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Thanks for the info. ah - the leds don't turn on, I assumed they were broken.. will try the batteries. No, still nothing I think the switch might be a coil switching mod. When I got it, the batteries were dead and I couldn't get any sound out of it at all, so it seems like there is no passive mode. Oh yes, the front volume, which I have worked out is mag pickup volume, has a pull switch.

Now I look, I think there is a bit more sense. There are two commercial preamps - I am guessing bass / treble / pan / volume for the bart pickups, volume / bass / treble for the magnetic pickups and a balance knob between the two (where the magnetic ones are quite powerful). And there are also two 'home made' preamps in the same compartment!

Here we go, my new Sei flamboyant. Resplendant in its 43" scale!

It was marked in the listing as just over 5kg, but although its heavy, it doesn't really come across as heavy, maybe due to the scale? It doesn't feel heavier than some of my other basses. Balance is fine, I think it has been proportionatly scaled, so sitting on a leg it feels fine - it has two strap buttons so I would imagine balance on a strap is good. I will take it to a practice this week and see what it is like to play standing a few hours.

Nah, I have listened to many people rave over some tone on here when it is a dull thuddy sound, wondering why it could be described as good, but seeing as noone is going to be polite about some random track on the internet, I guess they must think it must be good. So not only is it subjective to people, but it is also subjective in the context of a song.

Pictures in the daytime always look better, so here it is outside

I never thought of that - I guess it would handle very low tunings quite well, although it doesn't look very metal. As for bargain, there is certainly a hell of a lot of nice wood in there! Would hate to think how much this thing cost to be built in the first place!

Not especially. I have never managed to get on with that many short scales though - 32" yes, below that not so much. I never even thought of a 43, although it is exactly the same scale as the NS:design bass I have. Actually not so big. Its very clear playing everywhere, and it sounds a bit richer, depending on where the knobs are, which I am still after an evening of playing not sure what they do. I took the back panels off - had to take the battery one off as the battery was dead (batteries, there are two). Took the electronics compartment section off and OMG to what is in there. Not sure if that is how it left SEI or if someone else has thrown their electronics drawer in there, but I don't think I am going to be working out what is going on in there very quickly!

This is it with the local basses

Yes, I got one, great thing, really well made

I think I saw that when I picked up my way more bonkers bass today!

Yeh, they don't provide much description on the site. Yes, 43" - same scale as my double bass - Strangely it doesn't look that long itself, it looks perfect proportions. It is quite heavy but again, it doesn't seem disproportionate. I emailed the bass galery as I couldn't work out what the controls were doing. Clearly volume, balance, two stacked tones, but maybe also piezo volume and something else? and two switches, one that does some kind of pole switching, the other - no idea. It looks like it might have LEDs but they dont' come on, maybe broken. It plays really well, but it is a little step up from the normal size! Will get a picture of it next to my jabba 27" bass.

So new bass day, bought a Sei bass on the last guitar auctions, always fancied a sei. Went to pick it up today, well, it looks oddly big (my wife is laughing at how big it looks when she picks it up). I must be a longer scale, get the tape measure out.. oh, 43" scale, its a stand up double bass! Anyway, batteries are dead and it takes a while getting them out. Sounds good, and it has a lot of knobs. I am not sure what most of them do yet, but I assume it has a piezo as well as it has two volumes and two balances. It has a switch I have no idea what it does! But anyway, haven't had a chance to get decent pictures yet, but this is what it looks like as a quick snap:

If your amps ground wasn't connected (and I have had several that weren't) and it accidently became live, if your ground is connected on the guitar then the strings would be connected to live. If they weren't, even in that situation, you woudn't be harmed. Unlikely to happen as much these days as we have sealed plugs* but I see no possible safety issue on a guitar not be grounded, just a noise one. I have seen two amps that I have looked at that had miswired plugs. Almost noone checks when buying an amp or power supply the plug wiring to check it is ok.

Actually Hitler, Mao and Stalin

I still wouldn't be a fan

Dont you think you missed someone there? 1. Rich - Trace Elliot TE-1200 amp, Barefaced Super 12T cab, earplugs , Shuker custom 5, other stuff TBC. 2. Woody - Rickenbacker 4004-L5, maybe Sei Flamboyant, Same old basschat 12" with some amp, other stuff TBC 3. Pinball (tbc) - Got some interesting basses 4. Stubsy - Joyo BadASS, GRBASS AT212 slim - only 50W but that should give 120dB at one metre 😇. (or I bring my TE 1110 combo). Some fun pedals. Perhaps the AVII 1960 precision, the Sire P10 and maybe the Fender Performer and something unexpected... 5. Sean - Mesa 400+, Laney Nexus Tube 400 , MJW Taranis 200 (Matamp clone with extra channel and EQ), 2 x BF TWO10, Spector TBD, Valenti #005 Super P, Yamaha BB2024x, plus a mini walk-in bass surgery if interested

I would be absolutely shocked if there was any regulation that governed it. There is no safety issue (and an argument the other way), its just to get rid of noise, and I think that would be a hard one to regulate as then several genres would be illegal

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Got one of the Thomann safecases in the end, very impressed with it. Long enough for the bongo, the bag is great, the space for everything is good, separate iPad section, separate lead holder etc

I find it easy to just play each of the five strings separately, which halves the weight!

I think it is very important to keep those skills but from a practical point of view, its not something that is every going to be mainstream. I watched one the other day where the woodworking guy and the furniture repairing woman fixed a set of chairs that meant something to some guy. They, obviously, did a fantastic job, but in real life, apart from the very unique circumstances of those specific chairs meaning something to you, there is no situation where you wouldn't be able to buy new chairs of the same type for less money than the repair that they did, and that goes for a lot of things. I love repairing things, but don't fool myself to thinking that if I charged a reasonable rate it would not be cheaper than getting a new one.

They are pretty thumpy

TBH - I have a rickenbacker, and at no point was there a selling point of 'made in the USA'. Any flag that may have existed would be removed, although that isn't unique, I hate stickers. I do agree, in the short term it makes the 'made in USA' a bit of a toxic branding and if it doesn't turn around it will be more of a long term thing. I would think this is more of an issue in canada as I can't really think of many US imports here, apart from Fenders and Teslas, neither of which I would be in the market for anyway. Unlike in the 70s-90s, I find I am having a hard time thinking of things that the US actually produces.