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7... at this moment!5 points
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I am finally there and 100% happy. Barefaced 6x10 is mighty sounding and super light. Aguilar DB751 same but not light. Fender P ‘69 or ‘64 depending on rotation. Incredible sound and people always comment how good it is, so must be doing something right.4 points
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Actually - first gig with a new bass day. I've been prowling the site for ages for a Warwick Fortress. I love the build, sound and general vibe of Warwick but often struggled with the ergonomics. I've already got a Standard Bubinga Corvette and a gorgeous 89 Thumb Neck Through, but I seldom take these out when I'm fronting a band as the short top horn moves the neck to the left and throws me out position wise when I'm singing. Anyroadup, a couple of weeks ago this beauty appeared in the 'Basses for Sale' section for a fair price and I snapped her up. She's a Fortress One, Two piece maple body, three piece Wenge neck (not as slim as my Corvette or Thumb but comfy nonetheless) and Wenge fretboard. MEC PJ pups and two band EQ. Had a bit of a fright when setting her up as the D string wouldn't intonate and buzzed like mad resulting in a huge action - turned out to be a duff string. Also had an intermittent electrical fault which turned out to be the push/pull on the volume pot that was solved with a bit of switch cleaner. Eventually set up with a 2mm action at the 12th fret (a smidge over on the E string) and feeling good. It's a bright sounding bass and i was worried it would sound bass light when gigged. I needn't have worried - played a pub gig last night - GK MB500, Barefaced BB2 and Zoom B1xon and wow. The long top horn makes it ergonomically perfect - sits just right. The tone with Warwick Red Labels was deep, tight and authoritative. Plenty of snap, body and growl as you'd expect from the wenge neck. More than enough depth in the bottom end and a 'Jazz on Steroids' tone from the bridge pickup. Wow am I one happy bunny, I think I've found 'the one'!3 points
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Careful guys - with these attitudes to punters. It's something I used to be very guilty of myself in the arrogance of my younger gigging days - regarding any customers as 'dim punters' if they didn't react favourably to your playing or ignored you. It's better to try and engage with these people - so if you're going to put a PA speaker 12" from their faces when you're setting up then you could at least suggest with a smile on your face that they might like to move tables "as it might get a bit loud and we don't want to deafen you" or something like that. OK, they may not be the sharpest tools in the box but they're still human beings and people usually respond favourably to someone taking even the slightest interest in them and their wellbeing. And then it all helps create a good atmosphere in the place which is beneficial for all. Just a thought, nothing personal.3 points
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Which is exactly what I, as previous owner, wore whenever I played it old boy.3 points -
Sure no probs to snap some pics! The outer polycarbonate shell is about 3-4mm. I had assumed there was a wooden solid centre block, but I was routing in acoustic foam and polycarbonate mainly. This really surprised me Anyway, I decided to go with a straight knob layout to stay in the TB theme. Scratchplate finished, holes drilled so getting closer to completion. Since I made the pic I installed the pots etc. Forgot to buy pickguard screws and shielding so will need to buy that tomorrow. I’ll be fully done next weekend,3 points
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My Laki is a 55-02 Deluxe3 points
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Result! I convinced my mrs to take the kids out for the day so was able to make some progress. Routing done, scratchplate cut and routed but still needs some sanding/finishing/screw holes etc. Notice the control cavity (freehand route), the acoustic foam is clearly visible. Amazing stuff, it is incredibly dence and even behaves like wood when routing. Plastic is still on the scratchplate in case you are wondering why it looks “dirty”3 points
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Thinning down the herd, so selling the basses I don't use. FOR SALE OR (PARTIAL) TRADE BASED ON THE NEW RETAIL PRICE ($8000 USD) : Very nice MTD 635-24 Fretless with new Bartolini/Tobias preamp installed and fretboard fixed because of slight default. The specifications : Body : two pieces poplar Top : bookmatched maple burl Neck : bolt-on one piece wenge Fretboard : ebony Headstock : reversed glued with maple burl veneer Tuners : Hipshot USA Frets : none, fretless, 24 positions with only side dots Trussrod : 1 fully working Bridge : brass Hipshot B Style Pickups : 2 Bartolini/Tobias humbuckers Preamp : (new) Bartolini/Tobias 3 bands EQ (+/- 9 Volts, so 2 batteries) with volume, blend, treble, mids, bass and 3 positions swith for the mids frequency Strings spacing at bridge : 18 mm Strings spacing at maple nut : 9,5 mm Action at 12th fret : from 1,5 mm under the C to 2 mm under the B Scale : 35 inches Finish : hand finished with an epoxy base coat and catalyzed urethane topcoat (satin seethrough Andrew GOUCHÉ red) Weight : 4,4 kilos Case : original unbranded MTD Serial # : 878(120202) Year : 2002 (early bird) Strings : D'Addario Nickel EXL 170-6 (32-130) Todays price for a similar bass with all the options : $8000 USD or around £6300 GBP ! The bass has been fully revised, fixed and set up last year by Christophe LEDUC who did a differential fretboard dressing after fixing the slight uptlifting end of this very fretboard on the treble side. This was done with the guiding help of Mike TOBIAS himself as they are friends. The bass is now perfect and also received a new preamp exchanged by Mike TOBIAS as the original was defective. Note that this bass seems to have been orderd by Andrew GOUCHÉ himself as there is GA written (see pictures) on the back of the battery plate, neck and in the neck pocket, but unfortunately Mike TOBIAS has no record for that fact, but maybe Andrew GOUCHÉ could confirm this... Non smoking environment, as usual. Asking price is £3150 GBP due to the rarity and now fixed problem, but very good condition of this bass. MTD price list link : http://www.mtdbass.com/price-list/ Having questions about the real colour, it's somewhere between my pictures and these : http://www.bassclubparis.com/index.php/mtd/535-signature-andrew-gouche-detail https://www.basscentre.com.au/products/used-mtd-andrew-gouche-6-string-with-hard-case The pictures to see the real condition (under different lights to try to capture the real colour), which shows only some little wear with a very few dings and scratches plus the satin finish going away over the MTD logo, so all in all absolutely nothing serious :2 points -
Snowflake alert! He gets a hard time because his conversions are bodged and pointless. Guitarists must be wringing their hands over this one - 'shall I buy a six string guitar or a 7-string conversion to um... a six string guitar?'2 points
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Its the Bison they use inside2 points
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Ha - I think some Warwick fanbois pricing ideas are similar to HP Wilfers!2 points
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I got a little done today, just prep work. Ripped up the neck laminates and took a bit of wood off the wing blanks with the planer/thicknesser. There are a couple of patches on the wing wood that are a bit plain looking so they will go into mine as that will be veneered so it will never be seen. I've stacked them on sticks to breath and settle for a few days until the constructional veneers arrive (which I'll order tomorrow) I did re stack the wing blanks better than that, I just laid them out like that to show you2 points
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Nice looking bass...feel sorry for those who missed it.2 points
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Public transport? hahah - you in london or something?2 points
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I've been quite busy in the last month or so. Started a new job, been on holiday for a couple of weeks and been having to keep the two small inhabitants of the house occupied during the school holidays. I have got a few tasks completed on these two builds though. Firstly I decided to make the bridges. As usual, I stated off by making some templates. The template I made for the original semi-hollow build was okay for the bridge outline but the piezo will be a different size so a new template for the slot needed to be made. Small pieces like these bridges can be a bit trickier with a router and need to be well clamped to prevent them being ripped to bits and thrown across the room when the router is angry.... Firstly, the ebony for the bridges was cut roughly to size and the mounting holes drilled. These holes will also be used to hold these still whilst they are being routed. The bridge blank was then clamped under the template and a surround made to support the router whilst cutting to size and rounding the edges. The edges were then trimmed to make the blank the size of the template. I then cut a slot the size of the piezo into some more mdf to use as the slot template. The bridge was then mounted behind the slot template and the slot was cut. The blank was then put back on the original template and the edges were rounded. A bit of filing to slope the long edge a bit and some sanding and that's the bridges made.2 points
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These should be available on prescription from the National Elf Service 😎🎸2 points
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You are not being unreasonable from my POV - its up to the seller to get the thing to you or return your money.2 points
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Does it matter if it’s legal or not if you can’t get PayPal to refund you? And in answer to the specific question, yes, I have heard of fake money etc, but I have never heard of anyone being scammed by it in real life, wheras I have not only heard of but know people who have been scammed by local paypal pickup. Anyone can do that, the fake money is harder to do. If you are not worried about it happening, you carry on doing it, but I wouldn't do it. Cash on collection or no deal for me.2 points
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With the main structural braces secure, I now am adding the side braces. Although these also help to maintain the spheroidal shape, their main function is to transfer the vibrations to the various parts of the top. These are the ones that will be tweaked during the tap tuning process. First thing after the glue is set, however, will be to slim down the cross sectional profile of the braces into the familiar arch shape.2 points
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Thats what’s paid by pubs because there are bands who will go out for it. Simple as that. If everyone sung from the same hymn sheet, the pay would go up. Si2 points
