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5 hours ago, Jamieboy said:

I have exactly the same issue, did you order a replacement? Cheers.

I went on the site recommended in the thread, they don't have one for this model unfortunately. I'm going to have another search tomorrow.

5 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

On reflection, I think if you contact Thomann, rather than sending a new adaptor, they'd probably send you one of these

-> https://thmn.to/thoprod/350932?partner_id=31190

Which isn't ideal, but it wouldn't be as wobbly as a shaver adaptor

 

That's what came with it. It's not very good. 

I'm tempted to buy a pair of Warman P pups for my Hofner 189 resurrection. If anyone has used their pickups I'd be interested in opinions. Thank you!

The EMG Select pickups sounded fantastic. Loved the sound of the one I had. 

Righton straps have a little pick pocket at the butt end of the guitar, it's so handy. They're also damn good straps.

12 hours ago, Wilson_51_ said:

Quick google bring this up.. not sure if it’ll work or no but maybe worth a look?

 

https://myvolts.co.uk/product/50970/UK_12V_Power_Adaptor_for_the_Harley_Benton_PowerPlant_ISO-2_Pro_Isolated_Power_Supply_by_myVolts

This site is awesome! Thank you

Jack Cassady at a giveaway price.... https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/left-handed-epiphone-jack-casady-bass/1468243460

*This is not mine! I don't know the seller, etc. And there's no way I'd part with mine for remotely near that price!

On 27/10/2023 at 09:54, Jamesemt said:

Do you reckon postage would be around £5? If so, would you take £25 posted? 

I think due to size rather than weight postage is likely to be more than £5, sorry I can't do £25 posted.

Always good to have backups.... Just knocked the price down

1 hour ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

When Thomann sent me a powered pedalboard with a non-uk plug I emailed them and they send me a new power cable for no charge. Maybe they'll be able to send you the correct adaptor if you ask them nicely.

Thanks unfortunately this is more than a kettle lead type thing. I would like to buy a UK replacement but not sure how to decipher all the electrical gubbins. I don't expect they make a UK version of this at all, sadly. 

Once more asking for your wisdom and advice. I've got a Harley Benton power plant thingy on my board now because I wanted the slimness of it and the number of outputs. Of course it came with a European PSU and a UK wall socket adaptor. I'd like to replace the European PSU for a UK one so I don't have a big and wobbly connection into the mains that my singer or a punter putting down their jacket/ handbag/ drink could knock over. I've photographed the plug...

On 01/11/2023 at 08:34, BreadBin said:

Agreed, they appear to be quite dreadful people with very little talent.

This is actually pretty good, and clearly an up yours response to how he was treated.

It's interesting when you look at it... Nikki Sixx is hardly a great bass player but he's written loads of songs for other artists, I think Tommy Lee is underrated as a drummer, I love Mick Mars' feel and tone. But it all seems to be undermined by the "bad-boy" behaviour and image, they seem to be more about that than their music. Having read "the dirt" too it's hard to imagine they'd be fun to hang around with for more than twenty minutes.

It's annoying though trying to find the DHL depots. I went all over three towns to either be told "don't bother, the DHL guy hasn't been seen in ages" or "we have never been a DHL depot"/ "we send DHL stuff but can't do returns..." 

Why not contact the venue and ask what they've got? Our guitarist does this everywhere we play because he's fussy, but also cos he's gone to IEMs and wants to know if they can handle that, do they want him to bring an amp? Etc. If you've got a while before the gig I'd do that and then you can discuss anything you need to with the sound guy or girl and everyone is happy.

4 hours ago, Staggering on said:

What a great story but in Canada there are very few places where it would be possible, there's an awful lot of empty space over here and winter would not be fun.

I play DB and that is a problem for a short distance let alone many miles, I guess an acoustic bass guitar would work but I think I'll stick to driving but I love the idea of walking to gigs, well done lads.😊

And bears. Bears eat folk musicians.

