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  1. Hellzero
    It made my tinnitus reappear... 🤦🏻‍♂️🤪
  2. Hellzero
    When you have a long day to spend, you can unscrew all the 234 (funny suite) screws one by one, put a drop of Superglue or Threadlocker and screw each one back. This would prevent any screw rattle forever, but it will be a very very very long journey.
  3. Hellzero
    £1 GBP to a good house.
  4. Hellzero
    And yours must be a first generation as the IC is soldered directly on the circuit, not pushed in a soldered support.
  5. Hellzero
    Looks like an old Nordstrand indeed. The lettering is the same at the same place with the same references and the IC is the same. You know what it is now.
  6. Hellzero
    I had some DR Black Beauties on a bass and frankly they are as good as Elixir's. They are softer to the touch than the Elixir's as they have a round core so more flexible, and even if they are stainless steel coated, they are not aggressive to the ears or the fingers. I prefer the sound of nickel strings and these DR Black Beauties are a very good alternative. They do exist in your favourite gauge too as BKB-40.
  7. Hellzero
    Looks like a very well done copy of the original 2 bands EQ, but not a Mojotone and certainly not a Nordstrand. Remove the double sided tape, maybe there's something engraved... but I had an original US Sub and it looked like this preamp.
  8. Hellzero
    A photo (or more) with close up of the wiring might help. Maybe one lug of the tone pot is earthed (or touching the shielding), this would mean it's acting like volume.
  9. Hellzero
    By the way @Linus27 it's Mick Karn. 😉
  10. Hellzero
    Apart from using something like AdBlocker Plus, there's no way to get rid of this @Hutton... Check this and the other threads about the subject:
  11. Hellzero
    I said it before: Hi-fi Critic is a British paper magazine relying only on subscriptions and totally ad free. And they print their magazine on high quality thick paper, so if it's possible for them with less subscribers why isn't it possible for BassChat to be ad free and self paid through subscriptions?
  12. Hellzero
    @Kiwi Is Ezoic a China based company? If so, better stop partnering with them as they absolutely don't know what GDPR means. Better check this as Ezoic is absolutely not respecting the GDPR cookies and trackers management: https://www.cookiebot.com/en/uk-ie-gdpr-cookies/
  13. Hellzero
    I turned AdBlocker on again, what a pain in the àss to have to do such things because of plain amateurism from Ezoic. 🤐
  14. Hellzero
    I turned AdBlocker on again, what a pain in the àss to have to do such things because of plain amateurism from Ezoic. 🤐
  15. Hellzero
    A one-time thing staying forever even after the acceptance of cookies! Come on, it is pure amateurism!
  16. Hellzero
    I own a GR Bass AeroTech Full Carbon Combo 800 plus its GR Bass AeroTech Full Carbon 112+ Extension Cabinet, it's the lightest (14.3 kilos for the both of them) powerful (full 800 Watts) rig you'll find these days with excellent faithful sound reproduction, but it's quite expensive. There is an excellent combo in the ads now, at very attractive price, a Markbass Alain Caron Signature Combo 121 Lite, it's quite light (16.3 kilos) and very powerful (500 Watts to the 12" and 100 or 300 Watts to the "tweeter" depending on the version) and you'll get the full power out of this bi-amped combo as there's no extension possibility. To me it's better sounding than the follower named Alain Caron Signature K1. Link to the specs: https://www.markbass.it/product/combo-121-lite-alain-caron/
  17. Hellzero
    I like the band a lot. Didn't know they were touring again...
  18. Hellzero
    Fine, Chris. 😉
  19. Hellzero
    £1 GBP to a good house: EAST UK P-retro 01; complete with original chrome knobs, charger and user manual; new battery fitted by previous owner; fully working! NO TRADES! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden : £1 GBP to a good house!!! Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. In perfect working condition. Here is the description from John East website: https://www.east-uk.com/product/p-retro/?v=d3dcf429c679 The P-Retro is simple but flexible active/passive bass preamp equaliser which offers huge tonal variation to one of the most popular styles of bass of all time, without the need to permanently modify the instrument itself. P-Retro features two stacked knobs each with a pull switch, class A FET input stage and a high quality relay for pure passive bypass. Power is provided by an internal rechargeable battery. The normal volume control becomes the Volume/Tone Stack and works in exactly the same way as the P style bass original controls, passing the passive signal directly to the jack. When the volume control is pulled up, the active circuit is switched in, post passive tone control, and adds 2.5dB of gain with a flat response. Additionally, the upper knob allows either a mid boost, or a combined bass/treble boost. The lower knob sets the variable frequency points for either mode. Summary of features for the P-Retro: Two Stacked knobs, both with Pull Switches. Original pure P style bass controls fully retained via passive path, using a high quality relay bypass. Class A FET input stage. Flat response active setting. Variable frequency mid boost mode. Variable frequency combined bass/treble boost mode. Deep boost switch with four frequencies, set via internal switches. Deep boost level set via internal preset trimmer. Rechargeable internal Li-Pol Battery, giving up to 40 hours use per charge. Battery charging is achieved using an AC/DC Adaptor, which plugs into the jack. Auto passive bypass if the system runs low on power. Easy to fit using screw terminals, with no solder connections to the P-Retro. Instrument can be returned to stock condition since there are no physical modifications to the guitar P-Retro Active circuit board approximate dimensions: L50.0 X W27.0 D15.0 mm (2.0″ X 1.07″ X 0.6″) P-Retro Volume/Tone & Li-Pol battery approximate dimensions: L50.0 X H29.0 X D19.0 mm (1.6″ X 1.15″ X 0.75″) Non-smoking environment as usual. What you see is what you get ! Look carefully at the photos taken from different angles and lights to see the real condition. Due to severe back problems (67% officially disabled because of it) plus right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which, after more than 4 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4 kilos and also the ones I'm not really using as well as some stuff I don't use. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale, but it's a very rare preamp out of production. Don't hesitate to ask for more.
  20. Hellzero
    If you have a Fishman (BP-100 twin piezo, I guess), try the dedicated Fishman preamp for this: the Fishman Pro-EQ Platinum Bass, you'll be amazed. They are now sold at bargain prices around £50 GBP. It's this model:
  21. Hellzero
    I have a blocked eBay dodgy sellers list, but from when it was still a place to buy things, not a dump...
  22. Hellzero
    Check my mémoire, the photos and explanations are in it. The Bigsby-Fender headstock came from an Austrian design of 1820.
  23. Hellzero
    It's been explained so many times: you're acting as an antenna and when touching the strings you ground yourself removing the buzz. Just like @Jean-Luc Pickguard says, making a complete shielding of ALL cavities star grounded including the bridge will solve this issue, which is quite common with Fender type basses and slugs inside the cavities. 🤪 It's not only a matter of bridge earthed... 😉
  24. Hellzero
    You didn't take the price of the oven into account, the time it takes to take the strings off and on, the time you'll spend cleaning that oven from the non healthy residues including the burnt silk and the useless local warming, which is nowadays priceless. Didn't you notice that your strings are marked at the frets location when you do such "rescue" leading to intonation and false harmonics issues: It's just the usual cheapskate maths you've done here. If your strings are dead (to your taste), change them, recycle the old ones and save time, money and the planet. Won't make friends, I know.
  25. Hellzero
    Do the maths, I think this is cheaper and better for your health (all this heated gunk in the oven is just disgusting): https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_valuestrings_bassguitar_medium.htm That said I preferred the tone before the "ovening".
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