Cuzzie

Plek happens with no strings present - it’s there to get perfectly level and crowned frets which is more accurate than doing it by hand. The tension will even out across the neck and remember a well set up bass has the E and G string at a slightly different height to the A and D. If it’s something that concerns you you can buy the perfectly balanced string sets, but I have never felt the need to. I have used heavy and extra heavy gauge through to standard gauge on the same sandberg bass and aside from setting it up slightly differently there has never been a problem. A twisting warp will be very very rare indeed as opposed to a bow, especially in a Sandberg for either, but wood is still a cellular entity and once alive so it can happen, it has been reported in even the carbon fibre Status necks. In short - I think you will be fine

Classic film from me youth - worth a look for good clean 80s fun

But gaining Kelly leBrock in Weird Science - good trade

A decent trade

Beauty🤘🏾

Amazing congrats - which one?

These look awesome esp the passive shorty!

@Tío I would defo go for vibration treatment - I think it makes a definite difference if you can afford it - it’s a very difficult thing to describe, it’s more of a feel, but if you think of wood being organic and even after felling the tree the molecules settle, water content drops, it matures etc. (This is all actually scientifically proven) then it makes complete sense - certainly my MarloweDK has something else compared to non treated TT’s (not that they were bad) @redbandit599 is not wrong in what he says above, BUT……….the caveat is what is the rest of your platform? If you have a sound you like with preamps, pedals, amp etc. The Delano’s May fight it less, and I mean that in a positive way on either side. If for example you are using effects to create extra punch, then black labels and dialling back or dropping stuff may be the way to go. As I said before I haven’t used the black labels with pedals and preamps - it was straight in, aside from the preamp on the DarkHawk, but having used super hot pick ups in the Haüssel’s, G&L MFD range and Seymour Duncan Hotstack custom shop 51p - if they are tooooooo hot it does require a complete re-tinker compared to another bass you have, which if you are swapping basses can be a massive ballache unless you are midi, stomp etc and have a patch saved for each one. The black labels sit above Delano’s in punch, but slightly less output than the super hot ones out there. I don’t play slap bass really at all, but, the Blacklabels made me want to thumb slap a lot - Classic song for it would be RATM take the power back - it would eat it up. I am sure they could do gentler as well, but that was the feeling I got. Sorry it is a bit rambling, but it’s so hard to describe. You won’t go wrong either way, but at least you will have eyes and ears open to whatever you decide hopefully

Evening Tio, I wouldn’t say that they are ‘better’ but they do offer a bit more punch as I described, but Delano are very fine pick ups and allow you to modulate your sound very well. If you use effects I cannot give you a lowdown on how the black labels fair, but a hunch would say that them being a little hotter may mean you have to fight any preamp a little, or dime it back to get what you want from previous pick ups. If you can journey to a shop stocking a Superlight Sandberg you will hear the Black labels in action and can make your mind up on them.

Good excuse to leave alone - I personally don’t mind wear and tear, but there is a make offer button - if you could get for under £700 all in - bargain

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sandberg-California-JM5-Bass-2008-Made-in-Germany-Great-used-condition-/234101593836?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 This is a steal

Great post. facts can’t be picked and chosen to lay weight to a certain argument and the whole thing is very nuanced with gravitas having to be given to all the variables. You could take the situation in Cambodia as a good way to deal with Covid - until some idiots ruin sending it into a massive spiral.

Seen that near me as well - a guy did it in the rain under a gazebo with the residents looking out - trooper

Govt just announced vaccine passport for nightclubs, large gatherings etc. So we could play to nursing homes……

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand this is the problem I didn’t want to say without being touted as an empty glass fun police person - some double jabbed people are really quite ill - even if not hospitalised if staff get ill, transport people get ill so we can’t get to work, logistics for equipment, deliveries etc. Stay safe, stay oot the way and enjoy your hols. There is Covid, a coming seasonal RSV and ‘normal’ flu. Birmingham this week shut down elective operations for a period including transplant and cancer operations, A&E is heaving, forget 4 hour waits, if you get seen in that time it’s a luxury. The talk of bets, wagers and placing your money where your mouth is seems all a little crass. (Disclaimer - I do want live music back regularly)

I figured it wasn’t in the car park! But just good to hear live music floating around.

Death rates won’t just be lower because of the vaccine. It would have ripped through the most vulnerable, the most virulent virus form may well have died with the hosts, we know a lot more about how to deal with it. Its too multi layered to just lay it on one thing. BUT Great to hear things like heavy outdoor music in Lidl - here is for safe entertainment for all. On the pens-I think who took them should have took them if they were the right people, and they probably were. If Sterling and Grealish were better, they would have gone before. Its just idiots being twits who should probably be castrated to not allow further generations of hatred flourish that create this problem.

It doesn’t suck out the low end if dialled in right and it’s more that just a dirt pedal

Couldn’t agree more - I probably got my fave bass sound ever using the Two Notes and Hartke VXL in combination, but lost it in fiddling too much. I also got a great sound Two Notes alone. Hope it works out for you

It’s a massively versatile pedal and more versatile than people think with most of the comments/videos etc dealing with maxing out the B channel - that’s not where the magic lies. A channel on its own may be enough to push the terror a bit for ‘more’ of a sound you want - you can of course use A&B in fusion mode again to push it further. Honestly running A even at low gain can be just the ticket - and don’t let only 2 bands put you off - it’s plenty intuitive. The tube does make a difference to the sound and it’s interchangeable, but, it’s on your ears whether or not you like a tube pre, silicone, germanium diode, analogue/digital etc. If you are going to have a go, put the real estate non-issue out your mind. For any piece of equipment, if you love it you’ll use it and find a way. I take up more real estate than I used to and Mrs Cuzzie hasn’t (yet) looked at something to take up less space. I’d defo give it a whirl

I would advocate a compressor pedal with appropriate controls even if you don’t end up using it long term as it’s a great learning experience - you may find stacking like Lozz said reveals something - before you start of you do, just remember what your start ‘happy’ settings were to default back to them

They are a BioPharmaceutical company that makes not just tablets, but medicines in injectable form. They are not wholly British and indeed have Swedish origins. They adapted existing tech and a vaccine alongside work from the SARS vaccine with Oxford university granted, but it’s mass producing a formula. Companies like Rolls Royce and Dyson are not ventilator manufacturers but adapted a common process. Yes vaccines are good and are great, but the point still stands about how different governments have handled things and those figures cannot lie. Biopharm companies make drugs - that’s it, and you can bet it wasn’t altruistic, there will be profit - and before the ‘vaccine for cost’ argument is trotted out really look at the figures out there which were mentioned on an earlier thread on how it is not given out for cost worldwide, plus what other contracts would be promised……. Bottom line - every time U.K. opens a country to be visited that countries cases spike and they close again - what does that tell you….