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Their support team are good and very helpful - lucky really as, unfortunately, they get a lot of faults I've not seen one fail completely but every single one we've had in the store has had to have some work done on it. Usually just cracked and/or crackly knobs and we did get one with the send/return issue as well.

I gave it a quick listen in the car and thought it was ok and rather liked Mick's voice. Will try and give it another go on decent speakers today if I get time

How about Smoke on the Water?

I really don't like the J-Retro circuits either. I've bought a few basses that came with J-Retros fitted and I've removed each one pretty quickly. I always find them too over the top. To me a good onboard circuit should be genuinely usable. I want to be able to use the full travel of a control to subtly adjust my tone. With the J-Retro I have to be so careful because the level of boost and cut is so extreme. Twist one a bit too far live and it can be way too excessive. I also find them too 'active' and a bit artificial sounding and not as 'organic' as some other pre-amps out there. I guess if you want to sit at home and use the pre-amp to set up a core tone that you're going to use live and not adjust it then it could work. Of course - this is just me, I know lots of people love them, lol

This happened to me this year. My bank could not get the money back and the police have passed it around between different divisions but have essentially said they aren't going to bother doing anything. They have the name of the person and their bank account details too. In my case I appearednti be buying from a very knowledgable guy but it turned out to be a scamming young girl. I found evidence of him/her all over the place getting money from at least 7-8 other people. Really quite professional too. Never selling the same item twice and categories as diverse as guitars, bicycles, golf clubs, fishing gear, car parts etc. Even with all this evidence the police weren't interested. I wrote to my MP too. Got a nice letter back saying he couldn't be arsed to do anything either. . .

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1481967048' post='3196574'] I wasn't much interested in meeting Bill. It was the girl on the cover of Sunburst Finish that I wanted to meet. [/quote] That would have put you ahead of Bill - he wasn't allowed to attend the photo shoot. Partly the wishes of the model for a closed set but also because his wife wouldn't let him 😁

I spoke to Bill a couple times earlier this year. Such a nice guy and very humble. He seemed impressed / surprised that I might even know who he was!

As a retailer I've been involved in the sale of a huge number of cabs from people including: Aguilar Bergantino Hartke Carvin tks Engineering MarkBass Bag End ATS Gallien Krueger Phil Jones Warwick Mesa Genzler Plus lots of other pre-owned cabs The designs have been hugely varied with porting front & rear and fully enclosed cabs. Prices have ranged from as low as about £50 up to £1,300. In all this time, across all these products and all these price points and cabinet designs I can only ever remember one returned with a blown driver. Maybe our customers don't push their cabs hard or maybe, with modern designs and construction, this isn't really much of an issue any more. . .

I have three at the moment: Aguilar TLC Diamond Bass Comp Demeter Compulator I'd say the Diamond is the most 'musical' of the three. The Demeter is the easiest to set up and also sounds quite organic. However it's the TLC that goes out gigging. I can set it to just round things out whilst still being transparent. I find it especially good for getting my D & G strings closer to matching volume of the E & A. Especially up around frets 2-5. I'm sure it's just my crappy technique but I often find that area of the neck sounding a bit thin and the TLC just seems to work live to give them a bit more punch I find this repeatedly with Aguilar pedals (in fact with most of their gear) - they just work really well in a live gigging situation.

I've listened to a lot of Indonesian MB amps & cabs and can't tell the difference. I do know that the incidence of repair and warranty claims is way lower since moving away from Italian construction. In terms of weight there were some early cabs that came in a bit heavier, mostly 210's I think, but that was soon sorted and everything went back to previous weights. Personally the improved build quality, and lower warranty issues, would make me choose Indonesian over Italian made MB products.

Kanye. . .

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1481560142' post='3193290'] All Rosewood? That's about 90% of the basses that have ever been made! Travelling bass players had better have maple or graphite fretboard basses just for touring. [/quote] Yep - all rosewood, age doesn't matter. Requires a certificate to ship across international borders. Touring musicians with personal instruments may be exempt. Could depend on just how many basses someone might have. Certainly a single bass per person ought to be ok. Most news reports so far are from a US perspective and, from what I've seen, it's unclear how 'Europe' will be treated. It's possible that moving across the EU may be OK. Obviously, post Brexit we'll be outside the EU so would have to get certs to sell or import to EU markets. Last time I had to apply for a CITES cert from US it cost $100 plus maybe $25 for admin. UK VAT and duties then get added on top so that could be £125 on the cost of a bass. . .

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1481493169' post='3192730'] That's what I thought Barry. I was embarrassed with how bad they sounded. I had taken some friends along, telling them how much they would enjoy the show. [/quote] My local venue used to be The Torrington in Finchley. Fairly decent PA there and most bands used the house sound guy. Piss him off or treat him badly and he'd make you sound absolute sh*t. I saw a guitarist give him stick in a very uncompromising and public way once because he was struggling with his monitor volume. Sound guy sorted him in the monitors, then pulled him out of the front of house mix completely. . .

I've seen Limehouse Lizzy a couple of times and sound was always excellent. Sounds like a dodgy sound man to me.

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36lbs sounds about right. The Traveller 2x10 is 28lbs and the heads are 5-6lbs. The 802 is 28lbs or so. Again, this means that an extra 8lbs for larger drivers and a slightly bigger amp would be ok.

Should be around £695. There's a cool new 1x12" cab as well. The Standard 121HR has a tilt back option so it would be perfect for on-stage monitoring. Has a 'proper' compression driver instead of a piezo too. Est price for these are around £480.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1481390678' post='3192020'] Adam Clayton said we're all ****s [/quote] What does he know. He's only one of the most successful professional musicians in the world. . .

[quote name='John_P' timestamp='1481240784' post='3190987'] For typical small/medium functions/parties with decent pa support. [/quote] Doesn't fit the bill at all for this type of gig. You really don't need a big heavy rig. Absolute bitch to sell if you decide to move it on in the future too. I'd walk away, rapidly. . .