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Mrs Gareth didn't need the car so I ran to B&Q to pick up a few bits, most importantly some 21mm square pine lengths for the internal reinforcement. They were out of stock on the auger needed for the hole saw, and a roundover router bit to my mild annoyance but I could still make progress. My cutting and gluing wasn't perfect, but was good enough and by this afternoon I'd made something that definitely looked like a box. It'll need a bit of wood filler on some of the joints, but overall, it's passable. I also busted out the router for the speaker hole on the front baffle. I drew a 26cm circle and cut 4 * 8mm holes into the wood as router bit starting guide, before realising that it should have been 23cm. Oops. A quick re-draw and re-drill, then out with the router to cut a (mostly) circular hole. The wrongly drilled holes line up almost perfectly with 4 of the holes for securing the speaker, so I got lucky there. The routed hole fits nice and snug but may need some more sanding tomorrow. Almost a cab!4 points
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1 cubic foot of air at standard temperature and pressure assuming average composition weighs approximately 0.0807 lbs. HTH 😄4 points
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Chris McIntyre's your man. He did a lovely job on my Steinberger a few months ago. He's based in Leith, right beside Easter Road stadium. https://www.mcintyreguitars.com/4 points
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It's with real regret that i am putting this bass up for sale as i love the sound the feel of the neck and basically everything about it except the weight , it's just a little too heavy for me to play longer gigs with. I appreciate that this level of relic will not be to everbodys taste however this is another fine example of Marks work his pick ups are some of the best i've heard and these are no different, , the bass plays superbly below is the spec as outlined on Marks site as you can see it's got a lot of top quality components I've had this bass 6 months it's been gigged but not over used to be honest I've played it more at home . Forgot to add prefer a sale but may consider trade for a black, black , maple P Bass Limelight 00220 Heavy Relic Precision in sunburst with J width neck This Limelight Precision was built as a 68/69 bass and we went to town on the specs. It has all the usual Limelight features but in addition also has the metal earthing plates under the pick ups, an extra added Jazz pick up in the bridge position ( a very popular mod back in the day) plus the extra knob required and side mounted jack socket. It also has a genuine Fender nitro-cellulose pickguard which are over £100 to buy new! If this spec was to be ordered today then it would cost over £1150! I’m offering it at a good price as I currently have 3 Limelight’s for sale and in stock, and usually I have none, so quick sale required. The bass is very heavy relic sunburst, with “J” width rosewood fretboard with clay dots and rolled fretboard edges, and has the usual high quality components such as CTS pots, Switchcraft jack socket and vintage wiring. Price is firm and includes postage and a Hard case if you would like to collect from Wigan I'll reduce by £50 , The bass is not light i don't have an exact weight but it is in excess of 9lbs and probably wouldn't suit anyone like me who has a dodgy shoulder or back issues Happy to send more pictures if anyone wants any3 points -
Still toying around with my effects. Probably will be forever lol3 points
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I've had this one kicking around for many years, and posted on here a few times. Its a handmade/assembled thing. The body was handmade, probably rather crudely, but then the body was wrapped in adhesive soaked thin canvas (As used for artwork), then the paint applied to this. The neck i believe is from an old lawsuit Hondo replica, or similar, has nice pearloid trapeze inlays, and is very straight and well set. Since I've had it, its now got mostly original Ricky parts, TRC, tuners, tailpiece, scratchplate, pickups, pots, knobs etc. Looks ok, but could do with some TLC. I'm a big Mani fan, and its a bit of fun really, although its become quite an expensive one!! 🤣3 points
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Mine was in better condition :3 points
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It’s a scam. I can see right through it.3 points
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Fender CB100CE bass guitar. 9.5 /10 condition, virtually as new. Fitted Fishman preamp with built in tuner, sounds and plays great. Fender bronzewound strings. Comes with a gigbag too, great deal! No trades thanks. Cash on collection from just west of Hull, East Yorkshire, as I don't have much confidence in posting it without a hard case TBH. NOW SOLD (not on here though 🙁)3 points -
