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scrumpymike

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  1. scrumpymike
    I'd like a go on the Supro.
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    Me too, as well as others I'm sure.
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    +1
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    After moving my SBMM s-s 'Ray on, I went for a Starstream A2S based largely on Dan's review of the A1H below and after a good chat with him and the guys at Vox UK. Believe me, the Vox Artist is in a completely different league from both the 'budget' Starstream (which I bought first and sent back) and the 'Ray. Vox said that the Artist was made in Japan for parent company Korg as a limited 'premium' run to test/prepare the market for the cost-engineered version intended to sell in higher volumes. Even priced at its launch RRP of around £1400 the Vox would be value for money. For the £800 I paid, it's a steal. The quality is as good as it gets, IMHO the avant-garde design looks great as well as making complete sense in functional terms, and I love the choice of Aguilar AG 4-J70 pickups (the A1H has an AG-4M) and OBP-2 pre-amp. I went for black with the maple fretboard. Vox Starstream A1H review by Dan Veall
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    Sorry folks, I was quoting from memory without checking, so just let that be a lesson to me! 🙂 Top marks once again to Agedhorse with his all-seeing eye. I know this is a HandBox thread but the following comparison may be interesting. My main gig amp is the Mesa TT-800. Once I got my brain calibrated to what the twin-channel Mesa does, I quickly set it up to my liking and it has become the 'gold standard' amp for me. However, the much cheaper and simpler HandBox succeeds in coming so incredibly close in terms of delivering 'my sounds' that I have massive respect for what Leszek has done. Also, as already posted, he was very helpful in liaising with my amp tech to fix a small issue even though I bought mine used off here. In practice, I tend to use the TT-800 at larger/'safer' gigs and the R-400 for playing the smaller/tighter venues and 'wild west saloons' ("Suddenly, the doors flung open revealing a mean, scar-faced dude dressed in black. The customers dived under the tables, the bar-tender hastily turned the mirror round, but the band played on.") Last but not least, I can report that my R-400 recently survived a 3-foot drop virtually unscathed, despite landing on one corner in the street. I'm not recommending you try it but it's comforting to know that this is one robust piece of kit - especially the famous 'hand-box' wooden case.
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    Just a few hopefully relevant comments based on my experience. First of all, my R400 sounds good however the controls are set. Second, the manual for my Mesa TT-800 with 3-valve pre also states that you set the master at 1 o'clock, tweak the gain switches (it's got 2 channels) to suit, then crank the master up if necessary. Last but not least, if it's possible to get truly awful sounds from Leszek's new amp (which is pretty unusual with modern amps), he should include some sort of user instructions that explain what to do and what NOT to do. This is meant as constructive criticism btw 🙂
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    PM sent
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    Yes please! We always do a list of who's bringing what so everyone has an idea of what's there to be seen, heard, played or - last but not least - bought. I'll start the ball rolling: Some or all of the following: my two Andy Rogers custom-builds; Vox Starstream A2S; FOR SALE!! Gillett Contour Standard 4; Mesa TT-800 head; FOR SALE!! Eden WT550 Traveler head; Hand-Box R-400 head; 2 x Barefaced SC3 cab's. We also start a list of raffle prizes: I'm putting in a nice Fusion semi-rigid case I got for a s-s headless ACG and a Hercules mic stand - both pretty much as new. Over to you!
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    Just a prototype. We'll be launching the product at next year's Bash. That's not just 1 x £13 by the way. I've won the wooden spoon so I'll stop digging now.
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    Reading it again, I don't either🤔 I was trying to say that we know we'll break even with £13 (plus a few T-shirt sales) so charging £15 would just be to give the person on the till an easier life handling £notes rather than scrap metal. I'll get me coat...
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    Extra help from Ms Chien will come in very handy. As it happens, 3 of the usual team can't make it so a couple more volunteers will be most welcome - shout-out to woodinblack's other half again?
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    OK, anyone averse to the number Xlll just pays £15 and gets two-quid's-worth of raffle tickets thrown in 👍 We did think about the practicalities of handling loads of coins but we are ADAMANT that we will NEVER knowingly overcharge our bass buddies.👼 Some T-shirt sales would help us lots 🙏
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    Maybe I've just missed it but I haven't seen much negative stuff, just lots of positives. The one I had was unbelievably good and punched way above its (then) £600 RRP.
