King Tut
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I stick my strings in a stone polishing tumbler, with some meths in, then tumble them for about 20 mins. I've not been doing it for long so I'm not sure how succesful it'll be long term but it's certainly better than boiling them!
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VM Jazz's are great. I'd keep the pups, and change the bridge for a BA or maybe a Gotoh. Having said that, the standard bridge, although basic, is fairly substantial, and made of thicker metal than many older fenders. Once set up - they're pretty good as standard.
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I thoroughly agree. i went into a shop about 8 or 9 years ago with £800 to spend on a new US precision. Tried 3 of them and walked out with a mex precision. One of my favourite current gigging basses is also a mex precision. Basses really are a sum of their parts and not about the country of origin - although there are features on US fenders that 'should' make them better - graphite reinforced neck, better sounding pups, more substantial bridge/body through stringing - doesn't always work that way though!
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I recently bought an S1 sunburst Jazz off of flanker and I've got to say it's one of the nicest basses I've ever owned. Everything is just perfect finish wise. I love the S1 - gives me the best of both worlds - the neck finish - kind of a plasticky satin is hugely comfortable. I reckon the neck will be pretty stable due to the graphite rods, the bridge is more substantial than those of olde, and it's overall just.....nice. Not sure why they did away with the S1 on jazzes - ideas?
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Thanks for all your advice - I shouldn't have dissed Thomann so readily - on the strength of the photo, a new speaker was shipped out this morning FOC! Nice one.
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I'd def be interested in the body to go with mt 74 neck! -
Thanks Stephen - but it was OK when new - it's only started farting recently. I'll ring Thomann next week. I'd really like to put some better speakers in the boxes to be honest - synaesthesia could you recommend something that would work well?
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OK here's the speaker showing the surround - looks standard to me And here's the damage The edge of the driver seems to be loose around a lot of the edge, I'm a bit hacked off with Thomann as I've emailed three people there since sunday and no one's responded. The price you pay for cheap gear I suppose!
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[quote name='synaesthesia' post='173460' date='Apr 9 2008, 09:40 PM']Post pics of the cab with the grilled removed etc.; and of the driver - damage, surround etc[/quote] OK - I'll stick pics up later this afternoon - cheers
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Being a cheapskate, I bought a pair of active subs (the box 12A) from Thomann. One of the drivers has torn and needs replacing. I may get this done under warranty but to be honest - I've lost faith in them a bit. Would it be feasible to replace them with something easily available, that will sound good? I've had a look at the driver, and there's no manufacturers name on it, but it's labelled as 4 ohm, and the spec for the whole speaker rate it at 300W output, so I'm assuming the speaker is rated at least that. I don't really understand about enclosure design, X max and all that, so can anyone recommend a driver to do the job. I was thinking along the lines of an eminence delta 12LF 4 ohm (around £50 - 60 each) - would that be suitable? Suggestions please but can't spend a fortune!
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Hi Graham - yes it's still available. Be aware that you need to be careful with the resistance of extension cabs used with this as it gives all it's 250W into it's own speakers at 4 ohms. The extension cab out is wired in series so if you add an 8 ohm cab - it drops power - but you can add multiple cabs making it louder due to the extra speaker surface area. On it's own - it's pretty pokey, and has a control to boost the lows and highs to make it fairly 'modern' sounding. It's also got as parametric control that i use to either dial out bad room vibes, or add a bit of high mid for 'clicky' rock attack. Copes fine with a loud drummer in medium sized halls. -
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This is quite topical for me - I depped for Richard on friday night as part of "Giles Hedley and the Aviators". It was a real honour to fill this guys shoes - and a top gig to boot. Giles is an awesome blues guitarist/singer/harp player - don't miss him if you get the chance to see him! -
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behringer ep2500 2x1200 power amp - collection from london
King Tut replied to ahpook's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
Just to say that I use one of these as a PA power amp for bigger gigs running one side at 2 ohms for the subs, and the other for the tops a 4 ohms - and it's great. Been totally reliable and plenty of welly. I get the impression that Behringers power amps don't suffer from the reliability problems or misleading power ratings of some of their other stuff. Free bump! -
OK - well that's a bit of good news for us Traceaholics!!
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I emailed these guys the other day asking where I could get a UV tube for my Trace (now found!). Didn't hear a jot back from them.
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[b][/b]Due to a re - evaluation of my setup, a number of items have come up for sale - all available for collection from Milton Keynes: [b]Eden Nemesis NC210[/b] - specs here - [url="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/22820"]http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/fl...roduct_id/22820[/url] 250 Watt 2 x 10 combo - nice and punchy with built in compression, 'enhance' control, 3 band eq plus additional parametric control. A few light scuffs from gigging but otherwide good condition - £300 [b]Marshall IBS[/b] (irritable bowel syndrome?!) [b]400 Bass head[/b] 2 x 200W Bi ampable mosfet head in a rather sw***y ornate wooden sleeve (needs some TLC). I've used this once at a rehearsal and it worked fine - pretty loud for 200W. I've never used the bi amp facilities, and it could probably do with a service. Rack handles are broken - includes the all essential manual! I bought this for £150 recently, but then picked up a Trace head which has made it redundant - looking to recoup my outlay. [b]SOLD[/b][b]Roland Bass Cube 100[/b] In good condition apart from a few scuffs on the handle. You know what these things do! £150[b]SOLD[/b] If people definately want to buy, I can bring these to the bass bash next sunday. Here's the pics -
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[quote name='mr pablo' post='162618' date='Mar 24 2008, 01:23 PM']I used to be the same until I was reading and article somewhere about building up fret hand stamina or something like that and it basicaly said to string up a spare bass with heavier strings so if you practiced using the spare and went back to your main bass you would be able to play it easier. I tried it and after a wee while I decided that the heavier strings felt better and went with that ever since[/quote] Think I'm gonna try that. It's usually roto swing bass 105's for me, fingerstyle rock and funk. Do most of you slappers prefer lighter strings?
