Sean
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It's good to see Laney doing a quality analogue head. They're going head to head (Boom, tish) with the new GK Legacy analogue monsters that are due soon. I must say that it looks better from behind. The FET/Valve pre in my Laney is outstanding. And although the 500 has enough power, think about the difference between the GK 700RBii and the 1000RBii. Different heads for different applications, one being a cleaner head and the other being voiced for more grind. Maybe there's enough of a difference in voice.
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@Basszilla, alright, mun? Tell me you didn't sell the Euro 4. 🤔
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I thought Duff used GK amps. Boom, tish! I’m here all week, ladies and gentlemen.
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That's a really good point. 3x ECC83 @ £23 = £69 1x 12BH7 @ £26 8x KT88 @ £40 = £320 Total= £415 in valves. That's based on JJs, you could go 8x Gold Lion KT88 @ £80 = £640. Plus some spendy preamp valves taking the valves up to a total of £800+ Then you've got the labour on top at prob £200. It's a veritable bargain. It's cheaper for me to buy this than to revalve the one I have.
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I'm going to give Ashdown a shout out but in a weird way because it got me where I needed to be and where I am now. In about 2006 I bought a new ABM600 head and 410 to replace a Trace 410 (or was it a 412???!!) combo that burnt out. The Ashdown broke down intermittently and was really difficult to get a decent sound out of. Fair play, they took it back, fixed it and returned it no hassle. When I came back I thought I'd get the sound I wanted but it just wasn't happening. This led me through searches to find Bassworld, which led to me discovering what DI preamp pedals do, it enabled me to sell the Ashdown rig and buy a GK RB700ii rig. And ultimately Bassworld became Basschat in May '07, and that's how I got here.
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Where's the bass made?
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"I noticed that you've got a Yamaha bass guitar. I bet you dream of having a Fender one day." - random punter at a summer festival gig some years back when we were packing up my BB2024x. It wasn't the only time I heard that.
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Someone once suggested to me that, "we should do a Dead Boys tribute band, it'll be awesome. " That's a true story.
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I went to a jam night and it was brilliant. I played my Zebra Spector through the house Peavey Nitrobass head and 410. The soundguy told me it sounded epic - HAZ clone and EMGs on a neck-thru? Come on. I played 4 songs with people I'd not met before and very quickly felt like I'd been adopted. I ended up chatting with the regulars until nearly midnight. I really enjoyed myself and it taught me that it's possible to leave Gloucestershire and have a good time.
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I was chatting to a guitarist last night about his "new" guitar and he said it was bought specifically for jam nights for this very reason
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It was in Swindon.
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I went to a jam night tonight for the first time and it was fantastic. I was made to feel very welcome indeed, chatted to so many people. I did some songs with one of the Spectors and had a cracking night out. The sound was great, everyone was chilled, the music was good. I'm going back.
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I shall probably regret selling this but I'm operating on a "one in, one out" basis. It's an extremely good Jazz bass, full stop. The neck is slim and fast. Nicely finished and an absolute pleasure to play. I had flats on it for a while and it punches so far above its price point. It's got new (Sun 6th Apr) Legacy (Rotosound) Nickel 45-105 strings. It's been set up to Fender J specs (Sun 6th Apr). It's had the fingerboard done with Montypresso. It's got a high mass bridge (original BBOT bridge included). The cavities have been copper lined. 4.2kg I've got all the proper packaging so can ship at cost. If you want to try it, it's in Gloucester.
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Go and try, that's a big bonus. Make sure you play it standing up with a strap if that's how you'd ever gig it, this is where some folks get issues. The geometry of strap button position, strap hang etc puts some people off. It's not like a Tbird. Those strings are gimmicky rubbish. I bought some sets years ago, they last about 2 gigs. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. That looks like a peach and worth investigating.
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That's a white neck-thru Euro 4 LX, maple board, black blocks, black hardware? There's people on this forum that would sell someone else's granny for that. You'll see a unicorn Euro with a maple board next week 😉 but that one is right up my strasse. What are the black inlays? I'd make an offer but it's not really overpriced at £1.6k.
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I ordered some stuff, I asked in the special instructions that the pen and sticker wasn't included, so that I didn't get any stick at home, and it happened. Can't argue with that.
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I had some comms with the vendor. Looks like you got the deal around where I told him he should expect. Great buy, that one.
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I've read that post 3 times, Chris. My answer might be a bit skewed. When Leo was designing what would become the Stingray, he had a P pickup pushed back toward the bridge. Logically it would be more 'Ray-like. The placement of the Spector reverse P is somewhere in the ground between a 'Ray and a classic P placement. To my mind, moving it forward toward the neck (if that's what you're talking about) would make it more like those basses that have what I call "true" neck pickups (as opposed to middle and bridge pups), like the Yamaha Attitude or Gibson-style basses. More bass frequencies, less treble. -
"Questions..." as Roy Batty said. 1. What colour is that called? 2. Who did it? 3. In normal person terminology, what's the difference with X models?
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Does anyone remember the Wizard Area 51 P pickup with neodymium magnets? They had their own very distinctive sounds. I had one and it went in at least 3 basses and it had an unmistakable sound of its own.
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A used E4LX wins every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I'm all about value for money. Euros are great bang for buck new when compared to equivalent instruments. Used at the right price/spec ratio, they're unbeatable. If Spector basses suit you; they're Marmite X.O. it's like marmite but much more so and at £5.50 a jar you'd better like it. @cetera has a lot of good to say about the Pulse II and the only reason I'm down on it, is because it's new and will depreciate but that's personal choice. Also, it's not £400 of difference, it's £1200 of difference at new prices. The E4LX is double the price of a Pulse II and made by a small team of craftsmen in Czech to near-USA spec. If the E4LX doesn't work out, you can sell it on without a loss.
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What was it like before the refin? I put an East preamp in the NS5-XL I used to have. I got mixed black and gold knobs from John to make it look a bit different. Someone refinished that in the end.
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Agreed. It's still an 7oz bridge, it's It's not like putting a BBOT in there.
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If anyone needs saddles filing, I can help with that. What you're looking at above its the use of masking tape to protect the lovely shiny featherweight jewellery from any file slips. The slit in the tape is where the groove being worked on is. It's 4th string in the photo. I marked the lines, scored them and then filed them gently. I used the original as a reference and a tyre tread depth gauge to measure the depth.
