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  2. Was there ever an EBMM SR5 with 19mm bridge string spacing? Someone on here once said it was a thing briefly before being discontinued.
  3. The couriers afaIaa do little to nothing to identify non delivered items, they don't have the staff free to do it, like opening boxes with missing labels to see if there is anything inside to identify the item (you know like P2G used to say print 2 labels and put one inside in case) they just send them to auction after a period of being 'on the naughty step' and the depots will have a KPI to clear the 'naughty step' and get back to clear decks and no outstanding deliveries. The Auctioneers might tip off interested parties, they all probably have someone who deals in musical instruments on their quick dial/email list. A friend of friend (who buys stuff at auction and churns it, specialising in furniture and quality homeware) picked up a fake '72 strat for £60 at the auction recently, we knew it was a fake, but it's a really nice bitsa made from quality parts, would have been £4-500 worth of parts, a little set up and some strap buttons and my friend has a fine playing guitar he's happy to take busking which even if lost will probably have earned him more after a month than it cost .
  4. Selling my Caveman Audio BP1 Compact from my current pedal board. In absolutely mint condition with all original packaging. I also have a brand new unused 12v dc adapter to run the pedal from if you don't have a board power supply. An incredible preamp with an oh so sweet secret sauce for your tone. You can see from the photo I have the main input from my bass go in to the Caveman which then sends my signal around all my pedals in an FX loop with the signal re entering the pedal and then going out through the XLR. The tuner is also given it's own tuner out output keeping it isolated from your chain if needed. Official blurb here; BP1 Compact crams the essence of our beloved BP1 Bass Preamp into a compact stompbox format and you get the core tone and extremely low noise level at almost half the size – and price! BP1 Compact and the original BP1 Bass Preamp sound very similar, yet each has a sonic flavour of its own. Which one you prefer comes down to taste and preference. We like to think if them as to distinct flavours of sonic greatness – and there is definitely a place for both. BP1 Compact adds that critical definition in the low-mid part of the sound, making your bass sit in the mix with ultimate definition and tons of dynamics. With the transformer-balanced, studio-quality DI, you will no longer have to use low-quality DI’s at venues that make your bass sound dull, two-dimensional and uninspiring. The FOH engineer will love your bass signal, and the crowd may not know why, but they’ll love the huge – yet firm and defined – low end that is the foundation the overall experience builds upon. But perhaps most important of all, you will have the bass tone of your dreams on the stage, ensuring that you can focus entirely on those solid grooves, tasty bass lines and simply making everyone else sound their best. This is a no-brainer pedal with Gain and Level controls. Simply plug your bass into BP1, trim the Gain and Level to fit your taste, and experience the mind-blowing tone this unit has to offer. In fact, we bet that once you have set it, you will just leave it on at all times, as it will simply enhance your core tone at the most fundamental level. We also added Tuner Out and a patch-point (send/return) in case you use additional stompboxes or other external equipment. The patch-point is placed after the input buffer – but before the preamp section. To make your gigging life even easier, we designed BP1 Compact to run on 12VDC – perfect for your pedalboard. - More photos to follow. £395 posted in original packaging and the brand new 12v dc adapter. Many thanks,
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  5. Set of white nylon tapewound strings, the copper version (750C: 50-65-85-105 gauge). Quite a compliant string with strong low mids. The white nylons have a roundwound core and are brighter than traditional tapewounds, but they can thump with the best as you turn the tone down. These were installed in a Precision, 4-in-line tuners. They're used, but they've seen around 4 hours of use, tops, so they should have plenty of life in them.
  6. bury me in smoke - down
  7. I contacted Ernie Ball recently about buying a bass from them. They were very helpful, gave me a door to door price in UK £ including all shipping, taxes and fees, making it all very easy. The only problem was/is that the price they gave was approximately £250 more than if I sent the money via a currency service and paid the duty myself, as I have done many times before over the years.
  8. I bought this a while ago but then I changed my mind and it was too late to return it See all details about the preamp here: https://www.darkglass.com/en-gb/pages/tone-capsule-manual and here: https://www.darkglass.com/en-gb/products/tone-capsule Basically, it's a 3-band with lows at 70Hz, low mids at 500Hz and high mids at 2.8KHz with very easy wiring assembly.
