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bassmayhem

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  1. I chime in with the other posters' comments: Mario is a serious person, a guy to trust. I bought a Dingwall Super J5 from him, a very smooth affair. Highly recommended!
  2. Sean is a nice guy. I sold him a fine bass; everything was smooth and nice. I know feedback is more needed when buying, but it was a pleasure to do business with him.Swift transfer and everything. Deal with confidence!
  3. Sweden. I really don't need it: have a Quilter and a Vanderkley Spartan. But I like it. No funds as in hard cash right now, happened to buy Dingwall n:o 5 last weekend. Just have some stuff to trade, if trades are okay.
  4. I love these amps! I had one exactly like yours some years ago; the 2 ohm option is valuable and useful. The tone shaping section is killer! Unfortunately, my "toy account" is somewhat empty after buying my fifth Dingwall. Just sale or open for trade?
  5. Well, here is the big guy: http://yankee.com.pl/hs-m24-power-supply/
  6. If I were to choose from the ones I have or have had, it would definitely be the RMI (Basswitch) Dual Band Compressor. I've had a bunch through the years: EBS (3 or 4 of them), Boss (in the 80's), Joe Meek Floor Q, Yamaha stereo rack compressor (in the 80's), Trace Elliot Dual Band, Cali76 TX-L, Seymour Duncan Studio Compressor (thanx to Dood's review...), Diamond Bass Comp, FMR Audio PBC-6A (the favourite, but not fot pedalboards), FMR Audio A.R.C. and the RMI Dual Band Compressor. I surely forget some others...
  7. I am in Sweden. It is NOT an acoustic bass, but a chambered electric bass, so the acoustic tone is not comparable to a real acoustic bass guitar. It has recessed Dunlop straplocks. Well, sure you can throw your P5 and J5 in my direction. I have a really nice Voodoo Prima 6 too, that MAY be for trade or sale. A real stunner.
  8. My bathroom scales say around 3,7 kg, which is around 8,1 lbs. Heavier than I thought, but in relation to its size it feels like air.
  9. The bass is packed in its bag; I have to dig it up from my magazine first. I had a back surgery some years ago, and this bass is by far the lightest I've ever owned. I get back soon...
  10. After some consideration I have decided this nice six string bass has to go, since my six string playing is kind of non-existent. This is a prototype built by Tom Clement some years ago. The bass has a lot of influences, like the Fodera AJ Presentation bass, with its off-center "center line", where the lower part of the body is wider for better rest when playing sitting down, and a more narrow upper half, making it feeling comfortable and not so big. This bass is big. Really big. The almost completely routed body is some 3" deep, and has an upper bout stretching to the 12th fret. The body is made of a single piece of "heavily routed" super light swamp ash, with a top of Spanish cedar. The neck is very slim and comfortable, made of mahogany and bubinga with an ebony fingerboard. All hardware is Hipshot: Ultralites and an A-bridge with piezo pickups. The spacing is 18 mm, the scale is 34". Dunlop recessed strap locks. Bartolini pickup and preamp. The bass has been somewhat "cleansed", since the electronics compartment was a bit... blurry. Now the bass has volume and balance control. No tone pot, but there is place for it; I just didn't have any suitable pot at hand... The tone is something! With the active Bartolini humbucker you get a tone somewhere between a P-bass and Anthony Jackson , if you got my point. With the piezo pickup you get a very vibrant acoustic tone, best described as a nylon stringed guitar an octave down. Then you can mix the two. There are some holes after the previous owner's Roland synth bass pickup and ramp, visible in the pictures. Here is a link to the building log: http://www.clementbass.com/2014/01/the-clement-singlecut-anne-chambered-bass/ The bass is delivered in a Mono M80 gig bag. The strings are Thomastik Jazz Rounds. If you haven't tried these: you'll be very surprised. There is also an almost new kit of more ordinary strings in the bag, I think D'Addario nickels. No trades, unless you have a Dingwall Super J5 or Super P5 for part trade. The bass can be shipped on buyer's expense.
