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Can anybody reccomend someone in the Birmingham-ish area to set /Tweak up a MIM Precision. I dont mind travelling a bit if i means it will be right. Always done my own , but just cant get this one so I'm happy with it now.

He's found a market and he's exploiting it...Good luck to him.

Has to be a P or a J for me. I have had others but always gone back. No interest in Ricks or MMs or any of the usual. I do still have a Bacc Collection that I bought 20 years ago, light & nice to play etc, but I wouldnt gig it and not crazy about the sound,its just a bit too clean and 80s ish for me.

D'you mean Bass through your HiFi Speakers ? I wouldnt if I were you. Not even quietly.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1331925898' post='1581114'] I was born in Dudley Road Hospital in 1952 and lived in Spring Hill until 1957. [/quote] We're about the same age, but Dudley Rd had probably changed just a bit by the time I got there.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331927689' post='1581159'] WTF did I get 6.25mm from? It's been a long day... 6.35mm is the equivalent not 6.25mm. Yep, although the tip shape on those isn't the same as those we use today. You can still find equipment in some of the older ATEs that use those. [/quote] They still vary nowadays, but I know what you mean. Still got a few of the round tip ones somewhere. and probably some ex ww2 throat mic ones, which had a flattened tip for some reason. and the body was about 1" diameter.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331923298' post='1581043'] 6.25mm is the metric equivalent of 1/4". [/quote] Equivalent jack Plugs are 6.35mm. Heres a bit of anorakyness for you; The 1/4" jack is the oldest connector still in common use, was designed for manual telephone exchamges in the 19th century, and there are those who still use it on guitar leads and worry about whether the cable is curly or not.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1331920864' post='1580992'] Born in Winson Green and lived in Northfield, Erdington, Moseley and, washed up in Brighton via Leeds, Lancaster, and London [/quote] I grew up round the corner from there. My first job as an aprentice -1968-was above a West Indian Cafe on Dudley Rd, Blue beat juke box running all day, rumbling up through the floor. Spent a lot of my time repairing Blus Spot radiograms. Always blamed me getting into Bass on that job.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1331919483' post='1580972'] I remember that. [/quote] You from round there then ?

I think the maplins one is Nutrik NYS2203. Have you tried looking on the interweb for a datasheet ? Should tell you which terminal is which.

[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1331863689' post='1580195'] Also, I have found that some jack plugs are ever so slightly 'thinner' than say neutrik jack plugs when measured with a digital vernier gauge. This can lead to the jack plug being loose within the barrel. In fact it was a gold plated jack plug that was thinner than a normal neutrik jack plug. Soundcraft barrel ones are pretty good. [/quote] I've heard this before and wondered if its actually a difference between metric 6.3mm jacks and imperial 1/4" jacks.

Cant understand why some people are fussy about their lead, then plug their gold plated super dooper jack plug into a probably tarnished chrome plated jack socket that aint been cleaned in its life, then through the amps internals, which contains ordinary wire, none of your oxygen free special dielectric cable in there mate. Then play into a room with dubious acoustics at best., Or even DI into a desk 50 yards away, along whatever the multicore happens to be, through the desk, out again, 50 yards more in the multicore, slave amps, various patch leads and speaker cables which could be anything - often as not theyre orange mains cable as in your lawnmower. But yeah, that 10 metres of lead will sound better if its not curly, and if its special low capacity oxygen free whatever whatever blah blah kings new suit blah blah anorakiebullsh*te……. 　 Sorry, I still reckon its MOSTLY cobblers. As long as its reasonable quality and you aint got a £1.99 curly lead from 1972, you wont hear a difference. Of course, thats just my opinion. Still whatever turns you on, if it makes you play better, use what you like - I do.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1331823440' post='1579481'] I don't care what anyone says or how expensive they are curly cables are not a good thing, unless they can literally defy the law of physics. In which case they are the work of the devil. [/quote] But if you run along the stage, then sort of leap up and backwards, you can make it look like the springs pulling you back. Now you'd look silly trying to do that with a wireless......Wouldnt you

Havent come across many, and always managed to take a feed from another room. Tried playing with one once, but just the the snare by itself set it off. I have heard that a wet bar towel around the mic works well but never tried it myself. Anywhere that expects you to play with one of them in the room, doesnt really want a band, If I couldnt find a way around it, I wouldnt do the gig.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1331808966' post='1579110'] Using the same one here. For gigs as far apart as Brentford, Croydon and Kingston (upon Thames. Not Jamaica) I've got the toothpaste one as it was on sale a £10 off. [/quote] So... Its a [i]Signa[/i]l cable then. And now yourv playing has a [i]Ring of Confidence[/i] about it. Oh all right then, I'm going.

