john_the_bass

what day are you playing? Just been asked to tech for a band for the Friday night. Can't hang around cos i'm recording 16th and 17th sadly, but the friday should be good craic

[quote name='Musky' post='7499' date='May 27 2007, 10:02 AM']So if a high profile player started using, say a Gibson Victory, we could expect the price to rocket.[/quote] Not 100% but did Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) not use a Victory [quote name='paul, the' post='10360' date='Jun 1 2007, 04:47 AM']Do you remember that catchy T-Mobile add featuring Bedouin Soundclash? Have you heard of Italia basses? maybe in 5 years you will. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zvBD3CsI0M"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zvBD3CsI0M[/url][/quote] again on the name dropping, but I think yer man from the Manics is using Italia basses and has done for some time. Our guitar player has an Italia guitar - mad looking thing with sparkle blue paint and a go faster stripe painted in, but the quality is excellent. As I understand it, they're all knocked up in a factory in Korea and then shipped back to the Trev Wilkinson factory in Blackpool or wherever it is to be set up and presumably have a final QC check (how true this is I don't know), but they are really well put together guitars. The looks aren't for everyone. I'm thinking of letting my '84 MIJ Precision go, but reading this I'm not so sure I should

yeah - sorry i meant online/retail i actually went to sound control in the end today cos they beat the best online price i found - astoundingly wizbat, me and thee have played at the shed on the same bill and i was amazed at your seven and a half tonne lorry fully of gear!

the bass i sent yesterday with DHL through interparcel has just turned up safe and sound and whilst i don't know how the package was treated in transit, I daresay I would ship with them again - especially if they're happy insuring basses (I didn't think to check, but the value of the bass didn't exceed £150). It also occurred to me that the UK leg of Thomann shipments is handled by DHL and I've never heard of any of their stuff broken in transit. Thumbs up from me i suppose

hello - not sure if this is the right section (again) but anyway i'm looking for a Fishman Natural II Wide pickup/endpin preamp, the cheapest google has returned them in the UK is about £88 from iMuso and the like, does anybody know of any dealers that do fishman that might be able to beat that? I know it sounds a bit stingey but I'm after a present for the auld fella and this is going to be a tight month already. I could save about a tenner if I bought from the US but I could end up getting bitten on the arse by the customs.

+1. I sent off my very old and probably very delicate Vox to its potential new owner with DHL this morning. Hopefully i'll get a thumbs up tomorrow that it's turned up intact

Dunno really! Sounds about right, it's probably what an expensive MIM one would go for and the MIJ quality is supposed to be plenty better than MIM - whatever the price, I'd probably go in and try and barter him down anyway - in this case, i'd probably try to get nearer the 300 mark, but that's just me!!

sounds like it could be a foto-flame one. i think they were quite popular on MIJ fenders and i believe they're still manufactured.

try watford valves [url="http://www.watfordvalves.com"]www.watfordvalves.com[/url] hotrox sell tubes as well

i've used citylink and they've never broken anything. Apparently, they lose plenty! I've just booked a collection through Interparcel (www.interparcel.co.uk) with DHL. I've packed the bass up as well as I can in a double walled cardboard box and about 3 scrunched up Saturday Guardians to pack it out and try and protect it from the top and bottom of the box. Hopfully it will turn up in one piece.

cool cheers ped. i like your fancy avatar

when i went to pick up my last bass from the parcelforce depot, they wouldn't let me open it before i signed for it. i tried throwing a wobbler but the bloke was having none of it.

dood (or anybody) do you have the contact details for the English speaking fellas there so i can enquire on a bass? Cheers

Kiwi - Yes! i have noticed that the precision (with what I assume has stock pickups) was massively more powerful than a lot of other (passive) basses played by guys that have used my rig at gigs and needed a lot of a adjustment to get a level out of it. My natural assumption was that because active basses required (what i assumed was) a lower gain input, their output would be higher. A pal of mine has a jazz with EMGs and a J-retro and it's massively more powerful than anything else i've ever played. I suppose it's not always the case,

[quote name='Muppet' post='7049' date='May 26 2007, 11:19 AM']For my sins I work in insurance. I would be tempted to identify whether the company registered to supply insurance is registered with the FSA. If they are then I would contact the Financial Services Ombudsman reporting the miss-selling. There are rules and regs around demands and needs. However, this could be an internal insurance scheme (effectively a compensation arrangement) which may not be covered. When sending basses, If I'm not sending them in a hard case them I always remove the neck and sometimes send that separately.[/quote] the company i work for sell insurance as an add on and every individual (including me who doesn't have a sales role) has to be FSA compliant. Any recommendations who to send stuff with? I've just sold the vox and i need to get it sent.

yeah - hit the switch on the amp to turn the input to high gain and the volume rockets so the amp is grand. bit surprised to see that the output on the stingray less - i think it's a fair assumption to make when if you consider that the output should be greater by virtue of the fact that it goes through a preamp before it gets to the amput input.

i read a post the other day about how a microamp was used to balance the differences between passive and active basses so they could both be used with the same amp without making any adjustments to the amp. I thought, "I'll have a bit of that" and thought I'd use the boost slider of my GEB-7 to the same effect. Anyway, with the active/passive switch in on my amp (which is presumably the low gain setting), i set a level with my stingray that i was happy with. I then plugged my S1 precision in which seemed to be far more powerful than my stingray using the settings i'd dialed in. Is this common or is there something amiss with either of these basses? I've checked the battery in the ray and it seems alright so I don't know whether or not something is at fault, or whether they're just really beefy pickups in the P. I suppose I could still use the GEB-7 but with the slider set to cut gain from the signal to match the outputs of both basses. Just seems a bit weird that's all

was that not the california series or are they one and the same?

ideally what i want is something that i don't have lots of layers of stuff so i can get to something easily and then put the stuff away again. a bag wouldn't be any good cos i'd probably spend most of the time rooting around in it

yeah i found that earlier. i didn't find the bit at the bottom with the price in the model code. looks sub £400 they can't be that much dearer here can they? [i]edit[/i]: actually, looks like they are a bit!!

part of the reason i like to keep the lot together is because i play the guitar in another band and use most of the same kit for the guitar stuff. plus don't want to use gig bags and don't have the same volume of pockets in a hard case. what can you fit in an mm case instead of a bass?

looked at the ali cases - look sturdy enough but there's not enough secure pockets to put the fiddly bits in think it's gonna be another plastic tool box

what price are they in the uk and does any body know what price they are from somewhere like ishibashi? I can't understand the website to find the prices!!

i play in a gigging band so it's crucial that i've got something fairly sturdy, reasonably compact and light to carry my gig stuff around in - eg. leads, speaker leads, fold up stand, strings and tools and that sort of thing. I'm using boss pedal cases for my guitar and bass pedal boards at the minute and once i junk them in favour of proper boards i can take the footswitch out of the case. I'm currently using a B&Q plastic tool box for all this stuff, it's got mini compartments for stuff like screwdrivers, picks, capos, etc but the handle fell off it! Any suggestions?