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Just checked out Mousechat and someone has posted the following: "Took the kids to church as per normal and after a nice meal by the river we returned home to find that some absolute animal has stolen our house! We moved in three years ago and after extensive renovations had just got it the way we wanted. Really, you wouldn't expect this to happen in Hammersmith..."8 points
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Just had this little beauty pop up on my screen... I likes! Squier Jaguar H in ORANGE!! Oh yes... Christmas list has started,7 points
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The Eurovision result clearly demonstrated the sympathy that many Europeans feel for a fellow nation oppressed by a malicious, dictatorial regime. Ukraine also benefited from the same phenomenon.7 points
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For sale or trade this beautiful Atelier Z M285💥 Body : Ash Neck : Maple Fingerboard : Rosewood with Blocks Preamp : John East Pickups : Atelier Z Bridge : Atelier Z Tuners : Gotoh Price : 1900€6 points -
Not having gigged DB since 2019, my gigbag has been in storage in my garage since then. Imagine my surprise when I pulled it yesterday to discover that it has been half-eaten and ravaged by mice. I feel a new commercial opportunity for mice-relic'd bass gear under the Road(ent)worn banner. Kerboom tish6 points
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I've done a fairly substantial gear purge recently, goodbye to the two 115s and the AudioKinesis TC112AF that served me so well for eleven years. So I now have this DIY 110 job a local friend built: It was built to fit a G-K MB500 head but I was gifted it without a head installed. The little Traynor SB-200H is a great fit for the semi-acoustic weekly jams I play. The tiltback wedge piece serves as a hinged access door to the amp's back panel and there's room for a couple of cables back there as well. And then on the other end there's a new sheriff in town: That's an AudioKinesis TC118AF, which also has a secondary back firing tweeter. Fairly big and absolutely huge sounding, but at 46Lbs it's an easy enough one hand carry over moderate distances, and balances well on the two side handles for longer schleps. I had been coveting one of these cabs for quite a few years and the owner of this one reached out to me when it didn't move locally for him. He happened to be driving within an hour of my place last week and I was able to go pick up without taking him more than a few minutes out of his way. My new tube amp should fit on top quite nicely once I finally get it all bolted together.6 points
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FENDER VINTERA 50S P BASS MN VBL. 06/19 Sounds big, gigged a bunch but has been kept in great condition, only needs new strings if you are are keen for that.. Selling due to having mustang and them covering pretty much the same base.5 points -
Nice one from fodera im going to regret this But i Got to reduce my collection and i Just Got a New fodera ..... Condition is Mint completly New https://fodera.smugmug.com/Newborn-Gallery-Vol-V/Newborn-1870/i-qQzLkKM Specs Alder Body , boxelder top Pao Ferro Board , 5 piecea Neck Dual coils Duncan and Mike Pope 3 Band electronics 34 frets nd 35 scale Priced to sell5 points -
A shrewed investment, for sure5 points
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Shuker Series 2 SHUKER’s Description The Series Two design features a solid body of either Swamp Ash, White Ash, Alder, Black Walnut or Mahogany, other woods are available. Options on a figured facing wood drop top. A huge choice of Flamed, burr and highly figured timbers. The neck is a 5 or 7 piece laminate of maple and wenge or maple and black sycamore veneers, other options are available. The headstock is angled back and a head veneer of matching body wood is finished the same. A large choice of fretboard wood, maple, birdseye maple, rosewoods, ebonies, etc. Through neck versions have a sculptured heel area that flows into the body, bolt on basses have a reduced, carved down heel with recessed neck fixings to allow unrestricted access. A choice of hardware and Pickups from the most respected and highest quality manufacturers, such as Schaller, Gotoh, Hipshot and EMG, Seymour Duncan, Aguilar. Options on custom wound pickups from Aaron Armstrong and Mojo. Active preamps from John East, Aguilar, Seymour Duncan available in 2 and 3 band. Available in all string formats and several scale lengths, nut widths and necks carved to customers requirements. Hardwearing stainless steel fret wire and brass nuts. Necks are finished in either gloss or satin lacquer for super smooth feel, bodies in polyester base coat and polyurethane topcoats, satin or gloss.4 points -
For sell , a great bass from alleva One piece swamp Ash !!!!! From namm 2011 Special Edition this Bass is near Mint only wear is in the pickguard Specs Transparent White color Swamp Ash one piece Body 34 Scale , Maple Fingerboard and Neck Really easy to Play Alleva Pickups and electronics4 points -
