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.

To be fair, I don't think Blink 182 ever claimed to be a punk band. They've always been pop punk, and as pop punk bands go, there's no-one bigger than Blink 182. Mark Hoppus, whatever else we might think of him as a bass player, is probably responsible for getting more young kids picking up a bass than near enough anyone else we could name off the top of our heads. And, yeah, it is a cool bass. I'm not a Jag fan, never have been really, but as straight ahead, bare bones P styles go, that's a pretty slick one. Black and maple would have to be offered for me to even consider it though.

That's fair, I know there was one a little while ago that was going for £500 in the classifieds, you might get lucky and the current owner moves it on. Either way, good luck with it!

Yeah, I definitely got the best of the bunch it sounds like, with (relatively) minor binding issues rather than the bass either killing batteries, having been tested out by half of the country, or the neck being un-adjustable. This has been a pretty rough go for you eh Lem? Could be worth a look at their other new Jazz style basses, the GB Fusions? Or, whatever other brand you've got in mind if this has put you off of Cort for the foreseeable.

Yeah, I do wish more cabs were built with verticality in mind. Something like a staggered 4x10 would be awesome to see from a bigger manufacturer.

Ohh that's very nice, I like it. Very into the line array style with the two vertical cabs as well.

Well, I guess it depends what you're looking to do with effects. Do you want to get wild and make some insane sounds? Or is this just a situation where you want a little compression and dirt, with the odd modulation sprinkled in sometimes?

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Gibson had tossed the machines they used for bolt-on's, probably in favour of getting their QC department even more effective blinders so they can't see what they're doing. On a slightly more serious note, I'd hazard a guess at it being a directive from on high, that bolts on's aren't 'Gibson' enough for their target audience. I'd say they're leaving the getting new players onto the brand to Epiphone, except with the prices Epiphone are charging these days, that seems more and more unlikely too. Honestly, just a lot of questionable decisions.

True, but I'm looming 5 cables together into one, so it was never going to be too flexible for me anyway haha. I've had cheap cables fail through general wear and tear, bad solder joints, etc. but never anything high quality or that I made myself. Good heatshrink works well as strain relief, and I've never had issues with any cable like that.

I prefer black cable with coloured heatshrink, or you could even do the techflex stuff, that keeps it pretty subtle but gives it a clear identifying mark as well.

They sound fantastic, nice to go back to single coils after I spent so long with humbuckers.