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  1. Delberthot
    I've decided to sell my Laney NX115 1x15" cab as I had been keeping this for larger gigs but I doubt I'm going to need it. This is a fantastic cab which has served me well as a monitor for gigs with PA, for small pub gigs with no pa support and was previously part of a stack comprising a Hartke LH1000 and the matching Laney NX410. It's in very good condition having spent it's entire life between gigs in the Roqsolid cover I had made for it. This is a 400w 8ohm cab fitted with a Celestion 15" driver. It's made of marine grade ply and features a kick proof metal grill. It weighs only 20kgs so it's a relatively easy one hand lift out of the car and into gigs I fitted small feet to the short edge so that it can stand vertically. I bought the smallest ones that I could find and that would do the job. they are attached using the existing screws in the corner protectors and they don't affect getting the cover on and off. I had intended to use this as an extension cab for my Fender Rumble but I can't see the need for that given the gigs I have in the diary. I have priced this given the condition of the cab and the Roqsolid cover that comes with it which I think are around the £50 mark. I am looking for around £220 obo. Now for some pics: This is it being used the one and only time I needed to with the last gig with the old band with the Rumble combo [url="http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/20150123_183945_zpsddjog6hz.jpg.html"][/url] As part of the stack: [url="http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/DSC03675_zpsf97f8633.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/DSC03674_zps7deef5bf.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/20140718_221515_resized_zps1b6abd0d.jpg.html"][/url] Any questions please fire away.
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    Change out the SD quarter pounder for an SD stack and you've got something very close to the Dusty Hill signature for a minute fraction of the price
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    I got my Korean Goth thunderbird from the USA for £165 all in including a Supertone bridge
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    I've been playing for 28 years and still love it but I never play in the house unless I have a song to learn for a wedding. I reckon if something happened and I was unable to play or even if my numbers came up on the Euromillions and I disappeared into Europe for a year in a motorhome I wouldn't miss it. Funny but I remember when I first started playing, I remember reading an article about a bass player in Guitarist before Bassist came out. It may even have been Jack Bruce and he said that he never practiced at home unless he was going on tour. I remember thinking that I couldn't imagine not playing all of the time but 28 years later yet here I am. Anyway I'm sure that ain't going to help the OP. What I would do in your position would be to get onto Youtube to watch & listen to new stuff, Practice using your good hand, go to see lots of bands and anything that could help you so that when you're back to normal you're ready to go for it.
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    I was probably still getting blisters 10 years ago and that was after 18 years of playing. I just get really excited when I play. Even tonight I've taken the top layer of skin off my right index and left pinky. I still don't play as hard as I used to but instead turn myself up so that I can play lighter and have dropped the string height significantly compared to how I used to have it.
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    [quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1431210078' post='2768905'] I'm not sure they actually made a 'bad' bass? [/quote] I'm thinking that as well. Had my BB425 been made by Fender then it would probably be branded a Squier of some description. I like the fact that everything made by Yamaha is branded a Yamaha. It goes to show that from the bottom to the top of the range they obviously stand by everything they make and that's why we haven't seen a "XXXX by Yamaha" range
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    If you listen to the Now album by Paul Rodgers, Jazz Lochrie uses a 6 string fretless but I can't remember what model. Around about that time I almost ordered a headless Status Stealth fretless 6 string
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    It's been many a year since I played in a big band but my first gig with a big band at the tender age of 17 was for the 50th anniversary of El Alamein in 1993. I was fortunate to play with a lot of great guys who had been playing since after the war. Fantastic players with some fantastic stories. I learned a hell of a lot during my time with them
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    Best bass I've had in a number of years is the BB425 that I am currently using. I've also always wanted to try a BB5000 and a BBNE2 I suppose like anything the best one is the one that gives you the most in terms of playability, sound and looks so it'll probably be different for everyone.
