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Still not had chance ! Yes 8ohm cab extension possible to run at full 500w.

Got sent one of these from BassDirect today to see if it can replace my Ashdown ABM setup. I hurt my back Saturday night carting the 30KG Ashdown 210 cab up my stairs and its still hurting now. This combo is 10KG lighter than my cab alone and 22KG lighter than my combined head/cab weight. I've not had chance to crank it yet but will next week. Serious bargain at £399 whatever happens. If I'm happy I'll sell my Ashdown rig and should be able to recuperate most of the cost. More to follow after a proper test .

No point really. Mobile site is fit for purpose.

Nice move. My L2000 still surprises me with what it does. Compared to others UV the price range it's a clear winner. I'd have a JB2 too if it weren't for the understated appearance.

My 1979 Peavey T-40 weighs 12lbs, if it lost weight over time I fear for the spinal distortion the original owner encountered.

I find if anything, my GAS has been extinguished for nearly a year. I'm not playing a lot at the moment and find when I do pick up the instruments and have a play I find them more satisfying than if I was playing them all the time. I think familiarity breeds contempt sometimes and you start to get wandering eyes and look for 'the one' you will always keep and never sell. After lots of trading i've finally realised what I have does everything I need, and to get anything else i'd have to lose one of these, and probably relpace it with something of lesser ability. With this said, I am surprised so many people are trying to offload gear at the moment, there can't be a worse time to sell with it being the start of a year and also everyone having such tight purse strings. It'd be interesting if we were able to quantify/report on what sells here, create a percentage of sold and also be able to plot the values of the sale and track this historically.

They do TRY to market their items in reasonable places, but it is not clear who they are aiming their product at. Fender and Musicman's target market is quite obvious in their advertising, but G&L seems to float. I do see them in a few shops but they're generally overlooked by most people who probably think they're Fender copies .

Depends a lot on if the individual plays for themselves and the music or to be 'cool' and cares for the opinions of their peers I guess.

I'm happy for G&L to stay as an unknown treasure. I'll find them less cool off everyone else starts using them ! At an audition on Thursday I was complimented by more than one on the sound I was producing (my playing was OK too !). But they hadn't heard of the name. I explained the history behind them and they were amazed, they had no idea Leo did anything else.

I used to buy the mag religiously, but in the last few months I don't even bother picking the magazine up to flick through anymore. The format has become stagnant (I don't slap or play 5 string ring any bells ?) and a revamp in content is desperately needed to refresh things. I feel that the content template has just been carried on from the previous editor. The page formatting and design has changed, but i'm unsure if this is positive. Whilst it may be easier for the reviewers to get high end basses in from certain specialist shops, it is terribly skewed towards the high end market. I am sick of reading about a £3000 bass I will never buy, who will ? Maybe 1 person who buys the magazine ? Worth it for the shop/manufacturer that sent the bass for review, but not the magazine. I think a move towards backing up their reviews with online content (video sound samples etc) would be highely beneficial. If it is a case that there isn't enough demand from bassists for this magazine to evolve or infact die out entirely, then it would be a sad loss, but no great surprise.

I bought some AKG K77s this week after my AKG K55s had an internal wiring fault and the right hand speaker died. I was happy with them though as they had about 7 years of heavy use, so replaced with a similar model. Here's to the next 7.

I prefer switches too. I find little difference when using switches to blending and prefer the simplicity of flicking a switch.

It seems these guitar thieves always fail to steal anything decent.

I had 2 (first was returned for a finishing flaw). They are Jazz bass in appearance but that's where it ended. A very clear sounding bass like other Overwaters but I struggled to get a nice warm fat time from it. It sounded very neutral whereas I think for me I need an instrument to have a bit more character in sound. That said, the build and overall quality was very good.

I missed last year due to not wanting to travel on my own Anyone passing Brum on the M42 that wants a celebrity onboard give me a shout,

Not at the moment. Forum is skint so it won't be happening anytime soon.

A bad string can also sound like it's phasing, swap it out.

I'm still getting PHP access denied errors in mobile site header but it is functional.

FSR means Fender Special Run. It refers to a production batch of instruments ordered by a specific retailer: http://www.fender.com/en-GB/support/articles/fender-special-run-fsr-products

Drop Ashdown an email and see what they say: http://www.ashdownmusic.com/tech/tech_service.asp

My Yamaha RBX775. Bought by my parents as a 21st birthday present back in 2004. It's been defretted and then refinished 3 times (white, black and then this final refinish is staying !). It's a stained goat leather.