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[quote name='ednaplate' post='1363150' date='Sep 5 2011, 05:48 PM']I don't even remember seeing Music Ground there the other day.[/quote] Music Ground's shop is now occupied by the second branch of Macari's (the original is on Charing Cross Rd still). The Bass Cellar have left their shop and have moved in to the basement of Rocker's. Hank's has moved into what used to be Andy's. There's a general move away from the north side as (I am told by the chap in the Bass Gallery) the ongoing Crossrail developments might impinge on that side's property.

Speaking of Bass Player, has anyone seen the August issue anywhere? The one with Nate from the Foo Fighters on the cover. It's either late in the shops, or it's been and gone.

[quote name='dc2009' post='1324039' date='Aug 2 2011, 11:43 AM']It just so happened to work when I got home, no idea why... Hope it doesn't happen again though, will get myself one of those behringers as a backup when i bit more cash....[/quote] Sounds like what happened to mine! I blamed the rehearsal room and a grumpy Behringer stack.

[quote name='dc2009' post='1323904' date='Aug 2 2011, 09:59 AM']So after all the fuss of taking my bass and now ok sansamp through rush hour, the producer said I couldn't input my bass to the desk, either via jack or balanced xlr and insisted I played acoustic....thankfully about 25s into the first song the building manager came and silenced us due to complaints from a neighbouring office. What a load of fun....[/quote] How did you fix it?

[quote name='dc2009' post='1322787' date='Aug 1 2011, 09:36 AM']Hi all, Had practice yesterday, using my Sansamp through the practice room's Markbass somethingorother (which I loathe) and Hartke/tc mix, as per usual. Using my Epi Pro-V through it, which I have done before. I had the bass on full volume as per usual, though the amp was barely over 2 or 3 as it was just the guitarist and myself going over some arrangements for some acousticised numbers. Right at the end of that period, my Sansamp suddenly started screaming - a constant high pitched note, though you could still hear the bass sound too. I turned off the channel and left it for about 15 minutes. When I came back I tried it again and it was screaming through all three channels, though not when on bypass mode (i.e. no channel selected). I took it out of the circuit and played straight into the amp (ugh) for the rest of the session. So three questions: a - What's wrong with it? b - How do I fix it? c - I have to play a couple of these acoustic numbers on a radio show tomorrow morning. Does anyone in London (ideally SW, Hammersmith area) have a spare Sansamp I can borrow for it? I will repay in sexual favours.... Thanks, Dan[/quote] I had similar weirdness with my Sansamp BDDI a couple of years ago. It only happened in that session, and I've been back to the same rehearsal room since and it's been fine. I posted to another well-known bass email list at the time, here's what I write - see how it compares to your experience: "I've got three sounds stored: a normal, slightly gritty day-today bread and butter tone; an overdriven, snarly tone for covers of 1974 King Crimson; and a deep quiet dubbier tone. All three have been in use for some time, not recently adjusted. Batteries are not fresh but not run down either. After one song last night, keyboard player said "hey where's that high-pitched beep coming from in that song? it's not me". we all looked at each other and shrugged, then ran through the song again. Keys stopped when he'd heard it again. "There - I just heard it again". Of course it'd stopped by now and we began to think he was going mad. Just as we were about to start again, the beep came back. Then went. Back again. Keys looked at me - it's coming from your amp (which was the other side of him from me). This is what was happening. The beep (more of a high-pitched buzz when heard on its own, not mid-song) only happened when I was hands-off, not touching strings, bridge, metal etc - it's a '75 Ricky 4001 btw; only happened with preset 2 (the high gain overdrive setting) selected on the BDDI; went away (faded away, not cut suddenly) when I turned around to face away from the amp. We checked all other parts of the signal chain and found them to be ok, the only potentially suspect item was my Trace dual compressor pedal - medium high-end compression, low bottom-end compression, EQ dialled at about 25% in favour of the high end." The amp was a rather unpleasant Behringer stack. I tend to avoid rehearsal room amp these days and just DI into the PA. Did you try going straight into the desk? Otherwise, are you running on batteries or PSU? Whichever it is, try the other.

Grolsch bottle washers make the best straplocks ever. The newer ones are more plasticky, the older ones are more rubbery and a bit better. Lidl do them as well as far as I remember.

Caught most of it - brilliant stuff. When's the repeat?

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='1306304' date='Jul 16 2011, 11:50 PM']Played a White 8-String Marathon in Music Ground in Manchester before it closed. I loved it, but it had an unworkable hump in the neck from the 3rd fret leading towards the headstock, suck a shame.[/quote] Pretty sure the same bass turned up at one of the Denmark St shops. The price sounds familiar. Interesting what you say about the neck, as my 8-string Shergold had something similar, and according to the chap who fixed it, it wasn't uncommon for Shergold/Hayman/Burns basses of the era. There was a batch of wood that was used before it had dried properly, and the fingerboards (or necks) carried on drying once construction was complete, resulting in some unusal neck distortions. Mine had a more pronounced bow from the 7th fret to the nut compared to the rest of the neck that truss-rod tweaking wouldn't fix. What he did was very gently and slowly heat up the neck/fingerboard join to allow the glue to soften and to let fingerboard to reseat itself on the neck, then reglue.

Here's me and mine in Genesis tribute days. Listen out at 1m23s. There's another at [url="http://youtu.be/aUx-OUMVuhc"]http://youtu.be/aUx-OUMVuhc[/url] but the bass isn't as clear.

That's no Moon.

[quote name='bassfan' post='1301751' date='Jul 12 2011, 11:37 PM']Hi all, Does anyone know anything about shergold basses. I know they are no longer made. Hand made in the uk. Are they any good? Let me have your knowledge.... [/quote] Yep they're good. I got two custom doubles, one a 12/4 and the other a 4/8. Pros: Modular electronics on some models, zero fret, instant 70s rock sound. Cons: the finish is prone to cracking, good luck finding spares. The website mentioned earlier is pretty cool, and you'll see me on there

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Can the charge-back be avoided by transferring the fund out of your paypal account before releasing the goods?

Or try DGCF tuning. It makes more sense than DADG.

Someone somewhere should start making a range of Gefilter-branded bass hardware. It'll sell like hot sausages.

The fill at 1m03s makes me have a little sexy moment with myself

[quote name='charic' post='1288812' date='Jul 1 2011, 11:29 AM']Not a DT fan I guess [/quote] Not since Awake (apart from that time they did all of The Number of The Beast at the Astoria)

Some of them are among the "without whom" I'd never have picked up the instrument in the first place: Geddy, Jack Bruce, JPJ, John Entwistle (missing are Tony Levin, Chris Squire). Have come to love PMac, Victa and Jaco since. I should really like Les Claypool but don't get it. (My Primus ticket is on eBay if anyone's interested). Flea, Cliff... not my thing either.

Zzzz Nothing new to see here, move along pls.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='1284976' date='Jun 28 2011, 09:24 AM']Maggie Thatcher's handbag went for £20000 and she was the spawn of Beelzebub so imagine how much this will go for[/quote] Doesn't stay in tune though I'd wager the bass goes for close to £10k

Here's all four sales - [url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/markking4beaulieuhouse/m.html"]Mark King on eBay[/url] The bass is already £3k+