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Hey gang I'm doing a couple of sold-out shows at Newcastle City Hall this weekend in the house band for the Auf Wiedersehen Pet 40th anniversary celebrations. 21 tunes, most of which I've never played before, all of which are bangers. We've been in rehearsals all week, with everything laid out as close as it will be in the night (albeit in a different venue). We're getting monitor mixes and FOH mix as close as it can be, so there shouldn't be a whole lot of work to do when we have production rehearsals in the hall tomorrow. Usually with gigs like this keys and arrangements can be rather fluid, right up to the show itself, and this one is no exception. It keeps me on my toes, especially as a non-reader. A few scribbled notes, a decent memory and a following wind will see me through. Gear-wise, I'm using what I use down the Dog and Duck... Handbox R-400 head, TKS S212 cab, and '71P with flats, and a Maruszczyk Jake with rounds (haven't decided which will get the nod yet), and an LR Baggs Venue DI (used only for silent tuning). FOH is getting the cab mic'd with a Beyer M88 and a DI from the R-400. I'm told a 50/50 mix is being used. The band are a bunch of great lads, and it's been a pleasure so far. Tomorrow, we're moving into the City Hall. I'll post updates when I can. This is Jamie. Jamie's a mixing GOD. Monitors...12 points
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The bare necessities 😁11 points
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Offered tentatively for sale is my Dingwall ABII in Olive Green, chambered body, Ovangkol neck, FDV pickups with coil tap switches, and a Glockenklang 3-band preamp, in immaculate condition. Light (3.9kg), well balanced and beautifully resonant, with a huge array of tones from the pickup selector and coil taps. It was originally owned by George Baldwin, and this very bass can be seen and heard being played by him on Dingwall's YouTube channel. I bought it last year, but as I now also have a Lee Sklar signature, I can't really justify keeping both, so unfortunately this one has to go. Dingwall Music Area Deluxe gigbag included, also in pristine condition. Collection preferred from near Woking in Surrey, or can be shipped at the buyer's risk and cost. Sorry, no trades please. NOW SOLD.8 points -
For sale this beautiful Modulus 1989 like new! It's hard to see many of them from 89 and in this good condition! The weight is only 3.6kg Scale 34 24 Frets Neck Graphite Fretboard I think Ebony Pickups EMG This bass was bought on 1989 I’m tu second owner 👊🏽 Comes with Sandberg bag price : 1950€ to 1800€ Located in Spain.6 points -
For sale is my Lakland DJ5 in pearl white with matching headstock, fitted with Nordstrand pickups and a John East DJ Retro preamp. The Bartolini pickups it came to me fitted with are also included in the sale. Light (4.1kg), well balanced, so easy to play, and the legendary Lakland B string. Excellent condition, completely unmarked apart from the tiniest dink in the edge of the paint on the headstock shown in the photographs, no visible fret wear. I just find I play my other Laklands more, so I've decided to move it on. Tort and pearl scratchplates and gigbag included. Collection from near Woking in Surrey preferred, but can be shipped at the buyer's risk and cost. Sorry, no trades please. NOW SOLD.5 points -
one mad fuzz off for another5 points
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I bought this bass in 1990 from (I think) Boogoe Music in Denmark Street. It was advertised as late 60s (it's 73) and was £450. I swapped my Aria SBR150, a Shure radio mic and a 100 quid. Gigged it really hard for 20 years and it hangs on my wall as I'm mostly short scale these days, although I gave it an outing last year. It's a keeper and the best P bass I've ever played5 points
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Well that’s a big bag of cocks.5 points
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Here is my Mexican Fender Precision that I have upgraded from stock (info below). I purchased this second hand locally to me but it has been barely used. It is a standard 2022 Mexican Player Precision as its base and the serial is available on the official lookup. Firstly the bass has been given a professional set up and once over by one of the best in Staffordshire. The neck / truss rod fully adjusted and it now has a nice mid-low action that is great for fingers and pick. At the same time the pickups were upgraded to Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders. These give it that significant thump that you know and love. Additionally, the stock wiring loom was swapped out for a Bloodstone Guitarworks bass loom which has significantly improved the tone. I have also added a vintage style tortoiseshell pickguard to complement the lovely polar white finish. Finally I added a brand new set of Fender 105 nickelwound strings. As you can see from the pictures, the maple fretboard has a lovely flame to it and it is a standard C shape neck with 41.3mm nut. All hardware is in great condition as the photos show. There is a slight ding on the lower part of the body that you can see in the pictures, this was in place when I purchased it and a very quick, but tidy, patch job has been done in white. It genuinely looks a lot worse in the pictures than in real life. There's also two very very light scratches on the rear in the buckle rash region, only a centimetre or so in length and barely noticeable unless you catch the light perfectly. Weight on the bathroom scales is 8lb 6oz. No case supplied with this one. This is the perfect rock / punk bass in waiting. I'm happy to supply more pics if needed or answer any questions. Can also DM you a recording of it being played. I'm based just a few minutes from Junction 10 of the M6 (Walsall / Wolverhampton) and collection is preferred but I'm willing to travel a reasonable distance and maybe meet halfway. Happy for you to test it out on my practice amp at my place too. Not really looking to mail this as no case but DM me if you think you have a plan. Cheers.4 points -
