bigjohn

Nice. Yeah - don't worry too much about it feeling fragile. Mine's tough as old boots!

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1355792124' post='1902947'] They have landed, and they are great! [/quote] Excellent, excellent...

Just under navel. I have a perfectly sculpted gut which sits in the contour of my P bass...

Turn the treble up? It's hard to get pick tone without a pick. You can get something close but the there's always less attack simply cos your fingers are softer than the hard edge.

Comparing vinyl to cd on the same HiFi isn't really playing fair. The signal chains are different. The vinyl chain has a phono-preamp. It's like plugging a passive bass into a nice pre-amp and saying "wow, listen to this, it's alive with these sounds and dynamics", then comparing it with an active bass plugged straight into a poweramp and saying it sounds dull and crap. Have a listen to a decent HiFi with a decent DAC and compare that with vinyl. The digital stuff sounds fine then.

Cool. Yeah, they are very well built I used to gig mine with no cover or case and it survived completely unmarked. Amazing really.

I have the B3158, which is similar to the B3 except it's biamped with an 8" aswell as the 15". They're good amps. Not LOUD, but great tone and very well built. they can be a bit prone to overheating. I paid £275 for mine a while back. Maybe 6 or 7 years ago.

I like the Jim Dunlops. But then I only have one strap and three basses (that I use) - JDs easy to unlock and lock. Easier than Schallers I think. A lot easier than Grolsch washers and others. And yes, I find I have to remove the strap to get any of them into an SKB or Hiscox case. So ease of removal is important really.

I'll take 4 if it makes the order quicker. I dont mind. Or someone else could have a couple if by the time they arrive they wanted them.

I'd be up for a couple if theres still any going, or become free, or if anyone wants to order some more?

Someone offers less that you want. You can decline it. The offer is their risk, not yours. I don't understand people complaining or feeling insulted or annoyance at the sheer thought of a haggle. If you're selling something, that's the deal. That's the way it is. If you sell stuff, someone eventually is going to offer you less than you want for it. Get over it. Or don't sell stuff. If you're really incapable of entering into a conversation on price, then maybe put "strictly no offers" in the advert (for simple courtesy) then don't reply to offers. Or deal with it however you like, I don't care really but getting annoyed or feeling insulted by someone offering you an exchange (be it cash, sex or magic beans) for something you want rid of is pretty strange behaviour in my book! Doing nobody any favours, especially yourselves.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1354749209' post='1890088'] The really odd thing is that some people can get so upset during the process of negotiation. [/quote] Yeah. I don't get it. Someone wants to sell something. There are a plethora of factors that influence the price which they will sell, similar the potential buyer and the price they will pay. There's nothing to get upset about! Especially considering the relative ease with which sales are mostly conducted on here. Reading a PM at your leisure, no matter how ridiculous is not like waiting in all afternoon for some idiot to come and kick the tyres off your car.

It's easier to get a gig being a bassist I play a bit of guitar too, but I've got very little interest in showing off how crap I am at it to a wider audience. I've got no problem showing off how crap I am at bass though.

Sounds better than it looks too. Which is an achievement!

I have some "experience" of John Chambers' amps. Though mostly to look at, I have seen/heard a 1000W bass valve amp turned on and music played though it as his place. I can't remember what he called it... killer or squasher or something or other. John was a bass player back in the day. It was immense and looked very dangerous! He makes some lovely amps to oggle at Unfortunately, I've only had repairs done through him rather than buying any of his stuff (bar the odd NOS valve, which he does a good line in). I'm mates with the fella that winds his transformers who also makes some rather lovely valve HiFi. Seriously lovely.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1354116980' post='1882262'] I turned up halfway through a gig once. I was quickly told to turn down again. [/quote] [i]Pardon?[/i]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1354020998' post='1880855'] At least one per song - and probably a lot more if you include things that are musically correct but not actually what I ought to have been playing. However in over 30 years of gigging I don't think I've ever messed up so badly that it's brought the song to a halt. As others have said it doesn't matter. I've now learnt not to acknowledge mine or anyone else's mistakes. They are over as soon as you play the next right note and long forgotten by the end of the next bar. [/quote] Aye. That's about where I'm at. Some songs in our set I have a bassline for the whole song in my head. It's rare I get from start to finish playing each note exactly as I want. But that's life. Being a musician is about embracing that and being creative with it. Some songs I'm just happy I know "how it goes" and it's never gonna be the same every time anyway as the songs are long and are mainly instrumental. That's a different thing but again, that's life. Embrace it and be creative. No-one notices anyway if things get a bit out of line! I've played one really bad gig where I couldn't hear myself onstage at all. It was just mud. With no vocal either. Now that gig was littered with awful mistakes all over. What made it worse was that FOH everyone could hear everything clear as a bell.

Omega 3 fatty acids are where it's at. And the balance between them and Omega 6. I take flaxseed oil every day at that has really helped with my bad joints. Even my big right toe which I have a bad case (supposedly untreatable other than cortisone injection) of impact arthritis in from a football injury.

Just get an NOS Blackburn made Mullard and forget ahbaht it... Especially if it's just one. They're expensive, but it's not like you're fitting five of the buggers.

I've got an Amplug (original Japanese made version) and it's great. It's not amazing, but it's a fun little thing for playing with. They cost about £20/£30 though, so I'm not sure I'd part with £100 for a pair of headphones with one in. I'd rather have an Amplug and a decent pair of headphones. Unless money was no object of course. One detriment would be that I often play with my Amplug using a pair of open foam on ear headphones, that means I can play along with stuff. Wouldn't be possible with these. Though they have an Aux in (as does the Amplug) that's not the same thing at all.

Nice pre-amp you've got there. I've seen people use an angled jack and put the cable through the rack mount hole.

Hiscox Lite Flights are boss. As incidentally are SKB X Series shallow racks... Soz to hear of your troubles!

Lovin' the bass and drums.

I always thought it was Gail Ann Dorcy.