Woodinblack

Indeed - that is why there is only one correct size of shoes. Everyone else is wrong.

Always wanted one of those, or their new moonlander, but very expensive esp with import taxes etc, so never managed to get one!

I guess it depends what you have - I think I might find it a bit restrictive over the X18!

On the front page of BassFreaks it says right at the top "We Ship anywhere on the planet. We are not collecting import duties. You are responsible for them when your shipment enters your country. You are ordering from Europe." So that is pretty clear

Yes, mono aux out, connect pins 2 (of an XLR plug) to R & T of stereo socket / plug and pin 1 of XLR to S of said socket. If you can't find anything like that send me your address and what plug and I will just send you one to stop you buying mixers!

I don't know when they stopped making them but judging by the packaging, I am guessing it must have been some time in the 80s!

Most (ie, almost all) aux outputs are mono - its odd for them to be anything else, as by standard they go on to 'some other device' be a speaker or an IEM. If you want stereo you have to use two aux outputs, that way you can decide what goes in the left and right ears (otherwise would be quite confusing to set up). This is regardless of what the plug is - for instance on the XR18 the aux is XLR (common) and on the X18 it is TRS (less common) - either way it is low impedance balanced, so a differential signal on two outputs and a sheild on the third (ie, diff between T & R on a trs, 2 & 3 on an XLR). If you want something to connect to a stereo TRS cable, for instance to drive a stereo input somewhere (while bearing in mind aux outputs are line level signals, not designed to drive headphones), you need to take the difference signal and throw the ground away, so if you want a TRS aux output to a TRS stereo cable, you need to put the T & R of the stereo cable to the T of the aux cable, and the S of the stereo cable to the R of the aux cable, and don't connect the S of the aux cable to anything. as you say, the XVives will be fine as they are designed to go from a XLR aux cable, so they just plug in.

Not many, no. But overall still quite a few. Our drummer sings, but only a few songs. If you are saying 'here is a good singer and drummer' then yes, for the music she is doing she does it really well, no problems. But that wasn't the statement, the statement was that she was shockingly good, and no, there is nothing there that I haven't heard. If the statement is are you a better drummer and singer, then no on both counts, I play bass and sing (I don't frontman, but then I didn't see her do that either), I don't play drums at all. If singing better than me is shocking, the world must be a very scary place!

Most of marketplace doesn't

You sure about that?

Kind of what I thought, I didn't actually see anything 'special' there - she can do the job, but nothing shocking. I figured that maybe people liked girl drummers. Our drummer breaks the sticks all the time, which isn't so great when you have to get the PA louder than him!

I don't think they make them any more, but there are still some around on ebay and reverb

He complained the adjustment on the vintage style bridge wasn't useable as there were no slots for the sadles to go in so you couldn't use the side to side mvoement. That seems fair enough They are defects. I guess if you care more about the look then the function you could get away with it, but they are defects whichever way you swing it, so it seems a reasonable thing to bring up.

Yeh, not quite *that* bit of Ensanada, *this* bit of Ensanada But looks pretty similar to the actual fender us factory, which lets face it, is only 180 miles further north and looks pretty similar and probably has a similar demographic.

I still have one of those wilkinson kits, I need to get round to making a 5 string P bass with that spacing

Can't imagine who it would be acceptable for - but it is a decision by fender. Seems like a very shortsighted and dumb one. And I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't end up being known as the fools gold or golden shower fender! I am not a huge fan of lobster, I don't like the claw thing, or the fast cuts in his video, but I do like his thorough testing, and also appreciate how many different names he came up with to describe this bass!

No, its nothing to do with coming with Mexico. The final setup set is a human adding strings, plugging it in, playing it, giving it a visual check. Even at a quick once over that should have been seen - in fact that would have been seen, it is obviously within the range that the QA has been told is acceptable.

Due to the power of computer magic, go to google maps, search for Ensenada, Mexico, click any place and go to street view, you can wander around and have a look. I have seen worse places in mexico (I have seen worse places in California!), but I wouldn't like to be there.

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No, $1299 is £1,083.47 + Vat = £1300 - you are actually saving a quid. Its a very good review video though, very comprehensive.

reasonably recent - if it is from a big company (thoman etc), you just pay the price you see and everything is like before (except more expensive). If it is from a small company, check first what you pay, if it is a second hand thing from a private indivdual you have to pay the vat yourself

I think there is a lot here that is largely irrelevant to the problem. Although the photo looks wrong, and it seems things are wired wrong, that has nothing to do with the symptoms as described. The OP is not complaining at all about the operation of the volume control, which I assume works fine, volume goes up, volume goes down, they are complaining about the function of the tone, which also puts the volume down when wound down. The only thing that can cause that is to much signal going through the capacitor, being shorted to ground in the tone control. Which means either the capacitor is shorted, or partially resistant, or the pot itself has a short between the case and the track (unlikely).

I had that, but turned out to be my singing.

Its hard to work anything out from that picture, but if your volume is working fine, and your tone is doing something but the volume is reduced with the tone down, it generally means your tone cap is acting like a resistor, so is shorting out or something

same here!