Elfrasho

16 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

 

@Elfrasho, You are describing the basic format for all ACG

 

 

 

 

Spend some time working out the EQ and Enjoy it....😍

Yep, it didn't take much to get to grips with it to be fair. I actually love it in passive so I'll be interested what I end up doing when I eventually get out gigging with it. 

First concert - jamiroquai Glasgow secc 95ish
Last concert - machine head, Glasgow academy Nov 19
Best concert - extreme Glasgow 2012
Worst concert - shed 7, Strathy Union 2000ish
Loudest concert - machinehead
Seen the most - dream theater 
Most surprising - beardyman 2015ish edinburgh
Next concert - dream theater, armadillo glasgow
Wish I would have seen - deep purple Glenn Hughes era

The one I always remember for me is when I was 16 I was doing a gig in a pub in Glasgow.. My bro drive me in with my bass amp. After sou d check I had my p bass copy plugged in and leaning against the fabric grill of the amp. Windsor the drummer stepped back off the 4" drum rise, onto my lead which pushed right into the cavity, breaking the plastic pick guard and making the lead stuck inside at an angle. It still worked so we decided just to play the gig as is and deal with it at a later date.

Started the gig to find my amp farting as it had never farted before. After a quick look I could see that there was a perfect tuning peg sized hole in the speaker.. Must have happened during the lead incident. Had to just put up with it, however I then broke a string and had no spares, so one of the other bands handed me their bass to play. 

Complete disaster. 

Only to get back to the car to find it had been broken into! 

Oh what a night that was. 

58 minutes ago, Len_derby said:

I thought I'd start a thread for people to admit their, hopefully humorous, bass face-palm moments. This is inspired by what I did last night.

I got my acoustic bass guitar out of its bag ready for a rehearsal today - prior to an unplugged gig we've got in March. The strings felt like they needed a bit of a clean. So, I said to the wife, "Have we any isopropyl alcohol anywhere?" She replied, "No, but you can use some of my vodka if you want".

Five minutes later I go back to the room where she's watching television. "The good news is; it doesn't leave a stain and evoporates quickly". I'd only gone and knocked the open bottle over and most of it poured over the table and on to the floor. An extra Norman Wisdom touch was that next doors' dog was with me. I give her respite from their teething toddler. Being part Laborador she moves like stinky poo off a shovel if there's any hint of food or drink. I reckon she got a couple of generous doubles before I restrained her. Problem is, she'll expect that every time now and sit by the booze cupboard howling.

The bass strings now feel much better though.

😂

That's incredible. You definitely should stick a more detailed build diary up as I for one would be keen to see the process. 

2 minutes ago, eude said:

Try some Newtones. Neil makes Alan's standard strings for any new ACG, and they're the best. Bar my shorty, which has TI Flats on it, all my 31.5" ACGs have them.

Eude

Cool, I'll have a look. Thanks

15 minutes ago, eude said:

Congratulations dude, I can't deny I'm more than a bit jealous.

What strings are on there?

Eude

Nylon coated. Pretty fun to play although I think ill be swapping out to standard roundwounds when i can. 

I had a wee go on this over the weekend and I i can assure any potential buyers that the video above is a true reflection of the sound and tone you'll get. It doesn't lack anything you'd expect from a more standard scale length, and it's very (very) playable, even for someone with big hands like me! Plus, it looks and feel's tremendous as per all ACG's I've tried.

I bought mine 2nd hand, hopefully that still allows me membership to the ACG club! I present my medium scale Finn 4.

In fact, I got it yesterday, from this very forum so you might all recognise it. I had my eye on it from the day it popped up in the classifieds and instantly started to sell things in order to fund it. Not everything has sold but i decided why not just to go for it anyway. So here it is.

It's quite simply phenomenal.  It's the most playable bass I've ever had in my hands. The 31.5" scale allows easy movement around the neck, and the thing is perfectly balanced when on a strap. It's light but not super light; it still maintains the feel of playing a big block of wood which I think gets lost when you play super light basses. 

The build quality is breath taking. and the neck join is seamless - it's a thing of beauty. I can't wait to show my dad as he's into his woodworking; he always appreciates good work. 

I'm struggling to get my head round how the active controls work. Grant explained to me what they all do but I think I was just so excited to actually play it I didn't take it all in - I've kinda worked it out, but I probably should look it up anyway to get a better understanding.  I love having the passive option available to me too.  One thing though is that the active circuit seems to be too hot for my zoom b3n. Even with nothing turned on the b3n, it seems to be distorting at input.  I wonder if there's any internal controls that might allow for the output to be turned down abit? This seems to be the b3n's fault though as it doesn't do it with my amp, or when I go direct into my AI. 

Anyways, I cannot wait to get out and gig it although unforunately my diary is empty until March... hopefully something comes in before then!

Taken from the ad:

Body  Wood: Swamp Ash

Body Finish: Satin Lacquer

Neck Wood: 3 piece Maple with Ebony heel block.

Finger Board: Acrylic Resin Treated Maple

Scale: 31.5″

Neck Finish: Satin Lacquer

Pickups: ACG RFB Humbucker

Hardware: ACG/Hipshot bridge, Gotoh GB350 Resolite tuners, Dunlop Dual Design Straplocks

Low Battery Indicator

Pre-amp: East Uni-Pre 4K

3 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

Elfrasho says it was his first bass amp. Perhaps he played a few amps in shop and locked the "sound" in his head ?

