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Did anyone ever get one of the Dave Ellefson basses? The only real review I can find is a passing comment on the American site about it being too neck-divey.

Interesting as I play the D'addario balanced nickels (I hate non-bt strings) so I'll definitely try a set of the GHS next time. Thanks for the tip.

I grew up on pop-punk bands so I was pretty much all pick for the first few years. Now I'm maybe 75% fingers and 25% pick, mostly depending on song or how I'm feeling. After a lot of searching (which was fun in itself!) I decided on the Dunlop Gator Grip 1.14mm.

Don't think so. I paid vat at point of purchase, I was worried that if it cleared customs after the new year they might seek to add vat on top even thigh I'd already paid it. As it turns out I didn't have to fight, there was no trouble.

Not quite irrelevant because (buying in December) the Thomann prices included vat. Having to pay twice (I mean, I wouldn't, but having to fight it) was actually a worry of mine.

Nice! What's the power amp?

FWIW I got my Thomann order yesterday! Ordered 23/12/20, arrived 6/1/21 so technically I squeezed in before the changes but I was still expecting the worst...

...... at least one! And I think @Matt P is about my age too!

Somewhere in rural middle England a nice local cycling shop is having a brown trousers moment now that the brands discussed above aren't supplying to the UK any more. Local music stores are going to find it much harder to stay open when they are hit with higher costs of import (from the suppliers that will still supply to them) at the same time as losing many of their brands (as some suppliers stop supplying to them).

To continue this on-topic comment, Thomann were very clear to me (and I have in writing, at least pertains to my order on 23/12/20) that they will be honoring warranties, accepting out-of-warranty repairs (although shipping costs may go up) and choosing to continue to offer their 30-day trial period. Of course, that could all change at any moment, but they were clear that they intend to keep things as much 'the same' as possible.

All true, we're just in a situation where we could have had nice sunny weather and no traffic, where the majority voted for traffic jams and drizzle. Personal impacts, big and small, will be coming to all of us soon. They are particularly egregious when they were all avoidable.

I think a big part of the issue, for those of us who didn't want it, is that we are very much of the opinion that the B word will impact all of us directly. At least 2 businesses have been mentioned in this thread about not selling to the UK any more, at least for a bit. That's 2 fewer options that we all have now.

I think that that's hopeful at best, they've still got the rest of the EU to trade with without all of the added hassle. They may just be able to do without us. We, on the other hand.....

I just put an order in on the 23rd, when I spoke to somebody a few days before that they said that they would be listing prices without VAT. They also said that the UK was one of their biggest customer bases and that they would endeavor to continue to do business with us. There are no extra charges due to HMRC, so no import duties or anything, only the VAT. It was a little embarrassing to have that conversation to be honest, I had to say about 15 times that I didn't want any of this.

Whilst I'm sure somebody will be along with a counterexample within 5 minutes of my post, I'm unaware of any class D amp for which the sound of the power amp is a selling point. As you've said, tube amps and vintage amps yeah, but I bet the sound from (for example) a GK Fusion's preamp out and speaker out are near enough the same, one's just bigger. 9 - 49.9V bigger, if you believe certain people in this thread. 😉 So yeah, why would you bother? People though, right? Can't trust 'em.

One of the industry standard DI boxes even obscures the pad behind the labeling of 'pickup' and 'speaker'. Good for over 3000W iirc.

Those preamps have the cardinal sin of a tube that was installed by the marketing department and not the engineering one, but if you can get past that they're actually decent units. Loads of gain, choice of inputs, balanced out on both trs and xlr. It'll be great for this application.

Just preamps, man. The Behringer ones are about as small and cheap as you'll get. One of my all-time favorite 'amps' was a nice Presonus Studio Channel preamp into a QSC PLX1602 power amp, all in a 3-space rack. You could plug anything into it. Bass, guitar, keys, mp3 player, pedal boards, anything and it would just make it really, really, extremely loud. My pedal board, into that rack, into a Dr Bass 2460 was my frfr rig before I knew what an frfr rig was. It makes sense but it doesn't really matter how you split the signal. If you already have the DI you might as well use that, if not then use what you've got. Gear is great for gear's sake but if this is going to be a one-off then it's best to just use what you've got. Personally I'd be asking exactly what the combo is bringing to this situation. It's not like you'll hear it if it's next to the stack, so you're probably only really using the preamp and tone controls. Do you have any other way of getting those? Preamp pedal? A little mixer? Another amp with an effects loop?

I think Moskey are supposed to be one of the better cheaper brands. I don't know. To me it's like car tires, power supplies are worth doing properly even if they're not exciting. I learned this not from bass pedalboards but from building computers. In that hobby you can have one of these or one of these. And they're the same, right? I had (still have actually) a Thomann own brand one pedal power supply, but then as soon as I 'got in to' pedals properly I went straight for Strymon and now I've got a Cioks DC5. Baffles me that people will have a board with £1000+ worth of pedals on it and they can't spring the extra £75 that would get them a decent power supply instead of their ... current ... one. That's a power supply joke right there. I'm here all night, ladies and gentlemen. Try the fish and tip your waiter.

I walked in to Sound Control in Newcastle years ago and asked if they could order me an Epifani 6x10" cabinet. The man behind the counter told me that they don't make bass cabinets. I told him that's all they make. This went back and forth for some time before we deduced that he'd never heard of Epifani and was too polite to tell me that I was mispronouncing 'Epiphone'.

Yes but all of your other pedals are lower draw and you've got one of the raised pedaltrains. OP, as long as that's stable and it's all working it should be fine. CIOKS are among the best and I'm sure that if your DC7 starts to run too hot or with too higher load it will fail gracefully. Probably just politely turn itself off for a bit until it cools down. Just don't overload one of those £15 ebay special power supplies, yeah?

Hi! Generally speaking, it's considered good practice to start a separate thread. But hey, it's Christmas! How annoying that that combo doesn't have an effects loop, which is really what you need to do this. I think that your DI plan will technically work. But technically is the worst kind of work. I think that, as you have mentioned, you'll run into a problem whereby the DI will output a mic-level signal and the power amp will be expecting a line-level signal. Now, 1200W into 2 large cabs will undoubtedly be pretty loud regardless, but I don't think that you'll be able to drive the amp anywhere near hard enough to achieve full output. You might find you brought all that gear and it's not actually that loud. Some suggestions: Try it before hand, it might be fine. If not, can you DI into the PA as normal, then have the power amp being fed by an aux on the desk? This way you'd essentially be using the amp and cabs as a dedicated, bass-only monitor. If you HAVE to buy something new, several cheap preamps can lift mic level to line level. I've used a Behringer MIC100 (£35 new, less used) and a Rolls MP13 to do just this. Then you'd put the preamp between your DI and power amp.

Probably not as heavy as the head! Awesome rig.