NancyJohnson

Oh, we do, my friend. We do.

I worked with the wife of the drummer. When word got around that I played bass, suggestion went that I should have a word with her as her husband played drums. All in all, that went very well.

It's a matter of semantics. In my case I didn't want a direct sale, but I still had to list my item as being for sale (with a price). I don't really know how the sub-forums get set up, but honestly feel an I Got Swapsies area would see more activity than the backdoor selling in the what's it worth area.

A few years back I wanted to swap a Fender maple neck for a rosewood boarded one. It did seem somewhat counterproductive to have to list it for sale (and add a price) when I didn't really want to sell it, just change it. I'd say yes to a swap area, most definitely.

It's like Top Trumps here. I've looked at small amps, currently running a Darkglass AO900 (into a pair of DG112s). To be honest, I could probably have gotten away with just buying the Microtubes 900v2, as it's a little less aggressive (anyone fancy a swap? lol). It's smallish, not much bigger than a Stephen King novel. Honourable mentions? GSS Baby Sumo or the Demeter Mini 800D.

I know this is going a little off track, but I do find the attitude of many members of the Hamer Fan Club a tad abhorrent. While it's all reasonably civil, you have a group of people who are just, 'USA! USA!' and fairly derisive of anyone who bought non-USA Hamer models. It's a crying shame Hamer got shut down and in truth their core models were probably infringing on Gibson rather than Fender. Hamer and Fender could quite easily have co-existed. As an aside, one of the ex-Hamer employees, Mike Shishkov, has set up shop and is making instruments...his first ones were essentially Hamer Standards with Shishkov (in a fairly familiar font) on the headstock.

Remember that they had Hamer as well; a team of luthiers that were brimming over with invention, creative ideas and innovation. And we all know what they did there. In truth, Hamer are better off where they are now (cough, dead, cough) rather than Fender nicking all their ideas and diluting them.

I thank you for recognising my knowledge and experience. I used a Precision bass in a studio session at the weekend. Sadly the Sansamp BDDI I had to my disposal - not mine, I should hasten to add - wouldn't fire up (I think it was something more to do with the XLR cable than the unit), so I had to resort to plugging straight into the desk. I mean, it played beautifully (well it would, I set it up), but man alive it did one thing and one thing only. Ponk. Actually it did two things, ponk and woolly ponk. A bit of a first for me; I complained mid-session and said I just couldn't do the second half of the session until tone was resolved. I just think a single pickup bass just lacks something. It's probably just me, but a twin pickup instrument is a country mile better. A twin pickup instrument into a BDDI is better still.

Where are you at?

Julien was my go-to guy for a while...fixed smallish issues on my first couple of Thunderbirds, a pickup swap on my Lull and a sizeable amount of investigation on a muddy NR Thunderbird about ten years ago. Top bloke. I remember when he was the tech guy at (whatever that guitar shop was) in Market Place, Reading.

Disappointingly, Tourtech have rebranded as Ordo and Andertons aren't carrying them anymore.

On first view at the link, I did a little gasp thinking that Fender had ceased production of the post-50s Precision bass, only to see it relegated to the 'other models in this range' status. Oh, tee-hee. Silly me. I've always had a soft spot for the early Precision bass, but not enough to pull the trigger and lose £2.4K from my bank account for that one trick pony.

Can you imagine the backlash if Ford were still making these:

It's an old Aria...a 1978. Got it in a Gumtree job lot, £50. It needed new everything aside from the Schaller machine heads. I adore it. It's really battered and gnarly. I vowed to put a new ding in it every time it left the house. I'll continue this tradition on Sunday!

I've only ever had one washer go and it seemed nigh on impossible to get a replacement. I eventually fashioned something out of one of those things that bread makers used to close the packaging. Drilled a suitably sized hole, nipped off the excess and popped it on the shaft. Worked fine.

How's the what? 🤣

Lovely!

Well, that's very pretty.

Oooh! Pictures in a moment or two. First impressions, lovely chunky neck. Finish is lovely. Everything works, although I've swapped out the strap buttons to Dunlop Straploks. Set up is wonderful; very low action straight out of the box. Happy to say it fits the Tourtech ABS cases I have, so I'll pull the trigger on another one of these on payday. Output is superhot; on Gary's guidance I've reduced the Tonepump output to 35-40%. I'm just trying to limit what I'm taking to rehearsals/gigs, so am determined to get a decent tone out of the AO900. Belter!

The last couple of years, bit of transition; gone are the racks and 4x10s; I've moved over to Darkglass 100%. Harboured a desire to run a pair of 1x12s for some time, even going so far as to buying a pair of Aguilar's (and then selling them); bought a DG112 about 18 months ago and landed a second one about 90 minutes ago. Originally, I'd had little intention of using the AO900 head for anything other than to utilise the effects return, but having spent about 45 minutes twiddling I've achieved a reasonably aggressive Geddy-esque tone with a passive bass, so perhaps it's time to travel lighter and leave the Sansamps at home. I'll try the active basses tomorrow.

Anyone notice the bridge on the DWoFS video is a hi-mass one, the retail models seem to BBoT version.

Courtesy of @Lozz196 - Motley Crue, Too Fast For Love (the Leathur mixes). Aah the memories! Backstage at Donington. Being bitten by Tommy Lee. Having a pee next to Mick. Happy days.

Edward Lloyd-Barnes, AKA Eddie Roxy. He was keyboardist, then frontman of Department S, so perhaps from there. I may need to buy a suit. I got asked to play bass for The Adjacent Kings in November - I've known the guitarist (in the pin-stripes) for about 15 years - we rehearsed early December, great fun then didn't do anything until said guitarist returned from a trip to Australia in mid-January. We're leaning heavily (about 60%) on old updated Department S material. It's good fun, that's the main thing!