Vinny

3 hours ago, RichardH said:

Looks great. Great price on the covering - how tough does it feel? 

Much more so than the original stuff as it's a lot thicker, but certainly not 'industrial tough' if you know what I mean. That probably didn't help, did it? It's got a very slightly springy/rubbery feel compared to the solid feeling of the old stuff.

I must say the above members of the Basschat massive have nailed it with the handle comments, trawling the usual suspects now!

4 hours ago, Painy said:

Nice job! 

Funnily enough I've actually been considering doing exactly this recently (and even in roughly the same colour) so that it matches the rest of my rig. 

Any chance of a link to where you got the tolex from at all? 

 

 

I got it from a local place, Abakhan fabrics, as a roll end (3 sqm ish) for about a fiver. Could just about get 2 more cabs out of what's left.

Decided on an absolute whim to re-skin my lil' combo today, I think it went OK for a first attempt. Here it is in the glamorous surroundings of my filthy boot...

I freely admit I'm fuddled, but give the pickups a measure - I seem to remember a variant of Squier 5 that used 4 string pickups.

The voices lie, mind.

Maybe the ones and zeros are angry and must be appeased, they seemed most offended by the bump button on my geet ad!

(this one...)

Hi Doug, yes the DI output takes stereo headphones just fine - I've just tried it, I'd never have thought of using it for that 'til I read your post!

Golden Nugget Pick

Idiot hasn't seen the 'bump' feature bump.

What am I even doing with this, you say? Well, that's a great question and I'm just super glad you asked. I repaired a car and was given this because people in bands play guitars and don't need money.

I have no idea how to make it go, and have absolutely no desire to find out. My rhythm noise-monger has driven it and tells me it's fine - though not as good as his, obviously. (I just nodded.)

I can get someone to work it and point a camera at them if needs be.

Ton posted.

Rather red-faced post, this, as I somewhat moronically bought this thinking it would work on proper instruments. It doesn't. You know how your drummist parks all that hitty stuff right on top of your gear so you end up with the 'in-ear machine-head' stance with your nose pressed against a speaker pole all night? Well, you know that guy on the opposite side with enough room to back a van in who stands there rooted to the spot staring at his fingers the whole time? This is for him. Do me a favour and point at this ad and shout  "Pedal. Shiny." If he goes back to chirping in the mirror and clanging the bell, it means he wants you to get this for him. Trust me.

£85 posted.

I like these a lot - so much so I have 2 of them. This one has been living in the box on a shelf as a completely unnecessary spare.

It's actually pretty hard to find a good demo vijayo of one of these, they all seem to turn it up to Hysteria-level setting and move on, but this does a really nice 'hint of drive' sound, especially with the blend control on about 50%.

It's also full of clever computerized electro-pixies that know how you're playing and run around the gubbins differently if you pluck soft or dig in hard, and they're good at it, too.

You'll absolutely need a 9v PSU for this, though, as the innards bump it up to 18v so the battery lasts an hour at best. Not quite sure why they even bothered with the facility to fit one.

Much more importantly it'll look great on your board with the shiny metallic paint, and it even has a lil' mirror on top to check your make up mid-set.

You know you want to.

£85 posted.

I've used the IP/UPS combo probably 30 times with only a late pick-up to gripe about, I use it for everything.

Stand around scratching various body parts as the pot banger takes a full f****** HOUR to set up, usually finishing about 5 mins before kick-off. Then begin mad scramble.

5 hours ago, Jonny Boots said:

The body on the new ones is alder compared to poplar on the older ones & the pick ups are a different model. I dont know exactly how they are still Wilkinson but they are marked as WOBP compared to WBP the overall sound is just much better.

I heard from the voices in my head that even the major factories were being sold fakey-lookey-likey Wilkinson hardware from deep within the Empire of the Dragon, so the real Wilkinson's had to redesign all their stuff. 

The voices lie, mind.

Yes, but it's really effective when doing the double bass spinny-round thing.

Cymbals. I'd quite like them all thrown into the fires of Mount Doom if someone can kindly arrange it. It's like being punched in the eye twice a second. HATE THEM!!!

OK, they can keep the little jumpy Smash-bot ones, but the rest of them can just go suck a fat one. 

Aaand...breathe....

These look interesting. 

Question for our resident loofahs - what would they use to bond that scarf joint?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Haze-Clear-Acrylic-Body-Fretless-4-String-Electric-Bass-Guitar-w-LEDs-Free-Bag/232683959447?epid=27015829327&hash=item362d0b7497:g:~kcAAOSwsUlamMM9

See that nun? she's his sister...

I had one, I think* that other than the decals they're just the same. It punched far above it's weight and if it had the correct number of strings I'd have kept it.

*probably wrongly

33 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

No..!  Wondrous instruments..! Tone personified..! I play maple shells, myself, but if I had the cash... 

Someone I know recently spent enough to replace ALL my gear AND the car I carry it in on one of these "toneful" things, and set it up next to his old one. 

*annoyingly loud piercing crack*...*much louder and therefore much more annoying loud piecing crack*...

..."See?"

"Uh, nope. "

*repeats*

Ahdungeddit. Probably never will.

I threw 2 pencils at our original drummer once and told him he should play with those. He was no quieter!

Just cover yourself in awful fake prison tatts, grow an unfathomably stupid moustache and play a beaten-up, brush-painted upright. 

They love that, these days.