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deksawyer

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  1. Kevin, if you do ever want to sell this, the guitarist in my band (www.thepolis.co.uk) would be very interested in getting hold of it. If you don't want to sell it, maybe you can give him a wee shot sometime..... cheers D.
  2. Any chance of posting..? D.
  3. I'd part ex my ACG for this!! D.
  4. I should have mentioned - if it hasn't already gone, the bass will be removed from sale on 1st Feb.
  5. OK. Think we'll take it. I'll send a PM in a min..... D.
  6. Price reduced to £1000. For a completely handmade high spec bass, this is a remarkable price. cheers D.
  7. Still available - our singers laddie might be wanting this....? cheers D.
  8. I'm in Fife, Scotland. cheers D.
  9. Cheers guys, it is an awesome bass. I'd be up for trades plus cash for a nice 4 string as well - anything out there? cheers D.
  10. The ORIGINAL Boss chorus pedal. Using the bossarea dating thingy, it was made in May 1981. Everything works and it sounds brilliant. The Vibrato sound is pretty lush as well, very Leslie like. This is a UK unit and plugs straight into the wall outlet. No batteries. Fair to average condition for age. If you require insured delivery, I'll sort that out at actual cost. No trades please. cheers D. [attachment=147248:IMG_20131030_165606.jpg] [attachment=147250:IMG_20131030_165636.jpg] [attachment=147251:IMG_20131030_165658.jpg] [attachment=147252:IMG_20131030_165726.jpg] [attachment=147253:IMG_20131030_165741.jpg]
  11. Sadly, due to a complete lack of use, I'm looking to sell my mint condition ACG. Built to my specs and handed to me by Alan on 07.06.2010, this bass has a 5 piece body with Macassar Ebony top and Wenge back and core. Sycamore accent veneers. Neck is a 7 piece Flame Sycamore and Macassar Ebony with an acrylic impregnated Flame Sycamore fingerboard with Macassar Ebony binding. ACG EQ01 Filter based 18 volt pre amp, ACG FB humbuckers and John East low battery indicator. Series/Single/Parallel switches for each pickup. Hipshot A type Bridge and Ultralight tuners & Marvel straplocks. Includes Hiscox hard case. 35" scale, 17mm string spacing (it is adjustable), amazing asymmetric neck profile, with a 16" radius fingerboard. The bass is heavy, but I've found the Neotech strap I use relieves most of the weight - it balances extremely well though and I've never found the weight to be a problem. I'll include the strap (worth £35). Currently strung with Elixir 40-125 strings, but I'll include a new set of Dunlop strings as well. Here are more pics of the build: [url="http://www.pbase.com/deksawyer/ac_bass_build"]http://www.pbase.com...r/ac_bass_build[/url] and a link to the ACG website: [url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/Gallery/211/"]http://www.acguitars...uk/Gallery/211/[/url] cheers D.
  12. I was just about to reply with "I'll take that please" as well...... D.
  13. [quote name='Stingray5' timestamp='1361323716' post='1984706'] While I would not get rid of my Stingray5 (see above) - your Wal, sir, gives me the horn! [/quote] And your "White Night" is definitely a sin I would like to confess to.....not being gay or owt! D.
  14. 1980 Wal Custom. Still gigging after 33 years!!
  15. This was designed in conjunction with the famous John East, and is a drop in replacement for a Jazz bass. Here's an excerpt from Alan's instructions: [b][u][font=Helvetica]Volume/Blend Stack [/font][/u] [font=Helvetica]The volume of the instrument is controlled by the upper ring on the stack while the lower ring controls the mixing of the outputs from the two pickups. Turn ACW for the bridge pickup alone and CW for the neck pickup. Intermediate settings allow a mix of the two pickups. The indented centre click gives an equal mix. [/font] [u][font=Helvetica]Bass Filter Stack [/font][/u] [font=Helvetica]First, a filter lets some parts of the frequency spectrum through and not others. The type of filter determines which part it lets through. Also, the amount of cut-off is important. If it has a sharp or steep cut-off, it is more dramatic. [/font][/b] [b][font=Helvetica]There is a LOW PASS FILTER where the frequency is variable over quite a broad range; from just allowing the very deepest sounds through, to allowing upper midrange frequencies of 6.3 kHz. As the frequency control is adjusted, sound ranges from very deep to a much more open sound, taking in more midrange as the control is increased. As it's a low pass filter, the very low bass is always there, but the high frequencies can be progressively opened up. [/font][font=Helvetica]This aspect of the pre-amp is controlled by the lower ring on the filter stack. Fully ACW giving you a very full deep bass sound. As the knob is turned CW, more of the higher frequencies are let through the filter. [/font][/b] [b][font=Helvetica]The upper knob of the filter stack controls the overshoot peak. This means that some resonance can be added at the frequency of cut-off to which the filter is tuned. This has the effect of making the sound much richer at the point of the filter frequency. So if the filter