JakeFoordBass

[quote name='nachosagues' post='1225194' date='May 9 2011, 03:25 PM']Hello, please send more pictures to [email protected]

Can you deliver to London?

Thanks.

Nacho.[/quote]

Sending pictures to you now Nacho. Cheers for your message.

Jake

Hands up who's had gigs with reaaallllyyy sh*t drummers??? Guessing quite a common one.

Was depping a mate's function band and had been warned of the drummer. Was a reading gig and had received charts in advance to familiarise myself with the material. Drummer was so shocking, tempo was all over the place, stabs/stops/pushes in all all the wrong places and obviously didn't have ears! Horrible gig!

Another was a wedding for a friend of our function band singer's family. Already had a mission on our hands from Liverpool to Surrey. Having given ourselves 6 hours to do a 4 hour drive it took us 8 (traffic news was saying it was the worst traffic they'd seen on both the M62 and M25 in years!). Although we turned up dead on when we were supposed to start (having phoned on regular intervals on the journey to update the wedding planner and groom) and managed to set up full 7 piece band, PA and Lights in 20 minutes and played the full amount (under)paid for, I received an email 2 weeks later asking for a refund! We had already lost money on that gig with my policy on paying musicians (everyone gets a minimum fee, even if costs are higher than expected. Only gig where we've lost money in 2 years) and transport costs so there was no way that was going to happen. Proper groom from hell!

Boo to bad gigs!!!

Yeah, come along! Should be a good one next week, got some great acoustic types playing!

Hi Everybody!

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Let's get some sort of Scouse power going on this thing!

Hi Liam, how's tricks? Yeah, doing an Open Mic at The Noble House on Brunswick Street every wednesday! Come down and have a play sometime, it's a great space! Giving the NS it's first road test there next week.

Big Bassy love y'all!

Jake

Just bought an NXT5 today and although I haven't tried it through an amp yet (only got back to Liverpool from London an hour ago!), it plays exactly the same as any CR model I've ever played!

Very sturdy and solid feel to it!

Hello Everybody!

Just getting into this Bass Chat malarky and enjoying it!

I've been playing for around 12 years now, starting with rock like most "because a band needed a bass player" but then realised bass was the superior instrument to everything else!

I'm now playing lots of Funk/Soul/Latin and Folk/Acoustic and loving it!

Gear wise, I'm only just getting back into the gear geekery and loving it. I have a 5 string Jazz Deluxe (always interested in 5 string Jazz hybrids if people are getting rid) which I play through an Ampeg Rocket and sometimes a clapped out homemade cab with a Warwick head. Also have an NS NXT5 EUB (my old aria swb lite one EUB on the marketplace). Got a sansamp bass driver DI and T.Rex Squeezer, not much into pedals otherwise!

Bands wise check out:

[url="http://www.myspace.com/6ixtoys"]6ix Toys[/url]

And:

[url="http://www.paxrecords.com"]Orquesta Buenos Tiempos[/url]
Which was recorded partly in Cuba with Mongo Santamaria's nephew Roberto, which was awesome!

For most recent stuff.

Have toured all over the place, as far as China and regularly gig in Europe.

Love the lowend and love playing music full stop!

Thanks for having me!

Jake

Right, I've locked the bass in our studio and can't get in until wednesday to pick it up. This means I haven't taken any pics!

I'm going to try putting this link up and see if it works, apologies if it doesn't!

[url="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.6571827245.17622.703477245"]Some Pictures On Facebook[/url]

Jake

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1216703' date='May 1 2011, 05:36 PM']I have an NS CR5M which I bought as an upgrade to my old Dean Pace. I don't think I'll ever part with my NS. The NXT seems to be very similar to the CR5M. Had it been available when I bought my CR I would have probably gone for an NXT and saved a few quid.[/quote]

Ace, I've played the CR Series basses before and loved them! Picking the NXT up tomorrow! Yay!

[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='1217304' date='May 2 2011, 10:48 AM']Google is your freiend:

[url="http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/squeezer.shtml"]http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/squeezer.shtml[/url]

Actually, ECC83/12AX7 types are about 98% of valves used in these things & bass/guitar gain/tone stages in general.

G.[/quote]

Cheers Geoff, that's great to know!

Jake

Hi All!

Does anyone know if the valves used in the T.Rex Squeezer pedal are a standard type that can be easily bought and changed? Mine got damaged in the post and the repair guys I've given it to haven't had much luck contacting T.Rex directly!

Anyone else got one and had valve problems? Was gutted when my new toy turned up and didn't work!

Cheers,

Jake

Hi All!

Looking at buying a new electric upright and have been offered a good deal on an NS NXT 5. Has anyone got one or have any opinions?

I'm selling my current one [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=133996"]Here[/url] so I'm guessing it'll be a good step up?

Are there other options in the same price range I should check out first?

Cheers,

Jake

Hello All!

My first post here so please be nice!

For sale is my Aria SWB Lite One EUB.

I've had it now for 3 years or so and it's been a beauty! Selling on now because upgrading to an NS.

It comes with a flight case made by my old bass teacher (Steve Berry, an evil genius!).

It's been with me all over Europe and always comes out of the case at the other end in tune!

It has a few minor cosmetic dints as you'd expect from an instrument that's been gigged! The one slightly more relevant dent is on the fret board right under the g string where you would fret B. The B still sounds, there's just a bit of a buzz! I've been assured it's easily sorted and have a good tech who I will get to fix it before sale if necessary! This just means there will be a small patch of different coloured fret board!

All electronics are in perfect working order and sounds great! it's been used on a number of recordings and sounds great on everything from folk to funk (if you want to hear check out ASM - Root To The Fruit, Diesler - Samba Magic or Rachael and the Red Socks - Too Close).

I will post pictures tomorrow. See the link below for all of the tech specs.

[url="http://www.projectmusic.net/aria-swb-lite-one-1786-p.asp"]http://www.projectmusic.net/aria-swb-lite-one-1786-p.asp[/url]

They retail for around £800. I will sell for £530 with the repair to the fretboard done or £450 if you want to get the work done yourself. It would be perfectly safe shipping in the flight case, I'm sure parcelforce 48 are more careful than ryanair!!! It'll most likely be around the £50 mark for shipping but I'll get more specific prices on enquiry. Pickup from Liverpool all good and may be able to deliver to London if the timing's right!

If anyone has any questions, please ask!

Cheers,

Jake