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How do i clear my photo cache on the site?
tauzero replied to JGSpector's question in Site Issues and Questions
Go into "My Attachments". Open the particular image.png that you want to rename (I use Irfanview) and save it as a named file (preferably a .jpg), resized if desired. Then look at the right-hand side of the "My Attachments" page, open the post that the image is in by clicking on it, and edit it - replace image.png with the named file, then remove that particular image.png. A bit laborious but you get it done in the end. -
Lovely looking basses, shame they're 4s not 5s (not surprising as they're late 70s when 5-string basses were yet to become established).
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It would be handy if you did have that superpower though. We could deploy you every time Fender threatened to bring out another pointless variation on their limited themes, or anybody said they'd be bringing out another bloody relic.
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String spacing again a bit narrow, but I'd forgotten Hohner - there's the B V (with body and head), Jack V (headless with body) and the B2AV (cricket bat headless) - the B2AV has a passive variant, the B2V, which IME doesn't sound as good.
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I suspect that too.
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So if Neeps buys it, they decide they won't make it?
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Very cunningly concealed, they're completely invisible.
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Been away for about 15 years...Who did i miss?
tauzero replied to Gizmo's topic in General Discussion
Gibsons are readily converted to headless though. -
My preference is for neck-through basses, which is a bit limiting as it rules out FSOs and MMSOs (although I do have one of the former and two of the latter). That leaves me with hoping another Antoniotsai 5-string comes up, going for a Mazeti if one comes up, or looking at the Harley Benton BZ-5000 from Thomann or the Chicago 5-string through-neck from Gear4Music, neither of which I've played. Or maybe playing roulette and going for something from AliExpress. Or a second-hand Ibanez BTB (not the bolt-on ones).
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For reference on the sound, Pete Trewavas has used the 4 string version with Marillion as well as his Warwick Thumb - for example
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Snakeskin Fernandes P bass - any ideas what on earth this is ?!
tauzero replied to millar138's topic in General Discussion
Not my cup of Earl Grey, especially as it's a P without enough strings, but it looks to have been very well done. -
Been away for about 15 years...Who did i miss?
tauzero replied to Gizmo's topic in General Discussion
Every manufacturer must produce a fan-fret headless bass with at least five strings (a four string option is permitted), with the exception of Fender, who have been given a 50 year grace period to adjust and to find some other huge pointless piece of wood that they can put their logo on. -
Just noticed that my old Cort GB5 Custom is now for sale, and relatively close to you.
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With your preference for somewhat fatter necks, you could have a look for a second-hand Cort GB5 Custom (or the GB95 Custom, same bass, made in different countries). J/MM pickups rather than straight J, great build quality. I sold mine only because my preference is for the slimmer neck. They're not baseball bat sized, but just a bit fatter than I like.
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There may well be no (noticeable) bugs but there's potentially more effects.
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Lovely piece of work.
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Or on video?
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TRS/Midi Cable question Meris/DMC/Expression
tauzero replied to p4ul's topic in Repairs and Technical
The jack end of the cable is easy enough, I've always hated soldering DIN plugs. Especially when you forget to put the body onto the cable before doing the soldering. -
I wasn't talking about those posts, I was talking about the various posts (for example) in the NAMM thread about Sadowskys and how ridiculously overpriced the various custom shop and Metroline ones are by people who probably aren't interested in buying them in the first place. Like me.
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The front end design of the Superfly (and Superduperfly) was great with the graphic MIDI-controlled EQ section, which could also work as a parametric EQ with a software editor. The power amp section not so good, with twin power amps that couldn't be bridged and some examples with twittery noise - not loud but annoying.
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Ant - £329. After considering the Elf, Warwick Gnome, and TC BAM-200, I went with the BAM-200. If one of the others had had a speakon combo output, I'd have gone with that in preference.
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They've missed a trick. Speaker output is still jack only, like all the micro amp heads, rather than a speakon/jack combo socket.
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Does that mean that we're forbidden from commenting on basses if we have no intention of buying them?
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Been away for about 15 years...Who did i miss?
tauzero replied to Gizmo's topic in General Discussion
On the hardware front, Barefaced has now been overtaken by LFSys as BC's favourite speaker maker following collaboration between @stevie, @Phil Starr, and @Chienmortbb on a DIY 112 which evolved into the LYSys series of cabs. Ninety zillion multieffects pedals varying between a single pedal size (even mini-pedal size) and aircraft carrier deck size have been released. Everybody loves at least one of them, and everybody has found something to moan about with at least one of them. Basses are still being made with scratchplates, unfortunately. Some things never change. The big tonewood debate still erupts occasionally. It's not entirely certain whether the fence that some are sitting on is made of tonewood. -
What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...
tauzero replied to kwmlondon's topic in General Discussion
People who complain about the colour of scratchplates without acknowledging that the real problem is the existence of scratchplates.
