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Definitely on the final furlong. Last 'mechanical' bit done - fitting the bridge and making sure it all lines up: I use a couple of old strings to line it all up - you can do it with a long ruler but I find the real thing is more accurate. The double check is that the lipsticks have a centre line - so a rule from the middle of the nut should run right down the middle of all of the dots, along the pickup lines and to the centre of the bridge. To my admitted surprise, it does! Now I can do the final tweak of the pickguard to make sure it is all square with the bridge. And this morning, the electrics and knobs arrived So, still to do: - final tweak of pickguard - sand neck - apply finish to neck (it will darken just a touch) - square up tuners and add back screws - Level, recrown, polish and fret-end the frets - Check the conductivity of the body chamber and copper line if necessary. Copper line the pickguard - Fit the electrics - Final setup The next big project after this is...the bathroom. Oh joy Oh, and just for completeness sake, here's the back:5 points
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So. You tweak the bass, bit of treble here and there, roll off some bass .. isn’t that what the knobs are for? I adjust mine nearly every song, it doesn’t make me want to sell it. Think yourself lucky it doesn’t have a parametric eq 😂 The reality is you have 2 awesome and very different basses . Don’t sell it. No rash decisions. You know you’ll regret it! 😉 That’s my 2 pence worth.5 points
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My first gig was on 20th November 1966 so next Monday's gig will kick off my 54th year of playing in bands. I haven't liked every gig, every song or every band member but for every negative there have been thousands of positives. Tell me tomorrow we're starting a 6 week tour around Europe living in the back of a van and I'll be waiting on the door step, passport in hand, when the van arrives.5 points
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I’ve been giving this a bit of thought and have come to the conclusion that the Hootenanny is a victim of all NYE programming. If you look beyond the musical entertainment broadcast, it’s all just a rehash of the various old codswallop that the broadcasters have been spewing out for years on NYE. It just so happens that this is a forum populated by musicians, so we are always going to focus on the musical programming provided. Basically, we are all being shortchanged, whatever our entertainment preferences at this time of year. We deserve better, but in reality, it’s a real First World problem.4 points
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Whatever happened to all basses sounding the same? 🙈4 points
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After 33 years and 140+ basses I have discovered that my perfect bass: is made of wood/acrylic/balsa/potatoes/ferrero rocher has 4, 5, 6, 8, or 12 strings is active or passive is shiny matches my stage clothes sounds like a bass4 points
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Much as i'd like to agree, I have to say that when I have merely changed one wife for another, people have made a right fuss about it!4 points
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Dropping the price of this dudes.... Now £495 Classic, powerful Trace Elliot 350w GP12 SMX amp head. Truly fabulous sound. Clean, driving power. It sounds epic! UV light works perfectly. All in good working order. I'll be sad to see this go but needs a new owner to give it the justice it deserves. I live near Jcn 2 M42, but can meet within a reasonable distance of B487BP.3 points -
I've had this for a few weeks now and still cant get over what a cracking bass and how good a value for money it is. I've had a jazz itch for a while and have tried/bought and sold a couple. But wanted a specific spec e.g. lake placid blue, rosewood board, block markers etc. Was tempted by ether the g&l and Sire with at spec but ended up plumping for the more traditional. Bought it with a bit of black Friday discount from the good folks at PMT Bristol and managed to try it against a 2nd hand Sire and a Mexican Fender they had in and the G&L played and sounded better than both especially considering the Fender was about £250 more expensive. Had an audition for a new band so I took it along with my trusty old yamaha and got the gig and said they'd want me to use the g&l as they loved the look and the tone. I dont know how G&L do the tribute series so cheaply but it is an absolutely cracking bass for £400. I'd absolutely recommend one over any equivalent Fenders.3 points
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Not sure if this was posted before, but ive only just come across it.3 points
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Due to massive over spend this Christmas I'm going to put my Trace Elliot AH600-12 up for sale. It is Boxed and in 9.5 out of 10 condition. New JJ valves have been installed and it comes complete with pedal board, cable, instruction book and gig cover. Collection most welcome. Price includes UK postage. £335 PayPal, bank transfer or cash on collection.3 points -
soooo 2019 mate!3 points
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Would ya believe an Aria pro 2 SB900 thru a Trace Elliot combo .. @TheGreek will be wetting his pants3 points
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That's what I say about my missus3 points
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Makeshift reverse p pick guard made and all is sounding well!3 points
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Just uploaded this from my NYE gig - enjoy. Maybe this explain my shallow stage comment earlier - we were pretty much standing on the dance floor!3 points
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Now then, now then, now then, let's not be having any trouble, guys and gals. What?3 points
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You’d need some balls to take on the mods. Could get you the sack...3 points
