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  1. NancyJohnson
    Price drop bump.
  2. NancyJohnson
    Well done! Yeah, Tour diary!
  3. NancyJohnson
    I've had a few basses that were clunkers or things that didn't do it for me; a 79 Fender Precision (heavy, dead spots, frankly useless electrics), Fender Geddy Lee Jazz (too shrill), Rickenbacker 4003 (long desired, great tonally, neck horrible), Gibson Thunderbird NR re-issue (arguably the one that got away, but issues tonally from the outset that took an age to resolve, by which time I'd fallen out of love with it). All this said, the winner of the worse bass I've ever owned goes to an Ibanez Roadster RB760. Man alive, it was the biggest steaming pile of poop I've ever owned/played. Worse still (and it saddens me to say this), I actually part-exchanged a Travis Bean for it. (I could cry.) It met a timely demise. I was playing somewhere in London, it kept on cutting out, so it just came off and I turned it into firewood. It wasn't even the end of the set and I didn't have a back up. If memory serves me, a few days later I went to the Bass Centre and bought a Warwick.
  4. NancyJohnson
    We're all different, aren't we. £3k burning a hole in my pocket; I don't suppose it matters if it's my birthday or not, really. if I could find one, a Spector Forte 4X ('Spectorbird'), a nice quality series one Hamer Cruisebass, or a Lull Thunderbird...
  5. NancyJohnson
    Years ago there used to be a store in Denmark Street that sold all these old Fender neck plates, decals, pots, bodies, necks etc. Nobody gave a damn about it back then as the basses these went on were just 10-15 years old. I dread to think how many people own a cherished 60s model, only for it to have been cobbled together from various parts in the 1970s.
  6. NancyJohnson
    Trigger pulled on the A/O amplifier. You know, I've seen enough in the Darkglass promos past and present to know whatever I've seen is reasonably accurate, so no qualms. Delivery 6-8 weeks. Will report back on delivery.
  7. NancyJohnson
    I've always like the design of these. I remember there was a fretless one up in the Wapping Bass Centre years ago with a brass fingerboard. Design being one thing, a guy I knew a while back owned one and it was so badly set up, I found it almost unplayable; the neck was bowing so far forward the action was a good 1/2" at the 13th fret. I begged the guy to give it to me for an hour to set it up, but nope, that was how he liked it.
  8. NancyJohnson
    I've reduced the price of the Korg tuner - if you're in the market for a clean rackmount tuner hit me up. Had a couple of nibbles on the dUg - again, hit me up. No rush to sell either, but they need to go.
  9. NancyJohnson
    SOLD!
  10. NancyJohnson
    SOLD to the lovely Breadbin!
  11. NancyJohnson
    I've always been curious about these. Are they scratch built or just bolted together from AllParts style parts?
  12. NancyJohnson
    This is what happens when they realise they have a rock god on the premises.
  13. NancyJohnson
    Amusingly, an Ultimate guitar stand ended up in my drummers stand box after a gig yonks ago. He passed this onto me, then a couple of years later I left it behind after a gig at the Half Moon, Putney.
  14. NancyJohnson
    No, you're good. Thanks though.
  15. NancyJohnson
    Yep.
  16. NancyJohnson
    I’m selling my entire rack/stompbox set up and quietly moving to something smaller. I’m not doing live or rehearsal work, so it seems a shame that it’s not getting any use. Happy for collection (I’m in Crowthorne, near Reading), if you want stuff shipped, I’ll need to work out how much. Cash on collection or Paypal gift preferred. Adverts are peppered over Amps/Effects for sale. Temple Audio Duo17 Floorboard/Soft carry bag/Power cable. It might initially be simpler to initially direct you to the Temple site here: https://www.templeaudio.com/ Temple Audio offer a board system with a neater solution than Pedaltrain and Velcro. Stomps get attached with metal plates that are attached to your boxes with adhesive pads and you simply arrange these Jenga-style to suit. It's very robust, beautifully designed and dare I say it, a clever system (and waaaay more fun than other systems I've used previously). The board has an undermounted HB PowerPlant psu, which as worked more than ably since I installed it; I see no reason to remove it to be honest, it works just as well as any other unit I've used previously. The unit has modular end panels to allow for different routing scenarios (I've just installed Speakon power and a small ¼” jack panel to aid routing) - just a quick note on the Speakon power thing, as it's a push and twist mechanism, the power cable needs to be into the Speakon socket before the cable goes into the wall. I have a long powercable as well (not pictured). The little silver box shown takes a little flexible gooseneck light that illuminates the board. Sale includes plates and other odds and ends. This probably owes me about £250. £125? £110? £100?
