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Your daughter could announce that she’s swapping to guitar as the keys player has the bass parts covered. The guitarist will have conniptions because of the competition for volume as will the keys player who now has to learn the left hand parts properly. At the subsequent band meeting, your daughter can graciously agree to stay on bass but ask that the keys player write proper keys parts that don’t occupy the same sonic ground as the bass and kick. Or just sack the keys player
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Bought an Ampeg Scrambler off Marty. Great price and great condition. It was posted really quickly and packaged really well. All in all, the perfect BC transaction! Thanks, Marty 😁
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I stopped gigging a couple of years ago and have been slowly clearing out all my stuff ever since. I’m now down to my last bass (a Ric 4003 that will never be going) which I use for noodling and a bit of home recording. Logic plug-ins are okay but I do like recording audio direct and doing minimal work on it in the DAW so, after much research I’ve just got an MXR M80 DI+. It was a toss up between that and the Sansamp and in the end I was swayed by an Amazon price of just £150 on the M80. I’m very, very impressed. Deep and rich and sonorous - and then i hit the “colour” button and it’s even more so. The distortion is okay - not really my sort of thing anyway, plus i have a new-to-me Ampeg Scrambler on the way to do mild overdrive duties - but the core sounds I can get from the EQ are excellent. Of course, i’ve now started to wonder whether i shouldn’t get a cheap, second-hand P bass to complement the Ric….. and so the GAS starts again!
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Clearout - Origin Effects, Broughton, Zoom, Ampeg, SGFX, EHX etc.
Skinnyman replied to martyy's topic in Effects For Sale
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Ryan just bought my Pedal Train(s) and, just like everyone else, i found him super easy to deal with from start to finish. Thanks Ryan!
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I’m selling my pedals. All in great condition, all working fine although I don’t have the boxes for any of them and I don’t have power supplies for them (they all take standard 9v centre-negative PSUs). We have; EHX Oceans 11 (reverb) T Rex Replay (delay) EHX Soul Food (drive) Zoom A1four (acoustic multi FX) Morley Distortion Wah (combined wah and distortion) Price above is for the job lot collected from sunny Cleethorpes. If you want them posted please add another tenner. PLEASE NOTE: I’d really prefer to sell the whole lot in one go so at this stage I’ll see whether there’s any takers for the bundle before I offer to sell them individually. Thanks for looking, please PM with any questions
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Now listed with all my other pedals Here we have a Zoom A1 Four. It’s not seen very much use (gigged once), mainly because my plans to play acoustic on a couple of songs with the band were scuppered when that band imploded and I could never convince the next band to do any Eagles stuff. Anyway, it’s in excellent condition. Sadly, I no longer have the box or original USB adaptor but I do have the XLR-to-3/4” adaptor that came with it for using with violin or wind instruments. I’ll add in a generic USB adaptor and cable and make sure it’s well wrapped if posting. £50 collected/local drop-off or £55 if posted. Thanks for looking.
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Festivals haven’t been my thing since Knebworth ‘79 so I’m going to show my naivety here but don’t the Beeb pay Glastonbury for the rights to broadcast the footage? And, if that is the case, then wouldn’t it be the case that those sections of the media who don’t want the BBC to show it are presumably at liberty to outbid the Beeb for the rights if they wanted? Or is it protected like a Wimbledon/Boat Race thing and always free-to-view? Also showing my ignorance - what events this year?
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Kawai and Yamaha are about the only two that seem to have any real resale value and even then the depreciation on a new piano is huge. We bought a Kawai K300 a few years ago and it’s a lovely intermediate-level instrument. It does, however, need room for the sound to “blossom” and when we moved house we ended up with it in a smaller room that, no matter how we treated it acoustically, made it painful to play at any volume. With hindsight, we should have bought one of the hybrid pianos but in the end we swapped it for a Kawai digital. The market nowadays seems to be swamped with Chinese pianos that have European-sounding names but no real heritage - I’m sure like most things from China these days they’re fine instruments and I daresay one could get a lightly-used example for a bargain price. If I was buying a new piano today, even if I lived in a mansion, I’d go with a Yamaha or Kawai hybrid that allowed silent playing.
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I read the title of this thread and my first thought was “Sounds like a good swap”. 😁
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Also listed on Guitarchat! We're into the final stages of the Great Retirement Clearout and this listing is from my 2012 FSR American Special Strat. I bought it new from Peterborough Music (sadly now defunct) and it's in excellent condition with all the original paperwork and Fender gig bag. It has an ash body in natural finish with two Texas Special single coils and an Atomic humbucker. The full spec is listed here https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/StratAmSANat--fender-fsr-american-special-stratocaster-hss-natural-ash-body. The guitar is available to try out here in sunny Cleethorpes or I can travel a reasonable distance to meet/deliver - please PM me to discuss options.
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2012 Fender FSR American Std Jazz Ltd Edition - *SOLD*
Skinnyman replied to Skinnyman's topic in Basses For Sale
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2012 Fender FSR American Std Jazz Ltd Edition - *SOLD*
Skinnyman replied to Skinnyman's topic in Basses For Sale
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2012 Fender FSR American Std Jazz Ltd Edition - *SOLD*
Skinnyman replied to Skinnyman's topic in Basses For Sale
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2012 Fender FSR American Std Jazz Ltd Edition - *SOLD*
Skinnyman replied to Skinnyman's topic in Basses For Sale
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2012 Fender FSR American Std Jazz Ltd Edition - *SOLD*
Skinnyman replied to Skinnyman's topic in Basses For Sale
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2012 Fender FSR American Std Jazz Ltd Edition - *SOLD*
Skinnyman replied to Skinnyman's topic in Basses For Sale
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SOLD The Great Retirement Clearout continues and now we’re down to the penultimate listing… This is a 2012 Fender FSR American Standard Jazz bass. It’s a limited edition of 150 worldwide, of which 50 came to the UK. The first 50 were signed by Jeff Allen, the head of production at the US factory, and this is number 41. It’s hand-stained with a wine red stain and came originally with a black pickguard which I’ve replaced with a vintage white pearl PG (original Fender spare part). The original black one is included along with the Fender-branded TSA hard case and all the original case candy (Allen wrenches, swing tags, polishing cloth, manual, set up guide and, for some reason, a photocopied manual in Spanish). I bought this new in 2012 and gigged it regularly until I hung up my gigging boots for good in 2023. As a result, there are a few small dings here and there and a general patina of use but nothing major - it just looks like what it is, a well-used Jazz bass. I’ve tried to show the marks in the pictures but please PM if you want better pictures of specific areas. Like most of us here, GAS has meant I’ve had loads of basses over the years which got plenty of stage time but this is the one I kept coming back to. It’s got a lovely fat sound when you want it or you can get it to growl like a good Jazz should. Used Jazzes seem to go for about this price but the finish (and signature) makes this one stand out. Feel free to ask any questions or for more pics/ sound samples. I really would prefer not to ship this so please PM to either come round and try it out or discuss meet-up options. Thanks for looking. And now, a few pics…. (edit: forgot the proof of ownership thing. Water-marked pics now added)
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Bargain!
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Looks nice. At the risk of appearing rude, how much?
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I’m sure that AI (which I think stands more for “Apparent Intelligence”) will continue to develop and could even become quite useful at some stage. My concern is not that it will start to “think” for itself and decide that we’re the problem, rather that we humans will hand over responsibility for some quite big decisions to something that looks smart but isn’t really. A bit like the first generation of autonomous trading systems which over-reacted and cost a US brokerage firm billions in the space of a few minutes. Provided we always have access to the “Off” button and provided we have double and triple checks on the big decisions, we should be okay…