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Welcome. That's a fantastic collection of 6 string, short scale, piccolo basses. What amps do you use with those?

Toby Pro basses (with the wenge laminate necks) are very good value used and, with a change of electronics, transform a good instrument into almost a pro level.

Wow - that's classy.

I was surprised by the listed value of their assets. Its a shame that a company goes like this after the history its generated.

Give Hevos a look - very high quality handmade class D amps and their latest line up includes an amp with dual inputs. They're not over priced either.

Jon has decided to push his own builds before the end of April so I'm booked to go back in on May 12. I'll get at least one done for sure...hopefully both but the precision stuff does take a long time to set up, especially when tired. I've also been thinking about maple and wenge necks as on the instruments I've played, they have the mids that I'm looking for. But we'll see how the steinberger necks go first.

I did a bit of Youtube surfing yesterday - the Fender 30 and 60 combos (around 1980) have the Fender sound and (in the US at least) seem to be ridiculously cheap.

I've done a bit of research on the Yammie SA models too - very well made!

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1391116950' post='2353573'] Can we rename the mods to this? Oh, and the admins can be... what's higher than sheriff? Commissioner? [/quote] Uberschteppengruppenfuhrer?

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1391107798' post='2353409'] It's been a long journey from the flasher mac (with leggings) to the stately Halls of Justice. That the shimmying sexual acrobat of yore now spends his days trawling the internet for copyright infractions is rather depressing. [/quote] In the past he has employed a company called 'Web Sherrif'

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1391115637' post='2353551'] It's taken 6 year but I finally agree with BRX on something. [/quote] Well at least you're positive about [i]something[/i]!

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1385999775' post='2294455'] You're in that Londo, aren't you? Hie thyself unto Chandlers or Regent Sound - they're Wampler dealers. Plus some more around the M25 periphery - Wampler dealer page [url="http://www.wamplerpedals.com/dealers/"]here[/url] As for the chimy stuff, you may wish to try the Wampler Black '65. Catalinbread SFT does a nice Keefy-y Ampeg chime too. [/quote] Thanks for the tip. I might go visit Regents anyway this Saturday given I need to get a couple of sets of strings and a small cable.

Marshall overdrive seems fairly easy to achieve...even with just a pedal. But they sound kind of flat to me. That bouncey, chimey Fender clean tone is pretty dynamic. When I've played through a twin in the past, the slightly compressed highs made me feel like I was interacting with the amp...it was so very far from flat sounding and I got a lot of satisfaction from giving the strat a decent spanking. But twins weigh a tonne and are too loud for my needs.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1391078990' post='2352905'] I like it. [/quote] I'm almost there myself. [quote name='gjones' timestamp='1391079664' post='2352924'] Interestingly, Nile Rodgers appears in the 'Get Lucky' video with a bit of tape over the Fender logo of his guitar.[/quote] The transparent one? Is it possible that it might not have been a Fender?

Are they really like Fenders on steroids? Or completely different? Just curious...

Although he has a very strong set of personal values, I'm not sure what Prince's tactics are commercially. If he's attempting to maintain value of his product by restricting supply, it seems as likely to create frustration in his fan base as demand. Looks like he's over here on Feb 3 for a short series of impromptu concerts in London. Unfortunately I have a formal dinner on Feb 4 to attend and need to pack for a trip to China on Feb 6. Here's hoping something is planned on Feb 5 and I'm within reach of tickets...his 2007 after show gigs were a life changing experience for me.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1390915320' post='2351175'] I think you mean Canute!. Mind you Midas turned everything he touched to gold, and some might say that this also applies to Prince [/quote] Yes, you're right - I was caught between mouthfuls of hummus in the office and only half engaged... Thanks for correcting.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1390897082' post='2350901'] Pretty much all the poorest features of a Strat rolled into one instrument. Horrible 70s headstock, hard-tail bridge, nasty relic'd body[/quote] [quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1390903579' post='2350986'] I think the price at least partly reflects the fact that Nile really wanted an [i]exact [/i]replica of the real thing.[/quote] His strat is a '60 body with a '59 neck apparently. He nearly lost it on a train late last year.

I have two NS5CR FMs and they both replaced Ken Smith BSR5GNs. Same growl, more midrange and I customised them with Wizard pickups, Noll parametric eq and coil splits for a bit more versatility. Amazing value for money and one is definitely a keeper. For a while, I also owned a Euro 6 with a spalted maple top and alder wings that came out of the Sound Control sell off. It was also a nice bass that I gigged for a while but it didn't have the mid range growl of the all maple NSCR5.

It's a complicated issue. Some of the live bootlegs have no commercial value at all yet can become very valuable archives. Also Prince has to balance up the negative publicity of suing a fan and the positive profile that bootlegs give against his potential loss of royalties...assuming that there is a direct relationship between live bootlegs and the loss of income he might have gained from publishing recorded material at the same event. Some artists seem to be like King [s]Midas[/s] Canute - trying to control something that ultimately can't really be controlled. A more astute and pragmatic way to use illegal downloads is to use them to help identify new markets. [url="http://www.citeworld.com/consumerization/22803/iron-maiden-musicmetric?page=0"]http://www.citeworld...icmetric?page=0[/url] That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you turn a frown upside down.

Does it use 6L6 or 6V6 tubes?

My EBS Combo 60 can be used with acoustics anyway (according to the user manual) so I use it with electric too. Its a little too hi-fi to be honest but settles down through a speaker sim.

[quote name='Thumbducker' timestamp='1390863932' post='2350782'] It seems to be all about marketing nowadays, and to be fair it's not just Fender who are at it. I know PRS are coming from an entirely different angle but they always had the whiff of the Objet d'art about them, to me (I'm not saying I don't like looking at them, but I've been uninspired by the ones I've played so far.) [/quote] It's always been about marketing - Fender became so dominant in the 60's out of marketing and sheer manufacturing capability. [quote name='Thumbducker' timestamp='1390863932' post='2350782'] I'm undecided as to whether it's a means of screwing us for more money by tapping into our fetishes, or because they have a need to do it in order to keep their place in the market. Either way I'm not turned on by this hitmaker (not least because I can make a perfectly adequate job of bashing my own guitars into things, much as I try to avoid it;) one mans meat though! It's the sound+the way it feels in my hands = a happy Thumbducker, but as the owner of a usa strat and a gibson, I feel like I'm as much a victim of marketing as the next man to some extent. [/quote] Endorsements sell instruments. Much marketing in the music instrument industry is about living the dream - the dream of sounding like your hero, the dream of success/glamour/fame, or there are people out there who don't know much about different brands so go with what they recognise...on the assumption that if everyone else is playing a brand then it must be good. [quote name='Thumbducker' timestamp='1390863932' post='2350782'] Unless I'm ever in the financial position to buy a top-notch, English made electric guitar, I can't see me ever buying another new electric guitar. I'm hoping the next electric I get will be made by me, but I think that's little more than a pipe dream at this moment in time. [/quote] Unlike when I started playing back in the mid 80's, there are many very good quality guitars available at extremely affordable prices. Yamaha do some fantastic stuff for example. Cort are pretty good too, and some of the Chinese brands like SX have also had good feedback.