Just picked up this cab today, a rather tasty Epifani UL610 1500w beast. Currently paired with my Epifani UL901 head to make quite a monster of a rig. Not disastrously heavy for a 610, about the standard weight of a 410, so a tolerable one-person move. Set it up in the studio today for our first band practice in 6 weeks, it didn't disappoint! Snagged it for a mere £250 from eBay. 👍4 points
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Hi All Bit of a delay in posting. The front and back are now glued on and i've cut the binding channels. I forgot to take photos but I use a router and take many passes.... Next, a very simple end graft made out of two bits of binding stuck together. It's not glued yet, first is binding. There was then a slight delay as while I was cutting up some veneers for the binding I managed to slice my finger open. Turns out surgical scalpels are actually quite good at cutting humans..who'd have thought! A quick trip to A&E and a few sutures later, I'm fine. As usual, mistakes like that happen because I was hurrying. Sharp things and haste do not go together well. Being a numpty doesn't help of course. Anyway, the bindng channels I cut with a router, the side binding though is done by hand. First a gremel, then a chisel to clear out the channel. The binding gets bent on the iron the same as the sides. The binding layout I'm doing has got black/white inner lines that will be mitred to the lines of the back stripe. The most difficult part is here where they meet at the bottom: In the picture above it isn't glued. I'm trying to get those white and black inner lines to line up nicely so it looks like one continuous line. The black one is fine, but you can see that the white one still needs a bit more work. I glue everything together (bindng plus white and black veneers) all at the same time which is not the normal way of doing it. And next time I may well try doing the purfling lines first. The back is bound, so we'll see tomorrow how successful the mitres were. Edit - In case you're wondering, the two white strips on the left hand side are teflon. I slide them into the joint so that when I glue the binding on the right hand side it doesn't gum up the left hand channel. Dried titebond is difficult to get out of small gaps like that. Speaking of titebond I've gone back to using it for binding. For a while I used superglue, which seems easier because you can get everything completely ready and taped into place before wicking in water thin glue. What it doesn't do is soften the binding, so it's a quite unforgiving process. Because titebond is water based it seems to soften the binding allowing it to bend into the corners better. So for now I'm sticking (ooh nice pun) with Titebond (original). Though next time I may try fish glue which apparently has a longer open time. Binding can be pretty fiddly so being able to take it more slowly would be good....4 points
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Hi Folks, I’m having a bit of a clear out and so this is the first of 3 I’m putting up for sale. This is certainly a well played and loved instrument, as you can see from the photos. I’ve had it about 12 months and plays and sounds superb. From what I know, these are pretty uncommon these days and I think I’ve listed it with the price to reflect the condition. Selectable pick up switch and a great EQ and it really packs a punch. Comes with original fitted case that someone has sprayed on the back with the word ‘Lice’, which is nice. Based in Leeds and any trial welcome. I can post this at the buyers expense. No trades I’m afraid. AB4 points -
This, it's a ESP 400 series Jazz bass from 1986 which I have owned for 37 years. My dad bought it brand new for me in 1987 and it has done thousands of gigs. It was made in the same factory as the Japanese Fender's so all the Fender parts are interchangeable. It was originally fretted but it had Barts fitted in about 1988 and then Jon Shuker made a fretless neck for it around 2012. It is the best bass I have ever owned and my main player and sounds amazing. It is however super beaten up these days but still plays like a dream.4 points
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Had this one since '76. Still one of my all-time favourites. My son, Bassimus Minimus, covets this greatly, but he has no chance unless fratricide is involved. My first bass was the one before this one arrived. It was a cheap 'catalogue' bass, badged 'Avon' and was a copy of a Gibson EB0. Stupidly sold it for almost nothing to a guy in Canada4 points
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I own one and am very happy with the sounds. Boss has been using MDP as the ‘brand’ for its more advanced digital effects for a while and the MDP based adv-drive and M-comp are excellent. There are plenty of other options onboard too, of course. The AIRD preamps are also boss’s most up to date ones. I think you’d need to have golden ears to hear inadequacies, I can’t hear any. They will be slightly different to other flavours of amp modelling of course. no latency at all that I can hear, or feel. That is something of an obsession of mine so I am pleased to report that the unit feels very alive and interactive. The ‘env filter’ is a mutron clone and sounds great to me, as does the octave, which has the same 3 controls as an OC2. In summary, I like boss bass stuff. I loved my old Roland DBass amp and my old Bass cube. I love the LMB3. I love the newer MDP compressor pedal they have. So I was always going to be happy with the sounds of this thing. I’m of the view that line 6, and other units including those from boss, all have great sounds in them. I’ve learned the hard way that the interface really matters in terms of how you use it, enjoy it and get the sounds out of them. That’s why this is my forever pedal 🤣4 points
