Beedster

Talking of the skill required........

Indeed, as I've just said to my bandmates, "guys, this is us in 20 years". Worse things can happen 👍

I am literally pissing myself, I have it on repeat, it's antidepressant and hallucinogenic rolled into on cunning package

At every level of scrutiny that is special

PF50 is great for gigging, fits loads of cases, I used a £30 Stanley tool bag that also housed cables, backup mics, drumsticks and guitar strings (yep, someone has to). Never had a problem, yellow bag also hard lo lose at a gig 👍

Yep, that made me chuckle as well, midrange emphasis is a 50s-style box, no stinky poo

Of course, but quantity and quality are not equivalent 👍

Ampeg PF-50 is a glorious amp but can still sound crap through a poor cab. Look at the shape of that ACB-50 box, are any other manufacturers putting bass drivers into boxes that shape at present? And Talkbass liking Fender is no great surprise, a bit of brand patriotism mixed with some cognitive dissonance goes a long way towards some biased reviews, they'll start pooping up for sale on TB with the usual excuses soon "Hey the wife has a strict one-in/one-out rule" etc

Seemed worth reposting

Not the size as Barefaced will happily explain, it's the design, the build, and probably the materials. Never found a Fender cab that got anything close to the sound I want from bass, amps yes, cabs no, guitar yes, bass no

This was kinda the point to my early post on the subject - Brad and Chad's conversation about spare boxes at Corona - the first thing that worried me about it was that it looks like a standard Fender guitar combo (OK, so do quite a few of their bass models), and I've never played a unit of those proportions that sounded even vaguely like a decent bass amp. The marketing team will always make the demo sound amazing, but in a room it's a different story

Sorry that after that hassle this is how it arrived though 😕

Why I always wait a while with new to market gear, at least it arrive stinky poo so no hassles on return, it’s when the stinky poo starts at 6-months it gets messy

Really wanting to nail this track 👍

Wow, I never realised that the double neck could be pull apart like that, that has really got me thinking about what I could do with some guitar and bass bitsas i have lying around here 🤔

I always get the sense that with Yamaha, unlike Fender, their attitude to reissues would be "Why, the instruments we are designing and building now are better than the instruments we were designing and building 20 years ago" (a bit like Mesa compared with Ampeg I'd guess, don't see many Mesa RIs). Guess I was proved wrong by @AndyTravis there, but to me Yamaha just don't feel like a reissue brand?

Hope it works out for you mate 👍

They'll show one in stock, and might have one in stock, but..........

That stinks, and happens far too often, usually after you've paid as well. I'm pretty sure they'll be popping up in the used market way before then 🤔

Am I being naive in suggesting that this is exactly why you have a mixing engineer, to correct for tracked levels using their skills with gain, EQ, compression etc?