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That said, very nice job Andre. 👍

I totally agree with the fact he's making a (more than) decent living with SBL and that's a good thing for him, but asking money again when you already are a subscriber is really just making money for making money. Add to that that all, without exception, courses or seminars or whatever are in fact 80% of useless talking, that becomes very very very expensive.

Urm, try Spanish, French or Russian... No offence here at all.

As a regular SBL paying member, I wanted to participate to the Gary Willis masterclass, because there is absolutely nothing on fretless bass on SBL, but the Steve Lawson course that I already followed. WTF, I have to pay $147 USD to attempt this masterclass. Scott, are you just kidding me or do I have to pay for your new stylist and your new cap ? SBL isn't that terrific and for once, there was something very interesting AND different, but I have to pay for it as an official member !?! Is it the Brexit effect or is Scott already an American citizen just talking too much and making easy money ? I'm simply shocked and gutted at the same time. I've lost money with this SBL thing, so Scott keep it, buy a new cap and goodbye.

There is a great couple for sale here : Or you can use this GREAT lightweight combo (800 Watts RMS) :

Traded a bass with Flavius. You can deal in total confidence. His parcels are also bomb proof. The bass was exactly as described. The communication was excellent too.

^^^ It's for guitars, not basses, sadly.

Marco, don't forget it's my request. Have a nice day around here. 😉

@Linus27 : The colour is Graffiti Yellow, just like Jeff Beck's Stratocaster.

Setting the intonation is MANDATORY when putting new strings. Since when exposed cores are messing with the intonation when the instrument is set-up for thee strings. It's about time to read what you write : truckloads of non sense. Did you ever build an instrument or even know what makes the difference between a crap one and a good one ?

In fact, the problem is way more simple : the copies are way far better than the originals. 😁

Urm, I'm Belgian, living in Belgium and it worked for me.

Talking about strings, exposed cores are always sounding better, piano like and that's the way piano strings are constructed. Just doing maths is not enough, there are other parameters to take into account like : strings alloy, type of core, exposed or tapered core, neck construction, presence of reinforcement in the neck, type of wood, use of carbon, tuning of the wood (classical luthier always do it), neck through, bolt-on neck, type of glue, head angle, type of nut, type of fret, correct fitting of frets, type of pickups (single coils are the best because there's only one string caption point), power of the magnets (the more power, the more attraction, the less free vibration, and even falsing the harmonics), alloy of the saddles, alloy of the bridge, locking saddles, break angle of the strings, mounting of the strings, size of the body, balance of the instrument (if you are fighting with a neck diving, you will absorb energy), playing position (if you hold firmly the rear of the instrument against you, you'll absord energy), ... That makes a lot of parameters, aside from maths ! And after that comes the amplification.

As @Dood said, and as I also wrote, if you want a real test go see a specialist. I do it every year, because my hearing is, to me, utterly important. Thanks to these tests, I know I have an almost linear ear response from 20 Hz (they never go lower, but the way I hear it means that I certainly can go down to 18 Hz) up to 18 KHz, with a left-right hearing difference between 1 to 2 KHz (that ping pong you hear in the test). There's a strength out of this anomaly in the non UK typical response (yours is higher pitched at 2 to 4 KHz, just listen to your talking opposed to a "stranger" and you'll understand) : I'm totally imune to the hi-fi tricks to make a device more pleasant to the ears.

Sold an Acoustic Image Focus 2 head to Robert. Everything went smooth and easy with fast payment. A++++++++ as they say elsewhere.