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A gentleman and a fine fellow indeed! A man who knows how to meticulously wrap a parcel as if it is passing through a war zone. Dave was happy to offer lots of pictures and details even mentioning the tiniest of marks (that I can't see!!) As they say on eBay, A++++++ perfect communications, would recommend.
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Lad? Luxury, when I were an Australopithecus... ☺️
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Thank you! All this time and I had never noticed the URL! Yup, it comes to the best of us! 👴🏻👴🏻 😂
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I'm not sure where to find my member number! I am not a number! I am a free man!! (or something...)
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I actually really liked that Larry almost decided to go the other way with the LH heads. The LH1000 is just a fantastic "lead sled" head, unapologetically weighty with an 'old school' valve preamp in to dual (bridgeable) power amplifers. Great, now I need one of those in my life again too ha ha... I bolted 4" rubber wheels to the bottom of my cabinets and then stacked them on their sides so that the ports would run up the entire right hand edge vertically, not unlike the Barefaced Big Twin 3 and similar cabinets.
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I certainly remember watching Hartke's rise from the early Bass Player Magazine adverts to, as you say, around that time when the planets aligned; a certain other brand had huge QC issues that agitated at least one endorsing top-tier bassist, Hartke's worldwide distribution meant they had kit in all corners of the globe and a big advertising campaign where Larry Hartke put his personal 'phone number on adverts certainly helped. Not to mention, of course the first aluminium coned Hartke cabinet was made for none other than Jaco "only needed four" Pastorious. I'm yet to try the new HD and HL cabinets, I need to get those in for review I guess, but I loved the XL's and the HX(?) Hydrive cabinets.
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I was an endorsing artist for many years (long before Victor Wootten, Billy Sheehan, Frank Bello et al jumped from Ampeg and the like - I jest of course, I'm a nobody versus those legends!)
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I'd give them their dues though, at least they have a great headstock design, some brands designs I might not want to upgrade my bass to ha ha! 22 fret Jazz neck though, oh boy, I'd love to give one of those a try out!
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L I still really love those old Hartke 4.5XL cabinetss. They had a very specific tonal chracter to them, which, down low wasn't even remotely FRFR, quite the opposite. Up at gig volume, the low end bloomed as the cones started moving some air and the peak in the treble region really helped the bass sound to cut through. Further more, considering the cabinets had a scoop in the mids, there was always plenty of room in the mix for guitars and keys too! At 45Kg each, and that my needs have changed considerably, it's unlikely I'd gig with them now, but I wouldn't mind having one in the giant studio space I don't own either.
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PRICE DROP Overwater Progress Series IV 4 String - now £2250
Dood replied to petergales's topic in Basses For Sale
Huge apologies, I hadn't spotted these comments re: my review video. Sorry it has messed with your for sale advert. Long story short, some oik hacked the magazine YouTube channel and deleted all of our videos and replaced them with clickbait spam. It took a huge amount of effort trying to make Youtube believe that the magazine owned the channel - despite all of our faces being in every video that was actually on the channel! DOH! Anyway, we've got the channel back and the review in question is live again. I'm waiting for my Overwater Elite review to go live soon too, I'll post here on BC too. For now, here's the review in question. If the two I have reviewed are anything to go by, Peter's bass is without a shadow of a doubt top-tier. I'd have one (it) myself, if I could! https://www.bassgearmag.com/bassic-review-overwater-progress-series-iv-standard-5-string-bass/ -
This one is a good snapshot, lots of people logged on and lots of posts showing. Anyone see themselves logged in? I'm on there! http://web.archive.org/web/20060426190514/http://www.bassworld.co.uk/pn/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewforum&f=1
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The best I have been able to do is to look up BassWorld on the WayBack Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/http://www.bassworld.co.uk/pn/index.php - it'd be possible to browse the snapshots to see who was logged on at the time. There's a good few names I recognise as on BassChat too. The snapshots don't go back to '98 though.
