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Happy Jack

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  1. Very decent piece of rack gear, equally suitable for studio or live use (I've used it both ways). The two multi-way cable clips on top are there by self-adhesive stuff and will remove. I found them useful enough to choose to leave them there for the new owner. The original box is present, as seen in the photos, but not the polystyrene inserts. I'll use bubble wrap for postage. Original spec: https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0602-AAI
  2. The bottom end of Broadway (down near the Cumberland River) is one of my favorite places on the planet.
  3. Their Prestige bag is described as "Gewa-Tex" which sounds to me like an expensive way to describe nylon while making people think that it's Gore-Tex. What is yours actually made of (in the real world, not the marketing blurb)?
  4. Thanks Pete. Used to have one of these in 3/4 size, but I too gave it away. It would fit quite easily in my vehicle but (a) it was a right bugger to manoevre through the front door, the front hall, and the 90-degree turn into the sitting room, and (b) once emptied it took up as much room as when it was full. Not sure whether they actually do these in 7/8 size anyway.
  5. This remains a lovely piece of kit but it's deffo intended for a genuine 3/4 DB, not a 7/8 DB like my Alcoa. Overall length is 2cm short (bit of a stretch but probably manageable), but body length is 7cm short for my bass. My guess is that I could just about squeeze the Alcoa into this gigbag but it would be pulled out of shape with inevitable potentially disadvantageous consequences. I.E. I'd end up breaking something. Not keen to spend £835 to find out.
  6. This is making progress. They're giving a rough estimate of US$750 for a tailor-made bag to fit my bass, and in a custom colour. On top of that I'm looking at US$125 for shipping, and then at UK duty & VAT, so we're heading back towards UK£800 overall, but that's for a custom build. The conversation continues.
  7. I was actually very impressed with the range of DB gigbags these people sell, and their prices are really keen, so I did some digging. Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Oh dearie, dearie me. It's apparently a tiny music store in Thessaloniki, up near the Macedonian border: Papafi 91, Thessaloniki 544 53, Greece if you want to check them out. Their FB page comprises endless photos of the same guy playing solo sax in different settings: https://www.facebook.com/drumlandsound/ Am I interested in sending Loadsamoney to Stavros? I am not.
  8. @Burns-bass - this makes interesting reading: The relevant measurements for your old Alcoa are 74" overall (plus 2" for the endpin), 47" body (again plus 2" for the endpin), 20.5" upper bout, 26" lower bout. I'm now thinking this isn't a 3/4 DB so much as a 7/8 DB ...
  9. Also https://drumlandsound.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=1951_1952_1979_1983&sort=pd.name&order=ASC&limit=50&page=1 Those Christopher bags look pretty handy.
  10. Currently taking a look at https://messinacovers.com/bass-covers but there's absolutely no pricing info that I can see. 🙄
  11. Understood Laurie, but obvs our needs differ. For toting the DBs about I can rely on the assistance of my roadie, the doughty @Silvia Bluejay, and the only gig I've ever played upstairs on DB was one where I happened to have a KK BabyBass with me, which Silvie carted - solo - up a spiral staircase while I was off finding a parking space. My problem with nylon gigbags built down to a price is that means that everything is built down to a price. The cheap nylon linings start to disintegrate within months, then the cheap zipper tags snap, then the cheap zippers themselves start to fail, and finally the cheap external handles start to rip free from the main bodybag. I'll not claim that I'm the world's gentlest equipment handler, but when I'm breaking down at 1am after playing three hours of rock'n'roll I find it hard to remember "Careful with that gigbag Eugene ...". @Beedster's Bulletproof Deluxe is the perfect solution, but that price! Far Canal.
  12. Yes, but I eat padded nylon for breakfast. I really need something tougher.
  13. Wow! £835 for a gigbag. 😮 How much do you want for yours, Chris? LOL
  14. I've been playing DB for less than 20 years but I seem to have got through a shedload of very expensive padded nylon gigbags. The destructive process has deffo been accelerated by switching to playing exclusively aluminium DBs which are - of course - significantly heavier than ply. I'm thinking I should investigate heavy duty gigbags made of thick canvas or similar. Has anyone here got any experience of such gigbags? Know where to look for them? Know whether they're worth it?
  15. Happy Jack