Shove Cats The Cure4 points
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Maybe Rat Scabies could be interested in it?4 points
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Now sold! Up for sale is my incredible, very limited and very collectible, unlined fretless Warwick Corvette Standard, Special Edition from 2009 - made in Germany. This bass is number 8 from a very limited run of only 30 basses! It features a beautiful birdseye poplar top over a swamp ash body, maple neck and what I believe is either an ebony or rosewood fretboard. It has passive Bassline pickups paired with an active MEC 2 band pre amp. This is a truly exceptional instrument - not only is the tone incredible and versatile but the bass itself is very ergonomic and exceptionally well balanced - IMO it is one of the best balancing Warwick by far - thanks to the long upper horn. It is very lightweight too at only 3,45kg/7,6lb. Controls are vol(with push/pull for active/passive switching), pickup blend, bass and treble. The bass is in excellent condition as you can see from the photos! There are 3 very small dings which I have highlighted in the photos. There is also one other mark but I dont know if it is a scratch or part of the wood grain- i have highlighted it just in case(see the last 3 photos). There is some wear to the logos on the pickups which I have shown in the photos. All of the electronics work perfectly, as does the truss rod and the hardware. Details from the Warwick Website: Serial number: C 149812 09 Article number: 0244SX9001CZAPBAWW produced: 24.03.2009 Description: CO Corvette Std, 4-string Natural Satin finish Swamp Ash / Birdseye Poplar body Maple neck Chrome hardware Made in Germany Worldwide shipping available - I will only ship using a fully insured and tracked service for everyone’s peace of mind. The bass will ship in a high quality Warwick gigbag packed inside a strong shipping carton. There will be extra packaging inside the gigbag and again inside the shipping carton to make sure this beautiful bass arrives exactly as described. If you have any questions please let me know. Shipping to UK is around GBP100 sadly due to the current fuel prices.3 points -
Well.... Will I regret this? Lets find out. I am simply not getting the use out of any of my amps anymore, every band and artist I work with is clean stage and IEM's. So up is my Berg HD210, you know the one. It's been kept in its cover and has been gigged once post-covid. It has been toured but well transported and looked after and overall condition is 8/10. If it was 14kg rather than 24kg, I'd keep hold of it. I'm based in Liverpool but I'm regularly travelling, so meet ups are possible, as is UK courier. I could be tempted by a Line 6 HX stomp in part exchange. Any questions, drop me a message.3 points -
Boss Octaver OC-5 very difficult to get hold of at the moment3 points -
Got most of the bathroom fitted and some painting done. Had a few issues... the painter sprayed the room and either forgot to seal the plaster or did it poorly, the paint where the walls meets the ceiling has started to peel so they've had to sand it back and redo it. Also the splashwalls for the shower have been provided by B&Q in the incorrect orientation so they'll be funding removal and re-installation of new panels. All that being said, it's moving forward!3 points
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I Wanna Knee Your Dog ～ The Stooges3 points
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Of course, the question should be - “is the OP happy with the solution?” if so, jobs a goodun.3 points
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Millions of UK viewers, that’s why it’s still on. pretty much all of my UK facebook friends were either at ‘eurovision parties’ at theirs/friends houses or were watching it and live-posting their opinions.3 points
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I can think of two good reasons to have you monitor mix for IEMs under your personal control. Your left ear and your right ear. All you need is one incompetent engineer and it is over.3 points
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Unscrew the socket mount to the bass and then pull the entire socket out of the bass. Then on the side there is a retaining screw. Undo that and keep it safe. The black plastic part will now slide out of the metal housing The red plastic release button has a spring under it - lift away the red plastic and remove the spring. Then put the red plastic button back where it was, and re-assemble. Job done!3 points
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I still got good cakeage, but not until the end of the service. Fortunately there was home-made banana cake and muffins left which went very nicely with a mug of tea. The music turned up late (2 songs Friday night, 2 Saturday night), but still enough time to grab a listen to versions on YouTube. Fortunately the best guitarist/leader is a wizard with a capo and substituting odd chords so we could play off the sheet music with no issues. It’s all about the congregational singing anyway, so a few flubs in the music is irrelevant as long as we are confident and keep going! Went well, all considered and everyone was happy with the fuller sound of the music. I loved it. I also got volunteered to play at an open-air public service we are doing for the Jubilee as part of the local celebrations. That will be rehearsed though.3 points
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Baited breath??? I suppose as long as the tunes have a hook, that would be ok.3 points
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Last night's gig:3 points
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All plastered up and windows in...3 points
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SOLD Marleaux Consat Custom 6 Walnut EB 6 string bass, £2400£2215. I decided not to send it to a shop for a commission sale, but it is now on Reverb for £2400. I'd rather sell it here - and you get free postage (UK) EU buyers now welcome but will need to arrange courier pickup Maple body, walnut top, bolt-on maple neck, ebony (Dispoyros crassifolia) fingerboard, Dot inlays on fretboard, 24 frets, 34" scale. String spacing 18mm (I think this may be adjustable at the bridge but I've not tried). 2x Häussel pickups in wood housing, 3-band EQ, volume, pan, active/passive switch, three-way coil tap switch for each pickup (single/split/humbucker), black hardware, walnut headstock top incl. Marleaux gigbag and all case candy, including Allen keys and Thomann's professional photo of the bass. Made in Germany. Brought brand new from Thomann earlier this year. Near mint condition: I can't find any dings, dongs, scratches or other marks. My first 6 and a dream to adapt to with the 18mm spacing. Not gigged as such, but played at one church service, the low B was a delight through the PA - far more solid than most 5's I've played. Only selling because it's too getting too little use - I'll get a more modest 6 as I've loved learning some Bach pieces notated by Heiko Jung on his Marleaux Contra! Trial/collection welcome, I'm near Tonbridge about 20 mins from J5 M25. Free courier within UK, EU buyers welcome but will need to arrange courier pickup. Payment by BACS, or I can issue a PayPal invoice to Basschat members with a feedback history. Thanks for looking!2 points -
**SOLD** Up for sale is my awesome Warwick Fortress One from 1994 - hand built in Germany! This is a truly exceptional instrument - not only is the tone incredible and versatile but the bass itself is very ergonomic and exceptionally well balanced - IMO it is the best balancing Warwick by far - thanks to the extra long upper horn. It is nice and lightweight too at only 4,07kg/8,97lb. Controls are vol, blend, bass, treble. The bass is in very good condition, especially for a 27 year old instrument! There are some marks though as you would expect from a used instrument - please see the last 4 photos for the few dings and scratches and there are also some blemishes in the finish on the top side of the lower horn. All of the electronics work perfectly, as does the truss rod and the hardware. The fretboard has been cleaned and oiled, the frets have been cleaned and polished. The bass has just been strung with new Warwick strings. Details as per Hans-Peter Wilfer: - Bass Fortress I 4 string Serial Number L 003558 94 Year 1994 Month November Number 003558 Neck Wood Wenge Wood Fingerboard Wenge Wood Frets Bronce Warwick Frets Nut Just a Nut Brass Version Neck construction Bolt On Body 2 pcs. solid Maple Wood Surface Satin Surface Nirvana Black Pickups active MEC PJ Pickups Electronic active MEC 2 Band Electronic Hardware Gold Hardware made for Warwick Made in Germany / 91330 Eggolsheim / Franconia-Bavaria Worldwide shipping available - I will only ship using a fully insured and tracked service for everyone’s peace of mind. The bass will ship in a high quality Warwick gigbag packed inside a strong shipping carton. There will be extra packaging inside the gigbag and again inside the shipping carton to make sure this beautiful bass arrives exactly as described. If you have any questions please let me know. Shipping to UK is around GBP100 sadly due to the current fuel prices.2 points -
This is a really lovely instrument and comes with it's Cort case. It has lovely low action, great electronics (Bartolini Pickups/ preamp) String spacing at the Bridge is 17mm and at the Nut width measures 8mm. Welcome to try through a good Bass Rig, Reluctant to post , buyer to arrange postage insurance and be responsible for any loss or damage.2 points -
I am in a gigging 5 piece rock (n roll) band aged 67 to 78. I suspect we all secretly think we're still amazing super-doods, and despite the odd wrinkle, creak and groan we are no less spearheading the revolution than we were 60 years ago, and with music that was and is the mutts if only young people would wake up to it. An alternative view is that we're just relics of our era, no more or less, just as music hall and early ragtime were for us when we were young (it's about the about the same time gap). If you're a younger BCer, maybe in your twenties, how do you view us ageing rockers?2 points
