WalMan

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wal-Custom-Made-5-Strng-Bass-Guitar-with-Simms-LEDs_W0QQitemZ270160297437QQihZ017QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]HERE[/url] - Looks nice. Oh to have the cash!!

The chap I have used in the past on the south coast quoted me a starting price of £150 to refinish the MM Sub with a tobacco burst to match my Wal - depending on the current finish

[quote name='ped' post='48344' date='Aug 21 2007, 02:47 PM']I recently had a purchase with Silverfonix and the chap is a gent and a scholar. Highly reccomended ;0)[/quote]
+1

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='53909' date='Sep 1 2007, 05:07 PM']Click on his feedback rating.[/quote]
He is now "Not a registerd user" so [i]hopefully[/i] eBay got on the case - well we could all hope so at least

[quote name='Kaiu' post='53782' date='Sep 1 2007, 12:41 PM']2)Switch between the 1st and 2nd agro. Ideally automatically disengaging one when I engage the other.[/quote]
Would this work? Set one to on & one to off & have a single footswitch with a pair of jacks so that when you switch the one that is off turns on & vice versa. That would be 2 switches & two leads you could tape together.

or how about something like [url="http://www.behringer.com/AB200/index.cfm?lang=eng"]this[/url] and some cable strappong/sleeving like [url="http://www.studiospares.com/pl_50_50240_CABLE%20and%20CONNECTORS_CABLE%20HARNESSING.htm"]this[/url] for the leads to keep it tidy?

[quote name='gareth' post='53696' date='Sep 1 2007, 03:00 AM']I thought I might hang around to put some last minute bids on these basses he has for sale - just to see you understand.[/quote]
Funnily enough that crossed my mind too. Someone obviously tried looking at the latest feedback
[quote name='gareth' post='53696' date='Sep 1 2007, 03:00 AM']I think we should take it upon ourselves to contact the eventual "winners" and warn them of our suspicions - don't you think?????[/quote] - trouble is they were private bidder auctions so I do not think there is any way to find out who "won" in the end

No surprise that the tw cars he "sold" & got positive feedback for at the top of his feedback list are also on Gumtree

Nissan Micra 1.2 Sx - [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120156831862"]eBay[/url] - [url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/06/12324506.html"]Gumtree[/url]
A-Class Mercedes Benz Avant Garde Lwb - [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120156827292"]eBay[/url] - [url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/93/13065093.html"]Gumtree[/url]

So is it Lorena, Stephane, Gerry, George, Gustavo, Charlie......................

I'm just waiting for my TE 122H to show up It'll be interesting to see what that makes

His feedback now contains
[quote]everthing for sale is a con he is getting them off www.gumtree.com don't bid[/quote]
to which he has replied
[quote]we did previously advertise on gumtree without success of sales, what wrong????[/quote]
Methinks a further whiff of horse, and yet still they bid. Ah well

[quote name='beerdragon' post='53643' date='Aug 31 2007, 11:25 PM']He has all these items advertised on gumtree. they are in a shop in Fulham i think. the Gibson bass is going for £950. so i can't see it going for anything less. He also wants £1400 for the Fender 75/76 , maybe he's just testing the waters on ebay. i think it's def the same person.[/quote]
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, cynic alert - or has he just half inched the pics from Gumtree?

[url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/21/12732921.html"]David Eden Wt550B[/url] - Kings Cross for sale by George
[url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/24/12619024.html"]New Esp Dv8-R Ltd Dave Mustaine guitar[/url] - Crouch End for sale by Gustavo
[url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/57/10017457.html"]Fender 1976 Precision Bass[/url] - London along with the 75/6 & the EBO
[url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/84/12614384.html"]Marshall As50R Acoustic amplifier[/url] - Kilburn for sale by Gerry
[url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/08/12726708.html"]Marshall Valvestate 2000 valve amp[/url] - Highgate for sale by Charlie

I can't be bothered to go on, I think that's enough

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='53562' date='Aug 31 2007, 07:43 PM']I wonder if some people bother looking at their feedback and think, 's*d that'! Obviously some people don't care about the mark up or they just don't look.[/quote]
Not too difficult is it and there are at least 2 other 12 band versions going elsewhere on t'Bay at the mo for less just not from a "trader".

[quote]Nothing illegal, just business I spose.[/quote]
Quite, its only business after all, but it will be interesting to see what they get all the same

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=45"]I wonder who this belonged to before[/url]?

Back again on Fleabay almost immediately at a nice little [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180154023008"]Buy It Now[/url] mark up - well I suppose he is a trader.

Watching with interest.

for the w/e

[quote name='walplayer' post='27004' date='Jul 4 2007, 02:46 PM']I quite like Wal basses BTW [/quote]
Me too funnily enough, just not with [i][b]NEARLY [/b][/i]as much gusto as you!!

My exceedingly short list for 30+ years runs
[list]
[*]Unknown cheap & exceptionally crap P bass copy - famous only for having a No10 packet holding the pup up & which died of a broken back when lent to a friend who left it leaning in the corner of a greenhouse for most of one summer
[*]Shergold Marathon fretted (black) - that became a silverburst 8 string later in its life
[*]Shergold Marathon Fretless (black) - both the Shergolds went a few years back when I got sick of lugging 3 basses round & only using them for one number an evening.
[*]Aria SB1000 - nice enough but it went in p/x for the
[*]'82 Wal Pro1 that became a Custom effectively in '96, and which I still have & love to death
[*]MM Sub 5 with the John East preamp acquired last week from Silverfoxnik via Beedster
[/list]
I rather think I have had more amps than basses, but then I lucked on the penultimate bass in the list

