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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1398719212' post='2437013'] Me thinks the time has come that if you want a Fender and want to be sure it IS a Fender; buy a new one. It's sad but if you want a second-hand Fender, buy one with "Squier" on the headstock. The rest should all be treated as fake. All the folks out there faking them have IMHO got us to a situation now, where any second-hand Fender needs to be treated with suspicion. It's a sad situation. [/quote] You mean people have got to buy instruments on their own merit rather than just going by what's on the headstock? How tragic.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1397738606' post='2426964'] I don't get the reserve thing either. It would make sense if someone bid high enough so that their bid went automatically past the reserve (i.e. if the reserve was £100 and you bid more than that it would automatically bid you up to £100) but it doesn't seem to work like that. There have been several times when I've finished as the highest bidder with my maximum bid much higher than the final price but the item still hasn't made the reserve. [/quote] Then you didn't bid enough to get over the reserve. It works exactly like that. [url="http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/buy/reserve-price.html"]http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/buy/reserve-price.html[/url] "If your maximum bid is the first to meet or exceed the reserve price, the effective bid displayed will automatically be raised to the reserve price."

[quote name='Guinness21' timestamp='1397328172' post='2422918'] I've only been playing for a couple of years now and already I'm sick of GAS! I've just bought a beautiful stingray 4hh with an ash body. Got it for a great price and it sounds f***ing awesome! Yet already I find myself looking at what bass I might get next. [/quote] Be prepared to be told it should be a P.

Don't feel limited to using the B string for notes below bottom E. Use it further up the neck to change the tone and reduce the amount of charging up and down the fretboard you do.

Latest news - rang them up today and was told that the order had gone in but no-one had contacted me for payment, and that someone would be in touch to get payment from me. So it looks like I'm back to paying for it. Not that anyone's got in touch yet. A month and a half to get absolutely nowhere. I don't think I'll be buying Line6 again and I'd advise anyone else to steer clear of them.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1395496549' post='2403059'] Now I'm not a technician, but IME deep lows mean cab volume, and cab volume means cab weight. [/quote] I've just bought a pair of GK Neo 112 mk2s from castlemaine of this parish, and they are astonishingly light (lighter than my now-redundant TC RS112) at about 14kg/30lbs, and each is about half the volume of a typical 4x10. Good lows, adjustable tweeter. However they are a little on the large side to lug around on a bus.

Ten days is now the default auction length.

Given that response, I think I may look at running the B3 and MS-60B in series... I emailed Zoom in Japan about this some time ago and they said then that there were no plans, though they didn't mention a technical limit. Can't see why they can't put the B3 up to four effects though, it's the same processor as the MS-60B which does do 4.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1394492474' post='2392009'] My G50 transmitter got pulled off my strap at a recent gig and hit the floor, and the battery door broke into its component parts. I'm waiting for Line6 UK to come back to me on the availability of a replacement (I know you can get them but the only websites with them are in the US and don't ship internationally). Although the door is metal, the latch and slidey bit is plastic, and two tiny screws hold the inner bit to the outer bit and break the plastic bosses that they screw into. [/quote] Eventually managed to get a response from Line6 after I rang them again - my emails to them had gone into a spam folder. They finally took the order over the phone, then were going to get Kay from accounts to get my details for payment. I chased them up again the next week and they said they'd send it out to me FOC due to all the delays. That was a week ago and it has yet to surface.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1395787046' post='2406427'] Given your list above it's a Shergold. IMO the Japs of the time are good but a bit generic for a YOB instrument. [/quote] You beat me to it.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1395958589' post='2408497'] That's interesting! Do you have any pics of it? [/quote] Yes, pre-digital of course. One day I'll get round to scanning them in.

Second-hand GK MB150 or 200MB would do the job.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1395927370' post='2408033'] This brings back all those memories of Wardour St, Tottenham Court Rd an' all. [/quote] I put a 40/40 together from parts that I bought from the Fender Soundhouse on Tottenham Court Road after Hayman had gone bust and there had been a fire there. I eventually PXed it for a Fender P, which in hindsight I'm not sure was a good thing.

To get shot of the Powerblock distortion, you either need to make up a little lead to run from the ring (I think) of the effects send/return to both CD ins or use a stereo-to-phono adaptor and a single phono to twin phono lead: You need to go from the correct side of the adaptor - that's easy to determine, you either get a noise or silence. This bypasses the "speaker sim" distortion bit.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1395872889' post='2407585'] Too right! I wouldn't pay anymore than a hundred for a second hand Squire [/quote] I think that would depend on whether he came with a mansion and a country estate.

Jus bought those same two GK cabs from Nick - very helpful throughout the sale and trusted me to head off with them despite my Paypal payment being held up for review. Thanks Nick.

"Oh bugger, we forgot to put in the pickup switch".

[quote name='topo morto' timestamp='1395778827' post='2406257'] Seeing all these from G4M does put me off buying anything from them... [/quote] They're not aiming at you though, they're going for the relic market.

Another Crate Powerblock user here. I have a lead to get rid of the added distortion. It's small enough to live permamently in the car so it's always there for gigs.

[quote name='theyellowcar' timestamp='1395647765' post='2404574'] Welcome to the club. You will never leave. [/quote] I did.

Looks like there's a Nady wireless included too.

Chris May brought some of the Tanglewaters to a Moffat bass bash either two or three years ago, which were from the first batch to come in. I was impressed by them - seemed very good quality.

And another.

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain. Specifically the outro.

Headstock shape seems to be modelled on the Kay Rickenfakers. It looks no better on this.