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Ta. Just picked one up for that price. Rude not to.

One of the long term posters stripped a 5 string one. It looked great.

And if you are self employed on a low wage then the Tories just stopped the National Insurance cut they promised 2 years ago. And if we had an opposition with half a clue they would be creaming the present government. Sorry to derail your thread dood. I hope UPS pull their finger out and do what they have been paid to do.

This. We have remarkably high employment. But a LOT of the jobs suck badly. You would not catch Cameron/Osbourne and their ilk (because it is them who have created it) doing work like this. Ban me for being political, I don't care. And the aforementioned politicians do not either.

With a Meris preset switch so that you can switch between 4 sounds.

I play 5 string DB, EUB, Plank and Uke. I like that low B. I have no trouble incorporating it. I am not dismissing anyone else's experience, just throwing in the concept that they are out there and completely usable. I even had an Innovation Rockabilly low B made. That was an expensive job. I did not keep it as it re-defined the concept of "dull thud". I think that modding the Stagg is just chucking money away (I have a lot of experience of doing that), and having the strings that close together would be a nightmare. I would suggest that you put the call out (as you kind of have) for a 5 string EUB local to you and go and mess with it.

Curvy like a sucked boiled sweet. In a good way.

Good technique can make not nice strings sound ok, but good technique and nice strings means you don't have to be thinking about your strings. This gives you headspace to count the correct amount of bars rest or try and decipher what the conductor actually wants.

And then I flogged it. But thanks everyone for humoring me!

Lovely!

For a useable aspect of both I have settled on Innovation - either Braided or Polychrome. I played a bass with Obligato solo tuning but tuned at concert pitch. They were fabulous, but I just cannot fathom the concept of paying that much for strings. One day maybe.

It is very difficult to look past the AI stuff in this situation. And with a different preamp into the power stage it turns into a capable plank amp that weighs nothing. I spent a few happy years with one and Berg 6x10 playing DB and or plank much too loud.

Catswhiskers pickups are made to order and will not break the bank. Alternatively, wait for a 2nd hand set to come up..

I have run a QSC KW12 as a powered cab and it was very impressive indeed.