Big_Stu

[quote name='J.R.Bass' post='1065890' date='Dec 21 2010, 04:37 PM']Here we go again Mr Edward Himself. ........... Lets not forget that your the guy who commented on Stuart Hamms at bassday.....Saying his timing was bad???[/quote] Here I was, up to my eyeballs in work, working through the night to meet delivery dates, knackered, got man-flu and then I read this post. Perked me up no end it did!

Depends how quick you need it. What's the mail like around you with the weather if you're going the online route? The thing not to do is use Instrument Cable, a guitar lead in other words. It's dead easy to make your own if you have a decent shop near you that sells the bits. What you're looking for is something like this [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Klotz-Jack-Guitar-Amp-Cab-Cabinet-Speaker-Cable-1m-/370412107540?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item563e483714"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Klotz-Jack-Guitar-Am...=item563e483714[/url] (no link with the seller in any way) All of my leads are Klotz interconnect cable with Neutrik jacks, homemade with no problems. Edit: I've only ever used cabs with straight 1/4" connectors so somone else may help out with your last question.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='1056236' date='Dec 12 2010, 05:31 PM']I don't really want to be storing a vintage tube amp in the garage.[/quote] My amp head was kept in a damp leaky lock-up for 18 years & still works OK. Now it's kept in the garage in an insulated case & it's fine; in this really cold weather I've brought it in, but normally it's kept in the garage.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1055496' date='Dec 11 2010, 10:44 PM']Bet she's seen some exotic wood in her time. [/quote] Is that acoustic she's made a self portrait swim-suit shot???

[quote name='alanbass1' post='1054859' date='Dec 11 2010, 12:16 PM']A rough rule of thumb is that if in excellent condition a shop will offer around one third the current selling price and look to sell for two thirds.[/quote] This is certainly the way it works with the Dawsons chain; one of their managers told me last month.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1052697' date='Dec 9 2010, 01:24 PM']What you need is that Reconstructor machine from The Fifth Element. [/quote] With "contents"???

[url="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&hash=item3cb318c3d4&item=260702782420&nma=true&pt=Guitar&rt=nc&si=v%252FjaMMRU8Ei91XfTLFA9S4%252FUG7Q%253D"]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...4%252FUG7Q%253D[/url] A SKILLED LUTHIER CAN PERFORM MAGIC WITH THIS!!

[quote name='lojo' post='1050921' date='Dec 7 2010, 07:29 PM']Full version of the comic strip "more band news" (with adverts at start) [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KylSYfwh6A&feature=channel"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KylSYfwh6A...feature=channel[/url][/quote] All of the Comic Strip is on 4oD [url="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/comic-strip-presents/4od"]http://www.channel4.com/programmes/comic-strip-presents/4od[/url] Spinal Tap?? Pah!!! "What do you think of Colin?" "I think he's a banker".

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36625"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36625[/url] It's a sticky at the top of the page. Pesonally I've used FedEx with no problems 3 times. ParcelForce seems to be universally panned.

Buy a bog-standard case, one of the tolexed hard-board jobs & rip the guts out of it - then get one of them foam places to cut a sheet of foam to fit it, then if you want to - cover it with fur. I bought mine from The Foam centre on Causewayside in Edinburgh. You'll lose more than the £60 you don't want to spend on a gig-bag when you sell it on Ebay, bit of a false economy IMHO.

[quote name='molan' post='1049865' date='Dec 6 2010, 09:00 PM']I heard from a fairly reliable source that Roy Wood earns around £375K a year from this song! I think that's amalgamated earnings from royalties and live performance (he's usually out on tour this time of year at university balls etc.).[/quote] It's a possibility; Holder/Lea were making £100k each from Merry Xmas Everybody & that was about 10 years ago.

[quote name='Beedster' post='1049666' date='Dec 6 2010, 06:06 PM']Anyone else had any problems with E&L? C[/quote] Yeah, my ex-fiancee. She had her horses insured through them & when one of them was ill they put every obstacle you could think of in the way of her claim. IIRC the E&L stands for "Entertainment & Leisure" so they're covering any form of expensive hobby.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1049670' date='Dec 6 2010, 06:11 PM']If you want to link to a Jack Bruce gig, best check him out first and make sure he can still play. As a real piece of kite-flying, though, if we can get >50 easily to the South East Bass Bash then I'm assuming we could get >200 to a sufficiently attractive national bash. That's an audience. Don't link the Bash to a gig, make the gig part of the Bash. For a paying audience of 200 you'd have no trouble at all getting Wilko Johnson along ... with Norman Watt-Roy. Just saying.[/quote] Yeah, that's why I said twice that it was just a scenario. I gave that example only as it was a name that 99.9% on here would recognise & [i]therefore be maybe more tempted to go as a package (????)[/i] & it is an actual event that's coming up. Any and all circumstances, venue, area, artist were open to discussion as I said. Just a thought, I was curious.

