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  1. Woodinblack
    Someone turned up at my house yesterday and picked it up for his first bass. Almost 2 years and 1 month after listing, so now gone
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    Every time I hear one, I assume I am in the garden.
  3. Woodinblack
    Perfectly feasible - I had a 5 string (low b) 5 string and it was fine
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    I wouldn't say that - I would say they are recognised brands that go for that much. I have never played a KS, but I have played both an alembic or a wal that I wouldn't swap my prestige for for quality reasons (I would swap for financial reasons!), but if you want one, that is the price you have to pay.
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    No, I had a guy contact me about the SR2605 that I have for sale from indonesia, saying that you couldn't get that there and had to import it, even though he was a couple of miles from their factory.
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    Oh that looks like a fun thing.. might think about one of those
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    The sugar tax was supposed to be put in by cameron but he backed down as quite a lot of wealthy tory donations come from sugar companies. I don't recal any critisism of sugar tax affecting the poorest members of society, it is them who need more work. I wasn't aware that scotland was socialist - other than they are what our mainstream was a decade ago, but haven't lurched right like us. I would assume the societal issues are related more to employment and the loss of it mostly north in scotland in old heavy industries that were closed down. By a group of many nationalities, like we used to excell at here as we had the european drug agency and other europe wide research. Presumably something we won;t have as much of in the future? I think people are in general happy to give credit where it is due, but maybe not so many people are so laser focused as you on whether something is british or not?
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    The fact it is made by the top people at Ibanez. Like the custom shop vs the squiers. Obviously not, its not that ugly, but why are you paying that much for a fodera? same reason They weren't investing - they were gambling on the destruction of something, effectively they were a parasite, and sometimes the parasites get washed off.
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    My gigging money covers the cost of my kit. For the last 4 years or so I only bought things when it is covered by the money I have got gigging, or selling other things. My gigging money drawer is looking a bit poor at the moment!
  10. Woodinblack
    will have a think and PM you tomorrow
  11. Woodinblack
    A bass is always a very poor investment unless it is something incredibly rare or owned by someone famous. There are a lot of actual investment things that will make you orders of magnitude more than any bass.
  12. Woodinblack
    I am considering it - just need to prepare it for sale really (needs new strings etc). Would be more than this though.
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    Harsh? How? It is a clearly measurable and demonstrably true. When comes to deaths per capita head we are the worst of any country. By any comparison you are trying to bat away (yes, we are bigger than NZ etc) there is one that is the opposite (yes, we half the population of Japan and 20 times the deaths, and they are right next to China). every other modern nation (and many of the others) with our skills and our resources managed better. However much flag waving you want to do (and you really seem to want to do a lot), we have been presented with a crisis and we have failed to rise to the challenge. This thread is, but not that part of the thread, that is a change of subject. they are doing a brilliant job now the government have largely got out of their way. I applaud them too and always will. they are doing well for a government entity run by donkeys this much is obvious although again, although once this is over I am sure the government can demonstrate how it shows how great they ran the nhs so they can sell more of it to their mates I am not bothering to look until there is a reason to assume that things are going well by the summer
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    Wow - that is nice. Really the thing that makes the prestige a prestige is the made in Japan thing.
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    It would be harder to explain a variable resistor better than that, just the basic principle that if you have a material which is resistive, the more of the material you have, the more resistant it gets, so you can just vary the length of it and change the resistance. Do you mean variable regulators or variable resistors - variable regulators are a lot more complicated.
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    Yes, ibanez don't seem to have got the hang of those unlike some - the ones on my Maruszczyk are much more useable. They are in a separate section under accessories.
  17. Woodinblack
    Post has been here for 2 years so no excuse!
  18. Woodinblack
    Yep, sparkly is good, might have gone for a brighter colour but looks good!
  19. Woodinblack
    I have an old old ABM in the corner, and a shiney new ABM600 Evo IV, and the knob looks pretty similar to me.
  20. Woodinblack
    Same here, before I changed it. That was a bad choice, but at least they now have the premium EQ. Hopefully they will swap to the EHB Eq
  21. Woodinblack
    Suppose it depends how you look at it. I wouldn't think twice about importing (or exporting) to the states, the rules are clear, everyone knows how to do it. Its currently far harder to import / export from europe.
  22. Woodinblack
    Braver man than I, certainly would risk that at the moment!
  23. Woodinblack
    Never noticed that, but when you have heard it you can't unhear it. Hard to find any information on who played on those songs. Recorded at argo records, a subdivision of chess, but it doesn't say who played on it.
  24. Woodinblack
    Well, they have - as I said, the SR1000 prestige had a parametric EQ with 2 stacked knobs, bass/treble and mid boost/mid frequency. The standards had 3 way bass, middle, treble, while the more budget end had bass and treble. The SR5005 prestige has (had when I got it) a parametric EQ with 4 knobs originally and has now gone to the same style as the premiums in having Bass / Mid / Treble with originally a 2 way selector for mid frequency, and later a 3 way selector That is quite likely with the fixed middle frequency being 'what ibanez do', as in noone is crying out for them to change it. A 3 band EQ is just a parametric control where you have fixed the frequency rather than letting the user change it, there is no more to it than providing a control.
  25. Woodinblack
    I would take issue with the word 'become'
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