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  1. Rich
    How Soon is Now? - Smiths
  2. Rich
    Tell Me There's A Heaven - Chris Rea
  3. Rich
    Ditto!
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    In Memoriam

    Rich replied to Kiwi's topic in Site News

    MB1 😎
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    So sad to think that I'm never going to see another post that begins with MB1 😎 again. As others have said, 59 is no age at all. RIP brother, my deepest condolences to your family.
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    Victoria - The Kinks
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    Apologies, I forgot to add the little LOL face to show that I'm not actually serious.
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    It reminds me of the old saying, "just because you can doesn't mean you should" I'll stick with Amy Turk for my harp listening, I think.
  9. Rich
    Heavy Clouds, No Rain - Sting
  10. Rich
    A cool idea, but the Schaller pickup doesn't have a removable casing.
  11. Rich
    Does the relative stiffness or even the resonance of the cabinet wood have any bearing? Is there any advantage to be had by one particular wood -- e.g. any advantage to using ply rather than MDF, apart from it being lighter?
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    Why????

    Rich replied to Nicko's topic in General Discussion

    My practice/rehearsal amp is a 1x12 Behringer 60 watt combo that cost me 30 quid. My band is a 12-piece including horns and whatnot, and the wee Behr is quite loud enough to keep up with it.
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    Pat testing

    Rich replied to a topic in General Discussion

    Ditto.
  14. Rich
    You forgot: If cutting suddenly becomes more sluggish & difficult, stop and move panel further out from the edge of your workbench, which now has a 1" slot sawn into it.
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    Pat testing

    Rich replied to a topic in General Discussion

    In 35 years of gigging, I've been told by two venues that my gear must be PAT tested. Neither time did they actually check, not even a cursory glance at the stickers on the plugs.
  16. Rich
    Ain't Too Proud to bEgg - The Temptations
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    A rummage around in the old spares box (more like a spares crate these days) has come up with a single Schaller J neck pickup, looks like the one pictured below. Huge great big polepieces like a Seymour 1/4 pounder, measures 13K on the meter. Yowch. I'm going to pop this big boy into the bass and see what it's like. If it sounds good, I won't need to go to the huge faff of putting in the split P. EDIT: Old pickups hooked out, big fat Schaller installed. Oh. My. GOD this thing is brutal. Just what it needed So now I’m off to the garage to rustle up a bridge pickup shaped bit of wood and some filler
  18. Rich
    The Last Waltz - Engledink Humperbert
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    Actually... I really like that. I've always had a massive soft spot for Explorer-shape basses.
  20. Rich
    Who Are You - The Oo
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    Awesome service from Strings Direct again this week. Ordered at 11am on Friday, landed on my doormat 11am Saturday.

    EDIT: originally said 11pm. D'oh.

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    2. sykilz

      sykilz

      Blimey, what couriers are still delivering at 11pm Saturday, even Amazon stops at 10 pm here..??

    3. Rich

      Rich

      Whoops. I did of course mean 11am.

    4. sykilz

      sykilz

      Ah!!! Easily done!! I think strings direct are based near Southend, not far from me, they've always been my first port of call for strings too 👍👍

  22. Rich
    Further update: Last night was its gig debut and it sounded great. The band love it. However, I didn't go anywhere near the bridge pickup all night and can't imagine that I'd ever need it for this sort of music... so now I'm thinking, fill the bridge hole and change the neck pup out for a split P a la Mark Hoppus... and maybe even a mudbucker right up by the neck for those fat reggae tones?
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    The DR Black Beauties on my ska Jazz (not for much longer) are the worst strings I think I've ever used. The G was dull straight out of the pack, the replacement string I eventually got was the same, and they're going dead already after just two rehearsals. And they sound crap too. The only thing in their favour is that they look good. New set of Elixirs in the post as I write.

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    2. Bassmonkey

      Bassmonkey

      I absolutely love them. Use them on all my fave basses. Really surprised to read this. I also like that they retain their tone for so long and last ages with little tarnishing. All a matter of personal choice of course and Lord of the strings is a kosher provider I guess. They defo look cool too (I know I am a tart ha ha)   

    3. Kazan

      Kazan

      Agree. Plus don't care for the feel of them and, unless they've changed, the coating insulates them from ground. They do look cool though.

    4. Rich

      Rich

      Elixirs on there now, all is right with the world.

      *sigh of relief*

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    I've just been onto Strings Direct's site and luckily for me, the Elixir set I wanted -- four string set, 45-105 steel -- were the only ones showing as in stock. I really hope whatever import issues there are get sorted soon.
  25. Rich
    Waterloo Sunset - the Kinks
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