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Thought I might as well post this here, Norton thinks Guitarchat is dangerous, doesn't give more details. Maybe someone at Norton is a bass player? No issues with Basschat. Could just be a false positive, but I know that sites and servers do sometimes get hacked.
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Iacopo kindly answered my call for things that needed fixing so I can practice with my soldering iron. Super helpful, dug out an old pedal for me that is just what I was after, thank you!
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Now Withdrawn This is, I believe, a 1979-1981 ish Washburn Raven. There's a good page about them here: http://www.g3h.be/wings/raven.htm - the Raven was the entry level guitar in the Washburn Wing series. It's an 80s thing, and a bit different to the run of the mill stuff in it's own way. If it was on *bay, I'm pretty sure it would be desribed as "vintage" and "rare" at least. It was once white, but it looks like Washburn finished the neck in nitro and the body in poly, or at least in two different finishing coats, because they have aged differently. The body is not quite as white as the pictures make out, the neck is about that colour, it has yellowed more than the body. The body is made of the finest ply, but actually the rosewood board is quite nice looking. Angled headstock, and the tuners all still work nicely. The frets were showing some wear so i had them dressed a while ago, there is still a bit of wear in the last 2 or 3 but it plays nicely, not the lowest action in the world but still good. The pickups aren't the originals, when I bought this about 20 years ago it had some ceramic humbuckers in it that only sounded good (for them) with maximum distortion, and it's been through a few different things since. Most recently (about 10 years ago I think) I fitted a pair of reasonably period sold-to-me-as 80s DiMarzios (no evidence to say they are) in new (cheapo) pickup surrounds. I also put in all new CTS pots and orange caps, so the electrics work fine. The humbuckers do the humbucker thing, fairly mellow tone. The tone control for the neck pickup doesn't seem to do anything but I'm not sure if that's just because I didnt' choose the right cap. I seem to recall the knobs being a pain to get back on (I've since learnt there are two sizes of shaft) so they would probably be a pain to take off again. It has some 10s on it that look fairly new. It has a fair few dings and the back is pretty scuffed up, it is what it is and not too bad for 40 years old. I don't have a case for it, but I reckon for shipping the best bet would probably be to unbolt the neck, fold it in half and send it well padded in a big box as "guitar parts". £95 plus UK postage, apologies but this is UK only for postage (it wouldnt' be worth the cost to send this overseas anyway). Can be collected from BD20 (Skipton). -
Now Sold Ibanez SRC6 Crossover Bass VI This is Ibanez's take on the Bass VI, and they made a really good job of it, I know there are a few fans of these out there. Now discontinued, and there aren't loads of them about (I wouldn't go as far as calling it "Rare" like one seller on ebay, who is also currently asking £750 for one!) 30" scale and normally tuned E-E. 10.8mm spacing at the bridge. Rosewood fingerboard, mahogony body, abalone oval fret markers, Cosmo black hardware, and this one has matching Schaller straplock buttons plus the original ones. Nice and light, EMG 35HZ pickups plus active 3 band EQ, works really well for any style. Yes, it is good for metal but it has a really good clean tone as well and sounds good with anything in between. You really can make it sound like a proper bass, and like a guitar, or both at the same time if you have the skill. More info on the Ibanez wiki: https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/SRC6 Quite a few reviews on YouTube, and there's a quick demo I did on soundcloud of how it sounds in a rocky baritone role: https://soundcloud.com/adamgx/src6-demo One small groove in the front and the finish is wearing above the pickups, the Ibanez "walnut flat" finish is bad for that, it's the same on the SR basses that use the same finish. I've made sure to show those minor things in one of the pics. It currently has the original Ibanez strings on it, they want changing for something better IMO. I have a brand new set of LaBella 767-6N Nickel Plated that I was planning to put on it and can sell with it. £450 I don't have a case or gig bag for it, so I'm selling it collection only from BD20 / Skipton area, I'm usually able to drive a bit to meet up though. I also have a couple of trips to London coming up in the next few weeks, I can go down M6 or M1 way from here so there's a chance of a drop off / meet up between Yorkshire and London. Sorry the pics aren't amazing, I tried extra hard with them and they came out worse than usual, typical. Writing this has made me realise how much I really like this little thing, please don't buy it so I can keep it... -
David was kind enough to respond when I posted looking for things to fix, he was really helpful and I now have a Boss CS-3 in my "fix me" pile, which is perfect.
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Paul was kind enough to answer my call for pedals that need fixing so I can get some practice with the old soldering iron. Really helpful with it all, thanks!
