PunkPonyPrincess

£165 OR might TRADE FOR non pedal related stuff...

I have a nice condition Ampeg BA115HP combo that has just been serviced, it’s a loud amp that has been to a couple of gigs and has been more than capable of keeping up with the PA. The BA115HP is a 200W 15” Cabinet and it’s substantial and well built. It’s a 200W 1 x 15” & Horn loaded  little terror, not class D but pure MOSFET, easy to service, easy to fix if it ever should need attention, solid, indestructible and surprisingly compact.

The details are here https://ampeg.com/products/bassamp/ba115hp/index.html

Attached are photos of it, it’s great on so many levels: a built in tuner, PA out, CD input for line level instruments, horn loaded tweeter. Very capable. 

I would trade for Trace Elliot gear if you have something that you no longer want and am thinking of a trade. I have a GP7 and 4x10 Cab already so trades for the Ampeg would be good.

Based in Dumfries and Galloway can be in Edinburgh or Glasgow or Carlisle too.

withdrawn from Sale as Vped are kindly letting me upgrade this unit as a swap and I now have additional funds for GAS.

Hi I’m selling this, I don’t want to but I want to upgrade to the Vped Pro and also GAS strikes...

The vPed is a VST for professional usage.  Compatible to a wide range of VST/VSTi  plugins, you can load up to 12 of them to your pedal board and switch between them on the go. With the 4 USB ports for MIDI interfaces or a Bluetooth or  an add  on USB  WiFi transmitter, almost any device can be connected  to control and assign the internal effects and synths.

Amazing bit of kit but am saving up for a bass. This is a ruggedised PC that has pedal switches and three inputs (Microphone, Guitar and XLR inputs along with multiple outputs and expression and switch pedal inputs - sound quality is very good indeed) it runs VST hosts like softsynths and pedal effects and studio plugins that you would not normally consider bringing on stage — conveniently housed inside the form factor of a pedalboard. 

It has many supplied guitar and bass effects, vocal processing, softsynths, mastering processing, tape echo and delay effects already supplied and many many more if you choose to download. If it’s a 32bit VST, then it ought to run easily as the CPU is a 2.1GHZ Celeron, it runs cool and quiet.

Retail is about €999 (depending on where you look), UK dealers are Juno and GearForMusic. I bought this direct from mode machines  (https://www.modemachines.com/product-page/vped) and is about two months old, a sales receipt is enclosed.

Everything it arrived with is included along with a 16GB stick of free VSTs I have downloaded and will include for you.

 includes P&P Or you May collect or meet in say Edinburgh if you are nearby.

Details here: https://www.modemachines.com/product-page/vped

• 2GB RAM + 8GB SSD (internal memory)

• 4 expression/value pedal inputs, 4 external switch inputs and 4 software switches

• 4 USB ports for connecting external storage devices, MIDI/USB controllers and optional Wi-Fi 

• dongle for remote control

• USB to MIDI interface for connecting MIDI keyboards

• Internal SSD for great reliability

• Quick editing of plug-in´s parameters without connecting a mouse

• 5 foot-switches and 2 knobs on the front panel for an easy use

Not really i’d need to see inside the thing and look at a schematic.

Worked on setup yesterday (the guy who assembled these for me apologised for not having time before Easter hols hit hard and assumed I’d want it sooner rather than later), god I love how low a fretless can be to the fingerboard.

I have a holeyboard for sale,  

Condition is Used but is in excellent condition. No Nasty Dings or bangs or scuffs. 

It’s the plywood 2nd Generation model Wide Sized (they have now gone to aluminium which is not at all my aesthetic) — as you can see,  the shape is all wrong for my nonstandard pedalboard sized stuff. It’ll happily accept EHX extra large boxe like the Bass Synthesiser but the specialised computer I use is  too big for it below and is perched rather ungainly on top, plus, being a bassist, I have too few actual physical pedals to justify it. I picked it up and have never gigged with it. I bought it used and it’s complete with a set of tie wraps and so on.

The use of ties is clever as it saves your precious pedals from harm inflicted by velcro ripping away the paint from the underside.

I looked on reverb for a price guide (it’s been lying about for ages) and I gulped at the asking, prices. I hope my asking price is sensible?

Claire

Is it me or do other people start questioning the need for playing bass with frets when you have a couple fretless basses in your midst?

That’s the plan for the PK5 and this bassline sweetie I just rescued. 

This way people know what it went through to get working again before sold... nothing to hide when your PCB is nekkid to the world.

No, no, no I am not into that restoration for profit thing but I am a sucker for a fixer-upper. Only Mr Sting and Geddy Lee need two footpedals.

I just put this up for sale in /classifieds because I found another poorly pedal in need of my restoration services, a PK6.

£50 markup (with the the PSU at £7 and the battery Pack at £3 plus £3 for components plus my time) seems ok?

