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I think I went through this with every finger. It really just takes time and stamina - a little every day rather than a crash course in ultimate frustration.
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Folks - here's a set of pickups from a mid-90's Squier Jazz Bass. Can't tell you what model as I foolishly sanded all the varnish from the neck many years ago, but I did buy the bass new in 1995 so can vouch for it. Pickups are slightly larger than standard jazz pickups - they will fit in standard size routes but they're a tight squeeze through a standard scratch plate. Not the most pristine looking of pickups but not the worst either. £20 posted [attachment=99837:IMG_3989.jpg]
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Folks - here's a few control plates up for sale. First is a fully loaded plate from a Fender Japanese Jazz (not sure what model/vintage). £15 posted [attachment=99832:IMG_3993.jpg] Second is a three hole plate for a stacked pot control plate. It has pots and chrome knobs. Knobs are fine, pots are sticky but do work. The pots aren't wired properly (me not so good with stacked pots). *SOLD*So, plate can be sold for £10 posted without the chrome knobs or £15 posted with the chrome knobs.*SOLD* [attachment=99833:IMG_3999.jpg][attachment=99834:IMG_4000.jpg]
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Folks - here's a few sets of strings I no longer have need for. A twin pack of 5 strings and a single pack of 6 strings. [b]*SOLD*[/b][s]D'Addario EXL170-5TP 5 string, nickel wound, twin pack (2sets), gauges 045,065,080,100,130.[/s] [s]£30 posted[/s][b]*SOLD*[/b] [attachment=99827:IMG_3985.JPG] D'Addario EXL 165-6 6 String set, Nickel Wound, gauges 032,045,065,085,105,135 £25 posted [attachment=99828:IMG_3986.JPG]
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Folks - up for sale is my Barge Concepts VB-jr blend pedal. Top quality from a great, sadly missed company. I used this to blend in some clean signal with an overdrive or to tighten up the low end of an envelope filter. I ordered it with the optional external phase switch - perfect for using with those pesky Electro Harmonix pedals. Also handy to flip it out of phase and use the blend to filter out boomy low-end. I added the big knob so that you can use your foot to adjust settings on the fly. Another bonus is that it has a high input impedance, so I had great results using my double bass piezo pickups and running it into octave pedals and envelope filters. Nice and nasty. Comes with both the original knob and the big one. Price is [s]£75[/s] [b]£70[/b] posted next day Special Delivery to UK. [attachment=99821:IMG_4130.jpg][attachment=99822:IMG_4131.jpg][attachment=99824:IMG_4128.jpg][attachment=99825:IMG_4129.jpg] Here's what Barge Concepts have to say about it: [b]The VB-jr is a fully buffered True Bypass loop with a variable Clean Blend. The VB-jr uses audio grade Burr Brown op-amps to buffer the send and receive signals, allowing improved signal strength over long pedal chains and cable runs, and minimizing “tone sucking” from vintage and mass-produced effects. The Clean Blend control mixes the clean/direct signal with the output of the effects loop. Just as the Barge Concepts VFB-2 has become a popular platform for custom modifications, its new compact counterpart was designed with the same versatility in mind. New custom options available for the VB-jr will include optically isolated expression control of the Clean Blend circuit, similar to that of the Barge Concepts VFB-x, and switchable phase inversion of the Send signal for compatibility with certain vintage effects. The watchword of the VFB series is unparalleled versatility. Whether you simply need a signal buffer or true bypass looper, want to add a blend control to your favorite stompbox, the VB-jr is a tool that has a place in every musician’s rig. With its fully buffered signal path, complete isolation of inputs and outputs, and an intuitive single knob control set, the VB-jr is in a class by itself in the occasionally confusing world of buffers and bypass devices. Application Suggestions: As a True Bypass loop: Use it to turn on/off multiple pedals at once, keep noisy or tone-sucking pedals out of your signal path, add true bypass to any or all of your pedals without complicated or overpriced modifications. As a Blend control: Mix your clean tone with that oscillating delay or your heavy fuzz and distortion sounds. Run a chorus or flanger in the loop of the VB-jr to add some swirl to your dirt sounds and modulate your delays. It’s perfect for Bass and Baritone players that want to use conventional guitar effects, but need to dial in some of their clean instrument signal for improved low end response. Also a perfect addition to digital delays and multi-fx units that may have a blend/mix function, but are mixing in a digital/processed version of your clean tone - not your actual direct signal. Use the expression control to change your blend settings on the fly - fade from clean to distorted with your favorite overdrive, wet to dry with your delays and modulation FX, or use a clean boost for violin-like volume swells - all without having to turn a knob or take your hands off the strings. As a Signal Buffer: The VB-jr uses very low noise, audio grade Burr-Brown internal buffers to insure transparent sound across the entire audible spectrum. With all signals buffered, you have a lower impedance signal driving the pedals both in the loop and after your VB-jr, as well as high impedance inputs to insure that a clear signal passes to the output. All internal signals are actively blended so that there is absolutely no unexpected interaction between your instrument and your effects. VB-jr Features: • Compact, aluminum enclosure. Footprint 4.7” x 2.5”. • 3PDT True Bypass switching. • Dual color LED indicator for Bypass/Active. • Low noise, audio grade Burr Brown op-amps. • Low noise, 1%, metal film resistors used throughout • High quality mica, film, and tantalum capacitors for unmatched signal fidelity. • Switchcraft jacks. • Alpha pots with set-screw knobs. • Clean interior layout with 4-layer silk-screened and solder-masked circuit boards. • All jacks mounted on the North end to save board space. • Industry standard 9V DC power jack (operation supported up to 18V with regulated power supply)[/b]
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I'd be up that too. Onwards!!!