  9. I was reading this and thinking along similar lines. I've owned (counts fingers) 10 different basses over the years, and I don't recall ever noticing a dead spot on any of them. I just played some scales and yeah, still nothing. Whenever dead spots come up I'm left wondering if they're just too subtle for my cloth ears to notice, or if I've somehow never encountered one. From the discussions I always see, the latter seems unlikely but then again, you do just get lucky sometimes and then get a shock when your luck runs out. I always assumed people who complained about cramp were just being a bit melodramatic until I experienced it for the first time while doing some awkwardly-positioned DIY when I was in my late 20s.
  10. Don't worry, he has a crime number
  11. But I still think that's the mistake. I would venture that all lost/missing items that can't be identified or returned to sender go to the auction house, and this one ended up in that pile in error. I personally don't think it's helpful to Mark or anyone to keep making public accusations that the auction house is somehow in on industrial scale theft scheme with Parcelforce. It could be true, but let the police find that out if so.
  12. This stereo pedal has three distortion types, can save up to 3 presets as it is without any additional gear. It can, of course, be used with the Neuro hub etc and MIDI for maximum control and maaaany more presets, but I never really explored that, the pedal does all I wanted as it stands. The Neuro app, however, is very handy, as it gives you access to many parameters. The way I used it was to create the basic overdrive/fuzz sounds using the app, and then just rely on the unit's physical controls to adjust drive, blend etc to taste. It's essentially 3 dirt pedals in one, and you can modify each until you are bored . It can run two of the distortion engines simultaneously, and blend them, stack them, or output them in stereo. It can do too many things to mention, so if you're not familiar with the Aftershock it's probably best to have a look at this: https://www.sourceaudio.net/aftershock-bass-distortion.html and this (the demo focus a bit too much on the higher gain sounds, but it's excellend at low gain sounds too): It has heavy duty 3MM velcro on the bottom, which of course can be removed. The original rubber feet were never installed and are included, as well as the cable to connect it to your phone to use the Neuro app, which gives you access to a huge array of parameters.
  13. You do have to think of this as a complete system problem, so the string will change things, as do the machine heads. One other thing that I have heard and I think it improved things, was to loosen the neck boys while tuned to pitch. This force the me as far into the neck pocket as it can go. Tighten the screws while still under tension. The other issue is shims, I have no evidence but the charge in contact area suggests a change in resonance. The other thing Fender found was that 2x2 headstocks work better than 4 in a line re dead spots. My Sire M2 has no obvious dead spot. The neck bolts are also staggered, is that crucial? Any luthiers want to comment? @Jabba The Hutt @manton @AndyJR81
  14. The most suspicious thing is the short timeframe between the bass going AWOL and it being put up for auction. I wonder if the auction house works with Porcel Farce directly of if there's a 3rd party buying unclaimed/lost goods?
  15. Holy crap. I had a carbon mountain bike frame shipped over from Colorado for only a few pounds more than that.
  16. Today
  17. And now back in ‘the system’ to protect the guilty under the ‘innocent error’ defence.
  18. I’ve got one of these. Extremely well made and durable. A bargain at this price. GLWTS.
  19. Where i can see the dimensions of 5 string jb neck which is not headless? Is it there more space? Thank you!
  20. Bit late to the party but, the EMG X series offer all of the benefits of any EMG active, but offer the "less hifi"you request vs the non-X series. That said, just using the passive tone control on a set of EMG non-X actives can do the same. Though the X seires do 'feel' a little different due to their additional headroom.
  21. Hi Oscar
  22. That truly is a miraculous find.😲 if you ever want to move that on, Clarky, do please let me know.
  23. I understand your curiosity ! but I'd rather not do it myself since the ramp seems to be securely attached to the body. I mean I don't think there's any problem removing it but perhaps during a routine visit to a luthier ? Thanks for your comment!
  24. Then there's the whole question of "H", "HH", "HS" p/u configuration..
  25. There is absolutely no way that a bass guitar gets accidentally delivered to an auction house and then that auction house proceeds to list it for sale. "Oooh, look! Something got accidentally delivered. Let's list it." The whole thing stinks. I'll speculate that someone at the auction house is a fence and uses the business to move on their stolen goods that come in from a network of theives that include contacts in courier companies. The reluctance to cooperate might point towards this incident being just the tip of a large iceberg. If it's gone back into the Parcelforce system it will have a new tracking number, shouldn't it?
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