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Been through a few stereo barrel jacks on my Cort C5 backup bass, branded (switchcraft) and generic (eBay UK/Chinese source) they just seem to be the proverbial chocolate teapot and fail for no real reason. Installed the last one just before packing my gigging stuff away at the start of lockdown and it was fine, seems to have self destructed just by sitting in the case. All soldering is fine and all my cables have Neutrik jacks. Am I just being unlucky with bad batches or has the overall build quality slipped over the years? Never had a problem with them before, is there any brand I've missed?

He was friends with Alice Cooper early on in the Winger days I think and got a bit of industry assistance, not a bad pal to have all truth be told!

Oh yeah I know, he was trained in ballet as well IIRC. Think it was Alice Cooper who gave him his first big break wasn't it?

Kip Winger was the guy who had his career ended by Beavis and Butthead, quite a funny story if you want to look into it.

Fine thanks, just like winding all the anti-Warwick guys up who have to spew their rubbish on these threads ad nauseum.

SB, SD and NS2000 are all wonkier takes on the original NS, just far uglier due to the lack of good design ethos. Even the NSX is a clumsy clone of another famous NS design isn't it? Again far uglier that the sleek, on point shape it's copying. They truly are the Behringer of bass when you think about it, not an original idea in 45 years. That's actually impressive in a weird kind of way, you would think they'd have come up with something half decent on their own purely by chance sooner or later. You know how a monkey sat at a typewriter could theoretically write the complete works of Shakespeare given an infinite amount of time? You reckon if you did the same with Stuart Spector he could eventually come up with a bass that didn't look like total a55?

Gigged for years with a DI as our guitarist, no real issues as long as they have good organisational skills which he did. We had to refuse a couple of dive bar gigs as he may get recognised but that wasn't a problem for anybody.

The Behringer of basses would be Spector surely, them never having actually designed an original bass shape an' all?

No, no and also no.

Collectors will buy it and that's who it's aimed at.

By micro amp do you mean only the ones that plug into your jack socket? I would just get the NUX if you really want that type of thing, it has bluetooth so can play music wirelessly from your phone. I tried one of the Vox ones a while ago, thought it was a completely useless product and the owner sent it back the next day. The NUX should be a lot more usable than that I would think.

I get the feeling that one isn't going to be priced like the Warwick and TC offerings! The aux in and mute switch are cool features though and make it a more versatile practice tool.

You would think the police would be interested in the attempted intimidation part as well really.

The only reason he likes doing Tele style headstocks is that he can disguise the bargain basement origin of the original bass as every headstock can be hacked into a Tele shape, hence why every bass is now a telebass regardless of what the pickup configuration or placement is. Although it is slightly amusing that anybody searching for an actual Tele bass on eBay will be swamped by these monstrosities.

Funnily enough just spotted one of the 5110 combos on the Bass Players Market UK FB group for £350, not seen one in ages.

It's a shame they never stuck with the original 500w version and just sorted the reliability issues, the detachable 500w head in a micro combo was a great idea IMO.

Yeah this is pretty much it really, I use in ears live but I still take my micro head to rehearsals for convenience along with a Speakon to jack cable so I can plug into anything with just that one cable. I had to replace the speakon in the amp with a combi socket but it was worth it as I have everything I need in a single box. Besides, look what the bloody Gnome cabs have, Bax are even doing a package deal with the Gnome head and a Speakon cable, somebody is going to be disappointed on Christmas day! Might just be getting stubborn and lazy in my old age but I don't really want to faff about with extra cables or adapters, besides the accessory pockets in my gigbags are already full of stuff anyway!

It's more just a "why do bass amps still have just 1/4" jacks in 2021" thing tbh, especially as it does lok like there's room for a Speakon in both of those. Maybe it's not just the cost saving of the 1/4" jack itself but also cheaper for it as much to be surface mount as possible. I can imagine if margins are tight then it might not be viable for a daughter board or soldering wires. I'd happily pay £10 more for that capability though.

Not really, the descriptions are massively prone to hyperbole. Once he described one of his old P copies as being suitable for pro players when in the accompanying video it had an extreme grounding issue, similarly one of his acoustics was described as having the perfect setup but the video revealed fret buzz up most of the neck. These are the ones that actually featured the listed guitar in the videos, usually they aren't the same instrument - the famous Night in Langney bass is in most of them! I suppose you can only guage the accuracy if you have the instrument in your hands but those videos revealed some serious issues, no way were either of those two I mentioned suitable for any sort of live use. With the Grabber one I mentioned above he avoided showing the neck join, from memory he had bolted a neck with a slanted heel onto an old Kay body which had a regular neck pocket, the pictures only show you what he wants to reveal.

The cut and shut one with the Grabber/Ripper copy body still takes the top spot for me.

This is the thing that niggles me on all these nano heads, turned down an Elf locally for a bargain price because of it. They could easily put a Speakon combi socket in there.

Would you say there's room to replace the jack output with a speakon?

Promethean combo (the later 300w version, not the original one) in the classifieds for £150: Small enough to be a home practice amp but also much more capable.