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Perhaps you could have a word with one of the mods to merge your two threads? To answer your question on the other thread, you'd plug into the Ashdown and take a lead from the effects out into the effects in of the Warwick. Is this the 150 watt CL ND 4 you're talking about? That seems to have a 4 ohm speaker fitted, and under no circumstances should be wired in parallel to another cab with your Ashdown. Unless you fancy seeing what your amp looks like shrouded in smoke.

[quote name='tomb' post='1154825' date='Mar 9 2011, 01:55 AM']sounds good, looks good, feels good but its like expecting a Lamborghini and getting an Audi... engine is the same but its not a Lambo... in this case it looks the same, it might even sound better then the actual Rick (hypothetically) but its not a Rick[/quote] True, but look at it another way. You've bought an Audi for Skoda cash!

I'm just wondering if this might have originally been a sunburst rather than black, as the black only looks like it's on the edges (unless you know better of course ). Fender used to respray previously painted basses sometimes, and it's been speculated that this used to be the fate of sunbursts that didn't turn out as they should. Maybe the same happened to this. Or maybe it was resprayed at a later date.

[quote]Hi Paul, That bass is a fake. To me it looks like an old Ibanez copy. Regards, Richard Cannata[/quote] Even the guys at RIC are trying to pass off every Rickenfaker as an Ibanez!

[quote name='daz' post='1154484' date='Mar 8 2011, 08:59 PM']For £250 thats a steal for a nice bass like that, i didnt realize thats all you paid If i got one like that for £250 id be well happy. Once I'd got it I would fit a genuine chunky Ric bridge on it to give it '[i]t[/i][i]he look'[/i] then id just be happy id got a bargain, especially if its a good sound like you say.[/quote] He's actually paid 250 [i]Euro[/i] for it, which currently works out to £215. In my books that's a bit of a bargain (especially with a case). I'm just wondering if a Hipshot replacement bridge needs the routing that the real deal does? Old Horse Murphy has one on the for sale forum at the moment - unless it's already gone.

[quote name='tomb' post='1154418' date='Mar 8 2011, 08:19 PM']hummm the previous owned does have a precision maybe we interchanged some parts? i dont know anymore :\[/quote] I don't think any of the parts on show are Rickenbacker parts, with the possible exception of the bridge pickup surround/cover - though I'd expect that isn't a genuine part either. Like Jon says, the truss rod adjusters aren't correct and tellingly real Ricks have a rout under the bridge, which would make fitting a Fender type impossible with out filling the hole first. Still, if it only cost you €250 you should be pleased.

Not much to go on from that thread. Maybe you could ask him for a budget (which I'm guessing would rule out a lot of gear, unless the sky's the limit), and whether transportation is likely to be a issue. He might be up against guitarists using 100w each, but what he'll need to compete is likely to be very different depending on whether they're playing through 4x12 full stacks or a 1x12 combo.

[quote name='kurcatovium' post='1149968' date='Mar 4 2011, 09:24 PM']Looks very much like Jolana Rubin Bas - [url="http://www.jolana.cz/rubin-bass/"]http://www.jolana.cz/rubin-bass/[/url] with messed neck (probably taken from another Jolana and toyed with saw). These were made in Czechoslovakia and they don't have very good reputation here. It's basically because there are very little of them left in playable condition. I would never give more then 10 pounds for this crap...[/quote] I've got one of those It's a Jolana Kolorbas, which is virtually identical to the Rubin bar the Fender-esque headstock and the tailpiece (if I remember correctly). The tuners are crap and you'll only coax a retro 60's type thump out of the thing, but other than that it's fine. I've seen the bass player with Holly Golightly using one of these - unsurprisingly it was a 60's inspired band and he'd changed the tuners for Gotohs. Someone's changed the headstock shape slightly on that one, added a string tree, stripped the paint and got busy with black paint on the pole pieces and end pin section of the tailpeice. Other than that it's the same as mine (actually mine's got white rectangular heads to the tuners and the original knobs, including the funky selector switch). We're both missing the transparent pickguard though. I'd guessed the body on these things were hardboard, ala Danelectro, so it's good to know they're wood of some description. I was going to repaint mine but wasn't sure how Nitromors would affect hardboard. I paid £100 for mine (including the shipping from Germany).

