Stub Mandrel

This is a good price for a decent quirky 60s bass. Tempted but need to save... https://ebay.us/m/fF2HWI

My Facebook feed showed me a picture of the new member of the Palladino family. Confusingly he has arms, legs and no strings...

Not sure.

I can tell you he sounds Cardiff to me and that's a Gren sticker!

Thanks. They are mk 1 I think but there are some useful clues*. Stuck on a hospital trolley with vertigo since Saturday night (when the fault appeared) butshould be home soon. I've contacted Orange for the Mk 2 schematics... worth asking! I hadn't seen the wiring diagram before and this may be very similar to the mk2.

That's a limited edition of 10 signed ones.

Comoare and contrast...

Probably but it was so badly set up as to be unpleasant rather than just requiring effort.

The action was huge, I don't think it had seen even a rudimentary setup A shame as it was gorgeous.

"Hello, I see you sell mandolins. Could I have one to fit this case, please?"

We threaten to unleash the dinosaur.

Not quite true of the Elf because of the complex compression/overdrive behaviour I just described.

The TE Elf has built in compression and like most TE solid state heads sounds best with the gain well up. The compression light SHOULD be coming on. It ends up putting out as much power as a more highly rated amp as it controls transients via the compression rather than handling them with headroom. If the is rotated into the last part of its range an overdrive effect is also applied. You can easily compete with an uncompressed 500W amp through the same speaker cabs, and can set the gain to get a good clean sound, dirty or on the cudp so it's pretty clean and gets dirty as you dig in. Very clever and much misunderstood. The designers really knew what they were doing. People who think it's a glorified practice amp and complain about fan noise gave missed the point of the Elf. It's as if it was designed specifically to spread the myth of Trace Elliot Watts

Well done whoever sorted this, and hope things turn out ok @Quatschmacher

I've had a Marine Band G for over 40 years, bit battered now. Also some cheaper ones. I can bend down on the draw but find draw playing hard work so have never stuck at it. Ought to try one of those workshops. Currently 'looking after' my partner's father's harmonica - an ancient Hohner Vineta 4 chord harmonica. Almost every source will tell you it does F-C-G, but actually it's G-major/D-major7 C-major/G-major7 F-major/C-major7 Plus low bass notes and a huge sound. Sonit can tackle blues in G and C.

Me too... when my brother told me about Ozzy saying 'this is the last time you'll ever hear us play Paranoid'. I grew up with their music, my first non-provincial concert was 31 December 1981 which made up much of 'Live at Hammersmith Odeon' with my first serious girlfriend. Never saw Ozzy

I found mine had a weaker g-string but after a surprising number of adjustments finally got pickup height right. It needs to be as high as possible without any danger of clacking the string. I have a tiny spall on the headstock. Trying to play it a lot but seems reluctant to wear. The £350 case is lovely but heavy, and if it isn't on a level surface it twists and the catches won't open.

I nearly bought a dolphin grey Aerodyne in PMT, but the setup was so bad I couldn't bond with it.

Ugh. Edit: neat - now I have an excuse never to go on a fairground ride again.

The real reason Scott started wearing gloves...

>Groans<

Thanks, that's what they think it is and I will get follow up to learn the exercises. Problem is I'm consistentlt a bit sketchy on the eye follow finger tests so now waiting on mri to rule out stroke.

Weird issue on my Terror 500 mk2. The on-standby-off switch is now on-standby-standby and yhe light vomes in straight away. Looks like there's a slow-start delay circuit issue or a stuck relay, but would like to see schematic before opening up.

People the same age as us and into rock music. I should say some of our arrangements have more bite than the originals 😁

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