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Mrs Zero runs the telemarketing team that sells calendars on behalf of a Canadian firm, so she gets us a few done for the covers band and the ceilidh band for nowt. We send the covers band ones out to clubs that we've played for and that we'd like to play for, and the ceilidh band ones go to a few potential venues plus people who have booked us in the last year or two. The covers band has also got a 5-track CD which is going out to various clubs.

You can see where Vintage got the inspiration for the V940/V950 from... I had a Bass Collection once upon a time. Nice enough to play but it was far too light for my liking (being used to fairly weighty basses, Hayman, Fender and Warwick having been my main gigging basses) and I just never felt comfortable with it.

My Tsai is tuned B-F. However, the strings that were on it when it arrived were a little haphazard. I would expect off-the-shelf 7-strings to be supplied as B-F because strings bigger than .135 or so aren't exactly common. IIRC, Dood goes F#-C, and I'm sure there's at least one other BCer using a bottom string which came off a suspension bridge (wasn't someone talking of a C# bottom?).

Excellent. Postcode, incidentally, is NG5 2BY if that's any help to peeps.

Mine's a '60. I was the original owner, but she got stolen. I got her back many years later. The last former owner decided to try his hand at relicing on her, but fortunately there's not too much damage from then.

To me it seems odd that some tatty old piece of crap with an obviously poor quality finish has "mojo" just because if has Fender on the headstock. Would the same word be used to describe a similarly wrecked Yamaha or Ibanez or Warwick? And do Fender deliberately use sh*t paint (see Rory Gallagher's Strat for another example)?

[quote name='bremen' post='352831' date='Dec 12 2008, 03:49 PM']Excellent to see someone prepared to speak well of GG's music. It's depressing how history has been revised because of what he subsequently got up to.[/quote] +1. I found it rather depressing that some stupid old phuquer had got "Leader of the Gang" taken off the music syllabus purely on the grounds that GG was a paedo. I just don't see that the behaviour of someone 25+ years ago should make any difference/

I had a look at the LM manual and it doesn't mention phantom power at all. Is there any particular reason for wanting to get rid of the 9V battery?

If there's any surplus disks going, I wouldn't mind a few...

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='350760' date='Dec 10 2008, 02:25 PM']Ah ok, did you get them specially ordered in or did they just have them hanging around? I’m quite interested cos I might need a fretted 4 string replacement neck in the not too distant future.[/quote] They were hanging round - all gone now though as far as I know.

I found the song Perfect really got up my nose after a while. It was that "bee-ee-ee-ee" bit which just irritated me beyond belief.

Crazy little thing called love.

[quote name='Beedster' post='349777' date='Dec 9 2008, 03:11 PM']All the display lights are working. The fan is not working. There is no sound at all from either speaker O/P. There is a very distorted, intermitent and low level sound into headphgones form the headphone 0/P.[/quote] If it has an effects send/return, try running the effects send to another amp and see if anything comes out.

[quote name='Godfrey' post='346438' date='Dec 5 2008, 02:16 PM']Like Alun I have an NS Design EUB which has cascading (their word, not mine) dots all the way down. I found them useful to get me in the right place whilst learning but even now, although I very rarely have to look at them when playing, if my ears tell me that I've drifted I find a glance at them helps to correct things quickly. I'm a dots fan![/quote] I had a Palatino before the WAV-4 - the Palatino has no dots at all anywhere. I needed reference points so got some little adhesive "jewels" and put those on at 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th and 15th positions. I find the WAV-4 has a visually confusing excess of dots.

No, got them from PMT in Birmingham some time ago.

I decided I was never going to get round to building the monster twin-neck Warwick so I'm flogging these 5-string necks on ebay: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300279575066"]Fretted[/url] [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300279576677"]Fretless[/url]

You mean you've accidentally bought it?

It's nice to see I'm nowhere near alone in the 8+ category. Five Tsais, two Warwicks, a Hohner Jack, a Jerry Atrics twin neck, a 5-stringed 4-string P-frankenbass, an acoustic 4-string fretted, a project bass I got off the dontcarebear a while ago, and an NS WAV-4. I think that's it.

Saturday night was The Pickle in Acocks Green, Birmingham. Stage is tiny - we just about all fit on with the keyboard player teetering on the edge, so it's a good job she only plays about a quarter of the set. Not much audience activity until the third set, where it picked up with a couple of songs that we've just put into the set ("Brown Eyed Girl" and "I'm a believer") going down particularly well. I normally use the GK 200MB for this gig due to the tiny stage, but decided to try the Hartke HA1200 that I fixed up a while ago instead. I reckon it sounded better than the GK, possibly partly because it's bigger (helping the bottom end) and it's ported with a rear port rather than sealed box, so I think it would be louder for the same driver (and they have, in fact, shared a driver). Very pleasing.

I'm another ex-Hayman 40/40 owner. For some reason, I sold it and bought a Precision.

[quote name='uptonmark' post='347912' date='Dec 7 2008, 03:15 PM']this link will explain, the yanks call it DENATURED ALCOHOL but we call it METHYLATED SPIRIT[/quote] The Yanks don't even know what it's called, let alone whether it goes best with red meat or white. Remember, meths with red meat, white spirit with white/fish.