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  2. Lovely Yellow Epiphone Newport bass in great condition. It has had the recommended mods done ie Phase corrected and neck the pickup has been levelled and adjusted so no string pull that causes fret buzz on this normally. Set up nicely and Fitted with flat wound strings, balances well and plays and sounds great -- any trial welcome. Possible Trade ( plus cash of course ) for a Vintera Mustang or a Blue JMJ Mustang No Gig bag or Case so Ideally collect only from me near Selby or can possibly meet up locally.
  3. The video two weeks before: “Pro bass player has huge gear revelation”. Scott gives away boutique basses in charity giveaway. 2 weeks later, big shipment of boutique basses arrive at Chateau de Scott and your video drops.
  4. Some Enchanted Evening - Sinatra
  5. After what seems like over a year of trying, I finally exchanged some cash for one of Kate's items 🤣 Kindly travelled down to meet me in one of my usual 'trying to fit too much into a weekend' weekends. What a pleasant deal!
  6. One of the few Beato interviews I could actually sit through.
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  8. Beers, Steers & Queers - The Revolting Cocks
  9. Some time back in the 1980s, I owned a Fender P. I replaced the pickup with Di Marzios because that was the thing to do back then, but TBH never noticed any great change in the sound. The original pickup went into a drawer and stayed there for around 40 years, quietly maturing. It's about time I did something with it, so it's off to the marketplace. The two components have date stamps from different years, so I suspect that before I got the P it had one replaced. They both have the same resistance and they seemed fine when they were in the bass. This is something that I'm perfectly happy to post at no extra cost.
  10. For sale TRex Junior power supply boxed with five connectors great condition £45 plus postage Boss TU-3 Chromatic tuner boxed with a spare base plate with Velcro attached £45 plus postage.
  11. A little teaser of the coming jazz bass…..
  12. Sounding tight, really nice
  13. Cheers, the 66 has two Gemini pickups, the front is a dual coil 'Degenerate' with one extra hot. It gives a lovely P sound. The bridge is a 'Surfrider' and it's very powerful, so the honk is amazing. There are a few audio clips here and the build diary for the bass is here - you can see it was modified already when I bought it, so no crime has been committed. The fretless build diary (more of a parts assembly thread) is here
  14. Now that is how you advertise something for sale...
  15. Cowboy Song - Thin Lizzy
  16. I've since discovered that a number of users have mentioned the headphone volume issue, the lack of editing features in the Suite. I'm hoping DG can address both in future updates. I haven't just been able to compare the main 1/4" or XLR outputs. I'm hoping these are more similar to the Helix. Can anyone confirm. FWIW, on my Helix I use 1/4" at line level and XLR at mic level. The main volume knob is also detached from the XLR, so it sends full volume.
  17. I've been an afficianado of 1970s WEM combos for many years but my on-going de-clutter requires me to cut down to just a single unit (a Clubman, since you ask) which means that these two lovely things are now on the market. Both are 50-year-old combos that have lived a life so, although they are both in very good condition for their age, neither is pristine or as-new. The Dominator (on the right) is deffo in better cosmetic nick than the Westminster (on the left) but both work perfectly and exactly as their maker intended. Both sound excellent regardless of what you plug through them - bass, guitar, keys, Mongolian nose-flute. WEM DOMINATOR 25, late 70s, £600. Arguably one of the finest products of the British valve-amp industry, the Dominator was always in the running for nearly 20 years straight. Read all about it here: https://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/britamps/watkins/dominator/dom19.html Often described as a 15W amp, this was in fact more nearly 17W (which is why Mo Foster chose that as his title: https://www.amazon.co.uk/17-Watts-British-Musicians-Sanctuary/dp/1860741827). Mine is the truly wonderful Dominator 25, which is also a truly wonderful piece of Marketing tosh. The '25' was neither 25W nor did it sport a 25" speaker ... it was uprated from the standard Fane 12" speaker on a Dommie to a 15" Celestion to make it sound even better for bass. The '25' thing was the WEM Marketing Dept's equivalent of, "yeh, but this goes to 11". Twin inputs means you can plug in two different instruments simultaneously, or come up with all sorts of weird bi-amping scenarios to puzzle your guitarist with. All original and unmolested. So what does it sound like? Well none of Zoom's excellent product range can really capture just how good this sounds in the studio (or live), let alone the gorgeous, creamy valve break-up at very sensible volumes. If you want to experience that then you'll need to come to Harrow and plug in your own bass. But here's a crude approximation ... Maya into Dominator.mp3 Any excuse to show off my God-like abilities on bass, eh? Shafty into Dominator.mp3 WEM WESTMINSTER, 19777/78, £400. The Dominator was top of the range and not everyone could afford one, so the Westminster was always the better seller and went through far more cosmetic 're-fresh' experiences. Mine was a very short-lived variant in terms of looks, only being made for two years. Read about it here: https://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/britamps/watkins/westminster/west13.html Still twin input for all those pub-rock gigs back when that was a new thing, usually starting just after the stripper had finished. Notice the economy measure of a single set of controls, though. Side-mounted carry handle is very practical. Again, all original and unmolested. If I could play guitar then I'd have used that for these sound clips - the Westminster handles bass perfectly well but it's always going to come off second-best when compared to the Dominator 25. Shafty into Westminster.mp3 Put a guitar through this, though, especially something over towards the Les Paul end, and it's something else. Maya into Westminster.mp3
  18. I forgot to mention - I sit down to play, and the studio has bucket-type seats with bent wire legs. I leant back a bit to pick something up (all four legs still on the floor) and the chair collapsed. I'm a bit on the heavy side but at 100kg I'm not that enormous. There was a second identical chair in the room and that bore my weight for the rest of the evening.
  19. Need a @KiOgon loom in that 😏
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    With you on the headphone volume. I have moved from the stomp and that was much louder.
  21. This version feels like it is aimed at guitarists and/or bass players who want to augment an already overdriven sound. My sound has more in common with Pino Paladino, Mike League, James Jameson et al, so I didn't find it to be very useable. I still have it just to have it, but I may end up selling, or keeping it in the hopes it becomes a sought after curiosity in the future.
  22. π, although I'm comfortable with the square root of 2. π is just such an awkward number.
  23. Yep, right choice
  24. Today
  25. You made the right choice, although the gold looks pretty cool too.
  26. No, thanks for your offer! I am not into 6 String basses.
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