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[quote name='LukeFRC' post='1200115' date='Apr 14 2011, 11:41 PM']reguardless of the merits of the bass that is one of the worst reviews/introduction i've ever seen.... really really if i cut the high and boost the low it might be more reggae? wtf? i stopped watching when he started to tell me the bridge pup would be more 'funky'....[/quote] Needs the Ed Friedland review really.

There was a limited edition in the early 1990s I think.

In the late 1970s I had a 1950s tan Fender Bassman 4x10 combo for which I paid (IIRC) £80 - a week's wages. Sold it quite quickly for about the same £. The one in the pic below is going for $11,000:

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='1199934' date='Apr 14 2011, 08:58 PM']I like it, wonder how much?[/quote] $4500 is the MRRP so probably $3000 or so street price. That's for the US model. Skylines coming next year sometime I believe.

Where's the missing link, Gareth? Is it this one?

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1198447' date='Apr 13 2011, 05:23 PM']I would at least expect to find a set of allen keys for the truss rod adjustment and for the bridge saddles, those should have been in the box. Heck I've just bought a Squier 50's P Bass and it came in a very sturdy cardboard box, but it had all the allen keys I've just mentioned[/quote] When I bought a CV Jazz there was no allen key. When I queried this in the shop, the guy told me: 'We don't really like to give out the allen keys because people don't know how to use them properly and then we have to repair the guitar'.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='1198958' date='Apr 14 2011, 12:36 AM']Was playing one at the London Bass Show on the Bass Gear Stand. Quite few 'real' upright players tried it and liked it: it also has some cool electronics that enable you to add reverb and the like. For me it was a little too small even with the spike fully out, there again I am 6'4"! I think Phil still has it in stock, maybe look on his website: [url="http://www.bassgear.co.uk/products-page/pre-owned/takemine-b10-fretless-pre-owned/"]http://www.bassgear.co.uk/products-page/pr...less-pre-owned/[/url][/quote] Unusually the one in the link is lined. I've only ever seen the unlined before. There's no lined option on the Takamine site.

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='1198894' date='Apr 13 2011, 11:19 PM']Exactly The Wilbury's and anything that Jeff Lynne has ever touched is total w***! [/quote] I wonder if Tom Petty agrees with you.

That was very interesting. Thanks.

[quote name='Soliloquy' post='1198928' date='Apr 13 2011, 11:57 PM']I do find it slightly ironic that the main contributor to this thread sold a bass to a guy on here last year. The guy drove all the way to pick it up, a round trip I think of a few hundred miles. The bass had been advertised with certain pickups, I can't remember exactly what I was told. When he got there the seller said "Oh, I hope you don't mind, but I've swapped out the pickups on the bass". Well it was a bit late then wasn't it if he did mind. The guy had also put a mark on the front of the bass by not being too careful swapping the pickups over. Anyway, I subsequently bought the bass which is when I was told the story.[/quote] So, this story which you 'can't remember exactly' is hearsay and may or may not be accurate. How is that helpful to this thread? As for 'the main contributor to this thread', does that mean the OP; or the person with the most posts in the thread; or who? You may think you're not being personal but you've still got some of us trying to work out who you are accusing - i.e. the person you identify as 'the main contributor to this thread'.

[quote name='daz' post='1198504' date='Apr 13 2011, 06:28 PM']I know i must be missunderstanding this somehow ?![/quote] [quote name='Beedster' post='1198508' date='Apr 13 2011, 06:32 PM']Easily done, the key is in the first page on the link Dave posted above C[/quote] However, once you read the other thread, you may find that the key doesn't fit the lock.

[quote name='Beedster' post='1198333' date='Apr 13 2011, 03:52 PM']Oh man, I just p****d myself picturing a colony of ants making off with your Decade (probably taking it up to that bloke in Scotland, he trains the ants you see...). I'm about 4 hours behind on work thanks to this thread [/quote] ... and wasn't his name ANThonyMurray!!!!

[quote name='Beedster' post='1198308' date='Apr 13 2011, 03:42 PM']Dealt with an ant colony? So, you gave them a UK voltage amp and they gave you a bass and some cash?[/quote] That's correct but now I can't find the thread. It seems to have disappeared; as have the ants.

[quote name='Beedster' post='1198231' date='Apr 13 2011, 02:55 PM']True Dave, but you can change the title and the text of all your own posts so that it becomes almost impossible to find. Shouldn't you be doing something more relaxing on your hols mate C[/quote] I'm having a very nice day. Fixed the kitchen lights; had a haircut; been to the dentists; dealt with an ant colony; played some bass; a spot of lunch; and tonight going to see the Jim Jones Revue.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1198221' date='Apr 13 2011, 02:41 PM']Can you delete your own thread or does a mod have to do it???[/quote] I think you can't delete your own thread once someone has replied.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1198218' date='Apr 13 2011, 02:38 PM']That's weird. The original sale thread doesn't show up on a normal forum search, nor do geester's and oldman's posts in the thread show up in their posting history??? So it's cached in google but not viewable on the forum? I'm really muddled now.[/quote] Curiouser and curiouser.

