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I should have one in my sticky little hands on Monday. I doubt it would cope with a great deal of volume - I'll try comparing it with a BC house jam micro cab plus TC BAM200 when it gets here.

Apart from the gob-iron, that's what we do. If space is very limited, one of the guitarists goes through the PA too. Our set-up is two Alto TS308s as FOH and two Alto TS408s as floor wedges, and an XR18 for mixing. With a brace of Gravity stands, it comes in at under £1.5k brand new (with TS408s instead of the TS308s), if you got a second-hand XR12 it would be a couple of hundred quid cheaper. We've never had any complaints about the sound quality.

I tell a lie, I've used a split and two parallel channels both using the Line 6 Pitch Echo which combines delay and pitch shift. I'm sure there is another one which has two parallel pitch/delay paths, unless that's in the MOD Dwarf.

The HX Stomp has an effect which combines pitch shift and delay. I've used it to emulate a 12-string bass (well, a 15-string, but that's splitting hairs) as it has two separate parallel routes of delay and pitch shift. Can't remember if they can be diverted to L or R specifically.

Normally I eschew Amazon because Jeff Bezos. However...

Doing a search for "michael mason fraud leicester" brings up quite a few results but all the Facebook links and the links to police pages lead nowhere.

He's done many excellent videos on Youtube. Well worth watching, although almost as time consuming as Project Binky.

AliExpress special? 😁

I think you'd need a slight delay (a few milliseconds) on one channel to sound like two basses - perfect unison isn't.

Cort and Ibanez both manage to protect their tuners - Cort by having a complete cutaway (also see Hohner and Sei), Ibanez by having a scoop out of the front of the bass. Neither of them put the 12th fret much further away than having the tuners dangling off the end. The pickups seem strangely orientated - they don't match up with the increasing angles of the frets so if it was a parallel fret design, they'd be leaning over rather than across the strings. I know Warwick and Ritter both do leaning pickups (Thumb bridge, Ritter neck) but they lean the opposite way. Their Veil bass at least has pickups that lean the right way, although the body shape should appeal to even fewer people as it's singlecut.

Appears to be if you join Prime, otherwise it's 3.5 times that.

Can't see any signs of him in https://courtlistings.co.uk/magistrates-court-listings/leicester#past-section PS: Mick Mason, not Danny Sapko.

Got halfway there, hit a traffic jam just as the singer rang me so I answered - drummer's car had gone titsup so rehearsal cancelled. Trickled along the M6 to junction 7, turned round, and came home.

I was trying to remember who did the "basses against a fence" photo years ago. That was impressive. @cetera?

And there was me expecting

Although with Gardiner Houlgate, the buyer's fee and seller's fee total around 50% so the seller gets about 50% of what the seller pays (about 75% of the hammer price).

I suspect that shipping from the USA would make it prohibitively expensive for most of us.

These days, if you say you're English you get arrested and put in jail.

Call me Botus Fleming.

Eden Glowplug Tube Warmer - bass distortion pedal. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116789082040 Description: "The Eden Glowplug Tube Warmer Pedal is a processor designed to keep music producers and beat makers warm during long studio sessions. This innovative device, created by the brand Eden, features a Glowplug model that efficiently emits heat, ensuring users stay comfortable while working tirelessly on their music projects. The pedal design allows for easy control of the temperature, providing a convenient solution for maintaining a comfortable environment in the studio."

If you mean they were stiff, they might be improved by the thrust washer mod - just do a search for "thrust washer" and you'll find it.

And white spirit, meths, or isopropyl alcohol (whichever you prefer the taste of) to get any gummy residue off. NB: for external application only. Contents may settle during transit. May contain nuts.

The annual Ride to the Wall happens today, and as the Wall in question is about 15 miles from Tamworth, some people ride up the day before and stay in hotels. One of those hotels was the Liberal House, where one of my bands (appropriately, The Bonnevilles) finished up playing. I started to set up and realised that I'd managed to forget my amp - I'm used to getting all of the gear out of the garage and as I don't do the PA for The Bonnevilles, I'd got distracted by moving the bits I didn't need out of the way. Still, it was only a 15 minute round trip to pick it up. We had to fit into an alcove so tiny that the guitarist finished up outside it, and the drummer was sitting on the bench seat in the alcove, as was my cab (on its side). I'd brought a headed bass - rather stupidly, I didn't think to pick up a headless when I went back for the amp. Audience was mainly bikers ("They like both kinds of music - rhythm AND blues"), a large proportion of whom were wearing fleeces/trackies with RCT RIDERS emblazoned on them - Royal Corps of Transport. Mrs Zero sat and talked with some of them - it was the first time she'd seen me with The Bonnevilles, her hip replacement had rather interfered with coming to see us before. All went well, though because the bikers had to get up early, a lot of them buggered off to bed before we finished at spot on 11. Gear: Antoniotsai 5-string dragon bass -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> supine GR Bass AT212. Footwear as usual but damper than normal.

I can't imagine having enough storage space to pack away all my basses.

It's been a good few years since this thread got posted to. So here's my headless fretless Original 5: The headless Flamboyant 5: The Flamboyant 6: And the Sei Jazz 5, aka the Basschat Bike: