Woodinblack

I was just coming here to post this. Oh dear, this is supposed to be my year of cutting down on basses. Looks like that resolution may be failing at the first hurdle! Luckily they are all listed as pre-order so I guess they won't turn up for a while.

First year for ages I have been in. Singer wanted to spend time / singers wife wanted him to spend time with his kids on NYE this year, so no gig. i saw bits of jools, but found that mostly it was better by not watching it but luckily my remote seemed to work, unlike many here!

I was once taking the back seats out of a PT Cruiser so we could load it with thing to take to sell, as I often did and bounced the chair off my knee. I noticed it, but it didn't hurt. However, I had to have my knee replaced in the end.

Well, that fat 6 string precision at the end probably sounds different!

Apart from the TC (which I havre no idea what is in there), my amps are ashdown which means I can just look at the circuit diagram (although also to be fair, there are no input opamps, just fets or valves but same sh*t, different package). So either 20k or 2m for one, and I don't have the CTM diagram to hand on this machine. eta - I don't think the high and low on the CTM is anything to do with impedance (although I am sure it is different), I suspect it is specifically so that you can overload the input on high and not on low.

Interesting, which amplifiers have preamps with inputs go directly to a modern opamp without a resistor divider then? Certainly nothing I have. I don't have any amplifiers with input anything like a GΩ

I havent had any actual trouble where I am out of pocket but sometimes people just stop communicating, or communicate so sporadically you figure it is too risky to deal with them if they don't have time to talk to you before the trade, almost certainly they aren't going to talk afterwards. I know some people aren't actually on the internet that much. that is I know it, I don't understand it

The advantage of using the active input, in fact the whole original point of having an active bass is that an active input is lower impedance than a passive input, which means that any injected noise down the length of your cable is reduced. So in my book it is more you should use active unless you have a reason to use passive, which is with a passive instrument you load the pickups too much and reduce your treble.

My dad had the woodworking skills of an accountant. Sadly he was very keen to exersize those skills, and we had a lot of angled shelves, and wobbly cupboards! One day I came downstairs and he was fitting a sliding door in the kitchen. He was nailing the running board at the bottom in. I said "Dad, you are supposed to use screws for that", He said "Ah, ok, thanks". Next time I came down he was hammering screws in. I didn't say anything.

Well, they have much nicer headstocks than the usual Spector, and look ok, but the Spector I had didn't impress me so seems unlikely that I will get to try a better one to like it. I guess that is the problem with any non standard make, if it isn't a fender or clone you are never going to see one in a shop

Sack the others for making too few and making you look bad

I have never been asked, in fact when I replaced mine it was in an entirely different shop than i bought it (and they knew that), they said they just give them back to fender who replace them.

Loved doing the quayside festival. We were invited to do the NYE one but sadly our singer is not doing NYE this year, otherwise we would, it was one of the favourites of this year. Mind you, we played it on a warm day in the summer

I have loads of tattoos, but no longer have long hair, and I don't have a spector. I have had two but I don't have any at the moment or any plans to change that. Just for a data point

Is that the whole retrovibe collection there?

They have the 1820 at £799 as well as some of the other 1xxx series premiums. Bear in mind that the difference in any of the 1xxx series is purely down to finish, they work out good deals. The 2xxx series are supposed to be better things, although the sale price of the 260x is more than the 2605 that I got last year, so that is just the normal price, and note that the price they have crossed out on the 2600 is more than the non crossed out price of the 2605 (at no point would the 4 string have been more expensive than the 5 string). Obviously finishes are personal, but there is nothing quite as stunning as the 260x, so it is down to what you want. As always, try them and see what works.

Well, if andertons are selling without the case, it isn't a discount because you aren't getting the case, it is close to the same price as I paid last year (slightly more)

Oh well worth checking then - I just assumed they would all come with them. Maybe they separate them and sell them on their own. Mine was in a sale last year but came with the case, so I have two of them. I don't use them, but would feel cheated if they weren't on top of my wardrobe! The premiums come with a hard case, those are in the loft.

I thought all the premiums came with the semi hard case? Always worth checking.

Yes, as I found out (as the first was a present), you can actually take them to any fender lead dealer and they will just swap it for a new one. Which is great as a policy but would be good if you didn't need it. I have a whirlwind lead I found in a shared house that had been left when a previous occupant moved in 1991. I don't even know if the company is still going, but the lead is fine.

I always do that (not that it helped the fender cable). Or you can take to extreme like Rick Parfits guitar, with a hole drilled through the body.

Ah, I wondered if that is what you meant. I hadn't seen a sandberg like that. Although I could imagine the conversation as they are totally different ends of the pricing spectrum and there are people (and I am not suggesting this is true for everyone, or even most) who really have to believe if they paid £2k for something that it is substantially better than something that cost £200. And it obviously is in certain ways, but not ways that matter to an audience

I weighed mine today because of another post. 2 at 8.2lb, 1 at 8.8lb and one at 10.4lb Didn't weigh the others, but they have to be in the same range I would think. The 10.4lb is not great to do a 3 hour gig with, but I have done it (and felt if afterwards).

So on that subject, why did the world stop using curly leads? In the 70s everything was curly leads and then they all disappeared.

Yes, that is how I understood set, I was guessing 2, so 1.5hr-2hr gig. As I said, not done one that short in a while!