NancyJohnson

I just did a little bit of jizz.

Will bought a neck off me...all good. Cheers mate.
P

Gone.

For the record, serial number is S844229, which dates it 1977/78, Fullerton plant.
Cheers
Paul

A couple of months back I bought a replacement neck to go on my Badtz-Maru Bronco...the original neck of which met a grizzly end when I was enlarging the holes for new machines, On arrival from US dealer, I discover the neck has a slight front bow (a couple of mm over it's length), the truss rod is maxxed out and there's a couple cracked (glued/solid) around the heel. So not great.

It's been with my tech for a couple of months, he's tweaked just about as much as he dares...the glued repairs are sound and the front bow is about as fixed as it's ever going to be unless you consider replacement of the truss rod. I was considering just having it as a vanity project and just hanging the Bronco on a wall, but I'd sooner see whether anyone would want the neck and machines as a project. I'm almost certain that someone would be able to do something with it.

£75 shipped?
P

Mr Chairleg!
It's been over two months. How's this going?
P

He throws in a truly irritating [i]Corbilmey, Mary Poppins[/i] accent once in a while as well.

You know, the one thing that niggles me about my Bongo (and I'm not sure whether this the same for everyone, but there has to be a reasonable degree of parity) is the sensitivity of the controls. I'm so used to playing my other basses flat out (OK, granted they're all passive), with everything ramped up to 100%. The output of the Bongo, even with everything flat and the volume at 100%, makes everything else I own seem like a whimper...add tone and I'm constantly rolling back the volume.
P

My Bongo has knobs for master volume, pickup blend, then stack-knobbed control for mid/sweep, bass/treble cut/gain.
P

I've had a soft spot for these for many years. Lovely looking bass.
P

Bump.
P

Thunderbird is great. For a five string, my Bongo is amazingly slim and fast.
P

Shame...I was getting an NS2 horn on!
P

Did this ever sell?
P

Cheers chum.

Soooo, make that a Reverend Thundergun, another Thunderbird and [i]maybe [/i]a Mayones for 2012..they do a shell-pink one. I may need to sell a kidney.
P

Any idea what this bass is?
P

Thanks for the input!
P

I've just been passed a DVD with [i]hundreds [/i]of drum loops in both 16 and 24 bit WAV files. For the record, I'm using Adobe Audition for basic home demoing/arranging (I'm comfortable with the software and don't have plans to change it).

I wondered if anyone can give me a short but concise reason which wavs I should use. Audition supports both...I'm literally dropping guitar/bass parts in, then exporting the final arrangement down to a single stereo mix then saving to 256kbps MP3 for circulating via e-mail. The 24 bit loop files are about 50% larger than the 16 bit versions, but to my ears there's no discernable difference.

Anyone?
Cheers
P

[quote name='Bankai' timestamp='1297725817' post='1127808']
[b]First Bass Owned:
'Go To' Bass:
'Your/Signature' Bass:[/b]

[/quote]

CBS/Arbiter EB3 copy
Gibson Thunderbird
Lakland DJ5 (it sounds great, but I rarely take it out)
P

Cheers for the reply. Much appreciated.
Best
P

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1325464746' post='1483470']
My fave bass, new pic taken today.

[attachment=96198:Basschat Pic.jpg]
[/quote]

A quick question as you appear to have the basses to answer it!

You have the three Precisions that represent the full transition from the original '52/slab to the '58 that we know now recognise as the standard P-Bass. I'm assuming the '52 has a slab body, the '56 a tummy/forearm contour and the '58 it pretty much the P-Bass that [i]everyone [/i]knows. Headstock shape and stomach/forearm routing aside, are the body shapes all identical? It's been something that I've wanted to know for a while, but felt stupid asking...the shapes of the scratchplate(s)/control plates kind of mask what's going on with the body shape.

Cheers
P

Here's my 2012 shopping list:

Reverend Thundergun (black)
[i]Another [/i]Gibson Thunderbird (black)

I also have a desire for a Rickenbacker 400* as well...I'd like to try one out for a rehearsal to see whether it's viable/worth it before shelling out. Anyone close to Reading got a loaner?

P

[font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif]Bought this here a few months back, I'd not owned a compressor before and was interested to see what it might contribute to [i]my[/i] sound, but in truth it's not for me and has only been out of the box a handful of times. It's clean, comes with the original box, power supply and (it has to be said, a somewhat vague!) instruction sheet.[/font]

[font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif]£85 shipped anyone?[/font]

[font=verdana,geneva,sans-serif]Cheers[/font]
P

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1325191941' post='1480849']
Jocelyn Brown at the Jazz Cafe
[/quote]

Blimey, Jocelyn Brown. Years ago I owned a half-share in a studio...it came with loads of 1" masters. One of the masters was full of vocal takes Jocelyn Brown recorded for some road safety thing. It was hours of her singing, 'OK kids, watch out!' or 'Oooh, look left!' or 'Oooh, look right', 'Walk, don't run!' and so on. The raw vocal ability knocked me out. We gave them to this guy who had a studio elsewhere and amazingly he sampled everything and did a dance track with the samples. There were a few 12" pressed. I'm sure I have it in the attic.
P