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  1. 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?

  2. 5 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

    A Gen 2 P5 is my primary live tool. 

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    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.

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  3. 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. 

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  4. 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/

  5. 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. 

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  6. 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.

     

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  7. ...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..? ❤️

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  8. 21 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

    I've got a load of similar but are slimmer to fit about the width of the switch - I think latching or non latching relays have quite an effect on power consumption? 

     

    I imagine they would, but I don't run it from a PP3 so it's all good :) 

    The pic probably makes the board look a lot bigger than it is; in reality it's about 32 x 22mm. Musikding's 'Nope' switch board is roughly the same size.

  9. 9 minutes ago, Hemibass said:

    I'm not sure what a Bass Bash is, but it sounds like something I would enjoy. Always love seeing peoples bass gear.

     

    I'm based in SW London!

    The South East bash would be your closest, here's the thread from the 2023 one. Sounds like it would be right up your street, and I can guarantee that you would be more than welcome. If you fancied the drive, you'd be most welcome at the always-fabulous South West Bash too..!

     

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    On 03/12/2012 at 23:31, Muzz said:

    I'm the other bloke who likes Tai Shan. All these years, I thought it was just me...

     

    I'm the third bloke who likes it, and yes so did I :lol: 

     

     

    On 06/12/2012 at 19:02, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

    Aargh! Noooo! That's two of you.somebody help,)

     

    Sorry :lol: 

  11. 18 hours ago, Hemibass said:

    I have been planning on doing a full rig rundown on my Youtube channel for a while but I have a new bass on order and kind of want to wait until that arrives before I make the video, but I can quickly list my gear here if you are interested.

     

    My main bass is a MIJ Geddy Lee Jazz bass from the mid-late 2000s, and I play that with Rotosound Swingbass66 strings. I have a Tech-21 GED-2112 Sansamp and a Trace Elliot GP12X  (distorted sound and clean sound) which I blend to get the bass sound I want. Those go into a Palmer PDI-05 speaker simulator. It's a similar setup to what Geddy used in the Test for Echo era, which is my favourite tone of his.

     

    Here is my Youtube for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dlAoqg21GSUqNZX3GuA9w

     

    I don't know whereabouts you are in the UK, but I can pretty much guarantee that there would be an awful lot of people who would be very interested to see your rig if you brought it along to a Bass Bash..! 

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