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  1. MoonBassAlpha
    Fantastic!
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    These were given to me by a friend who had them all over his house and cinema room. These were going to be thrown away due to speaker cone foam rot. I've repaired quite a few sets of speakers like this with excellent results, in fact my main front tv speakers are a pair of these I did several years ago and still going strong. So these have brand new foams of a formulation which should not rot like the old ones inevitably do. So, there is a matching pair, with original box, in pretty good condition cosmetically £40 These would be useful in a studio as secondary reference monitors in much the same way one would use the Auratone/Avantone mixcube monitors. Collection preferred from Didcot in Oxfordshire. Could be shipped at cost. Box weighs 11.5lbs
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    Cool, good info.
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    These are great basses, probably the most comfortable shape I've ever played. Had 3 at one point. 2 defretted ones, worked great as a fretless. Always used them passive, the Select Jazz pickups were good and pretty low hum but the passive humbucker ones sounded immense! Nice light weight too.
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    Hi @Mogens, welcome to the forum! The values you measured for the pickups are rather high, should be in the range of 2500 to 15000 ohms, measured when disconnected from the rest of the circuit.
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    It may not be the case here, but I've come across an odd case like this on a guitar that hadn't been used plugged in for a long time. Assuming it would be the contact to the tip of the jack, it wasn't, it was the connection to the ground of the plug, the barrel of the jack. I had to attack the bore of the socket with very fine emery paper wrapped round a screwdriver, then cleaned up with contact cleaner. Eventually the signal went from almost non-existent, to scratchy, to pristine again!
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    @WAYNESWORLDI'm sure there have been threads about suitable replacement tweeters for the Markbass ones that are actually a lot better sounding. I'm sure a search will turn it up.
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    Horrible thing to have happen to you, I do hope it was insured, but it's not the same as actually having a Bean. I've always had a big thing for those guitars and basses.
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    It's amazing I ever get an entry done (procrastination), and most of this one was an hour and a half leading up to the midnight deadline! (Got my deadline day mixed up). Feel free to say "it sounds like it", and I'd be the first to agree.
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    Good turnout! Maybe they've all been like this recently, I've ducked out recently, not been finding the pictures particularly inspiring, which is a big thing for me.
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    Just about made it! Last minute, as usual. It's a spring-like, yearning, germinating thing. Or something! ymmv! I found a guitar sound that sounds to me like it is straining and yearning to get out of the cold ground into the light. There's burbling nutrients in the soil too... Drums recorded into reaper, the rest done on my Zoom R24 and quickly finished therein, currently typing within an hour of the entry deadline (as usual) Featuring my new Aluminium Tama SLP snare, Gordon-Smith 12string, Godin Solidac and U.S. Masters fretless bass
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    Nice job!
  13. MoonBassAlpha
    These are lovely sounding amps, I sold mine as I didn't have room , such a sad loss 😞
  14. MoonBassAlpha
    Were these from one of the Basschat cab projects?
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    Did you try the Renown snares? I'd really like one to match
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    Although it's a bluey-grey ripple wrap, in natural daylight it looks quite green! I think there is some lacquer (nitro?) that has just yellowed over the last 55 years! I won't miss the worn out hexagonal Tom arm though!
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    I had a sad day over the Christmas break- took my 60s UK Rogers kit back to the friend who sold it to me 20 odd years ago. I replaced it with a small Gretsch Renown, but have kept hold of the snare until I can afford to replace it, the Renown drums do sound great, but the snares don't seem to crop up 2nd hand... 😞
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    And even that looks better than a Rick! I find their white plastic scratchplate ghastly.
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    I think the Bean was on Live Aid iirc
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    I'd be disappointed if a brand new bass needed a fret dress, are you sure it just doesn't need a truss rod tweak? Having said that, my almost new new Mustang had a couple of frets that needed slight attention too.
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    Just listened to a track off that- fierce playing from Holdsworth, I feel the bass can get overlooked on a lot of his stuff
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    Unorthodox Behaviour by Brand X, especially the first track Thermonuclear Burn. I must have heard it shortly after it came out, and I'd never heard anything like it before. I still enjoy it. Percy Jones had his own style, both notes and sounds.
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    This should get copied into the small-bodied basses thread. I actually don't mind this one!
  24. MoonBassAlpha
    Good point, well made!
  25. MoonBassAlpha
    I might try some Status tapewounds for my Mustang- anyone tried them?
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