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  1. Obrienp
    Still a 10 hour round trip and around 500 miles for me, plus it’s the cost as much as anything else but I am sure that would be helpful for folks who don’t live in the county that time forgot.
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    My thoughts exactly. 316 miles and 6 hours driving each way, if you are lucky!
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    They also seem to have withdrawn the Mezzo medium scale. I’m hoping that they are working on a new finish for the EHB 4 and that something will be announced soon. I agree the lack of headstock is part of the problem, plus on the EHB the neck seems to be set very far into the body, probably caused by the exaggerated top horn and the body being the same size as the full scale, with the bridge as far back as it can go. It makes for a very short bass tip to toe. I kind of wish a manufacturer would adopt the string clamping and bridge tuning but with a decent sized headstock. I guess there would be no point as far as most people are concerned but it gives me an idea for a self build/custom. The ability to chose any string on the market is a distinct plus and cost saver over short scale strings.
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    The short scale basses thread drew my attention to the Ibanez website: they have a new 5 string EHB that is a 30” and a very nice looking new take on the fan fret 32-30” multi-scale. While I was there I had a look around and the Mezzo models seem to have been dropped. Even a search of the site turned up a blank. There goes one affordable take on the 32” theme! Shame for me because medium scales with a Jazz neck seem to be the sweet spot for me.
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    I don’t see a short scale 4 string EHB on the Ibanez website. Has it been discontinued? If they released one in the new finishes on those 5s I would be interested. I kind of regret selling my Sea Foam 4 but I was always missing my notes on it. I kept hitting a tone too low. I had to look at the neck all the time to make sure I didn’t make a mistake. I could have done with the neck being a bit narrower too but it was manageable as is.
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    Thanks. Better than I feared!
  7. Obrienp
    I think the Cort Action Junior is channeling this. Single soap bar pickup quite far back, exaggerated horns, sort scale. All for less than £170 (if you shop around). Anybody tried one?
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    Good to hear. Would you mind sharing how much a replacement driver costs? Just for future reference.
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    I know you’ve taken it to a tech, so this might be completely irrelevant but I had a problem with my Two10 of similar vintage, which a previous owner had converted to an S. Distortion from one speaker, sounding like it had blown (to the uninitiated me). It turned out to be that a couple of the retaining bolts had worked themselves loose and the captive nuts’ thread had suffered as a result. Nuts replaced and everything tightened down really hard (Alex told me they use impact drivers at the factory, so I mean hard), and the problem was cured. Apologies if this is so obvious you have already eliminated it. I had never come across it before.
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    Thanks @Hutton. My fault for taking the thread off topic. Looks like your amp is capable of handling 2 ohms.
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    Got to ask about your two BF Two10S: I was thinking about getting a second but my amp can’t handle 2 ohms. If they are switched to 12 ohms, I assume that gives a total load of 6 ohms, which suggests you are not getting the max from the amp. How does it work for you?
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    Whether the Spark’s output is enough for a small gig depends on what your band is like I guess. The drummer, in one of the bands I play in, uses an electronic kit. His on stage volume is low, as he uses a 50 watt drum monitor, rarely above 50% and is DI’d into the PA. Ditto the rest of us: amps are just for monitoring and setting individual EQ. I can’t persuade them to go IEM because one of the guitarist/vocalists can’t stand earbuds. Also the other guitarist/ vocalist is a bit tight, so I can’t see him shelling out for the kit. I agree the Spark on its own is only going to cope with really intimate gigs. Even if 95 DB was enough, that’s getting towards the ragged edge of its performance. It wouldn’t have enough headroom to cope with anything louder and stay clean.
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    They were one of the opening acts at the Dereham Blues Festival last year. I was really looking forward to seeing and hearing NWR but the acoustics were a bit odd where we were on the balcony. He was so far back in the mix that I couldn’t hear him clearly a lot of the time. I was really disappointed.
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    I’ve had the TMB35. I think they vary quite a bit because I’ve heard them described as light with a thin neck. Mine was a boat anchor with a chunky neck and a 45mm nut. The Jazz pickup was really weak but the precision was OK. It was quite noisy because the graphite paint only covered the cavity for the precision pickup (easily cured with some copper tape). It’s also got a Stratocaster type jack socket that meant I couldn’t use my Boss wireless system with it. It was a real neck diver as well. That said, the B string was OK through the Precision pickup and they are quite easy to mod, should you feel the need. In a world of very few options, you get a lot of bass for the money.
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    Great job @mikebass456! Necessity is the mother of invention! I reckon Gibson could sell a lot of the double cuts if they reintroduced them now. Only problem for me would be the nut width.