is set to a low frequency on the neck pickup, and the overshoot peak is increased, you get a massive reggae style of sound as you're giving resonation to the more fundamental frequencies. If the filter is set higher, it accentuates the harmonics. [/font][/b] [b][font=Helvetica]To give you [/font][font=Helvetica]an idea, if you rotate the filter control up and down when the peak is turned up, it sounds very much like a wah control. [/font] [font=Helvetica]The upper ring on the filter stack sets the peak level. Fully CW is maximum gain (boost) and when turned ACW the gain is reduced. [/font] [u][font=Helvetica]Treble Filter Stack [/font][/u] [font=Helvetica]The treble stack is there to address the top end of the spectrum as the filters cut off below the very highest frequencies you can get from roundwound strings. Here we're talking about the high end 'sizzle'. The frequency control also goes well down into the upper midrange around 1kHz. This is another filter type, a HIGH PASS FILTER in the treble signal path. This sets the frequency above which the treble spectrum is allowed to pass through. [/font][/b] [b][font=Helvetica]The upper knob controls the gain (boost) applied to the treble frequency while the lower ring controls the frequencies which are allowed through. Turning the frequency ACW allows more of the lower treble spectrum. Setting more CW allows only the higher frequencies of the treble spectrum to pass. [/font][/b] [font=Helvetica]Don't be put off with how complicated it might appear to be - I've managed great with this and it does enhance the sound of your bass. Money's required for something else, so I need to sell some stuff.[/font] [font=Helvetica]No longer in production, so impossible to buy new, looking for £120 insured delivery. No trades.[/font] Here's a couple of pics: Cheers D.
  16. Yeah, I wasn't sure.....could a Mod move this post for me? cheers D.
  17. Bump for £20 price drop (was £140 originally). D.
  18. I've now moved this to the Other M[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]usically related[/font][/color] section........... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/200027-acg02-active-jazz-bass-pre-amp/ cheers D.
  19. Candid late night Wal shot.....
  20. Wouldn't deam of parting with mine either....unless a C300/400 came my way. D.
  21. Very tasteful and well thought out bass this....and well made to, but we all now that's a given. I'm still hankering after a second one, but can't afford or justify it right now. To be honest, the band I'm playing in right now, there's no need for a 5 string so my Happy Spaceman bass doesn't get the use it deserves! sigh D.
  22. [quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1347878929' post='1805956'] I think either you're gonna struggle when you put your bass into it or you've posted in the wrong place. [/quote] Don't mock this amp for bass. A '74 AC30 I recently sold sounded huge with my Wal through it. Not loud enough by today's standards, but capable all the same. D.
  23. This no name Jazz has probably had more money spent on it than any other bass I've ever had - I've owned it for 7-8 years. Started life as a £100 ebay special. Neck size/profile was superb and I knew I'd hang on to this one. I started modding it with a Badass II and a set of Bartolini pickups and an Audere pre-amp. Wow what a difference (no surprise there). It stayed that way until I sold the pickups/pre a year or so later. Next was an ACG EQ02 pre, combined with some Fender pickups. This was OK but a bit polite for my tastes so I had a local guitar maker route some bigger cavites for the Nordstrand Big Singles I bought (from here). Better, but I hade to ground the pole pieces to stop them fizzing when I touched them while I was playing. This has lasted for some time quite happily but due to it being the only bass I could sacrifice in order to turn it into a fretless (which in my 20 odd years of playing bass I'd never tried one), I thought I'd give it a go. I was given some thin white plastic strips from another local guitar maker, Steve Agnew ([url="http://www.steveagnew.co.uk/"]http://www.steveagnew.co.uk/[/url]), to use as a filler for the vacant frets months ago and had been sitting this on the back burner for ages until last week I thought, feck it, let's do this. I removed the frets with some fret pulling pliers, cleaned the slots with a junior hack saw and then glued the strips in place.....20 mins later I trimmed the ends and what was sticking up past the fingerboard with the fret pliers (bloomin handy things) and used a radius block to sand the board level. I did it in about an hour and the results are surprisingly satisfying. Once I'd set the action and neck relief, I lowered the nut to almost level with the fingerboard, for the ultimate fretless mwaaaahh sound. It's not 100% visually perfect, but it plays very well and I'm happy with it. I've been learing quite a few Mick Karn bass lines as well as listening to stuff like Brand X........no Pino yet though.... cheers D.
  24. I'll have these please (left handed though)......... D.
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