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It's worked for me - in both directions - very well on many occassions. I expect half the community is writing something similar as I type - so I respectfully suggest you wind your neck in toot suite.
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Selling one of these [url="http://www.ampeg.com/products/bassamp/ba115t/index.html"]http://www.ampeg.com/products/bassamp/ba115t/index.html[/url] In a nutshell - a 1x15 kickback combo with horn , a tube pre-amp and a name to show off about. I'm not sure if you can still buy this version with the tube pre-amp. What I do know is it cost a fair few quid more than the BA115 ordinary version which is currently £312 from Dolphin , though probably cheaper if you look around which I couldn't be bothered to. Anyway - you dont want an ordinary one do you - my mate knows a bloke who says having an ordinary one when you could have the tube pre-amp version makes your willy smaller by up to 3 inches , and that's true that is. So - £220 to you , chief , and I'm cutting me arm off. Collection only from Wakefield , please. It's not that bloody far unless you're one of these shandy drinkers that gets vertigo anywhere North of Newport Pagnell services. M1 , J39. Straight on towards the city and turn left into my car park 2 miles later. Piece of piss. Kettle's on and I'm in all day cos I work from home. Will I ship it ? , I hear you cry. 'Sod that for a game of soldiers' is my grumpy retort. So - here's the actual one which has left this room only a few times since purchase from new a couple of years back. Maybe even not that long , can't remember. Funnily enough the Enfield 2 band 1858 pattern Musket is for sale too , obsolete calibre so no license required - PM me about that - and you can have the Tom Clancy book for nowt once I've read it , though it's a bit scabby because I dropped it in the bath. -
Well - the deal is done and the Status is now sold. As I'd said , the remaining bass (being the Shuker) is withdrawn from sale. Thanks for all your PM's , interest and the odd private knob gag !!! One or two of you asked if I were giving up playing as I've sold a couple of basses recently and not been posting as much. Nope - gigging as much as ever but spending a lot of time on my narrowboat where the joys of the interweb are available to me but I choose not to use them!! I shall try to make a greater effort to talk utter bollocks on the forums in the future. -
I'm sure you were just using a fairly common expression - but I haven't 'ended up' playing bass at all. It was a deliberate and considered choice based on two things. I heard an amazing sound listening to Slade records , it turned out to be Jim Lea's 'lead' bass playing and I wanted some of it. Secondly I had several friends learning guitar who were more advanced than I , I figured I could make my own niche by learning a different instrument. That turned out to be a good move as I was making music in bands long before any of them. I set out to make music. Playing bass was , and is , just a part of that and , for me , will always remain a tactic in an overall strategy.
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YOU'RE embarrassed ???!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to have to ring Madame Soixante Neuf and tell her to take the belt sander out of the microwave - how do you think I feel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No worries matey - the rest of you are back in the hunt then , and may be worth telling you that - on my bathroom scales - the bass weighs somewhere around 4.5 kgs which I think is around 10 lbs in proper money.
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TO GO: Your P bass case for my Asahi Pentax K1000 SLR?
