bremen

[quote name='rohan' post='94539' date='Nov 26 2007, 01:51 PM']All sorted - I think he was trying to get a cheeky sale as he forgot to mention that it was a duplicate and me being the airhead that I am forgot that fenders are manafactured in JAPAN, not China

"hi sorry for late reply i have been away for the weekend the guitar is a AAA duplicate from china all guitars from there are dups they are very well made just as good as an original at a fraction of the price i have 2 myself,i have no problem if your not happy with this and want to withdraw your payment as i should have put this in my ad,please let me know if you withdraw your payment i am very sorry for the late reply and confusion
thanks phil"[/quote]

I love a happy ending :-)

[quote name='mybass' post='94490' date='Nov 26 2007, 12:44 PM']I found an address through Basschat for a supplier of Decal transfers, "The Decal Shop". However, I have recently spent over two weeks trying to get an order sorted with these people. They will not supply a phone number, (maybe something to do with them making "Fender" logos?) and there isn't an online page(s) to peruse for ideas. My first email went unanswered but they have replied since the second was sent. This reply gave a hint of some form of ordering but still not a direct contact detail.
Has anyone dealt with these people successfully? I am sure someone must have been able to order.
Any help appreciated.[/quote]

[url="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/GUITAR-DECALS-LOGOS-FOR-RESTORERS"]http://stores.ebay.co.uk/GUITAR-DECALS-LOGOS-FOR-RESTORERS[/url]

this guy is very helpful and communicative, drop him a line.

[quote name='Adam.M' post='94279' date='Nov 25 2007, 08:04 PM']I thought as much, thanks for the reply's guys!

It makes me worried that the speaker may become damaged or lose it's tone quite quickly, it started to sound a bit dead the other day and less growly but i think it could be my strings, they're the ones that were on the bass, fender stock ones, had the bass only a few weeks, though i have been hammering it quite a bit since i got it! i guess it's time to put some decent strings on it... now to research some.

The loud bang when turning the amp on still worries me but, i guess it's normal![/quote]

Unless it's a *really* loud band it won't harm the speaker - I mean does it just seem really loud because it's the first sound you hear from it and your hearing is still sensitive? I've heard the whistle before, that's probably the op-amps in the preamp becoming unstable as the voltage dies away. Probably harmless.

It's not very good engineering to allow those sorts of noises out though. Most power amps have a relay that connects the speaker only after everything's settled down, and disconnects immediately the power is off. It also protects the speakers should anything go badly wrong with the amp; I've seen speakers melted by amps that have suddenly decided to output 50V DC :-(

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='94150' date='Nov 25 2007, 03:46 PM']Come on then stick a price on it [/quote]

What do you think, 850 reasonable?

[quote name='3V17C' post='94130' date='Nov 25 2007, 02:34 PM']aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.





c[/quote]

That was surprisingly easy to read!

Nice avatar, elderly man.

Hi, anyone interested? I'm selling because though it looks and sounds lovely I prefer a big thick Precision type neck.

[quote name='[email protected]' post='93960' date='Nov 24 2007, 09:57 PM']wot eva u "elderly man" nd im 13 nd probs a way better bassist thn u![/quote]

offs :-(

flea is 45, elderly man indeed

'pimpmyjam probs a way better bassist' rotfl ;-)

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='91976' date='Nov 21 2007, 08:03 AM']Theres a great new Clatter video on youtube for
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hhMmpqlhY"]House of Touble[/url]

Amy & Joe replied to a msg I posted - They're planning a European tour for March next year. [/quote]

I'd never heard of them til now, but this is the sh1t! I'm there!

[quote name='ShaunB' post='93353' date='Nov 23 2007, 03:08 PM']Hi guys...

Just got this from Lee, and what a fine instrument - bodacious even!

Love it!

[/quote]

Nice finish! What wood is that? Are they Warmoth parts?

[quote name='tauzero' post='93340' date='Nov 23 2007, 02:36 PM']Yes, but I'll have to put the fish in the bath if you're going to borrow it.[/quote]

If your bath is going to be full of fish where will you put the coal?

[quote name='BeLow' post='91996' date='Nov 21 2007, 09:14 AM']Was just thinking they could have it all coming back through the monitors, then sticking amps on stage so it didn't look like they were miming.

Perhaps they ought to power up the amps next time though![/quote]

Or at least load up a few washing machines...

[quote name='Bassassin' post='90700' date='Nov 19 2007, 10:34 AM']I liked this one - quite touchingly honest:

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ibanez-Bass-One-year-old-Very-little-use_W0QQitemZ220168704282"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ibanez-Bass-One-year...emZ220168704282[/url]



Jon.[/quote]

Richer Sounds had a special offer on some speakers on their website with the comment "at this price they won't last long"

[quote name='walbassist' post='91179' date='Nov 19 2007, 11:24 PM']Whispher it quietly, but I haven't changed anything in my setup for must be pushing a year now. This is unheard of for me, but I honestly think that maybe I have finally found the perfect balance of basses and amps/cabs for me. Every time I play I can choose a bass to fit the gig perfectly, my rig copes with anything I throw at it, sounds wonderful and doesn't weigh a ton or take up an estate car to move around. It's a nice place to be.

