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  1. It would help with search engine rankings if we could at least tag brand names though.
  2. Kiwi

    In Memoriam

    Oh bugger, that's a real shame. I bought a Jazz bass off him back in 2013.
  3. There is an arpeggiator in the Source Audio C4 and also a Cooper Moments Machine but they don't have ADSR per step so two notes at the same pitch just become one note twice the length. The Eventide Pitch Factor has an arpeggiator but the patterns are preset. There is a CV message based hack but it's far from convenient to implement. Adrenalinn III has an arpeggiator with ADSR per step but it's based on a pink noise generator not an audio source. I have the C4, the Moments Machine and Adrenalinn. The first two are for sale at the Gallery right now along with an old Akai SB1. I sold the Pitchfactor about 8 years ago. So basically there are a number of pedals who have taken a shot at the functionality and only sort of half implemented it.
  4. The idea is to arpeggiate without need for MIDI or extra stuff.
  5. I'm glad Andras is going from strength to strength in the FI story. FWIW is all I would like in ANY bass synth pedal is a 16 step arpeggiator with ADSR control and mute for each step. Source Audio thought it was a good idea but had already hit the limits of their hardware. Obviously Andras is taking things in a different direction too which is disappointing for me but no doubt the bulk of users out there don't need it.
  6. £8000 for a Warwick Thumb NT now. I have a few bits of Mesa guitar kit at home, and the Bass 400+ is the best valve bass amp I have ever owned. They made some utterly fantastic kit in the nineties. But check out the manouverings of Ernie Ball, Warwick and a few other brands this year. They have spent the last ten years cultivating a fan base in the US and leveraged on that to support sales internationally. Helped to no small degree by lump sum pension pots being made available within their customer fan base. This isn't really about demand and supply as it is about goose, gullibility and raiding golden (nest) eggs. I owned three Smith basses in the mid to late noughties. I owned three Celinders. I owned four Musicman Cutlass basses and I still have an Alembic. I have given up any hope of being able to owning a halo model from a boutique builder now. In some ways I'm OK with that because I don't really have GAS any more and my tastes have become very specific. But in China there are some very nice imported brands available second hand for about 20% less than they might get in the US or Europe. Ernie Ball, looking at you in particular with £800 for a nineties SR5. Or PRS with £1200-1500 for a core Custom 24. Dingwall seem to be one of the few manufacturers who have retained any degree of self control on prices.
  7. I'm going to appropriate this.
  8. I also use the triple grade of grit Boots nail buffers (or the closest available alternative) for CA glue based finish repairs to minor chips and dings.
  9. I just finished a refret on one of my guitars where the same issue happened on the third and fifth frets (and 11th). The fingerboard was dead straight and recently re-radiussed. I took a fret rocker and fret file and slowly pared the fourth and sixth frets down ever so incrementally until there was no more rocking. After restringing it played buzz free.
  10. I've just pulled the trigger on a Roland XPS30 for 3000RMB so I can use a Yamaha CS6R quad synth module I've had kicking around. I don't think the XPS30 is available outside Asia but it can do pretty much anything that an earlier Roland keyboard can do and play samples from WAV files. I heard the Fender Rhodes patch on it and it was every bit as convincing as a Nord Electro so I was sold on that alone.
  11. These two were sitting in the approval queue waiting for a mod to approve them. I'm surprised you found them...!
  12. Fair enough, I've modified the settings. It's probably something worth messaging privately about in future. Even if it's not clear who exactly, any of the mods will ensure a message reaches the right person.
  13. PSA: This week I was informed by the MD of Schaller that they no longer produce M4 tuners to fit 12mm holes.  So all of us with older basses...Jaydees, Spectors, Alembics, Pedullas...need to be careful with the tuners if we don't want to have to bore them out to 14mm for a replacement set!

  14. Does anyone have an old Schaller M4 (treble side) kicking around somewhere?  Preferably gold but I'll take whatever is available...

    1. jazzyvee

      jazzyvee

      I had the same issue with my alembic tuners getting a bit loose so i got some  new one from Schaller and they were the large size and had to take my bass to Jaydee custom guitars to get them fitted. 

      I 'm not sure if i still have the old ones but i will have a look if I can find them you are welcome to the tuner for the cost of postage.

       

      Will reply later when i get a chance to look through my spares box.  

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