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Here's my pic of The Elite Clique from 1964.

[quote name='fryer' post='816967' date='Apr 24 2010, 08:41 AM']My Dad gave me mine for my 13th Birthday. Any idea what they're worth now ?[/quote] There doesn't seem to be a going rate. There have been several of the long-scale (Bill Wyman) versions on Ebay of late asking for silly money and they are still for sale.

Oh What memories, what memories. Nice one. I have a picture of my then band in 1964 plus some more recent ones on my mySpace page. Sadly though I no longer have my short-scale Framus Star bass. £45 new I remember from Potters Music Shop in Aldershot. Selling it in 1967 was a serious error of judgement.

[quote name='casapete' post='815117' date='Apr 22 2010, 04:05 PM']Someone I know referred to this as 'reaching the age of enlightenment'.[/quote] It's also a case of it's good enough. How many of the punters can actually tell?

[quote name='BigRedX' post='814912' date='Apr 22 2010, 12:50 PM']Pointless worrying about it... Tone is completely subjective and dependant upon the other instruments in the group and genre of music. Also just because one bass player can make a certain combination of instrument and amp sound good doesn't mean anyone else can.[/quote] Couldn't agree more. I'm happy with what I have now - for the moment.

I went to see a friends band on Saturday night. The bass player had a USA Fender Jazz and my original Ashdown rig from 2003/2005. An ABM500EVO2 and 2 x Mini 4x8 cabs. What a wicked growly punchy tone, both inside and outside the pub. Why have I been wasting my money on GAS all these years? Doh!!!

Seems to work best with Epi cabs. Immediately useable tone, loud, reliable and light. Used mine for 2+ years firstly with a UL310 and then with UL112/T112NYC. Sold it when I got an Orange AD200B.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='812506' date='Apr 20 2010, 01:19 PM']Just picked up a cheap old desk, an Alesis 1622, for faffing about in the rehearsal room. In order to get any useable volume from the XLR mic inputs, I have to turn the gain WAY up high on each channel. DI'd instruments have no such problem, so presumably this is a mic level / line level issue? I didn't realise there were ANY more-or-less modern desks (i.e. 1990's or later) without pre-amps for the mic level inputs. Am I missing something really obvious?[/quote] According to the spec the mic channels have up to 70db of gain which should be more than enough. Have you followedthe level setting procedure in the manual? Also the main out can be switched between +4 dbV or -10dbV.

[quote name='Ancient Mariner' post='806642' date='Apr 14 2010, 10:35 PM']If you really want a 'quick fix' for a little more bottom end then I'd simply double up the cathode caps on the output valves, unless they're already large (1000uf+).[/quote] That might be a tad difficult seeing as the Bass Terror has a solid state power stage.

My SR5 is 17mm at the bridge, 8.5mm at the nut

They are supposed to be the Swiss Army knife of basses and very rare. I had one for a while, great range of tones from the Lip-stick pick-ups. It would be sacrilege to take them out and you would decimate its value. If you don't like them then please get a different bass to bodge up. The neck width was mid-way between a Jazz and a Precision which was a bit disconcerting. Well worth a look and a try however. If I could find one then I would snap up a 5-string version.

Finally found one so I can join this thread now. Loxwood Beer Festival, June 2009.

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[url="http://www.fender.com/support/diagrams/pdf_temp1/basses/0190209C/SD0190209CPg2.pdf"]This[/url] is the wiring diagram for the stack-pot Fender Jazz which is the same - 2 pups, 2 vol , 2 tone. This seems to work well in my Lakland PJ. A further way to stop interaction is to put mixing resistors, say 10K from the output of each volume pot. I've never heard of anyone putting series resistors in the ground wire but I guess it has a similar effect.

Neck width at Nut is 42.8 on my pre-EB. String spacing G to E is 34.5

[quote name='JTUK' post='792138' date='Mar 31 2010, 03:45 PM']maybe.... he stacks them as you would..being only 12's, he'd need the height He is a very meticulous and demanding player and his rig is Markbass and Epi 12.. I will find out with exact models when I next see him. Plays with a Jazz and has come from SWR. He wanted a light and punchy alternative and I can see why he went for the Markbass amp after what he was used to. That is not to say they don't punch or get through but the sound is deffo soft and flabby to my ears. Definitions, huh..???[/quote] Hmmm. I was using mine with an Epi UL502. I sold that and now have an MB F1 or an Orange Terror Bass. Not had a real chance to try either yet though as I'm still on my sabatical.

[quote name='JTUK' post='791778' date='Mar 31 2010, 11:32 AM']Epi were on my radar until I heard my freind use 2 1x12's.. I think the term is pillowy..and it sounded soft and flabby out front so if that is how it projects it isn't for me. I heard this a few times now and he doesn't sound like that with SWR, for example, so it isn't his inherrent sound, IMV..[/quote] This does surprise me. I've done loads of gigs with my UL112/T112NYC pair, including out-doors and the usual comment is how punchy they are. Used the UL212 last summer with the Orange AD200B head. Also tight and punchy. Also used to use them as backline for one of the local jams which gave me a chance to hear them out front with other makes of bass. Never a problem to my ears, but then maybe my ears are the problem. Perhaps they are better with some basses than others.

Sounds to me like a placebo effect. I spent a good part of my 40 working years designing, building and comissioning TV and radio studios, edit suits and TV outside broadcast units. The only equipment we ever put in them for the AC power was an automatic voltage regulator, good earth leakage warning and completely separate technical earth. The latter being the most important. Never any fancy power condioners and never a problem. If the broadcasters don't need one then you certainly don't need one with a bass ampplaying at the local pub. If you think you can hear a difference then you must be one of the tiny minority who apparently have "golden ears". You certainly won't hear any differnec in a gig situation doing battle with a drummer and two Marshall stacks. The UK mains is one of the best in the world. The US mains is a joke which is why they need them. Power conditioners in the UK are a waste of money. If you want a rack power distributor then get one of those. They are a fraction of the price of a Power Conditioner.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='786030' date='Mar 25 2010, 04:51 PM']There is a 'but' in that the rating is for the amount of power you can be putting into an amp before the voice coil overheats. If could be farting and tearing at a lower power, depending on its excusrion limited power handling, which is specific to frequency, so not as handy to quote.[/quote] Don't you mean "out of an amp into a speaker"? The only power going into an amp is from the AC mains.