NancyJohnson

Well, it's here. First impressions. It doesn't weigh much, size-wise it's about three inches shorter than the Ashdown it's replacing (I have space in the back of my rack), finish is nice. My 4U rack weighs about half what it used to. It sounds pretty transparent; with the Sansamp RBI as my pre-stage, it sounds more like the tone I get [from the RBI] when I'm recording direct from it, whereas the Ashdown was a bit bassy (I used to go in via the effects return). In parallel mode, it's [i]very [/i]loud. I've had to rejig my floorboard so I can run two separate (stereo/AB) output streams - into a Morley ABY box, then into a)Sansamp BDDI and VTBassDI. Will experiment with that tomorrow. Happy so far. Jamming on Thursday. P

'Available today only' Very good. Sadly, I'll bet there's bass players globally who'd think a 12x10 is something worth having!

Looking for a fuzz/distortion that will return me a really tinny/trebley result. I need to lose the bottom end that comes with bass overdrive pedals. It's for a biamp set up. Guitar based dirtbox? Suggestions please!

I have a new poweramp incoming, but to be honest I've hardly touched any of my other basses since the Lull arrived, so will have a clearout this year. Is anti-GAS a condition?

Sorry, I've read through this a couple of times, just to clarify, this is just a case that the nut for truss rod adjustment won't take the hex/allen key?

I'm keen to try and emulate that Dug tone into twin cabinets...route a cleanish/phat signal into channel A and tinny guitarish dirt into channel B. Fun times ahead.

Have pulled the trigger on a 2U Matrix stereo poweramp. Should allow me a bit of experimentation and routing of different effect streams into each channel. Looking forward to this. (My UK Ashdown ABM is up for sale in the for sale section.)

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1458920811' post='3012149'] Just reviewed Spector's Legend Classic 8 - that's a nice bass that should be on your shopping list! [/quote] I didn't know Spector did an eight string. Looks pretty. Where's the review? Any idea of UK price/availability?

A long time ago I read a thread about a guy who converted an OLP Stingray 5 to a 12-string; it looked pretty good, so would work for an eight string. The main work was plugging the machine head holes/redrilling and cutting a new nut. The bridge was a stock Schaller thing. *Edit. Search Adam Fogo 12 string bass on Google. You'll find the details easily. Edit#2: He also did something very clever with the pickups. He offset the bridge pickup so that the poles were over fundamental strings. The neck pickup poles are over the octaves. It should, in theory, phatten up the octaves a bit and make them less ringy.

[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1457916414' post='3003060'] Why, do you have perfect pitch? You'd usually need reference for at least one of the strings to be in tune with everyone else. Plus have you tried tuning a bass in a sweaty rehearsal room full of musicians setting up and getting ready to play? Good luck hearing yourself amongst that car crash. [/quote] I went decades without owning a tuner and in defence of the OP what has perfect pitch got to do with it? If it's just guitars, you tune to each other, you're probably all going to be in the general pitch ballpark anyway, so being slightly off isn't going to be an issue. If you have a fixed tuned instrument (keys), tune to that. Insofar as being in a noisy room, you set aside a few minutes to tune to each other. Band discipline.

I guess it's feasible that you could skew the Precision plate so it fits the Jazz body.

It might also be of interest to some people that Steve 'Dude' Barr, drug and money issues aside, was behind a couple of Lakland special editions that are now highly collectable. The 'Dudepit' models were pretty much the precursor to what happened with the Lakland Owners Group editions.

Jarl was the guy who posted links to music that he'd written/recorded. It was horrific stuff.

A quick bit of Photoshopping...lining up the bridge etc. says no, but then I think you probably knew this... P

[quote name='cetera' timestamp='1457994099' post='3003834'] Cheers mate! Just picked up a fab pointy headstock old Fernandes Thunderbird as well - not unlike your Hamer one! [/quote] The Hamer is still with me! I still search regularly for one of those Fernandes MV65s...I think you had two or three at one stage.

I posted elsewhere that of the Spector headstock works great with the Thunderbird body.

I used to post to it and came across the archives by mistake earlier today. It was weird reading some of those exchanges and some of the drivel posted by one guy who kept on posting under different usernames.

Back in the olden days, before talkbass, bassworld and basschat, did anyone here use or post to alt.guitar.bass newsgroup?

That headstock has to go!