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  1. nige1968
    I know we've already corresponded, but in case it's useful to anyone else: https://www.allparts.uk.com/collections/saddles-for-bass/products/set-of-4-saddles-for-omega-and-badass-bass-bridge-grooved Or eBay, of course.
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    All now sold, thanks everyone. Like everyone else I'm selling various colours of pedal for guitar and bass, all working and boxed in their boxes. Prices include UK postage. Boss DD-7 Digital Delay £65 SOLD Dunlop Cry Baby Bass 105Q wah pedal £75. SOLD Source Audio Orbital Mod (multiple modulation effects) £150 SOLD Boss DS-1 Distortion (with mod) £50 SOLD Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (with mod) £55 SOLD Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer (with mod) £100 SOLD All of the following are guaranteed* to make you sound better at music. Y'all got exclusive dibs for a week or so but I'll need to stick them on the shark pit that is eBay eventually. I won't be posting outside the UK, sorry overseas bass folks. Modded pedals were done by Pedalmods UK, who I don't think are around any more sadly; the mods basically give you a fuller tone, and can be switched in or out, something like the old Keeley ones. Shout if you have questions, want more pics, think I'm having a laugh pricewise or want me to weigh them or something. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOLD Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer (PedalMods UK) £100 - Velcro but otherwise VGC, includes adapter for PSU I believe the PedalMods UK circuitry is similar to the Keeley mod, but it's so long since I found a use for this that I've completely forgotten what it does. Something to improve the sound, probably. Anyway, you can switch it off if you don't like it, giving you the classic sounds of an ordinary TS-808. Any road, this is the *real* Tube Screamer beloved of shred heroes everywhere, but with the dodgy footswitch replaced with something more robust. These are built with some weird socket that needs an adapter to connect to a regular 9v centre-negative power supply. Happily, this one has the adapter included. Other than Velcro and mods, I can't see a mark on it. As with the other dirt pedals listed here, this is aimed at guitarists and will happily turn your bass grooves into inaudible fizz unless you run a parallel clean signal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOLD Boss DD-7 Digital Delay £65 - In excellent nick without Velcro All manner of echo effects in a bulletproof stompbox. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLD Dunlop Cry Baby Bass 105Q £75 - VGC with spare bottom plate & rubber feet You stand on it and move your foot. The bass says 'wah wah'. What more could you want? (NB does not go 'wha', only 'wah'). The box has seen better days but the pedal looks good. I've never used it on battery but assume it works. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLD Source Audio Orbital Mod (multiple modulation effects) £150 - VGC, includes PSU Chorus, Flanger, Vibe, Resonator and 4 flavours of Phaser, plus millions of options for tweaking and crafting your sound. Wasted on me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLD Boss DS-1 Distortion (Pedalmods UK) £50 - Used but not abused The numero uno indestructible orange box of filth, made less fizzy and fuller sounding (allegedly) by the switch-on-or-offable PedalMods UK circuitry. Aimed at guitarists, probably best to split your signal if you plan to use on bass. But you knew that. Decent condition -- not perfect but looks it from a yard or two away. No Velcro. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLD Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (PedalMods UK) £55 - Like-new condition, other than moddedness The most aggressive distortion pedal I've yet come across, with a (bypassable) mod aimed at restoring the squeezed middle frequencies. I've had it since new. Loved it so much I bought a Waza-Craft version too, but having two of them (plus an emulated version) is excessive by anyone's standards. Some people are on the wrong side of the Marmite divide over this pedal, but we don't talk to them. Again, it's more aimed at guitar than bass but signal splitting could get you where you want to be on the low end. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Some of these pedals may of course make you sound worse at music. Refunds or legal action on this basis will not be happening innit.
  3. nige1968
    Do I win £5?
  4. nige1968
    One for your one-man band or home practice. Here's a Pigtronix Infinity pro-level dual-loop phrase recorder pedal, plus optional extra remote switch. I've traded up to a bigger model so this one is surplus to requirements. You get two loops (concurrent or sequential), which you can send to different amps if you want. Powerful, customisable yet simple to use and sounds fantastic. Sound-processing is 24-bit, whch is apparently better. Included is the matching Pigtronix footswitch, which cost me £70 extra and gives an easy way to undo or reverse your loops. Comes in its original box complete with manual. It's in excellent condition, owned from new and has never left my carpeted home-office. There's velcro on the bottom of both pedals for mounting to a pedalboard. Capabilities and specs can all be found on the Pigtronix website (this is the original full-featured Infinity, with most of the same features as the current v3): https://www.pigtronix.com/pedals/infinity-looper/
  5. nige1968
    I take it you bought used -- if new the manufacturer probably has standard string gauges posted somewhere. Otherwise I'm told digital calipers are the thing to use. I don't have any so I generally just compare them to some old strings and guess.
