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    Wow!! I'd been hanging on and on for a Puma 900 to arrive in the UK but gave up hoping and went for the GK MB800 instead for my 'tiny rig'. Bet it sounds great.
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    I bought the Tone Pump for a project because of it's brilliant FET preamp circuit that soft clips in a similar way to that of valves do. I got as far as mounting it in a pedal sized box to use as an external preamp. But that is exactly how it has stayed, on my shelf, not being used! So I am offering it up for sale as a great upgrade to your bass. I know that a lot of people have given the preamp stick, but I reckon it's because they treat it like any other active pre that has centre notches for the 0db setting. The TonePump is a little different - much like the passive tone stacks that have a certain bit of boost of lows and trebles built in to their zero position. Paired with passive pickups, this preamp really livens up the sound - it works great with active EMG pickups too. You can really get that 'Spector bass' sound paired with EMG DCs! Anyway, here's the web info' for you: http://www.spectorbass.com/store/store.php?crn=227&rn=446&action=show_detail I had to pay all of the customs, excise and shipping costs on top of this price, that I am not forwarding on to you. My bad luck I suppose! £50+P&P which is probably going to be about a 5er as I ship recorded/insured/tracked depending on value. Yes, it is the model with the trimpot output gain control as seen above. - The design is such that despite using a 9v battery, the schematic uses a voltage doubler so you are infact getting the headroom of an 18V system with it according to the guy who designed the preamp.
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    [quote name='Bass-Thing' timestamp='1341598586' post='1721723'] Folks I am SOOO sorry. I had been led to believe that this bass had already been sold and I thought those enquiring after it still might be interested in mine. I realise whatever that I was bang out of order and I promise I won't do it again. [/quote] Good man Carry on all!
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    Great reading! I look forward to getting to hear one of these and a Streamliner eventually. I have to say, after reviewing the MB800 for iGuitar Mag, I was sold without wanting to wait it out for the GB's. I have to say it really surprised me how good it sounded. However, I think you're probably right when it comes to flexibility. The Shuttle has a wider EQ selection for different tones and flexibility, that's for sure. The GK has 'that sound' about it and I'm not sure what the 'flat' settings of the EQ are yet. I have to say that I was won over also by it being 1u high! it sits nicely in a rack case with my distortion preamp etc! Volume wise, like the Shuttle, I reckon they are both stupidly loud Thank you for the review!
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    Thank you John, you got to the thread before me.
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    [quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1341595719' post='1721654'] hijacking someone else's post to flog your own bass seems a bit out of order to me [/quote] It is, unless the OP was asking for trades, which in this case he isn't. Bass-Thing, feel free to bump your own advert but please try not to hijack others threads with unrealted discussion.
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    Check out Cold Amp and Hypex who also manufacture ready built D Class modules. They are great companies too. For the 'Daddy' of D Class modules I'd look at Powersoft's offerings as well as B&O. Both of which I think OEM for some of our favourite lightweight heads!
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    Is it not that simply the rights for the design of the bass lies with one company and they would like to remain the ones that build it? - I mean, it's a bit like Fender wanting to build Rickenbackers with their name on instead? It was asked about a collaboration - maybe a one off could be interesting, but I really don't think that Warwick would naturally outsource building instruments to another company for any reason as they have a massive factory of their own that can churn out quality instruments probably at double the speed and half the cost to them. Just a thought. Anyway, maybe this discussion needs having elsewhere being as it is actually Garey's introduction thread that is being wildly derailed lol
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    [quote name='BassBod' timestamp='1341334032' post='1717267'] I'd much prefer Wenge. All maple is too vanilla...you need some choc too! And what is Ekanga anyway?? Sounds made up to me. [/quote] You are sort of right about ekanga actually. I looked in to this when I reviewed a rather funky Warwick Rockbass in the massive iGuitar Magazine in my bass section. Warwick are a brilliant eco-friendly company who like to save (and not waste) as much product as possible. Offcuts and shavings of quality wood are 'reformed' in to a new composite that Hans-Peter himself (I believe this to be true) named Ekanga! I understand that because only a little is used in each instrument that it is said to be 'tonally inert'. Frankly, I think this is a brilliant bit of recycling and great to see guitar companies thinking green!
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    MXR M-80 OVERLOAD!

