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  1. Owen
    [quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1378245567' post='2197771'] Good evening, Owen... I've posted a link to here on the Hofner forum which I frequent... [url="http://hofnerhounds.myfineforum.org/about651.html"]http://hofnerhounds....g/about651.html[/url] ...I hope this meets with your approval (if not I'll retract, of course...). Good luck with the sale; it's almost a shame I have my Verithin bass, or I'd be after her..! She looks great. [/quote] You are a gentleman. Thank you.
  2. Owen
    Price drop bump £400 + carriage.
  3. Owen
    I have a Korean MTD which I love to play acoustically but I have never been happy with the tone (and believe me I tried so many different options) I had Aaron Armstrong wind me a P5 pickup and now I could not be happier. I would love it to look like a P as well but other than that I cannot fault it. Any 5er you like with a P5 in a pickup shape you can drop in will do the job. Sadly I now have a redundant second pickup rout as well as two spare control holes in my MTD. You live and learn. Eventually.
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    [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/IMAG0405_zps865d129c.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/IMAG0405_zps865d129c.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/IMAG0406_zpsfa96ab62.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/IMAG0406_zpsfa96ab62.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/IMAG0407_zps8d764694.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/IMAG0407_zps8d764694.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/IMAG0417_zpse8335102.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/IMAG0417_zpse8335102.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The electrics still need to be sorted, but it is a thing of beauty and plays superbly.
  5. Owen
    No, they are bog standard Hipshot ones.
  6. Owen
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151840192801031&set=pcb.623865367646339&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
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    BC on phone

    Owen replied to Owen's topic in Site News

    The thread which keeps on giving.
  8. Owen
    Wired my EMG for 18V instead of 9V. I was convinced that it would change my world.. Sadly there was no obvious difference apart from the rubbish rout at the back.
  9. Owen
    I have an irrational desire to buy this, string it up with a low F sharp and fret it. Just as well I am broke!
  10. Owen
    Have been thinking overnight and need to shift this so am having a price drop bump.
  11. Owen
    On further reflection, the EQ on the Monique is not the scalpel like tone control of modern amps, it is more like a broad brush which brings the goodness without trying too hard. Maybe I like it because I cannot seem to mess it up?
  12. Owen
    Hey Pete, my other cab is an ACME as well! I have not massively noticed that the bass knob/boom issue - my guess is that the DSP of the IP has covered that. I will try and see to it next time i fire it up in anger. Sorry to be less than helpful.
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    Bump
  14. Owen
    [quote name='funkle' timestamp='1376511535' post='2175344'] Owen, have you tried the Monique with your IP310? If you have, what was it like? [/quote] I have. It is lush beyond. I am rubbish at explaining sound to cannot give you any of the usual patter about it sounding like [i]this [/i]or [i]that. [/i]It sounds great and it makes me happy. Is it the pre-amp for life? Who knows. Is it the pre-amp for now? Yes. Just in case anyone missed my disclaimer earlier in the thread, the tech issue I was having was NOT due to the Monique after all.
  15. Owen
    [quote name='skej21' timestamp='1375361871' post='2160261'] So why not buy an actual bass? The U-Bass doesn't sound like a bass, or a uke. It's a 'no mans land' type instrument. Just like the Banjalele and the guitalele. Gimmicky nonsense IMO. [/quote] It does not sound like a uke. It is tuned the same as a standard 4 string bass, so how it could sound like anything but a bass is beyond me. A Jazz does not sound like a Precision does not sound like an Alembic does not sound like a Rickenbacker does not sound like a Turner Renaiassance does not sound like a Hofner does not sound like a Status does not sound like a Kala Ubass. But they all sound like a bass.
  16. Owen
    I have one. Useless for acoustic playing. But everything else is unless it is a DB. It needs a decent buffer preamp. But it sounds superb. It has the the low mid air shifting DB thud. Tuning issues higher up? Yes. Low tension strings? Yes, but I really like that. The world is broad and full of different opinions and that is what makes it great, but I do not consider it to be a toy in any shape or form.
  17. Owen

    jgkld

    Owen replied to Stejohn's topic in Basses For Sale

    People, this is a fake. Unless it has the capital H it is one of the copies made in Cumbria. Caveat emptor.
  18. Owen
    [quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1373981522' post='2143793'] It's a slightly different mode Owen but it i do like your Hofner. Stop tempting me. [/quote] Mr Router and I could whip it into shape pretty quickly if you give me the nod!
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    [quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1373928109' post='2143406'] Very nice. [/quote] You could have an original for less http://basschat.co.uk/topic/211980-hofner-5003-1963/ However, I would go for a Kala Ubass.
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    Bump
  21. Owen
    I have subbed just so that I can find out. Tragic I am.
  22. Owen
    [quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1373388625' post='2137024'] I tried one of these last year, I really liked the sound but the neck joint looked like it was going and the guy wanted 900 for it. This looks a much better prospect. :-) [/quote] Obv, I am open to haggling upwards
  23. Owen
    Body Thickness 2" Upper bout 12" Lower bought 16" length top to tail 46" ish Fully hollow In Bangor, North Wales. Sorry, not the best photo but my phone battery is low. I can get better ones tomorrow. [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/IMAG0231_zpsd97f70be.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/IMAG0231_zpsd97f70be.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
  24. Owen
    [quote name='CBR75' timestamp='1373393241' post='2137093'] I'm the luckiest guy in the world tonight ! Thanks Eddie ! [/quote] <phew!>
  25. Owen
    [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Hofner%20vintage%20instruments/Hofner%20Senator%201963%20SOLD/Senator1963Front1.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Hofner%20vintage%20instruments/Hofner%20Senator%201963%20SOLD/Senator1963Quarter1.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Hofner%20vintage%20instruments/Hofner%20Senator%201963%20SOLD/Senator1963Rear1.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Hofner%20vintage%20instruments/Hofner%20Senator%201963%20SOLD/Senator1963Blemish1.jpg.html"][/url] Step back 45 years to the sort of bass your dad (or maybe your grandad) learned to play on. That glorious tobacco sunburst finish is a true picture, it really is that rich. The bass is all original, and has picked up a couple of marks along the way. There's a none-too-obvious blemish on the front and a repaired hole on the back. The neck was re-set in 2007 by the top Hofner man in London (Andy Gibson, who does all of Music Ground's and Macari's Hofners). She's strung with period-correct flats and high-ish action. Sound? Woody. No, very woody. No really, I mean [i]seriously[/i] woody. Can easily deliver a truly superb, dark dub sound but switch in an instant to a classic Beatles tone. This case has more mojo than Muddy Waters. This case looks like it stepped out to the corner shop in 1969 for a packet of Rothmans and came back 30 years later after touring the States and Japan. This cased is [b][i]relic'd[/i][/b], OK.
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