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  1. Happy Jack
    Useful thing to have around: [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]340w per channel at 8 ohms[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]550w per channel at 4 ohms[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1100w mono bridged at 8 ohms[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Weight approx. 10kg.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]One of the few 1U power amps not to cost a fortune (see Powersoft Digam!), this was marketed as a PA amp but a Class D power amp is a Class D power amp and this works perfectly well with bass.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Stealth was selling one of these last year. As I commented at the time:[/font][/color] [color=#0000ff][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If you're a bass player in a band who also looks after the band's PA (not an unknown situation!) then these amps are a Godsend.[/font][/color] [color=#0000ff][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Stick it in a rack-case (£20) with a cheap Behringer Sansamp-clone (£20) and a cheap Behringer 4-channel mixer (£20), and dump it in the boot of your car.[/font] [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If your bass rig blows up, you've got a spare.[/font] [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If your band PA blows up, you've got a spare.[/font] [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]All for less than £200. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color] This really is collection only. There's no box or packaging, and it would be a pig to post. I'm in Acton, London W3.
  2. Happy Jack
    Forgot I still had this! Radical price drop to [size=5][u][b]£120[/b][/u][/size] ... it may as well get used.
  3. Happy Jack
    Hi Dave, yes I still have it (I was playing it yesterday!) and yes it's still for sale.
  4. Happy Jack
    Good call! Didn't occur to me to look at the bridge end!
  5. Happy Jack
    So the 5th string tuner is where the string-tree used to be? How do you rotate it?
  6. Happy Jack

    SOLD!

    Happy Jack replied to cayston's topic in Basses For Sale

    So about those photos: [b] Not Found[/b] [color=#000000]The requested URL /Olympic66Jtype.html was not found on this server.[/color] [color=#000000] Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.[/color]
  7. Happy Jack
    Ten years ago, in the relatively early days of eBay, there genuinely was something of a community feel (it were all fields then) and people would take the trouble to alert each other to errors in their listings. Well, sometimes anyway. Now that the default action on any subject is to Google it first, it's genuinely hard to have much sympathy for a vendor who can't be arsed to do even the most basic of research before listing something. Effectively, he's slotting himself into the category labelled "one born every minute". It's not my fault, and it's not my problem.
  8. Happy Jack
    ... still didn't prepare me for this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-5001-Violin-Beetle-Bass-Vintage-Paul-McCartney-/231563877904?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item35ea485e10
  9. Happy Jack
    [quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1432252046' post='2779815'] Quacky.? what like a duck. thats a new one I've not heard before. [/quote] Quacky is the new Burpy. Do try to keep up.
  10. Happy Jack
    Looks very Fenton-Weill to me, leaning towards Bird.
  11. Happy Jack
    [quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1432217530' post='2779319'] ... who possibly specified this layout. [/quote] Did he also specify the back-breaking, shoulder-wrecking weight?
  12. Happy Jack
    Take a look at Post #10 ... weird or what?
  13. Happy Jack
    [quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1431457925' post='2771613'] I can't see anything useful! [/quote] Huh? There's everything you need there to build an 8-string with ... erm ... two tuners.
  14. Happy Jack
    http://basschat.co.uk/topic/258779-status-streamline-fretless-5-surf-green-as-new-l1050/page__pid__2736555#entry2736555
  15. Happy Jack
    Yup, my blurb, my photos, my old office.
  16. Happy Jack
    [b]Attending:[/b] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]TheGreek[/font][/color] - [i]Ritter Cora/ GB Rumour/ Mesa Walkabout[/i] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Grangur[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Lozz196[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Sibob [/font][/color]- [i]My '71 P-Bass has a Rosewood fingerboard/My P/J has a Pau Ferro fingerboard / My MGS has a Kingwood fingerboard[/i] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Seashell[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Bassface2k10[/font][/color] - [i]MM Ray with Maple board[/i] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Ratman(?)[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Bottle[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Happy Jack - [i]Mike Lull Thunderbird + 1965 Mosrite 'The Ventures'[/i][/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Bluejay[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Jazzneck[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Gary Mac[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Sharkfinger[/font][/color] theyellowcar such - [i]Marcus jazz with Sadowsky preamp. Maple fretboard [/i](and friend with 5-string Maruszczyk jazz) Bikenbass -[i] Ibanez fretless and Dingwall Combustion[/i] Barkin (?) Ordep - [i]zon sonus 5, and possibly a modulus VJ.[/i] (and a couple of bassist friends [?]) timhiggins (?) hertsbass - [i]maple neck Fender P[/i] Bassace - [i]Double Bass[/i] EliasMooseblaster - [i]Hagstrom 8-string[/i] Macdaddy - [i]Iceni custom 4 string[/i]
  17. Happy Jack
    I'm a bit disappointed that you didn't conduct a 'blind' audio comparison of 15 different P-basses and pick the one that sounded best. Oh no ... wait a minute ...
  18. Happy Jack
    Lovely to see my old bass still passing through the Basschat community. I bought this in 2007 and sold it to Owen in (?) 2010. My original sales blurb has been partially requoted in several subsequent sales, and the photos of my old office are always a jog to my memory! I haven't had this bass in my hands for a long time, but it's one of the woodiest, most 'organic' Hofners I've ever owned ... and I've owned a lot of 'em.
  19. Happy Jack
    Hiring? Nah - I'm with TheRev on this one. Don't dip your toe in the water, just take a deep breath and jump in. DB is about the most rewarding form of music I've ever tried. You won't regret it.
  20. Happy Jack
    Does anyone know what impedance I'd get from running two 69ers together?
  21. Happy Jack
    Kinsman Guitar Stool. Takes any shape of bass, very difficult to knock over, and you can sit on it when your back/legs/shoulders trouble you. Or for Coldplay songs.
  22. Happy Jack
    Punk was there, but it was The Ramones and the whole CBGB crowd rather than the Sex Pistols.
  23. Happy Jack
    [quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1431359265' post='2770451'] The ones on the Ashbory were thicker, white in colour and felt far more "rubbery" Whereas the ones on the Kala were not quite so thick, and stayed in tune better and felt less rubbery and easier to play [/quote] The Kala almost certainly had Aquila Thunderguts fitted ... much better than the silicone jobbies.
  24. Happy Jack
    [quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1431359600' post='2770456'] "We show that, although pop music has evolved continuously, it did so with particular rapidity during three stylistic ‘revolutions’ around 1964, 1983 and 1991." Err...did they miss the Punk revolution in 1977?? and what happened in 1983 that was so "revolutionary"?? [/quote] Their point is that Punk was not actually revolutionary in musical terms ... it was broadly the same as what was there before only played much faster and badly. 1983 was pretty much the point at which all my friends stopped playing real instruments and started buying sequencers and Apple computers.
  25. Happy Jack
    According to the neckplate on the OP's model, apparently it was "Hand Crafted in Korea". So, no CNC then. And no mass-produced parts. Hmmmm.
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