Jean-Luc Pickguard

My basses range from around 21" to 42" I also have 30", 32" and 34" basses. There's no real problem going from one to another. The 43" one is an NS-Design CR5M so it is fretless. The dot markers help me stay in tune, and I would probably be a bit lost without them.

Although I have multiple Fender Precisons, Mustangs and Musicmasters, and Thunderbirds, I currently only have one Danelectro longhorn, one Hohner B2A, one Kala U-Bass, and one Guild Starfire II, Does that count?

I'm surprised his audience of fourteen year olds have that kind of money, but I suspect he would probably have got more if he had offered a jpg of it as an NFT.

Loading an ashdown cabinet after a particularly exhausting gig, I missed the boot and clumped the rear light cluster of my car with the corner of the cab causing a hairline crack. The next time it rained heavily the light filled up with water. It cost me £70 for a new light assembly.

I think richlite is made from layers of paper soaked in resin & compressed. The fingerboard of my Little Martin acoustic is richlite,as is the bridge, but he body is HPL printed to look like koa, and the neck is thin strips of laminated spruce. These guitars get a lot of hate from some quarters but I really like mine. I was wondering more about peoples opinions on Blackwood tek, which unlike richlite can pass for rosewood or ebony visually. I think bass players are probably more willing to use instruments using non-traditional materials than guitarists - how often do you see someone playing a carbon fibre guitar? I’m sure status sell a lot more basses than guitars.

Blackwood tek is a technologically modified wood used in fingerboards as a substitute for rosewood or ebony. I was wondering what opinions people have on it. I believe epiphone 60s thunderbirds now have Indian laurel fingerboards, but the earlier ones, which were called the vintage pro thunderbird, had fingerboards made from Blackwood tek. Other companies such as reverend also use blackwood tek for fingerboards. Blackwood tek starts off as a specific type of pine, Pinus radiata, and it is taken through through 'a technological process that uses natural products, without plastics or other petroleum derivatives.' This involves dye, resin, heat, and compression to make a much denser material than the original wood. The resultant material has the appearance and properties of rosewood or ebony. The fingerboards on my vintage pro thunderbirds look like a nice dark piece of rosewood - ie much better looking than a swirly cheap looking piece of Indian laurel, and I cannot see any downsides in using this for fingerboards.

I've had both types. I sold both of the neotechs I had, but still have several comfort strapps.

I've not been tempted to purchase a Harley Benton lately. I used to have a HB uke bass but had to send two back before receiving one without QC issues whoch kind of took the shine off the experience. Some of the cheaper basses and guitars look like good platforms for modding, and their higher priced ones look to be very good value but they don't really excite me like a nice Fender mustang (bass or guitar) would.

I have not tried this, so I offer no guarantees, but if the speaker is going to be replaced or reconed anyway I would probably try holding the affected area of the speaker over a steaming kettle and apply pressure to the front & back of the cone to flatten out the creases, taking care of course not to get steam into the central part of the speaker.

A bit of steam might get those creases out.

Clippers are something used to give you a haircut. Athough there is overlap between these three types of pedal, an overdrive will typically sound quite different from a fuzz and if an all-encompassing tern is needed I'd probably just use the term 'distortion'.

Took a punt on one of these from amazon for eight quid (with next day delivery on prime) =>USB Voltage Step Up Converter Cable, 5V to DC 9V Power Cable, Work for Guitar Effects Pedal,BOSS,Dunlop,Behringer, MXR, Electro Harmonix, TC Electronic, Zoom Pedals Like most people I know I have a rechargable USB power powerpack thingy which I bought so I can give my iPhone a boost if looks like its going to run out of juice when I'm out & about. These only supply 5v so they're not suitable for powering pedals, but this converter steps the voltage up to 9v. I have just tried it with my guitar pedalboard consising of a Boss SY-1 synthesizer, a Behringer SF-300 Super Fuzz, a Moskey Silver horse Klon clone and a Zoom MG-50G multistomp multifx. It performs exactly as I hoped it would, and the extra layer of noise that resulted from using a mains PSU was absent. I'm not sure how long I will be able to power the pedalboard using this with my 6700mAh powerpack, but it was still on four LEDs after a longish jam. Looks like the punt has paid off - for £8 its a no-brainer.

It might be the same bass rebadged rather than a shameless copy - just as they rebadge some (joyo?) pedals as HB. Not something I'd have on my xmas list.

£200 is a very good price for one in good condition. It's lucky I didn't see it as I've run out of hiding paces for new gear.

The SY-1 was delivered this afternoon. Its in mint condition well packed and in the original box, but no manual or boss sticker. I downloaded the one page pdf manual and put it on my iPad, but I've found that the controls are pretty much self explanatory. I've been wanting to play synth from guitar since I bought a Casio MG-510 back in the late 80s - which reminds me I must dig it out of the loft and list it on reverb. The casio has noticable latency which made it difficult to play with any groove or feeling I ended up using it mainly to program lines into the computer in step time. Having subsequently played and owned various guitar / bass synth pedals over the years including an akai deep impact and EHX B9, I've never been tempted to keep one longer than a few weeks. The SY-1 was cheap enough to take a punt on with a view to possibly selling it on but I think it might be a keeper. Playing a squier bullet mustang guitar and jaguar short scale bass through it was a bit of a revelation. The way it responds to my playing is amazing even without having to modify my sloppy playing technique. Layering a convincing organ sound over clean guitar was so simple to achieve. The fx loop looks like a useful feature so I'll try that with a fuzz & a klon clone in the loop and then feed the pedal output into a zoom MS50G for a bit of reverb etc to see how that sounds when I've found enough cables.

some people don’t know when they have a good thing. In unmolested condition this would have been worth way more (excuse the pun) than a hundred quid.

If its up to Yoko they'd probably only be allowed to call themselves the Beatles if they include her in John's place doing her rendition of a howler monkey with sudden trauma to the nuts.

I agree 100%

Townshend & Daltrey don't have any problem in billing themselves as the Who, so I don't see why not.

Collection on London only which would have been okay for me as I was almost tempted and would probably have snapped it up if it was still silver sparkle, but the pics are low res and I can't tell whether there's a crack or two showing on the back of the headstock. If its just been oversprayed with red car paint from a rattle can, it might come off easily with acetone and reveal the original silver sparkle finish underneath assuming it wasn't stripped first. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194962269630

Any bass that looks like it was designed later than about 1967 has a harder time getting my attention. I'm not keen on active electronics either, or anything with more than four strings.

Found an SY-1 at such a good price it would have been rude not to snap it up, so it is due to arrive on my doorstep tomorrow. I'm not sure how it'll get any use in the band I'm in as we do mostly 60s covers, so it could end up on my guitar pedalboard rather than my bass board. Failing that I'll get to play with it for a few weeks before letting it go to a new owner without making a loss. I didn't really get on with a EHX B9 organ machine when I owned one briefly, so I'm hoping the organs on the sy-1 will tickle my pickle. Do any SY-1 owners here have any tips? Does it work better certain inputs - such as a tele bridge pickup rather than a humbucker neck pickup on guitar? Or the Jazz pickup of a PJ bass for example? Has anyone flipped the baseplate to put velcro on without affecting the rubber foot?

Like this?

That's nasty 🤮