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Ashdown are a very special manufacturer and Dave is an outstanding guy 👍

And now back in ‘the system’ to protect the guilty under the ‘innocent error’ defence.

Although it might be there's a process that as an auctioneer has to be followed I guess?

Probably depends on who the person/company you got it from actually is, if it's Parcelforce then perhaps justified as he could argue it was sent to him in error by them and that the owner needs to resolve this with them who he'd paid to deliver it? But why would you not return calls or talk to Police. At present it all smells a bit wrong doesn't it........

This is all quite bizarre, sounds to me like the auction house and the 'consignee' might have something of a special relationship.......?

I'd assumed that it's a neck-thru bass but in case not - and the Status website suggests it's not also - surely the best bet is a new neck, won't cost a whole not more than a refret and far lower risk?

LOL, if it wasn't for @agedhorse and @Bill Fitzmaurice I'd probably only ever visit the basses for sale forums

I plug in my 600w Mesa head and 1516 cab at home, at rehearsals, and on stage. If I want more volume I turn it up, if I want less I turn it down. Occasionally I feel it would be easier to have a smaller and lighter rig for smaller gigs, but I get over it once I hear it

As if Trump and Brexit weren't enough change to be going on with......

This ^ I can't speak for the effects of fretting a formerly fretless neck, but I've had basses that sang with a fretless neck and were comparatively lifeless when a fretted neck was installed (I like to chop and change necks). OK, the fact that it's both the original neck and that it's graphite reduces the risk somewhat, but I can't help feeling that Tony's advice is good advice 👍

Welcome Chris, great that you’ve joined us, many many many Trace and Status fans here, suspect you’re gonna be kept busy 👍

You do some lovely interesting gigs Michael 👍

Which has solved problems with two of my amps over the years 👍

Blondie basslines are like ABBA basslines, sound simple until you try to play them 👍

Explain?

I feel your pain guys, but I've engineered a very simple GAS-management rule now, I only own basses that have Fender compatible 4-bolt neck construction. Basses that arrive in my place cease to be basses, they become donors. There's two real benefits, some necks just sing with some bodies, and it's interesting and satisfying to go through that journey, and I can beat the urge for a new bass by simply swapping around a few components. I've about 4 fretless and six fretted necks, and around 10 loaded bodies (Precision, Jazz, Tele, Jag). Obviously neck-through basses like that in this thread rather mess things up, which is one reason I wouldn't chase it again if it came up for sale, no matter how lovely it was, same with the BB2024MX 👍

Nice post. I studied Electronic Music Technology for three years in the early 80's largely as the result of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and dare I say it, Georgio Moroder (as well as the BBC Radiophonic Workshop)! For me, while at the time the technological achievement was huge, it was clear that by the early 90's pretty much any idiot with a synth could do what those guys had done. Does that lessen anything? I think it's like this.... There are probably 4-year olds who can play it now, but man, so what. In it's moment it was glorious, every 14-year old kid on the planet wanted to be able to play it. I listen to Kraftwerk today and love the fact that you can hear the hiss as they turned on a machine, various clicks and thumps and other random noises, the odd cough or grumble. My acoustics lecturer told me once that the test of a good orchestral recording was whether you could hear the pages being turned, i have always felt that. As is so often the case, it's the errors/weaknesses/nuances that make the art - the 5/4 bar in Rain, the mic stand falling over in Long Distance Love, Bonzo's squeaky pedal - OK they're extreme examples but the reality is that when music is made by humans in real time you can tell. AI can probably do that, but it probably won't because the people who'd use AI to make music would not see music that way.

And that was all state of the art by comparison with how =Kraftwerk recorded their first album, I must re-read that book

I hope so