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  2. ash
    I bought these in error and didn’t realise for a while after I purchased them. They have not been opened or used - literally a new set. They are the super long version of this famous string. Great quality, sound and feel. Price includes UK postage. Save a chunk on a new set. See pics. Blurb below. Nobody knows flatwound bass strings better than Thomastik-Infeld. Spirocore strings by Thomastik-Infeld have been legendary among upright bassists for decades. Now the electric bassist can also experience the Thomastik-Infeld sound. Thomastik-Infeld utilizes a highly pliable steel core which is wrapped with a silk inlay. The outer winding is a true ribbon flatwound constructed of a special nickel alloy. The result is an incredible depth of tone and an enhanced fundamental which is unavailable from any other flatwound. These will fit on 37″ scale fan fret basses like Spector and Dingwall Sets JF344: .043, .056, .070, .100
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  3. Stub Mandrel started following How was your open mic or jam night last night?
  4. JPJ started following Ron Carter - Finding the Right Notes
  5. JPJ
    Thanks for sharing, as a relative newby to the world of double bass I found this fascinating 🙏
  6. TrevorR
    Country theme night at our Weekly Monday Night Jam last night was an absolute hoot! A great mix of great tunes, cheesy songs and lots of folks not taking themselves too seriously. Did 3 tunes in the end - here’s one of them: Gunpowder & Lead by Miranda Lambert. The house band opened with a slice of Albert Lee - played even faster than Albert plays it! The guy in the hat is Nick Meier, who is the regular host. Not so shabby on the skinny strings… but then he did spend 5 years or so playing in Jeff Beck’s band in the 2010s… yes THAT Jeff Beck! Lovely guy and quite a player!
  7. bass_dinger
    The bass is a gift. The Shipping fee is not in the signal chain... Still in, I would say.
  8. bass_dinger
    That'll be me, right enough. "Gear Up Music. Because the Post Office is closer than the charity shop...." I shall have a look at this, too. Yes - a quick tour of the area with Google Maps showed an anonymous office, rather than a vibrant guitar shop. Yes, and even the 100 "proper" Google reviews are suspiciously well-written. Capital letters, full stops, sentences. I guess the question is "is basschat willing to risk my bass guitars on the company?" Hmmm. I might contact them tomorrow.
  9. Bassassin
    I really, really hope they're called 'Licker'. Because as a pal of mine said when he heard Load - "well, they ain't f*ckin' metal any more!"
  10. Alanko started following The LAKLAND Porn Thread
  11. Alanko
    My Skyline Hollowbody. An idiosyncratic design with some odd limitations. The neck is bolt-on with a Fender-style pocket and flat neck-to-body angle at the join. This keeps the strings low over the surface of the body, yet the pickups mount like Gibson guitar pickups in rings. These need to kept very low to stop the strings clattering them. The pickups themselves have chromed plastic covers, yet the pickup rings are anodized metal. The pickup chassis is ungrounded and no wires are shielded. It is a noisy bass as a result, prone to static crackles and pops. I've replaced the factory bridge. 20 mm string spacing is too wide for me and the bridge was offset 2 mm to the treble side from the factory. This caused alignment issues.
  12. itu
    Neuser Claudia had a keyboard in the 1990's. Misa Tri-Bass had a touch fretboard. Steve Chick has made split fret neck instruments since 1985, although split fret neck was invented by Bob Murrell in 1964 (Guitorgan with six voice polyphony). Burns did first active electronics in 1963. Ovation created piezo pickup, and Ron Hoag optical pickup in late 1960's. What's new? What should we expect to see in the near future?
  13. Sean
    I had one years ago. What an amazing amp and such a bargain. GLWTS
  14. ead
    Hi Will, I'd say around £15-20. Any more than that I'd cover it.
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  16. Mrbigstuff
    I’d say so. You’re only cheating yourself as you’re acquiring new gear no matter the price paid.
