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[quote name='yondergo' timestamp='1443248961' post='2873348']
Oh man, I'd love an antoria bass, from the fujigen guitars I had I know the quality is so good, hardly ever see those kind of fujigen basses come up though. The bass player from United Vibrations had an 70s ibanez jazz, looked really nice.

Devils advocate: If you've got a good mij bass from that era, do you really need a not so good example like the cmi too?
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Sorry, the Jazz Star is a gretch style guitar not bass.

Thanks for the info again

Thanks for all the information guys, really interesting, especially about Antoria as I recently bought a 70's Antoria Jazz star for £100 and couldn't believe the build quality.

Regarding the CMI, I've been asked to make an offer on it and I'm not sure what they're worth, does anybody have a ballpark street resale value for them?

Thanks again!

I'm picking up this Jazz copy this week, not quite sure what it is or whether it's any good but I've established it's from the 70's by a company called CMI.

I'm buying it because it looks fun and I don't have a 4 string anymore.

Anybody came across these?

Also, if the electrics/pickups aren't up to any good, can anybody recommend me some good replacements for under £150 ish? I will mostly be for soul, think jamerson/pino etc.

Thanks!

Thanks for the replies, panic over! I spoke to the production company and they're putting in an amp with a 8x10 cab so should be fine They did ask for a spec sheet (including amps) a month ago but I didn't know mine was going to explode!

Hi, I'm playing a festival this weekend to roughly 20,000 people in a rugby stadium, for most of my gigs I usually use a Genz streamliner 900 and a Bergantino HD210. My Genz blew up the other week and I need to hire/borrow an amp for this gig but I'm unsure of what I need and I'm struggling to get hold of anything above 300w.

It's going to be fully DI'd and monitored so I'm assuming I just need an amp that can make a bit of noise and the PA will do the rest? I've heard less noise on stage is better in situations like this?

Can anybody help? And does anybody know anyone that I can hire an amp from that's close to Leicester/Midlands?


EDIT: I have a Seymour Duncan Paranormal DI Pedal on my board, (http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/stompboxes/sfx06_paranorma_2/) I've used this in studios and plugged straight into desks to record, could this be used live or would the signal be too low? I also have an active bass and Xotic RC Booster always on.

Read this

http://www.talkbass.com/threads/genz-benz-head-blown-any-electronics-savvy-people-got-a-spare-minute.1077847

I blew mine the other week because nobody told me about this. Other than that, it's an incredible amp.

UPDATE: I got an electrics guy to look at it, he replaced a fuse and managed to get it to turn back on but said the valves aren't glowing, it's producing no sound and every LED is just flashing on and off at the same time.. anybody know what that could mean?

HI, I accidentally flicked the voltage switch on my streamliner 900 from 230 to 115 whilst on and it went bang. Does anybody know what this might have blown?

Sam

My friend Jack just wrote this great guide on packing a guitar for shipping If anybody's interested in how he couriers guitars in and out of his workshop.

[url="http://jacksinstrumentservices.com/how-to-pack-a-guitar.html"]http://jacksinstrumentservices.com/how-to-pack-a-guitar.html[/url]

bump before ebay!

SOLD!

Couple of light scuffs on top but nothing serious, still selling for £650 on bassdirect with the gig bag, looking for £350.

Pics:
[url="https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BwZXHn7nrng8TmY3VHFLTWdSa0U/edit"]https://docs.google....HFLTWdSa0U/edit[/url]

Need it gone asap!

bump

Bump...

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still for sale, open to offers!

Edited to add pics and info

Hey, not interested in splitting sorry

Bump for Price Drop!

SOLD!

SOLD!

I'm struggling to find a gig bag for my KSD (35" scale length with its long headstock). I also need to fit in (not at the same time) a 6 string Ken Smith black tiger (wide body).

I'm currently looking at the iGig 515 or the Pro-Tec Contego

Anybody got any ideas/experience?

cheers

Hey, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm after, I've been thinking about adding a "play along" section as I know from my own experience that these really help with learning songs.

I'd like to watermark and reupload each contributed video to a basslessons.co.uk youtube account. The videos will be all different formats and quality but we'd need to keep everything centralised and branded well for it to work.

I've noticed there are a lot of great players on here throwing out some awesome video/written bass lessons. I've just bought "basslessons.co.uk" and I want to set up an archive of free bass lessons/tutorials/news etc.. At the same time, I'd also like to promote all the fantastic teachers and unheard bass players from around the UK too so here's my idea.

I want to treat this as a collaborative project by making group decisions to develop/improve the site and I'm willing to put my time/money into the upkeep/updating/promotion of the site. I can't offer payment for contributors to the site but I can offer author pages which will hopefully build reputation and lead to work and endorsements. Comments and ratings will be on each author page and each of the articles/lessons created by the author (which will show up alongside the authors picture in google search results).

I'd also be interested in partnering with this site if that's possible, I'm not sure who i'd talk to about that. Remember this is all non profit to help develop the UK bass community and I'm not trying to tread on anybody's toes!

I'll need authors for the news and blog sections, a social media expert to push the site to new platforms and as many contributors as possible for theory and technique lessons.

As well as being a pro bass player, I'm also a competent internet marketer/web developer so I have the skills to push the site and offer help to anybody willing to contribute.

is anybody interested in making this work?

Sam

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1375380' date='Sep 16 2011, 12:18 PM']Di you have a go on the amp though?[/quote]


sadly not, we met at a service station, he told me all about it though and spent more time talking about that than anything!