NBD: ****** ******* ** (AKA Status Buzzard B2)

[LeftyJ]

The Facebook groups (I'm in two, there's a Statii group and a Status Basses & Guitars group) are somewhat helpful, but most threads devolve quickly into "Here's mine!", "Buy mine!" or "Sell it to me!". Status themselves are probably your best bet. Dawn and Rob are usually very helpful, giving them a phonecall will get you Dawn on the line. The company is not as active as it used to be when they still had a full staff, but they're very much still active. 

[Beedster]

3 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

The Facebook groups (I'm in two, there's a Statii group and a Status Basses & Guitars group) are somewhat helpful, but most threads devolve quickly into "Here's mine!", "Buy mine!" or "Sell it to me!". Status themselves are probably your best bet. Dawn and Rob are usually very helpful, giving them a phonecall will get you Dawn on the line. The company is not as active as it used to be when they still had a full staff, but they're very much still active. 

 

Thanks @LeftyJ I'll give Dawn a call next week, I think I owe it to the bass to get it looked at and sorted by Status if at all possible. If not, I'll have to think of other options 👍

[Beedster]

4 hours ago, Merton said:

I’m pretty sure the Statii forum closed down a few years ago I’m afraid

There’s a group on BookFace which may be of use, assuming you too are on BookFace… I could ask if you are not!

Thanks @Merton as above I'll try with Status again next week and see where things land 👍

[Beedster]

19 hours ago, Beedster said:

I'm going to keep this, in part because despite the problems it's an incredible piece of engineering and I won't find another anytime soon, in part because I don't want the hassle of dealing with a shitty seller (and BTW Reverb have handled this very poorly), and in part because I'm going to enjoy fixing it. While the financially sensible thing to do is to get the circuit repaired, given I'm not convinced the bass was all that well maintained, I don't think I'll feel fully happy unless a new circuit is installed. I was hoping that Status might be able to supply/build a replica of the original but having been initially quite responsive they've gone very quiet which is frustrating. So I'm guessing there are a few options from here. 

 

Re the earlier comment about size, check this out.....

 

 

And BTW the one on the left is for sale, and it's going to need to go to pay for the repairs to the one on the right 🤔

 

 

[tauzero]

12 hours ago, Merton said:

I’m pretty sure the Statii forum closed down a few years ago I’m afraid

 

I'm sure I was on it a few months back. Domain registration was updated in March so can't have been long ago.

 

Just checked archive.org and the last snapshot was on 23rd November, forum was still active then.

[Merton]

6 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I'm sure I was on it a few months back. Domain registration was updated in March so can't have been long ago.

 

Just checked archive.org and the last snapshot was on 23rd November, forum was still active then.

My bad memory then! Prob just having a bad day the other day…

[bremen]

If you can get a schematic, I'd be happy to do a new board. Might even be able to do it from photos of each side of the board; pm me.

[Beedster]

On 15/12/2024 at 20:20, bremen said:

If you can get a schematic, I'd be happy to do a new board. Might even be able to do it from photos of each side of the board; pm me.

 

That's a lovely offer Chris many thanks. I'm going to check in with Status tomorrow all going well. They list a lot of circuits as currently available but not the Buzzard, so I guess the key question is the degree to which one of those is easily modified to that spec. Either way, I'll keep the above in mind, and thanks again 🙏