Owen

They will settle. Don't sweat it.

Marillion. A 40 year career with a large percentage of it doing the DIY thing. Much respect is due.

You and me both!

Any vids of the sustain aspect of these out there? TIA

She is The Bomb.

On reflection my post was not as funny as I though it was when I posted it so I have now changed it.

Word. For me, my main Jaco hit comes from his groove playing, where he places the notes. He was a groove monster.

I get the impression that it is not about standing behind it per se, but shifting more air using a more compact enclosure.

Otherwise Crown/Peavey/QSC etc etc are all fine and dandy.

The question will come down to weight. If you do not mind a bit of grunting when you move your rig then there are all manner of old school Crest CA type amps you can get for peanuts. Headroom and <insert favourite adjective for amplification joy here> are go.

German/French? Whatever floats your boat. There are plenty of of us German players around in the UK. The real question is which rosin you use?

Power soak to bring the volume down and keep the piece of kit that makes the noise you like?

It is a beautifully realised piece.

Dat grain tho!

Do we still not know what it is yet?

Yeah, me too. But there has to be a market for it. Not me obviously. To me, Ritter's aesthetic sensibilities (curves, lines and proportions) are just fabulous. I have owned one (along with one of mostly everything else) of his more standard shapes and it was lovely. But the Isabella line is new, classy, not trying too hard and is floating my boat.

Honza has it going on. As usual.

Good old Jens, he does less is more and more is more!

If money was not object I would have one tomorrow. However.............