12 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

Can I just say how much I liked the "Linkshander" inscription? 🙂

Sehr gut!!! I love it, it will be a shame to cover it up. 

43 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

My main band is a 60/70s covers band, playing pubs and clubs mainly. We charge £250 if we want to get in somewhere and £300 for rebooking. In the New Year we intend to increase this by £50 to £300 and £350 respectively.

 

We are based in the greater Dorset Area and one of our gigs pays £400.

 

Has anyone else tried to increase their fee recently, and what response did you get?

Yes but it's pot luck. Some places tell us we are too expensive and decline, that's ok we don't want to undervalue ourselves, and others say Yes without hesitation. It's rare that there's much conversation about it though, it seems to be a one-shot thing. We try to charge similar types of establishments the same for the same type of gig... If we supply PA and lights etc we charge more than going to a venue with lights and a sound guy, if we do a function we charge more because we play longer and usually have a much earlier set up and lots of waiting around. Pubs tend to have a set budget and they can either afford us or not, we are trying to move away from playing pubs though.

Arrived in the post recently... A Fender hi-mass bridge and a neck from China. The neck is about 1mm too wide for the pocket, but I've kept the black headstock style of the original, we just have blocks instead of dots now. The nut needs to go because this was a "reverse headstock" right handed neck but that's no bother at all. The cheap plastic nut can go and I'll replace it with something better and left handed. 

This is going to be a slow build as funds dictate but next is pickups, wiring and scratch plate.... Tuners also required but I'm hoping to find a good set second hand.

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

There's certainly a ton of bands out there that are still gigging when they're well past theur sell-by date, but if tickets sell then they'll keep doing shows.

 

Look at recent/ongoing/upcoming tours by Kiss, Motley Crue/Def Leppard, Elton John, Madonna, Stevie Nicks (and so on); IMO these should all have hung up their boots many years ago, but until people stop paying £250 for a seat in the gods to watch a lipsynching granny in basque cavort about with dancers half her age, then they'll keep doing it.

 

 

Exactly this! While agree some bands are nowhere near what they used to be I just won't pay to go and see them. But they won't miss my £250 out of the millions they're making from everyone else. 

It just seems like the natural order of things now. Young, exciting new band has to sell cheap tickets, graduates to established band, cashes out with greatest hits tour/ no more tours/ we swore we'd never tour again.... And so it goes on. It's like the Vegas residency but coming to an arena near you.

I had the HX Stomp and.... It does TONS. It can do so much it's mind boggling. But. I was barely using 1% of it and found I had to buy so many additional pedals because the few things it didn't do well happened to be the few things I needed. Plus extra buttons.

My view: if you only want a few functions I would buy good quality dedicated pedals that do that, then you can just power it on and tweak some knobs. 

37 minutes ago, rwillett said:

I was looking at the Spark Go which is about 2W

Ah... Wouldn't be knowing about that. 

Yeah the 40watt Spark is a bit meh for bass but it does the job if you accept it for what it is. You're never going to gig it or record by mic'ing it up so for playing along to MP3s it's doing the job. Far better as a guitar amp.

Black Star BEAM and Positive Grid Spark are great for this. They are multi instrument amps, recording interfaces, have loads of effects, just use as a v good quality Bluetooth speaker too.... They're fantastic as a practice tool.

17 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

One other issue with Thomann, anything with a Wall Wart power supply comes with Shuko plug and Thomann provide an adaptor. Great except the adaptors are quite large  and you cannot always fit into mains extension leads with other plugs.

This is very, very annoying. It makes for a big, chunky and not very sturdy mains connection, perfect for kicking out of place by wandering singers. And although their after care is, IMO, excellent I bought a pedal power pack that turned out it had a dodgy UK adaptor. Took ages to work out what was the broken component because I stupidly wired in the power pack and all my pedals before powering it on to test it. Still, they sent me a new adaptor FOC very quickly.

I've seen tons of ads for Teemu, it looks like an updated wish.com with ridiculous prices for stuff that can surely only be knock-off tat?