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I’ve both bought and sold some stuff at Rich Tone, with no problems. You can get online quotes when selling your gear, although don’t expect a fortune for heavy bass rigs in particular…..

Spanish Bombs - The Clash

Just home from the dreaded Hogmanay gig. We alphabet to do this as a 3 piece as our keyboard player always spends NYE with his extended family and fair play to him, I’d rather spend it with them too. Not a terrible gig, always interesting playing with more space in the mix, but I do miss the keyboards. As ever, some idiot insists on trying to speak with you whilst you’re playing, always a request that you can’t/won’t do. However, this was balanced out by nice guy, who was interested in my bass (he was a guitarist, it turned out) and he looked up my bass, a Maruszczyk, while we were playing. Who says bassists never receive any attention? Anyway, we played OK, although the drummer is really starting to become clumsy (lack of home practise I suspect) and the groom often takes a break in these instances. The thing that gets me is the amount of folk repeatedly going to and from the toilets, with only moments spent in there. Who are they kidding? Perhaps they had bad colds, but I suspect the red nostrils were courtesy of Colombia’s finest marching powder. I’m not a prude, but a little moderation wouldn’t go a miss. Glad it’s over, only 365 days until the next one. At least it was an easy drive home. Rig as per Saturday’s gig earlier in the thread, with the side by side setup, which worked a treat again.

Spanish castle magic - Hendrix

Castles Made Of Sand - Jimi Hendrix

Ok - I'm in, Tiers I and II....what could possibly go wrong? I'm looking forward to the arrival of a TCE Bc208 cab for my upright....sometime in April. But I ordered and paid for it in November -- honest! I look forward to investing in developing better hands, better ears, and making more music.

Silica Love Songs - Wings

Enter sand, man - metallica. HNY!!

Pedal pcb did the original trace and I can vouch for their quality - they also have isolated the ground pours for the different parts of the circuit which five cats don’t seem to have done.

Aion effects boards are good too - really good documentation on their site https://www.musikding.de/TS-50-Bass-Preamp-kit

Walk like an Egyptian - The Bangles Happy New Year!

Cpc or eBay

A perverted one, you closet guitard

All my basses have Labella white nylons. Plug in, turn on the Shuttle, low boost and top boost buttons in. All knobs at 11.00 o'clock (ish) If I can hear it, the band can hear it, the punters can hear it, that's my sound.

A TS50b is high on my want list too, maybe I can treat myself to a couple of fun projects.

Good shout, I was intending to grab it from Five Cat Pedals but that might be a better option. I’m not planning on churning out pedals, I’d quite fancied grabbing a breadboard and playing around with building some circuits to try, maybe experiment with different options. Maybe grab one of those Coppersound DIY boards to play with.

Behind My Camel - The Police

I’m in. And seriously hope to last the year. I hope to downsize a bit this year. I’m not going to stop scouring the local classifieds though. edit … I had to replace a broken Snark tuner , did it yesterday.

Buy the kit from Musikding - seriously unless you’re going to be ordering enough to make 6-7 pedals this year Musikding kits work out very good value. (I’ve built this one (ppcb skeptical buffer), it’s good. The ppcb frequency interchange is worth building too)

As good as their word. It came this afternoon while I was doing a NYE Cello Duo Gig with an ex-pupil, so I'm just home... Okay, first I need to introduce The Judge from the Fazley Outlaw Series, aka "Kermit The Bass". So the hand oiled finish is about the worst shade of green you could possibly imagine, more like Ford Signal Green that you used to get on Escort Mk2s. But hey, it's only £63. About that £63... Look at the neck pocket fit and finish. I have £2k Fenders that aren't as well finished as this bass. I've a good mind to phone Bax and ask them if I owe them any more money?! Fit and finish is amazing for the money, even at the near £300 they should normally be. The roasted maple fingerboard is finished very well too. Frets are all properly seated with no sharp edges whatsoever, and the fingerboard edges are totally smooth, if not actually rolled. The ash body is a little lacking in grain, but hey, £63. Setup is almost bang on as well. It'll just need a slight tweak of the truss rod tomorrow. I haven't plugged it in yet, but so far I can't see any penny pinching as such. Even the tuners are the same quality as a Sire. Watch this space...

I'm in, mainly to see how long I last. Agreed about straps, stands, etc, give them a pass. Just want to check something - I have a bass being repaired which has been with Jon Shuker for a couple of months which I haven't paid for yet, so is that OK?

<deep breath> OK, I'm in. I've offloaded a tonne of stuff this year and I really can't think of anything else I want at the moment, so let's see how it goes. If I get to the end of April, I'll be improving on previous years!

So this is the state of my board greeting the new year. Literally everything but the coil cable swapped. Gotta love the doomfunk sounds it can create. Very satisfied with it. All I'm missing is a chorus or flanger. Preferably something that can do both.