Things I'd like manufacturers to do...

[la bam]

All manufactures more vertical 4x10s. Especially the diagonal design ones. On wheels. With good handles. Nice and tall to, so we dont have to stoop to wheel it in.

[itu]

This solid thing is hopefully slightly flexible, because when the attachment to the board is not rigid enough, flexing units will try to break each other. There are models where the plugs are not on the straight line. The allow some movement. I still prefer soldering cables to angled plugs.

[Downunderwonder]

On 19/11/2022 at 04:17, NancyJohnson said:

Cort ...  I'd like your basses a whole lot more if you stopped cutting this bit out of the headstock.
 

Would be much better if it had a steel insert that opens beers. 

[Downunderwonder]

On 20/11/2022 at 01:16, SteveXFR said:

 

I doubt a 500w Elf would be that small. Double the size at least to get a big enough power amplifier plus cooling 

To make it double the volume enclosure it would be less than 1.3x on each side length.

 

Curiously a bigger Elf would need a bit bigger again cooling fan because it's radiating proportionally less heat over the surface than the little one by a factor of 1.3. This might not be too hard because it would have room for 1.3x bigger diameter fan which should be more efficient...

 

Complicated stuff in application this thermodynamics malarkey. I believe sorting the cooling kept Elf from going to production for quite awhile.

[Downunderwonder]

On 21/11/2022 at 13:46, tauzero said:

@Ashdown Engineering - revive the brilliant graphic preamp from the Superfly/Superduperfly and make it a stand-alone pedal.

 

All bass manufacturers - make more headless basses. As evidence that this is required, see the endless whingeing on the previous five pages about headstocks.

But the only thing uglier than an ugly headstock is no headstock.

[tauzero]

5 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

But the only thing uglier than an ugly headstock is no headstock.

 

Headless basses are a thing of beauty. All headstocks are dreadful.

[mcnach]

6 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

Would be much better if it had a steel insert that opens beers. 

 

Ha! That's what I had thought when I first saw them! 

[tauzero]

12 hours ago, itu said:

This solid thing is hopefully slightly flexible, because when the attachment to the board is not rigid enough, flexing units will try to break each other. There are models where the plugs are not on the straight line. The allow some movement. I still prefer soldering cables to angled plugs.

 

You can get cranked ones for that. Can be found in the more specialist pages of the Ann Summers catalogue.

 

 

 

[mario_buoninfante]

9 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

Would be much better if it had a steel insert that opens beers. 

I think G&L got close enough

 

[Bassfinger]

Fender - sort out the consistency of your QC. Its a joke that a top line MIA can have more flaws and gaps than some of the better MIMs, and even more unfathomable that the situation can be reversed for the next randomly selected example of each.  Unless you go to a shop and eyeball each instrument individually you never know what you're getting, and in this long distance internet biying age thats a significant ballache. Sort it out!

[TheGreek]

17 minutes ago, Bassfinger said:

Fender - sort out the consistency of your QC. Its a joke that a top line MIA can have more flaws and gaps than some of the better MIMs, and even more unfathomable that the situation can be reversed for the next randomly selected example of each.  Unless you go to a shop and eyeball each instrument individually you never know what you're getting, and in this long distance internet biying age thats a significant ballache. Sort it out!

 

I had this experience trying a Fender bass in DV247.

The neck gap on the mij was super tight...you couldn't get a single Rizla paper in whereas the MIA you could have got in half a packet. 

 

When I see stuff like this it just confirms my bias 

[Bassfinger]

Aye, Mr Greek I've long learned to look closely at the individual instrument rather than rely on any notional hierarchy of quality based upon the lettering. The inconsistency is utterly bizarre.

[funkgod]

Musicman, dump that "toys are us" plastic battery holder and go back to the chrome plate, and sort the pole pieces out making them in the middle of the string. or even alan key poles to move up and down like the Wal and G&L,

and while im on that, to G&L.... sort out your god awfull back up service, its the worst iv ever come accross.

gggrrrrrrrr

and now for something more amusing,  just too off set my bitchin.

 

Bono and the Edge, walk into a bar, and the barman says......

 

Awwhhhhh for fu@k sake, not u2 🙂  

Edited November 29, 2022 by funkgod

[Bassfinger]

Harley Benton - stop being so bleeding awesome. Its annoying, and hard on my wallet.