Grand Wazoo

The amp in my Ibanez Promethean 5110 combo its not working, there are no external fuses ports for you to check fuses as it is a digital Class D amp. the lights come on except for the mute on / off switch light and as a result you can't get any sound out of it, the EQ on off lights do work but not the Vibe on/off lights. Something is obviously wrong with it, I don't know of any reputable repair men that can work on these mickey mouse little digital amps, do you?

Thete you go Simples!

Apparently you can have it clipped on the back of the headstock and all you see is one end of the clamp. Not really a big fashion fau pas, is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msORx8g0Hdg

Oh damn... The Thrill Is Gone! RIP I had a feeling he wasn't going to be ok after I read these news just last week http://www.stereogum.com/1798591/b-b-king-hospitalized-following-claims-of-elder-abuse/news/

Number 1) I love that colour Number 2) Never tried a John East on a Ray but I did on a Precision and it was the nuts. Number 3) Great choice of pickup Nordstrang know their stuff when it comes to pickups Well done on all point, and please do not post this on the Ernie Ball forum cause they'll only give you grief

[quote name='Linus27' timestamp='1428790545' post='2744634'] Amazing basses but also a bit marmite. I adore mine but I do feel more comfortable playing a Precision or a Jazz. Will always own one as they are amazing. [/quote] Pretty much what it is. Marmite

Hang 'em high! Just make sure you fit the Hercules clamps to a solid wall, use longer screws and heavy duty wall plugs. Fit and forget! [url="http://s144.photobucket.com/user/xt660/media/761198e9.jpg.html"][/url]

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1406499302' post='2512005'] Gents - the very first production Big Al basses were alder. Later changed to mahogany, which they still are (for weight reasons) - I once tried a 4 string acoustically and it was very nice - well balanced and very resonant (and it was an alder one). [/quote] In the words of Del Boy.... [i][b]"I'll make a note of that in my Filofax"[/b][/i]

[quote name='jimijimmi' timestamp='1406213998' post='2509396'] check out Jason Lollar pick ups. [/quote] YES and then get this kit: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WIRING-KIT-FOR-FENDER-PRECISION-BASS-HIGH-QUALITY-/271556380948?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item3f3a058914

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1406231554' post='2509659'] That's great. Just enjoy what you've got. I spend less time on bass forums because of these types of outcomes. Probably a good thing because I've realised none of this actually matters. [/quote] Yeah me too I hardly spend anytime here, too busy.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1406230642' post='2509649'] I don't think anything I said was a personal vendetta, but I didn't expect anything less from you. Get a grip man. You sold all your basses that you praised because you fell out with the company. You praised the Bongo for years. End of. I wish you well with Dingwall but they are boutique instruments, and rare. You will not make money on them. That isn't the point. Money is not everything in life. [/quote] You don't listen do you Gareth? I said already I'm not even contemplating making money on my Dingwall basses, they are here to stay, besides I'm good enough with money and I don't need to make more

For a few years EBMM were on the top of my list, the best Stingray 5 I had was the first one I bought in 1989 with the Alnico pickup, later they changed it to Ceramic, and then changed it back to Alnico I didn't know that, however I sold that first Stingray in a moment of madness, and missed not having it so when I bought the 2nd one in 2002 it had the ceramic pckup and I hated it, so I changed it with a Seymour Duncan alnico, but it wasn't the same, lovely bass to play but the sound was never the same as the 1989 one. from 2002 I sailed for 5 or 6 years non stop spending the least time necessary ashore, not more than 2 months at the time and I was back on board going around the North Europe to West Africa ports 45 days round trips, and then got back to normal life doing short sea trips only within European ports in 2008. That's when I got back into it and started to buy basses again, of course my first port of call was EBMM basses and the 25th Anniversary being one of my favorite. The Bongo was so so, didn't quite float my boat, the Big Al was probably the best of them all, in hindsight. First stingray 5 [url="http://s144.photobucket.com/user/xt660/media/StingRay590smodel1_zpsff19c5dc.jpg.html"][/url] This was the 2nd one I bought but for some reason didn't match up the first one at all maybe even the body wood might have been different. [url="http://s144.photobucket.com/user/xt660/media/StingRay500smodel2_zpsd4cd424d.jpg.html"][/url]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1406210750' post='2509357'] Would you get every penny back on all the dingwalls if something else came along, you might say yes but you know you wouldn't. [/quote] Pete I agree, one can never say never if something better does come along, then I'll consider my options. One thing is for sure, I've had these Dingwalls for over 3 years and they've all got minimal wear and tear, they couldn't possibly be sold as in pristine conditions as the ones I mentioned above, however when I bought the ABZ 5 I paid £1450 cash and the same bass now is listed by Bass Direct at £1999, the other two more expensive ones have also gone up in price by the same percentage, so I might just break even if I was that way inclined, but I have no desire to do so for the foreseeable future.

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1406186074' post='2509058'] Bit harsh... [/quote] Yep harsh but true as they say. what's the point in sugar coating things?

