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Hi all I've finally decided to stick some ashtrays on my Bitsa jazz ... I mocked this up with some double sided tape to make sure i was comfortable playing with them and they work great for me as i favor ... thumb resting on the bridge PU . But i don't want to drill into my bass i'd ideally like a removable solution Ii used some 3m double sided tape and it held the bridge one nicely on and did just the trick but would not adhere to my vinyl / matt scratchplate . does anyone know of a better solution ? lyle / synth

Perhaps the right idea would be one of those old Trace Combo's like a GP7 SMX or something mines rated at 300 watt's .. after all you want the trace sound so why not get a trace, one of these shameless borrowing of someone else's basschat image ;-) [size=4][/size] .

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1445955122' post='2895676'] Completely agree about those kind of distances, and agree that if the buyer is travelling too then there should be no contribution expected. However, if a buyer in Scotland wants me to deliver their bass to them ( I am in Warwickshire) as they don't trust couriers and they don't drive themselves , offering to do so for petrol money is imo perfectly acceptable. [/quote] To be honest i think that's totally justified If i knew a person who wanted my bass and was willing to travel halfway to do it i'd be fair about it ...When people say from the outset ... Collection Only and there price is barely (adjusted for inflation) 20-40 quid below new price ... I've hit the back tab on there advert and i'm onto the next ad of interest. It'll be there next week ... month year ... and perhaps with a better price tag on it.

The Second hand market is an odd beast ... A item is only worth as much as people are willing to pay for it , but people look at comparable past sales and ebay prices and they remember the price they paid for the item new .... I'm not saying basses depreciate like cars but there's a reason there is a "glasses guide" for a 5 year old car , that pretty much all the dealers utilize. Its a buyers market , people have gotten used to fantastic deals like Thomman's and with shipping for free and a 30 day money back. In a world where you can get a new one for just a little bit more unless an item was exceptional / a great deal,the motivtion to buy second hand needs to both carry the risk that the item isnt quite right and the fact that the goods are used. I'm going to contradict bassman7755 it should be the other way around ... If you aren't willing to ship it ( especially at the buyers cost) ..You must be willing to accept a slightly below market value for your product . I don't mean this harshly or personally but its an interaction of supply and demand. By not being willing to do so you have shrunk your buyers pool to only those who are willing to collect in the immediate area to you , this means that if you live in an area where there is limited interest for a product expect it to not shift.

I've strongly hinted to the other half that for my approaching birthday ... that hotone could sit on my desk and mean i could get rid of my home practice combi ... * what she doesnt know* is it means my 1x15 trace cab which lives at the rehearsal space ... gets to come home instead

Another thing i had my eye on was one of these http://www.thomann.de/gb/hotone_nano_legacy_thunder_bass.htm Its a 5 watt mini bass head ... supposedly it will push 2X10 cab quite nicely ... but its got a very handy headphone jack The reviews seem good and some of the you tube footage sounds good ... anyone tried one .... apparently when the headphones are connected it doesnt shut off the Jack out so you can run it to the front of house "padded " and to your on stage cab simultaneously

[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1444329290' post='2882347'] I just got one of these off of amazon for £21: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BK3VA5U"]http://www.amazon.co...duct/B00BK3VA5U[/url] Its a nux PG2, its no POD certainly but then my headphones aren't sennheiser either! But its got approximations of everything my pedalboard does and it clips onto my bass strap... EDIT: been mucking about with this all evening. Its really rather good - certainly for the price! I can get some nice basic bass tones out of it and it will also go full on Muse if i feel like it, and the amount of thud makes my headphones rattle. [/quote] Hrmm interesting, I've been using my zoom B3 multi effects unit for home practice, but but i'm considering getting a leave in place setup that I don't have to tear down 2 nights a week and that takes a line in as the zoom b3 will not. on the nux website i spotted this as "new product" http://www.nuxefx.com/product_detail.php?id=64&id1=40&id2=0 hopefully the price will be much the same once it hits amazon

I think that sometimes .... despite the name on the head-stock .. or lack of one in the case of my little bargain bitsa jazz ... the stars align in some god forsaken sweatshop and a damn good guitar gets put together ... quality pickups and tuner can be changed easily so the thing stays in tune and maybe has more tonal options . This is if something that just really works for you it means that you end up picking it up a bit more, and feeling comfortable using it which in turn leads you to better play , better familiarity and perhaps tone and style.

