reservation there, but seriously, if anyone uses that idea, I want royalties.

If the amp doesn't go to 2.6 ohms wouldn't it be reasonably likely? 8 ohm and 4 ohm cabs creating undue stress on the amplifier. Still, Ashdown are giving a very curious response to this. One that there is no way I'd be taking.

That's some of the best crap I've read in a long time. "We've made a mistake which could have blown up your amp. Pity..... However, if you give us some cash and swallow our immensely condescending comments, we can fix this terrible problem for you which had nothing to do with us" Pfft. Jog on.

Fixed for you squire. 😜

Superb! Really nice playing squire.

That's brilliant! What's it made of? I can't quite tell from the photo.

That is absolutely outrageous! I'd certainly be intrigued to hear how you get on with it. Also if it's really 1000w or they've cooked the books and it's only 400.

Pity, if you did sell them, I'm sure you'd have the Bentley on order! 😉 I just don't think it's a good enough reply. As you say, I'm sure they'd sort out the inherent issue by putting a better bridge on if you asked. Everyone changes string gauge and type occasionally. With that bass you'd be stuffed if you did that. Still, it does look fantastic!

Try slapping on a 12! That's Tonto!

Because the slot is pre cut and can't be altered, that means that even if it intonated properly, you'd be locked into that gauge of strings they strung it with when they set it! It's bonkers and I'm not buying that.

You don't need the money to find out. It's obvious. The bridge is a singular saddle. Once you get past the 7th fret it'll be out of tune by miles. For such an expensive instrument it's an epic fail.

That's not bad. Four grand for a bass that won't intonate properly. Hold me back.....

Are you still with that band? Sounds to me like they weren't paying any attention to what you were doing. Tools.

Warmoth.

Yeah, it's not cheap. That's because if you exclude the Warwick bridge which can be sunk into the body, it's easily the best as you can adjust the height of all 8 strings individually. I don't think the Warwick allows that. Every manufacturer uses the same non descript bridge just for cost rather than functionality. The Schaller is a really great bit of kit. Happy to post a few photos of mine if you're interested.

Schaller 471. That's it. As far as I'm aware no production bass uses it. They all use the same generic 8 saddle that the Dean, Spector, Schecter all use. Unless you go custom, you won't see it on anything. Don't bother with the Hagstrom. It's a 4 saddle bridge and is total crap.