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best thread title - [i]ever[/i]

good to hear they're trying to put it straight. nicely nicely

[quote name='V4lve' post='584941' date='Aug 30 2009, 08:54 AM']Anything that costs more that 200 quid....[/quote] finally, a sensible reply !

[quote name='7string' post='591844' date='Sep 7 2009, 01:22 AM']6mm is a 1/4", so I'd say that's fine. The E string on the neck pickup has to be lower because the polepiece can suck the string downwards and create some weird sounds. If you hear anything funny then take the pickup down a little bit more.[/quote] thanks - glad to know it's not too far beyong normal. when i first got my musicman sabre the neck pickup was [i]very[/i] close to the strings...it gave all kinds of weird overtones. but then those pickups are big !

i'd say 6mm E-side and 2mm G-side. allowing for my atrocious eyesight. seems mad to me.

i've had a tinker with the neck pickup on my jazz bass, and the only way i can seem to stop the e-string from being much louder that the other strings is to really angle the pickup. is this normal ? the rake of the pickup is a lot more than i've seen on pictures of other jazz basses. /ponders/

fugly.

/shakes fist at sky/ curses !!! well done lemmywinks. first dibs if you sell it ? i'd love an original fortress - beautiful basses.

[quote name='bassmansky' post='588879' date='Sep 3 2009, 05:35 PM']would anyone be that desperate to buy one? [/quote] a patent lawyer maybe ?

[quote name='Marky L' post='587929' date='Sep 2 2009, 08:37 PM']Perfect for ripping your pinky out of its joint if you have some nasty onstage rock n roll incident![/quote] exactly what i've always thought !

bought a bunch of cables from shep - a great deal and a splendid chap to deal with. many thanks

[quote name='alexclaber' post='586284' date='Sep 1 2009, 09:51 AM']Indeed, he's rushing ahead of the beat quite a lot. Alex[/quote] plus the one nice bass sound tho.

[quote name='Golchen' post='586030' date='Aug 31 2009, 08:24 PM']ELO were my first 'favourite band' as a kid, and Out of the Blue was the first album I ever bought. It's full of classic songs![/quote] plus the one. i think i spent [i]days[/i] listening to 'out of the blue' when i was about 8 or 9...over and over again !

just to throw my plus the one into the mix. mark's a top chap to deal with.

mine runs ok on a normal boss-style wall wart too... but as it really only has home use i use the ehx one anyway.

deffo not WD40 ! [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=27515&C=SO&U=strat15"]switch cleaner[/url] is what you're after

[quote name='Oscar South' post='577770' date='Aug 22 2009, 06:53 PM']Thats your timbral repetoire[/quote] /thinks/ hey - that it is ! top stuff [quote name='mrcrow' post='577591' date='Aug 22 2009, 02:34 PM']left or right whatever happened to wendy da-witch[/quote] i've no idea...i last saw her, um...12 years ago ?? she's not been on the other place for many moons has she ?