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  1. I love this pic, I borrowed a couple of extra cabs from those nice people at ampeg for a video shoot we did last year and tho the shot never made it to the video, every time I see this pic I can,t help but smile..
    I wish I had a chance at using this setup at a gig!!

  2. As the title says, We have quite a few gigs listed for this year and if you can make it along to any please come up and say hi.

    peace.
    Wiz.

  3. the behringer virtualizer pro effects rack unit has one, plus lots of other fun stuff and they are quite cheap too, I paid around 60 kwid for mine.

  4. This took ages to find and I,m not sure how to post a link but if you look in 'amps and cabinets' on page 64 and look at page 6 of 'what,s in your rack' you,ll find it.
    If anyone knows how to move this to the build diary to find it easier please do, as I type this I,m in the process of updating the rig and will post the new pics when it,s finished.

  5. I use ground control, love it to bits, does everything.
    It will control all my midi effects and can switch up to eight pedals with each switcher unit you have hooked up to it.
    the small board like mine can operate two switcher units giving you control of 16 pedals and the large board can handle up to four switcher units.
    they can also be used to switch in and out various amps if you wish to use multiple preamps etc and all presets can be named and seen clearly on the nice big green led display.
    I use mine with all pedal selections for each song programmed in succesion so i can go from intro to main thru to middle eight or chorus etc depending on what sounds i want in each song and as I often use groups of pedals together for certain sections as well as effects from various processors it means all my effects can be changed with one touch operation.


    There is a diary of my original first build of my GCX rig on here somewhere.

  6. I use carbon fibre picks made back in the eighties by a company called Hi modulus, sadly they are no longer made tho I did buy them in huge quantitys and still have a couple of dozen of them left today that are used for recording and gigging and I use the jim dunlop cheapy copies that they now call the reefer pick for everything else.
    1mm thick, can,t stand floppy picks.

  7. [attachment=26185:Port_Hil...yttleton.jpg]
    Not bad, eh?
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    Cripes ! what a view!!
    I,d like the island in the left side of the pic, then again anywhere would do!!.

  8. I just saw those six stringed rickish things myself!!
    For what it's worth I just bought one of their 5 stringed acoustic basses but the b string is much quieter than the other four when used thru an amp so I,m returning it, after emailing them about the fault on thursday when I recieved it they replied on friday and it is being picked up by UPS on monday and my money refunded, so they seem a pretty decent lot to risk a few quid if you feel so inclined.

  9. [quote name='RhysP' post='512382' date='Jun 12 2009, 07:28 PM']I meant cheap as in tacky & shabbily manufactured - those half inch thick scratchplates are horrendous IMO, and are even worse on the guitars. The quality of the chrome plating on Ricks is sh*t as well.

    I have no problem with plastic parts on basses in general - I prefer plastic control knobs to metal ones in fact.[/quote]


    Actually the scratchplates are 3mm thick and the knobs are usually fitted to the shafts with grub screws instead of those horrible push on/fall off knobs of the likes of most other brands.
    Rics are also one of the best finished guitars in the business.

  10. You can use a couple of small panel pins,use a very small drill bit(same diameter as the pins) and drill two small holes then, just cut the pins with wire cutters to be long enough to stick out below the pickup base by a couple of millimetres, push them thru the holes and solder the pickup out put wires to them, you should then be able to solder the coil wires to the heads of the pins.
    Leave enough slack on the coil wires so you can secure them to the base with a small amount of wax or glue to stop them being snagged by anything when working on them, and use a protective tape to wrap the coil again to keep it clean.
    Sweat and grease from your fingers is not good for the wax coating of the coil wires.
    Have fun!
    :-)

  11. Cheers Simon!
    The sixes are really working out well and I had a great gig at wakefield last night with them.

    Alan, I,m in lincolnshire so I,m quite some way away for a quick visit.
    If you can,t find anyone local who can help tho, let me know.

    To repair the pickup correctly I,d suggest fitting two small pins into the base of the pickup near the centre of the coil and soldering each end of the coil to them then soldering new wires to the underside of the pins, much like a strat single coil pickup is wired.
    A small amount of glue can then be added to the pins to secure them.
    The pickup coil also looks like it needs new covering tape round the outside to protect the windings.

    First things first is to put a meter the coil end wires and see if the coil is still working.

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