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  1. Nice bass! I have an FNA Jazzman identical to this in the same colour and finish but it's a 2001 and the neck is ovangkol. The pickup on the jazzman is at a slight angle, unlike this one. Hope the sale goes alright! Lovely bass.
  2. I suppose you're right, but does the number of guitar/bass players outnumber the number of laptop musicians doing electric drums and synth music?
  3. That really is a bargain. If only I had need for it, I would buy it!
  4. There's plenty of bargains to be picked up in the "For Sale" section on this site. It seems the second hand bass market isn't as alive as it used to be and bass / guitar playing isn't that much in fashion so even new instruments seem to be less than I remember them (unless that's just me?)! Some bargains to be had!
  5. That sounds good. I suppose you could get people to set up rigs in two camps at different ends of the room, so people can at least turn towards the one side and cover one ear to listen to one amp; nobody is planning on running a stereo rig are they? Best of success herding us around! Looking forward to it, a lovely list of gear looks to be coming along. Tell everyone to bring headphones just in case?
  6. Out of interest, how do these things typically go? I can imagine with that amount of bass players in one room, there is opportunity for a plethora of noise at one time and extreme hearing fatigue, very much like the pounding headaches you get after going to the guitar show or something. How do you stop things turning into a slaptastic slapping festival at obscene volumes? Is there some plan?
  7. Hello! I hope to be able to make it. I will bring half my rig and my Warwicks if I have enough space for them. I intend to bring: [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2 x Warwick FNA Jazzman 5 string, fretted and fretless[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1 x Warwick 6 string Corvette active model[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Genz Benz Shuttlemax 9.2[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]BBE BMax-T[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Warwick WCA 411 cabinet[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I am very interested in the basses listed, particularly the Gibson TBirds; never tried one but would love to. [/font][/color][size=4][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Norris' basses and equipment looks to be interesting.[/font][/color][/size] [size=2][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1. Si600 - The Bass Relay Baton - BC Bass Relay[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2. Roland Rock - '78 P, W&T Ergon 5, Rocket Rig or GlockenRig[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]3. 4-string-thing - '78 (77?) P, Kala U Bass and either my Acoustic 220 or Minimark[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]4. Pantherairsoft - Roscoe LG V Sig, lots of effects, EBS/Barefaced rig (possibly)[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]5. KevB - USA Precision Deluxe (if not sold by then)[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]6. Doyle - V940, ME-20B, Random self build[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]7. intime-nick - maybe my Shuker, Sandberg, rack & pedalboard etc[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]8. andydye (if I can get agreement from swmbo) - ACG 5'er fretted and fretless, MarkBass LMIII, EAD Foundation 212, some pedals[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]9. DaytonaRik - Ashdown ABM III 1x15 combo and 2x10 extension cab, another Thunderbird IV, Schecter Omen Extreme IV, maybe a Cort (I think?) headless Flying V if I do something with it in time![/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]10. seashell - Fender P[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]11. Norris - Ric 4003, Gibosn T-bird, StaggEUB, Combo amp[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]12. Eboclive - Wal 5, ltd edition Warwick fretless[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]13. GrammeFriday - MTD KZ6 (with Nordstrand pups), MTD AG5, Sandberg Cali fretless 4, MIJ 62 reissue Jazz, TC Electronic RH750, RS210 and/or RS212, some fx boxes.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]14. Chairleg - Italia Maranello and one of those build it yourself bass kits I put together.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]15. tauzero - perm any several from Warwick JD Thumb, an Antoniotsai or two, Status Series 1 (low-mileage BC bike), Sei Original everythingless, Ashbory Mk 1 and possibly Mk II, Tecamp Puma 900, TC RS112[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]16. Prime_BASS - Genz Benz shuttle 6.0, barefaced S.Compact some effects.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]17. Cytania - cheap Moose Antlers![/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]18. Chris Sharman - Cake. That is all[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]19 Dread Bass: ACG Recurve 6, ACG Recurve 7, Alembic Epic, Warwick fortress MM ALL LEFTY (Full Aguilar rig if required) [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]20. Annoying Twit (to be confirmed)[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]21. TG Flatline - Cog Effects gear + 2 x BFM Jack 15s (transport permitting)[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]22. skelf (tbc) - various[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]23. Jabba_the_gut (tbc) - home made basses[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]24. Marcus Bell - Status Kingbass + gb4[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]25. seb - bass and pedals[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]26. Basschatfield - Yamaha RBX270J, pedalboard, Ashdown EVO II combo [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]27. Len Derby - Yamaha Bex4 semi-acoustic, Roland Micro-Cube, chocolate biscuits [/font][/color][/size] [size=2][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]28. 72deluxe - Warwicks and GB rig + Warwick cab[/font][/color][/size] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Thanks[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Rich[/font][/color]
  8. I've never seen one like that. That really does have a very odd teardrop scratchplate on it. Are they competing with Vox? Anyway, I hope the sale goes well!
