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Only just found out about these, they retail for about £500 I think. Anyone played one? [url="http://cdn1.notreble.com/buzz/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Eastwood-Sidejack-VI-620x192.jpg"][/url]

very cool

went for £250 with a nice hard case! STEAL.

Would love one of these, but not in the market right now: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IBANEZ-BLAZER-BASS-GUITAR-1981-VINTAGE-RIGHT-HANDED-/360445057040?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item53ec331810

Thanks, lots of good suggestions! from a brief bit of research i think my top ones are pickle pie, mxr fuzz deluxe, and depth charge. I love the sound of my setup now, which is a black big muff through a Tym Big Bottom (a great bass loop filter thing), but I just want something simpler and smaller. The Tym Big Bottom is fantastic - it splits the signal so that the low frequencies go straight through to the amp clean, while the mid/high frequancies go into an effect loop where you can put any pedal. So I get clean low end and fuzzy high end - amazing.

I'm looking for a smooth fuzz sound that can be blended with clean sound in one pedal. A knob to control the wet/dry mix is essential. Any recommendations? Should also ad that I'm aware of the bass big muff... no wet/dry. Ideally I want gain, tone, blend, volume.

I have a tiny terror for guitar and if you want to get volume you really need to push the gain well into breakup so i doubt the micro terror would give you the kind of headroom you need. Plus my orange PPC112 cabinet (with a vintage 30) does NOT like bass going through it at all. It's a pretty bad cabinet tbh.

If you have cash to burn, I say why not? Potentially could bring it to life even more.

The change might have been gradual so you haven't noticed it. I'm no expert but one would think 6 years of regular use would warrant a change of tubes - but if it sounds good to you then no real need right? Plus the SS poweramp probably takes a lot of the load - depends on how hard you push the preamp. They're great amps - I played through one at a show last year and was really impressed.

In 18 years time perhaps we'll look back and say the same about spending £200 on one today.

I don't really want a super clean sound, I like a bit of grit.

Thanks for the info, very helpful. I'd noticed that that 800s were not around much in the UK. I don't have a gigging bass rig at the moment so I've been borrowing backline from headlining bands for about the last year. My favourites so far have been the GK Backline 600, Ampeg svt-3, and Ampeg SVT 450H. A serious gear nerd I know says his 800RB is the best he's ever owned, so I think I'll snap one up when I see one.

you're totally right - i should just take it to a tech when i get paid next... just annoying when you shell out a shittonne of money for something nice, then you just keep shelling out cash on it to get sounding/playing the way you want, just never ends this curse.

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1331895885' post='1580505'] I think I'm going to have to break out my popcorn gif again. [/quote] hardy har - i've only been playing for a year thankyouverymuch

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1331895673' post='1580500'] Are you sure you're measuring relief? Relief is a measure of the "bowedness" of the neck... if you capo the strings at the first fret and fret at the highest fret, the relief is the distance between the bottom of the string and the top of the fret at the midpoint of the neck (between fret 1 and the neck/body join). The correct amount of relief will depend on a number of things, but it's usually around 0.3 to 0.5 mm. [/quote] Ok, guess there's more relief than I thought was right.

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1331893755' post='1580452'] How much relief does the neck currently have? [/quote] about 1.5 mm by my estimate... maybe 2mm. I play with a pick, often quite hard, so i don't really want a super low action. I'm going to get a tool for adjusting the tross and see how it goes if i set it 'dead straight' as they say.

from what i have gathered, everyone who learnt on a westone in the 80s has bought them all back again I still have my first guitar - 90s danelectro U2. First bass (squier jazz) is long gone.

[quote name='Ed_S' timestamp='1331810665' post='1579162'] I tend to just use '-fits' to get rid of the Roqsolid covers, because most of their listings say "Padded Cover Fits [whatever]". If somebody was selling an amp with a cover, they probably wouldn't say "...which fits!" in the listing [/quote] good call! genuis.