Just for reference, the gear is as follows:

1966 Fender Jazz
1994 Ken Smith BMT 5 Elite
2006 Wal Mk III 5 (Fretted and Fretless necks)
1992 Martin BC40 Acoustic 4
into
Epifani PS600 amp and two PS112 cabs

When I think of all the money I've spent over the years on gear that came and went it's pretty depressing, but at least now I think I've got it sorted.

Just wanted to share....

Cheers all

Gareth[/quote]

Gah, you'd have to be a right miserable sod not to be happy with that lot ;-) All you need now is to stop your drummer speeding up and your guitarist going widdlywiddlywee between songs.

I'm still turning gear over at a terrible rate, glad to know there is such a happy state as GASslessness. Salut!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='90663' date='Nov 19 2007, 08:53 AM']Rock N Roll Star - Oasis.

On paper, it should work fine: well known song, glam rock feel but people don't go for it. They're at the bar before the vocals start. Maybe it's how we do it. It's on the subs bench these days. Only for emergencies.[/quote]

When you absolutely, positively gotta make every motherflippa leave the room...

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='78110' date='Oct 23 2007, 10:04 AM']I recall hearing a (supposedly true) story of someone returning a guitar tuner to a shop for that reason. He had left it plugged in overnight and the guitar was still out of tune in the morning. [/quote]

Was it this one? [url="http://www.gizmag.com/go/4951/"]http://www.gizmag.com/go/4951/[/url]

[quote name='tauzero' post='88320' date='Nov 14 2007, 11:36 AM']Don't understand that. Surely the only significant effect that having more and finer strands would have is to make the cable more flexible? After all, to affect the frequency response, it would have to significantly change the capacitive load that the cable presents, which is negligible (I don't think there would be any inductive component in the load). The resistive load would be about the same for the same cross-section, and should be very very low anyway.[/quote]

Some audiophools will tell you that finer strands show less 'skin effect' but it can be shown that skin effect is vanishingly small on mains cable up to over 1MHz, ie 50 times higher than any frequency we're concerned with.

The ideal companion for the Warwick you're about to buy: a 1979 Precision fretless. Was yellow til I took the paint off, now it's natural ash. Maple fingerboard, all original except pots, knobs and scratchplate (Warmoth replacement).

Ladies, gents,

anyone fancy a Thumb NT, 1991?

Looking for £850.

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='85305' date='Nov 8 2007, 10:25 AM']oh yeah, I've read that - it was quite good.
The book I like very much and is possibly contender for my favourite book ever, was Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington. That's a good read.[/quote]

Haha, yes! I fell off my chair laughing at bits of that. Snackpipe!

If you like that you'll like Bruce Robinson's (as in Withail and I) The Unusual Memories of Thomas Penman. And Paranoia in the Laundrette.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='85273' date='Nov 8 2007, 09:46 AM']Well folks, my annual trip to sunny places for 2 weeks for sun and a major chill with the 'ole lady looms.......

Things not allowed are bass and guns (obvious reasons) for me, and anything Hockey related for Sal, so we have to spend time with each other.... Actually it really does you good, no work pressure or time constriants because of time consuming pastimes.

It does give us time to read, which is something that will extremely pleasent where we are going..... so .......

[b]What bass or muso related books can you recommend? [/b]

No theory please, have plenty of them!

Done lots of repair theory and practice!

Do enjoy music history (but not heavy theory based stuff!)

Do enjoy lighthearted suff too!

Still got 4 weeks before we go so have time to get stuff from the US if you know of a 'must have!"[/quote]

Iain Banks' Espedair Street is good 'beach fiction', about a seventies superstar band that I suspect might have been inspired by the Who.

I have 3 Warmoths, all superb. +1 on the suggestion to use lightweight tuners to compensate for the heavy (but hopefully stable) necks. My swamp ash dinky P (maple neck, hipshot through-body bridges and Seymour Duncan P and J pickups) is probably the lightest bass I've ever lifted and also the nastiest sounding - that's nasty as in NICE by the way.

[quote name='charic' post='83661' date='Nov 4 2007, 07:41 PM']How on EARTH are you able to get a warmoth build for that sort of price? Usually when i design mine theyre around £600 :s[/quote]

Maybe he hadn't thought about VAT, duty and shipping. Or paint, or a second pickup. Mine cost about 500, but great quality and very lovely to play. Charic, did you build one, or just get as far as a wishlist?

[quote name='TheButler' post='5424' date='May 23 2007, 10:36 PM']Harley Benton is the Thomann stuff yeh ? I don't see why it wouldn't be worth a punt. They are maybe not as goof value for money as an SX for the US but i think the only way you'll get a pretty decent represntation of how they are is by buying one [/quote]

I do a lot of business with Thomann and they are great value (though very busy, and it's generally a day or two before you get a reply to emails). If you decide you don't like the guitar within 30 days they'll arrange for UPS to come round and pick it up, no charge.