  9. Having got the BBE on the test rig at work, the compressor has a slow attack and slow release, with no makeup gain or anything else. It is a limiter, with the compressor knob working as a threshold control. Due to the slow attack, it can let some short bursts of peaks through before it kicks in. It is useful in that you can set the knob at a certain amount to keep the volume under control, then use the main output on the BBE as the "makeup gain", if you will.
  10. I am chiming in to say that I am very chuffed with my current rig of a Genz Benz ShuttleMax9.2 (RIP Genz...) + an 8 ohm Warwick 411, which is a 4x10 with a HF horn (that I turn down a little bit). Should more volume be needed, I have another 411 (4x10 + horn) to shove on it, but this Genz amp is the loudest thing I have ever used. Why happy? Because of the blendable channels; tube channel for some dirt and grit + the FET channel for a cold slab of bass. I have previously used amps that didn't drive into 8ohms at very high power and there wasn't the air-moving push from them, but I am more than happy with this. It's bliss (and I hardly have to turn it up). Those Warwick cabs go dirt cheap on ebay. Remember that a cabinet may have been abused, but as with any speakers, they will sound different as they are "worn in" so likely sound less harsh the older they are. I am happy with the sound of mine still anyway, and they are over 10 years old.
  11. I am sure they magically fit knee value, make up gain, attack and release all into that one magical knob.......
  12. Looks very interesting! Are wenge necks massively different from ovankol ones? I only ask because I only have ovankol Warwick necks and many swear by the old wenge ones. Going for a blue bass?
  13. Great chap, provided plenty of photos, description, answered questions thoroughly and posted quickly and packaged the bass well. I can recommend him, the ol' spacecowboy.
  14. 72deluxe

    SOLD!

    Not sure if this is still for sale, but have a free bump! I have a couple of FNA Jazzman basses and they're lovely. They aren't curved like Streamers but I think a curve would only make me expand my beer belly to fit the curve.... Lovely bass. Wish I had the money, and the desire for a 4 string haha. Does this really have the "slap contour" EQ with the volume switch? Mine had the standard MEC preamp and this switch just bypasses the preamp entirely (very useful if you have a flat battery)
  15. Sounds like the current phone and software industry with "patent pending"! I wonder if companies file for patents for "intellectual property" protection and some safeguard on future income? Sort of like getting an arsenal of patents together to use them in case someone else comes into the market and they feel threatened. I think the UK offers tax rebates for productions runs on products with patents on them at the moment, but I could be wrong. I like the inclusion of dual preamps because you can blend them or switch them, but I find the dual inputs a bit puzzling. Look at the Warwick LWA1000 - two inputs but why? The demos of it on YouTube shows Ove Bosch and Andy Irvine saying what a wonderful feature it is but if you see any videos of them playing, they're only playing one bass a time, so why two inputs? I remember old Peaveys having multiple inputs but didn't see it as useful. I would argue that dual preamps with one input path to both of them is more useful than two inputs; I have multiple basses but don't swap when gigging, unless during the break between sets. The current amp technology doesn't offer much to innovate on, but what else is really needed? I mean equalisers and gain stages and effects sends and returns, and a different power stage. What else would they have to add? Reliability?