As a relative newcomer I'd be interested to know if anyone's ever tried to do a national meet-up rather than a bass bash? Like picking a venue that's right for most - central UK for fairness??? Meeting up for laughs (and to prove that once you get in the same room all of the online scrapping goes out the window - [i]along with a few teeth, chairs & a table or two????[/i] ) and just having a few jars & chat rather than ogling basses?? As a scenario - not a suggestion - I'm imagining going to a gig by legendary bassist Jack Bruce at The Robin Nr Wolverhampton? I know the venue well, it's very accessible with decent cheap acccomodation in the town - and the venue if you're quick. That's just a scenario as I said. The venue & gig could be by popular vote. Or is an online forum best kept as that; online only???

Could well be a John Birch custom owned by Roy Wood. He had quite a few made by Birch, including this montrosity and a Strat style mandolin which featured in one of his catalogues. John did say that he made a bass with a pup for each string & he was infamous for having sh*t-loads of controls on his creations. Edit: this link [url="http://vintage.catalogs.free.fr/johnbirch.pdf"]http://vintage.catalogs.free.fr/johnbirch.pdf[/url] gets you a pdf download of a John Birch catalogue, it doesn't have that bass but page 8 does have three of Wood's guitars on it. The rest of the book shows that shares in pots must have dropped after Birch stopped making guitars!

I bought the amp head version of one of these [url="http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?id=28&c=86&o=&s=75#"]http://www.skbcases.com/music/products/pro...mp;o=&s=75#[/url] and they're excellent. Don't know the cab you got but they have a range of styles. If you buy it m/o from Thomann in Germany you'll get it for a fair bit less than in the UK.

I was reliably informed that Marc Bolan used HH almost exclusively for recording. Vamp valve amps for image, HH for sound.

[quote name='Neko' post='1045447' date='Dec 2 2010, 06:35 PM']................ because innuendo-filled songs are endless fun [/quote]

Saying it'll sound better thru "a valve amp" rather than a tranny is every bit as vague as specifying valve or tranny. A valve Marshall for bass will be like night & day to a Hiwatt. A 100w Marshall would be just as different to a 200w Marshall - or 200 to a 400 watt Marshall. The colossal Hiwatt 400 is largely different to a Hiwatt 200 - and that's only comparing two major valve brands. Did anyone mention Ampegs in this thread yet?

I had a s/h Gibson EB3 many years ago that came with the Dimarzio fitted. I hated it, it's a much thinner sound & of course the coil tap drills another hole in your body - so I went the other way & put a stock old Gibbo pup in it. Of course such tastes are subjective to the owner, but in Last Bass Outpost there was a thread recently on the same subject & most owners came out against the DM too. The pups on the Epi are like night & day compared to the original Gibsons so in your position my own taste would be to save up & buy vintage Gibson original pickups, mid to late 60's if poss. The original "mudbucker" was seismic in it's depth!!! With the knobs a luthier I knew used to cover the body area in a few layers of masking tape, pull a wooden clothes pag apart - the kind with a spring & tap a clothes peg "wedge" under each side, tapping each one alternately.. I can also recommend WD pots, they're what's in my custom bass as recommended by JayDee custom guitars. [url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/category/Electronics/Pots,b.html"]http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/category/Electronics/Pots,b.html[/url]

[quote name='Oakbear' post='1037282' date='Nov 26 2010, 01:33 AM']How much would it effect the function of the pickup if it is placed inside a thin wooden casing?[/quote] Ask this guy, he's been doing it for YEARS. Gorgeous exotic woods too. [url="http://www.jaydeeguitars.com/classic.php"]http://www.jaydeeguitars.com/classic.php[/url]

Don't know about the new stuff but the old Hiwatts were marked AP on the back; for "All Purpose". Many bands used them on bass; a few used them on & off for guitar; The Who, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull - Slade used them on everything. Many of the Hiwatt old-school users don't class Music Grounds Hiwatts as the real deal - but that's more to do with MG than the amp itself. Be very careful about using it with just one cab though. The speakers may not be up to taking bass guitar for long periods & the wattage of one cab may not have enough headroom.

My custom bass was built by the same guy who built all of these in the 70's. Ably assisted in most cases by John Diggins - JayDee. Though mine is just a bog standard long scale EB3 in maple with an active onboard overdrive.

[quote name='casapete' post='1032664' date='Nov 22 2010, 02:21 PM']Thats the one I have. Don't overuse it though - I usually do mine a 2/3 times a year and seems fine. If used too often it can actually cause problems (wood softening,loosen frets etc). Its not really a cleaner, more of a way of preventing rosewood boards from drying out I believe.[/quote] +1, That's exactly what John Birch told me when he worked on my SG; and to me he was the absolute font of all knowledge guitar wise.

[quote name='Kohpnyn' post='1006517' date='Oct 30 2010, 05:15 PM']Thanks for the recommendations. I'm far too clumsy for making my own cables, so I guess I'll go for some of OBBM's. Anyone know the difference between the Vandamme and the Klotz cable?[/quote] I've always made my own using Neutrik jacks & Klotz cable. It's not that difficult & a good way to learn soldering; not that expensive if you knacker a jack in the process, you'd still be ahead if you bought a spare jack to practise on. Quite a few shops will make it up for you & it would still be cheaper.