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  1. Happy Jack
    [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1400147465' post='2451130'] And you think my thoughts and comments partial..? [/quote] I feel sure that your comments are complete.
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    [quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1400075579' post='2450482'] Call me a cynic (I know that I am...I question everything) but I wouldn't personally place much weight in a standard music mag review. [/quote] But that's exactly why they rate Barefaced so highly, don't you see? Barefaced don't place much weight.
  3. Happy Jack
    [quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1400072164' post='2450435'] Says they're wonderfully well made and sound great...and that's the Gen2 cabs not the new ones. (I don't own a BF cab btw) [url="http://www.guitar-bass.net/gear/barefaced-midget-t-review/"]http://www.guitar-ba...idget-t-review/[/url] [/quote] Bah! They only give the Super12 a 94% rating and the Midget T a 97% rating. Pathetic review. Completely fails to complain about finish, handles or feet. Doesn't mention how much better all the competition is. Manages to avoid using words like [i]fanboi [/i]or cheerleader. Instead, they have the temerity to write a genuinely impartial review based on the quality of these bass cabs when used as bass cabs. Hopeless. Call that journalism?
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    [color=#a52a2a][i][font=Arial, sans-serif, Verdana][size=3]The bass was imported from Japan last year, directly from Fujigen, it's has never been played and 100% mint, it's like the Rolls Royce of Bass guitars. [/size][/font] [font=Arial, sans-serif, Verdana][size=3]The bass itself retails at the price of £1,999.00 so a real bargain is to be had here.[/size][/font][/i][/color] [color=#333333][font=Arial, sans-serif, Verdana][size=3]So no hint of hype or over-selling there then ...[/size][/font][/color]
  5. Happy Jack
    [quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1400049994' post='2450124'] Drums are unidirectional ... [/quote] I'm guessing that was supposed to be "omnidirectional"?
  6. Happy Jack
    [quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1400005118' post='2449852'] I do think, and this is not an attack, that the postage for the small cabs should come down. [/quote] They charge by volume ...
  7. Happy Jack
    No wish to de-rail your topic, but I just followed your link and read this: [color=#b22222]Do you have a silverface Twin Reverb Amp or Dual Showman Reverb Amp with the serial number A23373? A lot of people do and here’s a plausible explanation based on the evidence. Sometime in 1970, Fender ordered a bunch of Twin Reverb/Dual Showman Reverb chasses from their supplier. The machine that stamped the serial number into the back of the chassis got stuck on number A23373 and a lot of pieces were stamped with this number. It would have been very costly to destroy these units so two remedies were implemented. First, a foil sticker containing a 4-digit serial number was affixed to the chassis over the A23373. Unfortunately, these often peeled off or were removed by the amp’s owner thus revealing the A23373 number. The second thing that was done was the addition of another number stamped into the chassis as a suffix to the A23373 serial number, e.g. A23373-155. So how many of these chasses were made? Well, for the 4-digit serials affixed on a foil sticker, numbers as low as 0127 and has high as 3765 have been observed. Assuming they were all used sequentially and starting at 0100, there would be around 3700 non-master volume silverface Twin Reverbs and Dual Showman Reverbs out there. The amps that received the stamped suffix must also be added to this sub-total. The lowest suffix observed to date is A23373-39 and the highest is A23379-2916. Assuming the suffixes started with -01 and went to -3000, there would be around 3000 of these floating around. Of course, this is all hypothetical, but still plausible.[/color] Wonderful stuff, I'm still falling about laughing ...
  8. Happy Jack
    That bass is identical to the one I foolishly sold some years ago. I spent ages trying to replace it and finally found one in green. If you don't know about the SB320, this is a truly staggering amount of bass for the money - very high build quality, superb tone, light weight, hugely under-rated. I had mine strung with LaBella FLs (flatwounds) and it was absolutely righteous. At £200, this is probably one of the best VFM basses you'll see on Basschat this year.
  9. Happy Jack
    [quote name='redbandit599' timestamp='1399895113' post='2448672'] Any drawbacks to an e-kit? I can't really think of any myself. [/quote] 1. Drummers hate them. 2. They're much harder to fix when they go wrong. A couple of G-clamps and some gaffa tape simply won't work. 3. You can't use brushes, and mallets aren't good either. 4. Giving a drummer something with knobs, switches and functions can backfire ...
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    http://alienaudio.us/
  11. Happy Jack
    Interesting range of opinions expressed, but I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that usually it's the instrument that chooses the player. I've done no scientific research, but my feeling is that there are people who are just naturally guitarists, and people (like me) who are just naturally bass players.
  12. Happy Jack
    Now shown as Free Delivery so I guess the listing has changed ... Incidentally, if I ever wanted a bass to hang on a wall as a work of art then this one would probably do the trick. I would certainly prefer to look at it than try to play it.
