Zenitram

"It's like a dream, a magical dream"

Sounds like she fancies you.

And was the paying in cash bit significant? So they couldn't trace you afterwards once you made your getaway?

Or did the sticker really say £12.99 but you sneakily told them it was £10, and they didn't look to check? Maybe purposefully averting their eyes as they scanned it and put in a bag for you.

Er, are you pleased that you scored a good deal, incredulous at the sales assistant's reply/the shop's crap attitude, or amused at the sloppy price-tagging? It's not clear.

Has anyone else with a Sue Ryder P bass experienced this? I bought a body and neck off someone here, and got round yesterday to putting in the pickups, a Seymour Duncan SPB-1, so I put in a bit of stiff foam (of the kind designed for this sort of thing), and then the pickups. I screw them in, get the pickguard on and everything good, and it turns out the pickups are at the same level as the pickguard. They don't rise up above it. It's very odd. I can't unscrew them any further or they'll come out. The screws are a standard enough length (two inches, maybe?). There seem to be two solutions: 1. Buy longer screws and put more stuff underneath the pickups. 2. Glue some wood into the pickup cavity and screw the existing screws into that. Can anyone think of good reasons not to do one or the other, or does anyone have any other suggestions? The bass and the pickups work fine, but it just looks weird. And the pickups are a fairly long way from the strings, so it could all be a bit oomphier.

Put some clothes on as well.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1394237918' post='2389553'] I don't agree with that mate. Otherwise Chris Squire would sound the same as Robbie Shakespeare. [/quote] Well yes. But I know what I mean. Sort of. But you're right of course. (I had to google Chris Squire)

No, sorry. It's still twiddling.

You 'sculpt' the tone? Come on. We twiddle some knobs to get a sound we like.

Yes. Yes it does. Which is why I still have a job

He was trying to say the opposite is in fact the case... [i]es todo lo contrario[/i] is more what you were after.

I was a bit drunk last night. But still. Wow.

No, really. Come on guys, Look at those photos. Wow. Seriously.

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[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1393545562' post='2381870'] Logan String Melody II... I got it for £75[/quote] [b]Wow![/b] Nicely done. I've often tried to buy a Logan (for cheap). I have a Roland RS-09 which I like a lot, but would very happily own more string synths, especially the Logan. Back in the day, when I lived in Spain, a friend once told me his family had some old "Yamaha organ" in their garage from some embargo case ages ago (his dad was a lawyer), and that it had been sitting on a shelf in a bin bag for years. I said, oh, yeah, great, would love to take a look. The next time we were up there at their house, I mentioned it, and he said, oh, yes, let's take a look. Here it is, you have it, it's no use to us. It was a Korg MS-20.

And I'm not taking the piss.

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