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[quote name='bassmachine2112' timestamp='1444846823' post='2886703'] Remember flat on amp is-bass-3,middle 5,treble-7. [/quote] S'ackcherly bass - 0, middle - 10, treble - 0. Frequency response plots: http://epublish.panaprint.com/publication/?i=76122&p=70

I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road... Dirty old river Must you keep rolling Flowing into the night... It was Christmas eve, babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me Won't see another one...

Struggle even with BV's myself, but just popped in to mention Joey Spampinato from NRBQ... Ooh, and the very honourable Nick Lowe. Have a gander at this. The relaxed bastard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ZZtkYTI3o

Very nice Dano replica/improvement, no longer made, hence sought after. I was watching this one but it's too steep for me. US prices are around $1250-$1600.

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]^ That happened to me there once a few years ago, and worse, the guy who ordered my case to be left behind the counter was Pete Austin, a street legend who sold me my first Gibson 20 years before and had been a decent acquaintance ever since. I thought he was joking: he was not. I didn't go back in there for a while.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]On the other hand, if you go to big stores in the US, like Guitar Center in LA, you have to hand in everything at the desk as a matter of course. There must have been some incident, and I got the crossfire. PIssed me off royally, though.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I toyed with the idea of a Denmark St book for a while and have a fair few contacts going back to the 70s and 80s, but the truth in that business is hard to find. Plus, I can't face doing a book again...[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]So big up cybertect for doing the cool interview/photography thing, it's well overdue. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Mind you, I'm still pissed off at Brian for blatantly misrepresenting a guitar to a mate. A lot of their stuff is wrong.[/font][/color]

I can't comment on the green/black thing, but is a black scratchplate likely to be original on ANY '69 Precision? On a natural finish, maybe? Not casting aspersions, just interested to find out.

Not bass, but equipment related... When I was about 25 I moved to Cambridge for a new job and rented a room in a terraced house owned by a woman about my age. One night at 3 a.m. I was awoken by a terrible din from downstairs. Ran down, opened the door to the front room, switched on the light and the hi-fi was on absolute full blast with the cassette machine running. The lady of the house then stormed out of her room upstairs to demand why I'd woken her up. There was nobody else in the house, and no animals. All the doors and windows were secure. I knew the tape machine hadn't been left on pause, as the pause button didn't work. We also never had the hi-fi turned up above about 3, because one of the speakers was blown. I just stood there trying to work it out, with the chills beginning to run up my spine. She never believed it wasn't me...

I play dives One regular gig of ours changes landlords every six months or less. The punters get worse and worse. A while ago, a drunk coked-up tosser started poking his fingers in the keyboard player's face. Our driver (big, but about 70) warns him off. Punter goes to glass him. Sax player steps out and nuts the drunk, who goes down like a sack of spuds. Locals drag him out by the heels and gaily throw him on a garden table. Another night, when thank goodness a different band was playing, there was a traveller fight, and it ended with every window being done, from the outside, with cobblestones. I loathe this kind of stuff, but you're generally ok in the band. It's more often a sh*t sound that pisses me off

There is no answer You just have to trawl the web, try to sort wheat from chaff on opinions, make a guess, plump money down. Trying amps in stores has only given me the vaguest idea, ever. A kind friend lent me one of the best-regarded 500W Class D amps for a month and it took me almost that long to discover that in my band, it didn't work nearly as well as my old amp. You could hire... but at £75 (really?) you'd do far better buying a mint one secondhand, having a proper try, and selling on.

That sounds tempting, and up to £50 coming your way would surely be nice too. But isn’t Barefaced’s offer intended to reach out to players who haven't heard of them before - i.e. people you actually meet at one of your gigs? As opposed to people on Basschat, who have ALL heard of Barefaced? Not sayin' you're out of order, exactly, but... spirit of the thing, old chap, and all that… hm?

So could I, as it looks early '60s to me too....! I think the date is a red herring or a mis-read. Wiki says EL84s were developed in 1953, EZ80s in 1954. Reboxed Watkins Westminster, or a homebuilt copy, is a possibility... we may never know... sigh.

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Dansette's a good call actually as their record players did use that exact type of ICI-made salt-and-pepper grille cloth for a time. As did Marshall, around '63-'64. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I spent a bit of time on this and none of the usual non-famous suspects seem to fit - Elpico, Supertone, Grampian, Shaftesbury, Futurama, Geloso, Eko, etc etc. [/font][/color]

I'm quite a fan of the Orange, but it's very very powerfuI. If your Fradan cab was built in Lancashire in the '60s it'll probably have a weedy Goodmans speaker in it or similar. The Terror Bass will destroy that in pretty short order.

Retensioning the battery snap would be my next port of call.

[quote name='elephantgrey' timestamp='1431135384' post='2768202'] looks like the cheapest option thats isolated is [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/artec_cpb12_power_brick.htm"]this[/url] one, but not much room for expansion. [/quote] This source (it's pretty good) says that one's not isolated, just regulated... [url="http://stinkfoot.se/archives/808"]http://stinkfoot.se/archives/808[/url] ^Shockwave, have you checked that site for ideas?

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Most pretentious band name ever has to be !!!.

[quote name='Pow_22' timestamp='1430483236' post='2761870'] Did you use like-for-like gauge on the Pyramids i.e 45-105? [/quote] I can't find the package but I have a feeling mine are 40, 55, 75, 105.

I used to use 760FS's. I threw my old set back on a while ago, and was shocked. No idea how I used to cope. It's a wonder my hands didn't explode. *Much later edit: I was wrong. The silks are blue so they were 760M's, or even Jamersons, with a 109 E. No wonder.* My next route was TI's. I still have them on one bass but I never liked the tone. Been on Pyramids for about three years. Excellent feel, nice easy tension though more than TI's, a warm, dark sound. I had a dead E: seems like a common complaint. I sent Pyramid a nice letter and they sent me a replacement for free.

Gotoh Resolites. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/248905-gotoh-resolites-ooh-lovely/page__p__2599802#entry2599802

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmR3p3-LN94"]https://www.youtube....h?v=KmR3p3-LN94[/url] This clip (decent view around 2:00)? Black guard with thumbrest below... that implies about '74, give or take... Tricky, as the video colour is pretty bad. I must say my first thought is a refin. If the guard is right, then Daphne had gone by that time.

I'm another who has had to learn to handle this well. Deflection's good for me too. "Thanks very much, it's great to see you" or "Oh cheers, thanks for dropping down, we're really enjoying it" always goes okay, and if there's an awkward moment, I turn it back on them... for instance ask where they've come from ("Oh wow, from Catford??? Amazing!!") or ask if they could hear everything okay in the room (guy punters always enjoy this, and usually give an answer which I nod seriously to and then ignore). I try never to say *thanks, but I was having a nightmare" as it's contradicting them, in a way. A firm handshake and repeating "Nice one, cheers" usually ends it okay. Drunks are something else. I had one recently who was repeatedly over-effusive in that particular manner which in reality is only an fraction away from calling you a twat and lamping you. Nasty.

Hope you score those tickets, dude. I never saw the Stones... and I LOVE the Stones. Out of all their support acts, I'd most have loved to see the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in '69. Aww, Tina... show mercy to them poor skinny white boys! I met Ike once, but that's a long story....