pete.young

You don't see these very often. Well, I do - I've got one and I'm looking at it now, but there aren't many about. For once an auction which really deserves the soubriquet mega rare, and I thought I'd post it here because the listing is so well written and funny. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180640463489"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=180640463489[/url]

[quote name='Randy_Marsh' post='1164949' date='Mar 16 2011, 08:32 PM']Hi guys, Like the title says I have an EA CXL 112. Great cab, but muggins here has managed to blow the driver... I have emailed EA and they no longer make this cab, and only know of one place that will re-cone the driver for me... which is in Ohio They said the easiest thing to do is buy the new Wizzy 12" driver and install that. It costs about £80 but then I'd have to ship it from the USA. Or just get another 12" driver and install that Just wondering what you guys would do, as im a bit stuck really[/quote] Well, when I blew the driver in my VL110, EA sold me a recone kit and I got someone local to fit it. Is that an option?

If anyone is at a loose end on Thursday night in Ipswich (ye gods, what a prospect!) my other band Waxies Dargle are playing in McGinty's Bar on the outside stage. Please come along and have a riotous evening. Waxies play the music of the Pogues, and there will be bagpipes and Irish dancing too. I'm not on bass for this one: mandolin, bouzouki and fiddle is the order of the day.

So what do you think was in the set list? Locomotion Anything by Lou Rawls Take the 'A' strain Dump (van Halen cover)

As played by The Motions? [url="http://www.alexgitlin.com/motions.htm"]http://www.alexgitlin.com/motions.htm[/url]

[quote name='Paul S' post='1160991' date='Mar 13 2011, 08:34 PM']All are MIJ,[/quote] You certain about that? I'm not. The Yamaha is made in China these days and I seem to recall that the cheaper Ibbys are made in Indonesia. I played an SR505 in Bass Merchant, it felt like a really comfortable bass but the build quality is nowhere near my Bass Collections. Try and find an SB460. There was one sold on here not long ago.

[quote name='Sean' post='1160481' date='Mar 13 2011, 02:10 PM']And, if that P was reversed it wouldn't do an authentic P sound thereby alienating many.[/quote] My BB800 has a reversed pickup and it does a very authentic P sound. You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between it and a fender in a blind test. I'm also very happy with my TRB5P - the build quality is superb and it has a lovely through-neck. You've got to hand it to Yamaha, I've had many of their instruments over the years, not just basses, and I don't think I've ever seen a duff anything with Yamaha written on it.

Not crap - a Bass Collection SGC Nanyo lined fretless - this looks to be a factory fretless rather than a defret, since the dots on the side of the neck are lined up with the fret markers. I have one of these , unlined, and it's brilliant. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-String-Fretless-Bass-Collection-SGC-Nanyo-SB320-/180637153372?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a0ed0385c"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-String-Fretless-Ba...=item2a0ed0385c[/url]

I seem to be experiencing serious delays using the site tonight (11th March, 10.30 - 10.45) . Time-outs trying to load roughly every other page. No other sites seem to be suffering. Is it just me?

If it is for sale, you need to state a price according to forum rules. If it isn't for sale, you should get the mods to move it somewhere else.

I'm a no - gigging on Saturday and no trains between Ipswich and London on Sunday :-(

[quote name='kurcatovium' post='1148771' date='Mar 3 2011, 07:18 PM']Could this SGC be considered japcrap? Or just crap?[/quote] Agh! That would have been a nice bass once.

[quote name='icastle' post='1149089' date='Mar 3 2011, 11:39 PM']+1 Only one thing worse than a bodhran and that's a bodhran with someone smacking it![/quote] + another one. The only thing to play on a bodhran is a flamethrower. I got fired from a Country and Western band once for playing the reggae version of 'Help me make it through the night'. It was well worth it.

Blimey, are they still alive? I haven't seen these guys for a while, but I did see varous line-ups with Sandy Denny, Swarb, Richard Thompson and Jerry Donahue in the '70s. Happy days. Maybe it's time to check them out again. I didn't go to the Newark school of violinmaking, but I had a friend who did (and he smuggled me in to the woodwind tutor Louie's lecture where he made drills out of piano wire, something which has stayed with me ever since). An extraordinary place and you guys are privileged to have studied there, you must really know your stuff.

[quote name='51m0n' post='1148269' date='Mar 3 2011, 12:34 PM'][b]Compression 101[/b] (ish) - or "The pestering has paid off".... Simples![/quote] Awesome. Thank you.

The stacked knobs are only slightly larger than the original - a couple of mm in diameter and they stand a bit prouder. There's a picture of my bass with the pickup fitted in the 'Show us your DR Neons' thread in the General forum. Can't comment on the 2-band, never used one.

[quote name='Paul S' post='1144273' date='Feb 28 2011, 11:12 AM']Daft question time - is it a straight fit? Presumably it is the model with the stacked knobs?[/quote] There are no daft questions ... I had to open out two of the holes with a round file (the ones for the stacked pots). Other than that it was a straight drop-in. If you wire it up as per the instructions, the blend pot works backwards (clockwise cuts the neck pickup and increases the bridge, anticlockwise cuts the bridge and increases the neck). I found that was a little strange at first but I'm used to it now.

[quote name='Paul S' post='1140990' date='Feb 25 2011, 11:21 AM']Just out of curiosity what did you do to upgrade the electrics? Mine is (I think) the B-310, so not the high end of the spectrum.[/quote] I put an Artec 3-band pre-amp into my SB465, mostly because the blend pot on the old setup wasn't working properly. It's a big improvement on the standard electronics, probably the best budget fix you can do without upgrading the pickups and probably worth doing even if you did a pickup change.