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    1980 Fender Precision special, Lake Placid blue. Wired passively due to the active circuit needing a repair. 4.9kg as is typical for this model. I'm sure the circuit would be easy to fix, the bass works very well as is; priced to account for this issue. Great sounding bass, really even over the board without the 6th/7th fret G string dead spot problem. I've played many eras of P basses and this measures up sonically with the best of them. Selling due to it being a lean year for gigs. I can supply gut shots if required but there's no additional routing and due to the painted headstock it's pretty obvious it's not a bitsa. UK sale only, collection only but happy to meet up within reason. Fender fibreglass case ( well used and heavily stickered) included. Original parts included obviously also. Thanks for viewing, Martin
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    It seems that Guy Pratt owned the Rock n Roll circus Gibson SG for a while.
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    Reading this again made me listen to the long version of My Generation off Live at Leeds...always gets me every time, as does Marquee Moon for example. The tone colours and tone production and character from the musicians themselves is/are incredible, the dynamic range and stereo image also.
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    A huge influence on so many great bands. I've always thought to myself that 'She sells' off Siren could just as easily been a song by either Japan or Madness. There's not many other ways that those 2 great bands could cross-over!
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    Still fitted to my bass, but as I offered it to a Wanted ad request ( I was too late!) here it is. If anybody is looking for a badass 2, £75 posted in the UK. No mounting screws alas as none came with it. Thanks for viewing, Martin
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    Gallien Krueger 700rb ii with new power amp board purchased from Polar Audio last month. I bought a 2nd power amp board for my main amp so this is now surplus. OK, I made a big noise about buying a dead 700rb ii for £50 and then buying a new power amp for £50 ( equals £100, I know)...I'm offering this at 175 purely as it's about half what a 700rb would go for normally. I tend to sell pretty cheaply, to stop gear gathering dust but below £175 then I may as well keep it. Obviously the heart transplant was done by myself as a DIY fix. The amp works well and actually sounds better ( new board maybe?) than my old faithful. So if you want a 700rb ii at a good price, hopefully I'm being pretty transparent. I am just raising funds as I'm not gigging much. Just to add, at the asking price I'm happy to meet up and handover the amp within say a 50 mile radius. From Lichfield, Strensham services for example. Not a fan of couriers from previous experience. Cheers Martin
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    Andrew Bodnar sounds great on this, good choice. I always wondered if this song was influenced by 'Sound and Vision'
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    Still pretty well as new checked Ernie Ball gtr/ bass strap that I used briefly for a few '80s gigs I did. UK only, please, £10 posted. Cheers Martin
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    I just got another 700rb power amp module for £30 and a preamp for £15. Repairers can't seem to be bothered with fixing them so it's a good backup. I've used my old 700rb for 10 years so they work for me, small enough and more than loud enough so if I can keep it working myself, all good. Thanks for the heads up
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    As I mentioned a few posts ago, I bought a kaput 700rbii off ebay for around £50 a few years ago. I did a DIY fault check working front to back and established that the preamp and DI worked fine. Upon connecting a cheap speaker to the output I heard a loud thud through the speaker; I assume it's gone DC at the output. Our local amp tech had a quick look and issued an I won't charge anything but cease and desist...he said the transformer is fine, keep it for spares. He felt that digging through the pcb wouldn't be cost effective compared to buying a second hand working amp. A different repair company quoted me £150 to fix the amp presumably gone DC. Obviously I was chuffed to drop on a new power amp module from Polar last week for £49. I now have 2 working 700rb amps. So the dead module is free to anyone, would be good for a tech-y 700rb owner to cannibalise or fix.
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    This is the dead 700rb ii power amp board. As you can see, it's gathering dust so if anyone wants it free for spares or a possible fix up, let me know. It's quite possible that the fan may work still for example, could be handy if you've got a 700rb.
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    ...the Keen Ocean transformer Polar have got listed on ebay is for 400rb mk3 and mk4, also backline 600 models. The amp repairer I use used one in my old 400rb mk2 to convert a US model to UK voltage. It worked fine but it involved drilling a hole for the toroidal transformer. Just a heads up if anyone wants to keep it as a spare. If you can find a backline 600 they're also useful for the same reasons....decent amps in their own right.
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    There's some very useful items from Polar currently on ebay for keeping old GKs working. I had a 700rbii that was a potential spare parts donor; working preamp and transformer, owes me £50ish. It had gathered dust for 2 years. I just dropped on a power amp module from Polar for £50, took out the old one and replaced it. The repaired 700rb sounds better than my old faithful. Worth looking on eBay for Polar's GK spares if you've got a clapped out GK. Or if you want backup items; techs don't seem to want to repair the power amps, I was quoted £150 at best.
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    https://youtu.be/ZcHPNUN-U8E?si=IqHlH9obykWXV2xR
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    Rebel Rebel by Bowie Private World - New York Dolls Iggy's 'Fall in love with me' could work as a 2 chord vamp at the end of another song. Television-'Ain't that Nothin'?' I'm stretching the brief a bit far perhaps. Let me know if you need a dep
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    If only I was nearer to Norfolk, I'd buy this. GLWTS
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    Throwing in the towel, I may as well keep it
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    As said elsewhere, absolutely stellar band; Don Alias lays down such a solid pocket for Jaco
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    I've read this topic with interest, my patience isn't the best. I bought a basic Scarlett over lockdown and ran it with Audacity; I was emailing out bass parts I'd recorded that other band members would move into other DAWs and hopefully align my part OK. I never really got the latency as good as I'd have liked. I never figured out dragging notes around either, so I had to record and re record until it was good enough. The Scarlett has gathered dust since the lifting of lockdown restrictions. I need to get it used again.
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    At £325 firm, I could do a meet up at Charnock Richard services. Obviously that means you wouldn't get to try it out; have a think anyway. Thanks for the interest, Martin
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    Would £325 help?
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    Let's see if £375 collected shifts it
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    I've briefly owned a Mustang bass, and also a Japanese Bullet bass with the same pickup. Much as I love the design of the Mustang as an object, it wasn't a bass that sounded good in my hands in the same way that often P basses don't work for me. The Fallout suited me a lot better. One thought I always had ( a gig audience wouldn't notice this detail for sure!); has anybody tried mounting the pickup direct to the body rather than the pick guard? I wonder how different that pickup would sound. I remember on a G&L bass I owned, the pickup mounting springs added almost a reverb-y quality, a foam mount cured this, hence it's something I've always wondered about, does the resonance of a bass change based on how a pickup is mounted? Obviously not something you would try on a valuable bass. Just one of those silly curiosities you have when you are of the '80s bass butchering generation, a tendency I've left in the past thankfully
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    Thanks for that Rob, very kind of you. I forgot to add, and there's absolutely no science in this at all, but the 1001RB seems to sound more like the 800RBs I've owned than the 700rb. Could be a fluke though, no logic behind it!
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    Gallien Krueger 1001RB, modern classic, 700w into 4 ohm /540 into 8 ohm main amp, 50w into tweeter amp. Tweeter output is only engaged via 4 pole speakon ( included) and dedicated GK cab. Main amp can be used full range via normal Speakons or jack output into non GK cabs with no issues. Bought recently, selling for what I paid. My scruffier 700rb will suffice for what little I do, having said that the 1001rb got used to support the Lightning Seeds earlier this month ( I don't usually do posh gigs nowadays) and did a great job. Happy to meet within say 50 miles, I won't post due to previous misery. Includes rack mount ears ( advisable due to top venting) and proprietary GK Speakon that will still work with a standard cab albeit full range. No feet on amp case due to being rack mounted. Many thanks Martin
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