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light top/heavy bottom guitar strings
JapanAxe replied to Beer of the Bass's topic in Guitar Accessories
I use 10-52 Ernie Balls on my Gretsch Duo Jet. You need a fair bit of tension to hold the floating bridge in place! My Strat and PRS get 9-46 (i.e. light top / heavy bottom, but a gauge lighter) everything else (i.e. Gibsons and Teles) gets 10-46. And yes I do have quite a few guitars, but don't worry, pretty soon you'll be able to buy one or two of them! -
WITHDRAWN - JapanAxe's FX drawer gets a spring cleaning!
JapanAxe posted a topic in Effects For Sale
Having just splurged an unconscionable sum on a skinny-string geetar, I steeled myself and set about rounding up the bits and pieces I no longer use. Sentiment be damned, EVERYTHING MUST GO! All prices are delivered within the UK, payment by bank transfer or PayPal. If you collect and pay cash I will give a suitable reduction for the postage. All pedals work on battery or standard Boss-type power supply unless stated otherwise. [b](1) Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress Flanger and Filter Matrix[/b] Bought new in 2000, USA made, complete with wooden box, manual, colour catalogue, and (very important this) proper UK EHX 3-pin 16V power adaptor! No battery option. In line with its vintage quirkiness, there is a slight volume drop when the effect is engaged. I have added a status LED using the spare connections on the foot-switch. If you would rather have true bypass instead, let me know, I can re-wire it accordingly (although I can't guarantee that you won't get some switching clunk). [color=#0000ff][b]Price: £100[/b][/color] [color=#0000ff][b][/b][/color] [b](2) Akai P1 Intelliphase Phaser[/b] This is a 4-stage phaser (like the Phase 90 and Small Stone, but with more knobs), with the addition of touch sensitivity. You can set the phaser to come in on loud notes (peaks), soft notes (as the sound dies away), or all the time. A bit greedy on battery power, so best to use an AC adaptor. Comes with original box and manual. [color=#0000ff][b]Price: £100[/b][/color] [b][/b] [b](3) Danelectro Chili Dog Octave[/b] Seems to be modelled on the OC2 i.e. you get controls for Direct, Oct 1 (1 octave down) and Oct 2 (2 octaves down). Monophonic effect - works best with the neck pickup on a skinny-string, but tracks reasonably well down to E on the A string on a bass [i]if[/i] you pick smoothly. No box. [color=#0000ff][b]Price: £27[/b][/color] [b](4) Danelectro French Toast Octave Fuzz[/b] This pedal calls itself a distortion, but believe me, it's a vicious fuzz effect, reputed to be a clone of the Foxx Tone Machine (for a lot less dosh). The Octave mode adds a subtle octave up, like the Octavia effect used by Jimi Hendrix. Normal mode can generate hum because of the huge gain, but Octave mode cancels most of this out, which is quite handy. Boxed. [color=#0000ff][b]Price: £27[/b][/color] [b](5) Danelectro Tuna Melt Tremolo[/b] Lovely opto-driven vintage-sounding tremolo. This was a staple of my guitar pedalboard until I got the true-bypass metal-cased version. HARD setting bypasses the depth control to give a stuttering on/off effect - instant bass sequencer! Comes with slightly bashed box. [color=#0000ff][b]Price: £22[/b][/color] [color=#0000ff][b]Please post any questions about condition, operation, technical stuff here; anything else please PM me.[/b][/color] [color=#008000][b]And finally: Once everything has gone, I shall reveal what it is that I bought![/b][/color] [color=#000000][i]EDIT for missing pic[/i][/color] -
I tried a pawn-shop Mustang in PMT Bristol a few weeks back - very meaty (too meaty for me in fact!) tho' can be tamed by backing off the volume control. Unfortunately, the one that I tried had a fault whereby turning the tone control right down resulted in no sound at all - a worrying QC oversight on a new bass!
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A live clip from my little acoustic-ish trio
JapanAxe replied to wateroftyne's topic in Share Your Music
Ah! Got it now. Lovely mix of instruments and voices. -
My Ashdown experience amounts to regularly gigging an ABM 500 rig for 10 years. I was even on their website! I wouldn't necessarily knock them, but I always had to turn down the lowest frequency control, and I could never get the lovely mids that I now enjoy with my current rig. In the end the weight was the killer.
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A live clip from my little acoustic-ish trio
JapanAxe replied to wateroftyne's topic in Share Your Music
I'm getting 'This video is currently unavailable'... -
Sabian bought my Orange Tiny Terror, paid within minutes of me accepting his offer. Gave me a chance to ogle his 5-string collection and hear his jolly nice Jazzmaster!
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Building a monster - 6 x 6550 200 watt amplifier
JapanAxe replied to Mikey R's topic in Build Diaries
[quote name='Mikey R' timestamp='1367167369' post='2062023'] And the inside of the chasis: Its a little tight, and theres not much space between the terminals and the chasis. I can either file out a little around the terminals, or fill the void with hot melt glue. I'll probably do a bit of both, I dont want sparking here. [/quote] That's very tight! Maybe MDP will lend you his big triangular 'zero fret' file to create some more clearance? -
Sounds great! I presume that the 3PDT switch did away with the need to use Boss's buffered switching circuit?
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[quote name='Schnozzalee' timestamp='1367352884' post='2064664'] PRS are 25" bang on, supposed to be compromise between the two but I'm a 25.5" scale guy - less cramped! Check out the G&L Tribute Fiorano. [/quote] I have a PRS McCarty gold-top (with P90s) and it really does cover the ground between Fender and Gibson. If I could only take one guitar to play a rock gig, a pop gig, and a country gig, that would be the one.
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Competition for MDP perhaps?
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Project idea. Acoustic into semi acoustic
JapanAxe replied to tommorichards's topic in General Discussion
Some pics of the bass and the suggested new parts might help. -
Nice to see you again Stuart, even if McDonald's was closed for a refurb and we had to make do with Sainsbury's cafe!
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SOLD - Squier Silver Series Jazz MIJ incl. semi-hard case
JapanAxe replied to JapanAxe's topic in Basses For Sale
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SOLD - Squier Silver Series Jazz MIJ incl. semi-hard case
JapanAxe replied to JapanAxe's topic in Basses For Sale
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Don't see why that wouldn't work. Back in the day, bass players just plugged into 100W or 200W Marshalls with 4x12 cabs. Just be wary of too much gain as that will probably compromise the fullness of the bottom end (fnar fnar).
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How Long on Stage Before You Get Your Mojo on?
JapanAxe replied to xilddx's topic in General Discussion
Ooh... Varies a lot. Sometimes mojo is engaged from the get-go (please address all complaints to the management), sometimes barely at all. Very much related to how we perceive the audience methinks. -
Marcus, perhaps you can ease your pain with a Tanglewood Rebel 4k... Or perhaps not
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Never had this problem but solely use Macs (ooh that warm feeling of smug self-righteousness - almost like being a cyclist!)
