Merton

My 20+ year old ABM fizzled out earlier this year; Ashdown fixed it for less than £70 including return delivery. It’s well worth having a chat with Dave Green

2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Actually I would put money on it being an issue with the valve that is there. 

Correct me if I’m wrong but the 12-band head doesn’t have a valve I believe?

1 hour ago, Chienmortbb said:

I believed him at the time, and most HIFI speakers are still made from MDF. However, working with @Phil Starr and @stevie , and with the onset of old age, I realise that careful design can make thinner, lighter materials very useable for musicians.

Definitely. MDF is the cheap option for bass cabs!

41 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

Were these made from MDF? I remember talking to an ex Trace chap that was going to make me an extension cab for my BLX130. He was insistent that MDF was the only material for a speaker cabinet. 

Mine certainly were MDF

No luck finding those jack socket nuts, sorry @VTypeV4 

Yep - they designed it as a cost effective alternative didn’t they! It does sound rather good 🤓

5 minutes ago, Dood said:

Who wants to hear an interesting fact that will have the eBay watch lists going crazy?

Ooooh, me!!!

I didn’t gig yesterday because I was at my cousin’s wedding, but my ACG TKO did 😄 Katy stepped into bass duties in my absence and borrowed my bass as her Mustang has been a bit temperamental recently:

My first amp was a Mk1 Commando 15 combo. Loved its tone but it never quite managed to cope at a gig. Always fancied either getting one of the (ultra rare) heads or finding a combo and taking out the amp section.

Cracking job cleaning up this one! I may have a spare jack nut - will have a look when I get home tomorrow

3 hours ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

Well the shell pink Sandberg Lionel didn't end up in my possession so I picked this up instead.
 

It looks like it's been reliced by Scooby Doo wearing a blindfold but it plays beautifully, sounds fab (passive electronics) and weighs under 7.5lbs. Love it 

 

 

Oooft

17 hours ago, fretmeister said:

That's a nice looking thing

 

 

 

 

https://valiantguitars.com/collections/mini-bass

 

Really mini - 27 inch scale

 

Wood: Hard-rock maple, quarter-sawn, titanium-reinforced

Profile: C profile

1st fret - Depth: 21 mm/0.82" Width: 38 mm/1.49"

12th fret - Depth: 23.5 mm/0.92" Width: 50 mm/1.96"

22nd fret - Width: 54 mm/2.12"

Scale length: 27"/685.8 mm

Fretboard: Roasted hornbeam

Radius: 12" radius/305 mm

Frets: 22 Nickel silver frets, extra-hard, Jumbo, width: 2.8 mm/0.110", height: 1.65 mm/0.064"

Truss-rod: Easy-access, stainless steel truss-rod wheel

Electronics

Neck pickup: Valiant Guitars B-system single-coil

Bridge pickup: Valiant Guitars B-system single-coil

Controls: 2 volumes, 1 tone  

Jack: Pure Tone

Hardware

Bridge: Valiant Guitars duralumin Swift-RS-bass, quick-release, with bell-bronze saddles

Nut: GraphTech, 38 mm/1.49"

Tuners: Valiant Guitars proprietary

Other features

"Trinity" ebony inlays

Duralumin enhanced-grip knobs with wooden pointer

Full shielding

Duralumin cavity covers

Valiant Guitars hard-shell case included

Oooh me likey!

That 5er especially interesting. 

Thanks. Didn’t need to read this but now I’ve put this back on my “amps I must own” list.

😄

9 hours ago, ezbass said:

I was watching some of the Belladrum festival coverage yesterday. The sound was mainly thin and favouring the top end. Fatherson (guitar, bass &drum, 3 piece) came on and the bass player was using a P, nothing remarkable during the first song. For the second song, the bass player switched to a Player Mustang PJ and suddenly you could hear the bass. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make out which pickup/s were being used, but it sounded great, whereas the previous P was fairly inaudible. Certainly a win for the short scale in this instance, looked cool too.

We were supposed to be there yesterday but our singer got so ill she could barely speak, let alone sing 😢

I’d have been rocking a medium and short scale collection of basses if we’d made it!

Yup it’s the GR preamp and one of their PureAmp heads

27 minutes ago, scrumpymike said:

Had one, sold it on here - big mistake 😐

Good to know… also, thanks for enabling me 😄

I really need to stop looking at this thread, almost every Lionel I see makes me go “ooooh 😍”

@Old Horse Murphy’s Lionel being the latest. Damn you all. 😃

3 amps

2 cabs

Amps are Trace Elliot TE1200 for big gigs, TE Elf for backup/rehearsals and Ashdown Little Bastard exclusively for my home music room.

Cabs are Barefaced Two10s so I can take one or two as the mood/situation dictates.

Used to have more, this feels bang on the money now.

Cold wet and windy at Rock’n’Ribs in Wincanton today, thankfully being on the Country stage meant we had cover for our enthusiastic audience. Set delayed and slightly curtailed thanks to the wind and rain buggering up the stage but we had a blast. Tartan Heart Belladrum next weekend, hope the rain holds off for that 😄

Great band - we cover Who Did It.

@Jenna_bass_bitch I can do similar for this as I did for Sun and Moon if you want? Probably need about a week as I’m a little busy for the next few days!

Will take £25 delivered mainland Uk

Lovely guy. Met him once many years ago at an Overwater Bass day in London; he spent time to ask me how I approached fretless bass playing - lines/unlined, technique etc. I was 22, this was Mo Foster! But he was genuinely interested in my take on playing fretless, listened attentively and didn’t quash my naive responses at all.

Always enjoyed his old Bassist columns and will go back through some of his amazing stories - weirdly I was remembering his story about discovering roundwounds just a couple of days ago. (If you don’t know it, it involves Jack Bruce and a question from Mo about how he managed to bend his strings. “Strength!” was Jack’s answer, Mo later discovered he used these new-fangled rounds which were easier than the flats of the 60s)

RIP Mo x

Great pedal and a great chap to deal with! (And an OK bassist I guess…. 😁)

PS - bring the amp, I’m bidding £15 😄

OT - when are you back from hols? I’m 5 mins from Gatwick so you’re welcome to pop round for a cuppa and a catch up if it works

1 hour ago, BassmanPaul said:

I still say that the 2x10 would sound better on its end portrait style. It's even got the feet for that position.

Depends on the vibe - it’s fatter in landscape mode so for me works great in a rock band with the Elf. Portrait mode also awesome and perhaps marginally more polite