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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1384632750' post='2279030'] Id say you are in a massive minority with finding a sharp edged bass the only comfortable bass, I know you had told me about it before but in reality virtually everyone on bass chat will find at least a rounded slab like my classicray more comfortable, even I prefer the full contours of my other stingrays bodies. Like lots of things we get to know more about we learn that not all things are the same for each model, which stingray profile didnt you like for example, the early deep c shape or the early flat D shape, the ebmm clubby shaped one or the jazz width Slo special for example [/quote] I tried a rickenbacker today for the first time. I wasn't blown away but I also had no problem with the body... thinking about it.... when I'm playing my arm doesn't ever touch the body on most basses..... how does that happen - I find it impossible to even play touching the body without putting a kink in my wrist.
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    pics!
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    I tried 2x18's 4004 today. It really confused me - I couldn't work out what I thought of it. It sounded nice enough I guess but felt very odd design wise.
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    I was about to write "maybe you've over priced your bass" then went to look at what bass it is.... and man £1250 of a MM5 is the cheapest I've ever seen one! I think Warwickhunt had a good bit of copy in his latest sales posts - basically "try me for trades but don't be offended if my idea of the value of your bass is less than your value" - BUT i think with trades sometimes it's best to evaluate value to yourself more than what it sold for however long ago... I did a trade last year with a fella on here, one of my items for 3 of his- on paper I lost out - but he got something he wanted and I got one thing I wanted and two things I could easily sell - so we were both happy. If I were you I would write down a list of everything you would be interested in trading for and not trade unless it's something you really want/need/would use. I'll end with an interesting story about perceived values.... and how basschat doesn't really reflect the real world all the time.... a guy I found on Facebook was showing off his new bass. He had a Warwick $$5 that he had for sale at about twice what you would ask on Basschat. He ended up doing a straight trade for a USA custom 5 string spector.... which would sell for a lot on here.... both parties were happy. It's all relative!
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    Now as I understand it DSP can be used to programme your signal so that you can get the most out of your cab - multi band eq and compression so that, for instance controlling the bottom end of the signal, flattening out any Eq spikes and so on. That's how I understand it anyway. I know Funkle said he liked the way his Berg iP cab had a big fat bottom without farting out. So clever technology - just wondering if you had the knowledge and know how would it possible to programme this as a preamp to do the same thing.... ? http://line6.com/tcddk/
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    Traded, no longer available, it's gone, look elsewhere, lock this thread.... (cab still around though)
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    2X18 feedback

    LukeFRC replied to bigd1's topic in Feedback

    I met Will for a amp trade. A pleasure meeting him and a great guy, what a nice gentleman.
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    [quote name='The Bass Doc' timestamp='1384594696' post='2278431'] I thought this would have been started by Billy Apple and that folks would go OT and the thread end up pear-shaped. [/quote] ahh Bill the cockney?
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    it's cos this is called basschat, and they are too trebly with not enough low end. (We all like Fender's here, except BigRedX who says he doesn't, but is in denial. We're helping him through it) basically in the 70's and 80's, before Rickenbacker had european patents or trademarks (might be wrong on that) some nice people in Japan made copies of Rickenbackers for cheaper and in many cases better than the original. Some of your favourite famous rickenbacker players had japanese made ones... Nice basses - rickenbacker later stopped production of them and other copies - as is their right. However, with little or dubious legal authority (in the EU), and many threats people with these old secondhand copies are not alowed to sell them secondhand without Rickenbacker getting angry with threats against Basschat, ebay et al.... Rickenbacker can afford more lawyers than Basschat so can't argue with them.... But to save you the time, they look pretty but are outdated rubbish basses designed before 50 years of progress on the electric bass, SquierLemmyLeeMacca were all wrong and modern basses are much better nowadays - although Leo (blessed be his name) got it right first time.... or something....
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1384541498' post='2278022'] Good God, that's the bargain of the century! You want to sell it?? [/quote] £305 it cost me! and nope cracking bass - I'm really enjoying playing it at the mo.
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    I bought a yamaha BB1200 from 1977 cos my low bid was the only one. Not quite £50 low but pretty low
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    DIY Effects

    LukeFRC replied to JackLondon's topic in Effects

    I was even working out if point to point would be feasible!
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    DIY Effects

