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  2. Great basses. GLWTS
  3. I can source a robust box for the bass. Bicycle boxes re a good option. The price, which is already below what these basses sell for on eBay is firm. Thanks for your interest.
  4. It shouldn't make any difference. The whole point of a DI box is that it takes instrument and/or line-level signals and converts them to balanced line for the mixing desk. Whether the DI box is active or passive should make no difference to the impedance it presents to the input signal. IME a good passive DI is slightly more reliable since it doesn't require a power source or phantom power which may not be available, and doesn't cause problems when connected to equipment with non-standard earthing.
  5. A Precision will tend to be louder than a Ric, but the Ric is more subtle and you have to work a bit to get the character. You might need to up the Gain a bit for the Ric. When in mono mode, winding back one of the Vols a smidge can make it louder. To get the absolute best you can use the Rick-O-Sound (stereo) output to run it to two amps and then set the controls to suit. A Precision does what it does very well; if you're stuck playing roots & fifths below the bottom 5 frets then you're as well sticking with the Precision. The Ric realisation comes when you do more adventurous stuff and notice how the sound gets thicker as you go up the neck and more growly as you play lower down. They really are a very expressive instrument. Perhaps it's better to think of it as starting afresh rather than a variant of a Precision.
  6. Interesting, but ultimately very frustrating I believe that an Uberhorn 4 owner had to do similar, I remember reading about it on here somewhere, ah, here you go >> Really hope it can get sorted without too much pain, such a beautiful instrument! Eude
  7. Now there's a thought, a custom 8 string...
  8. What Do You Do For Money, Honey ? - AC/DC
  9. Not really, or at least no connections to start with. Our singer got all the gigs in his alter-ego of our manager. He simply contacted loads of similar but better-known bands through Facebook asking for supports and pulled in a couple of favours from local venues as a result of his last band. It paid off quite quickly as our 5th gig was a Psychobilly all-dayer with The Meteors headlining and we found ourselves playing an early evening slot rather than being on first at lunchtime. It also helped that we always put on a show visually and musically. After that the gig offers started coming in steadily from all over the country and we could have been gigging almost every Friday and Saturday night had the money and logistics been right. By contrast the covers band was happy to plod along doing roughly one gig a month at the same handful of local venues.
  10. For sale my Gibson 2011 SG, with Gibson fitted case. A few slight Dings (as pics show), but plays and sounds great. Previous owner has changed tone capacitor. Price includes Insured UK Mainland Delivery
  11. Money's Too Tight to Mention - Simply Red
  12. Going through the spares bag and think I’m happy to let these go… but this may change! Images to follow Basswitch Enhanced OD £125 Boxed I really dig this drive for its versatility and tones. It’s basically two voices in one unit in that the tone control works like a eq curve shift. At one end of the range it sounds ampeg/scoopy and as you turn to the opposite end of the range the eq curve shifts to a mid bump. It’s a very full sounding drive and really fills out the mid-range especially useful in a trio etc. This one’s a bit rare as not many produced before the basswitch guy retired. I have this, their comp and the basswitch iqdi- love their kit and it all sounds wonderful! Duality Duzz £90 boxed Two voicings available which can be swept through with the related Duality knob. Classic muff style sound to more gated fuzz which work well for the octopus+ fuzz synth type tones TL:DR Big dirty fuzz tones in a wee box! Simples! Early run made in Seattle (by Spencer at 3LA I think). Says on the base I can check if it’s useful info. Markbass Compressore £100 no box Works as a valve stage in its own right and a very capable compressor which uses the tube for the compression. Not really keen to shift it but I flip back and forth between this and another unit. Add tube warmth to any rig and I think it’s a bit overlooked as an actual proper voltage tube stage on a pedal board. FT Electronica £70 sub octave based on the ampeg sub blaster? Really simple and small footprint. Sounds great!
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  13. I’ve been running this setup for the last couple of gigs for testing, the same basic components as my ‘main’ board, but a few slightly different flavours: Polytune Mini 3 -> Fuzzdog Mr Creosote (Phat Phuk B diy) -> Schu-Tone FLOverdrive (custom BB Bass Pre clone) -> CMC Audio 🤫 -> MXR BEF -> MXR BOD -> Schu-Tone Finn Chorus (his Replicant Jr circuit) -> Olympic MKIIIs. Powered by a Cioks DC7 on a PT Metro 16. Still dialing a few elements in, but I’ve really enjoyed it so far. Little bit more saturation than my very clean Linden EQ ‘main’ board, but it’s very controllable and dynamic, which is fun. Si
  14. I have a 4003 by HW in black. It is awesome. I'm going to get another one this time in White wth checkered binding. It sounds exactly like it should
  15. Strings with a strong fundamental are preferable, so flats and broken-in strings. New roundwounds have a lot of high end which, depending on how you play, could cause strong overtones that might confuse the tracking. As for pickups, I use only P basses now, but have used it with PJ and JJ configurations. Neck pickups give better fundamental but bridge pickups seem good for ever so slightly faster note-on triggering. I used to play dual pickups and favour the neck for the fundamental but dial in a bit of the bridge to help the note-on triggering. Mostly using flatwounds.
  16. Yep, that suggestion was taken on board. Since parameters can’t be edited from the panel, I’ve also suggested creating some basic presets which use common combinations of waves which would be suited to get the maximum variation from the onboard parameters.
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  18. they are totally different beasts. I'm a P bass man but have a 4003 for the Jam tribute I'm in. It won't sound like a P bass in many respects. As someone has said, both pickups on but roll the neck pickup back to about 3/4. That will give you the sound But flats will change it again. I saw a Kinks tribute and he had flats on and it sounded amazing
  19. Money Made Me Do It - Post Malone
  20. If you are Windows user, good luck with getting rid of all things 'UAD' after any deletions. It's an annoying process to eliminate all folder and file debris. Apart from the usual automatic delete process, you will then have to manually go from 'Start Up', right through the 'Reg Edit' files and folders. UAD doesn't want to let you go, that's for sure!!
  21. Yes he was no, the cat was called Hawkins
  22. Landing the eBay contract is massive for a courier firm so I imagine eBay bring to bear equally massive contractual clout including ‘you lose it you pay for it quickly’ type conditions. Huge companies like eBay probably have more chance of sorting the courier industry than do governments 🤔
  23. Thanks, what about my first question? Also do you have something decent to package it up with for a safe courier journey?
  24. You can pm me ..
  25. Any suggestions on where I can get a replacement or is this way too complicated for a simple man like myself to do? TC does not have support aside from Music Tribe which offers zero support in Canada.
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