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Had both. Sold the Sansamp & kept the BDI21, though I don't use it much these days as I've got a valve amp. However, still keep it with me in the bag for gigs in case I have to for any reason DI straight into PA etc. A good comparison of the two here, which may be of interest: [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=294957"]Sansamp vs. BDI21[/url]

Lovely basses. One of the few remaining ones on my GAS list, along with Ibanez Black Eagle.... but not at that price!

[quote name='markdavid' post='453358' date='Apr 3 2009, 01:57 PM']Hi there , Im just after some suggestions for an inexpensive decent tuner , ive got this crappy cheapo one at the moment that seems to have trouble hearing any note below an A and struggles with my low D string (i tune DGCF) any suggestions?[/quote] Mmmm...you could try the Behringer, cheap. Had one myself, before getting a Boss. TBH wish I hadn't sold it, as I found it tracked better than the TU-2, though obviously no way near as robust.

Had the same problem myself a while back, some good advice here too [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5401&hl=wrist+bleeding"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...=wrist+bleeding[/url] Don't suffer so much now, probably due to slightly altering my technique, wearing mostly a long sleeve shirt plus playing different style of music

[quote name='burno70' post='448755' date='Mar 29 2009, 04:31 PM']I'm really after a standard sized pedal - boss size etc. Haven't seen a nano muff tho so will look out for that. Don't like the samples of the Wooly Mammoth which I've heard so far but I wouldn't mind a play with one. With the one knob fuzz - I can't read those schematics but I wouldn't mind giving it a go. Where can you learn how to make one of these? Can you recommend a book or tuturial type website?[/quote] Another couple of easier to build ones here in veroboard layout rather than schematics, if you fancy having a crack at it: [url="http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/DRAGONFLY-LAYOUTS_0/album18/album144/BAZZ_FUSS.jpg.html"]Bass Fuzz[/url] [url="http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/DRAGONFLY-LAYOUTS_0/album18/album144/One_Knob_Fat_Fuzz.jpg.html"]One Knob Fat Fuzz[/url] Cheers

[quote name='dangerboy' post='448552' date='Mar 29 2009, 09:44 AM']This can be built in a Catalinbread-sized box pretty easily. I use it with a rubbish, low-gain, military, silicon transistor and it gives a lovely fuzz: [url="http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/Renegadrian/ONE+KNOB+FAT+FUZZ.jpg.html"]http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php...T+FUZZ.jpg.html[/url][/quote] +1 to the one knob fuzz. Built one myself too, great pedal. Though I'm not using mine much myself currently - Brassmaster clone is satisfying my fuzz needs.

Tried rewiring an old Antoria 335 copy a while ago myself, using string, tie-wraps a la ship-in-the-bottle method. In the end got a guitar repairer mate to do it. It can be a bastard of a job..... something that can only be done when patience mode is at it's highest!

[quote name='Boneless' post='439635' date='Mar 19 2009, 07:53 PM']Didn't know of them. Are they any good with bass? I know I have a fx blender, but still, I'd like it to fare nicely with bass for starters, to then just "adjust" its tone better for my taste. I'll look for the Owen one as well. Of course, if I can't find neither, I guess I'll try the Ashdown Drive Plus, costs next to nothing and I heard quite good things about them [/quote] If you've got a blender all the better, opens up more choices of overdrive/distortion - hopefully finally finish my 'paralooper' this weekend. I like the 'Red LLama' on bass, I built a clone. Its basically same as Tone Factor Mule & quite a few other derivatives. To my ears it's got more of an edge to it than a 'Bad Monkey', which I like too. Gave mine away to a guitarist friend, miss it so much I'm going to build another. Fair amount of love for the 'Red Llama' & it's clones over on talkbass, if you're after more info...

Sorry to hear about your loss mate. Have you considered 'Red Lama' or similar clone?

