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FM cables are very high quality and very hard to twist because of the, harder than usual, outer casing.

Shop stock is likely to be mixed Italian and Indonesian. If there is a choice go for Italian simply because there are people out there who will pay more for European than Far Eastern manufactured product. I think if it was pushed to make a choice of any of the smaller light weight MB cabs then the 210's would probably get my vote. 1 is loud enough for rehearsing and a lot of smaller gigs and 2 combined allows you to stack vertically so you can bring the 2nd one much closer to your ears for on-stage monitoring

[quote name='Iain' timestamp='1420073898' post='2645425'] Did you back-to-back the sound comparison of the two types of cabs? Same room, same bass, same amp? Having read some of Marco's comments I can't see a reason this should be the case - certainly not to the extent of 'no comparison'. A thread from the start of last year indicates this should not be the case: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/226964-markbass-all-made-in-indonesia-now-and-heavy/page__view__findpost__p__2364926 I've not had the chance to do a back-to-back test but my Indonesian gear sounds great and has been faultless. [/quote] Try as hard as I can and I cannot hear the slightest difference between Indonesian and Italian made MarkBass cabs. We regularly see both in the shop and get loads of opportunities to test them back to back. The only way we can tell the difference is to turn them over, crawl round the back and find the tiny 'made in' plate on the back - you wouldn't believe how many times we've had to do this!

Vail Johnson Played with: Kenny G Keb' Mo', Herbie Hancock, Michael Bolton, Peabo Bryson, Edgar Winter, James Ingram, Patti Austin, David Benoit, Kieko Matsui, Paula Abdul, Warren Hill, Gil Scott Heron, Whitney Houston, George Benson, Carmine Appice, Frank Gambale, Eric Marienthal, Chris Botti, Kirk Whalum,David Cassidy, Phil Perry, Steve Perry, Stevie Nicks. . . [i]Guitar World Magazine Bassist of the Year [/i] [i]Bass Player Magazine Jazz Bassist of the Year[/i] But of course to the BassChat massive he's an arrogant twat who needs to be shouted down because he doesn't know what he's talking about. Nice one guys

BassGear are signed up as well now and we're really pleased to have Roger Sadowsky, plus a selection of his basses, with us on the stand for the weekend. Roger will be around to talk about his instruments, the art of a pro setup, commissioning a custom build etc. It's very rare to see him over here so for any Sadowsky fans it'll be well worth coming along for a chat

I'm loving the photo-essay of the packing and unpacking - you really should have taken a pic of the delivery man for completeness though

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1419958316' post='2644334'] and they're here! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/252310-ncd-tks-1126-x2-dont-look-if-you-hate-red/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/252310-ncd-tks-1126-x2-dont-look-if-you-hate-red/[/url] [/quote] Looks great - obviously red is the fastest colour

Just a quick note to say that Tommy is expanding his production facility to accommodate increased demand so the workshop will be closed for a while from mid January. UK order deadline via BassGear for January completion is 17:00 on 30th December. Any orders placed after this time will be delivered mid to late March 2015. Edit - Last production slots already filled

[quote name='The Badderer' timestamp='1419809297' post='2642951'] can't believe there are people on talkbass saying this looks good. It looks like a toilet seat lid!! no accounting for taste! [/quote] If that's a holly top then it'll look stunning in the flesh. The AJ series is an amazing instrument. I've only ever played one and it was stunning. Absolutely not my kind of bass by any stretch of the imagination but having been able to play one they immediately make 'sense'

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1419806165' post='2642909'] Incredible, but its a Fodera. This is how much they are, and the pricelist does show that these basses go for $20-35k new. What I find far more incredible is someone paid this, and is now selling it so quickly. [/quote] Totally agree. This sort of spec is very much a custom order - Fodera will do anything they can to make a customer happy (as you'd expect in this price range) and it's amazing the lengths they will go to post-sale to help someone if they aren't happy with the spec they ordered.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1419798210' post='2642817'] you got a great job Barrie.!! [/quote] It's not all it's cracked up to be, lol. Roger seems like a lovely guy though. I've got a huge respect for what he's achieved with a, relatively, single minded vision of how an instrument should be made and what it should sound like

I saw a cancelled order AJ go on sale not that long ago at about $25,000 and it went in under 24 hours. This one is pretty unique for various reasons and I'd guess it might have cost $35,000 new. However, those unique options could make it harder to sell than a 'regular' AJ with a Holly top.

TH500 works really well with the S112's. That's our standard demo rig in the shop

[quote name='PTB' timestamp='1419625913' post='2641461'] I assume that's a glowing endorsement making a late bid for understatement of the year? 😄 I'm going to have to get over to Bass Gear in the new year. [/quote] We've just ordered an H115 for demo purposes. N.B. This cab only comes with the cloth front at the moment. Metal grille versions available later in the year.

[quote name='PTB' timestamp='1419593524' post='2641075'] 14kg?!? That's one kg more than my tiny MarkBass NY121. I'm looking forward to trying some of these out in the new year. Thinking of seeing if I can find cabs that will work for both upright and bass guitar to save space and rationalise. [/quote] It's even closer than that I think. 0.7KG

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1419499922' post='2640416'] They haven't automatically gone to people who've liked your page for some years now - perhaps to increase ad revenue but just as likely to cut down on clutter. For people to see more of your posts they need to be interacting with your page a regular basis. Take a look [url="http://edgerank.net/"]here[/url] for more on this. That article seems to to have been written a while ago, as Edgerank has been updated regularly to be far more sophisticated. I'd imagine the new changes are yet another update. [/quote] 'Organic' reach from FaceBook dropped dramatically in 2014 as part of their drive to increase ad revenue. I manage our shop page that has over 7,000 likes, an artist page with about 1,750 and a fan page for the artist that has about 3,500. The number of people seeing any posts made on these three sites is way lower than the like count. On the 7,000 like page we range from 2,000 to as low as 150 for very similar posts. The artist page fluctuates by even more, can be as low as 50 but I've also seen it go over 6,000. I think it's a bit rubbish that liking a page doesn't mean you'll ever see a post from that page (which is increasingly common) but I can also understand that FB is a commercial entity and not a charitable organisation. Maybe they've just got the balance a bit wrong

USPS will insure up to $650 and only costs about $120 to ship to the UK. I've used them lots of times.

We tend not to stock Chromes because we've not had much demand for them, La Bella and Thomastik move a lot faster. However it only takes 24 hours to get them from D'Addario UK. They are a great supplier and turn stuff around really quickly so there's no excuse for a D'Addario stockist to say they are 'rare'!

He popped in to see us at BassGear last week, we could have asked him for you! What a nice chap he is He said he'll bring some basses in for us to sell on his behalf next year so we'll see if the one here is amongst those . . .

We've got Roger coming over to help man the BassGear stand at LBGS next year - really, really excited about this!

Jo was in the shop last week trying out some basses and a pre-amp and we had Phil Jones in at the same time. Phil went out of his way to say what a good player he thought Jo was and, apart from thank you very much, all Jo said was that he was using his 'shop chops'

Great review Steve! If you're playing this kind of rock then it's definitely worth playing with that drive control. Anything beyond about 15:00 gets a bit 'tizzy' but up around 12:00' to 14:00 sounds great. I think the S112's work really well with the TH500 and the vertical config helps massively in hearing yourself onstage. It's always nice when you can go out and listen to yourself and feel like you need to turn down rather than discovering your 'great' onstage sound is like mush at the back of the room!

I really need to go back to Nashville. Had a great time there a few years ago!

Is Grand Mater Flash the, slightly older, feminist version