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    **Just the KORG Tuner left folks!** I’m selling my entire rack/stompbox set up and quietly moving to something smaller. I’m not doing live or rehearsal work, so it seems a shame that it’s not getting any use. Happy for collection (I’m in Crowthorne, near Reading), if you want stuff shipped, I’ll need to work out how much. Cash on collection or Paypal gift preferred. Adverts are peppered over Amps/Effects for sale. The Matrix Amp is for sale on the Amps For Sale section. Gator short 4U rack/PDU (SOLD!) Decent condition, in as much as it’s been out of the house quite a few times. I have a six-gang 1U power supply distribution unit screwed into the rear rack holes, which keeps everything neat and tidy. Happy to sell the rack and PSU together for £50 or will separate. Tech 21 dUg DP-3 (KEEPING) Ack, you all know what this is. Super clean. It’s never been out of the house. These are retailing for £255 – will take £200.00 £190.00 +P&P I have the original Tech21 tin for this. Tech 21 Ged2112 1U pre-stage (SOLD!) I’m going to be honest here and say that this unit works, but the voicing seems off to my ears. It does creamy fuzziness but not the clank. Might be my basses, don’t know. It went back to Rocky Road distributors who said there wasn’t anything wrong with it, Tech21 heard direct audio from it and they don't think there's an issue, but I have an option to return it to Tech21 for their guys to look at it, but to be honest, considering the expense involved, I really can’t be assed. I’ll sell this on for £225 and will pass on the agreed return number to the buyer with a caveat that you’re buying it in the condition I’ve covered above. Tech 21 Bass Driver (version 1) (SOLD!) Had this for a while. Just a brilliant little box. You know what this does. £110.00 seems rightish. Korg DTR200 1U rack tuner. (PRICE DROP) Very clean (racked since new). £75.00 £65.00 £60.00+P&P £50.00+PP
  18. NancyJohnson
    I’m selling my entire rack/stompbox set up and quietly moving to something smaller. I’m not doing live or rehearsal work, so it seems a shame that it’s not getting any use. Happy for collection (I’m in Crowthorne, near Reading), if you want stuff shipped, I’ll need to work out how much. Cash on collection or Paypal gift preferred. Adverts are peppered over Amps/Effects for sale Matrix GT1000FX 2U stereo power amp (SOLD) Very light, loud and capable stereo poweramp. Very clean; has been racked since purchase. Runs stereo, parallel, bridged. I don’t think I’ve actually pushed this past 50%. £300.00 Full specs here: http://uk.matrixamplification.com/gt-1000-fx-2u.html
  19. NancyJohnson
    Still here. Shoot me offers. Just need it gone really!
  20. NancyJohnson
    We did the He is a lovely bloke, don't get me wrong, but it just wasn't happening musically with him at the time. Let's get one thing very straight here, like a lot of drummers, they only drum when they're rehearsing with a band, so the guy was probably only playing for two or three hours a fortnight and it really did show. Band politic took over for the same reasons why I walked before hitting anyone. On a personal level, we did the final gigs with him (these were good cause, Musicians Against Homelessness events) and there was zero animosity, but his wife was a little standoffish with all of us. He knew (irrespective of how grudgingly) why we gave him the Spanish archer and accepted that. Insofar as to the personal relationship thing, we didn't know each other before the band and the members never socialised together outside of the band environment. (My wife used to joke that once a bandmember gets the sack, then that's it, you'll never see them again.) We remained friends on Facebook (if that means anything at all), and he did make a good grief I don't believe it type of comment when I walked from the same band about 15 months ago, but that was pretty much it. About two years ago. I ran into him briefly when I was contracting elsewhere and it was all pretty civil, since running into him at the new job it's been much of the same. We're never going to be BFFs, we never were.
  21. NancyJohnson
    Oh, I'll tell you something else too. About a month ago, I started a new position as commercial analyst in Reading; day one I'm sitting in this little open pod thing having a meeting, I hear this laugh and guess who walks past me?
  22. NancyJohnson
    You're taking the thread a little out of context! He went, then I went about a year later. That said, to echo a comment from earlier, you are only as good as your drummer; they're the engine room of the band.
  23. NancyJohnson
    If nothing at all, G&L got the headstock right at the start, eh?
  24. NancyJohnson
    That's the way I'm leaning too.
  25. NancyJohnson
    Racked power plus a choice of GED, dUg, BDDI. Rack tuner. I'm pretty much of the mindset that I'm ready for a change to be honest; I don't need all this stuff and money isn't an issue! As soon as Andertons have stock, I'll A/B the two heads and see what's best.
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