NancyJohnson

It's an ubercool bass. Happy to have been of assistance! P

Grainy phone pic from last Thursday night. I've removed the pickup cover and bought one of those bezel/filler thingies to make the rout look tidier. I've done a little tweaking to set it up more to my taste (lower action/pickups adjusted). Through the Sansamp it sounds pant-wettingly lovely. One other thing - I figured the strap lugs would come out easy so I could screw in some Dunlop Straploks. Wrong. The stock Rickenbacker lugs are Schaller compatible, so you can just get a set of these and just use the strap side parts. P

Well, I pulled the trigger and am now an owner of a 4003 in Jetglo. Gotta say I'm bowled over. Undoubted, that I'll use this constantly for the next couple of months and then go back to my Thunderbirds, but it's a nice backup option to have. P

My band, Nancy Johnson (aww, come on, you didn't think my username was really my real name did you?), are playing the Creative Stage at this years Basingstoke Live event. We're on around 1.30pm/1.45pm - 'The Lunch Set' It's free (woo!), last year they had 65,000 people in over two days (woo-woo). Lots of great local bands (including us). Come along for a pogo. Say hello. Buy me a beer. Message ends. P x

Just bought a bass from George. Lovely guy, great comms etc. Cheers matey!

I'm in Crowthorne...Camberley about ten minutes. Will be ok to collect if you win. I just collected/shipped a 65 Amps 1x15 cabinet for another member here. P

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1403428813' post='2482511'] Only if you're 25 [/quote] Aah.

Saw Japan many many times in the early years. Personally, and as a fan, I'd like to see more about his gear; he's known for the Travis Bean and Wal basses, but there were others.

30+ qualifies as older now? Blimey. P

Explorer? Ugly? Ooooh, no. P

Yup, it was Marcs. It's a bloody lovely thing.

It's been a very slow burn for me. Loved Steve Priest, Geddy, the punk thing...tonally great, visually nope. I'd even considered buying the guts of a 4001/4003 and putting it into something else. I borrowed one for about an hour and I was hooked, ALTHOUGH my Thunderbird obsession got the better of me, but I've decided it's now or never. Hopefully in a couple of weeks. Emails have been exchanged etc. p

Long thread over on the Hamer Club that Mike Shishkov, one of Hamer's master-builders has set up shop independently. He's starting out with a limited run of chambered bodied Standard models (that's a Gibson Explorer copy to you and me ), but he looks like he's taking enquiries for other builds. The font on his logo seems very familiar: http://www.shishkovguitars.com/ P

50m of bubblewrap in the house. Cabinet should be heading north in the next few days. For anyone interested, the 65 Amps cabinet sounds freaking awesome. And soooo pretty. P

Cheers lads. Bedtime reading! P

I have some serious GAS for a Rickenbacker at the moment, but in a market flooded with fakes, I'm wondering, Ric owners, are there any identifying things I need to look out for to determine the possibility that I'm not about to pick up a faker? Anything I need to look for? P

I live in Crowthorne...a couple of minutes from Sandhurst. Where has the cabinet got to end up? The good people of Basschat could team up and get this to it's new owner!

I will echo my now trademarked comment for things of beauty and awesomeness. Ahem. [i] 'I just did a bit of jizz.'[/i] So, so beautiful. P

[quote name='Ed_S' timestamp='1401089216' post='2459817'] I used an RBI into a Crown XLS1500 for a while. Obligatory grainy phone-camera picture included.. They're great power amps, but sadly they need to be driven with more oomph than my RBI could ever put out, so whilst it was a loud rig, it was always running flat out to try and keep up. I ended up dismantling the rig, using the RBI for recording and the XLS to power the PA tops. Guess what I'm saying is whatever you choose, run the numbers and make sure that the sensitivity of the power amp input is right to match up with the pre-amp output. [/quote] One of the options I'm looking at is/was a Crown Drivecore XLS1500, with the Sansamp as the front end. I got an email from Harman who say my cabinets daisy-chained will be 1500w/4ohms and the XLS1500 (running in bridged mono) is the minimum I should be using to drive the speakers to their best capacity. Apparently (this was inferred by Harman), it's OK to run a higher output amp (XLS2000/2500) for more headroom...official specs say these two amps will deliver 2.1KW and 2.4KW respectively in bridged-mono, which frankly is overkill. The more I read, the more confused I'm getting. I just want a lightweight amp, that delivers a decent amount of volume when required. Our (new) drummer is a very hard hitter and while my guitarist is (only) using a 120w Bugera 333XL head into one of their 4x12s and it's painful loud. I guess I just want to buy something that is fit for purpose. I mean what's the point of upgrading if things aren't right when you do? P

[quote name='Ed_S' timestamp='1401098573' post='2459930'] I'm pretty sure I tried the lot, but the setup as pictured was going into the front of the RBI with the DBX in the loop and out to the XLS over XLR-XLR. Wow.. that was a lot of TLAs! The other problem I found with the RBI was that it's not the quietest (or least noise susceptible, maybe) pre-amp out there, so when I tried going jack-jack instead of XLR-XLR and putting a clean boost (MXR MicroAmp) in the middle, the electrical hum was just too prevalent. Edit: forgot to answer the last bit - I ended up with the power amp full-up and using the level on the RBI as the master volume, even though that doesn't appear to be the case on the picture. [/quote] It's been trial and error here too. I've been looking on Talkbass - consensus seems to be that the RBI doesn't seem to have any issues driving a poweramp - someone from Tech 21 posted on one thread that they recommended running the poweramp on full and using the RBI level knob to control the master volume. Interestingly, going back to my set up, I'm presently running the RBI through the effects return on an Ashdown ABM EVOIII racked head, effectively bypassing the Ashdown pre-stage and utilising just the poweramp side of the amp. I've never run the Ashdown with the master volume (or in the power amp sense, accentuator) maxxed out, so this might be worth trying too. That said, good or not, it's still going to weigh a ton and that's part of the issue for me to look for something lighter. Personal choice of (Class-D) power amps seem to increased somewhat over the last 48 hours...Peavey IPR2/2000 (£400-ish), Carvin DCM2000L (£499) and the Crest Pro-Lite 2.0 (£549). P

[quote name='Ed_S' timestamp='1401089216' post='2459817'] I used an RBI into a Crown XLS1500 for a while. They're great power amps, but sadly they need to be driven with more oomph than my RBI could ever put out, so whilst it was a loud rig, it was always running flat out to try and keep up. [/quote] Can you clarify from memory how you were using the RBI/amp together? I've heard/read so many conflicting methods of connections (jack to jack, XLR to XLR), going into the front panel RBI or the rear one. Power amp full up and control the overall output with the RBI level knob. And so on.