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Well it's now week since my bass was despatched on a 24hr service from Moffat. Interparcel are saying that it's down to UPS and their tracking shows it's been sitting in a UPS warehouse for 6 days. Alan and I keep trying to get answers from Interparcel but they just refuse to answer any emails so I don't know what is happening or when it will be delivered. Because they used UPS as the carrier Interparcel think they can absolve themselves of all responsibility. We are housebound just in case it comes as the last thing I want is for it to go back to the warehouse again. All I can do is look at the pictures that Alan sent me and imagine what it will like to play. I will never ever use Interparcel for any of my shipments. as there isn't an emoticon for "bloody furious".

[quote name='JTUK' post='1057681' date='Dec 13 2010, 07:16 PM']The bass in the pics is not my cup of tea shape-wise and I have indeed gone back to Fender type configs myself for this reason but it looks very well crafted and the orange colour was the rich red type of thing I was going for with my bubinga and maple Sei. In good light the colour of mine is very nice but yours photographs very well indeed.[/quote] The bass in the picture is not mine. Although I have some pictures from Alan I will post my own as and when it arrives.

[quote name='skelf' post='1057628' date='Dec 13 2010, 06:33 PM']The bass is stuck in an UPS warehouse while they clear the back log of deliveries. If only they had pointed this out before taking the booking and the money. So went out on Wednesday for next day delivery and has not moved from Crawley since Thursday.[/quote] Hence seriously concerned and bl**dy annoyed with Interparcel and UPS.

I hope you are luckier with Courriers than I have been. My new ACG was shipped last Wednesday on a 24hr service and it's still not here. It's stuck in a cold damp warehouse somewhere and still no confirmation as to when it will come. Apparently all the carriers are trying to clear the backlog created by the snow and are dealing with that first. I would add however that I sent the Pleasure Board to Nottingham last week on 48-hour ParcelFarce and it turned up exactly on time. I hope your Shuker makes it through the mire. Enjoy it.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1054457' date='Dec 10 2010, 08:02 PM']Buttkicker? [url="http://www.thebuttkicker.com/"]http://www.thebuttkicker.com/[/url] They make attachments for office chairs to allow for silent bass gaming, but would also allow for silent bass listening. I actually got the Buttkicker Concert from Walman about this time last year if you're interested (or if anyone else is interested, as it is now superfluous).[/quote] pm me a price please.

My cunning plan is to build something similar but a lot smaller or perhaps a pleasure stool.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1054411' date='Dec 10 2010, 07:22 PM']The Pleasure Board and Pump arrived today. Plugged it in after work. In short? This thing is amazing. To the point I just had to share on the forum. It feels exactly like standing on a stage with masses of bass pulsing through the floor. You can get so much groundshaking action it's ridiculous. You can basically finetune the amount of bass you normally like to [i]feel[/i] from an amp/rig together with in-ears to create your own 'onstage' environment - it really is something else. I cannot wait to use it on a gig (Saturday and Sunday). Anyone interested feel free to get in touch. Mark[/quote] Glad you like it.

[quote name='fryer' post='1052163' date='Dec 8 2010, 09:59 PM']Sorry, but what's an ACG ?[/quote] [url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/Specs/"]A C Guitars[/url]

[quote name='JTUK' post='1051977' date='Dec 8 2010, 06:20 PM']17 months..?? why so long..??[/quote] Sometimes it pays to wait in order to get exactly what you want.

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='1051584' date='Dec 8 2010, 12:33 PM']I hope you like it after waiting that long.[/quote] So do I.

Finally after 17-months of waiting I should take delivery of my new ACG tomorrow. Diary is clear and I shall be in all day waiting for the door bell to ring. Hope it doesn't snow again.

I'm going to throw Dave Swift's name into this discussion. Many many years with Jools, many many Later shows and many different guests to back. Always something new.