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    I used my C24 HPF/LPF at a NYE gig. I was using a Barefaced Two10 with an LFSys Monza on top (making 3 x 10) driven by a Blackface U700, which can handle the 2.7 ohm load. HPF set at the lowest frequency of 30 Hz and LPF at around 4K. I had the gain control set to give a slight boost over the dry signal. This combination was definitely thickening up the tone (which seems counterintuitive) and removing any brittle high end. I wasn’t running the amp anywhere near max volume, as I was DI’d into the PA, so I can’t tell how much extra clean headroom the filter will give me. The effect seemed to be a bit like a compressor but I guess it wasn’t smoothing out the dynamics. I definitely liked the effect and kept the unit on through most of the gig. I only switched it off when I really wanted the top end to pop. The bass was a Maruszczyk Elwood (Jazz copy) 4a 32”, which I use almost exclusively in passive mode.
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    I did my NYE dep gig with Backtracking at the Spreadeagle in Erpingham (in the middle of nowhere). It is a long carry from the car park, which was full when I arrived at 6pm: funny, the pub wasn’t. In fact there were only about a dozen people there? How did they manage to drive two cars each? Anyway we set up and got the soundcheck out of the way by about 7:30 by which time the place was filling up nicely. This band has a full time sound man (he knows his onions) and for the evening a lights technician as well! It was a ticketed event with a buffet, which the band were given access to and we were all allowed to bring a significant other for free! The landladies were very welcoming and concerned that we had everything we needed. I wish other venues would take notes! We kicked off at 9pm and did about 1 hour 45 for the first set. A bit of a slow response for the first few songs but then people started to dance and kept going. The room went from pretty chilly to sauna hot quite quickly. I was dripping by the end of the first set and had to go outside to cool off, where it was blowing a real gale. We started our second set a bit after 11 and went through until about 0.45 am. People were dancing all the way through, which was great. I could have gone on but I think the drummer was feeling it by then. I actually got home about 2:15 but what with unloading the car and unwinding with a large Irish whiskey, I didn’t get to bed until about 3:30. Up this morning to start the 100 press ups a day challenge: challenge being an understatement for me today! I went nuclear on gear because the drummer is quite loud: Blackstar U700 head; LFSys Monza on top of a Barefaced Two10; MB LM3 500 on hot standby; HF/LF filter pedal and Boss TU-3 tuner; Maruszczyk Elwood 4a (32”); bitsa 32” P bass as spare; DI into the PA. Not unsurprisingly I was asked to turn down a bit. I think the master was at about 9 o’clock. I was really impressed with the difference the HF/LF made to the sound. It seemed to really thicken it up, while taking out any brittle upper end. I had it set around 30 Hz HF and 4Khz LF. I made a few mistakes: worst was messing up the intro run to Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me). I’ve done it so many times and then when I do a dep gig…. doh! Picture now added. My nuclear rig 😀 I know it’s only 3 x10 but you can hear it alright. Fortunately the U700 can handle the 2.7 ohm load.
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    @Bluewine now that’s a good NYE gig! I hope it goes to plan!
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    Yes, I’m with you on that. I’ve got to turn up at 6pm this evening but our first set doesn’t start until 9pm and we expect to go on until around 1am. Then breakdown and home. It’s quite a long way down steps from the car park at this pub as well and it’s a dep job. Doubt I’ll be home much before 3am. Fortunately, I enjoy playing with this band and I like their set list. More after the gig….. I optimistically signed up for the 100 press ups a day in January challenge, to raise funds for Cancer Research. I think day one might be a bit hard after getting to bed at 3am! 😬
  20. Obrienp
    I would love that, if it had a 38mm nut. Funny how 4mm can make so much difference to playing comfort for me these days (arthritis in the left hand).
  21. Obrienp
    I had a shorty made for me by my local luthier and I seem to recall him saying that the body was scaled down by around 12%, which is roughly the difference in scale length between a full scale and a shorty. However, I don’t know if that is the formula used by Sandberg and Sterling.
  22. Obrienp
    So do pretty well all companies and large organisations of any kind (charities, etc). I guess they could try to ban them for private individual use but they are a useful tool to provide added security when using the internet for things like banking. There would be quite an outcry if they did try to ban their use.
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    I can see this creating a new market for risk assessments. People will set themselves up as experts offering a risk assessment service for sites and forums. Who knows, Ofcom might set up qualifications like there are for financial advisors. What’s certain is that it’s going to cost people more than it does now.
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    I guess this is going to create a market for forum hosting services that provide a complete turnkey solution, including compliance enforcement. At least I hope so, otherwise it is going to drive everything onto Facebook and similar. I can see AWS, etc, providing this kind of service but how much it would cost and where the buck stops for legal liability, could be real issues for the likes of Basschat. Unintended consequences of well intentioned but rushed legislation? P.S. I don’t suppose this is actually going to stop the hate/perv forums. It will just drive them onto the dark web instead of mainstream media. At least that will stop the unwary straying onto them on main stream media channels but it looks like their will be thousands of perfectly innocent forums that have to close down.
  25. Obrienp
    I wonder about that. I had two One10s and then got a Two10. The Two10 is definitely greater than the sum of the two One10s, so I am wondering if the Three10 is greater than the sum of One10 and Two10, 3 x One10? There is also the impedance issue that arises from the combination of those cabs. Fine if your amp can handle a 2.7 ohm load but for a lot of modern class D heads the 4 ohms of the Three10 is a lot friendlier.
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