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  1. NancyJohnson
    I'm not on the market for another bass, but that's lovely. Love the big headstock logo too. 70s Fender sunburst finishes just seemed to have a lot more lustre and were a deeper colour than now.
  2. NancyJohnson
    My Lull has got a reverse headstock. It's a bugger to tune now and again and at one stage I was considering seeing whether they'd do me a neck with the headstock the other way around.
  3. NancyJohnson
    You've got both a pair of Speakon and a pair of 1/4" jack sockets. I've tended to stick to Speakon.
  4. NancyJohnson
    Morning campers. [Edit and update due to sale of the 2x10] Since landing the Barefaced Big One at last year's Bash, I'm finding I've been using my Hartke gear less and less. This is not to the detriment of the cabinets at all, I'm driving myself and our drummer to pretty much every gig we do and more often than not less volume is required on stage and space is at a premium while we're in transit, so I decided to move my HyDrives along. The 2x10 is now sold. I'll take £300 for the 4x10 and while trades aren't really an option, I would consider a Barefaced Super Twin or a Super Compact. The 4x10 has a couple of small tears in the vinyl covering (smaller than an a 5p) which have been glued down and the castors have been replaced with permanent ones; full specs here: http://www.samsontec...drive-cabinets/ Collection preferred (Crowthorne, near Reading, Berkshire). Thanks Paul
  5. NancyJohnson
    Matrix Amplification GT1000FX. I have a this racked (a shallow Gator 4U) and run a Sansamp RBI into it. Very happy. As it's dual channel, I'm able to pair it with a pair of cabinets and feed it two independent inputs. It's loud, light, looks good and reliable. What's not to like?
  6. NancyJohnson
    [quote name='blue' timestamp='1479213214' post='3174749'] Being in a band is fun. Starting a band is not, it's hard work which most are I'll equipped to do. Blue [/quote] Sorry Blue, starting a new project is a blast and not really that hard at all. Unless you have a ready pool of musicians, you advertise, make a few calls, set a date, book a room and play. The hardest part is trying to get shot of someone who doesn't work out.
  7. NancyJohnson
    I can't actually understand why Fender don't/didn't clearcoat over the headstock after the transfer has been applied.
  8. NancyJohnson
    Over the last few years I've done my bit in ridding six or seven Gibsons of their wretched three pointers. Initially, I swapped them for Hipshot Supertones, but to be honest the Babicz replacement is better by a country mile and well worth the investment. It installs in a few minutes and while I have little love for the three pointer, the Babicz just looks like it's part of the original lineage. It feels comfortable to play against.
  9. NancyJohnson
    Honestly couldn't tell you how long it took for the neck to arrive...it was a while back.
  10. NancyJohnson
    [quote name='blue' timestamp='1478889657' post='3172548'] Very few musicians have the ability or resources to start a rock band. It's why 95℅ of all start ups fail. Blue [/quote] This is a bit of a strange and all-sweeping statement. If you're in it simply for the money and trying to make a living off it, then I'd say the success rate thereof would be in the fractions of a percent. In the main though, what qualifies as failure? Four guys making noise in a room who decide not to take things past a second jam session? Insofar as ability and resources go, I'd refute that anyone can do it irrespective of ability. You use the term 'start up' out of context too; it's not a business, it's supposed to be fun.
  11. NancyJohnson
    [quote name='Basvarken' timestamp='1478947399' post='3172863'] He calls himself a completist. Uwe strives to own every model that Gibson ever built. So when Gibson introduces a new model, he buys it. But Uwe does not collect for color differences in finish. It needs to be structurally different (different wood, different pickups, different shape, etc) [/quote] He dislikes chrome hardware with a passion and welcomed me to the dark side when I said I'd never go chrome.
  12. NancyJohnson
    [quote name='Basvarken' timestamp='1478899940' post='3172649'] Absolutely! I was going to call the book The Uwe H collection. But he wouldn't have it. Uwe was a tremendous help throughout the entire project. [/quote] I have no idea how many he owns...there just seems to be racks and racks of them! Does he just buy every one each year or something?