  13. Happy Jack
    The Junkyard Dogs uses a decent Roland V-Drums kit for gigs where volume is an issue, i.e. we use e-drums to play more quietly. Our PA could easily cope with putting the e-drums through it but we prefer not to. Instead, the drummer goes through a stand-alone StudioMaster PAX12, a powered wedge chiefly intended for on-stage foldback. That means that he runs out of headroom far sooner than he would like (this is a good thing) and once he runs out of knobs to twist to 11 he simply can't get any louder. Once he stops getting louder, so does the band. Works for us ...
  14. Happy Jack
    Exactly. Keep the Precisions ...
  15. Happy Jack
    [quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1396559073' post='2415189'] My ACS [b][font=Optima, Lucida, MgOpen Cosmetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif][size=2][color=#555555]PRO-17, arrived yesterday but I don't have a gig till the 12th so I will be able to check them out. From what I see on the web site the Pro-27 filters are not interchangeable so you won't be able to get lower rated filters if you find it too quiet. I'm planning to use mine also when I'm attending loud gigs so I may by another set of filters with more attenuation as gigs I attend seem to be louder than the ones I'm playing at.[/color][/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Optima, Lucida, MgOpen Cosmetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif][size=2][color=#555555]Jazzyvee[/color][/size][/font][/b] [/quote] [font=Optima, Lucida,]Please Note: You are able to exchange the attenuating filters on your PRO and ER Series earplugs within 30 days of purchase, giving you the option to receive the ideal amount of hearing protection for your environment.[/font]
  16. Happy Jack
    [quote name='SevenSeas' timestamp='1399588499' post='2445765'] So I have changed the settings and just brought a 32gb card. [/quote] You really don't want to hear this, but the little Zooms (H1 and H2) don't much like those huge SD cards, and they take AGES to boot up. If you have yours on mp3 setting, then you'll get roughly an hour of recording time for each Gb (that's a very crude figure, ye ken?) so an 8Gb card will cope with at least two rehearsals or gigs with no trouble.
  17. Happy Jack
    We could always ask Jerry Scheff - he's a BC Member.
  18. Happy Jack
    In all fairness, it is a very rare 6-string bass with a remarkably short scale ...
  19. Happy Jack
    When something looks too good to be true ... it usually is. With tiny battery consumption you have to wonder about signal strength, with a 10m range you have to wonder about performance at, say, 5m from your amp, there's no mention of the frequencies it uses and whether it complies with local regulations, I don't think the video even showed the receiver unit. Walk away.
  20. Happy Jack
    [quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1399560831' post='2445344'] You said it yourself Jack: More bass + more mids + more treble = louder And the tradeoff is, the name is not as good. [/quote] Come on Danny, that's not what I said. If I really believed better = more then I'd be a guitarist, wouldn't I?
  21. Happy Jack
    [b] Why this rather than the celebrated '69er?[/b] [color=#333333][size=3] The Retro Six10 is more sensitive (six bass drivers rather than five plus the boost from the hybrid resonator enclosure), has a smoother more flattering treble response, punchier fatter mids and a bigger weightier bottom.[/size][/color] [color=#333333][size=3] [size=4]Hmmmmm.[/size][/size][/color][color=#333333][size=3] [size=4]So it's more sensitive (= louder? who needed it to be louder?), and it has better treble, better mids, and better bottom. All at once. [/size][/size][/color][color=#333333][size=3] [size=4]I thought cabs were always a trade-off? To make one thing better, something else had to be less good ...[/size][/size][/color]
  22. Happy Jack
    [quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1399450676' post='2444276'] [b]I'm going to have a go at breaking the record for not posting! How long do you reckon I can keep it at 7000? [/b] [/quote] I'm guessing several hours ...
  23. Happy Jack
    In truth, once you get past the Babelfish translation, his listings tend to be scrupulously accurate, with no attempt to fool anyone. Fair play to him. And I love this particular listing because, when I first saw the very first photograph, I actually assumed that bundle of wire was the pickup connection ...
  24. Happy Jack
    [quote name='dood' timestamp='1399467297' post='2444496'] And boy are they good! - Mine wasn't a K series but it still had loads of power on tap with lots of weight in the lows. [/quote] It was foolish of you to sell it to me. But then it was equally foolish of me to sell it to Flanker ...
  25. Happy Jack
    [quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1398791802' post='2437656'] We use a couple of these for our PA. Very impressed. [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tamp_d4500.htm"]http://www.thomann.d..._tamp_d4500.htm[/url] [/quote] Those are cracking amps. I used one as my band's main PA amp for four years, before selling it to Monckeyman (of this parish) before Xmas. I only sold it since I'd bought the Powersoft Digam unit that the Thomann is essentially a copy of. That design offers the opportunity to do a bewildering variety of bi-amp solutions and clever-clever pedal board nonsense.
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