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There’s a trade offer right there!3 points
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Happy New Year3 points
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It's all the people who bought Mesa gear in the Guitar Guitar sale now having to sell stuff to pay their VISA bills3 points
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One of the biggest drawbacks of luthier built bass is the resale value. Hang on to it - Shukers are way better than Fender in every respect apart from the one just mentioned 😎3 points
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That’s it, it’s all over, a) I am now officially an ACG fanboy (although I’m really too old to be an anything ’boy’ but fanman..? I dunno), b) I’m keeping the Harlot. It’s just back from TJC Guitars having been fully set up and restrung with Newtone Platinum Roundwounds and man it sings, no way I’d ever get a bass of its ilk again, it has that undefinable extra something that I suppose we are all looking for in a bass. It’s a GAS killer as far as fretted electric basses go. I’ve a feeling that once I get the short scale bass that @Jabba_the_gut is working on for me I’ll be done... ...mind you, I can’t get @TheGreek’s Psilios bass out of my head? There is no end to GAS is there?3 points
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Annoyed pine. 😂3 points
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I remember at our most regular pub we used to have to finish at 11:30 on a saturday due to complaints from a local guy. Then one saturday we got to 11:30, we asked the woman who has the pub if we could go a few songs over (we normally did), and she said yes we could, the person who used to complain moved out, a new guy had moved in, and here he was in the crowd!3 points
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Yep, musically it's often a kind of indie-rock style somewhere between U2 and Coldplay for example... this isn't Sunday morning, one of the local churches that puts a woman's conference, their Sunday is similar3 points
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Stop messing Set and forget keep and play both3 points
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68 in two weeks so will have been doing this for 52 years. Hate the gigs that are too far, too late, too tiring when we take ALL the gear. Back gone, knees gone and both wrists shot to pieces so can't really play for a couple of months maybe longer, and get very frustrated with guitarists who constantly change guitars and retune, drummers who speed up and slow down and singers who forget middle 8s. So, what do I do? Ah yes, buy another bass and an Aguilar 4x10 that I won't be able to lift on my own. Being in a band and gigging. Moan about it constantly and hate everything about it but, the realisation that I may not be able to play any more if things don't work out health wise, has filled me with dread because........ it's what we do.3 points
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It's not your age, it's the mileage. I was 63 last week, but I've only been a gigging musician for a dozen years so I still get a real buzz out of doing this. The fact that I'm retired means that, far from gigging being hard to fit into my life, I can build my entire life around gigging. Best of all ... Silvie feels the same way!3 points
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I used to be in the ‘reggae bass lines are easy, surely’ camp, until I tried playing some. It makes me realise how uptight my style of writing/playing is. I’m off to listen to LKJ.3 points
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Well, a good start would be don't book singers who can't sing anymore. After that... It's supposed to be a party show (NYE is the biggest party of the year after all), so maybe, just for one show, don't try to be all cool and edgy and instead get fun, funky party bands. Let the bands play a number of songs on the bounce (like a mini set), give them the opportunity to build up a head of steam and get the crowd really going. The constant switching from genre to genre crashes the flow, even the world's shittest DJ wouldn't plan a set list like that. Plan the night like a DJ set list, bulld the crowd up throughout the night, create a proper party in the studio, it will translate to the viewers at home. Stop the table hopping interviews, it just doesn't work. Maybe have a co-host setup in a corner of the studio, interviewing one guest at a time, prehaps with some prepared, interesting questions. Stop pretending its NYE. Everyone knows its prerecorded. Imho it harms the integrity of the show as well as the atmosphere in the studio. TV is fake enough as it is, adding another layer of blatent falsity does nothing except expect everyone to buy into a lie, which no-one does and, I feel, is a big reason why the show feels so forced.3 points
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I have wound down gigging with the covers bands I played in, I just got sick of so many aspects of gigging. 1. The same old crap covers that everyone expects at big function, sex on fire, brown eyed girl, anything by the bloody Beatles 2. Crap pay; no one wants to pay anything decent for a band unless it’s a wedding. I earned more playing gigs when I was 16 than I do now at 36. 3. Wedding gigs are just a massive pain in the derrière, they take all day most of the time, your crammed into a corner and have to put up with a DJ with an overinflated ego and sense of self importance who thinks he should be in the middle of the space assigned for the band. 4. Young people rarely want to watch bands in my experience, in fact to sum up a conversation I heard at work with younger folk than me ‘if they see a band of “old men playing old music” we just turn around and leave’. 5. I’m sick of playing to seriously whizzed up older folks who think walking on stage with the band and trying to sing is a good idea and then later ‘dance’ so out of control that they fall over the floor monitors and knock over all the kit. 6. Drunk people asking over and over again for songs you don’t and can’t play. That’s just a few.....and sadly the thrill of playing and a little applause and a few quid at the end of the night doesn’t outweigh the crap above and being away from my family at weekends. I am sure I will change my mind and miss it at some point but for now I’m good.3 points
