pete.young

[quote name='cetera' post='1094085' date='Jan 18 2011, 05:01 PM'][u]Apr[/u] 16th Ipswich 'Manor Ballroom'[/quote] Hm, that's a distinct possibility. Do the audience have to do the make up thing as well?

Stradivarius violin - found in grandparents home in Latvia. With broken neck. BIN £5 grand. Hiliarious [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/antique-violin-labelled-Antonius-Stradiuarius-/260728136519?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Sting_Instruments&hash=item3cb49ba347"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/antique-violin-label...=item3cb49ba347[/url]

Out: G&L Tribute L2500 Dean B2 A bunch of effects pedals In: Bass Collection SB465 Yamaha TRB5P Roland V-Bass That doesn't look too bad. Best not to get started on guitars, banjos, mandolins, accordions, bouzoukis, fiddles, ...

Sounds like an iAmp 600, the predecessor to the iAmp 800. Damn good amps - I have a 350 from about the same vintage. Someone on here had one, I think it might have been Tayste or Higgie.

Ah, Swift Music London. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=119617"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=119617[/url] .

[quote name='Paul S' post='1103674' date='Jan 26 2011, 02:05 PM']Is it possible to get a stomp box of some sort that would enable you to have click on-and-off-able a/ just the effect sound and b/ a mix of both that can be blended? (c/ I guess a by-pass as well)[/quote] If I've understood you correctly, you have just described Max's new Loop Control pedal, which is described down towards the bottom of this page - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71973&st=140&start=140"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...0&start=140[/url]

Another vote for the EBS 2x12 Neo. It handles anything I throw at it with aplomb, it works equally well with Burman and Markbass heads, it handles the V-Bass synthesiser sounds brilliantly, punches through the band sound and is unfeasibly light. It has a slight mid-scoop but you can eq that back in if you don't happen to like it (I do).

Hibernian Rhapsody by De Dannan. Insanely brilliant.

Ry Cooder. 3 pages of thread and not one mention? Honourable second place to Rory Gallagher. RIP.

Not on the bay and no pictures, but does anyone know anything about an acoustic guitar maker called Sagadia? A shop local to me has a '70s six string, looks like a 000 Martin copy with nice binding etc.

EA VL110s are great for this, not least because they have a woofer, a mid-range driver and a tweeter and I presume a 3-way crossover - you can adjust the balance of tweeter and midrange driver.

Torres [url="http://www.torresamps.com/"]http://www.torresamps.com/[/url] has some nice looking kits and you can even go on a course to learn to build something.

I think it's great that you've given people an opportunity to give you their views. I'm not sure how well it will work. I suspect people like this won't care where they advertise their stuff, so if they can't post in ebay it will clutter up for sale, or general discussion, or wherever. Then you need to decide whether to leave the clutter, or police it and clear out the listing adverts (more work for the mods). And as others have suggested, it would be trivial for someone to create a thread, plus 1 it 49 times and away they go. Automating this is trivial with HTML testing tools, which are freely available. I think you would be better off creating a group for people to advertise their ebay listings with no posting limit, which will free up the current group for people to discuss listings (which you could then put a limit of number of postings on to keep out the riff-raff). This won't achieve your other objective of providing a resource for drive-bys with no interest in the forum. I don't see an easy answer to that.

Is there a relationship between string spacing too? I like a wider spacing for 5-string basses, and my TRB5P is the most comfortable 5-er I've ever played - it has a flat neck, a wide string spacing and an almost flat fingerboard (23"). I dont' know the radius of my Bass Collection (how can you measure it?) but that's pretty wide and flat too. Conversely I moved on my G&L2500 because the string spacing was too narrow and the fingerboard/neck too round and radiused.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='1089884' date='Jan 14 2011, 09:38 PM']Those BBNEII basses are very special indeed, gorgeous sounding and feeling. Too expensive outside Japan though.[/quote] That's what, a 2 hour flight for you? I think a shopping trip is in order :-)

[quote name='BB2000' post='1088292' date='Jan 13 2011, 04:55 PM']It is a very nice example. I set it up for the last owner a few months back - the chap he bought if from obviously hadn't used it for years, and there was such a bow in the neck I had my boubts that it would actually straighten. It had the original Yamaha leather strap as well, which you don't see very often. It's a bit annoying how this seller implies that he's had this bass for years, and is only selling because he can't live on his pension etc. when he obviously bought to resell. Potential buyers won't be aware of that since you can now only search for completed listing less that 15 days old - it used to be several months.[/quote] I saw the original listing and thought it was a fair price in the prevailing market conditions. Now if it were a late 70's Fender in that condition, it would go for 2 - 3 times the inflated amount, so you could argue it's still a bargain!

[quote name='icastle' post='1088089' date='Jan 13 2011, 02:52 PM']... anything with a 1/4" jack involved was bound to have at least a modicum of intelligence attached to one end of it...[/quote] Like a guitarist, you mean?

Curse you Jack, you've reminded me again of the Coronado IV I wish I'd never sold. Next time I see you I'm going to kick your bad ankle :-)

I've been noticing this on and off for the last couple of days too. 15-20 seconds delay to load random pages and 'waiting for basschat.co.uk' displayed in the status bar. Doesn't sound a lot, but it's not happening anywhere else.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='1083015' date='Jan 9 2011, 11:41 AM']And Ped, accordingly to the websites and manuals I've read, both the GR20 and V-Bass MIDI-Out can be used to control external devices: [url="http://cms.rolandus.com/assets/media/pdf/GR20WS03.pdf"]PDF regarding GR20's use with external sequencers[/url] and the VB-99 has a 'Bass-to-MIDI feature'. Dan[/quote] The later VB-99 might have Midi out, but the earlier V-Bass does not. Midi output is pretty much limited to dumping configurations, as Ped says.

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='1079340' date='Jan 5 2011, 11:24 PM']Can't make this sadly as its my last day in panto![/quote] Oh no it isnt!!!!!!!