PinkMohawk

Yeah, I like the idea of it, but the clean bass already sounded pretty crap, so I can't say I'm much of a fan of the distorted sound either.

It'd be worth looking at Noctua, they may make something small enough, though the Elf's are truly tiny, so it may just be the case that no-one is making quality fans that small. Noctua primarily have a reputation, amongst PC enthusiasts at least, for very quiet and very effective cooling solutions for PC's and servers, so I'd think they'd be the best bet, though enterprise focused companies may have a better product at that size.

Oh definitely, that's why I have my HPF's as my last-in-line on my board, right before it hits the DI/amp split. But yeah, I know how much of a pain hollow stages and bass cabs can be.

For sure, I run HPF's on my board just to make sure that I'm not dumping loads of sub-bass all over the stage, and any time I'm behind a desk, it gets HPF'd at 30Hz.

Honestly, I kind of respect how little they care about opening themselves up to copyright infringement or whatever the proper term is.

To be fair, I think they're fairly upfront with their 10" cabs having a vintage vibe to them, I think that was part of their original design goal. I've only ever played through a BF once, and this was a while ago, but from what I remember, I loved the sound, I've just never been able to justify the cost. For the price of one Big Twin or similar, I'd have spent more than double what I've paid for my current cabs (Ampeg and Ashdown 8x10's)

With a name like 'Fame' I'll be honest, I was expecting typical, low priced dustbin fodder, but those look lovely really. Obvious Warwick inspiration, especially with the MEC electronics, and I'd have loved to see the two piece bridge, but I guess that might have been a step too far along the knock-off line for them. Definitely being built by Mayones too. Interesting that they're selling 'handmade in Europe' instruments for such a reasonable price too. I'd like to see a walkthrough of their process to see how much hand-work is going into these for them to make that claim.

Won't lie, just teeny tiny bit annoyed that you managed to snag it at 500, but since you're about to chuck that whole lot onto the Uni Pre, I'll let it slide

Wheyyyy, finally made it happen!

Yeah, your best bet is going to a local hardware store, or even a specialist if you have one local, and asking for a machine screw with that same threading, but with a philips panhead. One other aspect you need to be aware of is how tall the head of the screw is. You can see the allan head is taller than the philips head, which could be a problem since Dunlops need to be inserted to a certain depth to engage the retention mechanism properly.

A Jazz with 3 P pickups in a strat config, with a strat blade switch would actually be interesting.

Maybe a take on the one from the old Fender Performers?

That's like, a quarter inch difference. It's not gonna matter.

Well, I guess Fender *not* doing a P bass is innovative.

Fair point, they're probably about the same in terms of popularity, though I guess we could argue that, at least Green Day's early stuff was more towards punk than pop punk. But yeah, I'd agree that Mike and Mark have probably shifted more Fender and Squire basses than just about anyone else we'd care to mention.