  11. I will post on the Swedish PrataBas forum, that means talk bass. www.pratabas.se You can share me your contact info via Messages. Here is the link to PrataBas: http://www.pratabas.se/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=87500 //Roger
  12. Pretty indeed! Any plan to "fulfill the mission" and make another try?
  13. Nice instrument! Tell more about it...
  14. Definitely floppy compared to ordinary strings. As I said: not for slapping. Not for diggin' in either. Played with a softer touch you get a nice tone, but they are not for everyone.
  15. The Thomastik Jazz Rounds are remarkable strings indeed! I read about them and a friend challenged me to try them. When reading the specs, they looked very peculiar, with very odd dimensions compared to what I normally use. Here are the dimensions for 34" scale strings: C .029, G .043, D .051, A .068, E .89, B .118 The winding wire is also very thin compared to other bass strings, more like a guitar string. The E- and B-string, and maybe the A-string have double winding. The core is also softer than other strings, so the feel is very, very different. You have to adapt your playing technique to a softer touch with these strings, but the reward is a very nice, big, full and round tone. Almost upright bass like when played in the right way. Nice deep bass, full mid, no shrill and harsh highs, very balanced. More bite than flats. Not for slapping! I use the Thomastik Jazz Rounds on my hollowbody and chambered basses, a Lakland Hollowbody and my Tom Clement "Anne" six string. I will try a set on my acoustic bass guitar too, when it is time for new strings. Anyway, I hope my little review/reflection plays on someone's strings...
  16. I ditched the Copperhead and got the Lifeline instead. (Had to change to an adjustable bridge, though...) Much, much better tone, no strange issues at all, like I had with the Copperhead.
  17. I use nickel for all my basses. Payson nickel strings is my choice. For my four string Super P and Super J I use ordinary nickel strings. D'Addario, I think...
  18. I've looked at the web page, but my Deutsch ain't that good. Also, the sound clips really s*ck. He should have used better bass players do the demos. I tried to find info about the different versions, like if the deLuxe could have tube DI, but found no info at all. Nice little birdcage, though...
  19. 200 watts or 400 watts, that means a gain(!) in output volume with 3 dB. Should you have - God forbid! - an 800 Watt tube amp you win another 3 dB. Not worth breaking your back for... We did some shootout tests with an Ampeg SVT and the Ampeg mini solid state SVT some years ago: the little one played LOUDER but not prouder...
  20. I'll use this Double Four on an "unplugged" gig soon. No doubt it is going to be heard with the acoustic bass guitar...
  21. + on that! The ones you mentioned in your initial post are toys; this is a real bass amp, yet tiny...
  22. The Phil Jones T500 should is a potential king... http://www.guitaramplifierblueprinting.com/pjb.html
  23. I had an amp with fixed mid bands, and found that a slight boost at 800 Hz made the Precision Bass more... precise. Sort of. It kinda climbed out a bit. The Jazz Bass got more balls with a boost around 250 Hz. I've tried that on other amps and other P's and J's too, and it works rather well...
  24. This is a real beauty; it even looks good with the pickguard. I've had a sunburst one, also have a fretless. And a 55-04 DeLuxe. The fretless 55-02 is the favourite of them... GLWTS!
  25. Phase 90 has better specifications. I suspect also better components... MXR Phase 95 SPECIFICATIONS Input Impedance 800 kΩ Output Impedance < 6 kΩ Max Input Level -8 dBV Max Output Level 8 dBV Noise Floor* -95 dBV Speed Range 0.125 Hz to 10 Hz Power Requirements 8 mA @ 9VDC MXR Phase 90 SPECIFICATIONS Input Impedance 1 MΩ Output Impedance 10 kΩ Nominal Intput Level -20 dBV Nominal Output Level -20 dBV Noise Floor* -96 dBV Bypass True Hardwire Current Draw 5 mA Power Supply 9 volts DC
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