wateroftyne
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Honestly, it's incredible. I'm a happy lad! I'll get a clip up soon, but in the meantime here's another pic. I've seen that some have red cases, but when you do the serial lookup it says they're orange. Very odd. Does your case have a Fender badge on the front? Like you I'm traditionally a P guy, but it just doesn't work for the later Eagles stuff. I'd love to swap between the two but because the guitar lads have so many changes - apparently of more importance 🙄 😃 - I'm covering a lot of the between-song chat and don't have time to do any changes myself. Luckily the neck pickup on this is so defined and growly it gets me in the ballpark (although you & I both know there's nothing like a P!).
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Thanks! Re: the weight - possibly, but there’s one in a shop locally that (from memory) doesn’t feel particularly light. incidentally, that same bass is virtually unplayable, and feel acoustically dead. It nearly put me off taking a chance on buying mine online, but I’m glad I did. The honeymoon period is over, and it’s still incredible. it’s nice when that happens..:
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Hey hey! Still intrigued to hear opinions of anyone who has used the ACS Ambients.... -
In that case I might go with the ambients - I don't think we'll be silent stage any time soon. Thank you.
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Just curious (and to repeat what's already been asked) - do we know for sure that these are a bass-killer? I prefer the idea of the Ambients in principle, but not if they sound like an old-timey radio.
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He just used rods... thankfully he has a great touch.
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Hexham Abbey last night - last gig of the year for my Eagles trib, and our first 'Unplugged and candlelit' show. As you can imagine, it's a spectacular location with 'acoustic challenges'. We're lucky to have an amazing engineer - we kept the volume down, had speakers all around the audience with delays, and apparently it sounded spot-on. Lots of new arrangements, and I'm continuing to wean myself on to IEMs, so it took me a couple of songs to fully settle into it. I used my usual Handbox head, my 66RI Jazz, and my little TKS cab, just to move a bit of air around the back of my legs. It's been a great year for this band. They're an absolutely champion bunch of lads. Looking forward to a mix of electric and acoustic shows in 2026. \
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He is very funny.
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Yep, I agree. It's a beaut. Should have arrived sooner tho.
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I like Danny even more now. As an aside, we shouldn't forget that Danny and Mohini are making a shedload of cash out of this spat. I'm not going to begrudge them for that.
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May I recommend something like the Gotoh 201B-4 G?
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Yep, that’s the factory one. Specifically one of the earlier ones without the Fender logo.
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Again, might be misunderstanding but the hi-mass is the stock bridge on these.
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I may have misread this post, but the bridge in the photo isn’t the factory bridge for these.
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Ah, the claw. Very much of its time! FWIW, this is a later variant. The earliest walnut specials didn’t have the ‘burst effect, and didn’t have ‘Fender’ stamped on the bridge (the standard hi-mass bridge that came with these basses, that is). Yours is a beaut. Enjoy it.
