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Flea bag. Are you interested?

If not, why not allow interested parties to ask for extra pics if they want?

Bump and reduction to £40

Anybody interested in these drivers before I tips them?

One of them is actually ok. Three are rattling.
Recone £45 a piece. You'd have £600 of drivers for £135 plus £40 to buy.

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Extremely lightweight birch purple chilli 4 x 10 cab.

Pretty rough cosmetic but was working fine until I blew the drivers.

Located in Cheshire.

Can meet up for some diesel.

Will make a good project cab.

I'm having a clear out of bits.
I've put a guide price of £60 for all 4 speakers but have no idea whether this is fair, high or low.
I'm open to offers.

These 4 celestion bn10-300x 300 watt speakers came out of my 1200w purple chilli 410 neo cab.
They were superb until a surge from my power amp spiked them and they developed a flapping noise under load.
I can't see that the cones are flapping and haven't had the magnet dust cover off to check so the magnets could be loose but I don't know.
They all still work but 3 of them flap. There is one that does not but as 3 are dodgy I'm selling them all as needing refurb.
These 300w drivers are now unavailable but we're listed at over £140 each.
Perfect for a project. I got quoted £45 a speaker for refurb but had replaced the cab by that point so they are offered for repair.
Will post most places.
Hit me with offers.

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Well ta for that.

Maybe I'll have a look out for a squier classic vibe version of the 51.

Apparently the dimensions are fender standard but you never know.

Anybody sampled a "Freestyle Model 51 P" bass off ebay?

I was looking at 51 model P basses after the revelation that a P bass solves all my bottom end needs (after 35 years of avoiding them as they are too simple - idiot.........but that's another story) when I came across these models on ebay;

http://www.ebay.co.u...%3D282387750394

I just wondered if anyone has sampled the wares of Freestyle instruments and whether this would do as a base model from which I could mod to my hearts content?

Reading through all the posts here i realise i need my modulus VJ4 back. Or just a VJ4.

I mean my initials are VJ so clearly we were made for one another but by god they're rare....

That's the thing isn't it?

Do you try to find "that bass" that you let go but shouldn't have and attempt to get it back? Or an equivalent.

Life's too short for regrets right?

I wonder if we need an "I want my bass back" or "broken hearted bass player seeks reunion with former bass" page?

I thought I was upgrading when I sold my modulus after succumbing to GAS for a USA Geddy Lee Jazz.

Now the geddy is fantastic but that modulus vj4.......
The more I think the more I regret that sale. More so than the rick.

Silly me.

It's the basses that are becoming classics and played like a dream that are galling.

A rare 74 white 4001. How stupid.
A rare modulus vj4 that played better than anything I ever owned.

What was i thinking?

On a similar note, aren't those basses that we all thought were crap in the 80s selling for a fortune now?
When did satellite, columbus and kay become good? And collectable?

That reminds me that in my search for "that bass" I may have regretfully discarded more than just the ricky and my modulus.

I had an imported usa g&l l2000 before they were popular. I imported it for around £500 from the US. It was black with the slimmer jazz style maple neck and played like a dream. My only reason for selling was that there were that many tonal options that I could never settle on the right one (aka my own ignorance).

That's 3 then. There's probably more.

I just saw a pic of a bkack 4001 on bass players united and it reminded me of a regretful sale.

Hopefully this won't sound like our tune (Simon Bates from the 80s.......)

I bought a 74 ricky 4001 from music ground in leeds in 2000. It was stripped to the wood and sporting incorrect tuners, incorrect bridge and a jazz pick up in the bridge position. Having sourced all period correct parts, it was rewired and refinished back to original vintage white. It played like a dream, having been chosen on playability and I let it go about 4 years ago.

Unfortunately I sold it to fund a modulus VJ4 which happens to be the only other bass I regret selling.

How stupid is that.

Thanks for the replies there.

I think we're ok for photos but will definitely try crash and power 2 the pixel.

I'd really like to get everything recorded at one studio for music and video.

So accepting that we need the media, are there any recommendations as to who to use for studio recordings / video in the North West?

I once again turn to my fellow bass players to help solve a band situation.

As a regular pub / party /beer festival covers band we're considering pumping some money into a professional media pack, i.e. better recordings, video shoot and pro photos. The quality of the band isn't an issue and we're capable of the better paid gigs.

However, is it worth the £1000+ for a pro media pack and do agents like Warble actually produce the goods or is it a closet industry full of self fulfilling demands from agents whose interest is as much to get a band to shell out £1000+ with a recommended media company (which I wouldn't use anyway) to get bands on their shelves?

You are correct. In fact it would be a nightmare job.

Direct replacement may be what's required however first to trial the neutrik jack.

All good points.

It's 2nd hand. Apparently it wasn't an issue for the previous owner. Apparently.....

It's not me moving causing the cable to be spat out - it's speaker vibrations which should be eliminated by my gator case. Tethering the cable may help which I'll try.

The neutrik jacks havent arrivred yet so no action to be taken by me yet and ok i wont shave a miniscule bit off the collar. I'll wait to see how the neutrik works and then just replace the fatter jacks if thst cures matters.

longer term I may replace the input socket with a nice neutrik locking socket. I never had this before so it must be the socket at fault one way or another.

Well the collar of the socket does sit proud of the nut and does seem to stop the jack seating home properly - but the PW jack does seem slightly shorter than some of my others. The proud collar would exacerbate that.

I was considering a gentle trim of the socket collar to allow the jack to go in slightly deeper.
It may be all I need to do to avoid any change of cable / socket.............I wonder if I should try that first with my dremel or a hack saw.

All this leads (no pun intended) me to believe that I need to change the PCB mount input socket and I'm minded to change to a neutrik locking socket for good measure.
There is no way to bend tangs or contacts on the current socket.

Also it appears that some of my other jacks are very slightly longer which allows them to seat home correctly and not come out as the PW cable appears to.under the feintest of touch.

Over the last 10 years using planet waves cables I've never had this trouble. Common denomination must mean the input socket needs changing.
Out with the soldering iron, head torch and glasses it is then......

I only got the TF amp 2 weeks back so the planet waves cable isn't responsible for stretching the input socket.

However I've ordered a couple of right angle neutrik 1/4"s so that if in any doubt gaffa tape will hole the jack ion at the right angle.

I may of course be flapping about nothing now as once sitting it's Gator rack then it may be more immune to vibrations.

The planet waves jacks are slightly fatter btw. That may mean my guitar jacks are now a bit floppy as I've certainly had them a while.

New cables may be the answer. Not sure why I need the isolation switch now anyway....................

On further examination the planet waves jack is slightly shorter and slightly fatter than my others and they seem to seat home in the socket better.

I think I'll buy a couple of neutrik jacks and chop the planet waves jack off my cable at the amp end (I use the isolation switch at the guitar end).

The socket is soldered to the underside of a PCB which contains all front panel controls so it is not a 5 minute job. The bottom of the chassis won't release to reveal the underside of the PCB as all the internal hardware is mounted on it so a new input socket will be last resort.

I wonder whether the amp being in a rack case may help as it won't be vibrating so much..........