Al Krow

Sold Graham some Smoothhound wireless accessories. Fast payment, good comms and very much a pleasure to deal with. Hope you have as much fun and benefit from the kit as I did! Cheers, Bas

Sold Phil his HX Effects back to him to replace the HX Stomp he has just sold above, which he had kindly left with me for safe-keeping for a couple of months. We just like to keep Parcelforce in business for no particular reason. Usual smooth transaction!

The pics might be deceiving me, but does the scale length of the basses vary? E.g. my Stagg EUB has a 41.5" scale length. How does that compare to the EUBs that you guys have?

This is like one of those competitions where everyone gets a prize 😁

Pete, I'm not familiar with SWR and Eden takeover stories. Who were the acquiring parties? But my point is that some companies can do takeovers really well and you've got some current successful real life examples given above, so it's based on track record rather than blind optimism.

That's a very pessimistic statement, Chris! You basing it on anything? Line 6 have thrived under Japanese (Yamaha) ownership. I'm betting it will be a better business decision than Sadowsky getting Warwick to make their budget basses...you know what some of these German engineers can be like with their emissions reporting don't you? 😁

The old SYB-5 or even older SYB-3? Agreed tracking on those is pretty poor. HOWEVER(!) their latest Boss SY-1 has better tracking than a deer hunter on steroids, in fact better tracking than just about any other pedal I've come across it's that good. Like the Monosynth the SY-1 is a synth "emulator" and not an actual synth waveform generator in the way the game changing C4 (and Future Impact) are. Also like the Monosynth all the adjustments can be done on the pedal itself without ever needing to connect to another device. The flip side is that you can't save your favourite synth sounds to memory like you can on the C4 or FI. It's not cheap though and they seem to come up used less frequently than the C4 and FI do. PS @uk_lefty very nice little review you posted!

You really need to stop pushing the boat out with such extravagant gestures Chris!

I presume Korg USA are to Korg what Line 6 are to Yamaha i.e. US subsidiaries of Japanese parents? Yamaha have done a fabulous job with Line 6, and I wasn't even aware that my Euro 5LX was a "Korg" which also bodes well for how Korg is treating its investment in Spector. And if you've just spent $multi-millions buying a company, why wouldn't you want it to thrive, particularly when it's largely adding to and not competing directly with your existing product range?

I think you simply need to merge this thread with "Basschat".

@PatrickJ "A Gear Acquisition Thread" ?!! Isn't that basically just a duplicate thread for "Basschat"? 😁

When you say "purchased", did the cash physically leave your bank account before midnight on NYE? 😁

Come on then, what's the plan?! PS the previous owner clearly wasn't a massive fan of Yammy P pups were they? 😁

Be great to hear some clips of it in action. Please do post on: Filter & Synth Sounds - Let's hear them! - Effects - Basschat

Great piece of kit - liked mine so much I ended up getting two! If you come up with any great patch ideas, feel free to share them on: Effects patch ideas for the Zoom B3N and B1(X)-4 - Effects - Basschat

Sold Paul his Ciocks DC7 back to him, which he kindly decided to leave with me for safe-keeping for a few months. We just like to keep Royal Mail in business for no particular reason. Usual smooth transaction!

Ok Dan. Did we answer the Q correctly?

Well white IS the new 🖤, right?

Ah Boomers vs Millennials! Hooray another excellent topic to keep me from spending quality time with my quality Japanese bass designed in Japan and built in Indonesia before being shipped to London, very possibly via Suez and a warehouse in the EU. I just call it a Yammy.

Just setting us all up to fail once more...eh Paul? Well I've already outlasted @PatrickJ already, so I'm feeling up for this Fingers crossed that there are no decent 2021 multi-fx launches this year, otherwise I'm pleading the 5th. 😁

It is indeed! Super handy.

PS fretless is less scary than it seems, particularly with side dots 😊. Just have fun and play, you'll pick it up in no time. My challenge for 2021 is to get up to speed and do my first gig with an upright fretless (aka Stagg EUB).

and me and Woody would then be in with a shout of getting it off you, then me At which point I would need to abandon any hope of gear abstinence too...😁

Graham I'm a BIG Spector fan. But why is an "unsaleable" bridge pup a good thing? 😁