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I think the POG plays polyphonic too (though I could be wrong). I had a chat with the Aguilar folks at the London Bass Show (Olympia) and they said the Octamizer liked to be first in the effects chain (but I think most makers probably say that!). I also tried making a passive tone control and putting that in before it (just to tone down the harmonics), but it didn't do much; I may revisit that at ome point.

@Al Krow The POG (the full-sized one) seemed to be more stable to me and it also does an octave up. However, I would say that the sounds were more like it generated them rather than it modified the input signal.

I tried several octave pedals (MXR, Boss, and one or two others) down Denmark Street a few years back and I found that the Aguilar Octamizer was the best; it had the best "feel" and kept the character of the original note (it must've sounded good, because other folks in the shop complimented me on my playing!). However, it does struggle with tracking low notes and the tonal character of my Ric gives it a hard time. I recently bought an EH Synth 9 from someone (which is a fun pedal) and they were also selling an EH POG; though I didn't buy that, I think it is the best octave pedal I have tried.

I really don't like those individual bridge saddles.

In the index page it read: "Status Groove Bass for £29" I thought my luck was in!

Just teething issues... :-)

Looks like there was a little crashette just now...

Well, the body was pre-routed for a trem, though I drilled the posts (but otherwise it would've been 6 screws). I'm not sure what the extra stress/strain of using a trem is, as you are just changing the angle around a fulcrum rather than forcefully heaving it backwards and forwards; however, that does have some interplay with the string/springs tension. I wonder about on a bass, the tension might cause the bridge screws fittings to degrade over time. Obeche does seem to be a current flavour.

I would steer clear of it. I bought a paulownia Strat body and finished it quite nicely. I then picked up a Fender one for similar money, so the paulownia one sat in a corner. I've then sold it on ebay (for less than I paid) and the seller has come back and said the wood at the Floyd posts has split. IMHO, it's a light, soft wood, not suitable for making guitars.

Some players seem to change their endorsements more often than their underpants.

I guess this has already been noted, but the picture links in old threads don't seem to be working (I get some markup and the name of the jpg file in square brackets).

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That's real hardcore man!

Yep - that's the gist of it!

Yes, it is subjective; that's for sure. I wasn't trying to suggest this site should look exactly like the other one or should be torn up and re-implemented into a different system, no-siree!, but rather I was trying to illustrate that the excessive padding and oversizing of decorations is reducing the actual information being presented. And I'm on a 1920x1080 display. (Maybe that's sooo last year and the developers of these tools/frameworks have graduated up to 4k ones?) I really do appreciate the work done and I get the freshness of the style; I'd just like to see it tweaked to focus on the content, which should be doable without compromising the overall style.

By way of illustration; here's a shot from this forum, having scrolled down past the header suff, which shows 13 items (and that's zoomed out to make it slightly smaller!): And here's one from another forum, again scrolled down past the header stuff, which shows 17 (ie. 30% more) in the same screen area (without zoom); it contains the same details and also has a bar of links down the left-hand side. I would say that the 2nd one lets me see more and get to where I want to be more efficiently, but is still a logical & uncluttered display.

If I go into a forum or a thread, the top 1/3rd - 1/2 of the window is taken up by layout.

Well - it's a matter of how much scrolling over how much empty space you have to do to get to where you want to be, for example on the main forum index page. And then when you get into a thread (eg. this one); if you zoom out in your browser, so the text is tiny, you can see maybe 3 posts (and I've !). Other sites have gone through this and the result has been to make them almost unusable (eg. HUKD, and MSE); I guess the web toolkits/frameworks define it.

Great work in getting the new site up! However, there seems to be an awful lot of wasted space on the pages; this seems to be the fashion at the moment, but the net effect is that the amount of real content which is displayed is reduced. It'd be good if the next revision could have the requirement to efficiently display the content itself as the overriding mantra. (Thanks again for runnign the site and please treat this as feedback)

If you click on the item it will open a direct page with just that. eg. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215146708087938&set=pcb.1231174353654004&type=3&ifg=1