LukeFRC

well it belongs to a bass chatter if I remember rightly. interesting control cavity... I've a feeling that mr Letts is still working out how to solder... and I'm not sure the shielding does much with the big gaps in it...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1433751257' post='2793509'] Really? It seems every time I leave the house I'm surrounded by useless, feckless bastards! How did that happen?? [/quote] thats more to do with where you live i think.

put the musicman in it's case and hide it right under your bed - if in two months or so you wouldn't notice if it were sold then sell it. the 3rd option is stop being a guitarist and sell that instead!

[quote name='FuNkShUi' timestamp='1433401404' post='2790700'] Dont fall for it. Its a trick!!! [/quote] trying too!

so if I wanted to sell my BB1200 best way, I should send you a PM with my paypal address in the next few hours?

[quote name='Bassistclem' timestamp='1431432965' post='2771244'] Still use a BB1100s myself. The actives no longer work but I use the bass as my 'foam dampened flat wounded thump' bass. Sounds as good as any P bass I've used for the job... [/quote] and your old BB400 was good - which ended up with me finding my BB1200 (what's wrong with the actives?) [quote name='mrtcat' timestamp='1433417572' post='2790870'] This is all very encouraging. I just bought a early 90s Japanese TRB5 from ebay for £460. It [b]appears[/b] to be in really good nick but won't get my hands on it until it arrives in next few days. If it's anything like as good as other Yamaha's I've owned then I'm sure I'm going to love it. [/quote] Lucky thing - a TRB would be my choice to try as a first 5er - actually thats not the worst idea in the world....

So I spend a year and a bit trying bass rig stuff, swapping and changing and then score an awesome green tolex mesa walkabout which sounds amazing and is perfect for me.... then I look in the "for sale section" for parts for a bass I'm doing up... within hours I'm looking through the basses for sale to see what I can find. (tbh a bitsa isn't a cheap option) - oh but what if I sold this bass too - then I could afford that.... then I'm looking through the amps for sale... and then someone who had an amp I was trying to buy gets in contact and offers me it... and suddenly from having the amp I've been looking for, in a form factor that suits me I'm thinking of swapping and changing. Madness I tell you.

secondhand yamaha bb are the best bargains out there at the mo.

looks great! silly low prices on some of the stuff in their shop too.

[quote name='zacclowes' timestamp='1433107908' post='2787971'] i buy and sell used gear all the time looking for that sound i want. there should be some sort of gas clause all the stuff i buy I plan to and do use myself but if i dont like it i just sell it on and look for my next pedal, bass amp, bass..... that i think will be "THE SOUND!". a lot is through paypal and bank transfers so idk how much note there is of that. and i dont really keep notes myself after stuff is gone......... is this something theyre likely to get pissy about and investigate? [/quote] do you make much profit? In most of our exp GAS costs rather than earns

Wonder how many gigs you have to play a year before that income would be considered taxable - I guess you could just make sure your expenditure in strings and new basses was bigger every year so you never made a profit... anyway - good - I used to work for a internet business selling on ebay - and it was galling that you would get people selling the same thing as you for half the price as they wouldn't have to pay VAT, business tax, business rates or income tax and nat. insurance on their income. There's always going to be the story of the grandmother who sells 2 knitted hats a month and gets a unfair fine but there will be loads more seriously screwing the system. One way to find out is google street view the business address... we had a massive warehouse and a team of 12 people, and other companies in our marketplace would sell far more than us out of a small 2 bedroom semi detached house... hmmm

http://www.japanvintageguitars.com/History.html

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trace-Elliot-Revo-8-Speaker-Set-/261902514978?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cfa9b3b22 what are these? PA speakers? Studio monitors? google has failed me in information about old trace elliot stuff

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1433000474' post='2786953'] with each coil selectable in every combination possible. [/quote] except, series parallel.... 3 way switch sounds size going through two blends and a volume would put more loading on the pups. Other way you might not have thought of would be T40 wiring with the coil tap on the tone control, a 3 way switch for selection and phase switch

and... tell us more about the electronics!

I love the vaneer between the body and the top (wenge?) it looks like little blocks cos of the grain!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1432766605' post='2784888'] A Shergold Marathon!! [/quote] there was one of them for sale up here dirt cheap a month ago. swithered on grabbing it and didn't in the end as I didn't want one!

go jam with him- just you, him maybe a drummer - and just make noise and let him improvise over the top of it. Soon learn that way. Plus it's fun. Then you start improvising too... then you learn to know where you're both likely to go so you can play off each other. it's fun

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1432765294' post='2784869'] Well the tobacco burst one went back yesterday and I was supposed to get the caramel one today but the couriers decided that they'd rather deliver it back to the shop that I was buying it from - idiots The upshot is that I will be gigging this weekend with no back up as they can't get one to me until Friday and I'll probably be half way to Aberdeen by the time it arrives. I've spoken with the guy who's been looking after me and he's left it with me to decide what I want to do as originally I had said that if they couldn't get one to me by today then I'd have to cancel the order. I will say that I've had excellent service so far from Yamaha Music London where I bought it from and they've done everything possible to get things sorted out. But it's kind of taken the shine off getting it now so I really don't know what to do. [/quote] messed you about a bit... how much of a discount off a 2025 will they give you?

[quote name='urbanx' timestamp='1432909334' post='2786144'] I'm in exactly the same boat! The Jag has been my workhorse, used every day for nearly a decade. In Hot Rod Red with the matching headstock (phworr) But.... To have it in Daphne Blue.... Oh my... [/quote] that's good to hear - the idea was one of my favourite - and then when they brought it out... it didn't have "amazing" reviews so I never picked one up... it's good to hear that they are "the one" for people. mmmm silver glitter finished jaguar.... mmm