Jo.gwillim

I just sold a zoom R16 to Gerry. Lovely guy to chat with and all communications spot on. Many thanks!

Surprised this is still for sale. I love mine. The bump switch works well with barefaced 12 inch cabs. You can get a more subtle driven sound by backing the gain off, not talked about in the manual. 

Graham bought a strap from me. Lovely guy, good comms, many thanks!

Just checked, that works, @therealting that'll take the length down to 39 inches.

I bought this lovely padded strap to see me through a period of shoulder pain. it's adjustable from 43 to 48 inches from hole to hole. Very little signs of use apart from a dent and cut in the leather after removing  dunlop straploks. you can see this in the photos. I can put these back on before I send for an extra tenner.

Biggest earner of the year cancelled, as most things are in Wales. A big shame, but probably for the best. The venue's a hotel on the edge of talyllyn lake, fireworks over the water at midnight. Lovely.  I hate nye. Gigs make it so much better. Suspect I'll see it in with jools H but have just got a pod go which is taking up more of my brain power than i expected. Hey ho believe me I'm very grateful to be in a warm covid free house this winter!

just traded pedals with Ben. lovely guy to deal with. many thanks!

pm'd

So so cheap. Can't understand how it's been for sale for so long

My pickups from Paul had arrived but it was a bad day and I missed them, totally my bad but Paul was a true understanding gent. Many thanks for making a life a little bit better today Paul.

I haven't heard back from pow-22 yet. Must be out of contact.

Pm coming

Just bought a GK legacy from James. He couldn't have been more helpful and had some good band chat in the process. Many thanks James!

Pm on its way!

Just bought a cab off Andy. Very easy purchase. Many thanks

Jo

Just bought a neck from Martyn. All went swimmingly. Many thanks

Jo

Pm'd

Just bought a barefaced cab from John. We met an hour's drive from his home and had a great car park chat before going our separate ways. A great pleasure! Many thanks. 

Jo

5 hours ago, fretmeister said:

Sounds like you need more basses so you have some in your PC room as well.

Next to my PC I have 1 bass in C standard and one in E Standard...

and the same in the lounge!

Don't temp me! 

5 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Have you got some good PC speakers or proper monitors?

If so you could use a plugin that mimics the sound you want and not deal with a notched volume control (they are horrible things!).

I never use my main amp to record with, I've got a bunch of plugins and an interface for that. Very easy to use and more controllable than a real amp too.

Yes I've got all the pc plus monitors etc and they're not bad, though happen to be in the wrong room from my basses and not much I can do about that. I should start using the pc more, it mainly gets used for learning new band material, haven't done much of that lately! 

2 hours ago, fretmeister said:

I practice at home with either an 800W Markbass head or a 900W Darkglass head into a Barefaced Super Twin.

I have no difficulty getting the volume set so low that the natural acoustic sounds of the bass are louder than the amp.

I really don't understand why you are having trouble. What am I missing?

Nothing really, my dark glass is fine, my rm800 has a notched volume knob, one notch up from zero is too loud unless I turn the input gain right down. 

My main gigging amp is gk fusion 500. Same sort of problem, I can only crack open the master vol and turning the input gain right down limits the amount of valve drive I can get. I really am not trying to make a huge point. I managed ok before, but it's a bit easier now. It just an idea that's simple and quick to do if anyone had the same issue. 

40 minutes ago, agedhorse said:

A 56k resistor is series will work ok with some amps and not with other amps depending on the topology of the loop. I was just pointing g out a more correct solution for those who care about such things.

Quite agree,  it worked on the 4 different makes of amp I tried. 

Tc electronic

Gk

Ashdown

Darkglass

I guess the send output impedance is always going to be quite low. So not a problem but it'll fall down with a hiZ on the return. 

4 hours ago, ahpook said:

A quick fix that works for you with the materials you had to hand ?

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Yes indeed! 

58 minutes ago, agedhorse said:

Neither, those topologies are used for impedance matched networks. All you need is a simple voltage divider.

I quite agree, a voltage divider is the right thing to do, but I just happened across a 56k  resistor and thought I'd give it a try and it worked well for me, only took 5 mins to make and it's easier fitting one resistor in a jack plug rather than 2. I'm not trying to convert anyone, just thought I'd pass it on in case it strikes a chord with anyone. 

I like practising at home with the same amp I'm going to gig with, one day! The trouble has always been everything is too loud, even if I crack open the master volume just a fraction. So I made up a short jack lead with a 56k resistor between the tips and plug it in between fx send and return. Yes I know the attention depends on input and output impedances but works fine on darkglass gk and ashdown amps.