Happy Jack

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1384960834' post='2282829'] If you want the amp output to be a true representation of the signal that is leaving your pickups ... [/quote] Aaargh!!! Good God NO!!! Have you [i][b]heard [/b][/i]the signal that leaves my pickups?

The hybrid route is very helpful but it will only get you so far. I still have my OTB500 which I loved to bits for three years and still do love ... but I haven't used it once since the day my Matamp arrived.

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1384801952' post='2280930'] The Matamp fanboys will be along soon enough ... [/quote] Ooooh! Where do I sign up for that club? [quote name='andydye' timestamp='1384801952' post='2280930'] I've no idea how much a valve bass amp kicks out but I really want to try one sometime! [/quote] It's not the "how much", it's the way it does it. There's just so much more ... erm... [i][b]information [/b][/i]in every note you play. It's like the old days of watching 425-line US television on holiday on the States, then coming back to 625-line UK tele over here. You're watching the same programmes, and they look exactly the same, only so much [u][b]better[/b][/u].

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1384953507' post='2282695'] Beanie would be cool. And a fodera, obviously. [/quote] Fixed.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA_CgX2ihVg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA_CgX2ihVg[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgjEObtrWE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgjEObtrWE[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9udowK_x5U"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9udowK_x5U[/url]

So bad it's not even funny ... and his trousers are falling down.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1384947371' post='2282572'] I'm sorry - snoods are actually illegal, now. [/quote] Except in Arizona and Iowa, if for recreational use only.

Damn! I knew, y'know ... I just KNEW!

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1384939804' post='2282447'] ... if members would be prepared to support it. [/quote] I have about as much interest in GuitarChat as Pete Young ... but I think you should do it anyway, if only for the probable very high entertainment potential. It's a bit like watching a mass brawl between West Ham and Cardiff City while a po-faced commentator solemnly intones "[i]and no one likes to see this sort of thing[/i]". Actually, yes we do. We like it a lot. Given how opinionated some forumites are even here on nice-guy Basschat and when discussing basses, I think it will be hugely amusing to watch some of the handbags when those same people kick off about guitars ...

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1384902858' post='2282269'] Some of us (me) said at the time a fixed up front fee was a bad idea because it would put off new sellers and result in a stagnant marketplace with the same group of regulars just passing around the same stuff. [/quote] We should have closed the site off for new Members in 2009, kept it select and exclusive instead of allowing just anybody to join. I mean, for God's sake, what sort of Inner Sanctum can you be proud of belonging to when people from all over the country are allowed free access, and some of them even slap their instruments. Why, I've seen posts from people in the most obscure and unfashionable places, and I do believe there are even some Basschatters of the female persuasion. Where will it all end? No, I'm sorry, I draw the line at guitarists, especially bolshy ones trying to sell Stratospheric ones. Wrong wrong wrong. Granted, it has the correct name on the headstock, but that isn't enough for it to gain "honorary bass" status.

Just bought his Mike Lull PJ5. Flawless transaction, no worries.

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/171167804398?lpid=83&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=83"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/171167804398?lpid=83&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=83[/url]

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1384871289' post='2281656'] Can happen to anyone... I set fire to my parents snooker table once after hooking up the wrong cabs to a power amp when i was 13 [/quote] Yes, I had a 4-ohm snooker table and this happened to me too.

Now that's fascinating. Lovely, and fascinating. How much is left of the original? Clearly not the electrics, but what else has changed? And is that slightly figured top what you found under the paint?

[quote name='Mr Arkadin' timestamp='1384813329' post='2281152'] All I was really saying was that a Cease and Desist can be written by anyone - it's just a scare tactic. It's whether they can follow up legally that is the true test. I don't know the answer to that as I'm no legal bod - that's what I pay solicitors for. Although it seems Ou7shined has just ignored them and been OK. [/quote] All true. If I was an American, running an American business in America, or at least having a large part of my structure in America (e.g. eBay, Amazon, etc.) then those threats would have to be taken very seriously. As a Brit, running a British business in Britain which in no way depends on the States, I would have no interest in his threats. [[i]I laugh in the face of danger.[/i] [i]Ha ha ha.[/i] [i]Hear me laugh[/i].] The reasoning is simple. The 'R' company, though famous, well-respected and highly litigious, is also very small and frankly not awfully rich. The chance that they will instruct transatlantic lawyers to apply to the UK courts for some sort of order against a British company is really miniscule. A man could go bankrupt seriously quickly with that as his business model. Talk is cheap, action is appallingly expensive. As to an order from a US court, the technical term for that in Britain is "toilet paper".

There you go ... [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/Valve_zps329a2c58.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/Valve_zps329a2c58.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I could play [i]Stairway To Heaven[/i] by the time I was nine?

Have you never heard of a 12-string guitar?

Lead guitarist, arriving (last) at a gig 50 miles from home and 10 minutes before we're due on stage: "I've forgotten to bring my amp."

That's what comes from agreeing to work for buttons. You don't even get the buttons. Here - have some of mine ... [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/Buttons_zps51bda351.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/Buttons_zps51bda351.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1384538067' post='2277957'] Found this on YT. It's not the best, but you get the picture about the Bach TBird, and doesn't seem bad at all to me.. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwHPN2MSaug[/media] [/quote] Do me a favour Sean, when you're finished can you stick something better than this on YT. I recommend having some lights so the bass can be seen, using a rig which doesn't distort as soon as you hit the E-string, and try clipping your fingernails before hitting 'Record'. Incidentally, some of those tones are intriguingly deep into Ric territory ...

My dreams shattered ...