Woodinblack

Yes.

Speaking as that admin, it was 5, I have bumped it down a few for no valid reason, so it shouldn't be a problem, and also any warning points are probably related to people having warning points over here, that are reflected over there, but that doesn't really make sense, as there have been no warnings there etc, so i have removed them where advised of them!

I got a bass in a hardcase posted to me a few weeks back, it was £26 for the shipping and £24 to insure it for £1300.

Neither my Euro or my Euro RST had a problem getting the strings flat on the neck if you wanted it, but then tbh, none of my neck through basses have ever had a problem with that, maybe people don't put so much effort into it on bolt on necks because they figure you can always shim it!

Like farenheight.. I have nothing in my head that gives me a concept of what that means, and unlike km/miles etc it is a trickier calculation, so someone says 70° - I don't know, I guess it isn't really cold, and I guess it isn't really hot, but it means next to nothing

Of course you can, it is just a switch, you can put 10 of them together if you want, all it does is switch between y<->a or y<->b - it makes no difference what is at the other end of it. So if you want y<-> a and y<->by<->ba y<->by<->bb that will work just fine

Oh if only the rest of us had to slum it with such low end equipment

It is penny pinching, but as I said, I paid £85 for mine as a refurb, so that seems not an unreasonable pinch to me. I paid a lot more for my CTM100 and that had jacks.

It gets pretty warm when run almost flat out for 3 hours (certainly not very hot, you can still pick it up straight away), but that isn't really that surprising considering how small it is, but that has never seemed to cause it (or me) an issue.

of course they can - 1, 2, 3, 4 lots.

They really are the same board in a different order aren't they!

I think the problem might be that there isn't really that much room on the back, I am not entirely sure it would fit!

I can't really boycott tax havens though, other than not putting my millions there, which I have so far managed to do by the simple scheme of not being rich. Obviously I don't use amazon or recommend others do, but sadly I know it will have next to no impact, but it keeps me happy. I try and use stores like andertons rather than amazon, for every quid you spend there, a lot of it stays in the country and community, compared to amazon where it leaves the country and goes to sit in piles of cash in other countries (wherever his stash is), and keeps some stores going in this country. It is very hard for normal stores to compete with people who can apply the pressure amazon can, and I have seen that from inside businesses. But I understand, most people want cheap over everything, as well as sitting there moaning how there are no local shops any more Anyway, sorry for the side track, back to the original thread, the BAM200 is actually excelent, wouldn't be without mine, go and get one (only downside is if you forget your jack to speakon connection!)

I bet he doesn't - I bet he uses an army of very expensive accountants to work every loophole, move his company to places where he doesn't have to pay and pressure governments to reduce his liabilities. I am betting Andertons pay a lot more tax proportionatly.

he's a drummer - I'm not going to write "kick" on the mixer 😀

I go for names for microphones, and instruments for the instruments. Which means the labels can be bigger, and the only trouble we ever had was that the bass drum ended up plugged into the bass socket a couple of times.

Oh people do plug themselves in - I don't even check that, if they aren't plugged in they are going to be pretty quiet, but every socket has a label on it as to what it is so there is no excuse to get it wrong, i wouldn't expect anyone to know the right channel numbers!

I think you will find, compared to most other places, especially here, everything is crazy cheap in the US! Spot on, same here, noone cares what I play apart from me - the new rickenbacker I took to the gig a few weeks back was the first time someone actually mentioned that they hadn't seen it before, and that was someone in the band. So I take what I want. It is all insured, whether it costs £200 or £2000. Although I do tend to avoid taking the £2000 one to places where it might get knocked over. It might be insured but it is a one off!

I suppose you win some, lose some on those gigs! That was all very normal with our group. The drummer has always helped with the load in, but obviously, he has the drumkit too, and the singer now almost always sets up the PA when we have have it in (except always one wire missing in the end) after some not so subtle hints, but it still has been pretty much on me to get it in and set up, the guitarist has never helped with any of it.

Great price. I did actually get mine for £85 refurbished when Behringer had their own eBay channel, but if I hadn't I would go for that, it has been a great amp - I bought it as a backup (fits fine in a gig bag pocket as a spare), and currently is what I am using as my only amp on stage

Certainly makes a very stable neck!

There are several questions, so just trying to work out what you are really asking Depends on the whatever, 20k rubles in $197, 20k yen is $127! Assuming you mean enough to but that fedora, well, I wouldn't, its not something that appeals to me, so I wouldn't buy it even if it was a lot cheaper. I also am not at a place where I could justify buying a bass that was that sort of money, I wouldn't really buy a bass that my money from gigging wouldn't cover at some point - so you know, £1000 I can justify in my head in that its 8-12 gigs and I have paid for it. Better than that, it is retrospective gigs, all my gigging money goes in a drawer, if I want to buy something I look in the drawer to see if there is enough money, and if there is, I buy it. But, everyones justification limit is different. Some people wouldn't dream spending over a couple of hundred on a bass, some people wouldn't think twice of spending over £10,000 on an instrument that they want. Then the final question, sight unseen. Well, it is a truth that 2 of the 4th largest amounts of money I have spent on a bass has been untouched. Once because it was a custom instrument so it didn't exist before I bought it and one because it was a long way away, and I also believed. it was going to be fine, it was. I think if I was going to spend 15k on an instrument I would go and check it out, but then that is again down to my finances, maybe for the person who would drop that sort of money on a bass it wouldn't be worth their time. I am also sure that even though I don't like them, they are very high quality instruments, and you probably don't get a friday afternoon fodera, I am sure that if you play one of a certain model, and then play another one it is pretty similar, they aren't made like fenders. Also, if there is something wrong, I am in the UK, and assuming that I am buying in the UK, if something goes wrong, I can get the credit card company to sort it out!

I have 5.8GHz on both bass and mixer control, no interference. 5.8 is a lot better for that.

I had a SR2605 - that had a 15pc neck, Panga Panga, Maple, Padauk, Purpleheart and Walnut Headstock looked like this:

By its nature there is no such thing as a non aesthetically challenged tort pickguard, so it is a fair comparison! I assumed what you meant in your photos were 'ugly tort' and 'photocopy of an ugly tort'