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  1. Jack
    Traded. Pending the usual, anyway.
  2. Jack
    Just bought a BF Midget from Jez. Great guy, smooth deal, lovely.
  3. Jack
    I bought Jeff's Dean Sledgehammer. Great buy and a pleasure to deal with, buy with confidence.
  4. Jack
    I've never thought about it. Just basses, aren't they?
  5. Jack
    I'm sorry, I know it must be annoying when people post in sale threads not asking to buy it but I came in here seeing if you wanted a 'Ray5 as a trade, you don't (4.9kg) so I'll just leave a note to say that's one of my favourite guitar colours ever.
  6. Jack
    BUMP. I have a great trade offer on the table, but me and the other owner are struggling to be able to meet up. By mutual consent this is still for sale until such time as we can arrange to get together. I have added trade options to the top post, I'm more than happy to entertain anything though. I'd be up for an unusual deal, like if you had a significantly cheaper bass and you could throw the rest my way in cash. My main gigging bass is a £300 Dean, so I do like the midrange stuff, ideal if you want to move to a Stingray and you don't want to sell your current bass! Go on try me, the worst I can say is no!
  7. Jack
    For my sins, I used to be in charge for fleet cars for the NHS, I'm also a proper off road nut who's owned far too many cars. At the NHS, we used to regularly use the demo cars for hauling stuff, so I've got a little experience with this. If you want, I'll upload some 'what fits in the boot of' photos sometime, it's amazing what you can fit in some cars. Anyway..... If it was me buying a car just for this, I'd buy a Renault Scenic. I've had 2, a 53 and a 54 plate as second cars over the years and they're brilliant. I bought mine for £400 and £475 respectively and ran them for a total of 23000 miles without a single repair bill. I'd still have my second if a tractor hadn't ran over it at the download festival. The 1.5 diesel gets 55+mpg and they will hold everything. Everything. I've been to download in them twice with 5 people, 5 tents, 5 lots of luggage and 5 lots of booze. Other recommendations: Nissan Navara - I ran one as my main car for about 2 years, they're great haulers and decent off roaders but they are expensive to run. VW Sharan - My guitarist has a sha-van and they hold a LOT of gear, probably more than my Scenic but I've never owned one so I can't comment on cost or reliability etc. Subaru Outback - My main car currently, massive boot. But perhaps not the best choice if it;s purely for carrying gear.
  8. Jack
    Please keep the trade offers an such coming in. I know there are a few Ray 5s on here at the moment so please do make an offer, either trades or cash, the worst I can say is no. I'm going to be in Birmingham Tuesday and Wednesday and then York on Friday. London next week. I'm happy to bring the bass with me on any of these trips if that would help anyone out.
  9. Jack
    Yeah, I hate to sound like a stuck record but you're the perfect candidate for barefaced. If you buy new you'll get Alex's amazing returns policy and if you buy (sensibly) second hand then you should be able to sell it without losing any money. If you've really always got a pa system then pick up a Barefaced Midget. It'll do stage volume anywhere and there aren't too many gigs where it wouldn't do at least some FOH duties if you asked it to. 13 posts without pictures, basschat is losing our mojo
  10. Jack
    I'll take the De'Armond?
  11. Jack
    Will you post?
  12. Jack
    [quote name='Callumjord' timestamp='1483801988' post='3210235'] I would love to try a BF to see if the hype really is to be true, looked on their website and the nearest owner to me is a good 3hr drive away [/quote] Where are you? We're not all on the website.
  13. Jack
    If it was a 4 in the same colours then it wouldn't be for sale!
