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  1. scrumpymike
    I've got a Vox Starstream A2S and the quality is as good as anything I've ever played.
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    You and me both!! Lee Jackson also used to play one in The Nice IIRC.
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    Hi Nos, for the sake of avoiding any further confusion, Frank meant the SWBB. Must have missed his medication yesterday 😊 Look forward to seeing you on the day. You'll be made most welcome - and won't need to eat for a week afterwards!
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    Love quirky, love this!
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    Love that Ibby Musician! I gave mine to my son and can't get him to give it back even though he doesn't play any more.
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    That's my favourite kind of bass tone - one you can slice with a carving knife! ☺️
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    PM sent.
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    LaBella 760FS-S on my Cali ll SL TM 4 SHORT. Band plays drop-tuned by a semi btw.
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    Gigged my recently acquired Cali ll SL TM 4 Short for the first time last night - absolutely superb!! Away next week but will post mini review when I get back.
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    Greetings! In the lower price range, I'd recommend the TMB30 as being the best value IMHO and the one you're most likely to find in a shop to try out. You won't get the neck-dive issue mentioned on the 5-string TMB35. Obviously, the bigger your budget, the greater the choice but I'd recommend starting off at the cheaper end. You'll soon find out whether you enjoy playing and can then trade up and move your first bass on without losing much money (there's always a market for good, used TMB30s). Alternatively, your next move could be to upgrade to a better set of strings.
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    They obviously need the storage space 🙂
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    There's been a few posts on here already from me and others about the Starstream basses. I absolutely love my A2S and consider it a steal for the £799 I paid. The original RRP was over £1300 and even then worth every penny IMHO. GLWTS if/when you get round to it.
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    Hey Marc, full marks for jumping onto this in such a timely way. This is the kind of thing that restores/strengthens our faith in the Sandberg brand.
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    As someone who spent my working life in sales and marketing, I'm finding this debate over Sandberg's comms very interesting. The bottom line is that every business theoretically needs to communicate effectively with its existing and prospective customers. I say 'theoretically' because the one exception is when a business can't meet existing demand for its products. With a 2-year waiting list for customer orders, you'd have to say that's where Sandberg are at. However, lifting the lid off that situation is pretty much like opening a can of worms. You could write a book about it - lots of people have. Let's just say that, in business terms, it's unsustainable and will probably bite Sandberg in the bum sooner or later. Certainly over-reliance on social media doesn't help you much when a significant segment of your market demographic doesn't use it, either properly or at all. Cuzzie, well done for posting your experiences and sticking up for a company you obviously believe in. I think we are all united in wanting what's best for Sandberg, but I'm not sure they're going the right way to get it.
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    Andyjr1515 and Jabba_the_gut of build-diary fame on here - if they're still taking orders 🙂
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    Good for you mate - couldn't agree more and I wouldn't put up with it either!! Luckily for me, those nice (and responsive!) folks (or should that be Volks?) at Thomann had what I wanted in stock. A couple of observations: Following my initial skirmish with the user-unfriendly Sandberg website, I ended up contacting the lovely guy at Classic and Cool. At the end of our nice long chat, he confessed that it's hardly worth his while spending time on the Sandberg brand any more because prospective customers disappear when they find out there's an 18-month waiting time on orders (he was surprised when I told him that it's now 2 years!!). I'd say it won't be long before Sandberg's distribution network is reduced to one company, namely Thomann. There's obviously a special relationship there, presumably based on the fact that they're both in Germany and that Thomann have the funds to buy for stock. Comms with Maruszczyk are similarly dire! The only reason they can get away with it is that their products are of consistently high quality and generally don't need after-sales support.
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    Yet another one to add to the already long list for what Basschat calls the 'pink torpedo'!
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    No, this time you can punch someone AND leave after 30 minutes.
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    This is a used one I bought off here a year back. The new one Santa brought is a keeper!
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    On hold subject to receipt of payment.
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    I'm the one hiding under the bed 🙃
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    It just appears to be Thomann who are doing this. Jump on their UK website and search Electric basses > Short scale > Sandberg and you'll get around 20 basses with delivery times ranging from 'stock' to a number of weeks / months or 'to order'. What I like is that the selection isn't limited to what you might call standard basses. There's always a few SL and roasted maple necks in amongst what's on offer. This makes a lot of sense given that the waiting time for special orders is now 2 years!! I was lucky enough to find ex-stock almost exactly what I had recently designed on the Sandberg configurator, which would have cost me around £600 more and been subject to a 2-year wait. The only thing I configured that mine doesn't have is a roasted maple neck, but now I've got it I really like the mix of the lighter maple neck with the green burst and gold hardware. Short-scale Sandberg basses at Thomann UK
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    Just about to open a new pack of La Bella s-s flats 🙂
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    NBD!! After much deliberation, finally decided to take the plunge on this drop-dead-gorgeous (IMHO) Cali ll TM SL 2-band active that Thomann had in stock. Only just unpacked it but I can report that the build quality and playability are spot on - as I expected, having owned a Lionel. Thanks to its paulownia body and lightweight machine-heads, this one weighs next to nowt and still balances perfectly on the strap. I'll post more feedback when I've got to know it properly.
  25. scrumpymike
    NBD!! After much deliberation, finally decided to take the plunge on this drop-dead-gorgeous (IMHO) Sandberg Cali ll TM SL 2-band active that Thomann had in stock. Only just unpacked it but I can report that the build quality and playability are spot on - as I expected, having owned a Lionel. Thanks to its paulownia body and lightweight machine-heads, this one weighs next to nowt and still balances perfectly on the strap. I'll post more feedback when I've got to know it properly.
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