  17. Desbass
    Nightingale - The Eagles
  18. johnbiffa started following Phil Jones 4B cabinet - free to anyone who can't afford it
  19. johnbiffa
    These are outstanding cabs and you an outstanding BCer 😎
  20. neepheid
    Well, the current Thunderbird 64 model (previously known as Vintage Pro then 60s) will knock your socks off - full 9 ply neck thru (7 ply on the Vintage Pro/60s), chrome pickup covers (and excellent pickups underneath), separate bridge and tailpiece. It's probably the best Thunderbird Gibson never made. Slightly biased because I own one, of course... Yes, @NancyJohnson the body/neck shape's on the wonk - but I can sympathise; I haven't been around for quite as long as the T-bird but my body is definitely wonky after all this time too
  21. Woodinblack
    No doubt. I have tried the behringer uphoria and that worked ok on the PC ok for me, but just with a keyboard, but I haven't spent much time on it. I also used to have a future impact and didn't have a problem with midi on it, but understand it does seem to work for you and get you would be down on it.
  22. scrumpymike started following PRICE DROP. NOW £649 . Mesa D800 +. (Plus)
  23. scrumpymike
    Excellent amps, certainly the best D-class I've used. You'd have to try really hard to get a bad sound out of these. The high and low boost switches work really well and you've got an HPF pot too. I replaced my first D800+ with the very trick top of the range TT-800 but moved it on and came back to these. If I leave my bass, mid and treble controls set to 12 o'clock and use the boost and voicing controls I find I can always get the sound I want. This is a good price too. What's not to like? GLWTS
  24. Bagman
    last practice before before "live recording" next week it's only 3 tracks - should be fun
  25. Bagman
    $9K USA is $15254.16 NZD I think that is considerably more than any instrument I have purchased (5-6x) but yes I'm a Tobias fanboy so it's on the list of things to try Had the Growler out for a session last weekend - such a versatile instrument
  26. peteb started following Hercules Folding Multi Guitar Stand
  27. mikebass456
    Poison Sparrow - ABC
  28. kevin_lindsay
    Stool Pigeon - Kid Creole and The Coconuts
  29. Owen
    I had one of these with my Peavey MIDIbass. I should not have sold that.
  30. Alanko started following Asking the impossible - Bass Bridges
  31. Alanko
    Mazak rot, or zinc pest, plagues the model railway world. Specific models from specific manufacturers are known for it. Hornby's Class 31 diesels suffer badly from it, within certain eras of manufacturing, with all sorts of bizarre expansion and warping causing the locos to destroy themselves. When I moved into my house the windows all locked internally with stubby metal keys. These must have suffered from mazak rot over time as several of them were too, errr, tumescent to fit in the locks and the paint had spalled off them. At least two of them snapped off in the locks. Cheap nasty pot metal.
  32. LukeFRC
    Also sometimes I think we overthink it. i have an HX stomp, it won’t last forever, but neither will I. and I can sell it and buy something new if I want to. i have an analogue pedal I’ve built myself. It might last a bit longer, who knows what the kids will do with it when I’m gone.
  33. LukeFRC started following Video: 'When Expensive Music Gear Becomes Obsolete'
  34. LukeFRC
    A lot of the time I agree with you BigRed, or at least value your experience… but this makes no sense… a 1kohm resistor from 1982 with a 10% tolerance will be somewhere between 900- 1100 ohms, and be a crap shoot where in that range. A modern 1kohm resistor with 1% tolerance will be between 990-1010ohms - and yes it might sound different with a new resistor, but less different than it could sound with a NOS old one, and certainly closer to what the designer intended. So transistors and JFets and ICs stopping production, or some elements not fitting with environmental rules, or modern film vs old tantalum sounding different, or even everything being too hifi and nothing with a slow enough slew rate ild agree with you - but tighter tolerances in and of themselves should make no difference.
  35. Alanko
    Thanks! I didn't know Epiphone offered a T-bird with these sorts of specs. It probably out guns a few Gibson T-birds I've played over the years.
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