REDUCED TO £225

(Offers and Trades for anything Trace Elliot are welcomed BTW.)

Unsure if here is the best place to list them, but they live on the floor next to your pedals so why not?

Time to get your prog on with these Roland PK5 Midi Foot Pedals, strictly speaking they have no sound of their own as they are MIDI controllers, but  they can control Midi Synths and SoftSynths with ease. I use a range of Moog Taurus and String Synth VSTs in a VPED virtual host Pedal with great success and can create house rattling levels of bass with it. Laptop VSTs or hardware synth modules will be fine.

It is used (and shows signs of use - in line with a piece of near-vintage equipment) but it has just been serviced and component checked for longevity with new PSU brick and all foot connections working, all pedals work, velocity sensitivity works (not that the Moog Taurus 1 Pedal VSTs use it - but synths do use it and it it fine) a new power supply provided and a new battery pack fitted to replace the old one (these can work off 6 x AA batteries as well as Mains power, yes). I have used it for triggering samples, Mellotron VSTs, Synths and Samplers and the like — a highly versatile piece of equipment.

£250 - includes PSU, Manual, Service Manual, and of course the Pedals themselves. Buyer collects (I can hop over to Carlisle, Lockerbie, Edinburgh if any suits) or we can arrange shipping at extra (no packaging but am experienced at this - I estimate shipping is £15-£20).

I have the next model up. A Roland PK6 now so this is surplus. It’s great and essential in the 3 piece punk bands I play in — even if the punks think I am a fecking hippy for having one.

I’ll put more images up in a bit,

As promised, more pix.

Fresh off the plane.

One for flats, one for rounds.

Another lost cause saved from landfill.

Roland PK5 Bass pedals, bought for £200 locally, non functioning. No battery pack, burn marks on battery leads. No PSU. Someone obviously tried plugging in the wrong one via the wrong input... Roland and Boss historically were a bit weird on their power delivery methods for pedals back in the day but a former owner has been even weirder.

Proper 9V PSU obtained, new battery pack fitted, some minor track cleaning and repair, D1 diode replacement, fried (cracked) npn (Q3) to replace, hopefully nothing else downstream, caps all ok. can’t get a service manual (http://servicerepairmanuals.netlook like they are not functioning) so I am flying cautiously. And yes, the inductor tests ok. The (D3) 5v6 zener Is untroubled, I even read 9v up to the npn so I was cautiously hopeful the custom chip is ok.

Parts arrived. Cleaned the board, made me a broken trace with clippings from the diode. Fitted a battery pack as well.

worked first time

Discovered to my great joy I can have multiple synths running, so a few classic old synth VSTs have all been chained to MIDI channel 2, (Taurus Plug-in seems to be fixed on 2) so tap into poly mode and *MASSIVE* sounds ensue... mellotron VST next...

Please delete - found what I was after

I had (up til joining Basschat) one bass* and no pedals, I was for decades that slightly odd thing, a bassist without a single pedal, learning to play without even comp... it’s kinda cool, but ultimately limiting and why I know nothing about pedals. Will call the onion folk and get something specced to my needs. If they recommend an external ground loop Isolator i’ll go with a Palmer unit and a volume pedal inline. Thanks.

*Current count is four basses, Inc two fretless and a Chapman stick, plus midi bass pedals set up for Taurus *and* Mellotron.... and I’m supposed to be a punk!

So an ABY box and any general purpose volume pot with a kick on/off downstream is is the way to go... right? If hums persist use the Palmer box?

I see. Anything that does this that acts as a straight though signal splitter  for bass and adds a on off switch plus  a volume pedal on the “guitar” signal side? Ideally I want as many functions in one box as possible.

 I don’t know I’ve never used dual amps or pedals at all until recently so I don’t even know what i need.

Hum wise I am considering a line isolation box or two to deal with the hum (and are good things to have anyway)

https://www.palmer-germany.com/en/products/line-isolators/5180/pli-01?c=2123

...but I want to get it all sorted I’m my head before I leap so I don’t buy anything I don’t need and it does not really deal with splitting signals and volume or kick in/out.

I’m working with a three piece punk/new wave/post-punk band and I am using my Fishman Fission Powerchord  that fills out the sound nicely for the band, it works shockingly well once you learn how to play it. I also use small amounts of bass fx with them, nothing major (the usual) but at present my bass goes into the Fission and uses the pedal to split off to the bass amp (mixed low wet/dry signal)  and the “guitar” amp (fx-only signal), but not really ideal, also the bass amp hums when both amps are connected via different outputs.

I would like to split the bass signal on the pedalboard and  then run two paralllel signals - one to fishman fission, one to bass fx ideally some foot volume control so I can kick In and out either signal what is the best way to do this? 

EDIT: to further complexify things: I have a Chapman Stick SB8 (can be a stereo signal) and an NS Design EUB in the wings and perhaps it’s time coherently pull them all together? Small notepad style mixing desk overkill?

