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Bacchus sent me a Happy New Year card! What a brilliant bunch they are.

New bass Luke my old chum?

Hi mate,

Nice review. Interesting to see how they stack up against the Hartke (is that my 210 and 3500, I can't remember!!). I know what you mean about hearing more sparkle with a tweeter compared to the XL cab rig - I found that myself but came to the conclusion that with the 10's in the rig I liked the sound of the treble through the cones.

Cheers mate
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At the end of the day there are far worse ways to spend the odd grand or so - as long as it is on something special to you personally and something as personal as a bass guitar then who cares what it looks like? sometimes tastes in things cannot be explained down to anything that can be expressed across a message board.

Agreed, some of the prices commanded by 'Jazz copies' seem a little high to me (now playing a quite different type of bass which to my eyes is far more 'engineered' and 'innovative' etc) but then if I look into my past I have owned several and still like 'em.

Any idea who the drummer is?

Beautiful. I have a friend on Talkbass with a sonic blue jazz bass by Bacchus and he rates it above everything he has had.

Rather than post pics here and hijack the thread, you can see my first Bacchus here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=99&st=40"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=99&st=40[/url] and the second on the page after that.

Good luck with the sale of the Moon bass - maybe someone came into a bit of spare money over Christmas - put down those turkey sandwiches and get yer' wallets out folks!!

Cheers
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Great to find another Bacchus fan!! I had until recently a Bacchus 24F and a 02Strong 36" Jazz bass. I have pics I can show you if you like! Both incredible basses, and the best wooden necked basses I have had!

Cool. I know these basses are absolutely top notch - I really like some of Japan's offerings, especially Atelier-Z, Moon and Bacchus. Nearly bought a Moon Larry Graham bass a while back but back then I was unsure about importing it and so on - and yes tax would have been a bit of a kick in the pants.

Customs fees here are 17.5% plus a 'handling charge' but in reality it seems to be quite a slow and annoying process sometimes - it depends if Royal Mail are having a strike or not. In Oxford, where I live, that is a 50/50 chance! Last time someone sent me a bass from Europe with DHL it came the next day though which was brill!!

Cheers and good luck with the sale - hope you had/are having a nice xmas too mate

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Very nice - Mike I remember all of those rigs!!

Here is mine then, a lovely Trace Elliot V4 200w all tube combo with a 15" speaker and horn.







Atop the trace is my other 'amplifier' - I use this more than anything else, in the studio, at home and live.

Thank you mate, appreciated.

..Go on then!

Actually that wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility - one day, just you wait and see. I will have to work my magic.

Merry xmas eve everyone

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I used to have a 410 and 210 rig and often had the 210 pointing up a little. To be honest i noticed no improvement when it was on its end other than the fact it was pointing up when I tilted it.

1988 but really not 80's enough, sorry

It surprises and saddens me more when I see people say they find the place less friendly and don't sign on as often because of one or two very avoidable posts than the 'negative' content some members seem to enjoy posting.

Like I said originally, this place is what you make it and personally I find it a great resource and am meeting great, thoughtful, funny and helpful members every day. Anyone who offends me or posts something I am not personally interested in I just pass by as I would some stranger on the street.

Cheers
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Very slick

Yeah, just a bit!! Nice bass mate but you might want to research prices of said bass direct from Japan. Can be quite hard to find though, but I think around £700 would be in the right ballpark.

Cheers
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[quote name='stingrayfan' post='108506' date='Dec 23 2007, 12:00 PM']I'm hearing Hondo and Kay are in a bidding war for the [i]Nik'sBurningOrgan[/i] signature bass... Like Nik does, you'll be able to swap it for something different every three months. [/quote]

By necessity rather than choice I presume!!

I have just read/caught up on this thread. Thanks to everyone for the comments thus far, positive and negative. Obviously the net isn't for everyone and others don't like large groups and preferred the early days when the forum was really small and I could check it on my Nokia WAP phone(!!).

All I have to add is that of late the forum has become really good fun for me personally - I mentioned to kiwi the other day in fact that I feel the foum is doing really well and has a great bunch of members on board. I, like others, avoid posts that I don't want to read or comment on, but am finding there isn't enough time to read and comment on the ones that DO interest me which is fantastic.

I have made lots of friends through the forum, it continues to be an excellent melting pot of ideas, tastes, styles and opinions (as covered nicely by Jakesbass) and I for one am enjoying it all the more for that. But them I am very easy going!

This place is what you make it. You might say I am biased but I love it ;0)

I will go and buy it today too - well done Nik, nice one. Please let us know when your signature bass is launched!

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Just wait until the next NAMM - some exciting news just around the corner ;0)

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All very festive!! Quite a skill to be able to knock those out Alun!

Just a quick thought, the clicks might be because when you converted it to Mp3 it stretched the time very slightly - I did this somehow once by accident and it sort of clicked where it tripped over itself in one or two places.

Cheers and merry xmas to you too!
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Liking that - nice and smooth sounding. The drum sounds are quite trippy but fit the atmosphere really well. Looking forward to hearing more...

Cheers
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Glad this was all OK in the end. I TOTALLY understand where Mr. Volume is coming from regarding not having the time to que in the Post office - I sent a Trace SMX pedal to Dood recently and I was waiting for about half an hour, it was absurd in this day and age.