Rich

Dammit. This would be the ideal match for my Shuttle 9.2 (which is 600w into 8 ohms) for smaller gigs. Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Lily The Pink - Scaffold

Papa's Got A Brand New Baggins - James Brown

Cool. What does 'Murder One' do? I'm assuming mute switch?

C. You have absolutely no way of knowing where the chip came from. Take it on the chin, chalk it up to experience, etc etc. They all pick up dings eventually. I remember being heartbroken when my gorgeous Shuker got its first tiny ding, through a stupid moment of clumsiness at home, and I beat myself up about it for some time. But then I looked at it philosophically and realised that Sh*t Happens, it would've happened sooner or later anyway. The two or three it's picked up since have been met with some choice Anglo-Saxon vernacular but that's all. 
 

No, it's all down to the wood. 

20 minutes ago, SimonK said:

I'm waiting for a suitably priced GP11 or 12 to come along at which point I will probably give the GP7 back to its original speaker...

...and with the GP12SMX+4x10 you will have one of the finest combos ever made. Not to mention heaviest  

The Lambo Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis

Ooh Aah... Just a Little Brit - Gina G

Dirty Mind - 

3 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

I tend to replace batteries once a year, regardless.  

Yup, that's me too. January's job is replacing all the batteries in all current gigging basses, and checking all the others. 

3 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

There is a circuit that I have, but never fitted*, which lights an LED when the voltage drops below a certain predetermined level. 

Ooh. Do you have a schematic of said circuit, pretty please?

5 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

A Gen 2 P5 is my primary live tool. 

...

I actually like the tuners.  As I always do, I torqued them properly and lubed then sparingly  with graphite paste and find them very positive and stable. 

 

I understand that better tuners were one of the improvements introduced for the Gen 2 basses. I did everything I could with my Gen 1's tuners, stripped 'em down and lubed 'em up (stop sniggering at the back) and experimented with washers and shims and everything, still couldn't get them feeling 'right', hence the Hipshot upgrade. Which of course brought the added advantage of the weight saving.

FWIW, here's mine. Only two things in it at the moment, the Line 6 wireless receiver and the G-B Shuttle 9.2 amp. The red-ringed socket on the front is the output from the Line 6, and I have a colour coded cable snake (red send, green return) to the FX board. Hence the green blob next to the amp input. The third plug in the back is a phone charger, just in case anything needs a top-up.

It's all in the name of convenience. 

I did, and for a second I thought I'd fallen through a wormhole into a seaside postcard from 1972. 

Smooth - Santana

Yup, it's another

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I was looking at / listening to the latest Bass Gear Mag online (including @Dood's excellent review of the new Sire Vs) when my eye fell on one of the NAMM exhibitors, a builder called 'LEH'. They appear to be jolly nice basses in the main, but oh dear dear deary deario, what in the blinking buggery flip is going on with that headstock shape. It makes the old Lodestone one look elegant.

https://www.lehguitars.com/

Tree Minute Hero - The Selecter

39 minutes ago, dutchwife said:

I Am The Ply ～ Wire 

Wood Beez - Scritti Politti 

Where Has Everybody Gone · Pretenders 

Very old but not worn much -- it turned out to be a bit snug on me, I should have bought an L. It's spent quite a few years sitting in a drawer, so could do with an iron, but it's clean. The logos are very neatly embroidered.

Collect from near Bristol, or bung me £3 for postage.

On 14/02/2024 at 13:55, lowlandtrees said:

Could I ask the moderator to delete while I get it checked…might be nothing.

OK, I'll 'withdraw' it for the moment. Let me know when you want it putting back up.

Folsom Prism Blues - Johnny Cash

3 hours ago, TheGreek said:

Grandad - St Winifreds School Choir

Point of order Mr Chairman... the perpetrator of that particular piece was Clive Dunn (and it was co-written by a certain Herbie Flowers). St Winifred's Borstal Choir were responsible for the even more stomach-churning 'There's No-One Quite Like Grandma', a song etched forever into my brain thanks to a car journey around that time, during which my young niece sang the chorus over and over again for at least half an hour. 

I used something similar for my surprisingly heavy Behringer 60w combo, only mine were more like this - smaller and un-recessed. It's definitely worth doing, and the bigger recessed ones Dad posted above will be just the ticket for yours.

...and now of course, having said all that, I took it to rehearsal last night and oh my giddy bloody aunt, it sounds amazing through my gig rig. It cuts through like an extremely sharp thing hacking its way through something easily hackable. Perhaps I can live with the weight and the balance after all..? ❤️

Would be a good idea to add photos if you have some?

GLWTS