Jo.gwillim

On 02/04/2016 at 18:48, Mudpup said:

Jo just bought an amp off me. Easy to deal with and a great bloke.

Cheers Jo

it was a GK fusion MB500! i'm still using it many many gigs later. tried lots of other amps, but keep on coming back to it. thanks Mudpup!

dear Pete, thanks for the east preamp. great price, great delivery, many thanks!

Jo

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I was being cheeky and offering less than the asking price for a preamp the deal didn't go through as he had a better offer but David treated me with consideration, and I came from our away pm's thinking what a nice guy. 

Best wishes

Just got some nice strings from Trevor. Everything was perfect! Many thanks. 

On 25/10/2020 at 20:27, songofthewind said:

I remember seeing The Nice, with Lee Jackson playing one of the original versions of these. I was totally obsessed with it. I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. GLWTS.

First gig I went to was the nice at Bournemouth winter gardens. He had such a distinctive sound. They did about 6 encores whilst my dad waited in the car...

Shipbuilding still makes me cry, after all these years..... early Elvis Costello lyrics are just so clever and poignant.

It's just a rumor that was spread around town
A telegram for a picture postcard
Within weeks they'll be reopening the shipyard
And notifying the next of kin
Once again.

Bargain! 

I've got one just the same, it's done tons of gigs, haven't wanted to swap it for more than 5 years now lovely cab. Well worth the money. 

5 hours ago, Nicko said:

Following on from the New England lyric above, a few more corkers from the Bard of Barking

Sometimes when we're as close as this, It's like we are in a dream

How can you lie there and think of England, When you don't even know who's in the team

(Shirley)

In the end it took me a dictionary, to find out the meaning of unrequited

While she was giving herself for free, At a party to which I was never invited

(The Saturday Boy)

Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, Are here to make everything right that's wrong

Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too, Are here to make it all OK for you

(Levi Stubbs Tears)

I like

The boy done good

The girl done better

Seasons pass and we're still together. 

Mr Bragg is exceedingly good

28 minutes ago, StickyDBRmf said:

Ah there are so many gems. 

Hafta give the Captain some:

Standing there bubblin' like an open cola in the sun

Back is achin', work is never done

She's swingin' a sponge on the end of a string

Right on the brink 

She spills the ink

Down the sink. 

She's. Not. Bad. She's just genetically mean.

Don't you wish you never met her

Dirty. Blue. Gene.

Don Van Vliet

Her eyes are a blue million miles. 

Stepping out of the grey day she came 

Her hair falling like the sky

It's a pain isn't it? My only suggestion is fit the scratch plate with the pickups wired up but loose. Then you can align them before screwing them in. It's probably what you tried anyway! 

I just bought a second hand ash body that had been finished with gun stock oil, a bottle kindly came with. After heavily modding it to reduce the weight I used said oil, 2 coats was fine for me. Dried quickly. 

I'm pretty sure that's right. I'm not saying they're shorting but those Jack socket solder joints don't look as though they've been made by someone who solders very often... doesn't inspire confidence. Good luck! 

I'm surprised this is still up for sale. My lull PJ is a lovely bass. 

I'm quite relieved, I kept on looking at it longingly but knowing I didn't have the money! 

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10 hours ago, Muppet said:

I've got the M900 v2 and Mr Fretmeister is correct, the cab sims only output to headphone and DI. I did try with cabs too, just to make sure!

Well I feel the muppet now, you and mr fretmeister were of course quite right and I had been thinking "mmm that's subtle, but I'm sure there's a difference". I did take the DI out to another amp and onto my BF cabs, it did sound really good on one or two IR's, I guess because the cabs are so flat frequency response. Oh well One less button to worry about!  Thx guys

38 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

The cab sims on the Darkglass head only work on the DI and Headphone outs.

Not on the speaker outputs.

That's thrown me, I could have sworn i could hear the difference. The power of auto suggestion, I shall report back after further investigation! 

for gigs I use a bf super compact with a bf midget. Really easy to carry individually and they stack well. I can fill a small hall with a gk mb200, at a push. Gk mb500 fusion is more than enough for any gig I've done. The midget on its own keeps up with a loud drum kit so fine for rehearsals and really easy to carry. 

The only drawback gigging I've found is I can mess with the eq for quite some time until I get a nice fenderesque thump. I've just got a darkglass head with cab sim built in, you can turn it off if you want clean,  it seems to go well with the bf cabs but no gigs yet, so only tried it in my living room so far. 

Having read the thread I really don't rate trying cabs/amps out in shops. They never sound the same when there's no band. I buy second hand, and if I don't get on with it sell it on. I might loose a bit of cash, but nothing like as much as buying new, and it's a lot less nerve racking. 

Oh, the other thing about bf cabs is they do need breaking in, they sound much better after a few hours of hard playing. I don't know if that's true for all cabs. Good luck! 

I've just bought a lovely Darkglass Amp from Jonny in really good condition, the amp that is, dont know about Jon. He was very flexible and accommodating over my delivery preferences .  A really nice guy and easy purchase. Many thanks 

I had my first big drive out of Wales since lockdown to buy a crackin bass off Mark. Great to talk "bass" with someone, your wife did manage to be interested for teh first 20 mins. you've a top woman there!

I'm not a pick player, looks like I'll have to try. Really looking forward to it! X

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