Ampeg PF-20T with flight case. As new with tags and original box. Absolutely mint with probably an hours use. Kinda want to keep it but need to be sensible and continue the clear out.2 points -
Lovely 5 string TUNE twx 5-string made in japan. Neck thru, 34 Scale, active/passive, 3-way p/up switch, Ebony fretboard, body top macassar ebony, body made out of mahogany, 5-piece maple neck with 2 walnut stripes. Abt. 4,5 kgs, very well balanced, currently strung with d'addario nickels 145 (!!!) to 45 - great bass for fusion and funk. Cuts thru very nicely in the mix. Will be prepared to pack it well and send it to europe/uK out of germany since I live close to the border - enjoy the photos - any questions please feel free to get in touch with me thru basschat. best regards from a Swiss bass fellow. PS: Even the photos were made in February 2019 - the bass looks still breathtanking today, no abuse here, well kept for studio and home use - let the pictures speak.2 points -
La Bellas installed. Truss Rod tweaked. Rehearsal on Saturday!2 points
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These people who don't specify the nut width and string spacing....2 points
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They make all sorts of weird crud...2 points
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I recently saw a Ric Bass, I think it was a 4005, with a Jackson Pollock-ish paint job. I can't find it anywhere here in the threads. Anyone know the one I'm thinking of ? I built my son a Baritone a while back using that style finish, but now I'm having trouble with it curing properly.2 points
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As our own @discreet once succinctly said regarding GAS, "sometimes the best thing to do is nothing." Saved me a few quid that one!2 points
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Any idea of the weight2 points
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Here's my cheesy instrumental band. Nothing fancy (and I'm sure my technique could be pulled to shreds) but it's fun2 points
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OK decision has been made and its time for a little confession. I own the rosewood one and I had the opportunity to swap it for the maple. I've decided to keep my own rosewood ray5. I was very fortunate to be allowed to hold onto the maple board ray5 for a week or so (many thanks Ian) but now having played it I realise that the darker tones do it for me, all be it by just the tiniest of margins. Both basses are spectacular and easily would be right at home in any gig. Many Thanks for all your great comments and input. I greatly appreciated them and they helped on my way Keep her lit low enders2 points
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Me at a recent gig...2 points
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Saw a message from them on Facebook last night, apparently their hosting company has switched off their server. They said it would all be sorted by Thursday. Silvia beat me to it.2 points
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Get one of those pull-up banners with a SVT and 8x10 printed on it.2 points
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I am one of those that fell for his comedy charms in the Seventies. I didn't like his later, shouty, persona and,agreed, Magic Roundabout was very cheesy;However I loved his stand up stuff. I paid the princely sum of 50p to watch him live at the Nottingham Theatre Royal when he was at the height of his early stand up success and I thought he was brilliant. I'm sure it's not just you though that didn't find him funny!😊2 points
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Seriously now... I can understand wearing a Vulf tee... but a Joe Dart tee? That's some niche uber bass geekery. I can picture it now. "Hey, nice tee. Who's Joe Dart?" "A bass player." "Riiiggghhhht."2 points
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Second prize two T-shirts 😈2 points
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I found this in the rehearsal room yesterday... I think the paper recycling bin puked it out as it has a cheese intolerance.2 points
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Sticking with the Ibanez theme, last year I impulse-bought a GSR200b that I picked up by chance in the ex-demo section at my local. No idea why it was languishing - I couldn’t find a mark on it - but it was very light and had a great feeling neck with really nicely finished frets, so for £140ish I had to take a chance on it. Despite my plans to swap the hardware and pickups for something more reassuringly expensive, when I actually got it home and put some decent strings on it, it turned out to sound really lively, stay in tune and be easy to adjust, so it’s staying exactly as it is! I know it’s well under 3kg (2.7kg rings a bell but I’d need to confirm that) so cheap, decent, long scale and lightweight solid-body basses are out there, if somewhat rare.2 points
