OldGit

[quote name='ZPQ' post='14354' date='Jun 8 2007, 07:54 PM']It's out of order not telling people about the insurance limits - especially when they always make a big deal of it when I go to the counter.

It'll be interesting to see if you get anywhere with your claim against them - good luck!

John[/quote]

Well I think the Post office Official Management View of this is "it's in the leaflet so RTFL or tough"

[quote name='Sibob' post='14329' date='Jun 8 2007, 06:52 PM']I knew i was right to!

Si[/quote]


ha if I was playing a band with people who coudl feel it I'd not need to count it for them

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='14323' date='Jun 8 2007, 06:37 PM']Let's keep things in perspective guys (and gals). Remind me why Interparcel is great and PF is cr*p?

I've sent or received a few basses and more than one or 2 amps and cabs via PF (senditnow) and not had a single complaint, as have various other through this thread.

All courier services are going to have the odd idiots who will get a kick (no pun intended) out of knocking a box or parcel about, but before the whole Royal Mail / Parcel Force / Sendit now company is tarred as being totally unreliable and generally sh*tty, do you know the alternatives are so great? You also have to consider what is the percentage of parcels handled to those damaged? Yes there may be one or two more examples of damaged packages with PF but what percentage of the total volume of parcels sent do they handle.

Until someone posts (sic) an alternative, reliable courier who will stand up and be counted as carrying fragile/valuable instruments, then do not declare any one courier better or worse than the rest.

No I do not work for PF, nor does anyone I know but it's a bit knee jerk to slate one courier above all others.[/quote]

Er well minus one for parcel force because:

The maximum amount of insurance is £150 for musical instruments (no matter what amount you buy at the counter)

Other than that I've sent loads of stuff with them before, and I'll continue to but I will not now send a bass.
They've had their chance and anwyay I don't tend to send basses worth less than £150 - the bloody CASE is usually worth that much - oh and "the case, when used as outer packing is not covered" either ...

Many things have got through OK so my opinion is based soley on what they did to this bass and the way they are handling my polite request for them to take responsibility for smashing it in the first place and then pay out under the terms of the insurance I thought I had bought.

A company is measured by the way it handles the problems, not the easy stuff.

And yes there is a clear opportunity for someone to start a company that undertakes to ship basses safely and for reasonable money.

[quote name='paul, the' post='14306' date='Jun 8 2007, 05:41 PM']And what about us as buyers. How do we persuade sellers on eg. Ebay to not use Parcelforce?[/quote]

+1 for Interparcel (only one experience though)

That shouln't be hard. Make it a condition of payment that it's not sent parcel force because of the limit on the insurance.
Negative ebay feedback is pretty powerful stuff.

[quote name='Davemarks' post='14129' date='Jun 8 2007, 12:32 PM']Hey guys - I have taught reggae as a style at TVU/ drumtech / The ICMP and I've played for a few bands doing reggae stuff - the standard is to count it in 4/4. Skank on 2 and 4. Kick and cross stick on beat 3.

That way, if the drums move to 4 on the floor, they are on all 4 beats, as opposed to on 8th notes. It feels like quite a fast way to count, but it is the standard. I'll post a little video clip on youtube at some point soon to accompany my Bass Guitar Magazine Reggae Style File. It'll have some detail on the drum parts...[/quote]

Dave thanks for that .. I knew I was right ha ha well I knew I was thinking about it in the easiest way to communicate it anyway.
I feel a lot better now ))))))

[quote name='chris_b' post='14133' date='Jun 8 2007, 12:40 PM']I also gig in a Reggae band, with a couple of Jamaican drummers. Their take on this question is: Why are you counting? Feel it![/quote]

Ah you'd have to read the top of the thread for the answer to that

Oh yeah I'm well versed in the "knock out ginger" method of delivering parcels .. parcelforce carded me today, even though I was in waiting for the delivery ... and don't get me started on to the stupid hours, never answered phones and methods you have to use to get your parcel from the depot ...
Hummmmmmmmm

[quote name='Tinman' post='14286' date='Jun 8 2007, 05:16 PM']You may joke my friend but it's got me well and truly, I've already been talking about it with Mrs T![/quote]

Mr Russ, take heed and remember DON'T GO IN THE WOOD STORE or the same thing will happen to you ....

[quote name='Tinman' post='14279' date='Jun 8 2007, 05:08 PM']I just couldn't get out! I could hear 5's and 6's calling to me from the shelves.

