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[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1401282441' post='2461989'] Maya Jazz pickup only in Andover with an electrical fault. I must admit that when I see a passive bass with no sound, I have quite optimistic thoughts about the possibility of fixing it. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maya-electric-bass-guitar-/321417004541?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4ad5f245fd"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item4ad5f245fd[/url] [/quote] Looks like the control plate isn't screwed on and two knobs are missing, which is a reasonable indicator that someone without much clue has been rummaging (if they had got a clue, they'd have fixed it). If you're fairly confident of picking up a soldering iron by the right end, worst case scenario is a brace of cheapie pickups (£15) and maybe a set of pots (under a fiver I should think). If you can use a multimeter too, you're way ahead of the game...

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1401015079' post='2459056'] It occurs to me that it's probably an offensive term in North America (and probably other English speaking countries like Australia & NZ) because significant numbers of people of Japanese origin live in those countries. In the UK there's been little or no immigration from Japan, so there's less perception of the term as an expression of bigotry - at least not that I've ever been aware of. [/quote] In other countries, Jap is the pejorative term. In the UK, Nip is the pejorative for Japanese, Jap is just an abbreviation.

I used one of the 4x10 combos a couple of nights ago at rehearsal (trying out a new rehearsal studio). Same model as I had a few years ago, my back went into spasm just looking at it. It did remind me why I sold my combo (and, come to that, my head that I bought some other time - I must be a slow learner) - enormously heavy yet pathetically weedy, not even able to get on level terms with a medium-loudness drummer despite being turned up to full whack.

Just realised that I never came back to this, and now I have another question... I went with the SRM450V2s in the end, as there were some B-stock on That Ebay for a good price. One of the two was DOA but quickly replaced, and I've had no problems since then, although I haven't played a huge number of gigs with them. I generally use them with a little Behringer mixer (Xenyx 1002B). The guitarist in one of the bands (that'll be the guitarist who always turns up just too late to help unloading the gear from the car) has now started whittering on about micing up the drums. I've started putting a bit of kick through the PA (especially as the drummer has still not replaced his head that went through six months ago and is still using the front head instead). Should I be looking at a sub now, and if so is there something active, cheap, small, light, and yet with the sound of angels? Should I be telling the drummer to pull his finger out and get the bass head replaced? Should I be telling the guitarist that he carries the sub in and out?

What aboutr trimming them down and soldering the end to hold the winding in place?

I don't have any problems with the tuner, either on the B3 or the MS60B.

[quote name='gafbass02' timestamp='1400606386' post='2455424'] Cheers, the body previously had a side jack/through body, both are now defunct features. I plan on having a see through pickguard made by bass doc when he's feeling better. I'm also picking up a walnut one! [/quote] If a standard Jazz pickguard will fit it, I believe eboclive has some clear ones.

I suspect an erratic finger as he's had it up before for £275, which may be a little optimistic but is at least in the right ballpark, as opposed to being on a different continent altogether.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1400627721' post='2455694'] I'm guessing this is a Kay: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-Bass-Guitar-With-Case-/181416173495?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a3d3f1fb7"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item2a3d3f1fb7[/url] [/quote] Must be a fast player, it's got no brakes.

I may live to regret this, and then again I may learn something. Speculation on the bride position is welcome. Well, inevitable. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chapman-Stick-10-string-Touchboard-1980-790-hot-rodded-custom-pickups-HOT-/261485249427"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chapman-Stick-10-string-Touchboard-1980-790-hot-rodded-custom-pickups-HOT-/261485249427[/url]

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1400269561' post='2452555'] Junk bass advice may be quite important soon. The other week I was going swimming and was going through the countryside. There was a utterly huge field full of cars. When we got closer, it was an utterly massive car boot fair. This photo from google images doesn't do it justice IMHO. [/quote] That's impressive - where is it?

I think you'd be paying 22.7% of the total cost (ie. price plus shipping) as it should be 2.7% duty and 20% VAT. [url="http://www.dutycalculator.com/hs-lookup/137477/hs-tariff-code-for-electronics/"]http://www.dutycalculator.com/hs-lookup/137477/hs-tariff-code-for-electronics/[/url]

I have both but generally use the MS60B (very small stage footprint and fits nicely alongside a wireless receiver with a cranked jack connector). I have the four effects I most often use in one patch - in any one song I'll only switch one of them, though I may have more than one on, so I just use the left and right buttons to go to the effect I'll be switching.

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Most enjoyable, nice to meet up with lots more BCers that I've not met before and with one face from the past that I haven't seen for 15 years or more.

With a bit of judicious use of spacers, he could make that into a 5-string guitar for people with big hands.

The dearer one also doesn't have a broken original pot. Or maybe it does and he hasn't mentioned it. Having had as close a look as I can to the grain pattern, they do seem to be two different basses. Presumably he really liked natural Ps from 1978.

She'd probably notice when the house starts to tilt.

PS. A google for "guitar stand playing position" gets you quite a few stands like you want. "walk-up stand" seems to be the term most generally used.

I can't stand up for more than about 30 minutes without severe pain in my back (soft tissue damage from a bad motorcycle accident in 2001) so I have a stool on stage and when I need to sit down, I do. Should I ever play at a corporate event, that's what I'd do too. If you can't go down the stool route (have you discussed it with the rest of the band?) then I recommend getting yourself a wheelchair and being pushed on stage, then you can play sitting down all evening and no-one would dare sack you.

The neck on the Zephyr, if the 4-string models are directly comparable to the 5s, would be a bit chunkier than the neck on the Grind. That's why I sold my Zephyr 5 - great instrument which oozed quality but the neck just wasn't for me.

Actually, no, I didn't. I like the look of it, it's got a lovely neck, and the sound is good, if not earth-shattering. I may put in new pickups and preamp at some point but it doesn't actually need them. The Peavey Grind is another nice looker - IMNSHO the natural is the better look, though, and that's £329 for a 4-string, while the black version slides in at £299.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1399159094' post='2441716'] Probably for the best. [/quote] They must have borrowed Ford's ugly stick for that one.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1399048355' post='2440488'] I think it's the standard basschat member progression. We start off talking on topic and being reasonable. We proceed to going way off topic even from post two in a thread and lose all claim to reasonbleness. Then we get to stage three where we still go immediately way off topic and have no claim to reasonableness, but believe that we are staying on topic and being reasonable. [/quote] Having spent many years in newsgroups before the interwebs arrived, I can only say that a thread that fails to go off-topic in the first post is far too unadventurous.