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  1. Woodinblack
    Yes, I did a search on the net and found them.. very much one of those weird japanese schoolgirl things that seem a little creepy. I can imagine they are pretty popular, especially with the game connection.
  2. Woodinblack
    Apart from the limited number of strings, that is a really nice looking finish on that bass (and the case is rather good too). I presume that is the.. signitor? artist in the photo? looks different to her drawing. I presume the fretboard protector is just a shipping thing, I can't imagine using it again!
  3. Woodinblack
    Dry joints are a defect of manufacturing and occur within the cooling time of the solder, they can't be made afterwards due to heat. A dry joint can function and then fail later on for many reasons, heat / vibration / general stress, etc, but that would be just a side effect of an always defective connection. So in a way, its lucky it failed now due to the heat and not on a stage!
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    Yeh, lets not discuss the possible sale of items or tacitly offer items for sale in the forum as its against the rules* and we have forums for those! Obviously if you want to message each other about it thats fine but if a mod sees it you could get a warning. * unless you are a supporting member, when it is just not recommended.
  5. Woodinblack
    And out of curiosity, I got the images for the 5LX and ethos 5 and overlaid them, lining them up at the bridge. It looks like this: Looking at the scale and the frets lining up, one of those pictures has got some kind of distortion on it (probably taken too close), however it does show that the bodies, while being the same shape, aren't the same size, and it sort of matches up with the way your case doesn't fit.
  6. Woodinblack
    And now covered!
  7. Woodinblack
    Register you say? Hmm.. I didn't know about that one!
  8. Woodinblack
    Although it is hard to know, at first glance, my Euro 5 (before lx/lt labels) the lower strap lock on the foam is in the right place. The top strap lock is 80mm parallel away from the neck (but obviously further back). the furthest extent of the top horn is 108mm away from the left of the neck, and the end (excluding strap lock) is a few mm before the 14th fret, which looks like where that foam is. The lower horn ends half way between the 18-19th fret, and its maximum distance is 105mm away from the right of the neck The furthest left of the bottom round bit is 98mm from the left of the side of the bridge, the furthest right is 108 from the right side of the bridge.
  9. Woodinblack
    There are at least three bass players on youtube that play bass with no hands, so I don't think a missing finger is that much of an issue. Heres one
  10. Woodinblack
    There are quite a few professional left handed violin players (ie, playing a left handed violin). Easier than a guitar or bass, a voilin is pretty symetrical so you only have to redo the nut and bridge and they are pretty low tech. For most wind instruments I dont think the handedness really matters. I guess it does for brass as the valves are one sided, but anything Clarinet / recorder type both hands get an equal part of the action.
  11. Woodinblack
    Trying to work out what knob does what on an ashdown amplifier, trying to read the white text on baby blue background
  12. Woodinblack
    They had one for sale in Mansons last year, but they are not common!
  13. Woodinblack
    Take the spring out then
  14. Woodinblack
    Yep, exactly the same. He cut up a piece of brass tube he had and used it to drill round the remaining part of the screw, then when it was out put a dowel in, chisel it down and smooth it, colour it black (although it was smaller than the area covered by the straplock, so it didn't show). I say awkward because I don't think I could have done it. He did it, if he hadn't I would have had to pay someone to do it. First thing I did when we finished was take the other strap out, and use a proper screw for the other straplock! It took the new bass feel off the bass, and coloured my opinion of them. I still love that bass (and I still have it), but it tainted it a bit
  15. Woodinblack
    I guess thats true, its normally the amp they use. Apart from the time the guy run the output of the HOD into the ABM. But either way, its normally an ashdown
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    It was awful because geddy can't sing those songs any more, and hasn't been able to for a while. And I say that with Rush being my favourite group, but why I haven't gone and seen them in the last 10 years.
  17. Woodinblack
    Its very surprising how many B stock ABM Evo IV 600 heads PMT end up with?!
  18. Woodinblack
    Not in this post, although I have mentioned it quite a bit that I use an XVive U4 (or whatever it is called). If there was something in stereo that was affordable and worked as easily as that, then I would use it. I do only have the 4 ports but as the singer doens't like IEMs and the guitarist says he can't use them and doesn't seem to be in a hurry to buy himself a monitor, and the drummer will never need more than 1 channel, I would be happy to use it. Although as there is only a guitar and a sax and vocals, not sure how much use it would be.
  19. Woodinblack
    Hopefully they decided to buy some decent screws now after complaints, they don't cost much in the grand scheme of a bass
  20. Woodinblack
    Whats this got to do with spending nothing? I already have IEMs, this is your assertion about stereo is a must I have a P2 (although the drummer uses it). I have an X18, so I have 4 aux busses. The drummer uses one (with my P2 - he doesn't want stereo, all he wants is his vocal in ears). I could use 2 of the other 3, as noone has bothered with inears in the rest of the group, but then I have to get it to me. I don't want to use a p2, as I am fully wireless, so it would break the purpose of that, si I would have have to get a stereo wireless as well. If I used a P16M, where would I put that? another box to power and connect as well as the mixer, the PA, the lights, the IEM, the bass, the speakers, the X Touch etc.
  21. Woodinblack
    Well, although I love my Maruszczyk, the screws they use are made of cheese, and I am guessing the weakest of the weak, and sometimes it is easy for things to get 'lost in translation' and not meet spec - seems their config checking is fairly poor. The screw on the strap button on mine also broke when I tried to replace it for strap locks and if I didn't have a friend who was good at woodwork who got it out perfectly it would have been awkward to get out, and Adrians response was.. shall I say less than helpful or sympathetic, which is why I said in another thread if you can get it through bass direct do so, as it is a layer of protection.
  22. Woodinblack
    Indeed - and I guess at that point it shows where the difference in 'budget friendly' is for different people!
  23. Woodinblack
    I think that it is that there are hundreds of ashdown cabs - I don't know what are good ones and what aren't
  24. Woodinblack
    Unfortunately just the way now that things that were cheap things now become expensive just because they were old. To be fair, the westones were amount the first actually good basic basses, as good as something costing £300 today, but older, so it not like people paying silly money for one of those old firewood instruments, like a kay or equivalent (where silly money is something over a fiver)
  25. Woodinblack
    Yeh, I looked and only found it on two american sites. not even ebay
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