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Ages ago I picked up a Genz Benz STL10 and the 10 inch extension to make a mini stack. I use them with a tone hammer 350 now, the sound is lovely but I feel a might miss a bit of low end for 5 strings, I’m iffy about back-ported cabs, etc. But, it’s been so long out of the loop that I’m a bit disoriented about where I am, and upgrade options. I’ve a few questions if anyone has any opinions: - are the STL10s particularly small even by 1x10 standards? - if so would a different pair of 1x10s make a more complete sounding stack? Is either that or a single 2x10 cab suitable for good reproduction of a low B (I don’t need huge sub bass, just full spectrum kinda of sound). Is a 2x10 necessarily better that way than 2 1x10s? - what 1x12s should I look at that are lightweight, and should I assume that 1x12 alone wouldn’t be as full as my current 2x1x10s? Basically if if I could afford it I’d maybe grab two aggie sl112s right now or something, but I can’t. And I can’t spend too long with a single cab if it’s going to be a step down volume and fullness wise from my current set up. ta!

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great. I install my own pickups etc so it sounds like it should be DIY-able, and sounds easily reversible. If you could provide instructions or tips or a link here or in a PM that would be amazing 👍.

I know this is old but does SFX still do this resistor mod, or can you recommend someone in London? cheers

Hi all, I've got a RAT ('vintage RAT', i.e. not vintage but vintage styled, doesn't have an LED etc.). It sounds, frankly, flipped. Very intermittent sound, cutting out, clearly not working as it should. I'm worried about how difficult it'll be to diagnose and fix, and don't know where to start. Does anyone know of repair services or guides for these, somewhere in London that works on effects boxes, etc.? If it's economical, I'd love to get it working! Cheers

thanks guys. I'll give it a try then probably!

Hi folks, I'm very lucky to have two Nordstrand VJ4's (a standard jazz-type bass) and the fretless one has a Hipshot de-tuner that would be a lot more useful to me on the fretted one. I wanted to know whether installation of the hipshot includes drilling or not. If not then it should be easy to swap it over and the standard machine head likewise. If not, then maybe one of them won't work on the other, or even both won't work on the other. Anyone know which it is? Cheers!

Bought a nordy! Went smoothly, good guy.

Going through some old videos in my library and just uploaded this to youtube. Perhaps it will provide a helpful sound sample or some lick ideas. -- the first half of the head is a cool-school line of some kind, maybe from the saxophonist warne marsh? -- the turnaround in the head uses a sort of tritone substitution implied by a half-step-up repetition of the Eb-Db-F-Ab-C-Bb-F-Ab bit -- the start of the solo is an oliver nelson quote that I always had a bunch of trouble fingering easily -- the end of the solo is a laurence cottle lick from the snakeranch sessions (?) cd Nordy VJ4 with TI jazz flats, I think the strings are about 7-8 years old now

Thanks good idea, I’ll try. I’m trying to remember if I even went to eBay but I can’t see my selling history that far back on there either. Odd.

I checked but he wasn’t...

Hi! About 6 years ago I sold a sandberg bullet booster fretless on here, I think. Here is the thread. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/136974-sandberg-bullet-booster-fretless-4-sold/?tab=comments#comment-1258619 But I can't figure out from the thread who bought it. Anyone remember? Cheers, John

i noticed a very stark difference in pickup quality between my american deluxe jazz and my nordy -- obviously the nordy sounds better unplugged too, but plugged in, the sounds are just so much more usable. no extra high harsh treble, fuller lows and present but nice mids. part of that could have been the difference between the noiseless fender pickups and the true single coil nordy ones too. but the point is, i noticed a clear difference which increased how willing I was to explore the various sounds available.

That's me... Had a couple of Fretlesses I wasn't quite into, now I just use a posh jazz copy and a shuttle 2x10. Only difficulty is whether to have flats or rounds on the bass!

I indirectly know Huw, he's a great player with a huge sound, and a cool guy by all accounts. Recommended.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1340479146' post='1705145'] why not just turn the treble on the amp down a tad? [/quote] I think you get a different kind of treble cut that way -- the tweeter can sometimes be pretty glassy sounding whereas larger drivers always naturally seem to roll of the very top in quite a sweet way.