rwillett

Just spoken to my diary secretary/CEO/partner in crime and she's OK with me going AWOL for the weekend. 

So am planning to come down now. The only hassle is coming back as I probably have to go to work on Monday. @neepheid we probably need to discuss how to break the space-time continuum and work how to get everything into your car or we simply take my larger estate 😊

I'll probably bring 

3d printed headless bass 

3d printed six string

Westone Thunder Bass and matching Westone Thunder six string 

Probably one or two others. 

I'll bring a couple of pedalboards as well. If people are interested in a custom made pedal board, absolutely made to measure for sensible donations to charity, let me know. 

Also if we are looking to do 'work' I'm happy to run a software and hardware IT clinic. If people have issues let me know in advance so I can see if I can help. 

Rob

Doesn't look that bad, to be fair what he says is actually 100% correct. It has one pickup, that is similar to old fenders and lots of other guitars and he says it not likely to be a Fender. Again that is 100% correct. 

"No branding but has just one pick up similar to old fenders but not likely to be."

At £52.47 its not bad value. However it looks like it's 3/4 size or is that just the perspective. 

I note that you could probably slip another guitar under the strings as well. 

Rob

1 hour ago, nilorius said:

Small, but effective.

I've had that mentioned to me many times before. Well actually, only once or twice, and it might actually be just once, now I think about it.

30 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

I love mine on guitar - into a very good Marshall capture on a Tonex.

Not tried it on bass yet.

 

I don't get the price increases either - the renamed one is identical and everybody knows it's a clone anyway. It's not like the pedal itself - or any of the other cheap clones - have been discontinued.

MIne is into a 59 Bassman on a Tonex. I'm still struggling to get it to sound as good as it did with the Andertons video. Of course the fact that the guitarist is about 10,000x better than me has nothing to do with it.

Rob

Sadly the silly money prices on eBay are coming down. However people are paying double and a bit more for the pedal. Just checked and one auction is at £132 for a pedal. 

If anybody wants mine for £120 just le me know. 

There's supply coming through as I have one, so not sure why people are that desperate for it. 

10 hours ago, Jack said:

Don't sleep the Klon on bass either. I've had an MXR sugar drive and I really like the models in helix and qc. 

Not sure what 'sleep' means here?

So this is what I made for the Yamaha HS7 speaker. As its printed in black with black extrusions, its rather difficult to see

So here's the Fusion design. It's all parameterised so angles and sizes are simple to change.

And this is the mixer holder. There's a lip at the front to hold it in and rubber strip at the bottom to stop it slipping and protect the speaker. The angle is more than the speaker support so it tilts back. Also the mixer is screwed into the stand using the holes in the back. It's an M5 from memory.

Happy to print them out for the cost of filament and postage. Black extrusion costs me between £15 and £19 per meter at the moment, silver or raw is cheaper It's a volatile market sadly  

Rob

Here's the F360 design to hold the mixer

I made a simple angled stand for my Yamaha HS7 monitor using a 3d printer and some aluminium 2040 extrusion. The sides and angle of the stand are printed and the width is from the aluminium extrusion. It looks very neat and is very light. 

I know that it can take 100kg. Don't ask me how I know 😊

If it needed any more support I'd add a middle section, but it's basically the same as my 3d printed pedalboards. I put 3M rubber strip on the bottom and a lip at the back and it's rock solid. Not sure what the size limit is as I don't have any monster cabs or amps.

If you want to put something on the top, I made a smaller but reverse angle stand that sits on the speaker that is smaller and takes a mixer. The lip then hooks over the front of the speaker. 

I'll add pictures when I get back if anybody is interested. 

Rob

+1 for this. 

David sold me his Westone Thunder 1 bass. 

We met in Thirsk and it was a pleasure to meet him and buy the Westone. 

No issues whatsoever and I'm very happy to have the matching paid of Thunder bass and Thunder guitar. 

Top man

Rob

2 hours ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

Where driving is concerned the Quebecois are only slightly better in following the rules of the road than the Italians. But in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts one has to fail an IQ test to get a drivers license. 🤪

Having worked extensive in Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Greece, nowhere is as bad in Europe as the Greeks and their driving, especially in Athens. 

Mind you the only time I have ever closed my eyes and actually thought we were 100% going to crash and die was India. We didn't, but I was terrified. 

Did a three week trip around India and nothing prepared me for how bad it was. For one traffic jam going in to Delhi, our driver simply drove across fields as do many others to avoid the jam. This is in a modern version of the old Austin Cambridge. Overturned lorries, card running at night with no lights, cars going down the wrong way on streets. All completely mad and yet we never actually hit anything.