Dr.Dave replied to discreet's topic in Completed Items
My first ever slr - I remember coming back on the train with it like a dog with 2 dicks. I've a digital Nikon these days but nothing will ever compare to the old k1000 -
24 hrs on and it's the Status I'm getting PM's about , so here's a couple of shots and comments. It's 100% ding and blemish free (as is the shuker for that matter) If you think you see anything on the pics it's either a reflection or a fingermark I assure you. The first pic is a few years back , just finished and still had those horrible plastic knobs on. You can have them if you must. The other pics are today - on my sofa by the window , no flash , so the light is as critical as you'll get. Photoshopping only to resize , nothing more. I'm no pro photographer but if anyone wants a specific pic - ask. Here's a link to another thread about this bass - in it I talk about side LED's like I have i the shuker but I never got round to having it done. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3731&hl=DR.Dave"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...&hl=DR.Dave[/url]
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I really do mean one or the other. As soon as one sells , the other WILL be withdrawn. These two are doing such a similar job for me and I can't decide which I want to sell , so I'll leave it to the market. Jon Shuker bolt-on custom , fretted 4. The body is African walnut with a 'rotten' maple top. The neck - a 5 way sandwich of walnut and maple with a phenolic board. The side dots are red LED's. They're turned on and off by the push/pull volume pot. Very useful thing to have. The pegs are Gotoh's bar the e-string which has a hipshot xtender on it. The regular peg is included though. The Bartolini MM pup is wired 3 ways , series/parallel/coil tap , selected by the rotary switch below the vol pot. The 3 band eq (centre clicked pots) is Jon's own and you can alter the mid sweep by removing the back panel and turning the pot there. It's an 18v system - the LED's have their own battery , so 3 PP3's on board. The 2 for the eq are under their own cover , the LED one in the main compartment. The monorail bridge means there's a brass insert beside the nut to earth everything ncely - clever lad , Jon. The strap pins are dunlop straplock ones. It looks stunning - really does - and it's not had a scratch since the day I collected it from Jon - maybe 5 or 6 years back now. You can easily get any noise you want from it and several you haven't even thought of !! Mr Shuker also had a hand with the Status. A series 3000 (also a fretted 4) - it's satin finished mahogany body was badly dinged on top. Jon shaved several mil off the top and made a new one of spalted beech - then gave the whole body a high gloss finish. The neck is a headless graphite bolt on. Bar the knobs (they were nesty plastic , now they're black chrome) and the dunlop strap pins (3 so they all match) it's a stock s3000 - so 2 status j pups , clicked vol and centre clicked tone and pup swing. It too looks a stunner - plays like a dream with a wide variety of sounds - bassy/glassy...... it's all there. Right - money. Easy to work this out. I have just shy of a grand tied up in the Shuker and £530 in the Status. That's what I want - or something very close indeed. I wouldn't bother offering trades but I am prepared to listen if someone offers a decent deposit - though if the rest isn't forthcoming don't expect it back until the bass is sold to someone else. If you demand it - I'll have it prepared best I can and awaiting your courier . but I'd much prefer you came round and tried it , or both for that matter. As I said - I will only sell one though. I'm in Wakefield , West Yorks. If you've any Q's or want specific pics please ask publicly then we can all see. I'll be putting a few ore pics on soon anyway.
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used to have one of these - it was a 4ohm speaker , as I recall , and the speaker out was blanked off at the back of the amp section. So - either you didn;t know that , or yourself or someone who owned the combo efore you has changed the speaker to an 8ohm model - in which case I can't see how you'd do any better than an 1153 to beef it up a bit.
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My 400RB head needs zero f**king about with to make a useable sound and doesn't break. The finest recommendation I could ever give to an amp.
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In general answer to PM's The side dots are in line with where the frets should be ( rather than inbetween like a fretted neck is.) No case - I don't really do cases - but you can have it in a gig bag. -
Not playing this [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=60292&hl=Dr.Dave"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...&hl=Dr.Dave[/url] Can't be doing with having stuff not being played so it's for sale. Serial C025933 which makes it (I think) 85/6?? Few scratches on the back and bottom sides. It has half wounds on at the mo. The back plate is a Fender Corona one because I had it kicking about and thought it looked nicer. The original one's probably kicking about somewhere - I'll have a look................ ...........nope - can't find the bastard. Did find the bridge though if you don't want the badass. It has dunlop straplock buttons on but sure the originals are about - I have a box full of strap buttons anyway. Money. What do these go for?? £350 ish??? You tell me. Would much prefer pick up , to the point of saying pick up only unless you do all the work for me and make me an offer I can't refuse. Wakefield's not on the moon - and you can have a ride on my narrowboat for free - can't say fairer than that can I ?! BTW - many of you willhave seen pics and stuff of my Shuker and my shukerised Status 3000. You'll find both in the gear porn sections. It's possible I may let one of them go in the nearish future , not likely both , but if anyone's interested at this feely stage let me know. I'd be thinking around a grand for the Shuker and half that for the 3000 - basically the same as I have invested in them.
