Musky

I think Peavey 410's often go for nearer the £100 mark.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1337809021' post='1665947'] That would be my opinion of medium - especially seeing as I base my opinion on Rotosound Strings anyway. [/quote] Yeah, I just mentioned it because Rotosound mediums are .40 - .95. A bit less tension in them than the Standard Guage ones.

'Medium guage' covers a bit of ground as far as strings go - different manufacturers seem to have their own idea of what is 'medium'. For the sake of argument, are we all talking about .45 - .105 here (a la Rotosound's Standard Guage)?

Ashdown tend to divide opinions on here, but I've found the MAG cabs to be... well, a bit wooly. If you go for an Ashdown cab an ABM may be a better bet. Personally I'm with Lozz - I think the Peavey cabs sound great, but you'll find the TVX is much heavier than your MAG. The newer 410's are evidentally much lighter.

I'm completely relieved to discover that my inability to hear the 12kHz signal is all down to my soundcard/speakers/audio format. And nothing whatsoever to do with my tinnitus - which is now louder than ever due to two threads in the last week to remind me that I've got it!

It's a Samick. http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/55U-4304.htm

The reason - as far as I remember - is that some people were actually holding auctions on the site, i.e. inviting people to bid for items with a 'closing date'. As this isn't an auction site and the process isn't very open and transparent, it was felt it was an unfair way of conducting business. The Ebay links forum is specifically for the discussion of auctions rather than the promotion of your own one, although people do occasionally use it for that purpose. There does seem to have been an increase in the number of people using it this way recently however, and the subject was broached in the Site Issues forum. You may have been a victim of that. As has been suggested, there's nothing to stop you posting in the For Sale forums with a higher price than you expect, or pointing out that it is also available on Ebay. There are currently no minimum posts required or length of time you must be a member be for you can post. BC is first and foremost a community - the Marketplace section is an added (and very welcome) bonus,

Errr... You've missed out the only pitch I can hear! Edit: Actually I can hear the 10k tone as well.

http://www.studybass.com/lessons/bass-scales/one-octave-chromatic-scale/ http://www.studybass.com/lessons/common-bass-patterns/chromatic-approach-notes/ http://www.studybass.com/lessons/blues-bass/the-12-bar-blues-form/

[quote name='Ancient Mariner' timestamp='1337689909' post='1663982'] Been around a couple of years collecting abuse from all and sundry. Personally, of all Gibsons mistakes I'd like to own a Lawn Dart (reverse flying V). [/quote] A Corvus for me. I very nearly bought one in the nineties.

If it looked anything like one of these then it could be anything really. They went out under a huge variety of different brands, and almost identical instruments have enough differences to suggest that there were a number of different manufacturers. Teisco/Kawai were probably involved in making some of them, but I couldn't even hazard a guess at any other manufacturers. Aria had one in their catalogue as an A200, but it wasn't manufactured by Matsumoku.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1337638242' post='1663440'] Link : [url="http://www.audiokinesis.com/akprosound.html"]http://www.audiokine...akprosound.html[/url] [/quote] Yeah, that's the site I was looking at, specifically this page - http://www.audiokinesis.com/product_ak_thunderchild112.html It may be a perfectly fine cab, but the disclaimer rather casts a shadow over every word on that page.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1337636804' post='1663410'] The current craze of super lightweight 1x12s/1x15s that can handle serious power is going strong in the USA. The Thunderchild designs seem to be very popular and a true one cab/light solution. There are now 1x8 cabs that are around 9lbs, yes 9lbs, with a tweeter. They apparently cover the ground that a high end 1x10 would normally cover. I would love to see these in the UK. The Baer ML112 also looks fantastic. Yes, we have Barefaced, but having a selection of builders would be great. [/quote] I had to google Thunderchild as I'd never heard of them before. The first page I landed on started with this: [quote]Update Jan 16, 2012: [i]This page may contain grievous factual errors. We are currently diliberating the facts and will update them soon.[/i][/quote] Not a good start...

I don't think we're always best placed to appraise our own songs. I seem to remember that Jagger didn't want to do Satisfaction when he heard the riff that Richards had come up with. If 18 months seems like too long I can't imagine what doing a song for 45 years is like.

