NancyJohnson

I've been searching for an answer on an FRFR unit. All I'm seeing is people jacking in HX Stomp type boards...my question is whether an FRFR unit will work with a rudimentary distortion pedal (in my case a Fender Pugilist).

Four grand. Jeepers. It's an SB-1000 with his name on it. Can't you pick up an original one for a quarter of that? Maybe this'll be the start of something for Aria. The Buggles edition. The Planet Earth edition. Take a stock(ish) instrument, slap a facsimile signature on it, sell it as something special.

Well, as NAMM 2026 is more or less done and dusted, my personal opinion is that it was pretty underwhelming from a bass perspective. The majority of (new?) basses just seem to be reissues/reboots of decades old designs and the amps/processing all a bit meh to be honest. Where's the innovation?

I was honestly of the belief that it didn't go into production! Apologies.

I think it's a curse.

Don't we see this type of scenario periodically? Harley Benton announced an (orange coloured) EB2 style bass a few years back, I think it was @neepheid that bought the prototype and did some mods to the guts, but from memory the bass never went into production. Possibly something similar here? Fanfare for a model that may not appear?

Yep. And all the patches.

Darkglass stuff is stupid money, and I own a pair of their 1x12s.

Just got my amp back from a bloke who's had it for about a year, old Line 6 Spider IV 75 combo (incidentally @jonno1981 sold me this when he was in the business); that said, I'm not really a huge fan of this amp, only really used it for home recording. The pickups are really quite decent, suprisingly so; I'm actually wondering whether it's worth dropping in a new pair of P94s to be honest, although I do prefer the visual aesthetic. It's completely silent from a grounding perspective. Nice!

For me it just offers a slightly phatter tonal output on the D&G strings. It's not much, but (to my ears) enough that all the strings sound similar, rather the E&A booming and the D&G twangy. Pickup here is a Tonerider unit.

It's a belter. You remember those 'Rock Family Trees' things? I often thought it would be a blast to have one with this band's history on it.

I'll admit I chuckled at bangerfilms.

The disc is years old and out of print, so I doubt the maker will honour anything.

My old band went through many iterations before I found it all somewhat exasperating and jumped. Reckon we may have got up to A (me, obvs), D (second drummer), H (third guitarist) and L (third singer) before things really hit the fan. L decided he didn't think D was any good and argued that we should try out ¥ (a drummer we all knew), to prove a point. So we did, but ¥ wasn't remotely interested in joining, but L thought ¥ would. A knew ¥ wouldn't. A knew D was a bit crap and H was on the fence, but L decided D needed to go and said A needed to tell him. So A told him. It was horrible for A. A then found a new drummer through Facebook (let's call him P) and he was a great player, although Ps raison d'etre was primarily for shagging audience members even while his wife was there. 'Where's P,' she'd say, 'Have you seen him?' L started to make life difficult for A, despite A writing the bulk of the material, and A left, eventually being replaced by Q, R and S, before the band imploded.

I've seen some horror stories, broken headstocks, heels etc.

No. It was pixelated out on the original sale advert, so pretty obvious what was going on. There wasn't any communication from the seller.

Your wish is my command.

It's based on a Gibson Futura, not an Explorer:

Well, this arrived a few minutes ago: No breakages or anything. To be brutally honest, I'm stunned as to how nice it is. Frets need a bit of a polish, strings are nasty, neck is straight, there's no flaws in the finish...even the machine heads seem to hold. Obviously things need a bit of fettling, but for £200, there's nothing here not to like. In all probability the plan is to swap out the hardware; P94s, 300k pots, strap locks and further down the line machine heads. These are a job for future Paulie. [Edit: I've put some fresh strings on D'Addario NYXL), the frets are fine. The fret ends are finished beautifully, no fret sprouts, no buzzy frets (I actually dropped the bridge on the treble side), intonation spot on out of the box. The machines are just great. I haven't had the opportunity to run it through an amp yet; my home combo has been elsewhere for about a year, collecting that tomorrow.

It's this group: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CVDaGASB9/

Mine stopped working years ago...unrecognised by two Sony Blu-ray players and a couple external BD drives. I was royally pissed; the only BR or DVD that just stopped working.

Anyone got a copy of this on Blu-ray? Does it still work? Recent thread on a Rush related Facebook page about how this disc has just stopped working for many owners.

Five days on, no updates 🙃 When I've bought kit from Japan, I seem to remember GB mail services giving a GB tracking number.

I've got a couple of basses that I adore but will never get played in anger ever again. I've no idea why I'm still holing onto them, especially considering I've been offered ridiculous money for one of them. Emotional attachment. The Hamer FBIV hasn't been out of its case in a couple of years and even then it was only for a few minutes to fit a new jack plate.

Nothing wrong with that. Looks like a Warwick without the machine heads being installed on the wonk.