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LukeFRC

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  1. my input is that I tend to wear cheap socks. Then a friend won a competition with Bridgedale and won a weekend away for them and us... and a load of socks. They really do make a difference, even just padding around work in normal shoes. obviously few of us are 'just padding around work' at the moment but you get the idea!
  2. It’s beautiful!
  3. BIN price the same, no reserve ... bloody clever idea if it is a new feature. Nice looking bass too shame about the wear of the finish
  4. for some reason I didn't get an email telling me. Are there a lot?
  5. So I'm watching a Tokai jazz on eBay. Not going to buy but at some point stuck it on my watch list. Log into eBay for something else and the seller has sent me an offer with a lower price in it! Not something I've seen before - is it a new feature?
  6. so update on this - a few months on, a few conclusions 5 strings: not life changing, not awful. Switching now from 5 back to 4 the "oh this is simpler" is now mixed with "oh there's not the notes where I want them." Glad I am trying it out! This bass: jury is still out. The instrument itself is amazingly lovely, but not loving either/both the preamp and pickups. I understand why prominent 55-94 player @lowregisterhead had switched them. I find the preamp just a bit annoying. Whereas my two other active bass have a great sound passive and the active lets you tweak that in a nice way this 3 band seems a lot harder to coax nice sounds out of.
  7. It’s just two weeks ago if someone had asked me what basses Andy Travis played I would have been able to give a fairly good guess. I wouldn’t have guessed one Marcus Miller!! (not really bright colour enough for you?!)
  8. surely the one on the right is an interloper who has sneaked in.... is that two Marcus Millers??? Not one, two.
  9. give the seller his due he has apologised in a status update. BTW where in NE UK are you @Mike Rennie? Aberdeenshire?
  10. I got my first 5 string last year. I expected to either hate it, or find it life changing. It's neither. It's an extra string and a few more notes Mine has similar string spacing to my 4s, and I've a reasonable right hand position so I found the change to be really easy. It took a while to work out which string was which without looking but simple enough. Muting strings is a bit more challenging.
  11. Thanks - you’ve now got me wanting to either buy one of them things, or work entirely in Pantone inks!
  12. That looks good. With my work computer I bother about that, but not used anything like that - looks really neat solution. this was done on my personal laptop so colour calibration could be way off - but if you see how quickly I did the reflections and shadows accuracy wasn’t really the aim. Half the problem is that my monitor could be calibrated but there’s such a range of setups for the source images I’m grabbing off line to act as a sample!
  13. ps open it in acrobat on a desktop... - should have learned the HTML option!
  14. there's a bug - something is making the button for black disappear... hold on I'll fix it done!
  15. MY D.I.Y. Jazz BASS CONFIGORATOR! Last year I got my first ever 5 string. I don't know if I'm actually loving the bass, but it looks beautiful in a lovely metallic red. I'm cooped up, and doing the thing we all do where we we imagine what we would get instead... or if I refinished my main bass to look nicer. So we all love a good configurator don't we? Two of the best are Maruszczyk and Sandberg where you can play to your hearts content. They are great. The only problem I have is some of the colours are, well not what I want to see... They obviously are making and selling basses and showing the colours they have. I read something @wateroftyne put on facebook was how he get a Limelight precision and asked them for this lovely aged Lake placid blue... which is a lot softer than his brighter Maruszczyk... This is what I wanted to see - find a way to mock up my bass with a range of bright custom colours... including "new and aged tones." Originally starting with something a bit cartoon like I found the photo of MY bass the shop had used... so used that as a base... its a Metro Will Lee So I started at ManchesterGuitarTech's supply of paints (ie what's available) and then armed with the internet looked up a whole load of Fender custom colours from the 60's, then a few more whacky 50's colours too. (and thanks to @gareth writing something about it, the 1981 international range too) - I can't promise any of the colours are "accurate", and some of them ended up being tweaked multiple times based on internet trawls of dozens of finished guitars... At the end I've stuck in an aged dark Lake placid blue that I had seen Sadowsky use on @AndyTravis's Metro PJ, a couple of G&L colours (one I own in a transparent colour, and one I love), and some glitter metal flake, cos who doesn't love metal flake? They are all my quick bodge together on photoshop. I really haven't spent long on these so some of the shadows look a bit odd on some colours. I've got a couple of pick guards... so I stuck them in, plus a few more for the craic... and then stuck some filters on to badly mimic different neck woods... and then bodged a painted headstock... So hopefully fun to play with.. I think there's somewhere like 2,500 different combos available! The other reason I wanted to do this was to learn the switching technique for a PDF. HTML is a better way to do it like Maruszczyk have, but I'm not a web dev and it would have taken me more than a couple of evenings looking up vintage Fenders... Enjoy. Feed back any glaring mistakes or colours that are way way off.... v1.1 - bug fix on "black" button disappearing when you clicked on desert sand NEEDS TO BE DOWNLOADED AND OPENED IN ACROBAT Bass_config_SadowskyWL_v1.1.pdf
  16. I prefer @skej21 over @stewblack
  17. Check that before buying one. From my understanding the control ability will work with the newer Variax but not the older generation of which the bass is part of
  18. Thing is I think the bass is too old to talk to helix. So you’re on hd500
  19. I would be interested in how well something like the variax works live for bass... does the pa eq need to change for every song?
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