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  1. The Sei Flamboyant I used to own had a piezo bridge -- with all the treble rolled off the Barts, it did a perfect impression of an Ovation acoustic. It was a great sound. I'm seriously considering fitting a piezo bridge to a future project.

    [quote name='lemmywinks' post='725008' date='Jan 26 2010, 12:12 PM']I'm no expert and would appreciate verification, but i thought the buffer preamp would come before the volume/blend pot, so the impedance matches the mag pickups before it goes to the output jack?[/quote]
    That would be my understanding, yes.

  2. Primarily a microphone preamp/channel strip, this also makes a superb preamp for bass -- it has a very clean transparent sound, and the compressor is one of the best you'll find at any price. I no longer need an outboard compressor but had intended to keep hold of this unit anyway, a} because it's so bloody good and b} 'just in case' -- but to be honest I need the cash more than I need the kit. So reluctantly, it's got to go. Dosh only, no trades thanks.
    It's in tip top condition, spent its whole time in my rack. A tiny bit of rash on the bottom and some minor screw fixing marks (see pic) but that's all. A copy of the manual is included.
    One of these went for [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230423889813&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT"]£137 on fleaBay[/url] recently, so I reckon mine for [b]£85 posted[/b] must be a bargain.

    Lots of good review bites [url="http://www.guitar.com.au/effects/rack_units/focusrite/platinum/trakmaster/reviews.html"]here[/url].

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  3. The woods and the finish on the 5 are the best of the three, but the over-fussy bridge looks totally wrong. I generally love überJazzes, but those particular ones really aren't toasting my crumpet to be honest.

  4. I'm very lucky, in that [i]all[/i] the drummers I've played with in the last 15 years or so have been rock solid and metronomic (but not at the expense of feel, thankfully). There have been a couple of ropey ones in my dim distant past though.

    Springsteen's 'Born To Run' speeds up quite dramatically throughout its length.

    [quote name='Mykesbass' post='720837' date='Jan 22 2010, 09:30 AM']I saw a drummer working with a device called the Beat Bug - it registered his snare beats and let him know if he was wandering. The guy was scarily accurate. Would strongly reccomend them to anyone who is fanatical about time keeping.[/quote]
    IIRC, when Phil Gould was with the increasingly sequencer-laden Level 42, he never played to a click track... he didn't need to because his timing is uncannily accurate.

  5. A good amp tech (or better yet, our own good OBBM) would be able to make up a special lead with all the right connections to allow you to connect this to pretty much anything you wanted, I reckon. 150 notes is stupidly cheap for this monster. Have a bijou bumpette on me.

  6. The SMX range get slagged in some quarters, but I had a GP12SMX preamp for quite a while and it was utterly brilliant. It sounded quite neutral, didn't have the Marmite 'Trace sound' that many of the older models had, and with the two preshapes and that superb compressor it was everything you could want in a head. In fact I wish I'd never sold it. Keep yours.
    80 quid? What an absurd bargain. Well done :)

  7. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71857"]Sessions 1 and 1A - Relative Minor Triads[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71858"]Sessions 2 and 2A - Major Scale Triads 8va[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71859"]Session 3 - Flat 5s in Dominant 7 and Minor 7 Chords[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71862"]Session 4 - An Introduction To Odd-Metre and Multiple Time Signatures[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=72046"]Session 5 - The Tritone, the Whole-Tone Scale and the Cycle of Fifths[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=72351"]Session 6 - 1st Position sight reading[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=72354"]Session 7 - 1st Position sight reading with key changes[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73076"]Session 8 - The Turnaround[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73089"]Session 9 - Syncopation[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73335"]Session 10 - Reading in Cut Common[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73340"]Session 11 - Alternative Fingerings[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73725"]Session 12 - 5 string bass workout[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=73787"]Session 13 - 5th Position sight reading[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=74326"]Session 14 - 4th and 5th Position sight reading[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=76694"]Session 15 - 6th Position sight reading[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=78653"]Session 16 - Creating a Walking Bass Line[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=80447"]Session 17 - Substitutions & Stylistic Variation[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=82083"]Session 18 - The Development of the 12 Bar Blues in the Jazz Genre[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=82731"]Session 19 - 12 Bar Blues - Bass Riffs and Lines[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=84502"]Session 20 - Getting started with Music Reading - in C Major[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=85274"]Session 21 - Getting Started with Music Reading - in F Major[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=86151"]Session 22 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in G Major[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87214"]Session 23 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in Bb Major[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87778"]Session 24 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in D Major[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=89420"]Session 25 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in A Minor[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=90835"]Session 26 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in D Minor / Semiquavers[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=92749"]Session 27 - Getting Started with Sight-Reading - in G Minor / Triplets[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=94908"]Session 28 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - E Minor / Articulations[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=103182"]Session 29 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - B Minor / Dynamics[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=105677"]Session 30 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - A Major and 3/4[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=106459&hl="]Session 31 - Getting Started with Sight Reading - in Eb Major[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=126094"]Session 32 - Classic bass part analysis 1[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=130435"]Session 33 - Walking lines on one "Key Centre"[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=130899"]Session 34 - Classic Bass Part Analysis 2 - "Moondance"[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=136187"]Session 35 - "Rhythm Changes"[/url]

    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=144887"]Session 36 - "Creating solo bass guitar arrangements"[/url]

  8. "Rules and Guidelines for the Marketplace", "Guidelines for BUYERS", Rule 5:

    [quote]If you believe the price of the item is too cheap/expensive, then please [b]PM the seller[/b] as to why. [b]Do not ridicule or undermine the seller by posting how much you think it's worth or how much it can be gotten for elsewhere[/b], the laws of supply and demand will determine if the item sells at that price.[/quote]
    Or in otherwords... if you have an issue with the price, query it in private & do not wreck the thread.

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