Im also a big fan of [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]D'Addario Chromes which ive got on my jazz and status hot wires on my status .... and nylon tapewounds on my accoustic . [/color][/font][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I find the chromes have slightly more Bite ... which lets them be a bit more versatile.[/font][/color]

Pm'd KiOgon about ordering one of his Fabulous Loom's for my Bitsa Jazz , to solve some serious single coil Hiss (Standard Jazz layout ) He shipped it that day .. and it was with me the next . The quality of the materials used for the price paid puts the Existing loom from a Vintage modified J to SHAME .... Deal with confidence . I've been a bit lackluster in fitting * it due to having to wait for a bunch of shielding copper tape to arrive * amazon took far longer to ship than KiOgon.* The quality of his products , customer service and all round super bass-chatter to deal with a credit to this community. Lyle / Sythaside.

for a 6'4 bloke short scale.... just doesn't work for me

Holy moly ... shame its short scale There's also ... this rather tasty holybody http://www.revelationguitars.co.uk/rbg

As a self confessed lazy times have popped up when the band has decided they want to learn a song for next week and its suddenly become the night before the rehearsal and instead of learning something rubbish I've learnt master blaster I've found resources like ... songster really very good for on boarding a song quickly ... yes i know tab is the enemy n all and some of the midi's can be atrocious but the tools such as slowing down the song looping part im focusing on can really speak up the process. http://www.songsterr.com/a/wa?ref=499253 * cheeky referal link ahoy*

holy moly ... Freddy kruegar called wants his bass back . do get some serious chancer's on the gumtree though ... I once found an used valve amp for 20 quid than i could get it from Thomman delivered for .

I was determined to get this sound sorted out , but it comes at a bit of a price the rest of the band liked the vowely human sound so much ... that i dont actually get to play much of the bass line achieved using a Tbird with the Tone nob completely Maxed ( used territory ) into a digitech bass synth wah on autowah Env down setting with the threshold very low so almost everything you do wah's ... into a octive down from my B3' finally I palm mute quite hard so it kind of burps it out . ... only issue is i dont have a seperate loop for it so i cant easily switch for playing slap later on when its less important.

GET thee BEHIND ME TEMPTATION Is it just me ... or do they look a little off with a maple fret-board ..;. normally i'm all about the pale wood but on a cherry-burst it looks a bit nude. Oh i missed the sale :-( bugger ... oh well

We're almost spoilt for choice ... Harley Benton ...SIRE , even squire pulling up there socks and now these guys (if you believe the blurb they are a revival from Hohner and powered by Entwistle Pickups) Makes me lust for a nice cheap P ... shame i cant find a stockist near me

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1440672612' post='2852820'] Well either that or I had visions of you partying the night away with all the wives and girlfirends whilst your mates all stayed at home nursing half a pint... [/quote] sounds like a plan ... want an invite ?

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1440670452' post='2852798'] I didn't see the [b]inc [/b]on the first read through... [/quote] Ha ha .... i did rephrase that a few times when I was writing it ... maybe i wanted some peace and quiet ;-) or to play full volume in the house for a change.

You take the rough with the smooth , sometimes the plumber has to work on leaky soil pipes sometimes the bass player has to play Sweet Home Alabama .. AGAIN ;-) There are bad bits to all jobs sometimes i get a phone call at 4 am because a client is screaming at service desk and I need to fix somthing they cant. I hate to say this ....both as an IT professional and a bass player but you get what you pay for .... If the dog and duck are happy to get ... Melville and his IT crowd mates on keys and glockenspiel to play new years or otherwise "for a bit of a laugh". Then they are more than entitled to get them in to do it , but they are also entitled to expect that they don't quite sell as much beer / punters wanting to come back next year as they would have if they had gotten a more professional band and paid them to play a better quality set. Its down to how much the pub thinks they are going to benefit in sales from the upfront cost of entertainment , in my area its definitely a publicans market especially on nights like new years , EVERYONE wants to go somewhere and a simple pub can get away with charging for entry or at the very least booking a space. They whack up a bit of bunting , pop on Music television and then change it to the chimes at midnight its a licence to print money . As such I've found that relying on pubs / bars to deal with new years has been a let down for the last few years . So I've been organizing a big group of my mates inc wives and girlfriends to occupy a table at a out of town gastro-pub get a meal in then get very drunk and play cards against humanity . I must be getting old ;-)

I've seen quite a few Harley Benton necks complete with tuners etc pop up on the bay or in bass trading selling groups they almost never get past 40 quid . https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153492017995560&set=pcb.1038360976175530&type=1&theater Does make me worry whats happening to the HB Bodies which tend to be of reasonable quality ? :-S not saying that this is anyone here but we have seen a lot of unscrupulous folk going at them with bit of sandpaper .

There's no reason why this couldn't be done easily enough with a couple of MYSQL tables and a tiny bit of PHP or python to do the lifting into your webpage , sounds like a nice little project for you to get learning in , M/y advice to you is to get the database populated as some tables first. I would start planning out the database , Its been long old time since I've done this and this can be tricky for someone who isn't used to dealing with normal form , which the database will need to be in to deal with your search's to work properly . Here's a quick starting point for your data design * lunch break* i'm sure someone far better with UML than I will come around to say that's utter bollocks but that should allow you to search for matches between bodies and necks . [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/synthaside/media/bassdb_zpszmbgp0h7.jpg.html"][/url]