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  2. Eight is Enough (until it isn't)
  3. Apologies the late responses to PMs. I’ve been travelling back from a wedding this weekend. I’ll try to get to the PMs later tonight.
  4. I'll let you know when I finally get the feeling that I've got too many.... Currently on 94 and haven't thought it yet.... lol!
  5. I'm a late-comer to the GB family, but had a long term loan of one of the early Goodfellow Standards back in the early 90's while my Status neck was being repaired. Acquired this early model 1988 Spitfire a couple of weeks ago in a trade at Bass Bros. I think I got the better end of the deal. The tonal punch is anvil-like and it's such a lovely thing to play and hear. Definitely my kind of bass.
  6. Laney RBH800, 300 watt, bought as a beater to leave at a rehearsal space, now surplus to requirements. Works perfectly. Collection or meet up reasonable distance from Norfolk/Suffolk border.
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  7. At one point in my life I had 5 basses at once, which actually led me to play less. Just choosing what bass to play became overwhelming. I sold them all and started over on a clean slate to so speak. Now I have two really nice boutique basses with disctinctly different sounds and applications (although both 30” scale). Being – almost – middle-aged with small children at home and less time than ever to practice alone or rehearse with friends and with no gigs in sight, I have a strict 1-in-1-out policy when it comes to instruments.
  8. I bought these off Funkle at the start of this year, put into a Jazz that I build but I have since parted it out so up for sale A little damage to bottom of the pickup housing to accomodate the screws but does not impact on the pickup, here is the original listing.. Another find from my extensive and unusual parts clear-out. This is a set of Celinder SS Humbucker Alnico Jazz Pickups. Truly a unique set of pickups. I only know of one other person who has a similar set - I think it might be @Kiwi if I recall correctly. I had these made as a custom order direct from Aaron Armstrong back in 2013. I had them made for a Celinder 60's Jazz Bass I owned at that point, and they served me well when mated to a John East J-Retro. When the bass was sold, I reverted it to the original single coils. So these are humbuckers nearly identical to those in every Celinder Update Jazz bass (70s Jazz bass tributes), except they are alnico instead of ceramic. This was to give me a sound more typical of a 60's Jazz, but without the hum. It worked. (Aaron tells me the humbucker design has two coils rotated through 90 degrees, with magnets in the middle of them pressed up against a blade of steel, which in turn runs down the whole length of the middle of the pickup.) They are very low output and low impedance. They have a sound extremely near to single coils - as with other Celinder Updates - but they must be mated to an active preamp to have typical instrument level output. It's been a minute since I used them. But when removed from my Celinder, they were fully working, and I expect them to perform normally. A new set of these would probably be around £250, I think. Ask Aaron, I guess, he would tell you. Price to include postage to the UK
  9. I really like the addition of middle solo, and bridge and middle in parallel, so it was a good swap for me.
  10. I would love to be able to play by ear. The closest I get is the old joke "Do you play by ear?" "Yes" "Well clear off and play somewhere else then!"
  11. I finally got around to sorting midi control out via the BandHelper app and used it at the weekend's gig. I didn't enjoy double footswitch pressing to change presets on its previous outing. Using Bandhelper to automatically choose the correct preset worked very well. Using CC's to select modes, stomps and scenes, however, is less reliable, and I had to resend the midi data manually a few times But I think this is because I'm sending PC and CC messages at the same time. If I understand Bandhelper's help page correctly, I should be able to resolve this issue by adding a small delay between each one. One rather annoying thing I discovered is that my Kindle Fire doesn't support MIDI over USB. Amazon, in their wisdom, decided not to include this in their fork of Android. I bought this device a few years ago, specifically for gigs, so that I don't risk getting my more expensive iPad Pro broken or stolen. So I'm looking into getting a similarly sized and cheap 'proper' Android tablet to replace it.
  12. Great bridge at a great price, adjustable string spacing and extra shim to go underneath main bridge if extra height is required 👍🏼 GLWTS 😉
  13. Hi everyone, Up for sale is this SahBro? Brass Section Fuzz. A cool Brassmaster clone in a 1590BB enclosure. It's a nice option if you're looking for that particular kind of fuzz sound, but it's not in a giant enclosure at a larger price. It's got a few dings, but it all works as it should. Here's the reverb shop I got it from: https://reverb.com/uk/item/83850271-sahbro-audio-the-brass-section-brassmaster-clone I'm asking £90 for it. Price includes postage. Below I've attached some quick sound clips too. The signal is a P bass with Chromes, straight into an RNDI. Brass Section Samples.wav Cheers!
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  14. All of this reminds me of seeing the wonderful Hank Wangford band, back in the 80’s. Hank (aka Dr Sam Hutt) had a superb set of musicians with him, all with great stage names too. The ones I can remember included Irma Cetas on vocals, guitarists Brad Breath and Jett Atkins, Manley Footwear on pedal steel ( the legendary BJ Cole) and Milton Keynes on drums.
  15. These are ideal strings for a short scale danelectro — I put a set on my blueburst longhorn well over ten years ago and they still sound full and punchy.
  16. Great bit of kit that lets you play along to songs via bluetooth. My presets are on it but you can get the free app to make your own sounds. I've had this for years and battery life isn't great anymore at around half an hour - I tend to use at my desk and keep it plugged into the USB output of my laptop for power. Price includes UK mainland postage. With box and charging cable.