    Dangerboy

    Wow! First time in over 10 years that I've managed to start a new Feedback thread. Steve is excellent company, with tales to tell. A pint with him at The Porcupine went by very fast ... I left with his cash, he left with my Alusonic bass cab. It's never too late to start learning double bass.
  16. And my current gear sell-off just got weirder. There was a time, many years ago, when my future seemed to hold a lot of Americana, Bluegrass, Country, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot and owning a decent autoharp seemed like a really good idea. So I bought this one: https://www.u-buy.co.uk/product/2E2HT894-oscar-schmidt-osc-os45c-21-chord-autoharp?srsltid=AfmBOorOBOfKzWY5oVTqysQCWaBMBMP6btilmF7GfA9JbyujrqlrqBCCJwg Now I don't know if it's currently unavailable because they've stopped making them, or their last batch has sold out and they're waiting for the next, or if The Ginger Baby President has slapped a 3-million % tariff on them or something, but for some reason the expression "rare as hen's teeth" springs to mind, especially in the UK. It has been very little used and is in as-new condition. It came to me with strings that I reckoned were already past their best. I can't see that years in storage will necessarily have improved that. It is the highly-desirable 21-chord model, far more versatile than entry-level autoharps, and of course it's electric ... which means that it's acoustic but it does have a pickup should amplification be required. This very odd sound-hole apparently improves all sorts of things. I have no idea if that is true. In truth, this is not the sort of thing I'd normally consider posting but my old mate Confucius assures me that I should never say never. I don't plan on leaving this here for a long time. If I don't get a buyer within a week or two then I suspect eBay is the right place for it.
  17. The text from when @Rich sold his amp was too good to not nick it: Genz-Benz Shuttle 9.2 bass amplifier. Superb sounding and VERY LOUD amp. Power output: 500 watts @ 8 ohms, 900 watts @ 4 ohms Dimensions: 63mm H x 250mm W x 265mm D Weight: 4lbs / 2kg It has a valve preamp (a standard 12AX7/ECC83) and a very powerful & flexible tone-shaping section featuring shelving controls for bass and treble, a semi-parametric control for mid frequencies, and three pre-shape buttons consisting of bass boost, mid cut, and treble boost. But wait! There's more! I've had this amp for years in a theftproof flightcase where it is an unreasonably good and secure fit. I'm selling the whole package ... the amp, power cord, Speakon cable, XLR cable for the DI, AND the bright yellow flightcase. Everything is in pretty miuch A1 condition except the interior of the flight case, where whatever it was used for in an earlier existence left a couple of odd stains. I think it's old glue, but I'm not certain. Loads of flickswitchy options there if you like that sort of thing. The fit is SO good that the case could have been carefully designed to hold this amp. It wasn't, it's just a coincidence, but it's such a good coincidence that I've decided to sell both together. The car-washing sponge is there to protect the knobs from any wayward bits of cable. There's not as much of me as there used to be. Still, that's 180lbs of Happy Jack standing on the case without the slightest qualm that something might get damaged. In truth, if you could fit them then you could put The Weather Girls on that case without losing any sleep.
  18. By God! That was a long time ago.
  19. I've been moonlighting as a keyboards player for the last few years and this ^ is bang on the money. Most keys people simply can't help themselves ... they have to be using both hands or it feels like "cheating". I use a 2-tier rig because I hate splits but the principle is the same. My lower keyboard is for my right hand and that plays the main thing ... piano, organ, synth, whatever. My upper keyboard is for my left hand BUT set at +2 octaves so that I'm in the same register as my right hand, and that's for the twiddly bits and flourishes, or for strings/brass. Ego satisfied, plus I'm bringing far more to each song.
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