  14. Jack
    Hello everyone, It is with great regret that I am listing my EBMM Stingray 5 for sale. 4 years ago I moved house, and temporarily stored all my belongings in my old room in my parents' house. I never did move the Ray 5 back out, it's sat in it's case since then which I think says a lot about how much I play it. I just never got around the whole 5-string thing. My 4-string Ray still gets played every day. When I first got it I played it a lot and tried to bond, so it has a a small mark on the body on the bass strong side, this is shown in one of the photos. Mint really apart from that. Oh, there neck plate is slightly worn down from rubbing on my not-inconsiderable stomach. The beauty of being fat is that my pants stay up, so there's no bucklerash... It plays great with the sound, build quality, feel and consistency that MM are famous for. There's no hunting for a good one with MM like you do with Fender and there are no duds either, they're all amazing. It comes in its' original EBMM hardcase and has some of the case candy. It's currently strung with fresh EBMM Slinkys. I am the original owner and I distinctly remember picking it up on Valentine's Day 2004. It is serial number E01197, made 12/01/2004 and was notarized by EBMM in 2011 [url="http://forums.ernieball.com/ernie-ball-music-man-basses/1254-music-serial-database-406.html#post846669"]here[/url]. Sound Control in Newcastle ordered it via Strings and Things from EB themselves, this bass was literally built for me as at the time the maple board without the painted headstock was a difficult combo to find. I don't think the configurator on the EBMM site is still there, shame really. I live in Newcastle but I travel a lot with work. I can likely meet up in most major towns in the North East or Yorkshire and I travel to London a lot too. This price includes UK postage and the official EBMM hard case. [s]I would prefer a straight sale as I'm so picky with basses but if you have happen to have a modern 4 string with a MM pickup or similar and a maple neck then please make an offer. My dream bass is a Clover Avenger, I'm gutted I missed out on the one for sale here recently.[/s] Edit for trade options: I do like maple fretboards and humbuckers generally. I would consider trades or part exchanges for: Clover Avenger MM Bongo MM Stingray (In fact, pretty much anything EBMM apart from a Sterling!) Warwick Ibanez Unusual/rare stuff, try me! I have attached two pictures, but more can be found [url="http://s52.photobucket.com/user/sparkythebunny/library/EMBB%20Stingray%205"]by clicking here[/url].
  15. Jack
    Subbed for photos.
  16. Jack
    Yes of course, it would get anything coming into the input of the amp and occasionally the amp's gain control too. Worth noting that they're usually before the effects loop though, just in case you have any effects in there.
  17. Jack
    Pm
  18. Jack
    I wouldn't stress to much over the bass itself, surely everyone has room for a Fender? If not then I have owned (and liked) a Cort Curbow and a Hohner Jack, both of which are a little smaller than average despite being full scale. If there's no room for an amp then what about a headphone amp? Or something like a little mixer that he could plug his bass and headphones into for practice and then into whatever the girlfriend uses to amplify her keys if he needed. I've got a Behringer Xenyx that sounds just fine with the bass into a 1/4" input and then out to headphones.
  19. Jack
    Looks great and the video online it does sound good. I'm a real lightweight when it comes to gear but I still love big amps and the 19" format, very jealous. Just as a minor point, a fully-parametric eq has width or q controls to control the width of the curve that is being boosted or cut. So there are three controls per band. With no q control, that's a semi-parametric eq.
  20. Jack
    [quote name='Shambo' timestamp='1482668819' post='3202153'] I'd definitely consider a Warmoth body, but I'd like to think there's a UK luthier who'd be happy to supply something comparable. [/quote] I'm sure [url="http://classicandcoolguitars.co.uk/limelight-custom-gallery/"]Limelight[/url] would make you an exceptional one, probably around £800-£900 so a little over your budget but hey, if it's perfect it may be worth it.
  21. Jack
    Well then tell her thank you! I'll test it out asap and then I've got gigs the 27th and 1st. The same to you two (and any mini Smoothhounds that there may be).
  22. Jack
    Mine was ordered yesterday afternoon and arrived this morning (Christmas eve!). I haven't had the chance to test it yet but based on this alone Chris is the man.
  23. Jack
    Otto, Shame this one was sold, but do you mind if I ask, was it a hassle to order one from the US? PM if you feel it's more appropriate.
  24. Jack
    [quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1482309156' post='3199316'] Genuine question. Why are big old speakers more efficient? [/quote] They're not really. Speakers are the one analog holdout in an increasingly digital world and whilst they are getting marginally better they haven't had a revolution on anywhere near the scale of other parts of a signal chain. Neodymium helped, meaning magnets were stronger and therefore could be made lighter but really they're much of a muchness. In short, they are getting slightly more efficient not less, but really they're not moving a great deal. I have a pet theory that older speakers seemed louder because we never expected big bass from them. So maybe they were more efficient in the upper registers at the expense on the boomy bass. I dunno.
  25. Jack
    I bought a GK MBE150-III head from Colin and it was a great deal. It was about 3 days from payment to arrival (the best you can expect 4 days before xmas) and it was the best packaging I've ever seen. Head in bubblewrap a laptop bag in more bubble wrap in packing peanuts in a really sturdy cardboard box. He's a really pleasant guy, you can buy or sell with confidence in my experience.
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