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1331766088' post='1578719'] I kitted out my studio with cables, mics and headphones from Tandy about 30 years ago. Still got most of it and it's still working fine. I was recording the band recently and we didn't have enough headphones so I got one of the old Tandy specials out - huge closed style (and with a curly lead). The 17 year old guitarist didn't believe they were real, he thought they were a toy [/quote] At the time everybody thought Tandys stuff, Amstrad, Waltham, etc was crap. Compared with some of the UK made stuff that was available, it was. But compared to the build quality of a lot of 'Better' brands, and chinkeese junk thats around now, it was usually bloody good stuff

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1331761783' post='1578621'] Do you mean Humbucker Music of Green Lane Rd? Thats where I bought my Marshall Super lead and Moore & Stanworth 4x12 from. I also bought my s/h Precision from them for £240 in 1979. [/quote] Think it was called green lanes music back then (around 1973 or 74) could be wrong though, there was a Green Lane Music in Brum, and it all merges into one after all this time. It was in Green La Rd though, and was run by a father and 2 or 3 sons. me and a mate used to go there and buy faulty amps and PX stuff from them now and again. I thought they had the 4X12s they sold made up just for them, good solid cabs, looked a lot like Marshall ones, with a choice of Celestions or Goodmans G12Ps.

Same lead ???? Or as he was testing it at home, maybe a stereo lead - the law of Occams razor or something like that - Simple explanations first before thinking complex reasons oftem pays off.

Dunno anything about Warks, but it sounds to me like you have fitted a stereo socket and used the wrong terminal for the tip. Stereo sockets are sometimes used as a switch, ie, when you plug a mono lead in, the middle ring gets connected to the outer. Just a thought.

Its all cobblers, I cant hear the difference, nor can anybody else. a few pf per metre difference ? an ohm or two ?? on a 15' lead...awww c'mon get real. If you buy a cheapo straight lead with moulded plugs and really thin cable it will be crap, It will crackle when it moves, it will break etc If you bought the cheapo curly ones in the 70s, with moulded plugs and thin cable they were crap. they would crackle and break Get a half decent one and it will be OK, put it behind your strap, and under the handle on your amp or whatever to prevent strain on it or it will give you problems....Obvious.

Just a few weeks ago I lost my favourite lead and bought a couple of Rotosound curly leads as a stopgap.. Theyre fine, and I aint trod on my lead since..... Course, I dont use any pedals. Some of the 70s ones were crap though, but not all of em. Anybody comes across my one off dayglo green lead with Neutrix plugs,which I'd recognise anywhere i want it back please. probably left at either The Wharf in Walsall or The Roadhouse.

Cant be the same one then. In my dream he got them all.

Did I really see this on TV ? Some time during the 1980s or maybe the 90s. On a quiz show of some sort, definitely on a saturdsy. A guy was blindfolded, and by listening to a Bass Player play various Basses, through Various Amp and cab combinations at random. Recogniswed which Bass / Amp / Cab combination was which. Anbody else see it, or was it just another one of my strange dreams ?

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331602564' post='1575811'] You know what - I'm surprised that we ever found room to be able to play with all that kit piled up everywhere. If technology hadn't downsized and increased in power, I reckon bass players would have evolved into being no higher than 4' 6" and weigh no more than 6 stone by now... [/quote] Thats Shortist. 4'6" Bass players are a minority group. and there are those on here that will [s]claim to be[/s] be offended

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1331597579' post='1575758'] Surprising as it may seem today,big old valve amps were highly unfasionable in the late 70's and many a bargain was to be had.Selmer Zodiac 100w head,with push button eq presets,Traynor (Canadian,I believe)100w head both passed through my hands for small money.70's cabs were sh*te though.I still have a wardrobe sized Marshall 1 x 18 which required a Cortina estate to fit around it,which handled all of 100 watts. [/quote] Yeah same here, A Marshall super lead for £30, and that was from a shop in Brum. New Marshall lookalike 4X12 from Green La Music in Leicester cost me £45. Solid state Vox Supreme from the same shop £15, but that was cos it was faulty ands they couldnt repair it. (A lot of engineers back then were not great with solid state gear) I bought a Viking, and a couple of FAL 50s from them as well, but thats another story. Once git offered a Bass AC 30 for £30, which is what one of my neighbours had been offered for it asa PX, and turned him down, it was a bit too small for what I wanted. My 4X12 sized 1X18 had a Goodmans speaker in it, 50W of raw power..