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    It's less than 7 weeks to the Big Fat South-West Bash Day - that's Sunday October 9th in case you didn't know! The winning formula remains unchanged: You pay a BARGAIN PRICE to EAT, DRINK and BASH yourself silly amidst AMAZING KIT in nice surroundings with like-minded folks and NO NEIGHBOURS TO WORRY ABOUT! 🥳 We're having to increase the Bash price this year, and here's why. Last year for the first time, the Bash failed to break even. We knew our costs would be higher due to the pandemic but, in the hope of a higher than usual turnout thanks to 'pandemic bounce-back' effect, we decided to keep the all-in, attendance plus-food-price at £10 - and over-ordered on the T-shirts ☹️. In the event, what we got was the opposite, with a lower-than-normal attendance because many people were still cautious about socialising. Unfortunately, those food and drink prices have continued to rise, so this year's increase (the first and only one in 6 years) has to cover that too. So this year's new, all-in price for the same top-quality Bash we all know and love is £13*. As an extra guarantee that we'll break even, we also need advance payment from at least 25 of you. You can do this by pre-paying your £13 entrance or buying a Bash T-shirt in advance (£20 including p&p, £15 if collected at the Bash). As usual, just PM me and we'll sort it. We can't wait to see you guys! *And we can only do it at this price because, as a Trustee of the hall, I can hire it for the day at half price!
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    That's knot true.
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    That's knot true.
  17. scrumpymike
    It's called delegation - anyway, I only missed breakfast 🙂
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    That's drop-dead gorgeous! GLWTS.
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    Ha, that's just what I did! You need a piece of thin-wall round tube (long enough to get to the bottom of the screw left in the wood plus enough for your drill chuck to grip securely) with inner diameter slightly bigger (pref +0.5mm) than the screw diameter. Notch some teeth into one end of the tube using a small file or junior hacksaw blade - and away you go!
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    Awkward? It was a b**ch! The screw had sheared off flush with the body and I had to make a special tool to do the job.
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    Ha-ha! That's kind of right. I'd say that I stopped buying because my defective £1500 custom Elwood raised doubts about Maruszczyc quality control - forgot to mention that the Luminlays I ordered and paid for hadn't been fitted. But, hey, don't forget I was just answering gazzatriumph's question.
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    Good question! The first thing to say is that a few years back I decided to limit myself to 3 basses - two for gigging in my classic rock covers band and one more that I'd keep changing just to scratch the GAS itch. My first '3rd bass' was a Mensinger Cazpar that I bought new from the Public Peace online shop for what now seems like a real bargain price of £890. I just wanted something compact and lightweight for home/practice use and ended up really loving it so I sold it to try other Cazpar variants including a fretless and a headless bought off this FS forum. I was so impressed with the quality and value for money that I bought a used s-s Elwood off here with a view to gigging it. That was a nice bass too but the quality wasn't as good as the Cazpars. Anyway, I decided to bite the bullet and get a custom Elwood L made and that was where it all went wrong. When it finally arrived, there were quality issues with bubbles in the paint finish, a chip on the neck near the headstock, and badly fitted screws. You could see from the screw heads in the scratch-plate that they hadn't gone in straight and when I tried to fit Schaller strap locks screw holding the original button sheared off. When I finally managed to extract it from the body you could see it had gone in at a stupid angle and bent straight when it was tightened down on the button. Adrian made me an offer that I was satisfied with but that was me done with Maruszczycs. The Sandy Llionel I bought off here was just perfect in every way and for me was a much better player than any of the Maru's.
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    I'd be tempted to stick with the Epiphone.
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    I bought a new SG re-issue, MY 2008 for just under a grand IIRC, that I absolutely loved - except for the slight neck-dive, which is just a personal thing with me. Also, while the pups and controls definitely lifted it well out of 'one trick pony' territory, I felt I needed something with a broader tonal range as I was doing all sorts of different stuff at the time. By then, I'd got at least 5 years of happy gigging from it though. Re bottom E, it was fine and I was using relatively low-tension rounds.
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