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I would be lying if I said I fully understood what exactly does what. But when I was considering building my first acoustic I did a huge amount of reading and internet trawlingof what the high end makers do. And then I went to a large guitar store and looked into the soundholes of a large number of steel string makes which bore out many of the things I'd read - that the great, great, great majority of steel strings are built to essentially the same formula I followed every single one of the common features to the letter. I was so pleased to have ended up with an instrument that actually held the tension of the strings that I'd have been chuffed if it had sounded like rubber bands over a baked bean can But it sounded brilliant! Like - better than my mate's Martin D18 brilliant!!!! So how many builders and manufacturers actually understand why these features work - and understand enough to know what to tweak and where to make them even better - is probably relatively few. I certainly don't. But they - and I, now - do know they do work. So, while most of my solid builds often go away from convention - and sometimes in a big way - for acoustics, I follow the formula slavishly. And the elements in that formula?: - Almost all steel strings use a dished top. There are only a couple of makers I know of who make a flat top - The great majority of them use this identical bracing pattern - even down to a tiny sliver you will see me put on top of the x brace joint - Even the position and height of the nodes on the braces are likely to be within a few mm of the same positions - The back and sides makes very little difference to the tone. It pretty much matters not what they are made from as long as they are structurally rigid enough. In many people's view, laminated sides and back makes no tonal or volume difference. - The wood type, grain, stiffness and thickness of the top wood makes a very significant difference to tone - As does the thickness and shape of the braces...which is where the black magic of tap tuning comes in (of which more anon)2 points
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But have you never heard of fake ID? Legal invoice? Countersigned by whom? I know a guy in the local classic car club who lost just shy of £8k to this very scam it DOES happen. Whilst it may not be common why risk being the victim of any scam? It’s not being paranoid it’s being sensible. Any fraud expert or police officer will tell you that the best scams are those that are an inch off being genuine, so much so that people end up falling for them and losing out. If it’s a £5 item then you haven’t lost much (apart from the fact that as Fleabag has correctly pointed out nice old PayPal turn it into a £20 hit) but any item worth a decent amount, no way. And yes you can get fake cash but there are ways to protect against that as well. It’s just about being careful and minimising the risks. And yes you could take PayPal to court if their terms are illegal, but you would have to have far deeper pockets than mine (and I suspect 99% of the population), that doesn’t make it right but it’s the way it is.2 points
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My old 89 was full of Barts.2 points
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And if it goes wrong you could always turn it in to a seat 😁2 points
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We used to play White Rabbit when Jenny Haan was singing with us - one gig we had to play it 3 or 4 times before they'd let us go home!2 points
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LOL Looked at this a few times and I think it has been pretty much nailed! 'Personally' I feel the pre 91 basses were generally made from/of better quality woods and materials (other than the chocolate output jacks... buy a Switchcraft and be done with it). Why W can't role the fingerboard edges on new basses is beyond me mind, that would make such a difference. Electrics are pretty much standard now, though I did prefer it when you could have EMG, MEC, Bart, SD even Alembic. Neck profiles are so personal that it's a case of meat/poison; I have to admit to having some pretty skinny neck Wicks but also possess a very full (maple) necked 07 NT Corvette and I love the feel. I agree the whole catalogue is pretty messed up and dilution of the brand has occurred. Replaceable truss rods were a good thing BUT you shouldn't need to do it anyway and tbh the stories grow bigger in the telling, I've had basses with issues (2 out of 40+... is that good/bad ratio) but all are fixable (unlike some manufacturers). Oh and one shouldn't place 'too' much faith in the official emails/info supplied by Warwick... it may not contain 100% accurate info. Finally, never buy a new Warwick; you may as well drive down your street throwing tenners out the window.2 points
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Better picture with the fake cover 🙂2 points
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First off, big respect for your post and aspirations. I work with a wide range of adults with severe to mild learning disabilities and/or autistic. We are lucky to have a team of music therapists - in a nutshell, they have psychology degrees because they are using music to support people who have communication and emotional difficulties in a therapeutic and clinical way (there is so much more to it than that, but like I said, in a nutshell). However, there are many volunteers who come to our organisation to play music either with or to the people we support. I can’t stress enough how VITAL this is to a large amount of people. Again in a nutshell, a staggering number of people in residential care spend large proprotions of their day disengaged and devoid of opportunities. Generally this is due to the social care finanial crisis affecting community outlets and organisation’s support provisions and also because many services can struggle to convert their values into staff behaviour. People that come in to do music engage people, make their day, and often give them something else to look forward to. I’ve also seen this have a great impact on staff, and act as a much needed stress reliever for them too. Less stressed staff equals happier supported people. I could go on and on, especially as this touches on my professional remit, however I’ll end by saying that by going in and playing with or for people you’ll be making a significant contribution to their quality of life outcomes. A good organisation will have a volunteering person/department, will have a meeting with you, get you DBS checked and will make the most of your kind offer. Just reach out and find the right place. Good luck!2 points
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Now £2200 posted2 points -
Careful what you say chaps. He is a member on here. 😎1 point