  6. nige1968
    Not till someone mentions the Nazis.
  7. nige1968
    Apologies all, I haven't looked at this for a week or so, having failed to set email alerts etc etc, sorry. I've tried the time-honoured trick of standing on the Mrs' scales both with and without the bass. Unfortunately the scales can't even get my weight consistent. However, it keeps telling me around the 4kg mark, so given that my own weight is a bit less than usual I'd estimate 4.5kg (8 or 9lb). That feels about right in all honesty. Got loads. Wanna buy one? 😬
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    The Friends and Family thing is a pain. I've asked for it as a seller, not because I can't be bothered to work out the fees (though it's a pain) but because otherwise one is vulnerable to malicious chargebacks by scammers. PayPal doesn't have a great reputation for fixing things sensibly. Mind you, I've never asked for dollars or anything else weird. Point is, you need to establish trust before buying anything on teh internetz, and it's a good idea to take time doing that. Better to miss out on a possible deal than to lose a bunch of cash or an expensive bass.
  9. nige1968
    Thanks for this. I'm guessing with the high pass settings really, so could use some knowledgeable advice. Doesn't help that I somehow transposed the frequencies, thanks for pointing that out. I'm a one-man band atm and trying to cut any damaging frequencies out of the "guitar" portion of the set-up. So the low end goes to the bass amp and the higher frequencies to the guitar amp. Sounds lovely at low volume, I'm just not clear whether I can use filtering or crossover (same thing in a different wrapper?) to safeguard the guitar amp speaker at higher levels, and if so what settings to use. Obviously I could run the amp to an external bass cab but I'm probably going to lose the guitary top end, or at least adversely colour it.
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    Bi-amping question for those that know about speakers. Bass guitar (lowest string tuned to E, 41.2hz) -> splitter --> separate amps: Guitar amp (40w combo with 1x12). High pass filter at 82.4Hz. Bass amp (200w combo with 1x15). High pass filter at 41.2Hz. I would like to crank the guitar amp. Should I? If not, is there a solution using the HPF? Thank you.
  11. nige1968
    Sue Lawley by the Police “Feel Parker Knoll” in Moby’s Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad
  12. nige1968
    Anyone wants to discuss postage, do drop me a PM
  13. nige1968
    Against my better judgment I’m dropping this to £550. Any interest?
  14. nige1968
    All music is just patterns made (in our neck of the woods) from the same 12 notes. Scales just miss some of them out. The names came afterwards and are for musicians’ convenience. All I can say is that if you try playing F# minor over A major it will probably sound different, even though it’s the same notes. That’s the bit you can use, however you describe it.
  15. nige1968
    I stopped taking my expensive bass to gigs some years ago and loaded up on a couple of cheapies that I could afford to have damaged or stolen. Think I recall reading that the sainted Jaco used to practice on a bass with a fretted P-bass neck, figuring that the 'speed bumps' and wider board would make things feel easier when he played gigs on his 'regular' Jazz.
  16. nige1968
    Simply that starting in a different place, and using different hand shapes / positions, tends to make you reach for different notes. Same as playing in C major over a song in A minor -- the notes are the same but you wouldn't necessarily call them the same thing.
  17. nige1968
    Gone to join the Captain, alas ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mascara_Snake Here's one that once translated still makes no sense:
  18. nige1968
    Still experimenting and have taken non-virtual pedalboards out of the equation for now. Some of the bundled effects are pretty great, just working out which ones I like. But so far it beats the pants off any multi-effects board I've tried up to now (disclaimer: I haven't tried Helix or Kemper). And I have an electronic noise issue to work on that is probably to do with gain staging, whatever that is.
  19. nige1968
    Just butting in but I finally got my Dwarf and OMFG it's fuuuuuun. As you were.
  20. nige1968
    Swap the nut and bridge to make a wide-neck 4? I guess if you omit the G you'll have plenty of space to bend the D. And while you did ask for relevance, I feel the need to post this:
  21. nige1968
    Short scale, though. Very now.
  22. nige1968
    Bank holiday price drop to just £599, anyone ... ?
  23. nige1968
    It is *always* time for this picture.
  24. nige1968
    Nothing to add to the general knowledge pool about guitarists, but would like to give kudos to the thread title. Made me smile, and there's not enough of that around.
  25. nige1968
    Covid / market forces? They have slimmed their range an awful lot but left the door open to bringing them back at some unspecified time. This forum might be the place to ask: https://forums.ernieball.com/threads/can-we-get-some-fretless-options-again.73076/
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