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I've sent a message asking whether it's fresh air or compressed air. My local garage has a sign which says that air from their compressor isn't free.2 points
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I can't ask questions from a smoke and pet-free home as I've got a cat.2 points
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I think the hardest thing is to make an honest assessment of your own playing. In the last few weeks two people have said exactly this to me, one a guitarist the other a bassist. I have no idea how my own playing measures up; I know I'm not completely crap and I'm certain I'm far from being a virtuoso. I don't think I've learned anything that gets rated as harder than 'intermediate' on the tab sites! I comfort myself by claiming to be 'competent'... The truth is, 50% of bass players are below average!* Beginners will always over-estimate their abilities - because that's true of human beings in almost any learning situation, but being below average doesn't mean you are crap, and its more important to encourage beginners than criticise them, not least because the right encouragement might see them become a virtuoso. *ish.2 points
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It’s a short clip of some kid playing, perhaps I missed something, but I can’t for the life of me see where this sort of vitriol comes from or what it achieves?2 points
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Haha! Excellent topic. We're a two-bassists household, so we have a lot of bass gear! I can often be seen going around the house dusting those basses that are on stands, as opposed to in cases. Sometimes I wipe them down with a damp cloth, if they're particularly grubby! I include fingerboards and the 'underside' of the strings. I have a large makeup brush (I don't 'do' makeup, anyway) to dust pickups, bridges and headstock tuners. I keep an eye on the state of my basses' fingerboards and oil them when necessary, even if I'm not changing the strings. Same with cleaning the frets. On the basses I use most, I regularly check action/truss rod, saddle height, nut height (on the Warwicks) and intonation. I have been known to be OCD enough to tighten a tuner's screw if that tuner is slightly looser than the others. I have changed hardware on a couple of basses, and turned an electric upright from righty to lefty, but I don't feel confident enough to change pickups, or to do heavy duty cosmetic work such as sanding down the lacquer and changing the body colour. I'm @Happy Jack's strings and general setup tech... 😎1 point
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Happy Mondays actually, but I knows what you're sayin'. 👍1 point
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That is one BEAUTIFUL Wal. Congratulations on the newcomer! I'm a 6 string player, moved directly from upright and a brief stint on 4 strings electric, so I feel your pain. On one hand, the 'string location' issue will rearrange itself in your muscle memory, just give it some days/weeks of practice. For what the ringing muting is concerned, that might take a bit more time, especially if you're only used to muting with your fretting hand. On a 6 it's even more accentuated than on a 5, so I had to really change my right hand technique to adapt for that - I tend to use a mix between Patitucci's and Anthony Jackson's right hand techniques to mute, when I'm on my lower 2-3 strings I'm using Patitucci's technique, when I'm on high registers/higher strings I switch to Jackson's. The main difference is Patitucci uses the thumb as an anchor on the low B, ring and little fingers muting the E and A, index and middle free for fingering - and you can see his thumb slide across the B string to let him access the strings further away, and it contracts back to play on E or B. In case of Anthony Jackson, I've always seen him mute with a mix of both fingers (similar to Patitucci but without the anchor, but 'a finger per string' effectively) and he also quite likes muting the strings with the palm and the side of his palm. As I said, I ended up mixing and matching these two techniques as required - if you can get a consistent sound (which then becomes another issue, in case of using multiple fingering techniques), feel free to do the same!! But to start with, I'd say pick ONE of these two, and start practicing using ONLY that technique. Only switch or mix if you're not happy with the results after a few days/weeks of practicing that way! I'd have stayed with the Patitucci method if it wasn't for the fact that on the higher strings it doesn't feel as comfortable as Anthony's for my hands. My 2 cents, I'm sure you'll go past this like a champ. As for everything, it's a matter of spending time with the instruments and understanding how you relate and move around it Happy Walling1 point
