Woodinblack

Seems to be variably priced, shame I missed this earlier, it is now on offer for £119, reduced from 150. I guess I will wait for the next reduction!

Its odd that there is noone that ships them, even if they don't ship themselves. If all you want is a bass boost, is it important the method it uses to provide that? I mean does it have to be impedance switching, can it not just be a bass boost, which pretty well any preamp does?

the answer is not no, the answer to the question "can the impedance switching be done in a passive circuit is no". It could be done actively.

Not in a passive thing. Well, I guess you could have two volume pots and a switch between them, although it would still depend on what the impedance of your amp was, and you would have to have 2 redundant volumes, which doesn't sound like a great idea. I suppose it could be a custom dual gang hand made pot, with a swtich between them, and then being careful that you picked the right amp (and get rid of the tone). Basically not practical.

I blame everyone on here for my purchase of one. However, I can say that unlike some of the other things I have got just from being here, there are no regrets with the ABM.

It was for me the first couple of times I went there, I assumed they were shut.

Where do you even get Auderes from around here?

If you use two bolts on the pot, one below and one above, you can make sure the minimum amount of the control is above and it will fit better.

TBH - can't you just not use the controls at all? Almost all of my basses are active, but I never really need to fiddle with the controls, apart from the volume and balance

J-Retro deluxe doesn't

Do the John Easy preamps fit there? Or does the stacked controls still give you problems?

If bassdirect is on your doorstep might as well go there, just so you can get some idea what they are like.

Indeed, but not just a roll off, quite boosted in the mid bass. Ultimately I think it is something you would need to compensate for in your amp, unless you have a markbass amp, where it already I assume is.

Yeh, looks ok, but if it was down to my money (and it almost was), the first pulse looks amazing, this one looks good.

I do like my new spector, and I can see it has a lot of familiarity with the SR, apart from the weight (and remembering the 1605 was cancelled quickly as it was so light it was head heavy). I haven't tried the Spector live yet, but honestly the SR would still be the first one out of the burning building!

Very mid and bass heavy, although this was not running from a markbass amplifier. It was noticably a bass speaker in a way that none of the other speakers we tested were

My 15? My current one is the one I built myself, but my previous bass with 15mm spacing was called a westwood or some such thing. When I came back from the states, my Aria 'the cat' had gone missing, I can't remember how, and I didn't have much spare money so I went down to my local guitar emporium, which was at the time PJ Walkers in portsmouth and bought this 'Westwood' bass, which I think was one of those far east branded names, that was a 5 string (my first) 15mm. Played that from 1998 to 2010, when I went mad and bought an ibanez SR1000 from Utah, and had those two basses. Then I joined basschat so obviously now have 10! For me, 17.5 is the very limit of what I can go to, which is the narrowest I can wind the strings on the EHB to. Beyond that, it seems like a good idea but they aren't basses I pick up so they get moved on. I have been playing a lot recently, but the last gig I picked up my old #1, the SR1605, and it was like putting old slippers on, it played and sounded so good. Made me wonder what all the other basses are for!

Whatever you want, there is no specific setting. That being said, we did notice in the south west cab shootout that the markbass cabs were noticably coloured for bass, in a way the others weren't.

You know, I spent ages looking for a spector, it didn't come up so I put an wanted out, and despite never having much luck with them before, within a short while I had exactly what I wanted. now I am not checking for a while!

My most long lived bass (ie, the one before I came here) had 15mm it it was perfect. i built one with 15mm, I just need to update the neck on that.

Oh I hated it until I took the locking connector out, then it worked fine and I really like it

Mine isn't!

Me too, from the first time I saw it on the adverts I thought it looked great. It is nice to have something that is not just a copy of a 70 year old design.

Wow, that is one hell of a wide neck!

Looks actually quite different to mine, mine has less burly bits and more wavey bits!