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I bought this about 18 months ago to do a series of rehearsals and however many times we play Harry's Bar. We did the rehearsals , about 6 , and it only ever got to Harry's Bar once because my GK rig's already loaded in the trailer and I couldn''t be arsed swapping them over. So - sitting doing sod all bar being a bedside table in the spare room is......... Ampeg BA115t combo. Well known bit of kit , I think - kickback style 1 x 15 combo with a 5 way 'style' switch (pre shapes) to supplement the usual treb/mid/bass pots. CD input ( yeh , whatever) headphines out - xlr line out. Gain and Master..... 2 inputs ( 1 minus 15db). That's pretty much it BUT........... ......this is the model with the tube pre-amp - warmy warmy nicey nicey. Not sure Ampeg still make the tube pre model - googled it but got bored - but new it put about a hundred quid and change onto the price of a regular BA115. I can photo it if you like but they're not very exciting to look at are they - it's a black box with Ampeg written on for christs sake . ...... anyway , condition wise it's tip top with no issues at all. No cover - maybe......... that's maybe............ I can find the box out of the shed and the manual's here somewhere. Pick up only from Wakefield , West Yorks (5mins from M1 J39) and I'm home during the day as well as eve's /WE's. So - I'm supposed to ask for 300 brick then you offer me 250 and we settle on 275 - I just saved us the bother. Oh - and if your guitary mate wants an immaculate Fender Blues Junior that's never left the house for the same money - bring him with you , but get him to have a shower first please.
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Nip to your nearest Wilkinson ( or the DIY sheds will have them) and get some of those round felt stiick on patches used to protect furniture. They'll cost bugger all. That insulating strip stuff for door rebates would be as good.
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A shame when someone accepts the challenge to act like a professional then behaves like an amateur. A feather in caps though to those who take a 'show must go on' attitude and do the job they were employed to do. Grace under pressure - good on you all.
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I never met him either , but always looked forward to his posts. Truly a shame there'll be no more. Reading through this thread Si seems to have touched all who knew him and who's on-line persona is remembered fondly by those of us who never had that pleasure. Goodbye , mate. Never meeting you is my loss.
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Oh dear.............. We have a couple of self imposed rules. We always turn down invitations to play at weddings and birthdays (because the inviter may well love us but his granny and 6 year old nephew are unlikely to) - and we never play in working men's clubs. Rules , though , being for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men - we broke both last night to play for a guy who's been a good friend of the band at his wedding ann. Disaster. The so called 'private room' was open to the regulars , who insisted in bingo etc. We had a warm up acoustic solo act who was told to turn down so we had no chance - and were summarily paid off in the middle of our set because of the (very modest) volume. First time ever. We're going to include it in/on our advertising - ' Dr Blue - as paid off at Westgate Common WMC' !!!
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Well , Tony and I did our bit. Place was a bit empty while we were on but filled up a bit during Tony's band's set. His Geddy sounded well from the back. Generic Ampeg/Behringer rig. Can't say it did much for me and pound to a pinch of sh*t I've got a throat infection from the mic !!
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I only just got the news myself , looking forward to this one. We've been involved in Rock of the North's fundraising activities to help fight cancer before , and it's a pleasure to be doing so again. Events like this are a blast and very , very important. Please support it if you can.
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With Fender style instruments , there's so many after market bits we can all have our own signature models OR we can emulate instruments our hero's use. So why a sig? Unless , of course , the answer is 'I like it' which is fine.