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by 'eck it's easy buying the right bass from Thomann
Gareth Hughes replied to artisan's topic in EUB and Double Bass
[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1328356053' post='1525871'] Where are you measuring that 7mm height? [/quote] At the end of the fingerboard. That would be a variable to suggest to people, given that all fingerboards may not be the same length. -
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Do you mean a Schaller magnetic pickup? If so, these are nothing like a Bass Max. Completely different design and approach. Here's a good list of what's out there: http://www.kontrabass-atelier.de/pickups_e.html And these are worth reading too: http://www.gollihurmusic.com/faq/11-PREAMPS_DO_YOU_NEED_A_PREAMP_WITH_YOUR_URB_PICKUP.html http://www.gollihurmusic.com/faq/30-OHMS_AND_IMPEDANCE_FROM_THE_INPUT_PERSPECTIVE.html
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by 'eck it's easy buying the right bass from Thomann
Gareth Hughes replied to artisan's topic in EUB and Double Bass
7-5mm isn't too low, in my opinion. Yes for slapping but I haven't read that that's what Artisan is going for. I'm suggesting 7-5mm only because I wish my first upright had action like that, or that I know it could be changed. -
I play music for my living. A big part of my income over the years has been down to the fact that I can read music. I learnt to read music from Chuck Rainey - in The Complete Electric Bass Player Book 1: The Method - So I can safely say that I wouldn't be sitting in my house now, with the basses I treasure, along with some great memories, if it wasn't for Chuck sharing his knowledge in a way a person like me could understand. Thanks Chuck. Noelk27 - this isn't begging and it isn't a failure to make provisions for all the 'What If?'s. It's life. Ed Friedland is helping a friend out. I'm helping out someone that's helped me even though he's never met me. We're bass players - the guys that support every one else, right? I truly hope that isn't too alien a concept for you to understand.
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by 'eck it's easy buying the right bass from Thomann
Gareth Hughes replied to artisan's topic in EUB and Double Bass
In case you didn't, or they didn't suggest it - you can specify what action you want for the strings. I don't like fighting a bass (it's bigger than me and I bruise like a peach) so I have the E string at 7mm and the G at 5mm from the fingerboard. It won't be too late to check this out with them - and it might take a few weeks rather than days to arrive. My bass took at least three weeks to arrive from them. Frustrating but it's down to getting the bass set-up, what's in queue before yours at their luthiers, transporting to the UK and then however long it takes the local courier to get the finger out. Don't mean to rain on your parade - just don't want you jumping out of your seat every time a van drives past. -
Just took delivery of a well packaged and as-described scratchplate from skin_vert. Excellent communication throughout and I'd happily deal with him again anytime. Thanks Rich.
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I'm pretty sure I got my copy of 'Art Of The Bow' from Bassbooks.com. Here's the link: http://www.bassbooks.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=789&bc=no Yes it's pricey, but when you consider it's no more than the cost of two lessons it become instantly affordable and well worth while. As for which bow - to me it's a trial and error thing in that I've practiced for years with a French bow but right hand problems have my considering switching to a German bow. I had one for a while but it a cheap and very light carbon jobbie, so not a good introduction. And +1 to getting lessons. Even if you get only one or two to show you a proper bow hold and positioning, it'll be money well spent. Plus, and I'm regrettably speaking from experience here, you'll spend a lot more to correct things in years to come if you just plough on like the bull headed eejit I was (and still am).
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What do you call 90 double bass players in one room?
Gareth Hughes replied to Gareth Hughes's topic in EUB and Double Bass
Can you imagine all the cases lying out the back - or even worse: Flight Cases!?!?!?!??! -
Help please. Big gig, lost pickup!!!!!
Gareth Hughes replied to Maxcat's topic in EUB and Double Bass
And posted. Hope it doesn't bring any of my dodgy intonation along with it. Good luck with the gig!!! -
[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1327934011' post='1518990'] ......wtih a beautiful woman and all you can think of is getting through the performance without crapping your pants! [/quote] Well, that could be said about a lot of things
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TRI-LOGIC Bass Preamp II by E.W.S. *sold*
Gareth Hughes replied to Gareth Hughes's topic in Effects For Sale
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Help please. Big gig, lost pickup!!!!!
Gareth Hughes replied to Maxcat's topic in EUB and Double Bass
Bummer. I have an Apt-flex (very similar to the Realist) and a Schatten wing pickup (like the Bass Max). Won't need them over the next few weeks so I can stick them in the post tomorrow/Tuesday. PM me with details if that sounds like a plan. -
One comical moment was having a nose bleed that just would not stop during an interval at a right proper posh gig. Even though the singers were happy to delay the second half until I was ready, I knew it wouldn't stop so on we went with my nose stuffed with toilet paper. To make matters worse, I already had the most rotten head cold so could barely hear a note I was playing to begin with. Not fun when you're reading charts on the upright. One not so comical moment was playing the first song of long show, feeling my legs begin to give way and realising I was having a panic attack due to claustrophobia. The gig was in an old German library, were the walls were two feet thick and no way out except through the crowd. It was a low ceiling with loads of pillars that flared out at the top - so when I looked out during the first song I realised I couldn't see the exit and then those ten steps down into the gig felt like a hundred. The panic was all down to 'how can I fix this?' When the singer turned round at the end of the second song to introduce me he saw I was not in a good shape. I told him what was going on and when he said "if you need to, just put your bass down and walk outside" I began to relax a little. Spent the rest of the gig staring at the floor, trying to picture myself onstage at some spacious outdoor gig. Not nice.
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TRACE ELLIOT V-TYPE PRE *sold*
Gareth Hughes replied to Gareth Hughes's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
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