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JapanAxe

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  1. No price increase since Thursday!
  2. If you want affordable with effects, go for one of the TC heads that have the Toneprint(TM) facility.
  3. [quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1471685570' post='3114981'] I've had a few of their guitar pickups, and they were great. No experience of their bass range though. [/quote] Likewise. I have Mississippi Queens (HB-size P90s) in my Gibson CS336, and that is probably the all-round best-sounding guitar that I own. I also had a bitsa 'Nocaster' with a Brown Sugar set, and it was the perfect Keef-a-like. A friend has an Apache set in his Strat, which he is very happy with.
  4. [quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1471686393' post='3115000'] That whole rig is one sweet looking piece of kit!!! [/quote] We must have very different tastes in cabs!
  5. I have sent a link to this thread to a friend in a Slade/glam tribute that I have depped with. I expect they may know about this already, but who wouldn't want to take a glam tribute act to Italy!
  6. [quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1471639801' post='3114768'] I'm having this one: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/P-Bass-Precision-Pickguard-Custom-Fender-13-Hole-Guitar-Pick-Guard-Bandito-/321999029167?hash=item4af8a343af:g:Cf8AAOSwX~dWs5PD"]http://www.ebay.co.u...f8AAOSwX~dWs5PD[/url] [/quote] Is that Ronnie Corbett?
  7. Well would you believe it! I've just been given this to learn for a band I will be working with. Fortunately I have been given a partial transcription, with main riffs in notation, and then 'FILL' for a bar, followed by [i]sim[/i]. Basically I need to memorise key sections, and I can improvise beyond that, much as your man did on the original.
  8. Can't argue with the description. The builder has used some oak - yes it's hardwood, but reputedly not a tonewood!
  9. The bass part isn't hard but the lead guitar solo is a pig.
  10. [quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1471555728' post='3114051'] ... even my earliest fumblings brought me an incredible new kind of joy... [/quote] Let's just hope Discreet doesn't find this thread
  11. [quote name='Jacqueslemac' timestamp='1471204050' post='3111269'] I recall reading that he covered the important bits up (wax or resin or something) so no-one could work out exactly how the amps were wired. [/quote] [quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1471206424' post='3111284'] I heard a rumour (and nothing more) that someone took a peek under some of the covered circuitry and it was just a Tube Screamer providing the overdrive. [/quote] That's completely plausible, considering that a fair few Marshall valve heads have a solid state distortion circuit (think Boss DS1) in the front end, and their Yngwie Malmsteen signature head incorporates a DOD 250!
  12. I love tremolo on a slow number. MmMmMmMm...
  13. I play 99% fingerstyle now, but I have never snapped a bass string, not even when I only played with a pick. Also I have never broken an electric guitars string on a gig, and only once in a rehearsal.
  14. [size=5]Now just[/size] [color=#0000cd][size=6][b]£105[/b][/size][/color] [size=5]delivered in the UK.[/size]
  15. I rarely take a second bass to a gig but I always have spare strings. On a guitar gig I always take 2 guitars, partly because I like having the option of different-sounding instruments.
  16. I use coated strings on acoustic guitar. They feel about half a guitar-string-gauge heavier than the number on the pack. I don't think you'd notice on a bass.
  17. I used to lie on my back on the floor and get a girl to stand on my stomach, but that was before I started playing bass.
  18. Your English is much better than my Polish!
  19. I'm not sure I hold with going rig-less - that would be way less kit to GAS over!
  20. I had a VM4 and it never sounded 'scooped' to me. The JM5 (or TM5) has a J pickup where the VM4 has a P, so that could have something to do with it.
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