  13. NancyJohnson
    [quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1478776273' post='3171507'] Cool, in time for Christmas [/quote] Yes, yes!
  14. NancyJohnson
    Did you lean on Uwe for any of the content?
  15. NancyJohnson
    When I first saw those two new MusicMan basses the first thing I thought was that designwise they aped the LG body shape.
  16. NancyJohnson
    I've bought a couple of things from that place, most recently a Mustang bass neck. No issues, smooth transaction etc. Needs must, as they say. Gotta say though, while I understand why they're doing what they do, it does leave a particularly bad taste in my mouth when they start selling off stuff that is going to cost a small fortune to resurrect, things like the Gibson set neck stuff.
  17. NancyJohnson
    Mental trying to import one, especially a used one. The one currently on eBay (Sam Ash seller) will set you back £1,230, plus shipping and then you'd need to factor in duty and so forth. And a transformer. You could save a few hundred by contacting Tech 21 direct and ask them to ship you a 240v version direct.
  18. NancyJohnson
    [quote name='Cuzzie' timestamp='1478596362' post='3170079'] ...still wonder whether this would cure all my 'dirt' needs and could offload a bunch of pedals to finance it, or whether it's just too much amp unless you are realistically playing big areas and often. [/quote] Part of my current setup is a two channel floorboard running a Sansamp BDDI for low end and for the treble side I can choose from a Boss ODB3, Sansamp VTBASSDI or Sansamp GT2 (the GT2 is a guitar emulator, so it's low on bass output), this goes into a stereo poweramp and a pair of cabinets. Tonally, I'm very close to the dUg tone just using the BDDI and the GT2, but it's just missing something. It's a lot of money for an amp (c.£2.5K).
  19. NancyJohnson
    I saw dUg at The Cutting Room in New York last year (a double header with Corey Glover) and we swung by the venue mid-afternoon to get our tickets. Crew were doing the load in while we were having a cheeky beer and I had the opportunity to get a good look at the prototype head with Corey's bass player and a guy from Tech 21. I've posted up somewhere else on this thread about that experience. From a live aspect, we were in the VIP seating (waitress service!) about ten feet from the stage and dUg sounded incredible.
  20. NancyJohnson
    There's a quite excellent series of videos on the Crimson Guitars You Tube channel where they build and partially re-spec a kit guitar. The videos show a guy who, let's face it, is a fairly experienced luthier, struggling to work with bad wood, poor routing, awful fretwork etc etc. I wouldn't be lying if I said that when I was broke I didn't give some consideration in building a kit, even if it was only going to be a used as a backup instrument, but my sensibility told me to steer well clear. I suppose if you're a competent woodworker and have the tools, time and patience to turn one of these around, then go for it, but remember these kits are far from the dreamy 'just paint it and screw it together' ethic that they purport to be. Personally, I'd just save up buy a Gibson or a Fender.
  21. NancyJohnson
    [quote name='amnesia' timestamp='1478461541' post='3169208'] Skin? [/quote] Thank you, that's them! I've been trying to remember who it was...I thought the band was called Rage for some reason. Brilliant. I think it was on a CD
  22. NancyJohnson
    Years ago I saw a metalesque band who covered Madonna's 'Express Yourself'...it was done so well, it just fit seamlessly into their set. Brilliant and clever.
  23. NancyJohnson
    Anyone know whether the scratchplate from the Mark Hoppus bass would fit on a regular Jazz body and cover the control panel routing?
  24. NancyJohnson
    Well, here we are full circle. A set of Elixir Nanoweb 45/105 (14077) arrived about an hour ago. Fitted to the Lull and intonation is spot on again. I've also (re)adjusted the pickups up a bit and may drop the bridge a bit later to get things nice and rattly. I still don't really get how bad strings occur or more to the point how you'd get two in one set. Anyhow, as I said earlier, I think I'm done with buying Dunlops, at least the Elixirs have been consistent for me and they last forever. Not all lost either; the E&A from the offending Dunlop set were fine and given they were only on the Lull for a few days were still fresh, so I just put them on one of my Thunderbirds.
  25. NancyJohnson
    Oh, my expectations for pretty much anything have rarely been high, so don't worry about that. Aim low!
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