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Some uncomfortable truths... If your bass is going into the PA and DI'd from the amp, then at anything other than very small (<100) venues and for people directly at the front of the stage at larger ones, the contribution your cabs are going to make to what the audience hears is zero, nada, zilch. If the visuals of having lots of cabs on stage is important to the look of the band by all means take both of them, but just plug in one.1 point
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If I was into 6 string basses , this would be the bass that I'd sell everything to get . Theses look absolutely stunning . It's strange that for me , I can just look at that picture the OP put up , and imagine almost exactly how it's going to feel in my hands . Bass for life , that is .1 point
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Just keep playing and you'll get used to it quickly enough. It's all about muscle memory. That shouldn't be a chore in this case. That thing is a beast. Congratulations.1 point
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I just did a live video for a country artist and did just that 😂 Helix Stomp and FRFR out of sight in the shell of an old Fender Bassman.1 point
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I like to think I have a healthy open attitude to music whilst, naturally, preferring some styles over others and I also like to think I can be encouraging to anyone keen enough to take up my favourite instrument. But; WHAT THE HELL HAVE I JUST WATCHED!! Apologies, I didn't intend to shout1 point
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SOOOOO badly want!!! 😩1 point -
Those octave patches really are very good!1 point
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Any bassist who can hold down a groove whilst taking on the lead vocals gets my respect!! And in Royal Blood Mk II style, you've managed to dispense with your guitarist! Nice one! Definitely got me interested in checking out your other material. Snapshot of PJP's bass pedal board for anyone else interested:1 point
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NBD the Euro 4LE 1979 has landed. Here are the happy couple.1 point
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Well, that's all respect for JB out the window, then. The worst type of guitarist mentality, and an admission of his failure to do what so many contemporaries have done, and that's make modern technology work for their sound. Here's some quotes from a guitarist who is a peer of JB's, Paul Gilbert, who has spoken a lot about his tinnitus and his onstage headphones: "The purpose of my headphones is the same as the more common ear molds: to block out the stage volume while giving me a controlled mix and volume from the monitor desk...Do you wonder why concerts are always too loud and sound crappy? I wondered until I realized it’s me! Sorry!...I would definitely trade some head-stuffed-into-the- 4x12-moments in exchange for getting some high-end back into my ears." Now that's a proper (and better) guitarist... 😀1 point
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@EBS_freak, getting that way too. If, in 2019 he's still publishing articles advocating practices that caused his own ear damage, and he learned about it in 2013, this is not good. The guy appears to be dangerously duplicitous.1 point
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And this is why guitarists are always a nightmare when it comes to inears. Playing for themselves instead of the overall sound of the band. Bad for your hearing? In the fact that you can have a lower SPL? If JB has explored Klang and all the ambient options available, then I would be receptive of his wide, sweeping statements. In Ears have reduced the amount of people that have resulted in having chronic tinnitus... I'd say that's saving your ears. I find it interesting that all those that don't advocate the use of IEMs (typically the old school rockers) - are all the ones that are struggling with insufferable ringing ears. As for comments about the dynamics... the sounds engineers are in control of the dynamics that audience hear anyway, whether you are using IEMs or not. If your guitar rigs are overpowering the PA, then the balance of music that the audience here is greatly compromised anyway. Better to have a set of ears out front where the audience are to balance the mix. Fatter and fuller sound - he's saying a desk full of processing and a PA with full range reproduction can't produce a fatter and fuller sound? Err... try getting a fuller and fatter sound out of your kick drum without any processing and see how far you get. If you can't get a fatter and fuller sound, it's down to poor engineering or inadequate tools... not down to the concept of running a quieter stage with the PA doing the work. I think we can say that JB is a dinosaur who doesn't give a stinky poo about the health of his own, or other people's hearing. But hey, that's rock n roll.1 point
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@LewisK1975 I believe the correct term is fuzzy winky1 point
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