pete.young

[quote name='chapsimon' timestamp='1350239795' post='1836223'] [url="http://bit.ly/SUneVa"]http://bit.ly/SUneVa[/url] [/quote] That one is in the 'For Sale' section here, without pictures (despite the fact that it doesn't appear to infringe any of the Rickenbacker trademarks).

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1350142981' post='1835126'] Or maybe we could offer Nigel Clutterbuck a seminar at the next Bassbash? [/quote] Along the lines of "How to play bass whilst wearing 16oz boxing gloves" ?

axesrus have them .

OK, well a quick bit of googling brings up this: http://www.contrabass.co.uk/about_the_double_bass.htm (By Peter Tyler, of Tyler Basses http://www.tylerbasses.co.uk/ ) I'm tempted to buy this myself, to find out how to lower the bridge on my upright since the action is much too high. And also this: http://www.violins.ca/books/bass_making_book.html I was only half-joking, I've met many violin-makers who won't touch double-bass because the size of the tools and physical effort required is too much.

Dingwall?

Halloween coming up , so it's time to dust off 'Thriller'. Not, This year, I decided it would be cool if we could actually play the right chords in the break where the vocal goes: "... Thriller, diller, chiller, killer " .... There are six chords altogether: In C# minor, I've got A, F#min, A/B as the first three, B is the last and is tied before you go back into the riff. It's the 4th and 5th chords in the sequence I'm struggling with: I can hear D# and D as the notes in the bass, but struggling with the chords on top: maybe D# dim and D6 ? If anyone knows this or has accurate sheet music I'd be interested to know what it should be. I don't mind paying for the sheet music, but I can't preview that page to see if it's more accurate that what we already have!

Luthier? This is double-bass we're talking, you need a cabinet maker or boatbuilder :-)

This is a NL210 ? In fully working order, the best you're likely to get for it is £350 . Are you sure that the fartiness is a fault with the driver and not a cable or some piece of loose fluff resting on the cone? As it is, I don't think it's worth a great deal, because of the difficulty and cost of replacing the drivers. Replacing the drivers is difficult because they're custom 4 Ohm Eminence. EA will charge in the order of £300 for a pair of replacements. If you're lucky you might get re-cone kits and then you'd need to find someone to fit them. Deltalite II 2510s might be close,enough they're only readily available in 8Ohm and will cost you £205 for a pair from Lean. You could bung in another make of driver, but there's no guarantee that the cab is going to sound the same, or even OK.

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1350053502' post='1834102'] Same here but if I was local, unemployed and between bands I'd probably consider it. Beats watching TV in my pants. [/quote] Bit OT Bremen, but why do you have a TV in your pants?

Don't forget that it's been translated out of Italian, so it's easy to see how that could have gone wrong. It doesn't much matter whether it's 300 or 500 watts, what really makes it sound louder is having more drivers moving more air.

It doesn't matter whether you use two separate leads to connect the cabs, or whether you daisy chain them. The amp will see a single 4Ohm load.

Might be worth them talking to a drum specialist such as Soundattak http://www.soundattak.co.uk/home/default.asp . I bought a small Mapex kit from them a couple of years ago at a very good price and they were most helpful.

Very nasty. I think next time I put something valuable up for sale on Basschat I'll put a watermark on the pictures, if I can figure out how to do it.

I can play a lot of different instruments, but I've never got anywhere with drums. It requires the kind of physical co-ordination of all 4 limbs that you've either got, or you haven't!

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1349450590' post='1826533'] i most certainly won't be using Parcel Monkey or Night Freight again. It seems that the former take the money from the punter and the latter does the job. Only if the latter doesn't do the job (as has happened), they're both pretty clueless, my cab's still where it was, and Parcel Monkey have still charged me for the pleasure? Come back Parcelforce, all is forgiven [/quote] Yes, I've had a bad experience when someone else used ParcelMonkey to ship something fairly valuable to me and it disappeared for 3 days, though it did eventually re-appear safe and sound. I guess if you pay peanuts you get parcelmonkeys.

Sorry to hear that. I enjoyed Nile Rodgers book a great deal - if you haven't read it and are going to be laid up for a while longer, PM your address and I'll post it to you.

[quote name='machinehead' timestamp='1349205519' post='1823340'] I spotted a Barefaced cab on Sarah Beenies programme "Double your House for Half the Money" just now. [/quote] Frank, you need to get out more. Trust me!

Just about OK on a Vintage (good luck finding one second hand, no longer available new). [IMG]http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/cr0ut0n/10102009205-1.jpg[/IMG] Not great on a midget: [IMG]http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f123/cr0ut0n/10102009204-1.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1348874348' post='1819496'] And, how the hell does that guy make a mandolin sound so good? [/quote] Some judicial use of phaser and a humungous analog delay, so I'm told! It's actually a Baglama - I had to do some research to find that out. 'That guy' is Lu Edmonds, who played with The Damned. I wouldn't have described myself as a PIL fan, but they were excellent last night, really enjoyed them.

Sorry to hear that Jack, get well soon. Must be all those heavy basses, what you need is a Status Vintage ;-)

Sorry but I won't be able to make this one - got a gig on Saturday and various other stuff to do. I hope you all have a great day.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1348695220' post='1817167'] My flight-case has one similar to this? [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/leather-strap-handle-33255"]http://www.maplin.co...ap-handle-33255[/url] [/quote] That looks good - thanks for the thought. I'd never have considered Maplins for something like this. Thank you.

Can anyone point me to a UK supplier of replacement guitar case handles?

There is already a thread for this - http://basschat.co.uk/topic/164298-show-us-your-guitar-rig/