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  1. fretmeister
    You might get a Jim Deacon shortie precision for £150. The construction of them is great but they do really need a few upgrades. I have two of them and put in a good pickup and loom (the stock pots were really on/off without gradient) and as they are neck-divey I put a set of Hipshot ultralite tuners on. So if you can find one of them and some luck with parts in the classifieds and you'd have a great little bass. One has rounds with an EMG P-X pickup and the other has an Aguilar AG-4P pickup and flats. They sound like great P basses. Just 30 inch. Slim nut with some nice chunk front to back and reasonably narrow spacing at the bridge too. Super easy to play. I'll quite often pick them before my Lionel, they are great with the upgrades.
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    Great. Now I want a Mustang type. Dagnabit.
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    Your link is blocked by my Anti-Virus.
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    As with all things like this - the end result for a gig relies on the PA being good. One of the reasons I've got a HX Stomp is that after 10 years with a Helix I can dial in pretty much anything I want in a few minutes, so if I pitch up at a gig and my favourite patches sound awful then I can cobble something together fast even if it is very different to my preferred tone. Getting the gig done is far more important than me loving the tone. Single amp based preamps always carry a risk that it just won't suit a situation no matter what the settings are. Even with my Stomp I have a Caline knock off of a BDDI in the bag. I have the Behringer as well but the Caline is in a smaller enclosure so I take that with me. Still - as of 30 mins ago my youngest has passed her driving test so now I have to find a couple of grand to insure her as an unsupervised driver so I won't be buying any posh pedals for a while. She's got another 2-3 years of study before she gets a full time job so I really hope the No Claims Discount comes easily!
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    I didn't know the Noble wouldn't overdrive by itself. Weird.
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    They've got 3 years of sales figures to analyse on the other 2 bassrigs so it's clearly working for them. If they are selling all they can produce then there is no need for them to drop the price. Doesn't mean I have the means to just go out and buy one though, but I can't buy a fancy watch either. I'm looking forward to someone doing a good comparison with the Noble DI. The Noble is more than double the price and if there is a non-valve competitor that sounds as good in a mix then Noble sales might suffer. I wonder whether the 2 previous bassrigs will get a "Cab Off" Mk2 in the near future.
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    The admin fees are now going to be £100 per ticket. Cynical? Moi?
  8. fretmeister
    Finally ordered some of these as BD have them at a great price. Hopefully be here in a day or two.
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    I want one but it will have to wait until after the expense of Christmas. And my youngest has her driving test tomorrow so car insurance might suddenly be mindblowing.
  10. fretmeister
    Cab OFF! Yay!
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    One one hand I want to correct them, but I'd probably get really annoyed and do the "if I sell this I can buy 10 of them" type things... and on the other I don't want to get mugged in the car park! As it happens I did sell it and still didn't buy a Fender!
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    I did a jazz gig with a Zon Hyperbass once - and someone asked me if one day I hoped to be able to get a Fender? FFS.
  13. fretmeister
    Thank you. Despite the bargain I'll pass then. I had some short scale Cobalts and I didn't get on with them at all. Just felt really weird under my fingers!
  14. fretmeister
    Did we find out if they are a Cobalt type or another type of flat?
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    Lovely!
  16. fretmeister
    There's a specific WANTED section in the classifieds that might get you better results than 1 post in a long thread about shorties. Good luck!
  17. fretmeister
    My Pingray bitsa is paulownia too and I often back off the bass control on the EQ otherwise it's overpowering.
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    Interesting. My first run SL TT4 is Cedar. My Lionel SL is paulownia. I haven't noticed a lack of bass on either one.
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    New pedal coming next week... https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ9pRjeDJci/?img_index=1 If it's a B15 and the Cab Sim is switchable I might have to find some money.
  20. fretmeister
    I don't like crowds so I play jazz.....
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    Yeah - I'm in East Mids so it's a bit of a hike and I'd have to spring for a hotel on the night too. Zero members of my family would be interested in going.
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    Ah - I don't have any of their products. I suppose it will give me a day to think about if I want to do London on a work night.
  23. fretmeister
    How does the Artist Presale work?
  24. fretmeister
    Good question. 1: NeuralDSP's Mantra all-in-one vocal plugin. I tried the demo and found it very useful and easy and as someone who often gives up at the vocal stages of writing it got me to finish a few in the 14 day trial period. 2: A good random orbit sander and polisher as I have 2 bodies to do. 3: A set of good Filtertron type guitar pickups. Lollartrons or Oil City or something like that. Nice and twangy and dirty. 4: Some good fretwork tools. Fret rocker, files, that sort of thing. 5: The "never gonna happen" prezzie - I'd love a shed big enough to be a little workshop, with power and lighting and so on. At the moment I use my work desk to work on instruments so I can't leave anything overnight on a weekday as I need the desk to earn money. It's very frustrating. A big shed would be ace. Alternatively my kids could move out and I could use a bedroom!
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    That feature really appeals to me - would massively increase the amount of strings that would fit - particularly flats. The Ibanez Mezzo 4 string (32 scale) had the E string tuner relatively far from the nut so could take a wide variety of strings, but it was a small post so long scale flats would still break. Had to get specific medium scale ones. The 5 string mezzo was actually worse for string availability. I used Dunlop medium scale flats on that exclusively. Really lovely strings - but at about £90 they'd have to be! Reverse headstock is a very easy solution to the problem. If I ever ordered a second Lionel I'd spec a reverse headstock for that reason.
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