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1406180576' post='2509022'] It might be worth noting that as mine was an early one it was made of mahogany, and IIRC it sound was a lot darker than whatever the switched too. [/quote] Yeah, so was the one I had. Couldn't tell the difference between that and another ash body I tried later

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1406145209' post='2508805'] [color=#ee82ee][i][b]blah blah blah.....[/b][/i][/color] [color=#0000ff][size=4][b]Not sure whether it matters whether you 'make' money on a bass....that isn't why it do it personally.[/b][/size][/color] [/quote] Gareth, it might not matter to you, but if you set on a search for the ultimate bass, [b]knowing well in advance[/b] that this will involve buying and reselling lots of basses, by getting rid of those that didn't meet your expectations, you don't want to do that at a loss do you, you clever clog? Which is why it makes sense that you must try and get most of your money back if not all of it. That my friend, it's simple mathematics and the only way you keep afloat in the game of buying & selling for the purpose of the search which I've described above! One of the [b]many[/b] differences between me and you Gareth, is that I would flog a bass that I've bought and not liked, while you would send it back because there is a scratch on the cardboard box it came in or the box was the wrong colour and the shipping label was glued at a funny angle, or maybe because Strings & Things didn't include Nectar points for your loyalty card.

I had a lovely Candy Apple Red 3 x single neodymium p/ups with maple fingerboard briefly between July 2010 and Dec 2010, barely 5 months. I was going through a period of time where I would just buy and sell a lot of basses in my continuous search for the holy grail of bass i.e. something that I would find good enough for me to consider it a keeper, I am not a collector, so the basses I keep is because they become essential to me. Luckily by the 2nd part of 2010 to 2011, that search did come to final stop as per the pics in my signature line. The Big Al... well how can I put it, from one perspective it had a very wide array of sound possibilities, the Swiss army knife of basses, imagine you have 3 pickups each one can be turned on and off by a button on the pickguard, with all the pickup in the off position you get the neck pickup and middle pickups in series, you have an active / passive by-pass switch, and a 4 band eq on 2 concentric knobs, Bass / Treble and Hi Mid / Low Mid, and finally Vol and Tone knobs, the EQ only works in the active mode, and the tone control only works in the passive mode. If you work it out, that's a lot of sounds possibilities at your disposal (I make it 16 different pickup selection between active and passive),which for some it's the complete opposite of the "less is more" theory. Despite its edgy shape it was very comfortable to play both standing up and sitting down, very well balanced and just shy of 10lbs mine weighed 9lbs 7oz or 4.42Kgs which is an average weight for MM basses. African mahogany body / Maple neck The neck profile was an exact copy of the stingray 5, though I believe the 4 string version has a Sterling profile i.e. a bit more narrow at the top. I had already 3 other Musicman basses (Stingray 5. Bongo 5 HHP and 25th Anniversary 5 which became the Reflex) and was hoping that this one would be a breakthrough but sadly I never bonded with it, truth is I got bored with it the first 2 weeks, why? bcause you fiddle and diddle to dial the perfect sound and never find one that really makes you go "oooooohh!" so I've put it up for sale before the end of the first month I bought, and I can admit that the Big Al was the hardest bass I've had to sell it, it took me 4 months to find a buyer, no one here was interested, and it finally sold on ebay, the only bass I've sold at a loss, every other bass I sold I either got my full money back or made a small profit, whereas with this one, I lost £190, as it went to a man in Ireland and costed me an arm and a leg to send it there. What killed my MusicMan addiction was The Bass Gallery in Camden, when browsing for pedals, I tried a Dingwall ABZ 5, and the rest is history. Search over, I haven't looked at any other brand except for the classic Fender range of which I still own 2 beautiful pieces. A couple of pics of the Big Al 5 [URL=http://s144.photobucket.com/user/xt660/media/BigAl_zpsc3d8b1a2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/xt660/BigAl_zpsc3d8b1a2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s144.photobucket.com/user/xt660/media/BigAl2_zpsc0aa8a27.jpg.html][IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/xt660/BigAl2_zpsc0aa8a27.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Well the fact is, the average gigging band does not have roadies that can hand you a pre-tuned capo'ed guitar in between songs! If one must use a capo, then unfortunately the characteristics of that silly device, once clamped on the fingerboard of very thin strings, is that it affects the tuning. Not so much on guitars with a fixed bridge, but it causes all kind of tuning problems to floating bridges, tremolo's and the likes. Best avoided if you don't want to bore the pants of the audience.

A legend, and one by one we are losing them all R.I.P. http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/r-i-p-johnny-winter-blues-legend-dead-at-70/

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1404765927' post='2495582'] Apologies if I misread what I thought was a joke...my last post on the previous page where I say we have a prize for the next Bash followed by your photo of my Ritter... [/quote] Haha! I see, nah I was just showcasing your lovely bass

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1404754297' post='2495453'] Oh and BTW, my Ritter is not one of the prizes for the next Bash....cheers Fran. [/quote] Huh? Who said that?