[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='438874' date='Mar 19 2009, 06:50 AM']personally I think it kinda adds to the excitement of buying/finding/selling 'em on ebay BECAUSE they're of dubious legality...a bit like pushin the speedlimit, or being a drug mule for a Bolivian Coke Lord and gettin caught by customs with 2.8kg of the finest Marchin' Powder secreted up your rear entrance :ph34r: it merely adds to the fun of a normally banal experience![/quote] +1 to all the above. I doubt also that Rickenbacker are savvy enough to realise that their behaviour goes in some way to inflating the prices of their copies.

[quote name='tauzero' post='437899' date='Mar 17 2009, 11:17 PM']Now that's just extravagant, having a Wal to hang other basses off.[/quote]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='437705' date='Mar 17 2009, 07:24 PM']Pisser. Despite the fact that's of dubious legality (US trademark law not actually being UK legislation last time I looked) it seems as though the seller might have to find another avenue for the disposal of this plainly questionable item. Perhaps he might find a potential purchaser among the users of a popular UK bassplayers' forum - particularly if he chooses to sell his hard-to-shift former object of desire for an amount close to the pittance that he is understood to have paid for it in the first place! J.[/quote] Mmmm....would love to, if wasn't for crippling debts,son's university costs,house value approaching negative equity etc etc....aghhhh!! :wacko: Actually, just [i]literally[/i] privately sold it to a collector in the States for (IMHO) a 'fair' amount. So I guess in a way Rickenwaffen have done me a favour, in saving me any ebay fees, etc Will be sad to see it go, it is a really nice bass. However, I just cant get on with Ricks - taken me while to realise (or accept) it. It has been spending more & more time hanging on the wal, than actually being played. Plus the dosh will come in handy.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='434448' date='Mar 14 2009, 09:59 AM']......Interesting to see what this does.[/quote] It disappeared.... "[i]This is an automated response to your message concerning deletion of your auction on eBay. The shape of the headstock, body, nameplate, and certain other elements of Rickenbacker instruments have achieved trademark status in all major world jurisdictions through registration and other provisions of trademark law, such as the Lanham Act in the United States. Due to the burden placed on us by United States case law and the significant investment we've made in these marks for more than seven decades, we must strongly enforce proper usage of our marques and cannot permit their use without permission or on non-Rickenbacker products. Removing mention of "Rickenbacker" or any creative variation thereof is NOT sufficient to reinstate your auction. The eBay user agreement prohibits the sale of infringing goods and bars the use of keyword spamming which is illegal in the United States.[/i]"

[quote name='alexclaber' post='437556' date='Mar 17 2009, 05:06 PM']I'm still in shock that Bob Babbitt was drafted in the replace the bass tracks on the first Talking Heads album... Alex[/quote] That's interesting, didn't know that. I like both players.

Owen Holmes from Black Kids, plays some tasty basslines on their last album.

[quote name='Silent Fly' post='431060' date='Mar 10 2009, 10:07 PM']I don't mean to criticise anybody's opinion. In the end a forum is a place where all opinions should be welcomed. There is only one thing I can't understand: does it make any difference how much mark-up musicman1 makes? Do we ask a bookshop or at the till at the supermarket how much mark-up they have? Don’t get me wrong, I understand that someone may feel a little bit offended by the offer of something that he sees far too expensive for what it is. However, musicman1 never claimed something that wasn’t true. Quite frankly I respect his openness in showing the inside of the box without hiding anything of what he offers. Nobody forces us to buying anything. What if he has a 200% mark-up? AFAIK, it is not illegal. And believe me, I have seen worse. Ultimately, it will be the market to judge his prices and the quality of what he sells. There also another thing that confuses me. It is the comparison between the cost of the parts (and consequently how much it would cost to build it as a DIY project) and the price of the finished unit. I don’t think it is a comparison that makes any sense. Nobody works for only the price of the materials. At the risk of sounding repetitive but do we complain with a cleaner because we could clean our property for free if we do it ourselves? Do we say that the bread is too expensive because we could make it ourselves for half of the price? We complain if what we get for what we pay is not good enough but musicman1 showed us in sufficient detail what he sells upfront. I don’t think that a variation of quality between the final product and what we see in the photos is likely to happen.[/quote] You've made some good points there IMO. We've all seen the schematic of a Wooly Mammoth, right?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='430058' date='Mar 10 2009, 12:54 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WestoneThunder-Jet-bass-guitar_W0QQitemZ180335502707QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item180335502707&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A10|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]Thunder bargain[/url] if you are rapid. A jet anyway.[/quote] Good spot Oli - good price Would be interested in that, if it didn't look something like an old bass I used to have which was the recipient off some peptic ulcer issues I had at the time.

