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£40 is a very good price for a single channel Superfly, they're very good for home use. Ashdown really don't seem to want to support this amp, not surprising given it's manufacturing defects and poor construction. They didn't reply to me when mine needed a repair either yet were very responsive when i enquired about it with a view to buying one. Seems like it's something they want to forget about. If you ignore a problem it just goes away right?

[quote name='BottomE' post='1337984' date='Aug 12 2011, 06:11 PM']Thank goodness for that. Trying to keep costs down as already shelled out £15 on solder kit and extra £20 on helping hand and some decent wire cutters.[/quote] Aye but think of all the money you'll save, a soldering kit pays for itself really quickly. No more paying for a pickup swap, lead repair etc.

You can usually pick those "3rd hand" things in cheapy DIY shops, i have one as you definitely need 3 hands for soldering! I never got the hang of the desolder pump and use braided wick instead. Are there any drawbacks to using that? Everybody seems to use the pumps.

[quote name='GarethFlatlands' post='1336760' date='Aug 11 2011, 05:35 PM']Hard drive magents are very strong and pretty small. You can use 2 to remove those annoying red tabs in DVD cases if the shop forgets to take them off. That said, you would have to buy hard drives for this and each magnet would cost you £20 minimum....[/quote] Or just stick an ad on Freecycle for dead hard drives, i bet you could get a few from computer shops too.

[quote name='dan2112' post='1337222' date='Aug 12 2011, 05:16 AM']I'm really amazed at how low the resale value of Warwick's are.....very very well built instruments! Though their shapes can be a bit.... phallic? Anyone know why their resale value is so low? As others have said....I think £500 could get you a higher end Warwick that the streamer you have mentioned![/quote] Well the Streamer the OP was looking at was their cheaper model, hence all the missing features and Rockbass styling. They rightfully go for around £200 as they weren't that expensive new. Corvettes are an interesting one, the retail of the German Standard (now discontinued) was recently about £1k IIRC, whereas when i bought mine in 2002 the actual selling price was £600 for the Standard Active in Ash. Their used price of around £400 seems fair considering that. I guess there's just not that many people willing to pay the "correct" prices for the higher end Warwicks these days. I guess instead of selling them we should all just buy another while they're still cheap!

Streamer Standards like that go for around £200, don't pay more than that. They were the precursor to the Rockbass range, notice the similar shape (no contours), body wood, passive pup(s), front mounted jack, one piece bridge... Think of it as a Warwick neck on a Rockbass body. I had the single pickup version, nice necks but not one of the nicer low end Warwicks, my Corvette totally blew it away. Budget £400 and try to pick up a Fortress or Corvette. Keep an eye on eBay and you might get lucky with one of the higher end models too.

[quote name='bremen' post='1332744' date='Aug 8 2011, 08:59 PM']Someone's just 'won' it for 155. I thought I'd be able to contact them to warn them, but can't see how. Is there a way?[/quote] Bidders' identities are hidden. £155 (plus £20 p+p) for that? There is a CV Jazz on here for £160....

[quote name='bobbytodd' post='1324957' date='Aug 2 2011, 10:08 PM']to be honest i wouldnt dream of taking all my expensive gear (not that i own much expensive gear) to some of the dives we play.i mean we played at a pub in millom cumbria where a lot of our gear got damaged and i ended up minus a front tooth because of the local roid boys acting like arseholes.[/quote] Haha Millom! I know a few people from around there (well Haverigg actually) and from what i hear the nightlife does seem to have gone down the roid and coke route. We used to play around Carnforth and Lancaster for a bit and had a similar experiences in a few pubs there, basically a few idiots take over the pub and the landlord doesn't complain because they spend half their wage in there.

[quote name='Len_derby' post='1330839' date='Aug 7 2011, 12:18 PM']I reckon my Squier sounds better through my BF BigOne/LMIII than my MIA P Deluxe does through a Behringer2X10/Hartke set up I sometimes use. So, [b]in my experience[/b], you get a better overall sound by moving a greater proportion of your 'spend' over to the amp and cab. So, I think your plan is a good one.[/quote] Yeah i already have a Schroeder/LMII rig which sounds great whatever i put through it - i used our guitarist's girlfriend's pink 3/4 PBass copy (complete with Hello Kitty stickers) as a backup once or twice and that still sounded great! I just really want a Promethean combo or a Midget, or both! I have no real bass GAS these days but amp GAS is terrible!

