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Grab it quick Pedro

I think it has in many other PUPs, but much like a Lakland or Sadowsky Precision will rarely have the cache of a pre-CBS Fender, so it is with LP's, rarity being the magic bullet of tone far exceeding the effects of materials and craftsmanship And don't get me started on mics..............

So, by the rules of the game mate (which I'll admit are somewhat emergent at this point), that makes it your turn to suggest another potential owner?

Shall we suggest some names? I'll go first with @Clarky, not an obvious Modulus player - his tastes are generally a little more traditional and rootsy - but I'd be surprised if he hadn't tried one

Ha ha, I suspect this is going to be a story involving, shall we say, the usual suspects

There is no better bass. Period. I used to say that I can play stuff on the Flea that I can't play on other basses. I'd go so far now as to say I can play stuff on the Flea that I can't even imagine playing on other basses. I've owned two Stingrays with Status graphite necks, both times I thought I would get very close to the Flea. Nowhere near. Modulus appear to really know what they're doing when they build basses. I read somewhere that even pre-lockdown they were only producing three per month?

Ha ha, yes, I stayed with a friend in the Alps last year, his house number was in the high 600s, so having just turned onto their road and passing number 40 we assumed that we would need to drive a long way up into the hills. Passed another house, which we reasonably assumed was number 41 and carried on. Long story short, we got stuck on a rock trying to reverse back down the mountain having driven right up the the end of the track, and our friends, and most of the local community it seems, had to come and lift the car off the offending boulder. 'Number 41' was of course our friends' house (although actually number 600 and something), because - amazingly - in that street the house numbers are determined by how many metres they are from the start of the street. God bless France

Fair enough. But they might let you pay an insurance premium when booking, but that's not the same thing as committing to compensate you if something goes wrong (which is the trick Parcelforce used to play), so let's see what happens when someone tests them on this. Interparcel insure musical instruments, I've tested them twice and both times had compensation (although admittedly it was hard work and I had to go to the manufacturers to get estimates of repair costs etc), as do quite a few others. Anyway, it sound like this lot are more likely to lose something than damage it given their apparent inability to read postcodes

Big factor should be if/how they resolve the situation with kjm above. As we've said before, a courier that gets something from A-B should be a given, it's how they deal with things when they go wrong that matters. My experience, as well as those of quite a few others, suggests that this firm would be a nightmare to deal with in that situation

Sold a Ric to a lovely guy in Italy, easy deal, no hassle, much prefer it to eBay as I get the sense that whilst not all musos are honest and respectful, the majority are, and that's who's looking at Reverb. I've had no bad experiences there, buying or selling (mostly high value gear). I think your username is the shop name

It's pretty clear that this organisation are f*****g crap at website design, at cost algorithms, and at communicating with customers. I dread to think what they will be like to deal with when they get around to losing someone's '64 Jazz. All very well saying the price for insurance is cheap until you try to make a claim, then you realise why it's so cheap. Ped, get a deal with a decent courier service, you're not doing BC or any of its members any favours suggesting we use these clowns, especially as the discount is clearly now utterly negligible

Man blows things out of proportion on internet. Who’d have thought it?

17 posts about a rattling bass and not one mention of the word Rickenbacker. Is everyone OK?

Folks I need to get some remote podcasting set up from today, anyone used the above? Any issues? Anything better? Thanks in advance Chris

I’d be 100% looking for a used MIJ/CIJ if I were in your shoes

It is, but that doesn’t guarantee that Skype will see it the same way

This is a Mike and this is a mic Sorry, couldn't resist, and can't go to the pub so bored

As long as you have phantom power on the interface it'll be fine with that mic (in fact there are probably cheaper options to be honest). But..... it sounds a bit like overkill to me to be honest, a practice amp in the room and the mic input on the computer would be fit for purpose unless your tutor is listening through high quality gear, you want to record what you're playing, or you want to keep noise levels down and/or use headphones But hell, go for it, it's new gear, and we all need new gear from time to time

And by the sounds of it, everyone else's. Over and above making the bass less playable, he's clearly failed to recognise the relationship between nut height, action and intonation. I hope he's better at his day job. If this is his day job, you should probably let us know who he is so that others can avoid him.

They certainly weren't this morning. I should probably caveat that with the possibility that, at the moment, he had more important things on his mind. I didn't post the above to have a moan, more to suggest that folks be careful when booking with them, as you might get a shock if you don't keep an eye on the figures

The guy this morning wasn't interested in helping, he just repeated that I'd entered the data wrongly. As far as I'm concerned, if that's what they're like to deal with for a minor issue, I don't want to be dealing with them when they lose or break something.

When the chat finally started all he could tell me was that it should be 19 Euros and suggested I'd entered the data incorrectly or may have a poor connection, which wasn't the case, I screenshotted it all (it's not like I haven't used courier websites before) I said I'd go back to UPS rather than re-enter all of the information, he said "That is your right". I would have expected him to at least say "Can I try to sort this out for you". There was simply no offer to help, simply an insistence that I'd done something wrong. I left a stern reply in CAPS (ouch). Back to UPS then

I tried to book and the quoted price was ridiculous, UK-UK for a 10kg 120cm package close to`£200, that's before I added insurance. Asked a question on the chat function, waited five minutes, no reply so back to Interparcel. OK, the latter might be staffing issues due to COVID so perhaps understandable, but to be honest if I'm booking a courier I'd rather not be messing about on chat lines.

IME flats don't project on an acoustic like rounds, so it depends on what you're using it for. I had TIs on an old Ovation acoustic bass and they sounded lovely, but only when plugged in.