bassbloke

If the Lost Planet/Anchorhead gig is still on for November, you can have a look/go.

What about the [url="http://www.audereaudio.com/#"]Audere[/url]? Hamster has a 3ZB in his Lakland with 4 bands of EQ. I have a JZ3D 3 band with a 2 band about to turn up on my doorstep. It's a very good and, most of all, very musical sounding preamp. I used to really fiddle with the tone controls on my deluxe jazz, now I just use the Z-mode switch and pickup blend and passive tone - the active EQ hardly gets touched.

I think it's a new feature of Internet Explorer - the screen goes white whilst it duplicates your post continuously.

I have nothing but trouble with recharageable batteries in my camera and would never use one in a bass, wireless or pedal. Robert Dyas usually have deals on Duracell and Energizer batteries. Current deal is buy one get one free on twin packs of Energizer 9V for £6.99. That's £1.75 per battery. Not bad!

I'm afraid there's lot of big words in your auction [quote]These items are used. They all have some degree of handling wear to the outer casing and as seen in the listing photograph, some are better/worse than others. The item that you purchase will have been cleaned, oiled and checked and will not have any significant defect that could affect the use of the tools in any way. Please indicate whether you would like a P4 or an S4 and the colour of your choice, you will receive one of the items shown in the listing. If you would like further pictures of one of these particular tool please feel free to contact me and I'll try my best to get back to you as soon as is possible. Please note the winning bidder of my last listing still hasn't indicated which of the above tools they would prefer so be aware that one of them will be sold. In the event they contact me in the next few days I'll amend the listing accordingly.[/quote] Remember you're communicating with utter cretins and keep it really,really simple.

Ask him why Tony Macalpine, Virgil Donati and Billy Sheehan were so bad when they played the Camden Underworld last September. I walked out early.

[quote name='Stickman' post='69668' date='Oct 4 2007, 08:05 PM']No, they are not threaded and nor do they have an Allen key socket unfortunately. I like the contour of the strings to match that of the fingerboard, and my Willis basses have got me accustomed to a pickup that does the same. I need to alter the pole pieces firstly for consistent string to string volume as you'd rightly guessed, and secondly because I sometimes catch my fingertip on the edge of the furthest G-string pole piece...[/quote] Check out the Fender noiseless pickups. The pole pieces are at staggered heights to match the radius of the fingerboard. UK prices are between £80 and £110 on ebay.

[quote name='Stickman' post='69668' date='Oct 4 2007, 08:05 PM']No, they are not threaded and nor do they have an Allen key socket unfortunately. I like the contour of the strings to match that of the fingerboard, and my Willis basses have got me accustomed to a pickup that does the same. I need to alter the pole pieces firstly for consistent string to string volume as you'd rightly guessed, and secondly because I sometimes catch my fingertip on the edge of the furthest G-string pole piece...[/quote] Check out the Fender noiseless pickups. The pole pieces are at staggered heights to match the radius of the fingerboard. UK prices are between £80 and £110 on ebay.

[quote name='Stickman' post='69668' date='Oct 4 2007, 08:05 PM']No, they are not threaded and nor do they have an Allen key socket unfortunately. I like the contour of the strings to match that of the fingerboard, and my Willis basses have got me accustomed to a pickup that does the same. I need to alter the pole pieces firstly for consistent string to string volume as you'd rightly guessed, and secondly because I sometimes catch my fingertip on the edge of the furthest G-string pole piece...[/quote] Check out the Fender noiseless pickups. The pole pieces are at staggered heights to match the radius of the fingerboard. UK prices are between £80 and £110 on ebay.

then again, bosy and electronics are of unknown origin - could be a ply body and some really crappy pickups - maybe even genuine Fender pickups for a standard jazz. So, I'd check ebay for the cost of a mighty mite neck, badass and D-tuner and work on the assumption that the rest is crap.

Nice enough, but I wouldn't pay more than £220 for either of them.

I love the sound of my Audere preamp. The Z-mode coontrol gives you loads of tonal variation. I also like the choice of 2EQwith 2 volumesor 3EQ with blend. I just bought a second Audere JZ3D - just over £100 inc. priority USPS shipping plus I expect to pay another £30 duty and Parcel force admin fee. That's very, very cheap for such a piece of kit. The Audere is a breeze to fit - no soldering.

GONE

I always check ebay for typos. I've never forgiven myself for being sniped on a lovely Fendre[sic] base[sic] up for sale in the states. It was a lovely transparent teal MIA Deluxe ash Jazz V with maple board. It went for £420 or something. Even factoring in £100 shipping and £100 duty and admin, that's a hell of a lot of bass for the money.

[url="http://myspace.com/hansstiles"]Without Cause[/url] My Myspace has a couple of tracks by my old band Without Cause. The band was a total departure from anything I'd done previously and have done since. Just a good fun alt rock/metal trio and I had a blast writing basslines for it all and gigging.

It's what's referred to as suffering for your art

This whole relicing business seems a bit bizarre to me. I mean, if I found a nice Porsche Speedster for sale, I'd hardly ask the owner to drive it into a couple of walls to give it more character, but that's effectively what people are asking for in instruments.

They're still in business because the British public still cannot grasp the concept of voting with it's feet. We're renowned for tolerating long queues, crap food, dirty expensive trains and being kept on hold for 15 minutes by our telephone or cable company because they've screwed up our online bill.