15 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Muse have about 30 Macbooks.

And sometimes a Fripp or was that Tool?  I seem to recall an alliance where Fripp did some live soundscaping with a 3 piece of that ilk.

Bananarama

Fun Boy Three

Thompson Twins

2 hours ago, BobVbass said:

@PunkPonyPrincess I'm afraid you don't get chocolates because you story doesn't fulfill the criteria sorry.  It is fabulous though and congratulations on your transition hope everything carries on brilliantly - most of all Thanks for sharing it xx

I’ll get my own damn chocolate!

you can have some, though, and cheers on your journey too.

ps transition vamp is brilliant... I can never think up good band names 

On what you should and should not be doing:

I delight in doing what I am not supposed to be doing, that way can lead to unusual and unexpected outcomes. I don’t wanna be a cookie cutter bass player.

Seeing as it’s a day after Transgender Day Of Visibility and I did nothing because I am recovering from surgery, i’ll bite. I’m transgender and the sound technician’s stance and pretty much everything following that confuses me. No alternative sound technician contingency at the venue is equally just as unprofessional... That being said the cis (look it up if unfamiliar) world gets away with all sorts of slurs against trans people and once in a while trans people just... snap...  Mumsnet or Newspapers or Newspaper Comments sections are a  great example of what anonymity + entitled + whiny cis fear and loathing leads to... 

So, apparently on these places trans ppl want to destroy society... actually yeah, I do kinda want want to wreck it all... but that’s not because trans people are  trans, but because there are forces out there that want to eradicate non-conforming people from existence by any means possible and our/their survival mandates we want to make sure a society is made where that cannot happen, that starts with being pretty hard on slurs. Sometimes people overreact, sometimes people don’t react enough; I probably should do more. If I stumble upon anti-trans attitude I just roll my eyes and say, “oh gawd, the cis are at it again..” (seriously there are some dumb folk out there) and move on. Normally I’d not go looking, sometimes it’s unavoidable -- I never read the newspaper comments sections. Last time I did Ugh. Now I’m the dumb one for letting their stuff affect me.

I won’t share any gory details about my life before transition (it’s textbook) but after entering the Scottish NHS Gender Reassignment pathway a few years ago with years of waiting, years of tests, then years of medication, interim procedures and dreadfully dreary therapy (mostly consisting of “are you sure? No... are you really really sure?) Gatekeeping upon gatekeeping: following adams-apple removal in December,  I had Vaginoplasty (aka “have you have ‘the op?’” — a question I am under no obligation to answer) last month by one of the UK’s preeminent  urologists and reassignment surgeons in Brighton... I am midway through 12 weeks of recovery, I am sore (but now not walking like I have a tennis ball stuffed up my bottom) and able to refurb Trace cabs.

The gubbiment gave me my Gender Recognition Certificate and I changed my Birth Certificate. Passports, Banks, Taxes, Council Tax, Lang Registery ownership sets... it all just glides into place as life becomes more normal, yeah, i’m very happy I went through it all. When this surgery is healed I get facial feminisation performed this year (again, I am under zero obligation to tell people this, but it’s all part of the journey). You know, all that progress really chills one out. Waiting months and years between anything happening really messes with a person. I’ve been there.

I’m still confused about the sound tech, the band description is not offensive to me, (just really really unimaginative, dull and a bit stupid — typical of clueless Cis folk being a bit free with their privilege) but I don’t experience much of the anti Trans hate or the TERFy/Gender Critical  nonsense first hand because I go stealth and I mostly pass, so maybe they had enough or had a bad day so something snapped — I’m lucky and  privilege allows me to disappear into the cis world. I am so far into transition that most people just assume I’m yet another angry woman with a precision bass... and truth be known I am just another anonymous punk bassist so being trans is... or rather was for me a major all encompassing and now rapidly normalising transitionary process; transition for me is a series of corrections so I can get on with life. That’s apparently normal, but I know it feels so out of reach for the person waiting… waiting… as time bloody passes and that’s gonna skew ones sensibility.

That’s really it. when I come across anti trans stuff, like mumsnet in real life I generally just oppose their view without outing myself or offering a show and tell because it’s not really anyone’s business.. Backfiring Irony aside, (I keep going back to check: it’s a really lame band description) I cannot see why someone else could not run the faders, it’s not really difficult. all I can say is trans people’s experiences are not uniform or the same (despite clinically me describing my experience as “textbook” earlier - ha!) trans people all have wildly divergent experiences and psychologically can cope with different levels of stuff, some trans people are comfy in transition, some are not (that’s not for anyone to judge), some trans people go for “the works” and to ascend into heteronormativity, some don’t, some trans people don’t regard themselves as trans once they have gotten through the meat grinder of the NHS or the WPATH protocols. Some trans ppl even play the bass!

I want my chocolate now...