[quote name='Jazzjames' post='1047499' date='Dec 4 2010, 04:21 PM']Hello, I'm thinking of buying a 4x10 cab for use on loud function gigs, and a few in my price range have popped up, but they're all 8 ohm impedance. Is there a way of rewiring the cab to make it 4 ohms? Thanks, James[/quote] An 8-ohm cabinet with 4 identical speakers will either have 4 x 8-ohm speakers wired in series/parallel or 4 x 32-ohm speakers all wired in parallel. Without changing all the speakers for 16-ohm or 4-ohm or disconnecting 2 speakers there is no way you can rewire an 8-ohm cabinet to be 4-ohms. It's against the laws of physics.

[quote name='jazzyvee' post='1047327' date='Dec 4 2010, 02:13 PM']Hi there, can I tap into your experience here. I recently did a corporate gig in a big marquee and plugged in my bass rack system and go loads of high frequency sizzle through the rig even before connecting my lead and bass to it. Now there were loads of christmas lighting in the venue, the dj had motorised lighting systems, fans and chemical fog machines etc and the back of the stage area was covered in little led starlights which flash on and off. My presumption was that the interference was coming from this array of electrical stuff plugged into the same supply to the marquee. Is there anything you could recommend for eliminating this kind of noise from my system in situations like this? Thanks Jazzyvee[/quote] Yup. Mains borne interference. That is why TV and Film studios have completely separate power supplies from the National Grid for technical, domestic and lighting. They also have separate earths. You don't want to see vacuum cleaner moter intereference on-air. This is not to say that there can't still be problems. When London Weekend Television's new studio centre (now the London Studios) was installed they had terrible hum problems. This was because of an earth potential difference between them on the South Bank and the Post Office Tower. The hum was temporarily reduced by earthing the whole of the technical equipment through steel plates dropped into the River Thames until some new equipment could be purchased. In your gig siuation where everyone is running from the same supply you are really on a hide into nowhere. What you need is a separate clean supply but as that is highly unlikely the best hope is use some filtering to remove all the cr@p before it gets to your amp or eliminate the DJ.

Just got home from Bisley Pavillion where our Jug band, The Jug Hounds, played the interval for the SAS Band. Who are the [url="http://www.sasband.com/pages/pagedisplay.php?part=1&page=4"]SAS Band[/url] I hear you say, well SAS stands for Spikes All Stars, Spike being Spike Edney who has been Queen's keyboard player since the mid 80s. He seems to be able to produce some amazing line-ups which tonight included Grahame Gouldman singing "For Your Love" and "Rubber Bullets". Madeleine Bell was supposed to be singing but must have got stuck getting over from Spain because she didn't show. They are there again tomorrow so perhaps she'll make it for that one. Steve Stroud (ex Cliff Richard, The Hollies, Eric Burdon, etc) was on bass. Interestingly he was playing a Stingray 5 with a Status neck, almost the same as my one. I turned up on time for sound check with my PJB Cub and was told to plug into his stack (Harke LH1000, SWR Henry) as it was already DI'd into the huge PA system. We had a good reception for our short set and even got the audience to be the brass section for "Ring Of Fire". Interesting evening and some good comments.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='1045779' date='Dec 2 2010, 10:51 PM']obbm- whats it like? the board thingy?[/quote] Like [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=113496&hl="]this[/url]. Not used it in anger but it's great for feeling the lows and I should imagine excellent for synching with the Kick drum.

Would you be interested in trading it?

You need a [url="http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_amps_detail.asp?stock=09102210281148"]Pleasure Board[/url] to go with it. It gives you bass through your feet. I know someone who has one for sale.

[quote name='cetera' post='1042101' date='Nov 30 2010, 10:59 AM']No old girlfriends gathering dust in the corner behind the Bassman cab though are there?!? [/quote] You know I haven't looked for a while. I'll pop out there when the snow stops and see who I can find.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='1041762' date='Nov 29 2010, 10:41 PM']...what else have you got lurking in that garage Dave...? The Orange head, this DBX etc, etc..Seems to me like it's a bit of an Aladdin's Cave![/quote] A bit of this and that. It's surprising what you collect over the years. I generally tend to hang on to things because you just never know.

Interestingly the latest BGM that came throught the letterbox this morning has a feature and review on compressors. Also I retrieved my dbx163a from the garage. It's only got one knob and a slider so Isuppose that means it will have to go.