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  1. Beedster
    Ha, I has EXACTLY the same albeit a mother buying for an alleged SEN daughter. Sold a lovely white EBMM SUB to 'the mother' only to see it go straight on eBay with a 50% mark up the next day. The eBay account I'd sold to was clearly domestic, but the account selling was high value music and hi-fi gear. A little digging around and it was clear both accounts were owned by the same person. What annoyed me most wasn't the financial loss so much as the fact that I really thought I was helping this kid and her hard-up mum out
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    That is very very nice 👍
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    Where it's disappointing and potentially unethical is when a member buys the item with an emotional story - "been after one for ages" or haggles the price down "bit short of cash" etc - and then it goes on sale with a similarly emotional story 'Reluctant sale due to...... my old ..... bass' but at a higher/much higher price. Doesn't happen often for sure, but has happened to me three or four times, including this year
  4. Beedster
    It happens mate, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it 👍
  5. Beedster
    Rotos or Slinkys then
  6. Beedster
    Yes, different basses respond differently, it would be odd to have the same strings on all instruments (DB players of course take it to extremes by mixing sets on the same instrument)
  7. Beedster
    This from @briansbrew in case it stays below the radar given that I pounced quickly and the thread is now closed. Lovely stuff Brian 🙏
  8. Beedster
    Can I take that Brian, very very kind of you to be donating 👍
  9. Beedster
    I don't know what's stranger, Trump winning or this amp not having sold. Strange times indeed
  10. Beedster
    It had to happen sometime Pete
  11. Beedster
    I'm pretty much the opposite, I love to solo the Jazz snarl bringing in just a little bit of Precision grunt to taste, or vice versa. This seems to me to be the whole point of a P/J! Horses and courses eh 👍
  12. Beedster
    I don't get the switch thing though, it doesn't allow any balancing between PUPs which is pretty important on a PJ after all (unless you do away with tone control), or am I missing something?
  13. Beedster
    One or two stacked pots would have been so much better. I doubt that was done by NWG, it's very poor, I assume the seller simply bough the parts from them and did a DIY mod/install. If it landed chez Beedster I would rewire with stacks and fill the hole, it would bug me otherwise 🤔
  14. Beedster
    This ^
  15. Beedster
    Something almost scary about the pic in a nuclear/dalek kinda way 🤔 Wonder who won them?
  16. Beedster
    Yep, but if O/P's guitarist is using 150w, none of the figures above matter? I think the problem is that plenty of combos will go loud - i.e., could go even louder - but in my experience most will not sound great doing so. Even the best bass combo ever made - Mesa Walkabout 12 - can struggle when things get messy. OK, it can compete in most situations, but it may not compete in the optimal way (and as far as I'm concerned I don't want my amp to compete I want it to win!). So, I moved from the Walkabout combo which was struggling at times, to the Walkabout head with two Bag End 12 and voila, still an easy load in/out, but both the volume and the tone I was after 👍
  17. Beedster
    Yep that’s an ugly mod likely the combined result of limited cavity space and lack of circuit design imagination or skill. Shame
  18. Beedster
    Unlike on a P/J there will also be a degree of scoop with both P-PUPs set at the same output level, which is not dissimilar to that you'd find on a Jazz Bass but sufficiently different to be preferable to some players I'd suspect 👍
  19. Beedster
    On the whole the tone at the bridge is less substantial than the neck PUP but probably a little beefier than would be the case with most J-PUPs in the same position. The downside of a P-PUP in that position by comparison with a J-PUP is that output on the D and G strings - for which the PUP is VERY close to the bridge - tends to be a little lower than that of the A and E so it's worth raising the treble side and lowering the bass side of the bridge PUP accordingly (it was to correct for this that some manufacturers such as in the photo by @silverfoxnik above reversed the position of the two sides of the PUPs, although frankly if the configuration above was good enough for Fender in one of their better periods in terms of design and engineering it's probably good enough for most people also). I have come back to look at this bass many many many times over the last few months as I have a rather lovely (and substantial) Warmoth fretless Precision neck with ebony board that I suspect would work very well with that body and especially those PUPs 👍
  20. Beedster
    I'd agree re a couple of posts above, a lightweight combo might not be the best shout for a loud rock unit
  21. Beedster
    Absolutely this 👍
  22. Beedster
    300w into 4ohms. One of the truly iconic amps, Mesa really poured in a lot of their secret sauce when designing it. As a small/lightweight backup to my M-Pulse 600 I have a WD-800 which in many respects is a better unit than the Walkabout in terms of power and tone control, but if I didn't have either the WD and MP I'd happily get another Walkabout. In fact I might do so anyway
  23. Beedster
    Good luck with that 🤔
  24. Beedster
    By which I mean that it sound different to pretty much every other amp I've owned, including the M-Pulse 360 or 600 which are to all intents more powerful/versatile versions of the Walkabout, and I doubt any head will replicate it exactly if that's what you're after
  25. Beedster
    This.....
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