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For that money you could get one of those lovely Ritter guitars. I think the design is interesting, and the purple one looks like velour.

Another thing to consider is, with a black covered bass, it might not have the prettiest wood underneath! I imagine they'd save that for the clear and sunburst ones. Could be a bit of a lottery.

[url="http://www.mother-of-tone.com/lacquer.htm"]http://www.mother-of-tone.com/lacquer.htm[/url] This might be an interesting read. This guy has a philosophy which some might consider "out there" but he is obsessed with removing the obstacles to good tone in his ultra-fi products, and there is this bit on lacquer on guitars.

Very glad to help! Did it work out ok? I had one of my mum's hifi speakers done by them, super job!

Thanks for the input chaps, I actually pulled the trigger Monday, delivered to work today. Watch out for the "for sale" section soon!

The last gig I did, one of the other band's bassist said to me "I didn't know what the situation with gear was, so I didn't bring mine" I did laugh out loud at that, but did let him use my stuff as our drummer also plays for them.

I think the user is Gadge. Always been helpful to me.

The chap who runs the Eggle forum is a user on here. I'm sure he will be along to help shortly...

Thanks for the input chaps. Any more comments, pos or neg, before I get one of these? Cheers

Try linking the send return sockets with a known working lead. If these are rarely or never used they can get tarnished and mute the signal.

It's clearly not fubar then, good news! It will probably be a dry joint somewhere or a slightly iffy socket. Any decent tech would be able to go over it and make it good as new.

Hi all. I'm looking to solicit opinion from Ditto users as to whether it is something you have kept on using, or an interesting novelty that gets put aside once the, err, novelty, has worn off. I know people would all have different uses for it, just trying to get a cross section of opinion. Cheers Jules

You can use a credit card as a fret rocker on that D string 13 fret and see if it is high relative to the frets either side. You could also use it to pay a luthier to look at it for you...

Neat work, nice. One thing though - aren't the power and output transformers usually oriented at right angles to each other?

I'm just curious what you think this bass will give you that a standard Fender P bass won't. I'm sure it will be nice though...

4.5k is quite weedy for a single coil. Any cheap Strat pickup from your parts bin would probably do better than that.

I think some or all of the 8 Miles High solo is reversed anyway, so trying to "play" it right is a fruitless task. I love it for its chaotic sound and feel and have done the same on some of my recordings, with results I really like. I think the Hi Ho solo is probably the laziest effort I can recall on a single, from a supposed guitar legend, worra load of crap.

I don't think they would plane the board off, probably apply heat and separate the glue sticking the board on.

I only know his playing from Survivors Suite by Keith Jarret, very nice and pretty understated. Cool player. RIP

Wembley Loudspeakers can do pretty much anything with speakers. Might be more economic to consider a different speaker, there might not be much in it, cost-wise! But if you gots to have the Burman....

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1404071077' post='2489035'] Yes! [/quote] Glad it's not just me then!

Clem's great, but he reminds me of the drummer at the wrong gig bloke....

Royal Blood were good too, nice to see someone can sing in tune without in-ear-monitors. BBC were better than I was expecting too.

Plant was Pretty good, and I really didn't think Blondie were too bad at all. One or two tunes were a bit off (but who isn't at Glasto?) but there was one song that I thought was actually a better interpretation than the original. I don't know what some of you were expecting, I watched it on catch-up expecting some kind of car crash, but it totally wasn't. Loved Stein's XOX guitar too.

I had to do the same thing with a Sperzel tuner, used the pin as a marker. Worked out ok, but as it was the 1 on a 3+1 head it didn't have any other keys to line up with. Don't forget to put a depth stop on the drill if you do do it though!