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25 feet away directly in front of us.1 point
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I just got it off Google images so of course I don't mind as it's not mine anyway I just thought it was quite apt 😀1 point
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People can be weird. I had to stop by the Aldi grocery store to pick up 1 pack of AA batteries for my wireless transmitter. The couple in front of me had a cart full of groceries. It's customery in the States to let the guy with one item check out first. Not these people. I had to wait while they checked out what looked like a months food supply for a family of 6. And I was running late as it was. I really gave them the " stink eye" Blue1 point
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Well I was in that position but not close enough to chance it. Bought a load of northern soul Vinyl though 🤦🏻♂️😂1 point
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That was a new one to me. Very cool 🙂 Just watched Dave's World of Fun Stuff video on it.1 point
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I bought a Warwick Fortress from Matt. Fair price, good Comms, bass as described and well packaged. Deal with confidence!1 point
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i normally use Google translations if required. Think they are ok. I've not had any threats when using them Dave1 point
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I'm just after a refund. I'm not expecting PP to do anything and was just after opinion on if I was being reasonable. It's good to know what my legal recourse might be in other eventualities but unless the seller ponies up it's a bit grim.1 point
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Sold - I'm selling my Darkglass B7K with original box, may well end up regretting it and getting another but I want to try out a few things. It's in great condition on the top and sides, there's a few small scratches on the bottom. £180 inc special delivery, would consider trades for other similar preamps with switchable drive.1 point -
Damn this thread. Now I am trembling with cab gas after seeing Walshy's Retro 6X10. Bugger bugger bugger.1 point
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Do you need to borrow my chainsaw to cut that wood to the right shape ?1 point
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My first Gk head was also the 800RB and a great amp it was too. I completely agree about the differences between the 700 & 1001. I preferred the 700 as you could get the GK growl without having to crank it really high. Conversely if you wanted clean then you would go for the 1001 but the growl was where it was at for me. I've had an MB200 and have been using an MB500 for the past couple of years. I don't think the MB500 is exactly the same as the 700 but it's close enough that I don't feel the need to carry the extra weight of the 700. I've had both ABM and MAG heads and I preferred the MAG. It just sounded clearer to me. I actually prefer the MAG cabs over the ABM as well. I had a pair of MAG 4x10"s when I had my GK 1001RB and you could get a ridiculous amount of volume out of them1 point
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I believe that you should do whatever makes you happy but you did say that you felt sorry for people who play covers. I play covers, many of us play covers, many of us play originals, many of us play both. There's room for both. I never wanted to write or play my own material - it does nothing for me but without other people writing and recording music I would have nothing to play. Many great artists began with and continued to play and record covers of other bands songs. The Chilis have an album that is just covers of songs that they have performed and recorded over the years. Some bands do it just because they like the song, others do it to honour a great band or musician that may no longer be with us When Jimi Hendrix found out that Cream were splitting up he and the band played an instrumental version of Sunshine of You Love1 point
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+1 for that.....I would say, the only Thing you can do is: Stop dealing with that kind of stupid Event Mangers, that allow or organize a 5000 People Venue, without adequate PA and FOH Stuff...1 point
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What sort of festivals are you playing? What did all the other bands on the bill use? What was their sound like? I've done about 5 this year from small to large and we had FOH every time. Short of bringing 15 SVT's there is nothing you can do to make the sound work for these gigs. They are always full FOH for a reason. If some brain-dead promoter is making these decisions there's nothing you can do about it.1 point
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Nordoff Robbins and the Drake Music Project are two organisations to take a look at.1 point
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If it was mine it would be going back. It wasn't checked properly at the factory and is clearly 'B Stock' that should be offered at a discount. While it wouldn't bother me that much, I'm now of the grumpy age that takes the attitude, if we accept defective new stuff, where's the incentive to make the manufacturer up their game quality wise?1 point
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I understand, I actually gave up playing completely at one point when I couldn't balance the family, job and band. Recently I saw two top session/jazz players, one had a Squire P bass and the other had a Sire 5 string. They made those basses sing. So it's not about the gear, it's how good you are and what you can do with an instrument.1 point
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The description says Barefaced Big Twin II to me. Not cheap but if I had to describe one Transparent, featherweight, 4ohm, vertically aligned would be pretty much exactly how I`d do so.1 point
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