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Re-mould Re-model Roxy Music2 points
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Superb Trace elliot BLX-150 Bass Guitar Amplifier with cover. In full working order and lovely condition! Barely a mark for 25 odd years old! Great sound and surprisingly loud for the size! Don't confuse this with the smaller BLX-80 combo, it's much, much better!!! The HF horn is reason enough to buy on it's own and it cost a fortune when new, hence why you really don't see them come up fo sale often! The compressor is one of the most transparent I've ever used also, I believe it's one of their dual band ones the same as in the pedal and the top of the range heads. Any questions, please feel free to ask! Please note that shipping is possible at buyer’s cost and risk for uk mainland only, for highland or island areas please ask before purchasing2 points -
I found a couple of photos recently which I thought I’d share, I don’t know if they might be of interest to any of you. It’s my dad, Martyn Gibson, who played bass in the early sixties, before marriage and fatherhood took over. Dad played in a band in Stafford from 1963 to 1965, initially they were called The Countdowns, later The Sneakers, and they played originals and covers, a bit of RnB (Ray Charles etc). They played all around the Midlands. They supported Johnny Kidd and The Pirates, and often played with a band from Leicester who went one to become some of Showaddywaddy. My dad’s first bass was (possibly) a Hagstrom PB-24-G; from my research they were also branded Kent and Selmer but he can’t remember and the headstock isn’t visible in order to identify it properly, but as The Beatles became popular he splashed out on a Hofner 500/1. The shop in Stafford (H.E.Parkes & Sons of St Marys Gate, Stafford) ordered it direct from Hofner in Germany with a hard case for forty pounds (or guineas, he can’t remember). How I wish he’d kept it! He had a Vox amp (didn’t everyone then?) but he can’t remember exactly which model.2 points
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Most recent incarnation of my pedal board, for my 6 string 30" scale Harley Benton GuitarBass (Bass VI type instrument, strung with gauge .080 - .060 - .045 - .034 - .026 - .018 (plain string) D'Addario XL nickle plated roundwound hex steel core strings, tuned in G standard tuning, 3 half steps above regular E standard tuning) : For those interested the whole signal chain for the above setup, and some elaboration on how I use the different pedals, can be found in the "About" section of my profile here on the forum : https://www.basschat.co.uk/profile/50585-baloney-balderdash/2 points
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That is down to you not checking, they have actually done really well, have a new album, single and tour out. Personally I am looking forward to next years Eurovision final in Kyiv2 points
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Just got back with my mate Jim from Turin as we both depped for Subwolfer. Good job I like Bananas...( this only works if you know my first name)!2 points
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Can you see your face in my neck, yet, Andy ?2 points
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IMO the design and construction choices for an acoustic instrument are completely different or generally ignored for a solid electric one. When a luthier makes an acoustic guitar all the major pieces of wood are carefully chosen. Internal bracing is the minimum required to give the body enough strength to withstand the forces applied to it by the strings and the player, and the various surfaces are glued together with the smallest amount of contact and just enough glue to hold everything in place. The shape of the instrument is the best compromise achievable between sound and ergonomics. Compare that with a typical mass produced solid electric instrument. These days very few bodies are made of a single piece of wood. Most are cobbled together seemingly at random (and probably down to the most cost effective use of the boards available) from two or more pieces, and as far as I can tell apart from making sure no joints run through the neck pocket, anything else is acceptable. If the wood does have any perceptible impact (be that either positive or negative) on the amplified sound of the instrument it is entirely by chance. And regarding bridge types, since the body of a solid electric instrument is already a very weighty object, and once the bridge has been properly attached to the body they essentially act as a single unit, the difference in overall mass between the standard BBOT and a high mass bridge is negligible.2 points
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One by one, I'll convince you all2 points