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I'll have you know I could easily beat Hafthor in a amp lift-off! 💪3 points
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Finally, it appears someone took a short video but no photos What The Funk ( us ) at NYE Buckingham move on up.mp43 points
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Thanks Pete, I've been gigging the G&L ASAT (1991) bass for a while. I finally understand the value and use of the active pre-amp. However changing the 9 volt battery is a pain in the derrière. Blue2 points
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Oh man, he's turning into a monster singer. Every gig he does he does something new... and that fact that he can sing higher than all the females is hilarious. Damn right, no other way... so easy.2 points
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They weren't original members, although I think most people would consider them the classic lineup2 points
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Thank God I'm not the only one who did that! You know what they've done, right? The actual logo should have two rows of patent numbers. They've simply taken the bottom row, and hoped no one would look at the actual numbers.2 points
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Maybe refinish the Flea in Brown and you will love it again2 points
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OnSong is good2 points
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For sale is a brand new Compressor pedal from Collaboration Devices. - £190 shipping to UK included. SOLD It's a great sounding and versatile box capable of achieving all manner fo compression sounds, from its simple feature set of "Comp Level" (which is compression amount), "Comp Blend" (allowing you to blend in a parallel dry signal, restoring the attack and dynamics which can be lost with more extreme compression settings), and "Make Up" (allowing for some serious boost if needed). Alongside this is the Saturation control that is footswitchable and blends in a further parallel channel of overdrive of distortion. There is an internal trimmer that controls the gain of this, allowing for everything from slight hair all the way up to full distortion (amazing range). At low settings it makes for a perfect always on grit, or you can be more extreme and using as it a serious mix-slicing distortion. The pedal is in perfect working condition, and has only seen a limited amount of studio use. There are a couple of chips in the paintwork on the bottom (seen in the photos), which are from the pedal being stacked atop a couple others (whoops). The pedal comes with all it's original goodies, including two stickers. In the words of Collaboration Devices: "My take on the classic VCA buss compressor. I love running it at the very end of my mono signal chain, right before stereo effects to glue my gain stage. It’s also fantastic after mono delay, reverb, and modulation. I’ve added a parallel gain stage that interacts with the compressor to give you a pretty unique sub layer of saturation. I would describe it as having a top boost AC30 in parallel with your compressed signal. Add a little to give your leads a boost, or crank it to add another overdrive to your gain stage. Dimensions: 4.75” x 3.75” x 2.5” Power: 9v only, 40ma draw"2 points -
Let the fun begin!2 points
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It's a bass guitar. It's an asset you bought for cash and can easily turn back into cash for any purpose of your choosing. If you've got so much space and cash that you wouldn't feel guilty for letting it live in it's case forever then keep it. If you think you'd feel better swapping it for something else then flip it. Don't feel wedded to an instrument just because you wanted one for a long time. The pleasure of owning something you lusted after for so long will never truly overcome the fact it's not the right instrument for you. We've probably all been there. There's instruments I talk about in "wish I'd never sold it" threads, but after getting close to 20 years of buying and selling instruments, I've never regretted selling something that just wasn't working as I needed it to. The only things I regret selling were good instruments that I sold to free cash up for other ventures which ultimately brought me less joy than the instrument I sold to fund them.2 points
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How many "basses I should never have sold" threads do we see? Agree with other posters. Sure you could get by with one....but who wants to "get by"? You have two great basses, they do slightly different things, so you can do slightly different projects with them. I think that you can be perfectly happy with that.2 points
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You just haven’t found your sweet spot with the Flea. Give it time. Live with it a while and get to know it. Having different sounding basses is a benefit, not a burden.2 points
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Me too. Depping in a band with Jamaican drummers was a hugh learning curve. Then you realise you have to relearn everything you thought you knew. I loved it.2 points
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You make me sound fickle! I am, yes. It ticks my boxes.2 points
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I prefer the look of Jazz basses but I always found they do get more lost in the mix. I put flats on mine and boost the upper mids BUT they don't work well in stripped back bands like 3 pieces. Better in a bigger band set up, in my humble opinion.2 points
