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Qlank

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  1. That was an easy transaction. Have the Babicz bridge Graham put up for sale installed on my bass within 5 days. Had the bridge through the letterbox the day after payment went into the bank. Good packaging too. Cheers dude, the bridge was easy to fit too.

  2. I've found that my nails come in handy as makeshift tools: getting plugs out of sinks etc. So I've always used them as extra tools for my bass playing. If I want a clear twang for a chord I'll use them to pluck the strings cleanly, if I'm playing hell for leather over the neck pick up I'll dig in and use the nails to get a little more clank and dirt.

  3. My big problem was trying to be heard over loud drummers and deafening guitar players. My "technique" was to hit the strings as hard as I could so I would be heard over the apocolypse of noize.
    After a few years of not playing bass at all, I started to play again and all the old habits came out in force: bad muting; sloppy timing; bad muting. To adress the bad muting I put the amp settings to no bass, all treble and a fuzz box- I could hear every little scrape, overtone and unwanted sound that I didn't want. Helped a lot. Learned to just stop a lot of the unwanted noize that came out of the speakers. Learning to mute those strings, sounds easy but can be a difficult thing to achieve, until you know how to do it easily.
    Check out Scot Devine on You Tube-invalable..
    And this guy. Feckin' speechless.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuzKT1bhhIQ&feature=youtu.be

  4. Tokai Jazz basses. 1982. Candy Apple Red, fretted, put a chrome scrachplate on it, real sexy. Fretless Sunburst, just lovely to play. Both sold early 90's because I was skint. And the kicker: Ibanez Ric copy. Bought in 1980 for £70, put Schaller tuners and a really solid Kahler bridge on it. Sold the Ibanez to a good mate who bought it for his brother-nice gesture. Have since replaced the fretless with a VM fretless, the Candy Apple Red with a Geddy Lee and the Ibanez with a European made copy. Thank god I didn't buy the Wal I played in some shop in Soho 30 years ago for peanuts and then sold it on-that would have been a gutter. That was a trully great bass.

  5. This would be Joyo pedal ? I have the "Dr J Shadow" Echo box and it does it's thing really well. Have a VT 21 but replaced it with the Joyo "British Sound" pedal. Better to try out first but to be quite honest with but these pedals are decent quality kit. Don't know how long they will last, but changing a switch or knob over the years won't break the bank

  6. Awesome. I've got a set of these. Mine is labelled "Firstman" and the model number as "BS 999". Great sounding analog Bass pedals. Always had a chorus pedal to make it sound really beefy. Got it from Chase Musicians in London somewhere in 1980. Mine does have a lot more rust on them though. This set looks a lot more looked after than mine. Have to to ask though............Why are you selling them. I'm getting mine out tomorrow. If I didn't have a set I'd have these in a heartbeat.
    GLWTS, someone will just love getting their mitts on them.

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