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Electro Harmonix Battalion should get a lot of your boxes ticked.

If you stumble across a Dean stylist, they're amazing, just really solid sounding.

Turn your cab around 180 degrees back to front.

One of the best gigs I've seen the past decade too!

They will absolutely do a check and setup before shipping when asked. If you treat them like a box shifting webshop, add to basket, pay, wait: that's what you get. When you contact them before purchase and tell them what you want and how, they will almost always find a way to arrange it. Sorry to be on the defence here, I've not always been 100% happy but same applies to Bax, Anderson's and a few others. There needs to be less hearsay and conclusions from n=1

And that leads you to believe 40% of their revenue came from the UK?

Do you have any source at all for those numbers because they don't make much sense to me. Thomann is located in the south of Germany and supplies the majority of mainland Europe, mostly without the hassle of ferry/airfare and taxes.

That is a Heck of a string of bad luck! Customs and couriers can really ramp up misfortune. Maybe not write off the company that usually manages to reliably ship thousands of objects a week over one incident.

Beeswax

I'm sorry for Rex who is an absolute legend, but I can't watch Anselmo for another second. Talk about your "white power" crying racist b!tch.

double post sry

Pantera sold 3m copies of Vulgar Display of Power, you could say they were nr4 for a while.

That's obviously just the metal 'horns up' 🤘 but think what you want of it. I'm not getting paid to defend some millionaires I've never met.

*Drummer

Agreed

This is a €500 bass though. The Sterling By Musicman 4hh Still too much for this kind of work but as said above, someone likely messed with it. No others left the shop like this that we know of, and plenty have been sold.

Honestly it looks like someone tried a little 'home luthiering' and put stuff back together poorly. I've not found pictures of this misalignment, even if these are the cheapest import models. Or it could be a Chinese fake?

Hmm not enough neckdive, how can I...

We used this a few times. We're four big longhaired Dutchmen playing thrash metal ofcourse.

That is an odd choice as that's where a lot of sound signature of the amp is made. You'd want to adjust the output volume to keep the tone or timbre alike as much as possible. That said, the bottom three all have a humm or crackle and certainly the last two are quite a bit louder that the first two. I wouldn't dar venture a guess as I'm not familiar with any of the cabs.

I only know these brands from the 90s. Back then they were considered functional. Not particularly easy to play, nothing interesting tone-wise. Dependable starter kit that could last you a while. It's a surprise to me that they are still in production!

Thomann do a wide range of cases. A year or so ago I got one for a bc rich beast bass I had to ship and found it there. It was adequate.

I've recently bought a set of Verum 1 headphones and they sound .. well I was perplexed at how you can move your attention from instrument to instrument and examine it, walk around it as it were. I've never experienced so much space in a recording! Overall still very very clear sounding, a bit too clear even. Using various sources I listened through phone jack, Audioquest dragonfly Cobalt DAC, a simple headphone splitter from the Tele.. it's all a bit too much, causing some listening fatigue. Then it dawned on me: the cans offer only 8Ohm resistance. Also they haven't been playing for even 10 hours so a little breaking in may still happen. However I was thinking of getting a tube headphone amp to warm up the sound a bit but most I've found start at 32Ohm with only a few at 16 and none at 8Ohm! I know for many hifi and bass/guitar amps that you shouldn't run them at less resistance than indicated or they can burn up. How do I proceed from here? Are there 8Ohm, warm sounding headphone amps? Can I just run a higher specced amp on this low a load?

"Thanks." Perhaps with a nod or a smile.

I change my strings annually, wether they need it or not. But then I don't gig every weekend. If I did I'd change them every six months. Dr Strings DDT because I like a higher tension, playing thrash metal. Moving back to amps, Frank Bello always used a Hartke rig, famous for a clear and well defined sound. Most metal so far has been played before the advent of Darkglass so I don't see why one would go there for a great 80s/90s heavy metal tone. Modern styles sure! Any dirt pedal will work for a bit of crunch or fuzz or hair on the teeth if blended with the clean signal that retains the bottom end. Just a matter of taste beyond that point.