paul_5

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1259071' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:30 PM']EBS Unichorus. Great sounding. Built like a tank. True Bypass. Absolutely noise free... And tend to sell 2nd hand on bass chat for around £80-£85.[/quote] +1, I got mine from the 'For Sale' section of Bass Chat for £80 and it' superb, sounds even better than the Boss CE2B that it replaced. They don't come up often, but they are worth hanging on for, after all, with the recession and all that it's a buyers' market.

Tea-C anyone?

just bought a groove regulator from deej. Said for it late friday and it arrived monday morning. Really speedy service and a quality pedal really well packaged. Won't hesitate to deal with deej again (though i think we've just bought all of his fancy toys).

i've got a blackface svp and the di out has some hum on it. Whether it's due to a replacement transformer (now made in china) i'm not sure. When i switch the di output from pre to post eq then the hum disappears. Mine is a little noisy, but i can confirm that fitting a 12AU7 at v5 definately reduces the overall noise floor. I tend to do this when i'm using it to record through the preamp outputs as opposed to the balanced di, as i fine it gives a more 'tubey' sound - i don't think the di has all of the valves in its circuit. Hope this is of use to someone.

kudos to you pete, what a lovely thing to do. Have a philanthropic bump on me.

duly noted, cheers pook.

nice, wish everyone i'd auditioned was this honest. Good luck to you sir.

I started on recorder at primary school, then a bit of classical guitar in top juniors (don't know what 'year' that equates to in today's money), then got really into keyboards, which I still play from time to time, but I had a revelation when I heard Rush - "that fella with the nose plays keys AND bass? ". Also my brother and I were dabbling in songwriting at the time and he's a much, much better guitarist than me, so we just needed a bass player. Long story short I bought a bass and ditched the keys (as my main instrument). secretly I wanted to be able to move around the stage a bit like a guitarist, so the days of playing keys were numbered...

Isn't a trombone a random note generator?

Ooh, I'll take the Neil Peart ones please.

I borrowed a mid 70's 4001 for some recording on an old band's EP (2 years ago). I NEEDED that Ric sound for just one of the tracks (slow, grinding Em rock epic), but I tried it (through my Ampeg SVP PRO and a Hartke Hyrive 410) and though it sounded incredible I couldn't play it for more than about 6 bars, the neck just [i]felt[/i] wrong, had to settle for ol' faithful (blade) with some tube distortion. The track sounded very good in the end, but I've always wondered 'what if', did I ditch the Ric too soon because of studio pressures or is the Ric just not for me?

"buy my snake oil"

I've bought a few bits of kit from Electro over the years and they always had plenty to choose from. Shame if they've gone downhill, though I did read in the paper today that Ukelele sales are now outstripping guitars...