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[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1490834114' post='3268449'] I hope you're right, i do spend a lot of time amongst people in their early 20s (I teach at a university) and there's less of them forming bands or playing instruments every year. [/quote] It moves in cycles. At some point, the next Oasis or Nirvana (whether we like them or not) will come crashing out of the blandness, and there'll be a bump in kids picking up guitars and basses.

I was chatting to Leszek today, and he mentioned he's added a new custom-order feature to the R-400 - an auto-switching mechanism to match the local power supply. That got me thinking - I've never seen this on a class AB head, only on Class D's. Is this a first..?

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Buy OBBM, buy once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY21jdwM9CI

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490711718' post='3267285'] Yeah, it's superb. Must be fun for you playing all those great bass parts on those wonderful old songs. [/quote] It certainly is!

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490710663' post='3267272'] Would that be the fretless P tone of Rod Clements by any chance? [/quote] It sure is! And what a wonderful noise it is, too :-)

Fretted for me, but I have a lovely '71 fretless P, too. Truth be told I'd probably sell it, but one of the bands I'm in recreates an album with a very distinctive fretless P tone. So while we're doing that, I'll keep it.

[quote name='JohnR' timestamp='1490685380' post='3266933'] That worries me. Given that these are effectively custom instruments shipping them with a poor setup is hard to understand. [/quote] It would certainly make sense to give them a 'middle ground' setup. But FWIW, it's no reflection on the quality of the instruments.

Beautiful! And yes, being shipped with insanely low action seems to be the norm, for some reason!

..and then there's this, when you're the designated driver: You're all packed up and ready to go. So you turn towards whoever it is you're taking home, just in time to see them shout toward the bar '[i]Yeah, I'll have a pint of....[/i]' GAAAAAAH!

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1490203227' post='3263234'] I'm out in the sticks and have played in bands with people who don't drive. To perfectly honest, they are a pain in the arse having to be ferried around. The last thing I want to be doing is providing a taxi service at the end of a long gig, then drive home on your own knowing that your passenger is safely tucked up in bed. [/quote] This.

Amazed to read that's his regular rhythm section. They're as stiff as owt.

[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1490225595' post='3263488'] I'm going to try a gigging going straight into my PA with new active subs via my Roland GR55 & Ashdown graphic DI , I'm very impressed with the sound but could do with a tiny combo I could plonk on top of the sub for a monitor ,any suggestions. [/quote] Ibanez Promethean.

[quote name='Grahambythesea' timestamp='1490202994' post='3263231'] Adrian guitars would have been pretty good. [/quote] Hmm... I think Maruszczyk is preferable to that...!

[quote name='christhammer666' timestamp='1490096325' post='3262090'] But spending money paying for an album to sit on my shelf when I could have a week in the county with the mrs just aint for me [/quote] Understandable, and I doubt you're alone. I think that's a comment on the state of the industry as a whole.. but that's another topic :-)

Back in the day, I did two US tours with my band, one of them ran to about four or five weeks. Some gigs were great, many were furniture exhibitions, but it was all awesome. I was young and daft, and none of it mattered. Circumstances have changed, and I wouldn't / couldn't do it now unless there was real cash money involved. I'm glad I did it the first time.

If you know, deep in your heart, that the band has got legs and this could just be the beginning, then there's no harm spending money to tour, playing to 50-odd people a night. You'll also know if you're on a hiding to nothing, and it would be pointless exercise.

[quote name='BassApprentice' timestamp='1489681841' post='3258958'] So bass direct now stocking Maruszczyk amps... [url="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154115820382396&substory_index=0&id=292530792395"]https://m.facebook.c...id=292530792395[/url] If anyone is near and tries them some reviews would be ideal! [/quote] They look lovely. Made by [url="https://www.talkbass.com/threads/new-amp-from-poland-handbox-r-400.1218706/"]Handbox[/url], FWIW :-)

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1489500667' post='3257447'] I don't actually use the [s]contour[/s] any knobs at all on any head - [s]Leszek[/s] folk keep[s]s[/s] telling me I should, but it sounds great flat to me so I never bother. I should maybe try it one day :-) [/quote] Y'know, this is basically the truth...

[quote name='Marty Forrer' timestamp='1489446147' post='3257100'] The thing I like most about the R-400 is that I only ever use one knob, the Contour. It's all I need. I'm interested to see what Leszek does with a class D head. [/quote] I don't actually use the contour knob at all - Leszek keeps telling me I should, but it sounds great flat to me so I never bother. I should maybe try it one day :-)

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1489431333' post='3256882'] I find pictures like the one above so distracting with 1 question: "Are those basses standing on concrete and getting scratched?" All looking nice though btw, as long as they're protected... but that's probably just me. [/quote] Fear not! The fretless is perched on a little rubber pad.