    Dood replied to elsharko's topic in Effects

    Hmmm! Odd! I use a high output bass but havent experienced this. Two things to check. If you are running off battery is it fresh? Or if you are using a power supply is it the correct voltage and current supply? Not enough juice from either can definitely cause undue distortion. Next, does your instrument have a gain control on it's active circuit? For example, the Spector Tone Ump circuits have a preset you can adjust to drop the instrument output a notch. If i think of anything else, i'll reply. What bass/ electronics/ pickups are you using?
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    old zoom multi fx

    Dood replied to Ant's topic in Effects

    Funnily, I sold my old Zoom 9050 rack to a guitarist years ago and I was amazed to find that he still had it recently, so I asked if I could borrow it to reacquaint myself with 'the old days'. It sounded quite cool with a certain 'lofi' DSP character. I have to say the bubble burst when I compared it to my Nova System! Wow. we really have come along way in terms of technology!
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    [quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1341255877' post='1715950'] Being in a band with two guitarists has been known to cause this too! [/quote] Speaking of which, they also suffer from that defect that means they never hear these words combined in a certain order: "You, Down, Your, Turn, Must, Amplifier, ForTheLoveOfAllThatIsSacredIEMyHearing." Baffling!
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    [quote name='geddeeee' timestamp='1341062101' post='1713361'] My brother builds Brian May 'copies' and has been testing the Deacy Hi-Fi amp for the company who is reproducing them. Really sweet tone. Nasal, as you said. Said company are trying to put all this into a stomp box. There are a few different versions of it. It is just a hi-fi speaker with a bit of electronics. Roughly 3 watts, I think. All powered from a big 12 volt battery, the ones with the 2 springs on top..... As John Deacon had a degree in Electronics, he was well qualified in that sort of stuff. Not a bad bass player too.... [/quote] Excellent! Do you have any online links / info'? I'd love to read more!
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    I'd love confirmation to satisfy my own intrigue. Really? All those songs were fretless? I'm prepared to be wrong, but I'm not sure myself and thought it was more a case that John played very little fretless at all. He sure could and very well. Just didn't think he played as much as the list would suggest. Cool if it is right though! Thanks guys, would love to read more info'!
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    [quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1341170398' post='1714687'] He was, however, the best drummer on Thomas the Tank Engine. [/quote] "Thomas the Tank Engine rolled in to the station, with a set of 7 stroke rolls followed by a flam paradiddle and finishing up with a tasty swiss army triplet."
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    Hi all! There doesn't seem many videos on YouTube of the pedal being used on Bass. Do any of you use one and have any recordings / clips I could hear? Fankyew!
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    Sorry, I should have been a bit more specific! I must have been tired! - I should have said "What's the neck profile like on these models, Andy?" Is it a chubby strat neck or more of a skinny one? But yes, brilliant that you have oiled it!
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    Oh yes! The neck on this example feels great! - I love the patterning on the fretboard too - it's a real eye catcher. Tonally, it's a really great instrument with so much variation available. The Dimarzio Ultra Jazz pickups are obviously well known already for their great sound, but being able to mix AND EQ the piezo pickup in as well lift the instrument to a whole new level I think. Want to sound like an acoustic? Click, there it is. Also comes with official (very) padded Parker Fly gig bag.
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    [quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1340834589' post='1710432'] how do they get two channel in these heads? is it swtiched by a footswtich! [/quote] Yes a footswitch (with LED) and a cable is supplied with the head. To switch manually, you gently press the gain control inward for the channel you want. It's a push button as well. The ring round the outside lights up blue. IIRC I covered it in my video review linked above.
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    What's the neck like on these, Andy?
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    Bump. You can send offers that I will forward on to my friend, the owner of this bass. Nothing silly, of course!
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    [quote name='TRBboy' timestamp='1330622531' post='1560625'] I'm having real trouble getting my PW mini headstock tuner to pick up a dropped D, and it just does nothing when I try to tune the B on my 5er! Anyone got any tips, or is it just not up to it? [/quote] Tip? Yes, play the harmonic at the 12 th fret instead in both cases. (not the fretted note). The tuner will find it eaier to register the note because it will be exactly an octave higher than the open string. Oh and dead or old strings will cause some tuners a bit of grief too.
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    Oh and Pete - yes, I love that Ray too!
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    [quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1340745856' post='1709167'] Had no idea, which tracks are fretless Pete? [/quote] I think he used the 'ray on Another One Bites The Dust, certainly on a few live gig DVDs I have, but I think if there was a medley (say with Under Pressure) he may have used it for those too?? The gorgeous fretless P bass with the maple neck was used for early live versions on '39.
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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1340741286' post='1709071'] Isn't he quite well known for building his own 'Deacy' amps? My love of Stingrays comes from JD rather than Flea as most people presume, he is mostly giving me gas these days for a fretless Ray! Most of my favourite Queen songs are either played on a fretless or his lovely tobacco burst pre EB Ray with the white pick guard. [/quote] He did build a little amp in to an old hifi speaker that Brian May used for the very distinctive 'nasal' solo sound on early albums. A one off. However about....ummm .. ten years ago? Vox recreated the amp as the 'Vox Deacy' amp. I have also seen that a company on the internet were as best as possible trying to recreate the actual hifi speaker cabinet and electronics as faithfully as possible. Never seen one 'in the wild' though!
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