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  1. Owen
    That is a fine looking instrument.
  2. Owen
    Chevin A500 can be bridged to do 700w @ 8ohms.
  3. Owen
    I am all for beautiful American big name pickups - I have a set of Fralins which are sublime. But I suspect that any of the myriad UK winders could do something which would be easily as good for significantly less. It is just wire and magnets. https://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/ pickups always deliver for me. He listens to what I need and there it is.
  4. Owen
    Nothing in the g&l cheap as chips category on ebay. But then I could get an L1000-alike pickup and whack it in to the NEWPORT. It could go between the two present pickups. The bridge one is not for me anyway. But I would have to have some sort of chrome covers. I suspect I need to get out more.
  5. Owen
    I must admit, the notes up the G maintaining a big fat thud is interesting. That is not my experience with longer scale basses. But this could be the Tru Bass strings I have on it. Thumpalicious. Who knew there were different flavours of fun? I could quite happily try one of the Fallouts with their big fat L1000 pickups. I shall wander over the ebay.
  6. Owen
    Shhhhh, he is asleep.
  7. Owen
    I used to have a Peli alike case for mine. I almost liked the case more than the bass! Those wheels.
  8. Owen
    I have no doubt at all that a Serek or a Wilcock would be sublime. But having a tragic history of expensive = better, the joy of the NEWPORT is that it was as cheap as chips. It is entirely functional, the finish is exemplary and the neck pickup solo'd just delivers. All for £230 on ebay. The seller had put a deeply weird custom pickguard on it which looks like something I would have designed when I was 8. That is not a compliment. But this does not matter becaue it was cheap as chips.
  9. Owen
    That is because you are correct and I am slapdash. OK, I have been sucked in to this world. I bought an Epiphone NEWPORT with Roto Tru Bass strings on it. SUCH FUN!!!!!!! I need a 5 string though. I just want a NEWPORT with a wider neck. And I do not want to slide in to Wilcock territory. I am sure they are very fine indeed and I do not begrudge them their price tag. But the NEWPORT is doing it for me as it is. I like the aesthetic. I am on to a complete non starter here, no? I looked at the Ibanez Talman. I am not digging the visuals like the NEWPORT. As if to prove it, here is a Wilcock which would do all I wanted. https://thebassgallery.com/collections/all/products/wilcock-mullarkey-v. But.......................................
  10. Owen
    OK, I have been sucked in to this world. I bought an Epiphone Embassy with Roto Tru Bass strings on it. SUCH FUN!!!!!!! I need a 5 string though. I just want an Embassy with a wider neck. And I do not want to slide in to Wilcock territory. I am sure they are very fine indeed. But the Embassy is doing it for me as it is. I like the aesthetic. I am on to a complete non starter here, no? I looked at the Ibanez Talman. I am not digging the visuals like the Embassy.
  11. Owen
    Yeah. You've changed.
  12. Owen
    Triple post
  13. Owen
    Double post
  14. Owen
    I cannot be the only person who was wondering. https://jp.mercari.com/item/m49617180061?srsltid=AfmBOopwopOvwLm9ct3NXxD1-0kez0V9BMlyuIv7nFNnArr-3_c9rEAr
  15. Owen
    I am fighting it, and getting slightly stronger. Slightly.
  16. Owen
    A grown up is someone who is older than me. Worryingly, I am now older than people who I considered to be grown ups back in the day. It is TOTALLY a mini Lowden. Virtually indistinguishable. Perhaps.
  17. Owen
    My daughter has decided that she needs a bigger guitar. She has been using this one for nigh on 8 years and it has done sterling service. We did not buy it new, so I am not entirely sure of specs, but the internet is strongly suggesting the following - and I have no reason not to believe it Solid Engelmann Spruce Top Solid Rosewood Back Solid Flamed Maple Binding 5mm Abalone with Fibre Border Rosette Mahogany Neck Grover Rotomatic Gold Machineheads 2 Way Truss Rod Shadow Performer Tuner Preamp / Shadow Nanoflex Pickup Hardcase Included. The present model goes for a grand-ish. But it has a little cutaway for the widdlers in our midst. OK, ok, for the people who like different chord voicings. It is a lovely guitar, but she is not about to start a guitar collection (who would do such a thing?). So it is one in, one out. Especially as I will be fully involved in augmenting the purchase price of the next one. I think the asking price is fair and I will not be motivated to bring it down. There are one or two dings photgraphed with flash for clarity. They are not that obvious away from the flash. These are reflected in my valuation. Any cheaper and I will keep it myself. To add to my collection. Don't judge me. Let us split insured shipping costs like grown ups.
  18. Owen
    Mutter...mutter.... 5 string... mutter.
  19. Owen
    Ooooh! Oooooh! I love a good case. And if I could think of anything I have that would go into this....... Sadly, I am fully cased up.
  20. Owen
    I picked one of these up once. I actually laughed out loud it was so light. And it seriously delivered.
  21. Owen
    From memory, any Demeter is going to be cleaner than you are looking for.
  22. Owen
    I have a Fender TBP1 and very nice it is. It gets (for me) a bit hairy around the edges in a good way. Crunchy distortion is not my bag so I have not spent time on that aspect of it. I could, and record some examples if you want.
  23. Owen
    Maximum fret-age.
  24. Owen
    Everything is easy for Andy. The rest of us, not so much.
  25. Owen

    Monitors

    Owen replied to Owen's topic in Recording

    Well, that was an interesting journey. Thank you all who walked with me. As is the BC way, I got sucked into a vortex and managed to borrow 3 sets of monitors, topping out at a £2.6K pair. Once everything was Sonorworks'd it seems that my old HiFi B&W boxes are (for my purposes), just fine and dandy. Were the £2.6K boxes nicer? Yes, of course they were. Significantly better in a way that changed everything from black and white into colour? No. So there we have it.
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