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I still have a pair of Yamaha PB1 pres, one of which was my main pre, used with a matching Yamaha P series power amp in a true biamp configuration crossed at 300Hz, and so looks a bit second hand now. Mine are in storage awaiting time to do full cosmetic and technical restorations. So here's a pic I found via goolag.

The Bart sizes Nord offer are BC/P2/P4. I didn't ask EMG about 4 string sizes as all my main players are 5s and 6s but might add it to the question list when I email them back.

The 5 string is the 108mm long version (magnet is 77.5mm wide) and the 6 string is 117mm with a longer 87.6mm magnet, info I got from Alex at EMG. I suspect, as I didn't ask, that these are actually P2 and P4 sizes (108/117x32mm). This means that they won't fit in my Ibanez SR or Cort A6 6 strings with the 108x34mm MK1 pickups without routing. The later BH2s in my BTB846 are the same size. Looks like I need to get out the router for at least the SR so that'll get DCXs or maybe TWXs. When I email back, I'll also ask if this new PU internal structure will also be available in the 35/40/45 sizes too - it would make no commercial sense if they weren't, assuming they fit.

According to Alex at EMG, nope as the magnet is 77.5mm long. Some of these might then suit the SR375, providing the early reviews online are good, which I'm not really worried about as I've yet to use an EMG I didn't like.

I have a Hercules I got on special on Amazon ages ago. Seems very well made. https://herculesstands.com/international/products/fretted-and-bowed-instrument/accessories/ha206/

If you find one you love at a price you can afford, just buy it. If the idea you're not good enough so you shouldn't buy it was based in reality, only a handful of real high performance cars would have ever been sold. If I won the Powerball, I'd get another Alembic S2, this time a custom 6.

Neither am I, and I understand well how speakers actually work, but... ... but that isn't a tiny phone, laptop etc speaker which will have nothing below 200Hz, if not higher.

I've had a couple of these, especially in the 90s when I was importing direct from Japan, mainly lawsuit era basses and the Bass Collection basses were really very good. I think they're why I like Ibanez SRs so much nowadays. One thing I have noted though, is the PUs seemed moved bridgeward compared to classic F positions. This is most noticeable on the P.

I think I'll get a set of the Dunlop 30-125 for the Cort.

As all the MK housings are 108x34mm, I hope the sensing width is wide enough for 6 strings.

I don't like Spectors because ergonomically, they hang uncomfortably on me. A Thumb is much worse so I'd suggest try before you buy. I really loved the old Thumb NT5 I tried otherwise.

They lived min the same street?

Yup. I have a Faital unit ready for a completely OTT 3 way. I wouldn't use one (any 18) on it's own, they need at least a 10 on top.

Dunlop SS?

No.

Especially for the price. This was about '02 when Alembic prices here were very low. Sold it later for a big return, not because I didn't love it, but I wasn't playing 4s much, and I used it as part of the deposit for a house.

Aesthetically I prefer the one Pino is holding.

Pfft. 500 miles is a short trip in Aus. Near Brisbane to Melbourne to pick up a bass, and a pair of speakers, the latter of which I sold for enough to pay for the entire trip. 1700km e/w, driven pretty much directly, except for a couple of hours napping. It was about 50 something hours round trip. Bass was an Alembic S2.

That's a rather blanket statement, that I don't entirely agree with. I like the BW and wide dispersion, and the clean SPL from reduced cone movement from the 15 operating at lower excursion. My rig is used for 5/6 string bass (B-C, E-E) as well as guitar at the same time (same gig, not simultaneously). I've yet to find any smaller drivers that I like that work as well for what my system needs are. Overall, I find what I use to be a pretty good compromise in terms of LF, SPL, physical size, weight and form factor, and these are far from the first systems I've engineered.

Ditto. One of my fave basses, the ATK is 5.22kg and one of my SR 6 strings, just on 5kg. I haven't played a 4 hour set in ages, but I have stood practicing and writing with both on a strap for that long. No, as I still have a 1x15 and a 2x15 from the 80s and 70s respectively, but I like the ease of air movement that larger drivers have. I agree with the earlier comments about dispersion, but for 40y I've gotten around that with multi way cabs as I've preferred a clean wideband speaker that I can EQ to my tastes, not just having it baked in and smothering like an old Ampeg. These days with multiFX and modellers, I can make my cabs sound like just about anything, good enough for me and anyone else except for maybe the one old tone cork sniffer I might run into every few years. The cab currently under construction is a 15 + 8 coax, in 2 boxes so it will fit into the back of my sedan. This adds a little weight to the total, but it's 2 smaller boxes so each are easier to manhandle and the coax can be raised on a stick to ear height. I designed it for what I wanted as there aren't any commercial boxes available, new or S/H that do what I want.

I thought it was incredibly boring. Pity as it could have been really interesting. The interviewer was a tw*t.

A friend of mine told me today he'd just ordered one of these, and was going to pick it up in the next few days; black P, maple board version. I think I might give it a try when he gets it as he offered and wants to hear it through my old Peavey rig. He's a young guy but has old man tastes, just not this old man's taste.

I've never bothered greasing them. So similar to my S2000. Interesting...

Now it just looks odd to me... I've done it on all my Steinbergers and clones for many years, especially as it's so simple and cheap to do.

There was a guy on one of the luthier's fora (maybe TB?) some time back that had a top made of driftwood that looked similar and I quite liked it. There are plenty of barncasters and FSO style clones that are made of all sorts of old timbers; I have some in the shed that will eventually be made into bodies*. However 7300 squids with a load of bollocks in the marketing type mean I wouldn't go near it, unless it was in a store nearby and I could try it for interest's sake. Might even be good. * Because I like the aesthetic. Oh, and I don't buy into the tonewood thing at all.