[i]Able to read?[/i] not necessarily - unless I suppose you have one main writer in the band who expects everything to be as he heard it & scores it for you - but would you want to be in such a dictatorship?
[i]Play complex lines/playing ability?[/i] Yes definitely helps
[i]Play complex time sigs?[/i] ditto
[i]Good theory?[/i] not necessarily but might help. A good ear is just as much use, but if you know the theory you might get there a bit quicker. It depends how instinctive you are
[i]Extended range? [/i]I have only just acquired my first 5 string but the lack of a 5 or 6 stringer was never a problem when I was in such a band - mind that goes back a few years now. When I saw Spocks Beard in London recently Dave Meros was using a modified Rick (with a Hipshot D-Tuner) & was turning to a keyboard to double really deep lines. Pete Trewavas only uses 4 strings & bass pedals in the Transatlantic DVDs so I should have thought it is not an absolute must have. There are other ways of covering really low end & if the band has keys you could end up fighting for the same sonic space.

Mind you, I had been thinking of giving a call to an ad for a proggy band in my area recently, but the ad said "must have 5 string". I have other things on the go so not desperate for another project anyway, but to be so prescriptive in an ad does seem a bit limiting.

Welcome to the deep end

A quick call on this in case anyone is interested as I have a possible offer in the pipeline.

Al

[quote name='Kirky' post='50486' date='Aug 25 2007, 07:04 AM']How old is the amp? I'm auditioning for a functions band next week, and if I get the gig, this would probably be ideal.[/quote]
I bought it new in about 1999/2000 I think but I would need to search out the receipt. All I can see in the lead case is the Andertons RRP/Our price ticket.

I've been lucky having upgraded amps slowly but surely over the years, but having used the same bass for the last 20+ years - mind I lucked out with my baby and it was uprated to actives 11 years ago (seems like yesterday, doesn't time fly) so it's not [i]quite [/i]the same bass for all those years!

So would this [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3134"]Trace 122H[/url] be any good to you? Works fine on its own. Stick a 15 under it and it opens up even more.

for the bank holiday weekend with a price drop. Did I mention now [color="#FF0000"][size=3][b]£395[/b][/size][/color] ono, I think I probably did.

[i]All with a view to becoming part of cunning plan C[/i] You go to a BassBash and all of a sudden the urge for gear is rekindled!!! I sense another gear war starting with my drummer

It really comes down to experimentation (no sh1t Sherlock )

Years ago my band used to rehearse in a small but reasonably dead studio and often recorded straight to a reel to reel with a stereo mike pair, or even the guitarists boombox so that we could take ideas away to work on & learn, with passable results.

I have bags full of gig recordings on cassette, that I really must find the time to put into digital form before they disintegrate, that were recorded on nothing more than a hi fi deck or the guitarists which are fine as a record of the [url="http://www.myspace.com/akindoffury"]evening [/url]

I suppose it depends what you want the recording for, your own purposes or to post on your MySpace & send off to get gigs.

If its just for yourself to work on then tweak on as you are, but if it is for wider use then with the price of recording gear nowadays then you should really throw a bit more at it. Perhaps a couple of [url="http://www.studiospares.com/pd_450430_BOUNDARY%20MICROPHONE.htm"]boundary mics[/url] operating as a pair in the room.

Recording with just a (decent) stereo mic will give the band as a whole an idea of how members are interacting and whether everyone is playing for themselves.

Sorry these are developing into the random noodlings of an old fart

I have a Monster cable as well as a load of shorter patch cables in my rack and they certainly seem solid enough. That said I mainly got them because I went into Andertons one lunchtime and there were loads really cheap in a "Clearout" bucket so it was [i][b]NOTHING [/b][/i]like £88 for a cable. I am honestly not sure I could justify that.

[quote name='Musky' post='14441' date='Jun 9 2007, 12:25 AM']... has anyone had any direct experience of them on a precision, or [i][b]any other bass[/b][/i] for that matter.[/quote]
Before my Wal Pro was upgraded to the Custom electrics & while it was still passive Kent Armstrong built a pup to fit in a Wal housing and I had that installed. It certainly did the trick for me until Pete installed the actives a few years later on.

Get a [url="http://www.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=6"]Hipshot D-Tuner[/url] then you can flick down to D when you need it & back up again and broadly keep all the patterns you are used to.

I picked up one for my Wal years back and find it really useful.

Takes a bit of getting used to, remembering that with it flicked down you need to adjust fretting on the E string +2 frets (assuming you have set the drop to D) but good for watching confusion reign on the face of anyone watching you who does not know about them when you get so that you can flick down & back up surreptitiously with your thumb

Mind you if all you are doing is dropping EADG to DGCF all your usual patterns are still there anyway.

If you are doing that you might want to investigate using a heavier set of strings to stop them flapping, but 45-105 works fine for me with the Hipshot

1. Is a light bass cabinet important to you? Y
2. Would you be interested in a smaller designed cabinet for maximum portability? Y
3. What is the weight of your current rig now? _______ Kg
4. Have you ever had portability issues with this cabinet before? Y
5. Would a Neo speaker make the amplifier more appealing? Y
6. Would you want casters on the amplifier for added portability? N
7. Would you want the input to be in the back? Y
8. Would you want the Ohm rating to be 4? Indifferent
9. Would you want the power rating to be over 200 watts? Y
10. Is a metal grille cover attractive on an amplifier? Indifferent


for
3 Not sure & "very" does not really count does it. I shall edit if I can find it
6 I would qualify as Y if removable
10 Indifferent as to attractiveness, but Y for protection

[quote name='therealting' post='48129' date='Aug 21 2007, 03:43 AM']That X-ray looks like you've had a piece of very large fretwire embedded in your arm.[/quote]

Who'd have thunk! I had a refret