nilebodgers

I'd 2nd getting a headphone amp - if you are a beginner you are unlikely to develop good muting technique unless you are amplified.

Isn't there a loophole if the buyer has funded paypal via a credit card and then claims that the credit card was stolen/compromised? I thought the transaction could be reversed in that case.

Interesting. I have a Taiwan one just like that. I read up on the history via the Facebook Yam BB group and as far as anyone knows the Japan and Taiwan models are identical in every respect apart from the pickup covers/surrounds.

I use AKG K92s with my B1-4. I bought them for the light weight and wearing comfort while still sounding good and not being expensive. I also have Beyer DT150s which are great headphones, but they are also heavy and very close fitting. They have great isolation if you are working in a loud environment, but not so comfortable for home use.

Nice bass playing, but the overall vibe is so hipster that it is a bit of a send-up.

Isn't she just. There's some killer little fills in her line too.

There is no bottom end on anything I can hear and the cymbals have that low bit-rate phasey thing going on, sounds like a poor encoding that has been high-passed for playing on mobile phones...

That's crazy, never seen anything like that before. I wonder how quickly it clogs up and if it can it be cleared while hot? I usually have to clean a manual sucker every few goes, when I used to to do electronics professionally I used the braid mostly as it was cleaner and more precise and didn't suffer from jamming (and the mechanical twang making everything jump around).

Good score for a tenner. That wonky bridge would drive me nuts though!

Funny - I always fancied a Stingray, but they have always been a bit more money than I can justify. I have been looking since the mid 80s 🙄

I know what you mean about BVs. Someone posted a video on here of their own band doing an original song a while back and it was pretty good, but the simple absence of BVs made it sound a bit lacking.

You could pinch the thermostatic fan control circuit from something like the GK MB200 that uses the same ICE module. See: U1 is a LM35 attached to the main heatsink on the ice module (at least on the MB500 - I haven't seen where it is attached on a MB200) and the fan is one of the tiny 25mm x 25mm 12V ones that run at 60mA-ish.

A common technique is to use back-to-back 12V zeners with a resistor in the 1k - 3k3 range (plus a 50V min blocking capacitor). GK do that on a lot of their later models.

It's all very clever and that, but I can't imagine ever being in a situation where I could use it (and be welcome 😉) so I haven't bothered even experimenting with it.

Fun. I recognised 9/10 even if I couldn’t name the artist on a couple without prompting. On ‘89 I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard that pixies track and the bass line is so generic it wouldn’t have caught my ear anyway.

It sounds great and is easy to use for someone that doesn't really know what they are doing (i.e. me). The only minor downside is that if you don't donate you have to open the plugin and dismiss the splash screen every time you load a project using it otherwise no sound comes out.

Well, the D.C. resistance of a typical nominal 8 ohm driver is somewhere around 5.5 ohms so 2 in series and a bit of a handwave for cable resistance would be 12 ohms? (although that would normally be called 16 ohms)

I was thinking "I'll never be able to read that well" ... but then I remembered how the intro goes - hardeharhar

The tweeter is/was the weak point on these cabs. I bought a 210 and the tweeter was dead on arrival. The shop ended up sending the cab back to Ashdown and rather than replace the stock part Ashdown fitted an Eminence APT instead.

Which Bluetooth receiver did you get? I have looked at these gadgets on Amazon before and reviews are always very mixed as to reliability and connection quality. One common complaint is that they try and randomly pair with other Bluetooth devices when someone else with a phone comes into the room and just drop the connection they were already on.

Yes, the B1-4 is a marvelous little thing. Once you program up some patches (very easy) it sounds great.

In recent years I just buy online without trying - but that is for (relatively) cheap s/h basses under £500. If I was going to spend a larger sum I'd want to try it. I don't mind doing a bit of fettling on cheaper instruments, but I'd want to see exactly what the condition and playability is of a more expensive bass.

Brilliant video. I was waiting for the “ping” when he was trying to turn the screw extractor and the rod snapped, but it fortunately didn’t happen.

That is a good question and only one of the 3 I can listen to now are DP. The MIJapan and MIEurope live albums still sound great to me after all this time.

Funny that, I bought a bass in 1980-ish (Aria SB) and tried several late 70s Fender Ps in the shop at the same time and they were all awful in comparison. I wonder if any of those Fenders are selling for lots of money now?