With a few exceptions I believe all Epis are now made in China.
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I highly doubt of it …
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Done.
Sweetwater says my new La Bellas are on their way. Bass gets here Friday.
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I’ve had both and I preferred the neck on the Epi. I’ve never had a quality issue with Epiphone but I know others have.
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Thanks for the input everyone. I’ll stick with my Hofner and keep looking.
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So after acquiring my 6 string and realizing they were easier to play than I thought, the next logical step was to get a 5er since I’ve never owned one. Found a couple decent ones around in my budget but decided to make the wise decision of reaching out to @Al1885 to see what might be under the workbench and in need of a new home… pics this weekend when I get it home. I think I will name it Gabriel…
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After Gabriel Landeskog the Swedish hockey player I presume?
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Tell me you love 
Ice sports without telling me you love ice sports. Hahahahahaha
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Process of elimination @Reasonably_Happy I guessed that with your moniker you didn’t live in one of the dumpster states. So I punted for Colorado 
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Unfortunately, I currently reside in the cesspool of SoCal. Not many people get my moniker but that’s the point. It’s a good conversation starter. Also not a big hockey guy myself. But you gave that one away. Lol
Cesspool might be a little heavy handed. We don’t have to shovel sunshine so that’s a plus.
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So I bought a PreSonus Atom SQ and Faderport V2. They’re on a sale right now, plus Sweetwater was doing an additional 10% off Fender products, plus they had a demo Faderport for $20 less than the current sale price. Maximum savings achieved 
I think George Carlin would approve. He has a bit on terms and one of them is how “more than happy” sounds like a dangerous mental condition 
I thought about splashing out for an ioStation 24C, but it’s 2" wider than a Faderport V2 and I can’t find out if I can user the controller portion separately from the audio side. I was going to use it as a controller for my desktop, and both with a laptop, but how often do I do that? Basically never… so I saved the money… (and the Faderport matches the SQ 
)
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@Koldunya, do you have group shots of all your gear?
You buy something like every other day! 
It’s gotta be impressive. I bet you could probably open your own music store! 
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I’d say that’s a pretty safe bet.
In fact, I’d bet that without this here B2B forum and talkbass, the economy would be in a whole lot worse shape.
Fight inflation! Buy a ton of bass stuff!!!
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I think it’s more Peter “Gabriel’ picked up the reference of a certain bass player “Tony”, lol.
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Oooh… that reminds me. I need to build a Tony Levin patch in my M9…
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I’ve been selling a lot lately. I don’t have much left to go at this point!
I’m in the middle of redoing my workspace (bought a few laptop stands to try out), I plan to take pictures once it’s all sorted again. Though there is a picture of my computer in the practice spaces thread and probably my synth-only Jam Station 2.0 
I need new monitors for it, though; I though I could stand the noisy Eris E8s I put there on a “not always on basis” but it’s driving me crazy every time I power it on (via voice lol. “Alexa, turn on the jam station!”).
I started using Studio One a lot more lately, and with the current sale it made a lot of sense to get some of their products. Atom SQ does a TON and so does the Faderport. If the ioStation 24C had ADAT in/out I’d have likely got it and combined it with my 18i20, but it does not. While I love what Drive By Moss has done for Bitwig (and REAPER) controllers, the Atoms were made by PreSonus to work with their own DAW. I wish Bitwig would do something like Ableton’s Push
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Man, Koldunya, your knowledge and experience with so much different gear and software is truly impressive. 
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Ditto! That’s like speaking another language. Very impressive.
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Live from @Al1885 ’s front yard, it’s new bass day for me!! Meet… Tony Dart!
Not bad what falls off/under this gentleman’s work bench!! Thank you for all you hard work sir!
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