LukeFRC

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1397995474' post='2429288'] I have two preamps on my pedal board, with a want for a third. [/quote] you don't want to buy my preamp do you?

cheers for that!

So if I want to know about, say Status basses I can go to the statii forum and resources and find knowledgeable people and catalogues. Similar exist for other makers with their own forums or websites ... Trace Elliot - where's the info on them and their history and different old models to be found? I've seen SM, SMX, Series 6, red stripes, no stripes, funky port plugs and no idea what order it all came in and what's the good stuff and what's not!

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1397771046' post='2427368'] But if you don't build your own stuff and know little about electronics (which I'm told is true....but I don't believe it ) then I suppose it looks like magic. [/quote] the magic "point to point" perf board mojo....

Sold Jon my Jap jazz - he seems happy so that's all good! recommended

Hello - have you all gone into the DIY effects thread pinned at the top of this forum, you should! So making DIY effects is great fun, I did it for a while when I used more effects, great fun- lots of support on various forums and you get to make cool things that make noises. So I saw someone selling on a Facebook sales page a "custom hand built" effect, some kinda boost - and a copy of a schematic that's all over the web. Nicely built, they spent a bit of time making it neat - but on perf board rather than making a PCB- but that's fine there's only 7 components on the board. Nice looking thing, bit of a big enclosure for what's in it but hey ho - someones made something.... Cool. Then saw the price... £95 secondhand.... theres a fella selling them new for £130-140.... for a home built pedal, on perf board.... based on a readily available circuit diagram..... madness

your biggest problem with it may be that now you've posted on here someone might gazump you to it!

what the hell increase in performance are you looking for? Short answer -You need to buy a new amp Longer answer - there are things in your amp that would change the sound if you changed them- whether it's a good idea to do or not depends on your knowledge of electronics. My guess is that the 4700uF caps you're talking about will be to smooth the power supply. Unless that's a massive problem I seriously doubt you would notice any difference in putting more caps in that position - for example your 500w Ashdown ABM head also uses two 4700uf caps in the same place. Your signal goes from your thin wire to an even thinner trace on the circuit board and into a probably cheap IC.... I doubt thicker wire will make any difference - by the time you've replaced the wires, the circuit board, the cheap resistors used, the low end ICs..... you may as well just buy another amp that meets your specs.

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1397680018' post='2426492'] I forgot to post this earlier but let me tell you a story. A true story I was told by a good friend of mine in the business a few years ago at Messe (the store workers here might already know it) A few years back a well respected guitar company I will not name (not a Fender or Gibson but a well known brand) publicly announced they had received so many requests for a lefty version of one of their instruments they where happy to do a limited run. The deal was simple, they needed to make 200 of them, charge a 10% upcharge for the lefty bridge etc to be made, all of which cost them more. If 150 lefties went into dealers world wide and paid a small deposit allowing the store to order one they would do the run. They direct emailed all the people who had ever emailed complaining about the lack of a lefty model, put out a press release and got all their reps letting stores know they could offer it. 6 months later the whole thing was cancelled as under 20 people had actually put their hand in their pocket and said yes I want one. This was not an expensive bass (sub 1k by a chunk) but it goes to show that those who shout loudest don't always equate to those who are willing to do something. [/quote] I think if I played lefties (as opposed to just being left handed) getting instruments I wanted wouldn't be a problem - there's always going to be a way in most cases to get near enough what you're after.... what I would miss out on would be being able to try lots of things and pick up bargains (apart from that carvin that I think is the one molan has just reduced) ... but that wouldn't actually make any more money for anyone or make it more likely that more lefties would be made.

