lemmywinks

The Boss SYB3 has a couple of decent envelope effects on it, not to mention a whole host of other stuff. I had the Dod FX25b and actually preferred the envelope sounds on the Boss. A bit more usable but a little less trebly, also i found a bit of signal loss on the Dod, only with my Warwick though

The Boss pedals change hands for around £50 i believe

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='545307' date='Jul 20 2009, 02:01 PM']To me a passive mode switch is for use when your battery is going flat. Otherwise I'd use the actives.[/quote]


I always thought that way too untl i got the Zoot. The Aero pickups in that sound immense in passive mode. Still better in active though

Aye that's the one!

They don't sell many guitars in there anyway. Once i asked if i could try a bass, i got the reply:

"Well, are you going to buy it?"


Cracking sales technique there!

Not this one is it?
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=54442"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=54442[/url]

Tried a very similar one to this (was natural with a lined body) and it was very good, although i don't think the shop knew what a setup meant
The £45 aria i've just bought off eBay is sweet as a nut too

I always preferred my Hartke heads to Ashdown, could always get more top end clarity from them.
Don't discount the HA3000 either, i owned that one for a while and it's excellent

Our old practice room was broken into a couple of years ago. We'd built the main room inside it, the door was made from the same stuff as the walls. They spent all the time trying to nick my mate's £400 motorbike (and failed), seemingly oblivious to the music room opposite them which contained all our gear

We were lucky, they only got away with a few cheap tools and some motorbike accessories. I shudder to think what would have happened if my Hartke stack and Warwick had gone

The same lot nicked thousands of pounds worth of kitchen worktops/equipment from another building in the area, drove a flatbed truck there to get it all on.

As Alan Partridge would say "Scum, sub-human scum!"

In fact i've got a spare one knocking around somewhere. If i can dig it out it's yours!

Effect power supplies and Diago make little converter cables, i had one on my Small Clone and it worked a treat. About £6 IIRC

Thanks for the strings Bernie!

See if this one's stil available:
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=52048&hl=eub"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=52048&hl=eub[/url]

Also Phlebas off here had a mate who was selling a Stagg one in black for £240, worth seeing if that's still available


I bought my Stagg after trying one out, sounded impressive straight away. I read that the Palatino/Harley Benton ones need money and time to get good results and i definitely didn't want to spend more than i had to. Got mine from Soundslive for £299 but i believe they have put their prices up

Pretty sure the £299 is the starting bid, no reserve. The guy wants to move it on

Mex Fender money for a luthier built bass, the build quality on my Zoot really is impeccable, this bass is a steal!

[quote name='sturm' post='543208' date='Jul 17 2009, 02:02 PM']why do i never find stuff like that?[/quote]


It had only been on a short while.

Save the following search:

Electric bass guitars, Buy it now, Newly listed

Keep having a look, most of the really cheap good stuff goes in the first hour

Works for anything really, got my missus a P3 ultraportable laptop with XP for £20 posted!
I also remember seeing a brand new Acer netbook for £50 BIN including postage when they first came out. Clicked the button and it had gone after 2 mins!

Are they ok with the Stagg? Says on the ad they're for a 4/4 bass. Assumed in my ignorance that there wouldn't be much difference

Quick update on this:

I messaged the seller to say it would go if he was willing to post. Seems like a decent guy, it's re-listed and ends today
He says he will post and the price is now down to £299 + £25 postage, absolute steal and someone off here should definitely buy it.

Then sell it to me when i have the money

Ta all
Steve

Think this was mentioned in the Bass Guitars section, a bit of information on it there
Looks tasty i think!

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='542575' date='Jul 16 2009, 08:22 PM']I was in Promenade Music in Morecambe again today and to be honest the guys in there couldn't be more helpful.

I do fully understand where you're coming from Pete and sympathise. Some young people have little respect for other people or their property, the minority but as has been said it colours everyone's perceptions.

Peter[/quote]


+1

I ordered from them a while ago, went out of their way for me and were a pleasure to deal with. Restored a little bit of my faith in music shops after a few bad experiences

I used to always try to buy stuff from local shops but now order most of my bass stuff online. I usually don't mind paying a bit more for it either, however i recently went into a local shop to try a Stagg EUB. Got quoted £450, they're £299 online

I use the gold and white GPs, my mate works our local electric shop (used to get a discount even before he worked there, nice blokes!) so i can get a box pretty cheap. I think they're £1.50 each usually, used to get a box of 10 for a tenner

I leave them in for about 6-7 months before i change them, had one die on me after i left it in for 9 months.


Think i've said before that buying a box of 9v batteries is false economy, guitarists circle round em like vultures and you end up losing half of them!

/\ /\ /\ /\ /\


+1,000,000!

Last thing i need!

Scored this little beauty off eBay for £45. Worked out at about £60 including postage, it's an Aria STB

Been looking for a cheap and nasty bass as back up as i hate having to look after 2 decent basses at a gig (2 stands, 2 hard cases etc.).
Took the white scratchplate off, put some used but still good strings on it, gave it a liberal clean and lemon oiled the fretboard and it's sweet! Thin frets and quite a loose feel mean it can pull off a convincing fretless impression. The bridge pickup is great, pinched harmonics are very loud and picked notes sound full

Thing is, i want to look after it and keep it nice now!

Aye it's quite well made, came the next day too!

What does a buffer pre involve, is it like a seperate fully fledged pre amp or something simpler? Again i'm pretty ignorant about this sort of thing!

Cheers for the replies guys!

The Piezo i bought was a whole bridge assembly. This one:
[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=140331641705"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=140331641705[/url]

I was originally going to fit it to my bitsa fretless. However i scored this on eBay last night:
[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280371811021"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=280371811021[/url]

So i'm thinking of putting the piezo bridge and fretless neck on that body. As it turns out i patched things up with an estranged friend at my last gig. Conveniently his dad is brilliant at this sort of thing, makes guitars and basses and is always up for trying out new ideas regarding electrics and construction, so i may have a decent guy to do the hard work for me

I think the active circuit in my other fretless looks like causing more problems than it's worth. Would i be able to get away with just maybe a volume pot for the piezo if it went in the passive jazz? Or would there be a big difference in output?

Is there anyway to sort of bypass the buffer preamp, to make things a bit simpler?

[quote name='tauzero' post='541355' date='Jul 15 2009, 03:07 PM']I'd rather like a Superfly with a knackered output to use as a pre-amp. [b]Anyone got one[/b]?[/quote]


Most Superfly owners by the sound of it!

Bargain price on this, should fly!

+1 for Sir Duke. It's now my favourite part of our set!

Also "Magnificent Seven" by The Clash
Jaco's "I Can Dig It Baby" (Little Beaver i think)

Just found this whilst looking for a project bass body

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fully-Loaded-SUNBURST-BASS-GUITAR-BODY_W0QQitemZ220451117694QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item3353e91a7e&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A15|66%3A2|39%3A1|293%3A2|294%3A50"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fully-Loaded-SUNBURS...93%3A2|294%3A50[/url]


£34 for the fully loaded body, postage included