Can't you just get a picture of each bass and scale them, say by using the distance from the nut to the 12th fret?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1147855' date='Mar 2 2011, 11:14 PM']It occurs to me that the tuners he's sneering at, plus the pickup - a PAF-stickered 70s DiMarzio - might well be the only decent/genuine parts. Is that cheap-looking open body route consistent with a 70s P? And the fingerboard's strangely a different colour to the rest of the neck, almost as though it was glued-on - just like they aren't on maple-neck Fenders. I dunno, I might be wrong - hard to tell as the pics are so half-arsed & shoddy. Jon.[/quote] The body routing is consistent with a late '73 to early/mid '76 Precision. I suppose it's entirely feasible it could have mated with a '77/'78 neck though - I'm guessing it's got an S7***** serial number, hence the dates he's given in the listing.

Yep. And it's worth bearing in mind that the market for 70's Fenders has only picked up in the last few years, and often wouldn't have been economically viable to drop a lot of cash on. If you managed to split the body on, say, a 1996 P bass, are you going to go to the expense of having it repaired and resprayed or would you just part out what you have left (or use the bits yourself for a project)?

[quote name='Macko1968' post='1144817' date='Feb 28 2011, 07:12 PM']What Chris_b said. The notion that the UK Border Force can be easily fooled is absurd, this is their job, they know all the cons. Items leaving the country are routinely photographed & documented to ensure the same item comes back with you, at Coventry an entire team open parcels every day, checking the contents match the declared value. You'll either get lucky or a criminal record.[/quote] +1 I have an old copy of International Musician (from 1977 I think) that had quite a long interview with a guy from HMRC. He described all the cunning ideas that have been mentioned here, and I'm pretty sure in the intervening 34 years they've come across a few more ploys for avoiding tax and duty. At the end of the day HMRC can impound your bass and leave you to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the bass went out with you, that it's exactly the same one, has already had UK duties paid on it or that you've paid exactly what you've declared.

[quote name='Beedster' post='1143978' date='Feb 27 2011, 10:47 PM']Like I said in your other thread, don't do the trade, it's way too risky[/quote] Ah, it's in relation to [i]that[/i] thread. Yeah, what Beedster said.

[quote name='fiatcoupe432' post='1143974' date='Feb 27 2011, 10:42 PM']Does anyone protect people that trade on here?or if you trade and get a empty case what happen? thanks for your help guys[/quote] It's a case of let the buyer beware. I think there's a sticky about somewhere that explains all this.

[quote name='cytania' post='1143736' date='Feb 27 2011, 07:41 PM']Last hour of the auction and it's up to £256 but look in bid history and one seller has bid it up six times with no one competing taking it up from £180. What is going on? Am I seeing shill's under the bed? Is there a logical explanation?[/quote] It was the automatic bids from the winning bidder that was bumping the price up. I'm not sure if it was shill bidding, though it could have been.

[quote name='Soloshchenko' post='1143416' date='Feb 27 2011, 03:29 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.com/1977-Vintage-Hondo-II-Japanese-bass-lawsuit-model-LOOK-/140516623000?pt=Guitar&hash=item20b7718298"]Natural coloured Hondo[/url] Never seen a natural orrible Hondo before. Makes me wonder if he's got this right.[/quote] I seem to remember Jon mentioning that he'd seen a solid bodied Hondo 'faker before. Or maybe I just imagined it.

You can just swap the 8 ohm speaker for a 4 ohm one - AFAIK the tweeter can be disregarded as far as the overall impedance of the cab is concerned. If you're doing this to get an increase in volume by unleashing the extra wattage you're likely to be disappointed though. You'll probably see slightly under 2dB increase in volume, which is all but inaudible in the real world. Adding a second 8 ohm cab would be an entirely different kettle of fish though. Edit: I'm assuming you'd be swapping the speaker like-for like. Obviously using a far more efficient speaker would provide a greater increase in volume, though depending on the specs may change the sound of the cab.