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Bartolini MK1 Soapbar sized pickups that sound like Active EMGs
Dood replied to Delberthot's topic in Accessories and Misc
I’ve realised I had the filter set to 4 string on the soapbars, which offers BC and EMG, quite rightly the 5 and 6 strings etc offer a wider range of shells. -
Ahhh yes indeed good sir! We all scurried over from the sinking ship that was BassWorld.co.uk! I remember logging on to BassWorld and I think I still had dial-up internet to begin with! BassWorld appeared around 1998 and it was a lot quieter than BassChat, it’s great to see that many of the very early numbers of ‘worlders are still here!! And great to see the community has flourished and grown. Though it is saddening that we’ve lost some wonderful bassists on the way, their memory lives on.
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Bartolini MK1 Soapbar sized pickups that sound like Active EMGs
Dood replied to Delberthot's topic in Accessories and Misc
Thank you, I guess that was my next question as to whether or not the EMG shells were P or BC series sizing. Nordstrand for example offer EMG and Bart BC sizing (mostly, I didn’t look at the entire range) which could be a problematic swap out if the EMG’s are P series sizes instead. -
Bartolini MK1 Soapbar sized pickups that sound like Active EMGs
Dood replied to Delberthot's topic in Accessories and Misc
Update, just spotted there’s a 5 string version (at least a prototype) out in the wilds. -
Bartolini MK1 Soapbar sized pickups that sound like Active EMGs
Dood replied to Delberthot's topic in Accessories and Misc
I suspect the “4” bit means it’s a four string pickup, no idea if a 5 or 6 is in the offing. edit: @crazycloud sorry, didn’t see your comment, thank you. -
I had no idea it is viewed that I offer so little to the bass world. I am the 'daytime tv' of the low end, the Diet Coke, the low-fat spread, the slimmer-world shake, the 'Jaco only needed', the Turra to the Ostro.
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I'm 6'3" and sadly far from the bean-pole I used to me as a kid. The pedal in that case will look tiny.
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From the same family, I can confirm that the 802 also sounds tremendous with the Barefaced cabinets. So, I knew the minute I started reading your post it was going to have a happy outcome. Congrats! The only odd thing I found recently was that the rubber feet on my 802 actually got stuck to the BT3's finish lol.. something reacted and they became "temporarily inseparable" - is that an oxymoron? ha ha! (My other amps have been fine).
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I loved having those three pickups on my (sadly gone) AB1 to play across as @SumOne says. I'd have gone one step further and had all three pickups made as a giant ramp, with a radiused top to suit the neck. Sheldon and I chatted about radiused pickup shells way back, but life got in the way of making that a reality.
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I'll be comparing the two and sharing my thoughts in time along with a full review. I'm also planning another review of the QC as there's lots to include since the last ones. I am mega pleased to see that the next OS update of the Quad Cortex is finally going to include both the amazing Cory Wong X and Parallax X plug-in, following today's announcement. I use the Cory Wong X daily and I've wanted the compressor and SSL desk model in the QC for..well, ever! Next I'm looking forward to seeing the Archetype: Petrucci X ported in too, my other daily driver for teaching, writing and recording.
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I'll keep an eye on this thread and add it to my To Do list.
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I've had Steve Atkinson's Neural Amp Modeller in my studio since it's early versions and it has been pretty impressive, though I've not captured any of my gear using the trainer yet! With the QC on the desk, it has just been easier to grab that. I'm still waiting to review ToneX too, so I must reconnect with my contact at IK soon. N.A.M's capture process requires more steps obviously as QC has everything in one box. I'm pretty sure that from a software point of view, Anagram could be capable of hosting the capture process as well as the Neural Amp Modeller, time will tell as more features are rolled out.
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As much as it would be nice to play along and say its because they know me, its for ma job; I'm going to give Anagram a thorough review and video for y'all! but yeah, they know me 😂
