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  1. Woodinblack
    Well, yes, I don't know andy baxters shop at all, but he seems well regarded and you have some chance of a followup if something goes wrong. There are a large number of people selling on ebay that don't seem to understand that if the full retail price of something is £3k, selling at 10% off that isn't a bargain, when you aer not providing the options, support and piece of mind that a shop is. Especially when most shops sell 10% below RRP anyway
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    The guitarist in my band has been having a trouble with his fender amp - he has had it 'repaired' 3 times (the last one he specifically said he didn't want anything replaced) and it still isnt working right.
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    But even if it was fully right, why not save yourself a few quid and buy an absolutely brand new one from an actual dealer with a warantee and everything for that price? Its £50 cheaper from guitargutar, or £500 cheaper if you are happy with second hand for mint condition from andy baxter.
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    Not sure I have anything much to speak of. There are a few basses that I wouldn't say no to, such as a 5 string status headless but they don't come cheap so there is a bit of a gap between cost and want that probably will prevent it. A better way to trigger synth lines. although TBH - I have all I need, if I just put it together into some giggable form!
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    I need to get something done with my camera - its a bit dead at the moment, its a zoom but as is the way with a lot of stuff, anyone who ever decided that USB-Micro was a good idea for providing power to anything that was heavier than a lead needed their head examining. This looks good but nto sure I trust it to not be nicked by the crowd!
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    Indeed, of the 643 Gibson '59 Les pauls that were made I think they have only managed to trace 2,000 of them
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    Thats what I found. I also have a BAM200 amp and gnome 10" speaker that I put on the floor by the drum, but that not loud, it is just so that the rest of the band can hear it clearly. It is the PA that does the heavy lifting. Its also nice to have the stage space! It is true to say that the ric sounded fantastic out the front - well, and in my in ears - I am sure that some of the sound of the gig was because it was just really enjoyable and you just play better if you are having fun don't you
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    Couldn't you just set the volume of the source? I just use it with my phone, turn the volume up or down for the source, and the volume knob for the bass
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    `On the saturday night we had a gig in a local working mens club, we have played it many times.. Got a new rickenbacker on the friday, so it had to come, so going from the bass -> Mod Dwarf (svt model) -> X18 -> 2 x Evox 8. First setting it up for some reason it wasn't right, the microphones weren't at the right level, the sax was down and nothing was clear, 5 minutes before gig start it wasn't good, so I leveled all the microphones and started again, and then it was show time. All worked well, great gig and we were told it was the best bass sound they had heard in the club, not booming and filling the whole space. I am not sure how true that was but it was certainly the best bass sound that we had had, so I will take that!
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    For a short while after brexit and before Thomman harmonised their tax collecing, they were on sale for 1350 euros - was keen then but they ran out and they have never had any back. Even with the taxes that would have been good.
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    I also fell in love with it at (presumably the same) London Bass Show and I also couldn't dream of affording it, but luckily the following year when had done a lot of gigs and my gigging drawer was actually fairly full I looked on Shukers website and there it was, £1k cheaper than the london show, and although still not cheap, I managed to justify it to myself. It is still a thing of beauty, it plays very well and sounds good. And it still looks impossibly slender with that long front horn!
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    The behringer circuitboard hasn't got that many componants on it, and is very easy to see what is there (seeing as you have to get the circuit board out to change the batteries). The Aliexpress harder as you have to take it apart - I am betting they are identical - there are like £5 of componants there at one off cost, I would think it would be pennies at production cost.
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    Indeed - I had never seen that before, but yes, that is what the behringer is, right down to the exposed clip
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    I am not a fan of the sire, but I actually do like the G&L
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    I am sure it is easy enough if you have practiced it, but to be honest, I doubt I have ever listened to it all the way through and frankly we can mess up songs we have practiced so it wouldn't be an option. I just love the way random members of the public always say 'can you play this, its really easy', and they are always people who don't play anything and almost never can remember all the words anyway.
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    Indeed - and I have had so many good comments about both the sound and people (like random crowd people) about it, it is quite an eye opener.
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    I guess these ones.
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    And in a strange twist of fate, I only have 5-string Rics
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    Another gig tonight, this one local pub 4:30-6:30, really short gig for us, and really well paying. Easy setup (if tricky parking), noone started a fight, so all good. It was a good first half, second half was a bit weird, the guitarist complained to the drummer about always playing so fast, so we did a couple of songs really slow and it was actually pretty hard to do them at that speed. Think the drummer wasn't in the best of moods as the drum lights weren't working. and we were probably still knackered from yesterday Sound was good until half way through the second half when there was an edge of feedback. it was my mic which had somehow got much louder and had a resonant peak in it - no idea what happened, but turned it down and it was fine. My stand was near the PA, maybe something connected. Oh after the request last night of chesney hawkes, another woman came up to us with a request, I said, we can only do requests if it is on our list, expecting something equally as odd, but it was sex on fire so we did that one
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    The stereo is if you are being fed a stereo signal from an XLR rather than the more normal mono. I don't know if it actually reads stereo from a TRS - haven't tried it. The chapman stick sends stereo down an XLR so it is handy for me The behringer can do the same, but its mono / stereo switch is on the circuit board on a tiny switch that most people dont' notice. The casing is steel and seems like you would have to go out of your way to damage it.
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    The link I have doesn't go anywhere now, but this is the same thing https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007849338535.html The clip on my P2 is very bent, I dont' know how, as the drummer used it most, it does tend to snag on stuff, the clip on the fake p2 is the same style but doesn't stick out as far, and it has a thumbscrew that tightens it up, which is good. It is good that they took the P2, which is fundamentally pretty good, and made it better - I am not worried about the mono / stereo, never used that but not having to take the case off to replace the batteries (which I did every other gig anyway, with rechargables, is a good idea
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    `As long as you were facing away from that wallpaper it was probably good!
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    I didn't find it that hard and as a standalone thing it seems good, its just a pain dealing with the software, but I didn't have to install or anything
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    More a tribute than a clone - it isn't pretending to be a behringer, but it is sort of a copy. However, not only was it cheap, the volume knob is better and on the clip on the back, you can undo a bolt and put batteries in a holder, rather than sliding the tube out. Also the button which opens the sleve on the behringer is actually a stereo / mono push button. Well, amazon is a proper store, designed to funnel all the money out of the country and peoples livelihoods in the uk and into Jeff Bezos private space fund, whereas aliexpress is a bizzar of cheap cloned tat funneling money out of the country to a whole group of people. Neither is perfect, clearly, but I know what i am buying on aliexpress.
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