I didn't think Fender Japan bodies were serialised, just like US ones aren't. What you should find in the neck pocket is the model number, though if they're anything like Fender USA that might well be absent.

[quote name='mcnach' post='1140529' date='Feb 24 2011, 09:54 PM']It depends on what your definition of nice overdrive is. For me, this ain't. Yes, you can EQ it, yes you can blend the dry sound... the problem is that if you blend the dry sound with a bad sounding fizzy overdrive noise... well, that's what you get. All in my experience and opinion, of course I find the character of that overdrive far too harsh. It's my second least favourite OD pedal for bass. The absolute worst (in my experience, I'm sure there are worse!) was the Behringer BOD100. There are enough people who like it. Great. But so far they seem to be clearly metal oriented... and there's a lot more to bass overdrive than metal. That's why I preferrd the Digitech Bass Driver to the Boss ODB3: it can do a similar sound to an ODB3, but it can also do warmer sounds that work well in other styles.[/quote] That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the Boss - I've always thought it was misnamed, as in my opinion it doesn't do overdrive well at all. There always seemed to be a fizzy artefact to the effect that was always present even with the drive down and blend right up. Distortion/overdrive seems to be the most personal of all effects for bass, so what's heaven for one person might be hell for another. Good job that there's so many to choose from.

[quote name='Magnolia' post='1140192' date='Feb 24 2011, 05:49 PM']Does anyone know where I can get a truss rod cover made. I want one with my band name (Rockafella) on. I want one as close looking as a Rickenbacker one as possible. Ie Font.... Or has anyone any tips on making one myself?[/quote] Jon (Bassassin) is the man to talk to on both counts. Details on how he made his [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=19592&view=findpost&p=227610"]here[/url].

[quote name='phil.i.stein' post='1131951' date='Feb 18 2011, 10:43 AM']probably sounds silly, but maybe the right->left is a Japanese thing ? Boss being the major player and all..[/quote] My thoughts exactly!

[quote name='menolikeslap' post='1138280' date='Feb 23 2011, 10:30 AM']Sounds like she was protecting her self-esteem with a remarkable [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect"]Dunning-Kruger reflex[/url]. I'd never say I'm better than another musician, then again I have no self-respect [/quote] Can't remember who it was, but someone had a quote from John Cleese as a signature - “To know how good you are at something requires the same skills as it does to be good at that thing. Which means that if you are absolutely hopeless at something, you lack exactly the skills that you need to know that you’re absolutely hopeless at it." Just thought I'd share.

[quote name='ras52' post='1135874' date='Feb 21 2011, 05:44 PM']I just got one these - via BC marketplace - and it is [b]very[/b] fuzzy! With the gain at zero there's what I would call quite a lot of distortion, so I'm looking for something else for that "slight bloom" of overdrive. (He said, bandying around another totally subjective term...)[/quote] The Bad Monkey/Badder Monkey seems quite popular for that type of sound. Not owned either myself, but maybe you could do a search for opinions from those that have. Edit: Review [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9473"]here[/url].

[quote name='Roland Rock' post='1134875' date='Feb 20 2011, 10:11 PM']Yes. Have to keep relogging in All avatars had disappeared Some entire sections such as Off Topic had disappeared[/quote] You have to be logged in to see the avatars or either the Ebay Links or Off Topic forums, so that bit at least is normal. I had to log in once earlier today, but since then it's fine.

[quote name='Hamster' post='1134584' date='Feb 20 2011, 05:55 PM']Yes, I remember someone posted on this thread that they got the gig - but they deleted the post so perhaps it didn't work out?[/quote] There were two threads going simultaneously, and the post in question was on [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=114893&view=findpost&p=1110790"]the other one[/url]. Congrats to Mike on getting the gig and I sincerely hope it does work out. There are disadvantages to incorporating your current band into your username.