  17. Yup. I had a combustion and I just didn't like the EMG preamp. I took the batteries out and used the passive/active as a mute switch. And very handy it was too. Since I got my ABZ though I find the passive tone incredibly useful, and the bass and treble on the Never are so usable - I'd say I use the onboard preamp about 20% of the time, passive the rest. In terms of options though, I'd be fascinated to try out the six-position but as it is I think I'm better off with 4. It's like compression - the best system I used had an on/off switch that worked. As soon as I start to get too much choice I feel like I'm wasting time faffing and give up!
  18. Exactly the wear is perfection, worth every penny and tells such a story! Such a beauty of an instrument!
  19. Start at the source: get your mic (recorder) placement right- it'll make everything else so much easier. Do some quick test recordings with different placements - it'll be fairly obvious on a quick listen back on headphones which sound better. Listen for overall sound quality, amount of 'room sound' and balance between the different instruments. You will need to find a balance between the amount of room sound you capture (roughly correlated with the distance of the mics from the source) and the ability to get your desired balance between the instruments (usually easier with a more distant mic position). Get this right though, and you're 99% of the way there already. If you can, keep the recorder off flat surfaces, especially hard ones - a small tripod might be a good investment, but at least try to make sure there is nothing directly under the mics (e.g. place the recorder on the edge of a table with the mics in free space). From my own experience, my Dad recorded some final songs (just vocals and acoustic guitar) on a Zoom H4n in the months before he passed away. We didn't hear them until afterwards. They are beautiful performances, but unfortunately he set the Zoom down on a glass coffee table to record, and the reflections from that surface really messed with the recorded sound (phase cancellation artefacts). I spent hours doing my best to clean them up with a range of tools. Wish we could re-record those songs... But back to mastering - that is so much down to personal taste and what you want to do with it. I tend to like preserving dynamics so use compressors sparingly if at all. I would start with a subtle EQ (just for overall tonal balance, nothing surgical) and a maximiser for the overall level - that might be all you need.
  20. Being a P bass there isnt too much that can go wrong. A full new harness would be about £30 and other than that the only thing it could be is a loose/broken pickup wire?
  21. Hello, I have a Fender Classic 50s reissue P bass that I've been playing for over three years without any issues—until last year. Problems began after a show when the signal completely dropped. Sometimes, when I plug in, the guitar works perfectly, but then, seemingly out of nowhere, it stops functioning, only producing a faint signal if I turn the tone up. I took it in for servicing and mentioned this issue, but when I got it back, the technician said he couldn't find anything wrong. I'm at my wit's end! I've tried different jack leads and plugged into various amps, which has oddly 'fixed' the problem twice. For example, I might plug into one amp and get no signal, then switch to another amp and still get nothing. When I plug back into the first amp, it works again?! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
  22. Sold an active PA speaker to Tim at the end of last week. Thoroughly nice bloke to do business with!
  23. Hello, I’m selling a 2007 American Series Fender P Bass, complete with its original G&G hardcase. Fender’s serial number check dates it to April 2007. Really nice three tone sunburst, rosewood board, alder body, the S-1 switch on the volume knob, strung through body or top loaded. Weighs a smidge over 4kg (4.07kg). I bought it from the original owner and it’s clearly been well cared for. It’s really clean and in lovely condition with minimal fretwear and only a handful of small marks here and there as you’d expect from an 18 year old working instrument. I’ve tried to photograph them as best I can. Neck is straight, action medium/low at the moment with plenty of room to go lower. Currently strung with brand new D’addario EXL165 strings, gauge 45-105. Would much prefer collection or meet up to try before you buy. There’s plenty of tea, biscuits and a Markbass rig to try it through here. G&G case is in good used condition - few small scrapes etc on the outside as expected, being a case and all that. No keys but the locks and catches work smoothly. Alas I’m a right handed player and I bought this on a bit of a whim with a view to possibly getting the nut re-cut for right handed stringing, but circumstances and my plans have changed and I can’t justify yet another bass so it remains in its original configuration. Im near the Leicestershire / Northamptonshire border but I travel into Leicester and Derby fairly frequently so that’s an option too. Looking for £825. Any questions feel free to give me a shout. Cheers.
  24. I thought I'd resurrect this zombie thread to offer some positive feedback about G4M. Last Tuesday, I ordered some gigbags from them. Picked the cheapest delivery option so wasn't expecting to see them until the start of the following week. Two days later, I got an email from them telling me that my order might be delayed because they did not receive stock from the supplier. I found this odd because I went to double check and the website was still merrily proclaiming that they had heaps in stock. So I queried it. Within a few hours, they got back to me, apologising as I had received that email in error and it was an internal thing (getting stock from warehouse) which had triggered it by mistake. They assured me that the gig bags would still arrive in the agreed time (indeed, reiterated that the estimated delivery date was 06/10 - 07/10). Well, colour me surprised when the doorbell rings yesterday (yes, on a Sunday) and here are my gigbags. I wasn't pushy, I didn't ask to have my delivery upgraded, they just did it off their own backs. I don't think you get a Sunday delivery from G4M through DPD unless you specifically request it (and pay for it). So I think they fast tracked my order, I guess to make up for the admin oops? I'm going to believe that, because that was very nice of them and it made me smile.
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  26. Let us know your thoughts. I really like the aesthetic of these - has that old school vibe nailed.
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