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This relates to your issues.

I'll put my hand up for that.

I was doing something in cloudflare and it had unanticipated side effects.  So things have been put back the way they were and everything should be back to normal. 

Sorry.

Fab little amps if you like a modern sound.  I have two.

 

How would we report it? Is there an easy way or have to look to find an email or something?

There is a report link in the top right corner of every post, where the three dots are.  The three dots access a pull down menu.

Something similar has been happening on the Facebook marketplace recently too.

54 minutes ago, bornleft said:

Blocked because I am eagerly awaiting the conclusion?

How Trumpian of you...

 

But...

8 hours ago, bornleft said:

 feel free to block me!

For those of you brave enough to throw up some photos here, I'd like to share some of the more interesting ones on FB from this point on.

Yes the price field can't be edited so a new ad will be necessary.

40 minutes ago, JamesBass said:

Extremely close! In and around that area. You a fellow Warsash resident? 

Not any more, I grew up there though.  Rossan Ave.  And many years later - Brigantine Close

35 minutes ago, JamesBass said:

About a 10 min walk from The Rising Sun pub, if you know it! 

Intimately. Newtown Road?  Wait, no that's about 5 minutes. 

Pitchpond Road?  Osbourne Road?  Am I close?

On 28/05/2023 at 20:03, JamesBass said:

Selling my Barefaced Big Baby 2. It's been the best cab I've ever had works superbly as a single unit or, when paired with other cabs at louder gigs. It's extremely portable and when paired with my TTE500, I can do a single load in! Extremely clear and true sound! 

...

Whereabouts in Warsash are you?

On 30/05/2023 at 02:07, bigjimmyc said:

aaaargh that is just down the road from me

The M27 is a long road lol

16 hours ago, Smanth said:

My understanding (Which is very limited!) is that in general cabs/amp will add a colour/tone to signals.

Yes, they act like a filter in dampening certain frequencies and allowing others to go through with less dampening. 

If your budget can stretch - Kemper Stage profile plus one or two QSC K12.2 active PA cabs.  It will slay (nearly) everything else out there for cover band requirements - unless you need some extremely specific effects and then you can insert a Line 6 M5 or something to fill the gap. Failing that, if you have less specific requirements then a Zoom G3X into an active PA cab may be enough.  But it can be noisy on the high gain patches and there's no external effects loop.

I love the sound of Fender amps and have two at home.  The Fender Deluxe Reverb is pretty much a benchmark for Fender flavoured amps and their current tone master version is getting great reviews.  However I've played with guitarists using just a Blues Jr and getting fantastic and thick sounds alongside a drummer. So maybe consider pairing one with a preamp pedal like a Joyo JF14 if Fender is your thing.  Plus whatever extra effects you might need, e.g. delay, compression, wah, modulation and reverb. 

Unicorn in the sense of being the rarest and most exclusive bass I would like to own?

Late 70's Alembic Series II 5 string graphite neck. I like the ergonomics of the standard point body and sound.  The action can be ridiculously low because the necks are over engineered.  Jimmy Johnson has one but it was converted to fretless.  I know of only two but maybe there are more out there. 

I have one too, I flit between it and the FEA Labs DBCL.  The PC2A is nicer sounding.

You are more than welcome to PM a mod about this.  Send them a link to the post so they don't have to search.

19 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

 

This is why you have to be careful what you post on a public forum. These comments could be interpreted a number of ways. Given that we don't know what will transpire when you visit the 'next show', if things escalate and the Police are called, you've already played your hand here. To be clear, I'm not defending MM. If half of what I've read is remotely accurate, then he deserves to be held to account for his alleged misdeeds.

 

You'd also be a fool to think he is not monitoring this thread.

I'm glad someone mentioned this - thanks H.  @WonkyOne 

Posting on here about intentions is fraught with risk IMO if something should kick off.

2 hours ago, Simon C said:

“A second public spanking”.  It’s amazing what one can get online nowadays.😜

A spanking? I wasn't so lucky, all I recieved was a jolly good sneering. A bit like walking on stage as a pantomine villain.  It gave me a new found appreciation for the word. So I'm grateful for that.

1 hour ago, lonestar said:

I have a Joyo American Sound guitar pedal. It's really good, I'd be intrigued to try their bass pedals

I have two...too good to use with bass. 😁

1 hour ago, crazycloud said:

Because I'm not them, and consequently don't have the same  needs in terms of ergonomics, tone or feel. 

These days the majority of signature guitars (and basses) for PRS, Fender or Gibson are a standard production instrument with maybe a couple of tweaks at best.  The Japanese companies tend to do fully custom signature models but only after an artist has endorsed a mostly standard model for a period of time.  Ernie Ball seem to do a bit of both although sometimes it's hard to tell whether they came up with a guitar and looked for an endorsee or looked for an endorsee and made them a guitar.

I've owned sigs in the past and have even built a couple but I'd prefer to play something that doesn't set expectations of my playing.  For example I'm not going to show up to a Led Zep covers gig wielding a Yamaha JP6 for example.  But a BBNE2 might be perfectly OK.

I don't have a favourite bass amp.  I tend to choose them to compliment the bass where the colouring of the amp doesn't filter out key frequencies in the bass needed to hear yourself on stage.  Some nice matches in my experience are: 
Fender Jazz -> Markbass CMD103P

Fender Precision -> Ampeg SVT
Musicman Stingray -> Mesa Boogie Bass 400
Musicman Stingray -> Warwick Pro IV
Spector/Smith -> GK RB400 or 700 (or Eden WT400)
Status, Modulus or indeed pretty much anything with a graphite neck -> SWR SM400 and 4x10
Status, Modulus or indeed pretty much anything with a graphite neck -> H&K Basebass
Status, Smith, Vigier or anything with scooped mids -> Genz Benz Shuttle (flat response power amp)
Status/Jaydee -> Trace MkV AND 1048 4x10

Less than great combinations: 
Status -> Ampeg SVT (just too gritty)
Smith -> Eden WT800 (no mids)
Status -> GK (highs are too brittle and harsh)

I do like Class D amps because they preserve the midrange more honestly to my ears than other designs. If i had to pin my colours to the mast over most satisfying amp, the Mesa would win, with the right bass.

For a while in the eighties, Wilkinson were pretty much the number one OEM hardware supplier to US manufacturers like Valley Arts and some in the UK like Patrick Eggle who Wilkinson worked for.

I have a few of their unicorn rare VS100CV convertible guitar trems from that time. A fabulous design which is perhaps only let down by the aluminium base plate and soft fulcrum edges.  I did have a Wilkinson bass bridge but the saddles moved about too much due to a lack of locating grooves in the saddle.

Where I am online retail apps for musical kit are flooded with Wilkinson parts at pretty much wholesale prices.  Not surprising if those product lines are made here. 

So yeah, mixed results in my limited experience.

80% of luthiery in my experience is fixing mistakes!

On 14/05/2023 at 19:23, Rayman said:

It makes me ask this question:

 

Are expensive, boutique instruments relevant anymore?? Seriously, why? (sure I’ll get ***t for that). 

For the most part, not to me anymore.  My main basses are less than £1800 and I paid way less for them years ago.  They sound every bit as good, if not better, than basses I've owned that cost three times more.   A Sire V7 5 with maple board and ash body is on my shopping list over the Summer as well, if I can find one that isn't too heavy.  I'm looking for a particular kind of character too, which means I'll be trying before I buy rather than taking a leap of faith.