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Ok, I'm in too. Just ordered the white one... now off to evilbay to look for a tortoise shell pickguard.

[quote name='Wil' post='1100814' date='Jan 24 2011, 02:18 PM']It's definately one of those marmite finishes [/quote] Smells of yeast and stains your clothes?

My Streamer was shipped from Germany in a paddy Warwick gig bag surrounded by a cardboard box. I figure if it can survive that (and if Warwick are happy to ship their basses like that) then that should be enough protection for the odd trip out to a gig in my car. When at home, my basses either stay in their gig bags or out on stands in the spare room where I practice. Oh, apart from the Star Bass, which scuffs around the bedroom for me to busk about on.

Ok, so I've begun noticing this a few times myself today, so I've been browsing with a profiler running. The latency I'm seeing is purely the ads. As they're inline JavaScript, the page is blocked until they finish loading. If the ad servers are slow or don't respond at all, the page stops and waits. One way the site mods could combat this would be to place the ad JavaScript at the end of the page, and then use the site's own JavaScript to shift them back up to the top once everything has loaded. That way, if there's a delay in loading the ads, page rendering is halted way down the bottom where no one will notice or care. That's all presuming the problems I'm seeing are the same as the ones you are.

Here's my Trace Elliot Series 6 GP7 715S combo. And my cat. Built in 1991 I think, owned by me since around 1995. Just bought myself a Markbass/Aguilar rig, so soon to be listed in the For Sale forum. (The amp, not the cat.)

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='1088073' date='Jan 13 2011, 02:44 PM']I sometimes get just the forum header which is the big black band with the basschat logo on the left and that jazz bass on the right and every thing else is blank, other times just a blank screen with the url search line on top.[/quote] That sounds like the page load could be blocking on the ads. i.e. perhaps it's not a basschat server issue at all, but the ad servers failing to respond and preventing the page from loading. Obviously, basschat relies on revenue from the ads so I wouldn't recommend it long term, but it would be interested to test browsing the site with an ad-blocker enabled in your browser to see if that makes any difference.

When it stalls, does any aspect of the page load? Do you e.g. get the page title in the window title bar, or any of the page loading at all?

Ordered a couple of speaker cables (and a new instrument cable while I was at it) based purely on the recommendations from basschat. Excellent service, fast delivery, and a really high quality product. Thanks!

Barrie responded to my Wanted ad for an Aguilar GS 112, and turns out he's local. Perfect. He did me a honest deal on really smart pair of GS 112/112NTs, [i]and[/i] he even loaded them into the car for me. What a gent! Thanks Barrie - we should gather up some other local basschatters at the pub some time!

Visiting your girlfriend. You're doing it wrong.

Bought a Markbass head from Alan which was exactly as described - he even threw the carry case into the deal, which was more than generous. A pleasure to deal with - thanks Alan!

Count Bassie - out of interest, what model number is inked in the back panel of yours? Mine says 715S.

Yes, that's it! Do you have any history on yours?

[quote name='Musicman20' post='840058' date='May 17 2010, 07:26 PM']Is there a link to the Warwick rig?[/quote] I think it was this one [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=86994"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=86994[/url]

I just changed the batteries, as although it's impressive that those old duracell's are still going, I didn't think it wise to rely on them. The expiration date on them? March 2003! They'd gone a bit green around the contacts!

[quote name='bartelby' post='832317' date='May 9 2010, 04:26 PM'][url="http://www.effectpowersupplies.com/18v-dc-regulated-power-supply-7-p.asp"]How about this[/url]?[/quote] I'd literally just found that myself - looks perfect. Manual says centre pin is negative, so I guess I'll order one up and see if it works. Thanks!

In an inspired moment yesterday, I remembered that I had an old Trace Elliot compressor pedal somewhere. A rummage around in the garage through the boxes of stuff I moved out of home with, and success! I found the pedal neatly boxed up in its original box, complete with manual and a set of duracells which must be at least 10 years old and still working! It's a fantastic pedal - bought it from new at Manson's in Exeter about 15 years ago, I think. But it takes 2 9v batteries, so it's not cheap to run. The only 18v power supplies I can find online from Maplin etc are for laptops and cost about £70. Eek. Searching on the same issue, I've found talk of using a 'voltage doubler' with a 9v source. Anyone know what that is or where I could find one?