*The voices, the voices, they're in my head and won't go away*[/quote]

Hey Tinman! Welcome to the other side of the Shuker tractor beam

[quote name='mr_russ' post='14208' date='Jun 8 2007, 02:25 PM']Nice one cheers ;D

I'm seriously considering asking him to build this bass for me- It's basically going to be a sunburst marcus miller 5 with a few refinements and customisations[/quote]


Well the sunburst looks even better in real life

I'm afraid I go all Harmony Central Review about Jon cos he did such a brilliant job on my Bass
and Doods Doodle 7 string and Rich's Jazz V
These are the three I've had personal experience of and the standard of workmanship is just exemplary

Other Luthiers are available - just to stop the fans of the others jumping on me again. Talk to JHFerret about his GB's

Anyway Jon's a fab guy as well and will bend over backwards to make the bass you want and exactly how you want it. I made him go through some pretty tough hoops but he stuck with it and put up with me and we are still mates.
I'd say that was a very importnt part of it 'cos it's a very long process and if you didn't get on it could be quite a fraught experience ...

Anyway, the best thing is to go and see him and The Wood Store (Ask tinman, he's just got back

Where are you located?
OG

[quote name='Shaggy' post='14078' date='Jun 8 2007, 11:13 AM']Can only speak from my own experience, but when I bought my Listerud 7-string from a fellow BWorlder last Xmas shipped from Norway, TNT wanted £300 and wouldn't insure instruments, the Post Office wanted £40 and insured up to £1000. So went with the PO - bass arrived safe and sound woithout even a dent in the cardboard outer box, but bizarrely with a bust top string. Also could track the package the whole way via the Norwegian PO and then Parcelforce web-sites. Haven't stressed so much waiting for it to arrive since the last time the wife was in labour though![/quote]

Ah yes .. had it got broken though you may have found that the apparent £1000 insurance cover was actually £150, just as I did ... unless that was the Norwegian Post Offices insurance policy ..

I expect my argument with Parcelforce will be further delayed by industrial action now ...

[quote name='mr_russ' post='13770' date='Jun 7 2007, 07:44 PM']Hi - I'm thinking about having a traditional looking 5 string jazz built by John- would you be able to take a big straight on photo of the headstock for me?

cheers ;D

r[/quote]

Hum got one here somewhere ... meanwhile here's the whole thing



Ah here it is

[quote name='ashevans09' post='13302' date='Jun 6 2007, 09:13 PM']I'll be honest when I read the title I was thinking of that "Spinal Tap" moment at the army base...I'm now slightly disappointed

Yeah I'd just say try throwing some tin foil on it...[/quote]

Yeah that did dull the effect a bit, as does me crouching down in front of the amp (maybe that's what the modern amps expect... )

Rotating the head on the top of the cab makes it much worse ..
and No reply from Mark Bass yet ...

I tred my wireless syetm and it's fine so I'm not really worrying about it.

[quote name='ShaunB' post='13098' date='Jun 6 2007, 04:06 PM']OK - time for me to help out! This requires reading Chapter 9 from the end rather than the beginning... (seriously!)

If you have the same manual as me you need to read page 61, Setting the Timing Used for Switching Patches (Patch Change Mode) - this will tell you how to change the Parameter from "SYS:Patch Select" (rather than "Patch Change" they have in the damn book): "UP/DOWN" to "BANK/NUMBER" (roatry dial) - this'll allow you to select Banks and numbers rather than Patches...

The actual method is in the previous section "Switching the Bank and Number" - but doesn't tell ya how to do it!!!

*phew*

...and now to SOS...[/quote]


Ha fun I love that when they don't use the same term on the machine and the manual ...

[quote name='ShaunB' post='12821' date='Jun 6 2007, 07:38 AM']Hey MB1, how goes?

Thanks to OG there is light at the end of the tunnel - used the box last night and all is now well. Got the basic effects I need in one package (although I have to say a somewhat over-complex package for my small brain).

OG... I think the "on" button is the one on the back, but I can't get it to slide - any luck?

[/quote]

Use a bigger hammer ...

Found out how to go up a bank at a time rather than a patch at a time with the up-down pedals?
Foxing me ...

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[quote name='MB1' post='12768' date='Jun 5 2007, 11:44 PM']MB1.

Shame you werent about when i had mine........................that was an expensive stage tuner.............................with chorus!.must admit........... miss the nice double chorus............. accurate tuner ..................really wicked lightshow........................................ when in tune.....................hey jimmy gimme the gimmix!.....................................what do you reckon to the amp modeling?

MB1.[/quote]

Ask us in a few months, we've only just foun the on button

[quote name='ShaunB' post='12552' date='Jun 5 2007, 03:27 PM']Like you, I just happened upon it adding some flanger accidently hitting *doh* - now what button was that...? :-)[/quote]

It's a challenge

[quote name='ShaunB' post='12525' date='Jun 5 2007, 02:35 PM']OG! You da man! ...I have reset the to the factory presets and all has become way easier... Followed your instructions and set the Bare Bass (removed all the presets), copied the patch to my UL1 and voilá! I can now add any of the pedals live as a base set.

*phew* ...adding patches up from there now.

