lemmywinks

I have an MXR M80 which functions as a volume boost, overdrive and a DI box all in one. Even though recently we haven't been putting the bass through the PA it's still there if I need it.

Winner!

What does it sound like out front, a lot of the time you can have what you think is a bad sound but people in the audience will tell you it really kicks! I've heard recordings of our gigs and I sound tons better than I think I do even with no PA support. Maybe some decent compression is in order, might help with getting that nice tight sound. Also maybe a Thumpinator to tame the excess boomy lows. If you're gigging on hollow stages with no carpet some sort of isolation platform might help too.

To be fair he has some ace Saturn games for sale, you'd think someone with the good sense to buy Space Harrier and Afterburner on the same disc would make better decisions when it comes to bass modding,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-Relicd-P-Bass-Guitar-/121296197541?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c3dd117a5 Totally realistic, can't decide whether the seller thinks musicians routinely put cigarettes out on their scratchplates or he simply ran out of toilet paper. Either way, the results are both harrowing and entertaining. Also can't figure out why he painted the back of the headstock but left the neck, maybe there wasn't any more Dulux Marine Splash emulsion in his mum's garage?

I like it too, I desperately want that through-neck Integra though.

[quote name='Lee-Man' timestamp='1395224203' post='2399835'] I brought one for £30 on Friday. Arse. [/quote] I hate it when that happens!

I have just been looking at that and wondering if it was MIJ or Korean. The old Integras had that headstock but they also brought it back for some early 90s ones, not sure if they've used it again more recently. Some late 80s Integras had the chubby headstock (Billy Gould style) then they went for the slimmed down stubby version for the 90s Korean and modern Chinese ones. The top horn also got a bit longer and sleeker over the years too. I'd be up for bidding on an 80s MIJ Integra but I struggle keeping track of what to look for, they all seem to have different features! Aria seemingly also produced some oddballs and tiny production runs, check out the blogspot for a really rare natural through neck Korean Integra: [url="http://ariabasses.blogspot.co.uk/"]http://ariabasses.blogspot.co.uk/[/url]

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/70kg-folding-trolley-n48jq?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=14P3_W4_D4&utm_content=Product-7&utm_campaign=14P4-1 Saw this offer this morning and thougtht some people might be interested. Mapling are doing a £10 discount plus free delivery on their 70kg load sack truck, folds down to a compact size, has an extendable handle and includes free bungee cords! Have no idea what it's like, gotta be worth a shot at that price though.

Is that an OLP? Headstock looks weird.

I was going to have a sneaky bid on this as it's local to me and cropped up in my "basses, nearest first" search, so personally I'm a bit miffed it was flagged here at all. Bunch of b@st@rds! Will probably go for the right money though, high early bidding for a Squier even before it went on here.

Keep the head, get a lighter (and better) cab.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1395125948' post='2398877'] His/her listings say that if anyone doesn't follow all those directions then ebay will automatically open an unpaid item dispute on his/her behalf I'm sure that ebay doesn't 'automatically' open unpaid item disputes. And he/she would have no defence against a buyer who them pays by paypal, even if the T/C state cash only. [/quote] I'm pretty sure that you have to offer Paypal as a payment option, the guy is nuts. EBay would piss themselves laughing if there was any dispute, his red font ramblings mean absolutely nothing. If ever there were an eBay member that needed trolling it's this guy.

MIJ Aria here for £70: [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/aria-pro-ii-bass-guitar/1052941623#photo-content"]http://www.gumtree.c...3#photo-content[/url] A Cardinal or something? Not clued up on these, obviously the paint job and the chopped off headstock devalue it but still cheap for parts or restoration.

I bought one of the cheap touch up kits (you can get them in Poundland) which consists of a some wedge marker pens and wax sticks in various shades of brown to black. I used it to cover multiple scuffs in an old Aria (open grain stained black) but I guess it would work for making screw holes less obvious too. With some careful blending with my finger it turned my bass from a beaten up old workhorse into a nice almost new looking instrument in about 15 minutes, definitely worth a look.

Hey look they do a Musicman one too!

Definitely a fretted model. I suppose you could always pull the frets out with one of these: Personally I think it's cheap tat but each to their own!

It's a Mazeti, cheapo eBay bass from a few years back. Decent enough by all accounts though. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mazeti-6-String-Active-Thru-Neck-Maple-And-Walnut-Bass-/130929635412?nma=true&si=kvUqnsZJST70a1NLtzVJ3omciXs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

They were about £120 new IIRC.

If it's a standard jack you can bend the pins, if it's a barrell jack you have to replace it.

Been doing the same thing, my tech guy is fitting a buffer preamp to a piezo bridge to blend with passive mag pickups. Interesting that you say it's not worth blending them, I'm having 3 seperate volume controls on mine, may be a better idea to just have a switch and a tone control. I had seen the East piezo preamp and it looks tidy, will maybe think about getting one when I have the bass and have a better idea about whether I should change anything.

It's just personal preference, I gig cheapys nowadays and they're actually very nice basses with nice pickups and comfortable necks. I really dislike bass snobbery and the whole "not good enough for me" ethos you get, especially for covers/function band players because obviously we all [i]need[/i] a new custom bass to play Good Times right? Up until last week (when I played a Hofner violin bass - horrible!) it had been years since I picked up a bass I couldn't happily gig, kids are lucky these days for sure.

Could I ask what sort of connectors you use? Provided it isn't a secret of course!

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1394563415' post='2392800'] So... you need to solder on a solderless connection to avoid the need to learn how to solder. [/quote] You know what I mean! I thought the OP just wanted less hassle when wiring pickups in, dunno if he can solder or not.I've thought of the standard screw terminals before but they're pretty big and control cavities can be pretty tight. Don't know if you can get small terminals with screw connections at both ends, would be handy.

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1394553586' post='2392601'] Just to be clear, my comments refer to non touchscreen use, and Windows 8 with a keyboard and mouse is hopeless IMHO. It is for tablets and touchscreens, which if you actually work on a machine (spreadsheets, word processing, email etc) rather than just surf the net, a touchscreen is as much use as a hog roast at a bar mitzvah. Windows 8 is a hog roast. [/quote] I'll post again and hope you actually take a look this time: http://www.classicshell.net/ Windows 8 is pretty much Windows 7 with a tacked on touch interface, there's a full desktop there and the only thing missing is the Start menu. Install the above 5mb freeware program which takes less than a minute and you have full Windows 7 functionality. It's a full desktop OS which is very much like the last one, not quite sure where you're getting this tablet OS stuff from as the tablet version is different, it only runs the metro apps and is designed to compete against Apple and Android tablets. Maybe you got confused between the two?