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You come unstuck with the post office’s handling fee. Maybe get someone you know over here to get them for you next time, and under declare them? I did that recently for someone who lives in France, he wanted a CD. Thomann have now got it sorted out, the price you pay is it, nothing extra.

I’ve never tried a HX, sorry. One of the things I like about the MOD is the ability to download pre-built user pedalboards, and third party pedals. I’ve got a shimmer verb by Shiro called the Shiroverb. There’s a delay pedal by then too that’s meant to be fantastic. Some you have to pay for, but they’re mostly free.

Do Telecasters have slim necks?

I’ve been intrigued by the various MOD units for a while now, since seeing Steve Lawson using his Duo pedal. So I finally bought one. I’ve only had very limited time with it - it only arrived yesterday - I’m extremely impressed with it so far. It’s incredibly well constructed, it comes with a really well made padded case, a cable to connect to your laptop, rubber and Velcro strips for the bottom, and a power supply. I had intended to mount it to a pedalboard and power it from the same supply as my other pedals - a pet hate of mine is untidy cables. That won’t work though, it needs a 12 volt 2 amp supply. I’ll still mount it on a pedalboard, I’ll just have to power it separately from its own supply. The effects sound fabulous. When you first switch on, by default it loads an effect called Shiroverb, which is quite simply the best sounding shimmer effect I’ve heard. it has two inputs and two outputs - these can be configured to supply a stereo signal - on the rear. There’s also a headphone output, and various connections to connect to a laptop. it comes with a massive library of ‘pedals’ and amp/cab sims, you just drag and drop them into whatever position you want on your virtual pedalboard. Clicking on the ‘i’ icon above each item calls up an information page for it. You can expand your library of effects and sims from MOD’s plugin store. They’re grouped by effect type: delay, reverb, distortion etc. Some you have to pay for, the vast majority though are free. It’s capable of an awful lot more than I’ve highlighted here, I’ve only been playing with it for an hour or so. It seems very intuitive - I’m not a naturally technically minded person.

Nice!

Yes. I just bought a B7K V2 ultra, it’s a fabulous preamp.

Is this any help Antonio?

Thank you. I quite like that - not sure about the knobs. I’ve seen a few of his basses, they fall into that sector that I really like, where the instruments themselves are works of art. I like the concept of creating music on something that is itself art.

I genuinely like your posts. What did you link to there please, it’s not displaying?

Why else would different instruments of the same model sound different?

Dunlop too on the Amazon website.

Every time I try I get this message. It lets me search the site, just not particular sections.

I can search the site, but not individual sections. I want to search the basses for sale section.

We couldn’t be more different - but that’s one of the great things about music - I think bass is a fabulous solo instrument.

One of my all time favourite players. I was lucky enough to attend a one day masterclass with him a few years ago.

That’s great. Oddly I hadn’t heard of him before, I’m very much into solo bass. Thanks for sharing that and alerting me to him.

I was reading earlier that it could get worse this coming week. There’s a large oil refinery in Ellesmere Port likely to go bust this coming week.

Mine is only a few weeks old, it was the first time I used that i noticed the marks on my jeans. I’ll give it the boot area a good clean tomorrow with some soapy water, see if that helps.

Delivery time is still good too. The items I’ve bought all arriver well within a week.

I recently bought a grey one with the red ‘boot. It’s a fabulous gig bag, I’ve noticed though that the colour comes off the boot section. I travelled by train to a gig last weekend, I was walking through town and noticed red marks all over the front of my jeans - I initially put this down to having come from the back of the seat in front of me. Later after more marks appeared i realised they were from the boot on the bottom of the bag. It’s left marks on the skirting board in the room it’s kept in too. Has anyone else had this?

No. The price now includes VAT and all charges. I’ve bought a few things from them recently. The only thing now is you can’t track your item until it reaches the UK.

It looks nice. I don’t actually like the pickups anyway, I’d get someone to build new cases using a nice piece of figured ebony, it would probably match better. It’s got to be worth a train ride over.

She’s fabulous. She often has some great musicians playing with her. Anthony Jackson was in her recent band, previously she had Tony Grey on bass, and David Fiuczynski on guitar.

Strings direct are excellent, as are Bass direct.