[quote name='Len_derby' post='1330821' date='Aug 7 2011, 12:00 PM']To cross-refer to another thread, I think all the postings on this one answer the question why we don't see more boutique gear at gigs.[/quote] I used to use a boutique bass (2k new) and my cheapo Aria at gigs, never really thought of it as weird that two basses at opposite ends of the price spectrum both got equal use. If anything the Aria got more playing hours because i just leave it lying around the house. You have to keep those expensive basses in flightcases! Tbh i've thought about shifting all the expensive gear and just using my 3 cheapo Jazzes exclusively, i can get pretty much everything i want out of them and i have serious Promethean/BF Midget GAS!

I've gigged my Aria several times, it sounds the business! It was my backup bass in my covers band days but got plenty of outings, i really like it as an instrument, it has bags of character and tone. In fact i was playing it today through headphones and my cheapo Zoom pedal (daughter having a nap so i snuck a quick practice in), still sounded the nuts! Roll the neck pup off slightly and it's a killer. Cost me £45 off eBay.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1327813' date='Aug 4 2011, 09:19 PM']When he gets a bit older, he's going to wish he got good at playing the sort of music girls his age like.[/quote] Aye, he's going to be gutted when he does his first proper gig and instead of a front row full of young nubile women it's just a load of middle aged men in cardigans shouting "do 'Lessons in Love'"

Loads of people are happy with their rig and have had the same kit for years. The reason they seem rare is that they don't post new threads every other week updating everyone with news of their shiny new toys and telling us how much better it was than the last one they had! It's be pretty boring if there were loads of threads with the title "Still got the same amp, nothing new here" or "Looked at a Genz yesterday, didn't buy it". I am however eternally grateful that this site has a FS section with lots of cool new kit at knockdown prices, something that is largely due to the fickle desires of gear whores! If i ever feel like a different amp/cab this site is the first place i come to.

Might be an idea to get a cheap tone shaping pedal if the amp is otherwise adequate. I have a cheap Zoom multi FX which i use at home and one of the settings gives a great RATM sound. I also like the Hartke Kickback and A series combos in terms of VFM

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='1319072' date='Jul 28 2011, 10:18 AM']It should do the job if you don't max your volume knob.[/quote] Agreed, i really like the old Peavey gear. Don't think i've ever got a bad sound out of a Peavey rig, they always do the business. I would add that a single 2x10 (especially a budget one) is unlikely to cope with lots of power, as long as you're expectations of it are realistic. If you have a loud drummer and/or insufficient monitors then buy two!

Peavey, Ashdown, Hartke etc. all go pretty cheap, around £100 or less sometimes. The Hartke 2.5XL and the Pro 2100 are worth keeping an eye out for if they're going for a good price, that's what i'd be after, particularly the Pro.

One for the Tobias fanciers among us, nice early example in decent nick: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EARLY-82-TOBIAS-CLASSIC-5-STRING-W-HISTORY-AND-PICS-/110719916254?pt=Guitar&hash=item19c76bd8de"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EARLY-82-TOBIAS-...=item19c76bd8de[/url] If anyone has the money spare and would like to purchase it for me then that'd be sweet!

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1316958' date='Jul 26 2011, 01:07 PM']If it were mine I'd do this..... Horses for courses though eh. [/quote] Fair point, if the OP has the skills and tools (also time and inclination!) to do that to a Harley Benton that's probably the best option. Looks like a fir bit of work though. There's a nice looking Vintage acoustic with hard case for sale in the FS section for £90 though, so you have to wonder if it's worth it or not? After all, the end result would still be a low end instrument with hardly any resale value

If it was mine i would strip it, get as much money back as possible and buy new. Unless you have the skills to repair it (and a workshop) then it's just not gonna be worth it.

[quote name='topo morto' post='1315617' date='Jul 25 2011, 12:29 PM']I said it before but I find it weird that people have issues with this! My main squeeze is a pitchblack plus but I just as often use whatever plastic pocket tuner is lying around, or the one built in to an fx unit... never any problems. Haven't tried clip-ons. I wonder if the bass makes a big difference? Mine are really cheap, maybe that helps somehow... At the end of the day a tuner that can't handle E or B isn't a bass tuner.[/quote] Massive +1 I have a Korg DT10 and used to own a Sabine NexFX pedal tuner, both handled an E, D and B no problem. Even the Danelectro tuner i briefly had (emergency buy when my Sabine was nicked) was problem free for a low E. The only problems i've had are with cheapo clip-on tuners. FWIW i think the Korg DT10 beats the Boss pedal hands down. Not tried the Pitchblack but loads of folk on here use them every week with no problems. One last thng - with some tuners it takes a bit of time to get used to how sensitive they are. My old Sabine seemed a bit jumpy at first and left me a bit miffed as it took longer than expected to get in tune. After a bit of time with it however i got used to the way it worked and it was a breeze to use along with being very accurate. Maybe that's something that shouyld be factored in?

"Luthier's special" He sure is!

Why are there no drummers like that where i live?