[quote name='flyfisher' post='1198193' date='Apr 13 2011, 02:15 PM']Sounds like a "let's dream up a scam" sort of thing. As already mentioned, it sounds like a lot of effort for little reward. Plus, as mentioned, serial numbers would quickly reveal the scam. Another thought, I believe fixed-voltage appliances tend to have fixed mains plugs, whereas universal ones tend to have IEC connectors and are supplied with the appropriate 'kettle leads', so a fixed-voltage US amp would be rather easy to spot. The whole premise sounds daft to me.[/quote] Completely daft. It reminded me of this one: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=131539"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=131539[/url]

[quote name='Beedster' post='1198069' date='Apr 13 2011, 12:42 PM']Most aren't damning him Joe, most - as is usual here - are debating the rights and wrongs of the type of thread. We really should all get more demanding jobs [/quote] I'm on holiday!

[quote name='Toasted' post='1197994' date='Apr 13 2011, 12:03 PM']I think it's unseemly. I also hate the trial by basschat that goes on. Every **** throwing their 10p in on what they should have done. Revised suggestion: Make it public, but have a single post from the unhappy buyer or seller, have a single post from the unhappy seller or buyer and leave it at that. I had to laugh at the Bass Direct thread last night when Truckstop was whinging on, yet in a thread just over a month ago he detailed how he'd have committed fraud in a previous trade "if only his conscience hadn't got the better of him". Pure jokes.[/quote] I think you have an important point about 'trial by Basschat' and it often being unseemly, especially when people are too eager to say what they think when they really don't know the facts.

[quote name='Skezza' post='1197957' date='Apr 13 2011, 11:35 AM']I just read an Caveat Emptor piece which gives motive to this one of yours mmmm skez[/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=131659&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=131659&hl=[/url]

[quote name='Beedster' post='1197934' date='Apr 13 2011, 11:15 AM']+1, it would have saved a few people a few pounds in the past had other BCers been similarly willing to discuss problems with specific instruments, amps, or members (not saying the above scenario relates to any of these categories). Although these threads are uncomfortable, IMO that these things are in the open does build trust within the community.[/quote] I agree, with one proviso: it shouldn't go public until there has been a serious attempt to sort it in private.

I had one of these new from about 1977 to 1979. I had the slave version as well and used to run two Electrovoice 1x15 reflex PA bins with them. Loud.

[quote name='Thunderpaws' post='1196813' date='Apr 12 2011, 02:02 PM']Got her home today after waiting years for funds to become available. She plays like a dream. The guys at Guitar Guitar did a fine job, adjusting the action til I was happy enough to take her home. Sounds amazing though my Ampeg BA115, though not as amazing as through the Mesa Boogie M3 Carbine in the booth in the shop. [attachment=77289:G_L_1.jpg] [attachment=77290:G_L_2.jpg] [attachment=77291:G_L_3.jpg] anyone fancy a jam?![/quote] Very nice. I used to have the five-string version about which I liked everything except the fifth string.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1196127' date='Apr 11 2011, 07:43 PM']Tech 21 replied very quickly to my email. Great service! I'll wait for V2 before ordering. Here is the response: Thanks for your inquiry. The speaker simulation mostly eliminates the "fizz" you get from high-gain settings of a tube amp (which the VT will emulates). When recording or playing through a PA system, instead of the "flat", lifeless tone of just a preamp, it offers a more natural mic'd cabinet tone. I should say that it seems that guitar players are a bit more fanatical about not adding our speaker emulation (which merely adds the "focused", studio quality tone of a multiply-mic'ed cabinet) to their guitar speakers (which they may have spent a good amount of time choosing according to personal preference), before even hearing it. But we've never heard from bass players who decided they couldn't possibly use our products because the speaker emulation wasn't defeatable. There probably aren't that many different models of bass speakers to begin with, anyway. But at least the switch offers the option of using it or not. Either way, you've still got the active EQ to help you arrive at your tone. [/quote] Interesting reply. My version 1 sounds great.

[quote name='Thunderpaws' post='1195584' date='Apr 11 2011, 12:20 PM']Thanks. Reason prevails. Now, I am about to go to the post office then for a walk. Then I am going to sort out a leaky gutter. Then I am going to Glasgow for the PRS evening. I wont be on here all afternoon/evening... Cheers, Garry[/quote] Now you're mixing up Basschat and Facebook. Well done on getting your money back.