Mr. Foxen

The DoomHäus is my house, it replaced the House of Bass, I have loads of gear sat about since I rebuild amps and guitars and move them on. Its the hobby turning business thing since I can't get a 'real' job. It is in Easton/Greenbank, PM for details if you wanna pop down.

[quote name='johnny_frog' timestamp='1321520407' post='1440017'] some selling butter [/quote] Funds a PiL tour better than storming an oil rig does.

Plenty of gear here in the DoomHäus if you wanna play with amps and drink tea.

Seems that playing at certain range of tempos I pendulum one leg. Really slow I sway my whole body for time. But when I'm singing I tap my foot like someone who shouldn't be risking falling over.

[IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/Wishbass%201336/cort003.jpg[/IMG] Wiped over with some white spirit to show the grain. That or I spilt loads of white spirit whilst experiment with using it as a sanding lubricant. Not sure it didn't unglue the grit from my wet and dry block.

Am still bit tempted, by curiosity as much as anything. Might get just to put in mate's shop once I've had a go.

Could report it for being a fake Tokai.

Probably have some Aerodyne P pickups going shortly, think I've scored a replacement for my Wishbass.

A few more watts really isn't going to make an appreciable difference. Need to identify what is missing at current, and work from there. Usually it is the cab that is the limiting factor on volume, and 'lack of valves' is most cheaply remedied with hot glue and a wanted ad.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1321052081' post='1435049'] Warmoth are painting mine in their solid 'Charger Green' colour.....now I'm not sure I've ever seen a bass (or even a guitar) finished in that colour, apart from the one I think I saw when I was very very young back in the late 60s....has anyone else? If so has anyone got any pics so I might see what I've let myself in for? [/quote] Dangerous Dan Devious on Uglybassplayer had a charger green Warmoth, although lots of pics went when the forum died, I found this vid of it though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezj5zdp0Js8

"Tokai": http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tokai-Anniversary-COPY-Rickenbaker-4001-Bass-/170730905407?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27c05adf3f

I'd be interested in that. Whereabouts are you? Depending on how much you want, I know some people who may be interested.

Problem is, when mixing cabs, that one could be much louder and handle more power than the other, and drown out the noise of the other one being upset.

Depends how many really. Do it as a collective, and sell them cell style. I'd be interested in that.

This is pushing the boundary a bit, but fairly sure of the intention: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alden-Beatbacker-through-neck-Bass-guitar-/320794264885?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4ab0d40535

Some amps don't have an input transformer, just a big resistor, maybe they could make a difference there.

[quote]I've tried to show the bass the best I can in the picture.[/quote] Ha. Poor effort.

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1321198452' post='1436314'] Your ears are presumably better if you are a bassist in the biggest band in the country, [/quote] I think actually listening to stuff is the part that puts someone ahead of people who haven't. I am cheerful for anyone to doubt the ears of of anyone who's job is standing next to a drummer though. Its the trained listening of a musician that might be helpful.

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1321177591' post='1436031'] No. Sorry, but I can't let that stand. I've been on the Warwick forum a lot over the last few years, and I've seen a lot of sides to Florin, and as well as being an incredibly successful musician (bassist in the biggest band in the country!), he is also gentle and kind, and is absolutely the last person to deserve being called a "Profanity removed". He doesn't come across terribly well on that thread, but then, look at that thread from his point of view. He approached these cables with an open mind, and did a careful A/B test, and heard a difference. His argument, then, is that somebody who hasn't actually used the cable has no right to tell him what he can or cannot hear. After all, he's a pro musician, he has good ears! If you approach this thing with a sufficiently open mind, then his point is perfectly correct, and it's a shame that he had to defend himself so much. But. Those of us who look at this with some knowledge of the science cannot approach this with a truly open mind, because we know a lot of relevant things! We know that the cable [i]cannot[/i] make any audible difference, so it's all a matter of perception. Florin thinks he's countered that by doing the A/B test, and if you don't know enough about the placebo effect, then his test looks rigorous enough. But it's not, because the placebo effect is astoundingly hard to avoid, hence the need for double-blind tests. "Double-blind" is a phrase that gets bandied around too freely, and I suspect too many people use it without realizing exactly what it entails. When they do read what it involves, most people think it's totally unnecessary - surely it's enough if the patient doesn't know whether they're getting the real thing or a dummy. You need to have read a lot of the wierd things the placebo effect can do before you start seeing the need for such a complicated experiment. I wish the scientists on that thread could have gently explained the need for a full double-blind test, and given some examples of how much we can trick ourselves, particularly with aural perception. But no, the scientists were too busy arguing to actually take the time to see where Flo was coming from. And I personally was too chicken to get properly involved. [/quote] So someone being able to tell the difference between two pieces of equipment they've heard, vs. people being able to tell the the lack of difference between two pieces of equipment they've never heard.

Don't forget to post some proper specs, we like those here. Unless you wanna send a rig on tour, that would work too.

Chrome is really hard, I think toothpaste is just chalk powder, so probably won't have scratched it.