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[quote name='4 Strings' post='861792' date='Jun 9 2010, 09:10 AM']I know its horses for courses etc but I have still yet to play anywhere (from pubs to church halls to festivals to indoor parties) that's required me to use anything other than flat on the amp. I have been known to tweak the 'low pass' up a bit at home when at low volumes but that's about it. There's graphic equalisers and all sorts of other knobs and sliders on amps but I always look for the bypass switch. Am I a purest or something or do people generally not use tone controls on amps? If so, maybe they could be made more simply and the money spent on tone control diverted to better capacitors or something.[/quote] Seems pretty obvious to me that whatever it is you use is the right amp for you. As a rule of thumb I try amps by setting everything at 12 oclock with all the bells and whistles switched off. If the basic tone I get pleases me I'm happy. If I have to swing on the knobs to get it somewhere like I'm not happy. The only other things I want are a halfway decent DI out , a mute switch and a dedicated tuner out. (I do wish manfacturers would build useful things into amps like a tuner ) On stage I sometimes roll a little bass off if I'm playing the Status but other than that the only thing I touch is the gain. Down a bit for the Status , up a bit for the single coil Fender and up the middle for everything else. I use the mute switch if I change basses but if you ever see me dicking with the knobs mid set it's because I just dropped a bollock and want to blame the amp!
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Last night's in Idle was incident free , though enjoyable , but Thurs in Baildon was memorable for me knocking over a flood light and setting fire to the pub. Anyone playing there (The Malt Shovel) the black patch in the carpet is my fault !!
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Have you ever fallen in love.............. with a bass ?
Dr.Dave replied to redstriper's topic in Bass Guitars
[quote name='redstriper' post='816880' date='Apr 24 2010, 01:20 AM']I mean true love, not lust or infatuation - love in the spiritual sense, where it feels like God is playing through you and you never want to be apart. Just wondered. [/quote] No. Sometimes when I've been playing I feel very much in touch with the music emotionally , at times I'm sure the particular instrument I've been playing has aided in that process. There have been times too when I just feel the need to pick up a particular instrument because it looks so appealing to my eyes. But - at the end of the day - I'm the musician. I'm the creator/craftsman/artist/whatever........... and a bass guitar is a bit of wood with strings on it. I can make music without it but it does f**k all by itself. It's not my partner - it's a tool to help me do my job. I am very attached to my 73P because I've had it for so long and I've had lots of experiences with it BUT that's just nostalgia and sentiment....... .....and take it from me - anyone confusing sentiment and nostalgia with love is in a sh*t load of trouble. -
I'm repeating some of what others have said and make no apologies for doing so. a) A truss rod adjustment you can get to - personally I like the Stingray approach A second string guide to increase the break angle on the A string - I like 2 circular guides rather than a bar to cover 3 strings c) a more solid bridge with grub screws that won't catch your flesh - my Beedster supplied Badass '1' with it's brass saddles is my favourite ever. In fact I regard Mr B as my personal Badass supplier ! d) oversize side dots - but that's just a combination of advancing years and comfort blanket e) pups and M/C's - so many upgrades to choose from but there's not a lot wrong with the originals in my opinion. Mine sports Schaller M4S 'Gillette' types (ie. 'the best a man can get'!) and a Duncan QP f) a small rubbish bin in which to place the holy trinity of chocolate fireguards - bridge cover , pup cover and thumb rest g) 3ts/rosewood/tortoise shell/chrome. Def no knickers......sorry 'NICKEL' Tortiose shell inserts in the chrome knobs. h) a 'Dr Dave sig. model' logo entitling me to a fiver for every one sold !!
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[quote name='NJE' post='821593' date='Apr 28 2010, 10:11 AM']I am really envious of Bilbo and others who are completely happy with one bass and have no need for anything else.[/quote] It's not envy with me , I'd be happy as a sandboy to use my 73P for everything I do. Trouble is I'm afraid of it being nicked or damaged , it doesn't fit the trib band image and it isn't fretless so my fears and the needs of my gigs mean I have more. I suppose one day the long veils of white will come down - athritis , whatever , then it's sale time. The EpiEx goes day one. The Status and the Fretless Jazz soon after. I have a great love for the Blueflower P, and my lovely Shuker. but I doubt I'd want to see them gathering dust. As a retired (even 'semi' retired) hobbyist I'd be content with the Ovation acoustic , the 73P and my memories.