[quote name='Balcro' timestamp='1337468033' post='1660629'] Hi Musky, Does it stop noise coming in to the amp or noise going out to other devices? Balcro. [/quote] They stop the noise, mainly RF signals, going out to other components in the circuit. They're filters rather than shielding.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1337499721' post='1660811'] I've heard this too, but by your reckoning I must have done at least 35,000 hours... 'mastery'..? Hmm - not sure! [/quote] I've got to say I'm fairly sceptical about putting a finite figure on it as well as it doesn't take in to account any natural aptitude, but I think the idea is that it's 10,000 hours of proper practice rather than just playing.

It's said that it takes 10,000 hours to master something - that's about 15 months with 8 hours practice a day, or roughly 10 years with 20 hours of practice a week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29#Synopsis At my current rate of practice I calculate I should achieve mastery sometime around 2212.

[quote name='Fin Bass' timestamp='1337149423' post='1656102'] Hi guys. Can someone tell me if I've got this right; looking at the HMRC site - you are allowed to bring in (not post) goods to value £390. So if I am visiting the US, I can bring back a guitar up to that value, for my own use, without incurring tax? [/quote] I didn't know about this allowance either - well spotted! http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/customs/arriving/arrivingnoneu.htm Any here ever done this?

Just reading between the lines here, but it occurs to me that the guitarist is angling for remuneration for the time he was providing the band with the PA. Might be worth bearing in mind in any negotiations and be prepared with a response.

[quote name='thebuckets' timestamp='1337435883' post='1659943'] what does it actually do and is it just a clip round the cable job? cheers Bri second gig with the HB in a pub with low ceiling and lots of carpet. sounded ok to me but band said they liked it and could hear it clearly so far so good... [/quote] It filters high frequency noise in the same sort of way inductors do. Clamps like the one used on the Promethean simply pop straight on to the cable, but should be a reasonably snug fit for the best results.

Another White Precision - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330698670872 Though he says it has '73 neck hardware, the tuners clearly aren't from that period. Makes you wonder.

Congratulations mate!

Ok, I might be teaching you to suck eggs here but I'll try to talk you through it. You know it's a blues shuffle, so I'm assuming you know what 12 bar blues is. This is a slight variation on the most common pattern, in that it runs [font=courier new,courier,monospace]I / IV / I / I / IV / IV / I / I / V / IV / I / I.[/font] It's in C, so you're using the first, fourth and fifth notes of the scale - C, F and G. Now you'll notice that from C you've got a choice of whether to go to a higher or lower F and G. Billy opts for going lower during the body of the song and higher during the solo. You can get by with playing the song just using these notes, but Billy throws in some passing notes to liven things up a little. For the first couple of minutes or so he's mostly just using single notes make the transitions - A# on the way to C and G, G going to down to F. He's occasionally sticking in chromatic runs in there - e.g. A#, B, C. When it gets to the solo section it's chromatic all the way, with the addition that he's playing the first note of the chromatic run twice, making the previous example A#, A#, B, C. Around 2:30 (and again about 15 seconds later) there's a little flourish. This goes something like C, A, C, A#, A, F, A#, A, F, D#. The song is peppered with octaves where he's playing one of the triplet notes an octave higher, and the occasional bit where he's playing eighth notes on the root - you can stick these in wherever you fancy. Part of the beauty of blues is that it's quite easy to stick in your own choices. Sorry if this is way to simplistic for you, but hopefully it'll help anyway. Incidentally, Studybass.com is a good resource for learning, and covers all this kind of stuff.

Shielding a pickup is difficult at best, since you're going to have to cover it with something. So the only practical way of doing this is finding a metal cover for it, and even then it'll only reduce the noise from a single coil. Ditto that for shielding the wiring. You've got the option of installing a noiseless pickup, but these are usually actually humbuckers in a single coil size. You can expect a change in tone if you go this route, but that might be to your liking anyway. Unfortunately a greater amount of noise is part and parcel of single coils - most people put up with it because the prefer the tone to the alternatives.

It's a pain, but I'm not sure there's anything much that can be done about it. You could try putting something like "Near offers considered, but no ridiculous lowballs please. Serious buyers only." in the text. But you'll probably still get lowballs and people pulling out of the deal.