    LukeFRC replied to JackLondon's topic in Effects

    mind you perf board isn't fun to make at all (vero I like).
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    DIY Effects

    LukeFRC replied to JackLondon's topic in Effects

    anyone here make their own PCBs? This may have been asked before but search didn't turn up anything. I want to make something but don't know how hard it will turn out to be, I know maplin sells a starter kit for photo etching.... and a lazer printer will apparently do the same job.... but it's a fair outlay... (oh and something to drill the holes with) for a one off and something so simple - is it worth doing or is perf board a second best option?
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    [quote name='paulie' timestamp='1384426339' post='2276496'] Hi I am actually looking for a power amp rather than an amp. Do you know if the preamp can be bypassed in this? Thanks [/quote] Yep, plug in the effects/line in socket at the back and turn the effects blend knob all the way to wet. I've been using it this way a fair bit at home and just plugging the ACG preamp into the back. It sounds good! My plan B for my rig was to keep this, get a barefaced or other full range cab and then get a valve preamp to run into this, and have the choice between the relatively uncoloured tecamp pre and the valve one. To be honest that's still a great plan, it's a great amp this and if I think too much I do wonder why I would have stuck it up for sale on here!
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    [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1384452728' post='2276942'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]A bit bigger than your XS cabs, but I guess more low end is the trade off.[/font][/color] [/quote] this is a guess!
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    [quote name='Oldman' timestamp='1384435942' post='2276636'] What's the dims? (Dimensions) [/quote] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]540mm wide[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]~ 660mm high (including the rubber bits on the bottom)[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]400mm deep[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]A bit bigger than your XS cabs, but I guess more low end is the trade off. An easy fit in the back of our saxo with the amp in a bag down the side. [/font][/color]
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    [quote name='AllTheBassP' timestamp='1384382731' post='2276157'] Hi there do you have any sound clips at all , finger style, slap,etc , many thanks paul [/quote] I'm sure richardd will reply in a bit... I used to own this bass so can give you a wee comparison I did at the time... the closest thing I found to it was a sadowsky US I tried in the shop - I think the will lee model. Soundwise they were both similar, the valenti having a little more sparkle in it, and the sadowsky a fraction more mids (I think) but the sadowsky and aguilar pre's are pretty similar. Passive was where the difference came out - disengage the preamp and the valenti has this brilliant full passive tone. The sadowsky sounded very flat and dull by comparison. My conclusions were that the Valenti was the better instrument in terms of passive tone, I love the pups it's got, but in active mode there's not much between them. In terms of finish and construction, again not much between them, and both the US Sadowsky and this Valenti IMO were nicer than the Sadowsky metro's. It's a very very nice modern jazz bass, even across the fretboard, with a lovely tone. I for some reason didn't get on with the narrow radius corners on the body otherwise I would still have it - but for me this and an alembic I tried were a wake up call to how an electric bass can and could play and sound. If I thought Richardd would be interested in a trade of something i've got then I'ld think about having it back off him myself!
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    any good for metal?
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    And so it is, just like you said it would be,
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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1384366670' post='2275800'] thing is I still filter out those frequencies when usin my 6.0 or even the 9.2max heads, I think the minimum they can put out is 37hz anything lower is the mush that people think they want when trying it at home or in the shop, if you really do need that live with volume forget most of the gear most of us have [/quote] you're right of course, but that gets into the practical using of these amps rather than the whole "which is louder" discussion. Practically some amps are set up to filter freq and use the power wisely.... others run all sorts of multi band compression which sounds great in the shop but gets lost in the mix.....
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    someone buy this please!
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    somebody please buy this!
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    Is this even a clear cut fight? A lot of the newer micro amps will have some kind of processing to make them sound louder, a certain Eq here, a bit of compression here, a low end roll off there, or even full on DSP to squeeze as much power out of it as you can (TC RH I'm looking at you!) Not to say that that isn't a good thing in an amp but it does mean you're not comparing like for like. StingrayPete1977 mentioned his Shuttle 3.0 - which is a nice little amp - but the EBS will be putting out low end that the Shuttle is filtering out.... loudness alone is not a fair comparison
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    this weeks fashion... Genz Benz while they are cheap!
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