binky_bass

Well, I've just plugged mine in and compared it to the Trickfish Bullhead 1K... Personally, I prefer the Trickfish, but by a FAR far smaller margin than I was anticipating. I've had the privilege to own and use a sizable number of excellent amps over the years, (Mesa M-Pulsa, Mesa Strategy Eight:88, GR Bass Dual 1400, Markbass SD1200, Markbass Multiamp, Orange AD200B, Trace Elliott V4, among numerous others!) and I will quite honestly say that this pokey little £149 purchase is an astonishingly good bit of kit for the price! Everything in it has a use, nothing superfluous, the fan is quite quiet, the LEDs behind the push buttons and master volume are a great touch, the build quality easily rivals brands costing 5 or even 10 times the cost. I would bet VERY good money, that if you stack this little critter up in a blind sound test against 5 other amps costing 10 times as much and told someone that one amp was £149 and the other 5 were +£1500 that this one would not be identified as the cheapest of the lot! If you're on the fence about buying one... get off the fence! £149 is absurd for this. And this is coming from someone who's last three amps were a Mesa Strategy Eight:88, a GR Bass Dual 1400 and a Trickfish Bullhead 1K.

Some of us are trying for that exact sound I'll have you know!

Talk to your bank, with the evidence you've got they might consider it a sort of fraud and refund you. Maybe call IR first, see if you can get through to them over the phone and ask politely for a refund with the reason being the time elapsed since the order was placed has far exceeded what was advised and that you've understandably had to purchase a suitable bass elsewhere. Not sure you'd get much luck from any suggestion of court action given their location.

Yup, some people will churn up just about any story to string you along (*cough* John Letts *cough*). Are you going to hold out or get your money back? Nit sure how easy that'd be if they decided to play hardball given they're in Australia.

Well, with the money you'd save you could trest yourself to some'one' else! (Typo corrected!)

On June 23rd 2022, there was an unnamed 23 year old male attacked on a street in Melbourne by a gang with machetes, Industrial Radio are based in Melbourne I believe, so the story is possible. Either way, if I was in your situation I'd have called time on this month's ago. I had a very similar situation with Letts Basses, I had to issue a Letter Before Action for them to actually respond and agree a resolution before being taken to court. It's a sorry situation when a business just doesn't respond for months and months, it's entirely unacceptable, emails take seconds to send. Call time, get your money back and treat yourself to something else!

I have one in black, 1979. Proper basses these!

Give it a month and we'll see 50 Bugera Veyrons for sale here! 😂 I've not plugged mine in yet, but I will say that the build quality is really quite good! A nice brush solid metal chassis, a convenient built in handle, good stiff (but not too stiff!) knobs, nice clicky buttons. S'all good on the build front.

In an ideal world I'd have preferred the valve version, but for £150 I'm not complaining! Will be interesting to see the comparison between this and the Trickfish that was literally 10 times the price!

Arrived...

ACG are one of the best in my humble opinion. All subjective of course, but I've owned a decent cross section of UK built 'boutique' basses and ACG are the ones I've stuck with and currently own 5 of! (4 of them below)

I pressed some buttons in some kind of fugue state and now have one due for delivery on Tuesday... 😬

Tempted... very tempted...

Isn't there a thread about that somewhere... 🤔

Gone for me too. Quick work sirs. 👍

@Kiwi can we get this removed? This is clearly linked to the site and not to individuals - the evidence of all of us having the same issue isn't a coincidence. Personally, I'm coming off the site until its gone - it's invasive and having active 3rd party companies effectively forcing themselves on me is not something I consent to. I look forward to returning when this is gone.

I've got the same. Yesterday there was no super annoying blue shield, now there is. I have DEFINITELY not update anything on my phone overnight. I have auto-updates switched off so surely this must be something linked to this website as I don't get this with any other site.

Where abouts are you and is postage an option? Cheers!

I'll just leave this here... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234798952350?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LqMLc35LREW&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=mojaVkKDRiC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=SMS