pete.young

I have a large Tribal Planet gig bag which I used to get the Epiphone Flying Vee into - that's a long body and a shorter neck but the overall length is pretty similar. These aren't made any more , but someone had one for sale in the misc for sale forum here, possibly warwickhunt?

We had one of these - I can confirm that it was a rubber pad, factory fitment not an after-market bodge !

Some rare and beautiful stuff there. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Lovely. I'd say these are uber-rare even inJapan, and hard to price - CIJ Q serials date to 2002 - 2004 and this was likely a not-for-export model. I found a 2002 catalogue on line and it isn't listed, don't have a 2003 or 2004 catalogue. It doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. Tom Bowlus has one! http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/fender-tele-bass-368407/

The very first response to a google search for 'jon camp double neck' returned this: http://renaissance-fanfare.net/forum/topics/jon-camp-interview-2012 which confirms that it was made by Dick Knight. Interesting interview.

There's a thread in 'Amps and Cabs' , might be something in there. I'd be inclined to take it to Dave Lunt in Stockport, he's not so far away from you and really knows his stuff.

[quote name='Mottlefeeder' timestamp='1374663570' post='2151419'] The Maplin one does not appear to specify the battery size, but a similar looking one on Amazon gives it as 17 Ah, so your 10 W rig should last half a day on that! [/quote] A bit of digging shows the Maplin one as having 2x 6v 5Ah batteries. Quite impressive to get a couple of hours out of that, for comparison the PJB Briefcase recommended fitment is a 12v 7.2 Ah battery, said to be good for approx 1 hour. I'll get one for mine eventually and do a proper test.

I don't have a gig on the 21st yet, so I'm a distinct possible. Not sure what I have that people might find interesting - any requests from Yamaha BB NE2, Fender PB70US with East P-Retro, various Bass Collections Bass Briefcase, Burman Pro 4000, VB-99 (still trying to get my head around this so I'm not sure about demos!) Can also take people from Ipswich - Dave.c, if you're interested we can find room for the Vigier collection!

The neck pocket won't be stamped US. The 'US' pickups are not made-in-USA items - they're Fender Japan's attempt to make a US-spec pickup, which isn't quite the same thing. There are no markings on the pickups to identify them. The bass looks kosher but I don't believe the shipping costs. There's a stickied thread somewhere about importing basses from Japan and you'd normally expect to add on roughly £100 to the price to cover costs of shipping and import duties. Edit: it's here. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/139-importing-guitars/

[quote name='Dave_the_bass' timestamp='1374002272' post='2144170'] Just to clarify, my follow up question was: When using my octave pedal on one of the channel effects loops, in mix mode (Shuttlemax amp), why do I get a delay/echo effect? [/quote] Because you have a parallel effects loop, and you're getting a blend of the clean and effected signal.

Are we talking about the effects loop on an amp? Often these are set up in parallel, resulting in a blend of clean and effected signal. That way if the pedal chain dies you still get some signal. Some amps allow you to switch them to series, for instance if you want to modify all the signal all the time with something like a rack compressor : my Little Mark has a jumper inside.

Biggest difference is probably that most tuners will mute the signal if placed between the guitar and the amp - using the tuner out won't.

Wonder what the spacing is on the 330, that has soapbars.

[quote name='markinthegreen' timestamp='1373918351' post='2143211'] Im surprised no one recognises her from the Bass Cellar on Denmark St, She worked their for years. I got a couple of basses off her. [/quote] Oh, that Simone? That's really good news in that case, she was the most pleasant and helpful person in that shop by a million miles and it's good to see her having some success.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/212137-portable-solution-for-busking-on-bass-new-amp-or-batteryinverter/page__pid__2142216__st__20#entry2142216

Very nice, but where is the Surdo! Give my regards to Gione when you see him.

Cheap invertor from Maplins will do the job. The problem is the battery - car batteries really don't like deep discharge cycles, you really need a leisure battery and these tend to be more expensive. I doubt that the volume setting of the amp will have a huge difference to the battery life - I'd be very surprised if the relationship was anything like linear.

A Yamaha THD10 might fit the bill, it works off batteries and has the bass amp modelling that apparently makes it sound OK with bass, unlike the THD 5. I say apparently - I've not tried one in the flesh, went for a Bass Briefcase instead.

I tried using 12" drivers, but they couldn't see over the dashboard or reach the pedals so I went back to the normal size. Well someone had to say it ...