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It is (it comes with an adaptor doesn't it?), and it needs more than 125ma. It sort of appears to work on one output but it gets noisy and unreliable.

Yep. Seem to remember something came with a yellow adapter. I changed much later to a different power supply but I used that for a while.

I powered my zoom b3 from a Harley Benton powerplant jr for a long time, no harm came to it

45 gigs last year, which surprised me as at the beginning of the year it was really empty and I suspected it would be light. Well, and also at the beginning of last year, I would have said I would be surprised if we were still going by new year. Well, tell a lie, it is 45 gigs with my main band and 2 (free) gigs with my 'other' band that I joined at the beginning of the year as it was really empty and thought it might bring the count up. And I suppose technically, it did. By 2. Well, more 1.5. The beginning of this year is really empty - looks at the calendar, only 15 in in there so far, so I suspect it might be light, and I will be surprised if we will still be going by next new year But one thing that will be amazing, if the other group has more gigs than lineup changes!

They weren't original members, although I think most people would consider them the classic lineup

Well, this church was a 70s one so no architecture. But I do love church architecture, although I tried not to, my dad dragged me round loads of castles etc to show the architecture and I hated it, so I sure wasn't going to be interested in it later. Turned out I was. Acoustics in churches are good in their own right, although really not good for amplified music!

I remember at our most regular pub we used to have to finish at 11:30 on a saturday due to complaints from a local guy. Then one saturday we got to 11:30, we asked the woman who has the pub if we could go a few songs over (we normally did), and she said yes we could, the person who used to complain moved out, a new guy had moved in, and here he was in the crowd!

I didn't either until I broke my leg. My aunt who was a nurse had been so helpful bringing me stuff into the hospital and checking up on me. I knew they were big time christians (my grandmother used to go on about her converting her son with their wierd religion) in one of those modern churches, they said grace when we went to their house to eat (only place I had ever seen that as a kid). After I got out she invited me to her church and I felt kind of compelled to go because she had been so helpful. They had a band. That was the highlight on the event (and they weren't good, but they were funny). The preacher guy spent his time going on about the sins of sex before marriage, as I sat there with my heavily pregnant girlfriend. It was pretty horrible, and the last time I voluntarily walked into a place like that when not looking at the architecture! I never realised it was a requirement in the CofE. Same here, but difference between a christian and a christian I guess (and a church).

Its looks a lot like a Squier PJ Special Sparkle with a black pickguard, although the headstock writing is a bit different. Either way, it is not a Classic Vibe. Dont' think it is a vintage modified either. Like this https://reverb.com/uk/item/2274568-squier-p-bass-special-purple?locale=en-GB There are two classic vibe P basses, a black 70s one, and a white 60s one (well, I suppose there is a 50s too, but it looks like a tele). All classic vibes are about bringing back something that is sort of accurate at the time, so they wouldn't have a PJ or anything that wasn't actually common in bygone years. There were two runs, the original and the current ones. The original chinese ones are excelent, the newer ones, I don't know, I haven't played although they are less sought after

If I have a couple of 3 gig weekends weeks in a row I get fed up with gigging but then after a couple of weekends without a gig I get pretty fed up!

Sounds more like a squier vintage modified rather than a classic vibe. I don't recall there being any classic vibe pjs as they are based on old designs

No, like none of those. It is very flat, very wide and very thin. Speaking as someone who whinges endlessly about necks being too wide, I found it very nice, I assume it must be the thinness of it, as it is pretty wide. Both stingray and p necks are like baseball bats. So I guess it is a bit more like a wider thinner J. Closer to an Ibanez really.

Not expecting Ibanez to do it, but I think most of dingwall basses are available fanned fret(less).

The combustion could easily do the background thuddy noise on Dock of a bay.

But the combustion I had really did sound like that first video, it was very lifeless. I was always hoping that the other dingwalls sounded different to the combustions. I loved the neck on the combustion but couldn't live with the tone, never had a chance to listen to one of the canadian ones in the flesh. Maybe these ibbys will have a more combustion like neck (the SR805s didn't).

Yeh, I think he needs to include screws at that price

I was looking at the input and I am not sure if it will work now. My original assumption was that the input stage was being overloaded so you could switch between putting loads of signal in the input, and reducing in the send return loop, or less signal in the input and more in the send return,. but looking at it, it doesn't look like you could overload the input. I know if I put a bass in the lo input and turn the gain past 1/3 it will start to saturate, whereas in high it pretty well doesn't until you get to flat out, but now I see the gain control is after send / return, so its the second valve that is used for saturating. I suppose the idea could still hold with a greatly reduced input and flat out gain.

Isn't the spacing bigger on the BTBs? Hmm.. I see they are only 17 as well, so not much different. I know they did a few specials but always tricky to find.

It is a bass that is hard to love isn't it! And I would say no, the guy might have his ideas on ergonomics, but that doesn't mean his ideas are everyone elses. Are you trying to tell me that those controls are ergonomic? As you are saying that you want to use it with sausage fingers, how are you going to use those controls, they are way too close together. So I guess they are their for aesthetics (beauty being in the eye and all). Then there is that tailpiece - so is that ergonomics (seems it would move if it isn't fixed as that is where I put my hand) or is that sound (how do you adjust the intonation on it?). Seems also aesthetics. Ergonomically speaking, how do you stand that bass on the floor? And on aesthetics, what the hell is going on with that front pickup? Why is it rammed into the neck like an afterthought? I am sure it is nice if you like that kind of thing, and maybe it sounds nice, but I would take the ibanez every day over that, even if I wasn't paying. I do however agree about the locking jack, but luckily as it isn't 25 years ago I will be using wireless.

It will stop - there is a break when send is plugged in.

Oh yes, that bit. it does, the input goes into one side of a ECC832 valve and the output of that goes to the send. Under normal circumstances, the send output is shorted to the return input which then goes to the gain control.

All jools holland posts are a broken record, I am not sure why we need another one!

OK, I wondered if you were doing the stomp thing. I have all my effects in line before the amp, but I did think of doing the 4 wire thing with the HX Effects, as that way I could use the overdrive of the first preamp valve as an effect, which might sound good. Trouble is I would need to replicate the patch as I don't use my CTM often.

Don't know if this is necessarily accurate but on thomman, all the basic 1000 series and the non fanned 1500s are 1-2 weeks, the 1500 deep blue is 5-6 weeks and the other blue and 6 strings are 'on request'

Bold. There will always be a group of people who believe a bass is a p bass and nothing can top it, but that is not their market, that is fenders market so there is no point trying to appeal to them, they can't put a fender logo on it so those people won't look. but for the rest of us, how great it is to see something like this, or in fact anything that wasn't designed in our grandparents age.