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    [quote name='andy67' timestamp='1430837237' post='2765037'] Have to admit to finding myself attracted to the neck ... [/quote] That's attached to the body with only 2 screws
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    The bass you have can have a lot of influence over what amp will suit. My Precision special with EMGs and Chromes sounded fantastic through my LH1000 and Laney cabs but decidedly flat and lacking everything through my Fender Rumble 500 combo. If I ever use it again I'll be swapping to D'Addario rounds. I use a Yamaha BB425 with heavier than stock D'addario strings and it sounds incredible through my Fender combo. It's very punchy, warm and is perfect for my wedding/function band as we do a lot of disco/funk/dance type music. As for being loud enough, I also kept my Laney 15" cab for gigs where I needed more volume and it's never left the house this year. Just the combo
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    I have a set of active EMG PJs in my Precision. They can be made to sound very clear if you want but with the right amp, as is the case with everything, they can sound however you want them to sound - mine make my bass sound like a Precision with a Jazz bass pickup
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    On the flip side I absolutely hated having to learn Crazy In Love by Beyonce so much so that I'd rather stick needles in my eyes but I love playing it, in fact it's one of the highlights of the set and always goes down a storm
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    If anything it would be handy to see who's offering shipping if the item is too far away based on our locations or even the actual location of the item. But then that would mean more subdivisions in the high school halls, in the shopping malls, conform or be cast out. All joking aside my biggest bug bear is looking at all the lovely pictures, great description then you get to the last post and it's sold, bah
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    The Yamaha site says [url="http://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/el-basses/bb/?tab=product_lineup&selected=72208_72243_72242_&page=2&mode=compare"]alnico P and ceramic J[/url] for the 1024 & 2024 but doesn't say for the 424
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    I've recently found that my Precision with PJ EMGs and Chromes sounds really punchy through a Hartke LH1000 and Laney cabs but decidedly dull through my Fender Rumble 500 Combo. There was just something missing
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    Personally I would say that the BB424/5 = MIM standard quality at minimum. I certainly can't fault mine in any way and it's replaced my MIM Fender FSR Precision Special in the wedding band. I haven't tried a BB1024/5 so can't comment on that but I'd expect it to be very good. Looking at these models, there doesn't seem to be very many places with them in stock.
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    James - Sit Down and Laid. Same from start to finish Waterboys - you saw the whole of the moon - who cares? Those bad 80's style songs that appear from time to time like We are Young by Fun. Belong in the same bin as St Elmos Fire and Nothings Gonna Stop us Now. That style of music that shouldn't exist or at least should've died out a long time ago - Valerie by Amy Winehouse, Imelda May and others. Kind of pseudo 60s motown but pish. MICHAEL BUBLE - aboslutely nothing special about him other than he can sing in tune. Gives me the dry boak every time I hear his sickly voice. Could be any singer out of a boy band.
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    Fantastic basses. I had mine made exactly the same as your but with the blonde finish and a Lollar pickup
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    I was thinking a Hartke LH1000 would work with this. Run the two 2x10" parts into one side at 2ohms and the 15" into another at 4ohms. Alternatively if you wire it the other way and have the 2 2x10"s running at 8ohms. Assuming it could be rewired to work this way
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    Definitely RMS. I think it's only Behringer and low end car audio manufacturers that advertise output in PMPO or peak as in - what wattage it will take as it melts.
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    I have a 425 and love it. I'm considering a 1025 as a 40th birthday present to myself if I still love the 425 as much come August 14th this year. The different body construction, nut made of the same material as the frets and the bar P pickup seem to the be the 3 main differences. I'm guessing that it's the same neck used on the 425 which I find extremely comfortable. If I buy it I will in all probability have the 425 defretted.
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    I used them on my gold sparkle Warmoth '54 Precision and they suited that bass very well but I was buying them from Thomann when they were £16 a set and not the £40+ they are now. This was only 4-5 years ago so I actually wonder if it was a mistake on the website or if they were actually that cheap then. I only stopped using them after playing a very humid sweaty gig with a brand new set - by the time the gig ended they were dead and the price had shot up to what it is now
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    Yamaha BB425 with everything on full into my Korg floor tuner and into the Fender Rumble 500. I couldn't honestly tell you what the controls are set at, I generally only touch the volume. The simplest setup I've ever owned and the perfect sound for my current band.
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    I can honestly say that if money was no object - if one of these basses gave me the exact sound I wanted, enabled me to play like on no other bass and felt incredibly comfortable then I still wouldn't buy one unless they made me something that looked a bit more normal and less coffee table. Looking at all of the bass players that I've listed to over the years there is no one that I am aware of that plays one. I know Anthony Jackson and Victor Wooton play them but I'm not into their style of music - Maybe AJs work with other artists that I'm unaware of but I can't say I've ever consciously listened to a song and thought "that's a Fodera" That's why I can't work out why they are so expensive because there's no one huge that I listen to that plays one. Wal on the other hand is a bass played by a number of bass players I am aware of and given they're relative scarcity, electronics and the fact that they were briefly not being made - I can understand the fuss, plus I love the sound but lack the cash.
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