Woodinblack

I could go for that. For me I would want to replace the metal parts with decent cleaned up versions, but I don't mind the wood being like it is.

it was $70 with $11 shipping and £20 customs and royal mail extortion charge, overall i thought it was a good deal as they are at bass direct for £140

I power the HX effects with a normal power supply. It seems fussy though although it takes about an amp. edit - By 'normal', I mean a normal multiway 9v gig power supply, helix HX, smoothhound, voicelive, jamman

I should actually post this here as it is related. This is my elwood l24. It has Hausell (?) pickups, for no other reason than apparently those were the best option when I chose them, but tbh, I was never enamoured with the P pickup. It is ok, but nothing special. So I got an open box deal from the states on a nordstrand P pickups for $70, and at the same time put on some tapewound strings as I was impressed by them at the bass bash. The pickup is great, it has a lot more life to it. Obviously it is hard to do a direct comparison as the strings are very different, but I did try it with a metal string to start with, also I can tell based on the back pickup which hasn't changed.

You know what they say, haters gonna YouTube!

I have had problems before too, which is a shame as I really don't do phoning.

The mic inputs are 2.6k, the lines are 10k, or 20k balanced.

OK, I looked at the spec and it seems they are reasonably high impedance, so ignore me. Yes it would work, although not as well as the proper XLR inputs, and if it was too quiet you could turn the rest down and that channel up at the risk of a little bit more noise, which I doubt would notice live. They are fairly quiet things anyway (mine never really gets round to showing LEDS, not that it matters as you can barely see it for the leads).

Note also that a line input has a very low impedance, which will heavily load any non preamped circuit, and many preamped ones, which is why a microphone input is very important for those things.

It was even prettier in person (well, they also did a green / orange one, but I could live without that), but that one, not just the front, the back. But for me, that fingerboard - there aren't enough painted fingerboards in the world.

Why - where are you going to sell them, cash converters?

I had one of those on my last ebay deal, someone said 'this sale here went for a lot less than you are selling for', to which he got a response of 'well, he got a bargain then, shame you didn't bid on that'. I don't think that is what he was hoping for.

Agreed - I would have been a lot less polite with them. I hadn't seen that there. I had seen it a few times on the facebook bass players marketplace, which doesn't have a swear filter! I have seen some basses that seemed overpriced and wasn't surprised that they hung round for a while, but I manage to deal with that by not buying them. The only time I have commented on was when someone was selling some TC speakers at £100 off full price, where I sent a pm to notify them that they might be worth waiting as GAK had them on currently at half price (£200 off, new and posted), which I knew as I had bought some. I have also had basses on here that havent sold (in fact most haven't here, the last ones all went on ebay and facebook), but with some of those, I haven't reduced them to a bargain price because I don't mind waiting and don't need the money, as is they have all gone apart from the epi, and frankly I am not unhappy about that!

Rick Beato did a recent rant about his videos from 'what makes this song great' being taken down. Some are better than others.

SELECT * FROM Basschat WHERE Location < 50M AND Cost < 500 AND Cost > 500 AND Wear=notroadworn AND Weight < 10lb AND Wood.Neck=Rosewood AND Wood.Cites=NO AND Heft=High AND AND Strings > 3 AND Strings < 6 AND GoodForMetal=No AND Overpriced=NO AND AgeOnForum < 7months

Location is only really relevant if you are picking something up / dropping something off. If you are shipping something then it really doesn't matter where you are does it?

Fender japan did one. I almost bought it even if I don't play the guitar much these days: https://www.gak.co.uk/en/fender-fsr-japanese-stratocaster-flip-flop-colour-two-tone-blue-to-green/94968

Oh I have some of that out in the shed for a new build!

Actually lovely necks apart from the fret access. But the headstocks are very ungainly and are the main reason they don't fit into gig bags. Then there is the 3 point 'collection of metal held together by will power' bridge..

You're making a big assumption there

Probably more to do with the bridge - the actual thunderbird neck seems very long just because the bridge is so far forward. Of course, if it wasn't you would have no high fret access at all, rather than being able to get to the 19th.

Routers are hugely fun, and they will also completely ruin everything if you don't watch them every second you are using them. They lull you into a false sense of security. you are shaving everything off nicely with a template and they same so simple to use and so great. Then you realise you just want to take a mm off the side of a cavity, you dont have a template for it but what is the worst that can happen right, just a little bit. So you shave that mm off, and it works fine. So then you notice another bit, so you do that. Now you are all confident, so there is just that other mm to shave off and voom - you go over by a bit. Oops, so never mind, you can just even it off by shaving the sides off. oops, that was too much. No problem, you can fix that....

So it is ~ £1500, so not crazy.