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Ricky and Precision volume & tone operation
tauzero replied to Mike Bungo's topic in General Discussion
Surely left-handed basses are clockwise for louder and anti-clockwise for quieter, just like right-handed, so this stuff about left-handed and right-handed wiring is just a load of bollocks? -
Ricky and Precision volume & tone operation
tauzero replied to Mike Bungo's topic in General Discussion
I can't see the logic in thinking it would be leftie wiring. Clockwise is clockwise whichever way up the pot is, and as volume pots are log pots, having them wired the other way round would mean they should be antilog pots. Just c0cked-up wiring. -
The Fender ones are Schaller compatible (originally made by Schaller, in fact). Thomann do Schaller compatibles for about a fiver (plus a tenner shipping, so get anything else you may want at the same time) - https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_security_locks_bk.htm So just get a set of those, install them on the new bass, and you've got strap buttons that work with the current strap and if you should splash out on a new strap, you can fit the new straplocks to that and use it with either bass.
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Is a new mass-produced bass ever worth more than £1500
tauzero replied to Beedster's topic in General Discussion
They face the same problem as Harley Davidson did with motorcycles. HD have finally jettisoned the old design, but their twin lines of Sportster and Glide were it for decades, and although the V-Rod was made for nearly 20 years it got dropped as traditional HD customers didn't buy them. Fender have made the occasional bass other than P and J with the Mustang being the only one that's been fairly successful (although the Bass VI has been successful enough to be revived every so often for a couple of years). -
That's right, the seller gets 75-85% of the hammer price, the buyer pays 115-125% of the hammer price (plus VAT on the bit over 100%) and the auction house gets the 30-50%.
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There will also be a seller's premium, typically about the same as the buyer's premium.
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Rectangular holes are tricky - I've done them by drilling out enough room for a power file and using that to make the hole rectangular, but it's not perfect and some hand finishing is needed. A laser cutter would do it but it would have to be a bit more powerful than a hobby one.
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I think it means he doesn't know the exact model. It is lined fretless. The vocalist of a former band, many years ago, had one. I tried and didn't like. He wanted to get rid of it so it got included in the part-exchange deal for my Warwick Thumb and I paid him back the £75 that Musical Exchanges gave me for it. How times and prices change.
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My thought was that if there was significant latency, I would pluck with the backing track but that sound would be delayed so the bass would lag slightly. I've played through a PA which had significant latency and it threw me off seriously, I kept slowing down for it, so I think I'd know if there was a lag. The pluck and the sound of the pluck were as I'd expect. I'll see if I can set up a dual-beam scope to measure the latency.
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So the fact that I played perfectly in time with the music being played from the GB-10, while the signal from the bass was travelling through two wireless systems and an HX Stomp, is meaningless? When the issue being cast doubt on was whether it would be laggy enough to affect playing? Sorry it didn't live up to your preconceptions.
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That ship has long sailed for me. My straw panama hat is disintegrating so has been retired and I have a fabric panama hat which has yet to be gigged.
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"Less than 12mS" can mean 1mS, of course. Seeing as there seemed such concern about latency with this, I carried out an experiment. After all, it's all very well pontificating about it, but evidence trumps speculation. The experiment: Bass -> Lekato 5GHz bug wireless -> HX Stomp -> Lekato MS-1 -> Tascam GB10 -> wired headphones This introduces two wirelesses in the chain, plus a digital effects pedal. The result - no perceptible latency. So not "utter dog" at all. Lekato - the Harley Benton of wireless.
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I consider locking jack sockets to be the work of Satan. If you're playing connected with a lead then the lead or the amp or the first item on the pedalboard becomes the sacrificial victim if you stray too far or someone (including you) steps on the lead, whereas with a non-locking socket the lead will simply pull out. Whether you play with a lead or wireless, it's fiddly getting the plug out at the end, and the teeny tiny button hurts your finger/thumb. So I wanted to de-lock my Ibanez EHB. This, in theory, is a simple operation. Remove the small crosshead screw holding in the core of the socket, slide it out, remove whichever locking bits you want. However, my socket core appeared to be held in with a rivet, so replacement was the way to go. The entire structure corresponds to an XLR blanking plate (type D IIRC) so I got one of those and a jack socket, drilled a hole in the middle of the blanking plate, discovered that the screw holes meant I had to have it as an outie rather than an innie, soldered it up, then put it back in position. Lovely. Well, as I was writing this, I thought I'd include a picture of the locking jack socket and its rivet. And then, looking more closely with a magnifying glass, I saw that the rivet wasn't a rivet, it was a Torx (6-pointed) screw. Oh well...
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I love mine - our guitarist also has one and I keep telling him it's the only guitar he needs for a gig. But he's a guitarist. -
I've got a couple of bits of Lekato kit which I have restricted to use between audio sources and audio targets. As yet no crustaceans or thermal devices form any part of my audio chain, although this is partly because I've taken a bit of a holiday from prog. As audio links, it works well. I shall incorporate a fuller review into one of the tracks off my next prog album, Blowtorch the oysters and I'll have the mussels rare.
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I've got a Crafter acoustic with piezo. I suppose it was about 15 years ago that I decided to upgrade from my Eko 6 and went to PMT, and played a lot of acoustics, including some above my budget (IIRC about £500, but preferably less). The Crafter was nicely playable and also had an excellent tone, and it was only £175, so it came home with me. I've finished up not really using it as for the occasional open mic night I take a Variax and put it on an acoustic setting. I still have the Eko 6 incidentally, it lies around waiting for me to come up with ideas for songs.
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Sounds like your 12-string is set up the reverse to most 12-strings too. On my 12-string, and all the others that I've played, the octave strings are above the standard strings so on a downward strum the first string that you hit is the octave.
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Is a new mass-produced bass ever worth more than £1500
tauzero replied to Beedster's topic in General Discussion
I would go for option B, but I have no way of knowing how much the guitar company workforce is paid, how much profit there is, how much is reinvested, and how much goes to shareholders and directors. Seeing the way that wealth redistribution in the UK and US is operating in anti-Robin Hood mode, I would be chary of further lining the pockets of some bloated capitalist. -
Is that a different Fret King to the one that makes a line of extremely boring Fender clones?
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Same here.
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Release notes for 3.51 and 3.52 both specifically say that there is no planned firmware update 3.51 or 3.52.
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I'm sure they will feel totally impoverished as a consequence.
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It's only one more hole. If you're worried that it might affect the balance, cut the headstock off. 😁
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This may or may not be of interest. Because I wanted to practice using headphones with no wires into or out of the Tascam GB-10 I use, I finished up buying a Lekato MS-1 IEM system from AliExpress (this is the item in question). 3.5mm stereo input, 3.5mm stereo output, charged via USB, you supply the earphones. Receiver has volume up/down, transmitter can pair with up to 8 receivers. Costs £30. Not exactly sophisticated but perhaps an easy and cheap way to go from wired IEMs to wireless.
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Lekato wireless thingie arrived a couple of days ago (impressive speed). This is the device in question - so I have bass to GB-10 via wireless Lekato, GB-10 to headphones via wireless Lekato. There seems to be a slight loss of quality compared to just running wired but I could be wrong, and it's certainly good enough quality for practice.
