SimonK

Just goes to show that with genes and environment on your side anything is possible! Also growing up with all that awesome kit available in your own home - a far cry from the Hohner instruments into my stereo that I started with!

Lets just say that when I jam with my kids it doesn't quite sound like this:

She's got a bit of an advantage to the rest of the world given her dad is Hovak Alaverdyan who is in the band Octavision with Victor Wooten on bass!

I'm guessing the cheaper ones are veneer caps?

No - it's the expensive ones as well! Funnily enough I bought myself a milestone guitar a few years back (PRS CU24) without really thinking much about the top, but the longer I've had it, while it plays beautifully, I'm just getting more and more triggered by this issue. The question is do I care about this enough to move on something I saved a very long time for?

If we are talking about finishes, and maybe this is more of a guitar issue, but mismatched tops really get to me. While I understand it is difficult to predict how the stain will take surely it's possible to do better given the price of these things? PRS & Gibson seem to be the main transgressors:

Get someone in the states to buy it and send to you? At £3.10 plus probably about £10 postage it isn't a massive risk...

....sounds like a lot of people's marriages as well 🙂! Mind you it's easier to get a long with people when there is a common task - I get on fine with my cricket team during the cricket season, but avoid them in the off season!!

Yeah - sorry - but given the OP expanded to include IEM I thought the thread was fair game!

I've recently been thinking along similar lines albeit making use of a 4u rack case I have lying about and filling it with goodies for a "silent" stage rig. So far three spaces would be used with a sansamp RBI, tuner, and compressor, but then I would like an in ear system to complete the rack. But this is where I am faltering as what I would like to do is to be able to mix in my own bass level with whatever the desk is sending me so that I am not reliant on the PA operator to give me my own level. The closest I can find to this functionality is systems that take a L and R feed in, but then allow you to be in "mono" mode and mix the L and R to your own liking. But I'd be interested to know if anyone knows of a specific IEM system that has it's own mixer built in specifically.

....I suppose one conclusion from your study might be that bass players are ornery old gits! Along with also wanting to know your institution and ethics review details before I fill this out, I'm also wary of studies that ask for gender and then give sex options - if you want gender the options are man, woman, other, prefer not to say. Male and Female are sex (chromosome) categories.

3 possible reason: 🙂 1. They stop gigging Looking at the pedalboard thread on this forum I don't think gigging has anything to do with owning an extravagant pedal board! 2. They realized how practical multi effect units are Ironically, and possibly in contradiction to your point 1, it seems a lot of people who do the most gigs use multi fx - certainly the last few stage shows and big tribute bands I have seen have all used Line6 Helix's (Helices?). 3. They are in separation from their partner and forgot the pedal board when they moved out They lost their lover, not their love!! 4. (Bonus) They realized tone is in the fingers What???? 5. (Extra bonus) They grew up and started playing upright ....yes I see the point, although evidence from many years gigging suggests that most of us think we play better when legless!

Thing is, in even the best case, I'd only really want the board, power supply and maybe two thirds of the pedals, so it would have to be a pretty awesome price to make up for the faff of subsequently selling a few things. None of the prices I've seen so far make it worth it - £1000 goes a hell of a long way designing ones own board!

I've started noticing an up-tick in people trying to sell already completed pedal boards on eBay. These used to be quite rare, I think because the draw of pedal boards is creating a custom collection of pedals so no one will ever quite like exactly the same things as the next person. I've certainly always swapped pedals in and out one at a time, and occasionally updated the board itself or power supply. So why would anyone buy someone else's complete pedalboard - surely it's better value to buy/sell pedals one at a time? The only thing I can think is maybe something has happened in the digital effects world in the last year or so that I missed, meaning that more people are making the transition to multi-fxs (and yes I know one of the below is a guitar board)?

Anyone in Blackburn - this is a bite their hand off good deal even if it may not be working (search Trace Elliot on Gumtree):

My bass and acoustic pedal boards are pretty linear, but for my electric guitar pedalboard I use a 4-cable multi-core and a Bright Onion patch box so that I can easily switch pedals before and after the preamp.

When I wrote the above I decided to say "no-nonsense reliability" to describe boss. But I just read a review for a different boss pedal that I thought had a better description: "They seldom break, and are both ugly and elegant in all the right ways." Hopefully this pedal will keep up the tradition (although I would have preferred a choice of colours, albeit white is generally what they use for utility pedals!).

I think Boss would be crazy to do this. The strength of their brand is in their no-nonsense reliability. They will lose a fight with the likes of Line6/Yamaha or the other big digital modelling companies.

Is there a 2025 thread?

Sorry to hear about your amp - I seem to recall it was someone like Surrey Amps who are the authorised repairers in the UK?

I got rota'ed out of remembrance Sunday because I wanted to come to this!

Wow that's restrictive - I get most things online and rarely have a problem - indeed that's where all my Trace Elliot finds come from! The chap who 3D prints the ports is active on the facebook trace elliot group which was where the idea for someone with the ability to print them came from. He also does the red and green caps for the gain and volume pots which I have got from him before. The 1818 is the normal single 18" speaker (plus two tuning ports), whereas the 1818x denotes "special application" and was a Mark V and before thing - there was a discussion about them a few months back on the following (the thread itself is 15 years old but someone nercro-bumped!):

Someone asked me on the thread below about seeing some of the Trace Elliot cabs I've been collecting and fixing. I'd be happy to see how much I can squeeze in the car, although if there are thoughts of a cab comparisons I could probably bring a 1x15, 1x18, 2x10 and 4x10, and maybe also the classic 2x10 + 2x5 cab favoured by Mark King, albeit space may prevent this!

RE port liners, yes thet do break frequently so I don't have any not in use, but there is a guy on ebay who 3D prints them: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/167033823085