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Same. I think the last thing I sold was years ago. A wood burner listed as collection only due to the weight. Loads of enquiries about dimensions (listed in description) make (listed in description) and delivery costs. One bloke really wanted it but couldn’t collect. In the end I agreed to his courier request only to find that they only accept goods on a palate, safely secured and plastic wrapped. Not something your average person has tucked away. Nevertheless I managed to find it all, took an afternoon off work, helped the courier manoeuvre it so the mini forklift could get it in the LORRY!! Guy gave me a negative review due to time taken (3 days) for posting!! Ebay upheld this despite me letting them know I was a private seller and not in possession of a warehouse and pallets! No thanks.

Hello folks, I have a question with regard to this. I've heard a few people mention Overwaters 'filter based preamps' over the years but I have to confess I have no idea what they are or what they do. Were they fitted to Original series basses? I have three of them which are all passive. Two of those have completely standard pot and loom wiring and the third has a pcb which might as well be pot and loom, as it has (mounted on the PCB) two pots (volume and tone), a coil tap switch and a capacitor. If anyone could shed any light and maybe a pic or two, I should be grateful.

Essentially any extra bracing is good, the downside is extra weight and more work to do. There is always going to be a point where extra bracing becomes silly and you might even have to increase the volume of the cab to accommodate it for very little and inaudible changes in the sound. You can see that @stevie and I take different positions where I am more minimalist. If I were building cabs commercially and had access to CNC cutting I'd probably go the way of the LFSys cabs and for FRFR cabs it's worth going the extra distance. My designs are intended to be as easy as possible, I build and trial all the designs and if there are no problems I publish them. In the case of the 8" cab the original was built for someone else and out of 18mm ply to match an existing cab. It needed no additional bracing. I re-designed the cab to make it fit more easily onto a sheet of ply and used 12mm ply because people here wanted some weight saving. The only serious panel resonance was solved by the brace in the picture and that is the cab I use so I'm happy to recommend it. I want people to build the cabs so I deliberately keep it 'easy build' which means as simple as possible. Where we agree is that you should build the cab and try it, with or without the recommended brace. the cab is then customisable and it's good fun to try different bracing and stuffing. When I've done this in the past I've usually ended up removing the wadding except for the rear panel because I prefer the sound. I've seen how iterative your method is with the guitar builds so I know you are probably going to do this anyway Maybe some printed braces are in order?

Nope, if it's a proper auction between private sellers ebay adds extras. Here's my selling information from something I sold last.

What you list it for, say £40, will not be what potential buyers see. They see it as £40 + a few quid.

Standard Fender-esque shaping to my eye (I think Mayonnes do have some interesting headstock shapes on other instruments).

Brands?

maybe I'm being thick here but the buyer doesn't pay anything in my experience, do you mean selling fees?

I'm using the Ikea Ivar shelving system, slightly modified and securely bolted to the wall, If i can make the room look presentable i'll get a photo. I'm currently up to 20-odd instruments, with hard cases for most of them (not all basses though and uke cases are much easier to store) being able to store vertical makes them easy to get to, usually i have a few instruments out on hangers/stands and the rest are safe in their cases ready to go out for gigs etc. i've got shelves to hold boxes for leads etc in there as well. Matt

Well I had a few minutes with it yesterday, off the pedalboard. Small box, usb lead between it and the ToneX and a guitar power plug on the box, you can connect by wired or bluetooth midi, but if you are near a computer or phone, you can just connect to its wifi (within 60 seconds of turning it on) and it gives you a set of webpages where you can change all the settings of the device itself. It lets you adjust the Gate / Compression / Speaker type / Modulation / Echo / EQ of the patch, or the amp values. Seems the amp models are those built into the presets already, and you can change between those presets, but not specifically between the models themselves, so I suspect the way you would use them is set up the models you want in the ToneX app, and then either use the midi interface to change between the presets or to switch on and off modulation, change drive levels etc. Certainly makes the ToneX One a lot more useful - I couldn't use it before as I use more than 2 sounds, but this expands that drastically.

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That's a bit different as the Guild was designed to be that size from the off, rather than simply being shoehorned into an existing long-scale design, as we're seeing with this new Rickenbacker. I've owned several Starfires and they're glorious things, and feel totally right. This Rickenbacker I would define as a "grotesque disaster'.

It would be interesting to see how much merch and licensed items these bands sell generally on line compared with how much they sell when they are on tour. Certainly for smaller bands it has been my experience that the vast majority of merch sales happen at gigs and what little gets sold on-line nearly all of it can be directly linked to recent gigging activity.

I suspect that middle-men are in some way to blame as well... I've got a mate who works for a major artist agency - he has a number of bands he books tours for and stuff. One of them - a well known UK band - gets around £25k/gig. From that, he gets £5k! He's now in the process of retiring to a lovely villa by the sea just north of Biarritz.

So some great suggestions for remembering AJ's brilliance. I liked the Michel Camilo and Hiromi stuff playing with piano and, in the former case, a Latin situation. In contrast, and to show AJ's range and adaptability, here is a high quality video of AJ in a guitar trio setting with the ultra textural and improvisational Wayne Krantz.

Variation on the question im using a EBS Multi Chorus like this Bass > TC Polytund > Altlas Compressor > Rodenberg LDP > Multi Chorus > Amp My issue is engaging the Chorus jumps the level considerably. There’s no Vol or Mix control. Any ideas or do I just need a different chorus