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The only reason i can resist this is i already have a black 48 with crime stripe great basses. -
Crawford bought my DG Harmonic Booster, top bloke, good comms - perfect. Deal with confidence.
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Zoom again here, a lowly H1n and it still does the job well. I got some Panasonic Eneloop rechargable batteries and a proper charger (one that does each cell individually) and it is just set and forget for a 3 hour session.
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I think I'm with @akabane on this. Given what's possible, a lot of effects pedals could just use a common platform with programmable DSP and the actual effect would just be software. Source Audio's One series look a bit like this, but are proprietary (although hacking a one series would be fun). With pedals like that you can have basic controls on the pedal and more complicated setup, presets and stuff like that gets done via another device (tablet, pc etc). Individual devices can be synced using a midi pedal so you can have presets across multiple pedals. It's all doable. Maybe it will get here eventually. Maybe it will grow from something like raspberry pi pedals instead of coming from hardware manufacturers.
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Colin bought a Delano pickup from me, couldn't have been easier to deal with - perfect, thanks!
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Second hand Ibanez BTB 5 string, 35" scale, there are some around without gold hardware and coffee table wood if that's not your thing (it's very much not mine). I paid £350 for a sixer and still miss it a bit, although it could have done with better pickups (which a lot of BTBs have)
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Eich 110XS-4 Cabinet vs Barefaced one10t vs Genzler 10-2?
adamg67 replied to bas_anton's topic in Amps and Cabs
I like the fact that the drummer being musical is worth mentioning 😁 -
Fave and least fave electric guitar noises?
adamg67 replied to Barking Spiders's topic in General Discussion
I like the lo fi rough sounding small vintage amp breaking up kind of sound, usually with some overdrive on it. Lots of great examples out there going back a long way but Jack White does a nice version of it on the "Icky Thump" album and elsewhere. -
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For anyone who doesn't know about it, this is very handy for any of the major data leaks / scrapes: Have I Been Pwned It's a legit site that tells you if your email address is in any of the known data breaches and so is out there for hackers to try against other sites. Mine was in there from the LinkedIn and Adobe breaches, the passwords used were relatively unique so not too many to change to make sure all was well. I think some services like Experian are now providing the same thing. For obvious reasons it doesn't tell you the associated passwords but you can look up passwords separately as well. It tells you which data breaches the email is on so you if you do use the same password for a few things you should know which one(s) to change. This is why it is such a good idea to use different passwords for everything. Hackers don't try and hack your bank or your email, they hack big sites that aren't as well protected (what can you really lose if LinkedIn gets hacked), grab the usernames and passwords (yes, they should be encrypted but they aren't always can can still be brute force cracked if they are) and then try them against your email and your bank. Actually email is the big one, since password resets rely on your email. Use something very unique for your email.
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I use The Gentleman as well, I've got NI Komplete and I still prefer The Gentleman to the others in there for most things, including jazz piano which I'm (slowly) learning.
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Do NOT rely on a correct email address in an email to confirm who it came from. It is trivially easy to set the from: field in an email to anything you like. I've done this with server applications that genuinely needed to send out email. Basschat itself probably has a setting somewhere in the app for the email address that emails should be from, and I bet you can set it to pretty much anything. There might be some restrictions in what mail relays will handle but it's very easy to set up an outgoing mail server that will handle anything you want. See things like: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/121532/htg-explains-how-scammers-forge-email-addresses-and-how-you-can-tell/amp/ https://www.techlicious.com/how-to/how-to-tell-if-email-has-been-spoofed/ Again, do not trust an email because the email address is correct.
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Do you have a better suggestion for how we should use Tim?
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The Source Audio Ultrawave has some cool ideas. Morphing between two different 10 band eq settings using an envelope is fun.
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I got this done, and I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out, for my second ever go at repairing a pedal anyway - I know it's amateur hour compared to the stuff many people on here can do, but you have to start somewhere. I wasn't happy with the Bourns pot I found so I looked again at alpha (I needed an alphas one anyway for another pedal) and found what looked like a close enough match at Thonk. Much easier to find the right one on their site than the big electronics places. The main difference is it's a D shaft not a knurled but it was easy enough to convert the knob to match. Other than that it was just a case of making sure the pot was held in position for soldering as it's sitting a bit higher than it naturally would, but with a bit of care that was easy enough. End result, one £360 (new) pedal that now works perfectly again.
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You still can't beat the tone you get from an original Tweed hardcase.
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Lack of practice recently (no active project at the mo) means I'm no Adamg67 just at the moment.