That's a talent beyond me. Only factors I considered was being heard and what I could afford,same criteria of everybody I knew in the early 80's.

I remember it just being an extreme dull and uninspiring sound. My 2nd amp was a beringer 120w tilt back thing.. That instantly gave me a more top end zing type sound which I preferred at the time. 

If there was nothing else to play through then it would do a job, but it's not one of those amps that has aged well. 

When I think back it must've been earlier than 98.. Probably 95ish. But it was already an old amp. 

On 22/01/2020 at 01:50, kodiakblair said:

Owned the Stingray back in the 80's, could be seen jumping on buses with it as I traveled about Edinburgh. 

First amp was through a tape recorder mic,then it was a wee Badger. A Kay 50 watt briefly appeared too. Needed a bigger amp and could afford the Carlsbro 🙂
Marked improvement over the previous efforts. Don't recall anybody saying it sounded crap,folks just played what they had,latter half of the 80's before I even saw TE gear in the flesh.

 

Sold the first 30 year back,then bought another maybe 2 house moves ago.

 

Couple of year back a local rehearsal space owner bent my arm to buy it 😎

Ahhh amazing - That brings back memories. My first bass amp. My big bro got it for me out of the local adverts in the paper. I remember it being huge, extremely ugly and sounding awful. Probably around 98/99. Would love to try one again!

On 18/01/2020 at 13:16, kodiakblair said:

I find FB works well. Thursday a fella posted  his Bass Collection 5'er  on the Glasgow gear page, told the lad I'd shared his ad on the Nanyo owners page.

Seller sent me a message saying thanks,he had a buyer from the Nanyo page within minutes. 😎

That was me!    

Sold it at full price through Facebook. Thanks again! And Graham who bought it off me frequents this very forum, although I can't remember what his username is. 

I've only recently got back into Facebook , but I've already sold that bass and a lens. I'm also attempting to sell an amp which I've had a few keen parties but now quite sold. I've also got another bass (yamaha bb1000 '78) which has had no interest. Possibly because it's more expensive, but im happy to wait. So overall I'm pretty happy with FB market place. I used to use Gumtree but I'm finding that pretty awful.

A friend of mine got an ACG custom made. It was 5 string and had a huge string spacing so wasn't my favourite design, but holy flip it was seriously good quality and clearly played brilliantly.. It made me rethink how basses should feel and play. Hence i want to buy that 4 string above.

1 hour ago, therealting said:

There’s a killer bargain in the classifieds at the moment... active though.

 

No you don't want this. It's active, and you definitely said you wanted passive.

Mainly because I'm selling stuff in the attempt to get this for myself.

Cool, that's absolutely fine. 

I've got a few things up for sale at the moment so I may be back in contact, if it doesn't go. 

Cheers

Hi, are you ever down central belt way? Also, you looking at any trades of any sort?

That spector sounded lovely! 

I'm really considering going 32" especially for those long wedding gigs. It's good to hear that I wouldn't be losing out tone-wise if I take the plunge!

I know it's not quite what you're looking at, but i've recently purchased a Hotone purple haze micro amp. 5w valve. It sounds outstanding, and I hooked it up to a 4x10 at a rehearsal unit and it goes pretty loud!  

£40 second hand. could splurge £150 on a nice small cab and it would be an awesome set up.

1 hour ago, Maude said:

I've just bought them to try, only paid £14 and something. I got some introductory discount and then used PayPal which converted it to USD which for some reason deducted another $3. I won't pretend to know what I'm doing. 

Here's the link to them cheaper, 

￡18.59 57%OFF | KZ ZS10 Earphones 4BA+1 DD Hybrid In Ear Headphone HIFI Bass Headset DJ Monitor Earphone Earbuds KZ ZS6 AS10 ZST ES4 ED16 BA10

https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/nsYlqibe

Magic! Came in at 16 quid and a few pennies for me. I'll let you know how I get in with them!

9 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

KZ Official Store on AliExpress have the ZS10 at £22 delivered if anybody was wanting in ears or just some earphones which sound great for silent bass practice:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32859161944.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.7b573c00ceAOCn&mp=1

 

Ordered a second set to use at home when learning songs.

So are these decent? do they come with different sized rubbery bits? I've got big ears so need big rubbery bits! 

That's interesting, and probably a retro fit I could do myself.  Saying that, I've never really needed an acoustic bass in a band setting so this will probably never see light of day !

Anyone know much about it? Just purchased it recently on a whim (very cheaply) and it plays so well. APC is a brand from Portugal with a massive range but can't find anything regarding this model. No electronics, but seems to be extremely high quality.  Can't say I've got much use 'live' for an acoustic bass, but this looks lovely so it can be kept in the living room as a wee show piece. 

Anyone got any thoughts?

whether folk listen digitally or not, it's nice to buy something physical at a gig. Even if that cd never reaches a cd player, you'd give them a link to downloading the tunes. Plus, its an integral part of the identity of an album  to have artwork etc.

Don't know how serious you are about your music, but you'll definitely sell a few! Just make sure yo don't get tempted to get 1000 made up cos its cheaper per unit.

As an aside, I really hate when bands don't shell out for proper cd cases, opting for the single type cases or even worse... the card board sleeve! 

Strung out. used them a few times. always good. Also got an amp fixed by them.