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[quote name='thinman' post='148102' date='Feb 27 2008, 09:09 PM']Well, what would you consumer affairs experts do here or am I asking too much? Ashdown still have no spare MAG transformers. I've been without the amp for 6 weeks now waiting on repair. I don't think that's reasonable. Each time I ask when to expect the transformers it's "two weeks". Needless to say I'm not too impressed with Ashdown. I've suggested they source an off-the-shelf transformer if they can't provide their own (I'm sure some equivalent exists) and have now asked they simply exchange the head if they can't repair mine. No response to either. Exasperated bloke.[/quote] Can you not try and wangle a loan from Ashdown? It's the least they could do.

I wouldn't bother with a rack bag for anyting over 4U. Even 4U is pushing it- every 4U bag I've owned has ended up in the bin! If you want light and portable, you could get two smaller rack bags or cases - one for your head/power amp and one for your outboard gear.

Do you mind driving from Shropshire to the Dorset coast?

I think the extended's T&Cs are probably the result of his dealings with some of the kinds of ebayers we love to discuss on this forum. He probably gets hassle from every seller asking him to fiddle the value of the instrument on the customs declaration. The same buyers would probably then get shirty if the instrument they've bought gets trashed in the post and the compensation is about enough to buy a replacement made of balsa wood.

the very helpful Bassthing68/BT68/Thumper who can now be found on Finnbass was very nice and stamped 4 holes in a Badass II of mine to enable it to be used with through body stringing. If you contact him via Finnbass he may be able to help.

[quote name='Merton' post='142740' date='Feb 18 2008, 08:58 PM']Cheers Hans, nice to meet ya [/quote] Likewise. So, do they sound OK or can you pick up the World Service on them?

I'd be inclined to post a follow up comment to the effect that you kept buyer in the loop and that claim is currently in progress. Send off the forms to Royal Mail and if you get your £36 then send it to him less the cost of postage - he's ripping off Royal Mail after all. If he complains, tough - he should have paid you for special delivery. A lot of ebayers get all flustered about negative feedback. The system's compromised as it is anyway and everyone knows there's ways around it.

I have a pair of Trace Elliot badged 12AX7s taken from my mate's Trace Elliot 4 x 8" V-Type combo. I don't need them and I know there are a few forum members who go a bit funny at the knees at the mention of anything TE-related, so I thought I'd offer them up for free. Might be great, might be microphonic. Anyone interested? I'm around 5 miles from J9 of the M25

They are American Standard series and I believe they are cheap because they have been sitting around in Sound Control since the great flood.

I swap between standard and Drop A alot and, to be honest, it takes a few seconds to double check your tuning. A hipshot would be fine - it's just dropping the strings down two steps and the tension on the B is much less than on the other strings.

[quote name='queenofthedepths' post='138912' date='Feb 12 2008, 03:19 PM']Well, I just checked and there is indeed a tiny little pause but I've never noticed it before and I actually switch between stomp box mode and patch mode quite often! So I guess that demonstrates that the pause is pretty much insignificant... +1 on pretty much all of that - I use the distortion together with my ODB3 and together they sound awesome; to get some of the stuff to sound great it helps to twiddle a lot but that's a good thing, I suppose - you can get a lot of different sounds out of it... as for using 2 effects together, I guess that's where you have to start buying individual pedals to supplement your multi-effects! Buy the ones you like the best as individual units and use the ME for everything else[/quote] Funnily enough, I'm probably going to do just that. I got my Boss ME50B along with a Boss loopstation, so I'm going through something of an epiphany in terms of Boss Effects pedals.

I own a ME50B. I used to own a Line 6 and much prefer the BOSS. + Points Plus in and go - default mode is manual, so no playing around with patches It's lovely and compact The compressor/limiter is great The chorus is good and chorus + delay and +reverb effects are very good Battery powered Very, very good tuner Built like a brick sh*thouse - Points The Phaser and Flanger in manual mode are too loud and distort The synths aren't very musical The distortions sound odd and very weedy The way the effects are distributed is a little odd For example - distortion + synth is an obvious pairing, but it can't be done, because both kinds of effects are controlled by the one pedal/control knobs Delay/Phaser + reverb or delay is another obvious pairing, but can't be done for the same reason. As with all multi FX, there are trade-offs, but where the Boss does win is the decent tuner, compressor and modulation effects

I love my Monster cables. Then again, I got them on special when Andertons were flogging them for 50% after buying all of the ex-UK distributor's stock. Granted, they were around £30 each, but I've had them for over 7 years now.

Tough crowd. Some people seem to forget that everyone on ebay has got to start somewhere. Of course, they could simply build up by buying and selling utter tat, but someone would pick up on that too.

[quote name='Perry' post='137016' date='Feb 9 2008, 10:39 AM']I'm GASing for a P Bass, but I have a few questions. 1 Will it sound the same as my Jazz (MIA) if I dont use the humbuckers? 2 Whats the difference with the P basses (Standard/squire/Mexican/usa/Jap) ? The prices vary quite a lot.[/quote] You should pop along to [url="http://www.audereaudio.com"]Audere Audio[/url] and treat yourself to JZ3D preamp. Your MIA Deluxe Jazz will sound wonderful afterwards. I honestly can't believe how much more amazing my bass sounds.

I was having one of my all too frequent bouts of insomnia last night/this morning and spent a while of the fender youtube channel in the hope that it might send me off to sleep. Fender have brought out a new Amercian Standard range featuring lots of refinements 1) Thinner finish 2) New bridges with heavier steel plate and brass saddles 3) Better hard cases. 4) New Hipshot lookalike lightweight tuners So, I'd expect quite a few stores to start discount the previous generation of Amercian Standard basses at somepoint to make way for the new range. Might be a chance to bag a USA bass for Japanese money.

A [url="http://"http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250212817584&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=015"]Reggie Hamilton Bass[/url] went for£296 on ebay this morning. I was this close to trying to snipe it for£300 when I turned at looked at my twokids sitting on the sofa and common sense kicked in. What a bargain though!!!