NancyJohnson

Apologies for the image size...can't edit it at the moment. This is my Epiphone Frank Iero Phant-o-Matic. I installed a pair of Warman humbucker sized P90s about a month ago; the old pickups were lively, but tonally a tad mushy by comparison. Dunlop Straploks as well.

Shouldn't there also be commas after the closing bracket in paragraph two and after each 'or' in paragraph one (...then get in touch" or[color=#ff0000][b],[/b][/color] "metallica cover band...)?

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1397675082' post='2426412'] This is the mistake most people make. The really clever customers try stuff in the shop and ask the shop to match/beat an Internet price. 9 times out of 10, they get a better deal. [/quote] Last bass I bought in a shop? Warwick Streamer, Bass Centre, Wapping (yes, [i]that[/i] long ago). Last amp? I think it was an Ashdown Mag combo, also a looooong time ago. Everything else has been blind purchases; I kind of know what I wanted and I've shopped around. I have a ton of gear. Maybe I've just been fortunate.

I know the internet is killing the High Street etc, but truthfully, try stuff out in stores and get it cheaper online. In this day and age, I'd never buy anything from Denmark Street. P

Some Speakon out sockets have the facility to take a regular 1/4 inch jack plug in the centre, so check this first. You can get Speakon to 1/4 inch jack cables. Try OBBM...he does mine. You should just be about to take an output from your head into one of the jack sockets in cabinet #1 then take a jack out (from the second socket) into cabinet #2.

Pedaltrain Nano here. I have a biggish gig in a couple of months where the backline is provided, but I know it's gonna be sh*te. Time to dust off the BDDI and the TU3. P

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1397039735' post='2419942'] [url="http://www.bulldogpickups.com/"]http://www.bulldogpickups.com/[/url] [/quote] Damn, that website is irritating.

I know that the USA is a big place, but the postal service there is awful. A couple of years back, I bought a book from a dealer in lower Manhattan...it was being delivered to my hotel on 58th St (the hotel were going to keep it for me pending my arrival). I got proof of dispatch about a week before we left and it didn't reach the hotel until a couple of days after we were back in the UK. Well over two weeks to travel a mile or two. Staggering.

I forgot something in that deal. There was also a Park practice amp as well. So I got the Aria bass, an Encore and [i]Nevada[/i] (not Jim Deacon) strat and a Park practice amp for £50.00. The Schaller machine heads are probably worth that figure alone. Anyhow, back on topic...

Love a good mystery! P

Clive - someone has set up a Dick Nolan page on Facebook. I suppose there could be a possibility it's him. Shoot the page owner a message and see what happens. Be vague...if it is DN, you'd hope that if you got an answer he would fill in the pertinent details. If the page owner isn't him (and you got an answer) you'd probably be able to ascertain the owner is BS'ting. To add to this, I'd always thought that he played a black Zon! I saw them quite a few times and have no recollection of a blue Zon, but obviously, that's not to say...see 6'24" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI5QCem2fx4 P

[quote name='EMG456' timestamp='1396989713' post='2419586'] You got a fantastic deal there! Yep, mine came from the bay in November or December. With the postage I paid £105. Anything from Matsumoku of this vintage is really well put together with quality materials so it stands a great chance of being an excellent bass. Cheers Ed [/quote] I was looking on Gumtree late one Friday for a project and spotted the advert for the Aria and two awful six string guitars and Encore and a [s]Jim Deacon[/s] Nevada strat - the seller actually dropped the guitars round the next day too. I cobbled one decent six string together and gave it to my nephew and then set about work on the Aria. It was in a shocking state. The pots had sheared off (no knobs), the pickup was dead, the neck had a horrible front bow (the truss rod was completely slack). On the plus side, it had a set of Schaller machines on it, but they were installed at offset angles (a la Warwick). I rewired it, installed a new (Wilkinson) pickup, reset the machines, straplocks. It sounds/plays lovely - tonally it just gives me an option over my Thunderbirds, plus I've had a tendency to use it at gigs where I don't know the venue...I guess I'd rather that the Aria got nicked over one of my Gibsons. P

I bought an Aria Primary bass - a 1978 Precision copy - in a three guitar job lot for £50. It's an outstanding bass. I thought about looking for a Jazz version but too expensive...I think I saw yours on eBay a while back.

[quote name='Wooks79' timestamp='1396720060' post='2416779'] I say move along and save yourself the rise in blood pressure if it REALLY gets to you. [/quote] I'm going to go and listen to The Front Bottoms now. P

I apologise for venting off about this. NIN are just a band I'm extremely passionate about and right now I'm feeling somewhat compromised...of Pino (as you've gathered), I am not a fan. P

Can you imagine PP stepping into this line up? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfV7NLCWiiU[/media] I don't doubt the guy has talent in abundance (even though in the early days you'd have said he stole most of his chops from Mick Karn and Percy Jones), it's just that to me he's a session/jobbing musician looking for the next paycheck and I despise a lot of the guys he's played with to boot. I just find it a little hard to take on board that NIN now have a guy on board who (as a good friend of mine commented) has whored his way around the music business. I would really like to know what PP thought of Nine Inch Nails when he was doing all his stuff with (the frankly wretched talent that is) Paul Young in the early 90s. The whole demographic of NIN has changed right now. Hesitation Marks is a bit of a low point for me.

P90s. I'm a recent convert...try a pair of cheapies. I recently installed a pair of Warman HB sized P90s (£30) into an Epiphone Phantomatic. They were cheap enough to have a punt and experiment. There's just so much more clarity rather than a humbucker mush.

I'm sorry to buck the love, but I wish NIN had given PP a wide berth. There's a whole other topic about this elsewhere. This is not the band I've grown to love over the last two decades any more. I don't give a rats ass about progress or talent on show; the whole vibe/edge has gone from the band right now. This is about aggressive as Paul Young. Disappointed.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1396615648' post='2415713'] Now had you opened that box 10-15 years ago, you could have been the inventor of Spotify. [/quote] How do you know I'm not, eh?

100% kudos to Jon...sent me an unused part from a Schaller bridge. Awesome bloke. I owe you a pint! P

Over the last couple of days, I've been opening a load of long-sealed boxes that have sat languishing in my garage for the best part of 12 years. I unearthed an almanac called 'The Book Of Predictions' by David Wallechinsky, which dates back to 1980. While it's pages are full of predictions of a pending apocalypse (this was different times kids), spacestations and bases on the moon, flipping through the pages, I came across the following piece by Charlie Gillett ([url="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCharlie_Gillett&h=3AQG3jV28&enc=AZMU3a2DtEDqIU5v8X39TO6hbMnSh_s5O_fTA7EU8ulkysxauxb59Drzw957xXwzCpYYSCzihFSLjonC23BVoDovVITyd8KFeNnFAANYCluKqvfwVRoS6hmp08U5VariHU4Nlhs2tmb5DLcr7-3D7Elg&s=1"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gillett[/url]), whose predictions for 'Future Pop' was pretty much spot on. I've scanned it here and thought some of you might be interested in reading it. Bear in mind this predates CDs by a few years as well, it's pretty spot on, considering how things have evolved following the shake up/fallout started by Shaun Fanning. Elsewhere, he predicts the decline of the major labels and the ways music will get out there in a world dominated by corporate radio. Interesting stuff. P

Got an email from Peavey. IPR2 range drops in the UK end of May. I think that's where my swag will be going. P

It's an ABM 500 and I'm running the RBI into the effects return - I found that routing it into the front jack didn't work so well for me, so I'm just using the power amp side of the Ashdown. I'm not a fan of just ramping everything up to ten - when gigging, the ABM runs at about 70% and I take a direct feed off the RBI via XLR into the PA. I'll keep both - the Ashdown is a very sensible refined amp, but I just need more dirt, which is where the RBI comes in..will probably just have home and away rigs!

I've come to the conclusion recently that my existing amp (Ashdown ABM EVOIII) isn't giving me enough volume when up against a maniacal drummer and a very loud guitarist, plus I have a festival date upcoming, so I'm tooling up to just go the power amp route (with a Sansamp RBI working as the preamp). After a bit of investigation, I'm now erring towards the amp in the subject title. Primarily it should give me adequate headroom, plus they weight so little, it'll save my back long term. Is suppose first up, has anyone any experience of the IPR range? Issues? Anything I should be aware of? Secondly, even after 30+ years of playing, I still don't fully understand the nitty gritty about ohms/impedance. I will be running two Hartke Hydrive cabinets (4x10/1x15) which are both 8 ohms. The amp is two channel...do I connect one cab to each output? Daisychain the cabinets out of one channel. Help! P