[quote name='stevie' post='429402' date='Mar 9 2009, 02:29 PM']I can recommend the Duncan SPB-1 for that, although flatwound strings will probably get you closer than anything else you can do.[/quote] +1. That's what I've got, plus as heavier flats you can get away with. Also, find just rolling tone control down a tad helps.

There are tons of these guitars still knocking about all over Eastern Europe, along with effects pedals. I'm off out to Ukraine sometime in June to visit in-laws, & partly to stem the boredom, was thinking of hunting any down & bringing back. I've tried a couple on previous visits belonging to my wife's 'musician' friends - would have to say not that playable. However, think they do look cool.

"Bonzo Goes To Bitburg" brings back happy memories for me

[url="http://freestompboxes.org/"]Free Stomp Boxes[/url] is also pretty good

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='416000' date='Feb 21 2009, 10:15 AM']I doubt I can write that quickly!! I'd only ever seen the film in part before - I was knocked out by Bob Babbit. Q for the more anoraky of us - I could see he was using a foam mute by the bridge but because of it I couldn;t make out the bridge itself. Didn't look like the stock Fender bridge from what I could see. Any ideas?[/quote] Some info here [url="http://www.bobbabbitt.com/smf/index.php/topic,316.0.html"]Bob's bass in SITSOM film[/url]

[quote name='Rich' post='415776' date='Feb 20 2009, 08:56 PM']I was googling for Small Stone pedal images earlier when I stumbled across [url="http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/pedalsSmallStone.html"]this rather interesting mod[/url]. Anybody seen this before? Or better yet, tried or heard it? I'm thinking of applying it to my Russian Stone. The US circuit board is different to the Russian but it's dead easy to find the caps in question.[/quote] Hi Rich, This is on my list of to dos too - just bagged myself a Russian SS also. Great (not so little) phaser! This may be of interest as well [url="http://moosapotamus.net/THINGS/frankenstone.htm"]'Frankenstone'[/url] Like you say they're not difficult mods. There's also a fair a bit of info for Small Stone mods on [url="http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/"]DIY Stompboxes[/url] & [url="http://freestompboxes.org/index.php?sid=f978392087f3294aa6706c8441ee27a9"]Freestompboxes[/url] [url="http://www.kyletompkins.com/wp/?p=191"]EHX SS volume loss mod[/url], [url="http://www.kyletompkins.com/wp/?p=626"]Even more![/url] However, before I get to doing this, got to build another 'Brassmaster' clone for a mate & a 'Paralooper' for myself, Wooly Mammoth, plus learn about 30 songs for a covers band I've just joined!....so it's in the que If you manage to do the mod before me, would be interested to hear your learned opinions. Cheers p.s. some more SS mod info on page 5 here [url="http://hammer.ampage.org/files/Device1-11.PDF"]Electronics for Guitarists (1979)[/url]

Please don't touch it - leave it original!!! I picked up a Kimbara FY-2 made by Shin-ei locally for princely sum of a fiver. Would have cloned it, had I liked the sound. However, sold it to a bloke in Australia for about £120. Quite sought after.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='413198' date='Feb 18 2009, 04:05 PM']one of these was my first bass Nice and light, but still kicks out the bottom end. Is it only recently the guy in Supergrass stopped using his?[/quote] Yeah, Mick Quinn now uses a Steinberger - a lighter bass, apparently due to an accident in which he seriously damaged his back in 2007.