pete.young

[quote name='fluffo' timestamp='1330944643' post='1564975'] Not a good ad for Rotosound. [/quote] Odd, isn't it? What do Rotosound sell - strings! You could use old motorcycle clutch cables for that technique and no-one would be any the wiser.

Dont tend to use that switch much. Interesting that the bass amps have a LF Boost and the guitar amps have a high cut ...

Well, in that case many happy returns. Where did you get your Pro 4000 from, not the non-working one on Ebay at the moment that looks like it's been recovered with carpet? Mine sounded immense through Merton's Vintage.

OK, reporting back - 5 Mazda ECC83 , which are probably original. I seem to recall that Kiwi took 'em out to try something else and put them back again. They're pretty hot though - you lose your clean sound much above 3 on the pre-stage gain, and I was thinking about trying something with a bit less gain in my weaker moments. Power stage - I have JJ KT77s in mine and I love them. They're as close as you can get to what these amps were designed for without forking out silly money. Oddball - I think some of the guitar amps use a different valve for the spring reverb.

I have one. I'll go and open it up now. Pretty sure mine has the standard equipment in the pre-amp side.

Time for a trawl Antoria SG short-scale , looks tidy http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antoria-EBO-bass-Made-Japan-1970s-/290676535363?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item43adabf043 Yamaha BB800 - I have had one of these since 1980 , better than any 1970s Fender precision. This looks like it will go for a song, someone please buy it to stop me! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-BB800-Bass-Guitar-/160750712715?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item256d7d378b Aria The Cat - not too shabby! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aria-Cat-electric-bass-guitar-/290677501787?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item43adbaaf5b 'Jedson' Les Paul - I don't recall Jedson ever making anything as nice as this so it might be something more interesting. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Les-Paul-Bass-/190647066525?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c63735f9d

[quote name='Al Heeley' timestamp='1330276722' post='1555025'] no it should be this simple as long as you're ok at soldering - all these footswitches just take mono jacks don't they? [/quote] The switches do, the input sockets on the amp are stereo jack. I've ordered the stuff from bitsbox, fingers crossed - thanks for the encouragement! Soldering is functional but I'm not called 'blobby nobby' for nothing!

Not sure I follow - he's trying to sell a Pro 4000 bass head, and there are three pictures of that and one of yours.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1330535414' post='1559057'] My opinion on this matter is that if a minimum post count were required, someone may not bother sticking around to put their item up for sale and never visit the forum again. This for me is a negative aspect as it will mean no-one will get the opportunity to buy it whether they're regular or not. [/quote] This. An example - I have inherited a metric shitload of N-gauge model railway stuff which is cluttering up the house. I need to shift it, but don't do ebay. There are forums for this kind of thing but they all have minimum post limits of 30 or more posts. I have no interest in model railways and no idea how I could clock up 30 posts, besides which I don't have the time to invest. I'm sure there are loads of n-gauge forum members who would be interested in the stuff.

Daphne Blue has to be a contender.

I have a Roland AC 60 acoustic guitar amp, which can use up to 4 footswitches to turn various functions on and off. The manual shows it with one Boss FS-5L and three Boss FS-5U pedals, each one costing at least £25 quid, plus two PCS-31 cables at another £25 quid each so we are up to £150 quid just to turn a few effects on and off! I don't think that's a great deal, so it seems to me that it would be fairly straightforward to buy 3 momentary normally on SPST switches, one DPST switch, an LED and a resistor for the latched one, and stick the bits into a dead Behringer footswitch which is currently cluttering up the spares cupboard. A couple of lengths of dual core cable and a couple of stereo 6mm jacks and Robert is your relative. Surely it can't be this simple - what have I missed?

I had one of these when I was a teenager - at least, the 4-string version. Wish I still had it - if this were a 4 it would be mine.

I guess we all have different tastes. I think Black Holes is a fantastic album and still listen to it regularly, but that's about it. The Resistance is one of the worst albums I've ever heard - cod chopin meets second rate Queen tribute band.

[quote name='musophilr' timestamp='1330079722' post='1552301'] Colin Fulton [email="[email protected]"][email protected][/email] thoroughly recommended [/quote] +1 for Colin.

How strange, what have they done with the G-string, wrapped it round the string tree?

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1329858656' post='1548738'] I'm not familiar with the FingerClamp, but if it's just an easily undone nut clamp, it does not solve the problem: on a floating bridge guitar, if you detune the E to D, the loss in tension affects the rest of the strings which go out of tune too. [/quote] Ah, OK - I was thinking about the problem of fannying about with Allen keys inbetween numbers. I don't know whether it has a floating bridge - there is one in the house somewhere that belongs to my son, I will see if I can find it. We had a guitarist with a new-ish Strat which exhibited similar symptoms - break a string and all the others went miles out of tune because of the tension change. Utterly useless. Hardails are the way to go, or Biggsby.

Yamaha solved the Floyd Rose problem with the FingerClamp, as fitted to the RGX 620 but it doesn't seem to have caught on. Takes about 2 seconds to undo the clamp, lower the bottom string to D, and do the clamp up again.

I have a Nordstrand in my Precision, and it sounds great

That's a great shame Clarky, it was very evident how much this band meant to you. Still, onward and uppards, as the bard said.

I've not heard of them either. Not exactly local to us, the other side of Eye. I usually take my setups and amp repairs to Paul Glazebrook in Kesgrave who is very good and doesn't charge nearly enough. There's also Colin Fulton in Little Glemham if you need a luthier.

Webstrings Detroit bass - www.webstrings.com/electric_bass_strings_detroit-nickel.html

Appreciate the sentiment, but you're a month early. It's Saturday 17th March.

EdwardHimself, you will have to hurry up - I've just found out from the Mandolin Cafe site that Epiphone have discontinued the Mandobirds both 4 and 8 string versions, just a few days ago. Or save up a bit more for one of these babies: www.almuse.co.uk/mandolin_gallery.html

I have one of those, although its the 4-string variety. But it sounds good through a chorus, and is a lovely shade of seafoam green. There is some tab at Mandolin Cafe - www.mandolincafe.com . Don't tend to use tab mice elf.

In Macedonia, they make bagpipes out of whole goats. I saw someone playing one like this in Poland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImtjPPBSr8I Tip: if you're at work, don't go searching google for 'man blowing goat bagpipes'