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The love of money is the root of all evil. Money isn't inherently evil, but what people choose to do with it certainly can be.4 points
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I have mine from 1985. I pulled the frets and filled them with polyfilla. I'll get a photo if I have time to get it out of the loft. In about 2004 I found out you can adjust truss rods and I tuned it from an unplayable monster onto something approaching a bass with low enough action to be half playable. The pickups pick up every airborne RF signal known to man.4 points
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My eldest is heavily into Oasis, Nirvana, Beatles, Blur, Artic Monkeys, The Pretty Reckless. She was somewhat miffed that I had even heard of Nirvana, much less that a friend of mine played with them in 91 in Reading (?). He got them to sign his bass and then sold it a few years ago for quite a lot of money, sensible man. The youngest is more pop orientated. So I have no idea what she listens to as it sounds the same to me. I am my father. Anyway, progress on the headless bass is good. After spending far too long with the Fusion 360 Vontori generator and giving up, I used an online SVG version which is far quicker and easier than the one for Fusion 360. See https://voronoi-editor.web.app Redesigned the bridge holder to have a cut away for access to the Nova bridge, redesigned the Jazz style body outline for the same. Printed off the bridge adapter and am now printing the two central parts of the guitar. Those are the bits in dirty white below. They'll be finished around 21:30 and then will print off one half of the drill guide for the aluminium backbone and the guitar neck holder. The drill guide makes sure I don'lt cock things up. I've reduced the width of the backbone from 80mm to 60mm to try and get the total weight down to under 4Kg. The backbone is in the wood colour below, though it's aluminium. Still need to think about the control panel and splitting down the frame outline, this is the body that sits on the central monocoque. You can see the mounting holes, there's probably too many but rather too many, than too few. I do not know Finate State Analysis to work out stress and load. I did pure maths and never sullied myself with real numbers or even real world maths. The limits now are the size of the print bed, so I've effectively 200mmx200mm chunks to print out. It looks like there are six chunks to be printed, they have to overlap as I need to join them. Each chunk is probably 12-18 hours If anybody can get this down to five chunks with an overlap, I'll send you a decent bottle of white as that saves a lot of time. The main advantage here is that most of the chunk are simple printing with no embedded nuts so I can start printing and forget. I'll probably draw up a timetable to try and get this done for next Friday4 points
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Bought this back in December 2021, but have not used it. I know, it's crazy. And stupid. But finally, with the help of my wife, decided that I have to let it go. The bass is mint, and comes with 1 extra set of strings and a not mounted 6-way pickup selector (https://www.wholesalemusicsupply.com/custom-6-way-rotary-selector-switch). The bass also has a Hipshot xtender mounted on the B-string. It comes with the original gigbag. Please ask me question if anything is unclear. You can read more about the Z series here: https://dingwallguitars.com/bass/z/3 points -
Billygoat be a Hero - Paper Lace3 points
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I know what you mean @eude. The 'fatigue' is not about being anti-digital; I welcome having the benefits of digital 'under the hood' but the benefits of analogue on the surface. Yes, that does come with compromise and constraints but I am happy to make that trade-off and I think Boss has made a really good set of choices with this one. It is a bit of a 'less is more' unit, and I'm onboard with that, but there really are so many great sounds in there that are easy to find and play with that it doesn't feel like much of a compromise for those of us who want to use it.3 points
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That's the problem right there though, I don't want to have to program anything, I just want to dial in stuff quickly and easily that works out of the box with bass in mind. I know I could get a whole lot more, and likely better stuff from a Helix, but I don't have the time or patience for it at the moment, and although I love all my separate pedals, when sometimes I only have 15 mins to noodle, I don't want to spend 5 minutes of that setting up. On the note of amp sims, I'm not all that keen on cab sims, but I like amp sims just to get a different flavour, it's a quick and easy way to do it. I understand that a lot of folks will think this new Boss unit is 10 years out of date, but from what I have read on here, and elsewhere, there's still an appetite for this kind of thing. The recent resurgence of DOD pedals has come with a lot of calls for them to reissue some of their older style multi effects pedals too, but not to ape anything like the Line 6 offerings, I think like in a lot of other walks in life, some of us are getting a bit of digital fatigue...3 points