[quote name='mcarp555' timestamp='1397638027' post='2425824'] And here, ladies and gentlemen, is the issue in miniature: "Why didn't you just learn to play right-handed in the first place?" I wish there was a way to count all the people who picked up a guitar or bass and tried earnestly to learn to play it in the wrong direction, then gave up and decided they weren't 'musical'. This kind of narrowminded thinking ranks up there with "Why don't gay people just stop being gay?", "Why doesn't everyone like [blank] like [i][b]I [/b][/i]do?" You think it easy, you pick up a left-handed instrument and teach yourself to play. Discrimination, pure and simple. [/quote] I have three problems with this - The first and possibly more important one is your use of the word "discrimination". Words mean something - if we ramp up our rhetoric to the point where words mean nothing we leave us all mute. So "discrimination", discrimination is not being able to sit in the front of your bus 'cos of the colour of your skin, discrimination is not being served in a B&B as your partner is the same sex as you, discrimination is a company wilfully neglecting to provide you access for your wheelchair to a service, discrimination is a company interviewing Jones, Smith and Roberts for a job, but not Lewandowski, Adiyiah or Al-Shahrani and so on. That's what discrimination is. A company not selling a wide range of left handed guitars, or a cafe not having a massive coelics' menu, or my local cafe not having some ethiopian mocha beans in that I like, or your bathroom not automatically being provided with a bidet ....is not discrimination. The second problem I have is... you use two hands to play the bass. Two, both of them. Why is the dominant hand naturally better at picking/plucking/strumming? For your whole arguement to make any sense beyond you moaning about your preference not being provided for as well you need to be able to explain/prove this. When I first started playing I would pick up a bass. The whole walking my fingers and making the strings vibrate was easy to pick up - it's a very similar action to the one I'm using to type half these letters. The fretting hand took me way way longer to learn. I'm left handed playing a right handed bass. As I see it my dominant hand is doing the harder job. But I also think if someone had given me a left handed bass I would have learned to play it and grown to have the dexterity in both hands needed. You learn. Now if we only played bass with one hand you may have a point - but we use both and need to learn motor and dexterity skills in both hands to play our instrument. Third point... bass players buy less basses than guitarists guitars. That's why your average music shop has lots more guitars than basses. I'm guessing you're intelligent enough to understand the economic argument put forward when the same idea applied to left handed and right handed models. Now given that you understand it costs the shop money to have stock sat up on the wall, esp if it doesn't shift quickly I guess you understand why they can't hold a large stock of lefty instruments, but what I don't get- is that given you're talking about wanting to buy a bass... most music shops I've been in will do an order with a manufacturer to get something you want. Is it really so hard to walk into the stockest of the brand you want and pay for and order the bass you want? or are you telling me that a Earnie Ball supplier can't order in a lefty stingray in whatever colour you want?

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1397599038' post='2425624'] As and when/if... but I bet if it doesn't sit well with their needs, there'll be loop holes! [/quote] if/when maybe - but it should do sometime soon. At the moment there's so many different rules, for instance in the UK you can specify who has to pay the return postage, in Germany you have to send out the terms and conditions in full when a sale is made, in Spain you have to pay the return postage whatever. The new distance selling regs are designed to unify everything in the EU, you won't be able to refuse to post to italy for instance, and the return postage will have to be paid by the seller. It's going to be rubbish for a lot of sellers!

[quote name='mcarp555' timestamp='1397555138' post='2425010'] I can't take crying about the cost of jigs or reprogramming CNC machines when I see abominations like this: Was this [i]really[/i] cheaper to make than a left-hand bass? [/quote] that looks like an answer to the question the managing director of Fender asked when he wanted to know what on earth the factory manager intended to do with the big pile of unsold lefty necks that no one was buying. It's economics, I don't really get the discrimination and entitlement that they "should" thing you're going with. Are you typing this with a YTREWQ keyboard? Nope, you learnt to use a device set up for the majority of right handed folk.... in my opinion whoever got you your first bass should have got you a right handed one and you would have been none the wiser.

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1397591459' post='2425526'] Not the way that ebay works unfortunately! [/quote] from business sellers it will be once the new EU distance selling legislation kicks in...

come on man! We want more info than that! Especially comparisons to your J12's and Schroeder.

oh and check this Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/321515614550229/ it seems to hoover in most of mid to north England, and theres a fair few yamaha SG's that pop up at good prices

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1397514311' post='2424792'] No, she never told me! I'm very touched by that. I did go through a pretty awful time back then & sometimes wonder if I'd be around now if it hadn't been for her. She is lovely. J. [/quote]

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1397478626' post='2424249'] Yes, yes I do. It would be a proper challenge to learn, wouldn't it? Luke - really wish I'd hung around long enough to buy that SG of yours! Still my dream g*it*r, one day I'll give in & blow a stupid amount of money on a mid-80s SG2000 or 3000. J. [/quote] I dunno if she said but your other half was going to get it off me (contact via ebay) as a present for you when you we on sabbatical, but it didn't work out for whatever reason, I think neither of us were sure on a value. TBH there's better SG's out there - I'm on a few local forums on Facebook and theres some very nice mid 80's ones around for not stupid money at all.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1393607534' post='2382564'] Not entirely sure yet, but off the top of my head: .... In fairness I don't actually [i]want[/i] to sell very much of this stuff, but a house move within the next 6 months leaves me with no alternative. FAO mods - this isn't a "for sale" list, I have no prices for any of this and am not soliciting offers. In due course I'll put stuff up on BC in the appropriate fashion. J. [/quote] ah I recognise some of that stuff from when we were talking tentatively about a trade with the SG400 of mine before you went off grid for a bit. I spent ages googling to find out what they all were I ended up keeping the SG for a few years, I down sized and sold a nice acoustic over it- which was great until I realised that it wasn't getting played at all. I sold it to a nice irish fella in leeds, kept £100 from it and spent the rest on a rather cheap 1977 BB1200 in a case- which was quite a good deal for me whatever way you look at it!

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1397408054' post='2423630'] In the EU, Mr Hall has no legal basis to take action against a private seller of a copy, never mind the genuine article. The law doesn't matter: all he has to do is demonstrate that he is defending his copyright. Its a game of poker: Ped and Kiwi can't afford the stakes and the ISP isn't interested in the game. All this is explained in the original thread. [/quote] well put