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"Oh bugger, we forgot to put in the pickup switch".

[quote name='topo morto' timestamp='1395778827' post='2406257'] Seeing all these from G4M does put me off buying anything from them... [/quote] They're not aiming at you though, they're going for the relic market.

Another Crate Powerblock user here. I have a lead to get rid of the added distortion. It's small enough to live permamently in the car so it's always there for gigs.

[quote name='theyellowcar' timestamp='1395647765' post='2404574'] Welcome to the club. You will never leave. [/quote] I did.

Looks like there's a Nady wireless included too.

Chris May brought some of the Tanglewaters to a Moffat bass bash either two or three years ago, which were from the first batch to come in. I was impressed by them - seemed very good quality.

And another.

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain. Specifically the outro.

Headstock shape seems to be modelled on the Kay Rickenfakers. It looks no better on this.

It's real, and, indeed, a bargain. Fortunately I got somewhat more for the Zephyr and the Mazeti. And I didn't put them on BC (or elsewhere) simply because I wanted to sell them in a fairly short time rather than have them hang around for ever.

Body count, surely - there were quite a few of us with headlesses. A neck count wouldn't have worked either, with Dave P's Status Plus. Good to meet a few more people and re-meet others. Special thanks to Alan for organising and for suggesting where I might be able to improve my fretless technique and Jennifer for giving me a few minutes tuition on the subject, so I now have something to work on and a clear idea of what to do. Also thanks to Sean and Sandy for the basseokey, and my apologies to them for the hash I made of "Stuck in the middle". Oh, and Mrs Zero has promised me an ACG bass for my 60th birthday, so I'd better be sure to live that long.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1394845141' post='2396014'] People are constantly setting of fireworks in Edinburgh. If it's not for the festival it's for Hogmanay. [/quote] A bit early for the festival, a bit late for Hogmonay, and 60 miles from Edinburgh. It was probably just to welcome us to the town, as was the howling of the pack of wolves somewhere down the high street at 8:00 this morning.

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1394868455' post='2396067'] Well the starting price has gone up another £500 overnight. When the bass went up on Wed/or Thurs, it was £5000 with no headstock decal. It now has headstock decals and £6499. [/quote] And all that price jiggling means that you would only get 5000 Nectar points. I'm out.

So, is that ParcelFarce or Yokel?

You can't fault the honesty of the description...

I'm typing this from the Balmoral Hotel. For anyone coming up from a southerly direction along the M6/M74, I should warn you that there are quite a lot of roadworks. For some reason, someone was letting off fireworks a bit earlier, and at 9:20 a pair of local lovers could be heard under our window screaming romantically at each other such endearments as "what the f*** are you going on about" and "why don't you just f*** off". Had haggis, neeps and tatties a little earlier and it was jolly nice. That's a lovely giant wicker man they've got in the back garden of the hotel.

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1389736926' post='2337446'] I've recently inherited the two that my father owned. The oldest he acquired during WWII in exchange for a Luger pistol. [/quote] With slightly more imaginative use of the Luger pistol, he could have had it for free.

It also looks like the neck has no taper to it.

Sennheiser HD419.

If you compare the specs of the MiBass 550 and the Superfly, the MiBass says it's 550W output while the Superfly says it's 2 x 250W. I think it's reasonable to deduce that the MiBass has a single power module.

[quote name='allighatt0r' timestamp='1389273210' post='2332169'] G30 Update - The crap little plastic bit which holds the metal clip onto the transmitter broke off, i now have to attach the transmitter to the strap using tape at the start of each gig. Less than ideal. These G30s are capable, but not really cut out for a hard life of gigging, I suppose that's the point of the G50 and G90 units. [/quote] My G50 transmitter got pulled off my strap at a recent gig and hit the floor, and the battery door broke into its component parts. I'm waiting for Line6 UK to come back to me on the availability of a replacement (I know you can get them but the only websites with them are in the US and don't ship internationally). Although the door is metal, the latch and slidey bit is plastic, and two tiny screws hold the inner bit to the outer bit and break the plastic bosses that they screw into.

You need to start off by working out which of the assorted types of multiFX would suit you best. Basically, there's three and a half types. First is the type where patch selection is simply by going up or down the list of patches. OK if you use the same sound all the way through a song, less so if you're changing sounds in a song. Examples are the Zoom B1 and Digitech BP200. Second is the type where you select patches by selecting a bank initially, then select from the patches in that bank by pressing one of several footswitches. Makes it easier to select a patch at any time. Tend to be fairly rigid in the signal chain, ie. you'll get a chain which roughly speaking contains a preamp, distortion, reverb, and modulation. Examples are the Korg AX3000B and Boss GT10B. Third is the stompbox emulator. That emulates a series of stompboxes. If you are looking to replace a series of stompboxes which you don't change the settings on much but do switch the individual stompboxes on and off, it's probably the best solution. Means you can have (eg.) a flanger, chorus, and, er, another chorus, or a number of distortions all in a single signal chain. That's the Zoom B3. I think there's some multieffects of the second type that will work in stompbox mode too. Number three and a half is the Zoom MS30B, which works as a chain of stompboxes. You can opt to have it cycle through a series of patches as per type 1, or have three of the stompboxes in the chain set to on or off and then switch the fourth stompbox by means of the footswitch.

Has there been any progress? It all seems to have gone a little quiet...

I've got a Puma 900. For smaller gigs I use it with a TC RS112, which is a 200W cab. I just don't turn it up a long way. For the bigger gigs I've got a Tech Soundsystems 4x10 which will handle 1200W.

[quote name='philw' timestamp='1394016156' post='2386866'] The strings on the six string are upside down 'cause there's no room between the two necks to fit a hand without having it stuck there permanently. That's bloody fantastic that is - presumably the creative genius behind the thing only realised this small problem once the hacking about had begun. [/quote] Or you could be charitable and assume that the genius in question was attempting to make a tapping instrument. I can't think why Messrs. Chapman, Warr, and, er, Mobius haven't yet come up with an entirely fretless tapping instrument - the half-fretless Chapman Stick just shows a lack of commitment.