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Despite everything, the humble Bassballs remains one of my favourite pedals to play. And I say that purposely; you really have to 'play' the pedal because it reacts so much to changes in dynamics. This is an example I just recorded showing it at about 50% sensitivity where you can get a nice synthy sound from it, and during the chorus I run it into an octave (it sounds better with the octave first but I was being lazy) This version in particular I really like because it has a far more open sound than my others, and partly because it's really rare to have a green one with the big footswitch. Anyway I hope you enjoy my filthy sounds3 points
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Hm about 22 I think3 points
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Alexei Sayle already nailed that one. "There are two kinds of jazz, and they're both crap!"3 points
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The oldest would be a Takamine N-10 acoustic guitar that I would guess I bought mid 80s with one of my first paychecks. Actually here's a pic, I keep it at work these days for an occasional lunchtime strum. The joys of having one's own office!3 points
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No. But it does involve a carpet steamer and about half a litre of titebond3 points
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https://americana-uk.com/interview-ralph-brookfield-on-the-trail-of-americana-music I played bass for Ralph for years - in fact he was the guy who persuaded me to learn to play DB precisely so that I could accompany him. Some time after I left his band (King Ralph) he brought out this book. It's not a coffee table jobby or a piece of "rock journalism", it's a pretty serious attempt to work out WTF this music really is. After a couple of hundred pages I was no wiser, and I rather suspect that's also true of Ralph. 😉 Final analysis = Americana means precisely whatever you want it to.3 points
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Just photos. And memories.3 points
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I still have the instrument I learned to play piano on... My grandparents bought it in the early 1930s, and I discovered recently when having it tuned by Someone Who Knows, that it was made in the 1880s. It's a Pfeiffer overstrung, and it has amazing bass - probably what turned me on to play bass in the first place! Talking of which, I still have the first bass I bought - twas a Kawai Sleekline purchased in 1987 2nd hand for £90.3 points
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It’s usually an easy fix by just slackening the screws off and moving it over slightly, the neck was probably removed for authentication of the neck stamp3 points
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My First fender. I hated every minute of working in bejams over the summer in 1982 after leaving school, but I was doing it to buy this new from Rockbottom in Croydon for £260. It was actually made up of two separate basses in the international colours series — I asked if they could get one in with the body like the cherry sunburst precision (that had a rosewood fretless neck) and a fretted maple neck like the one on a yellow precision. After confirming that this was a serious enquiry, they took the two basses into their workshop for ten minutes and came back with the necks swapped. I was eighteen at the time and had never played a real fender before so I had no idea that a precision bass really shouldn't weigh as much as a small elephant. It currently has an EMG Geezer pickup & electronics, and a Fender High Mass Bridge. It sounds fantastic, but can't compete with my JMJs for comfort.3 points
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For clarification, the Streamliner also operated the tubes at 300V.3 points
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Every time I see the TU-3s, I can't help thinking it's a TU-3 that's been in a terrible accident...3 points
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Parking any comment about the odd arrangement the band have remuneration/expenses wise, I would share your discomfort. There is money available, none of which will be going to the dep who is doing everyone a favour.3 points
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This fantastic bitsa bass was purchased off a fellow Basschatter a number of months ago but I have further enhanced it as you will see below. For complete transparency, the original advert is linked below. Gunnar did a great job in the build but when I received it I decided to take a it a few notches up. Firstly the basic specs: 2023 Fender Precision American Original Neck, purchased from Thomann. Note these necks are manufactured true to the AO specs - this means in this instance the logos / decals are applied ON TOP of the lacquer finish on the neck. Also the truss rod is located at the heel of the neck. Custom Solderless P Bass harness, Alpha A250k solid shaft pots. Fender Pure Vintage '63 Precision Bass Pickups - these sound lovely btw, that true classic 60s Fender sound 2 Piece alder American alder body with custom nitro sunburst finish - note that due to the nitro finish the body has a few dings and wear on the body but these fit in very nicely with the overall aged look of the bass. There are no major dings / bumps / scrapes. Aged vintage tuners. Ash tray and pick up cover Since I took it the following has also been done: A full setup by one of Staffordshire's best. A brand new semi permanent shim has been added to the neck pocket to balance the neck out. The action was quite high, the old shim was removed and this new shim has brought it signincantly in line to a very playable low / medium action. A full truss rod adjustment with the new shim in place Internal cavities have been fully copper shielded with tape - this has virtually removed any buzz that was present (even with treble maxed out) Neck cavity screws have been replaced with official Fender screws Minor hardware adjustments including reseating the tuners and replacing pickguard screws with official Fender vintage Strings were replaced with Rotosound 105 nickels It's now in a position where it is a very playable bass. As you can see from the specs, the cost of the sum of the parts far outweighs the asking price and it now plays very much like a complete Fender. Wesight on the bathroom scales is 9 lbs. I will also supply the original pickup box which has the original brass base, this didn't fit this particular body so a different one was added, but I'll include the original. This also comes with a Gator hardcase as you can see in the pictures. I'm based just a few minutes from Junction 10 of the M6 (Walsall / Wolverhampton) and collection is preferred but I'm willing to travel a reasonable distance and maybe meet halfway. Happy for you to test it out on my practice amp at my place too. Potentially could mail this due to the hard case and I have a suitable box, but at a cost to you - lets have a chat about it via DM. Cheers.2 points -
Excellent condition. Fantastically versatile preamp handmade in the UK. Boxed with candy. price includes postage.2 points -
Absolutely stunning!! I've been a fan of George's (and now yours!) ABII for a long while. I'd snap it up in an instance if my kidneys were worth selling!2 points
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Bought last summer, Was fitted to my GMR briefly, but I took it out when the shaft came out the passive tone pot. (The GMR now has a custom Bartolini/Dex audio hybrid). John East kindly sent me a new tone pot module, which is now fitted so it’s all as new - but in all honesty I’m fine with what’s in the bass now and cannot be bothered with the pallava of a swap, which leaves this as spare. It’s boxed with manual ready to go. The only ‘issue’ is the short amount of cable on the jack socket to go to earth. This just needs extending. £150 plus a tenner for postage. Uk only.2 points -
SOLD This is an amazing neo cab, my main goto cab since buying it from this very parish, but I just bought two bergantino cabs, and I can't justify keeping this one. 600W 4 Ohms Roughly 22kg Size - 540x390x635mm Nice punchy tight sound. Dust comes free! Trade wise, I am interested in a clean boost pedal such as a rodenberg 707b or darkglass harmonic booster, or a line 6 helix stomp / stomp xl (assuming I have cash to add at the time...), but hey, try me. Located in Bedford, MK42 9UR. May be able to meet up somewhere or deliver for fuel money..but let's have that discussion first. Thanks!2 points -
And also one of its downsides. You are playing something, you want a chorus, ok, you have 10 choruses, with a load of settings for each one. You get a sound you like, maybe one of the other choruses is better? lets try the next one, and fiddle with the settings. No maybe the next one is better. hmm maybe the first one was better at this settings.. oh hang on, I have run out of practicing time.2 points
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I love this bass soooo much, since fitted my VTC pre, scored some Villex pickups and got a tort (ish) guard on it. Plays and sounds great.2 points
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Boulders Love ～ Jimi Hendrix Experience2 points
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That's it! I've heard more than enough! I've ordered one!2 points
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Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles2 points
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If I recommended someone as a dep and then found out that they were to not be paid but the permanent band members were I wouldn’t do the gig.2 points
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Before anyone gets near sorting out who might get what, bear in mind that £100 behind the bar from the landlord won't equate to £100 handed over by the landlord; £100 in drinks will be costing the landlord much, much less...and a rammed pub should translate into proper gig money for the band...round these parts that's £300. Cash.2 points
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This would probably be right up my street if I hadn't recently put together my ultimate pedalboard of six boss compact pedals, which I am really happy with and gives me the all sounds I need for the set. I used to have the big red GT-6b, and although I liked it, there was still a bit of faffing about in using it. Comparing the two, the ME-90B looks to be more aligned with how my brain works. Being able to run it off batteries is a bonus.2 points
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It was a Toltec. I just don't understand how it could have happened. In the end, I got one of these - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296340578499?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=3uuiAC21SGW&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY It seems to be 3d printed, but is exactly the thing. Leaving the link here for reference for others.2 points
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I see you like the sound in "passive" mode. I guess you know it's not really passive, the pickups themselves are active and all pulling that switch up does is turn off the onboard EQ ... should be the same as turning the EQ knobs to neutral as you're still sending a buffered and actively mixed signal to the amp. Or am I wrong? I find the whole sound a bit "thin" unless I crank up the EQ knobs a bit. Ps: looks just like my ovangkol one (2001) so I'm guessing not boire. Might have a wenge neck tho ( don't know if that alters the sound, but it looks nice). Here's mine2 points