  16. Hello everybody Not sure if this is the correct area to post this (someone please move it if not) but I uploaded a demo of the Behringer Bass VAMP MIDI synthesiser to YouTube. The bass VAMP has a MIDI synth in it that is only mentioned in the manual in a tiny paragraph, with references to how to activate the MIDI synth not being written anywhere (although they do put in a MIDI implementation page). You need to send MIDI controller 34 with value 14 I think (I tell you which controller to do it in the video). It suffers a bit from a poor implementation in that the internal limiting within the device does nothing, so if you play a string of notes it'll clip, which you can probably hear. I apologise that I have a boring droll voice and that my demo room is a mess, and I am not a keyboard player so I don't play in time, but hopefully it'll help someone, if only to have another toy to mess around with. It might be useful for guys who are doubling as keyboard players or if you have a fancy audio to MIDI converter and want a synth sound, or you want late 80s German-sounding synths or are in a Berlin cover band haha. "Take my breath away" "BOM BOM BOM BOM DOM" A few sounds are pretty bad (and tinny, tweeter-blowing sounds) but there is a lovely deep sound, the one I revert back to at the end of the demo. Link: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynp1H0U5AFM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynp1H0U5AFM[/url] Enjoy! Rich
  17. I have a ShuttleMax 9.2 and found the mixture of the two FET channels to be brilliant. Before hand I had been using an amp with a switchable tube or FET channel, or sometimes just a basic class D amp. I have found the STLMax to be deafeningly loud (perhaps matching ohmages to cabs helped!). The tube channel helpfully muddies stuff up a bit without sounding raspily overdriven to my ears, so combining the two channels give you warmth with the cold deep slab of FETness. Absolutely brilliant.
  18. I think the class D amps are designed to be portable. I don't miss the back ache of porting my old amp around, for sure. Some amps have more controls on them, but depending on how basic you want to be, that can be good or bad. I prefer them - after all, I don't have to actually use them do I? Also, note that the "D" in class D does not mean digital! It is just a class of amplifier, in the same way that class A and B and C existed before hand. In fact, there are other classes too, including G and H and Lab Gruppen's so-called class TD (a floating D or something like that which I do not understand, but in testing its output power collapses with high frequencies). As Wikipedia states: "[i]Class-D and class-E amplifiers are sometimes mistakenly described as "digital" because the output waveform superficially resembles a pulse-train of digital symbols, but a class-D amplifier merely converts an input waveform into a continuously pulse-width modulated (square wave) analog signal. (A digital waveform would be pulse-code modulated.)[/i]" The argument on the sonic variations and controls on the front of the amp surely apply to the preamp stage, and not the power amp stage of the amplifier? This means the disgust with new features on an amplifier are related to the input and preamp stages. The argument over whether it is class A, B or D would be irrelevant. The question for this thread should therefore be: "Do these amplifier designers know what they're doing with the input stages?!" (or something equivalent). Unless I am mistaken?
  19. I use a BBE BMax-T and use the compressor on that, although the expander ("sonic maximizer" in BBE speak) also works wonders, so the compressor is mainly for peak limiting. What do you expect for a one-knob control on a compressor?!
  20. Are they the original knobs? They look different. I thought they were red on these? Also, could you confirm the price? The title and post differ...?
  21. Nice pictures, good to see a Wick. Shame I already have too many amps!
  22. Lovely bass, glad you decided to keep it. You sounded in two minds about selling it. I have a very heavy Warwick and bought a Comfort Strapp which helped no end. It certainly makes you stronger wearing a bubinga bass, that's for sure!
  23. What year is it and what is the neck made from? And what is the body? Thanks!
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