OK - first to sort the SOS...


cheers
Shaun[/quote]

hey cool
let me know about that SOS

OG

[quote name='ShaunB' post='12482' date='Jun 5 2007, 01:49 PM']Any ideas how to make the SOS work? I've been trying to access the FX Select (page 27 of the manual) which keeps taking me to page 55 which says go to page 27... *ahem*

I crave the simple life. Maybe the pedal aint for me.[/quote]

ha ha it's fairly simple once you gethe gist I think ..

SOS er not got there yet but I did find I was recording accidentally during the initial play about so it is possible

[quote name='BOD2' post='12471' date='Jun 5 2007, 01:40 PM']One last tip. Try to keep the patches that you will use live "close together" so that it's easy to go from one to another with the minimum of foot tapping.[/quote]

Yup that was what I was trying to say with the "centre, left 4, right 4", thing in my post

[quote name='BOD2' post='12471' date='Jun 5 2007, 01:40 PM']And don't worry about overwriting the original patches. They're usually crap and unusable but there will almost certainly be a "reset" procedure to restore the factory presets and patches should you ever need to do this.[/quote]

yeah on the GT6B you can reset the whole lot to the factory settings or just choose to reset one patch position

[quote name='ShaunB' post='9259' date='May 30 2007, 03:14 PM']Hi guys, any GT6B experts out there? I am having trouble using the very basic effects, say, just Compression, Chorus or O/D or Phaser, but for the life of me and scanning through the manual can't find how to bypass the pre-set effects which adjust different combinations of 2 or more effects, alot of the time with different pre-amp settings which I don't use/need. A simple fellow who wants a simple life... I thought getting rid of 4 pedals for one plug'nplay board would be the way to go - but I don't need my bass to sound like a chainsaw in need of a body...
Any help gratefully received.
[/quote]


OK what you do is this:

Find a basic sound you like (around P3/1 I think they are)
Then take out or add in the settings you want, say compressor.
Then save that to a user patch position, say U3/1 (it overwrites what was there so make sure you are cool with that)
Then take what you have loaded into U3/1, add or subtract what you want, say add flanger, and save it to another user patch position, say U3/2
so switching between U3/1 and U3/2 will add a flanger effect to what you had before.
Repeat as necessary.

Haven't looked at just having compression and nowt else. I am sure you can do that though, if only by removing everything else from the patch.

OK It arrived ..
My proposed method is this:
- Reset to factory settings
- look through the patch list in the back of the manual for stuff that sounds like the sort of thing you are looking to use.
- try all the P presets but also have a look at the ones they have loaded into the U and u banks as well cos some of them are cool.
- select the ones you will use (in my case that's two sets, one set for each band)
- copy them to the patch addresses you want them to be at eg U4/1 U4/2 U4/3 and U3/4 U3/3 U3/2
- make a table of what you are doing... so in my case I'll centre my sounds for band 1 on U4/1 so in there I'll have my basic tone - SVT 8x10 + Compressor .. I got that from modifying the standard setting at er P3/2 is it? (manual not to hand) and by changing the various settings til I git the sound I wanted then saving it to U4/1.
- then to the left (ie move to there by hitting the left patch pedal) I'll have my 4 normal settings - same as one but add flanger, and a couple of others. Then to the right of U4/1 I'll have the wilder stuff like the big wah etc.

So I end up with a gigging sound set centred on U4/1.. Left 4 and right 4 from there gives me just about all I'll need for that band.
Then I'll do the same thing for the other band centered on u4/1

The pedals at the front allow you to turn things like chorus, reverb, fuzz, on and off within that setting "live" as it were so you can take or add in fuzz or chorus as a temporary measure that doesn't stick on the setting oh and teh all important "bypass" pedal that takes teh whole big red thing out of the sound entirely

So in the end I don't have to go very far from "default" to get the stuff I need for those gigs.
Then if I think up something else to use I can add it one more click to the left or right.

That should get you started ..
Just don't ask me how to add in or remove the synth arpeggio things that shift it up a tone (weird or what?)

[quote name='chris_b' post='12261' date='Jun 5 2007, 01:37 AM']Play them the record![/quote]


Ok I think we've nailed this ...
Thanks

[quote name='Sibob' post='12242' date='Jun 5 2007, 12:32 AM']Why doesn't the guitarist know
Has he not ears? :-D

Si[/quote]

Ah well it's more complicated than that.
It's a community jazz outfit with an "open door, all comers" approach
They are not learning by ear but from a score where their part is not written out .. They are largely expeccted to "know" what to do or be guided by older hands (some of which are 20 years younger than they are ) and they all take what the MD says as gospel ...

The guitarists (and it's not just guitarists who are expected to play the skank in this stuff) are either beginners or moonlighting on guitar when they are really tenor horn players escaped from a brass band... or somesuch ...

So it's not your normal "take this track and learn it" situation ...