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It depends on whether they are properly specified. Many Chinese clones or copies of evaluation boards cut costs by using component brands that "overspecify". Companies like ICEPower do not scrimp on the components and that is why the DIY Audio forums are full of people whose module has blown shortly after powering up, There is no reason why a properly designed and manufactured Class D amp should be unreliable. TVs have been running with SMPS for around 20 years and with Class D amps (albeit lower powered) for almost as long. For example 65" plasma displays/TVs had 700-800W switch mode power supplies and were/are extremely reliable. Mine was 15 years old and working fine but I left it on the wall when I moved as it was too big for my new place. Incidentally I was Technical Manager for large screen displays at Panasonic Europe before I retired so I had access to reliability data.2 points
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Well played CJPJ, that bass part gives me left hand cramps. I want to move it towards the end of our set so I can warm up and then finish wish Malice.2 points
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Well, after a bit of selling I am very happy with my new bass. A beautifully built Manton Titon, direct from Robin at Manton Customs. It plays as good as it looks and has the tone I was looking for. I played it at the Bristol Guitar show recently and it "blew me away" so I have been getting to money together ever since. The Pictures and video are from the Manton site.2 points
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Bathroom scale weight: 3.5kg / 7.7lb Nut width = 38.6mm according to my digital calipers. You were close but don't win a prize2 points -
Here in N. America, the Streamliners are still covered under the factory flat rate service program. I so rarely see a bad power module that it's almost the last thing on the list of potential issues and the replacement modules are in stock and still a current part. All the other things are generally simple and straight forward for a QUALIFIED tech, but what's becoming far more of a challenge is finding a truly qualified tech... that's FAR more concerning than a class D amp (or any other amp for that matter). As far as cost of repair of tube/valve amps being cheaper, has anybody priced out a set of tubes or a replacement transformer lately? Replacing a power module (as rare as it might be) is less costly (by quite a bit) than replacing a set of tubes/valves. Tube/valve amps (in my experience) are much less reliable than a quality solid state amp of any type.2 points
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Now That's What I Call Music vol 395 😊2 points
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I think we found our drummer in a skip.2 points
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was it ever?2 points
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Those weapons we've been sending to Ukraine have made us popular. If America were participating they'd win for sure.2 points
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Uncanny I was about to start another thread on this, fortunately we are all spared this To state my position I'm agnostic about this and a You Tube video isn't really evidence, however interesting. For me it's about physics and the amount of energy involved in picking or plucking a string is limited and the mass of a bass large so if it does make a difference then that needs some explaining. So the reason I came here to post was some evidence/research on decay time in pianos using a single string on a soundboard, certainly analogous to a guitar if not a bass. Lots of interesting (to me) data but one graph stood out. So the plots of the decay times of each note on the piano and the time it took for a 20db decay. You can see there is a general trend for the bass notes to decay slowly and the treble notes quickly. What's interesting though are the differences between adjacent notes. In the middle of the graph Gb4 sustains way longer than G4. playing that piano Gb4 would really jump out at you and if held would colour subsequent notes very differently toa transposition up a semitone. The research went on from there and two things were shown to be important. The position of the bridge and the phase of the movement of the soundboard (whether it was moving in time with the string or against it) Klaus Wogram: The strings and the soundboard article here Now the point is that the bass body of all my basses vibrate all over,I can feel it against my body when I pick a string and when i lightly touch the bass, it's what the clip on tuners detect. We also know that different woods vibrate differently depending upon mass, Young's modulus (springiness), shape and internal damping. The bridge must be moving, and the nut and these must have an effect upon the strings including whether they are moving in phase or out of phase. On my Jazz A and A# on the E string jump out at me if I play evenly, other notes aren't even either but that's the spot I always notice. It doesn't happen on the A string. You know what? It could be the body2 points
