Woodinblack

I had that, went to the optician as a non glasses wearer, they pushed the varifocals on me. Picked them up, went outside wearing them, the world looked horrible, I felt sick, walked into a bollard (luckily only slightly), never wore them again!

How long has it been sat since it was last working?

I guess he is going for the solo there?

You think??

With the X18s / M18s etc, you can use the great surfaces too, which don't take up much room, being exactly the same footprint as a Ashdown ABM600. which I happen to have here! Which side on looks like this (ignore the rest, not my wiring!

So they have sorted the VAT thing out now or you got lucky? When I ordered one that is how much it cost, but with it I got an invoice for the import duty and vat from UPS.

Mine bolts to the normal stand just using some clamp I got of ebay - runs an app that has the set list, the lyrics, starting keys etc. Most of them I don't need (I mean I don't sing most of them - but just in case)

Well, same here, I play covers and pop stuff in pubs, no point in having a DB, but I big fat bought one anyway, and a lot of fun it is. I went for the 5, and I am glad I did - I guess it is because of the length of the strings on the NS EUBs and the thuddyness of it but the 5th string is very much the same as the 4th string, but lower, IYSWIM - there is no difference between the 5th.. fret on the 5th string and the open of the 4th. Hopefuly one day I can drag it out to something - find a group that wants to play love cats or something! I got the original strings, and some others that were on it. Haven't tried anythinng different, as you say there is not much chance of doing so at those prices, especially on a 5 string, as the 5th string on its own costs the same as a set of bass strings.

Around £300 with shipping and vat - pretty good for a very entertaining pedal

Could do if you could say whos feedback thread it should be on?

I was listening to random 70s stuff the other day out on my walk, and this came one - Gladys Night, Midnight train to Georgia, not the sort of thing I would normally spend much time on, but maybe it is just having earphones on but the bass really powered out of the track (as it does on this recording). So I thought I would try it!

So they buy a neck, take it apart, refret it, and rewire it, and then somehow run the wires from the neck across some gap in the neck pocket into the body - really? Wouldn't that make it a little delicate? So for the one in the OP there are 21 * 4 connections - 84 possible connections although I guess if you are doing it like a matrix like the one in the link, you could get away with 21 row lines and 4 column lines, and if you were putting the electronics for the rows in the neck you could reduce that down to a fast serial link, but you would still need power, ground, clock and data, and if it was serial it would need to be sheilded well from the pickup (you could certainly pickup the electronic noise in the darkfire)

I guess they assume that if you want midi in your bass you want to look as cool as someone with a keytar!

You really can not look at it - I have it as a help and tend to look at it during the break time for the bit back from the chorus. If i try to read as it goes along, I get lost. Its just there as a backup

There seems to be less of an issue with them, it is true Really depends on your eyesight and how quiclly you refocus. I have a 10~" iPad which I use, it has the lyrics, the start note (sometimes it completely goes out of my head) and I also do the sound on it (it runs the synths too, but I don't need to see that once it is set up). That is certainly good enough, although you also ideally need a footswitch page change thing. I have a really cheap bluetooth thing that does it.

Sorry to hear about the end of your tour, surprised you didn't get to hear about it first but I assume he wanted to make sure it didn't leak out before he mentioned it, quite good to actually deliver the news in person. I do love that building though, did a convention there and it is a really good building.

Thats what he says, but frankly I am not convinced. I don't think lobsters sound like that. Got it, but my collection of HB basses is 2, and 2 others that I have played, and they were all chonks. They were all pretty good though, I must say. But already a bit over booked with basses.

Obviously not much - i don't watch hist stuff because of the lobster thing (and the fast chopping breaks between the sentances), I was just referring to the weight - as much as I don't like the gimmicks or the voice, I believe him if he says it is 10.4lb

That is what I would expect from HB sadly

Should be done as well as it can be.

My piano teacher when I was a teen was Mrs Clutterbuck, no slap piano in her classes.

Maybe put a bit of a gap and the end so it doesn't just stop like that?

Or about 0.8 cubits per moment, if you prefer it in older measurements.

the ecc83 is a dual triode, the el84 is a high power pentode, ignoring an incompatibility in pinout, if you put a EL84 where an ECC83 is supposed to be, half of it isn't going to work as there is only one circuit in it, and they normally use both. On the plus side, nothing is really going to go bang!