Rob

2 hours ago, vinorange said:

Bargain. Note to self: I can’t have two of them…..

Why?

Might be useful to say where you are. 

There's still a fair few chancers on there now. I might do the same. 

Thanks for this.

Just watched it all the way through and am delighted that I've got the cheapest pedal there. However as it sounds no different to the genuine Klon I am more than happy to sell it for a genuine Klon price, seems fair to me  Or should it be that the original Klon is not worth more than £59 now?

I have a feeling that the original Behringer colouring and design will actually be worth a bit more in 30 years time, we see the Japanese lawsuit Les Pauls now being flogged on eBay for silly money, we already have muppets on eBay trying to sell their lawsuit Behringer Centaurs, perhaps they will be worth gazillions then. 

Stuff it, I'm going to plug it in, wind the strat up and the Jazz and see what it sounds like

Thanks

Rob

This finally turned up today, I ordered it about three weeks ago from Andertons, to see what the fuss was about. I can't compare it to a Klone as I've never knowingly heard one so wouldn't have a clue.

This is the original artwork version, the new ones are called Centara and have a slightly different half-man/half horse (I don't want to get sued for calling it by any other name  )

https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0709-AKP

A quick check on eBay shows that the loonies wanting $10,000 have gone and the range of prices is from £771.72 down to £52.72.

I'm happy to split the difference and sell it for £310. Nah, just joking. I'm going to plug it into and see how it sounds on a Strat and on a Jazz. It feels quite chunky and well made to be honest. If anybody has a Klone they wish to lend me to compare, feel free.

Thanks

Rob

Mine lasts a lot more than an hour. Not sure how long but a few hours at least. 

I wonder if you have a dodgy battery?

Rob

I brought this a couple of months ago and have never used it. I paid £35 for it, so grab yourself a bargain at £17.

Postage will be on top or you are free to collect it from near Settle. North Yorkshire. Trades welcome for something interesting. A 59 Strat would be very interesting

It's a Levin leather strap. One side is brown leather and the other side is suede so it doesn't slip.  

It's 154cm/59" long and can be shortened using slots at the back. Its 6.5cm/2.5" (ish) wide

I have no idea how to describe the adjustment any better

The middle bit 

The end adjustable bit

The back of the end adjustable bit

The other end (for the hard of understanding)

57 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Sorry I asked now. Scared me just looking at the photos!!

 

Be extra cool. Why don't you wear the shoes and pants on  the train?

That would ensure he gets a very large personal space around him. Solves two problems in one. 

I applaud your ingenuity 

Any suggestions for the matt finish, brands that work please?

I didn't know that 2000 grade wet and dry would matt a shiny surface down. That's good to know

I'll not spray outside now 😊

11 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

No-one objected, and I had plenty of space all around me, both there and back. I

I wonder why....

I've taken basses on trains both long distance (Oxenholme to London) and local (Leeds to Lancaster), both in soft cases and hard cases. Nobody has ever batted an eyelid. As a previous poster has said, some people have enormous suitcases and people take those on the trains all the time. Try taking the Gatwick to East Croydon train and you can't move for massive suitcases, some of which I suspect could easily take an 8x 10 bass cab and the amplifier and leave space for a Marshall stack

I think the key is being sensible. Doing this at rush hour might get a raised eyebrow in London., but offer to move for more needy people and/or go off-peak and you'll be fine.

Not sure what the biggest package I've ever seen. I know my cousin, fresh from the USA, brought a Marshall 2 x 12 combo in Nottingham and took it on the train to Chesterfield. He may have actually put wheels on it and made it a new carriage. It took two of us to lift it off the train in Chesterfield as I recall. 

Rob

I couldn't work out what was wrong with it. I'm looking over the body thinking its fine. I looked at the headstock and thought that looked fine. I read the description and thought that's the normal bollocks that eBay puts on. Standard boilerplate.

I couldn't see what the issue was at all. I never looked at the neck at all.

I need more coffee, a lot more.

I do like the comments as well

Rob

I've just fitted one of these to a Jazz bitsa over the weekend and it's great. I have the older version but I think the differences are quite small.

I've got decent pickups but this makes them even better. I don't regret doing this at all

GLWTS. 

Rob 

Damm, I even read the linked page. I checked for humour or any sign it was fake 

Oh well, I got caught out. 

Rob

8 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

Fakey McFakery

Nooooooooooooo...

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