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Be interesting to see this stripped back, refurbed, polished etc. Go on ... do it

Someone mentioned Westcliff - ooh the memories. I lived there when i was around 18, and used to stomp around Southend pubs. Specifically two pubs called the Top Alex and Bottom Alex Its not as pervy as it sounds

Yeah MOS has the most out of touch prices on pretty much all of his gear, let alone controversial kindling like the abortion in the link. How he stays in business is a mystery, unless its a sideline hobby run from home, otherwise he'd of gone under by now

No short scales for me, though many moons ago, i owned a Yamaha Motion B MB2 ( the best IMO of the Motion basses ) which i think was 32 " Was a fab bass too I've also owned a couple 35" scale basses, namely a Yamaha TRB ll and a De Armond Pilot Deluxe and when using the same tension strings as those on a 34", the longer scale 35's tend to give a bit more ' piano ' tone, if yoo knaw wot i min

So the heads with vent plates at each end, that mount the heads in the combos, i gather will be too long for a 19" rack, but if you take the mount / vent plates out of the equation, the combo head will be too small to fit a 19" rack case ? Like this

IMO buy Markbass for what they are. The colour is branding, or just buy something else.

I reckon then, that i'll stick to the TE era SMX , but hopefully waiting for someone with a fubarred combo / speaker and willing to part with the amp

Yup, No. 2

I'm in the Arai SB club, well i used to be. Had the SB 600, open book headstock, ( as opposed to the Batwing ) and it was a set neck, single pickup. Lovely to play if you like slim necks ( and boy are they slim ) and 16.5mm string spacing, which i adored. The only trouble with it, from a personal taste POV, was the lack of mids. I think the single pup was in the wrong position, but thats just my opinion. I would certainly like to own the SB 900, which did have the twin pups.

PS you said the SMX were hybrids - i think they may have a valve stage or something ? Not sure how much difference 1 valve will make, though owners could correct me on that. I know the GP11 Mk V i have here at home has a fab tone, and i suppose i could steal the amp from that and rack it, but it would be a shame to dismantle such a vintage beast

I suppose you're right in that its lasted this long so its ok, but i'm not so much a fan of Gibson TBH, so will stick to pre Gibbo As for the outboard compressor, i used to have one, and great they are too, but dont want to add yet more gear - but thanks for the offer MB I've already got the graphic / pre shape original TE footswitch , which is enough add ons for me

Good info MB - ta I think i'd be looking more for the SMX range, pre Gibson, so i'll leave that one above alone

Just found a GP12 , ( with no SM/C/X invloved ) with a dual compressor - is this a bit rare, then ?

So MBA was right and handy info, ta chaps. Now need to find out if anyone has pulled an smx amp from a combo and whether it fits 19" racks

Ouch

Do they ?

Bizarre - looks like there was a tie when i checked, between Mornats and Rikki with 7 votes each

Dont fret over 300 watt or 500 watt. You'll barely hear the difference, all things being equal.

Glad to see you haven't lopped an arm off with that router yet. I only used it once and it scared the pants off me. I reckon you're going great guns. keep it up. Measure 4 times and cut 3.

I should have said ' shape up ' I've lost the ability to type the English language

Oooh - outsider !!! Burn the witch

That's about as diplomatic as you can be. If they don't up shape after that, have it away on your Nikes