NancyJohnson

Our old network bubble was all hardwired...it was driven by the necessity of trying to shoot SkyTV HD (via HD over CAT5) all over the house along with the ability to change channels. When we updated things (smart TV/no Sky/all wireless), I pulled out all the gubbins relating to the TV and they filled three carrier bags. Wireless for the whole house is fine, although my work laptop is patchy, so that's wired.

I think that was a given irrespective of whether it fitted the neck pocket or not. In basic terms, if you'd put the Bronco neck on, you'd be losing 4" on the scale length, so you'd be looking at either some serious woodwork in the neck pocket and/or moving the bridge forward to make up the scale difference.

He obviously listened to you. Honestly don't understand why people want to pay more for the same product; Amazon all the way here.

If you have a Sky package, wouldn't it just be on a catch up service? Does anyone really wait for televisual repeats nowadays?

While The Munsters leant on a bit of Richard Dale, The Jetsons swang too, likewise Top/Boss Cat:

Just before Christmas one of my projects (Lutz) did a collaboration with another band (Dronningen) that I'd gigged with in another band. Lutz supplied the music, and Dronningen supplied the vocals and the trippy guitar in the middle. Here's the end result:

Blimey, old thread resurrection. Bewitched I Dream Of Jeannie The Jetsons The Munsters The Rockford Files

I'm still waiting for the Gator case from Amazon. It's in stock elsewhere, but more expensive and I'd need to cover shipping too (I'm an Amazon Prime customer, so that solves the £££ carriage charge). No rush!

I tried some Fender flats on my P - I had a nothing type of gig with a band I depped for in 2019, so figured it might be a nice enough opportunity to experiment. I was running through my Tech21 dUg...happy to report they were OK, suprisingly less ponky than I thought they'd be. That said, I went back to rounds as soon as the dep was over.

I've used picks since pretty much day one...more attack, speed etc. Currently using Dunlop Max-Grip 1.14, grippy. I can play with my fingers (and can see the virues/benefits of doing so) and can easy do so for slower stuff, but I've never been able to been able to use them for speed/control.

I need cases for my Spector and my Hamer. I know that Spector now have a badged hard case which (barring the interior padding) is clearly identical to the the Gator I have on order. I don't tend to have have all my basses out at the same time, so I like them in a case.

An hour?

I think she does already. She has a spreadsheet...I've already told her to speak to Gary in case I cark it at short notice.

'Can you show me how to play Hong Kong Garden?.

Anyone bought a molded/ABS/hard shell case recently? I'm not interested in wood cases, just plastic). I need a couple of cases to cover recent purchases; I'd say first off I have a Gator GTSA case on order (like the one below) and if this is OK, I'll likely just order another one. I've had one Gator case previously which was perfectly fit for purpose, but while I was searching, there does seem to be some new players on the marketplace (ie Tourtech), but scant information/photos/videos. Just interested in what people are using (as this is a new purchase, I suppose keep it to 'on sale' models). [Edit: My preference is for rectangular cases - they just work better for me when stored.)

Just off topic, we used to own the same sofa. Tetrad Eastwood. As you were.

Aren't these things just snake oil? I've been playing for over 30 years, never have I needed 'to control the pressure of string dampening effectively cutting the overtones and sympathetic resonance during recording, live performance or techniques like two-hand tapping'. Hmmm. I suppose there just comes a time where people will just buy anything under the misconception that it'll improve percieved tone.

I've owned the kidney-shaped guitar and bass PODs, it terms of the OP asking about 'only effects', I'd cite here that I've never been a fan of simply plugging anything into the front of any amp, so my chosen route would have always been POD output into effects return. This way you're bypassing the pre-amp colourisation and sumply utilising the poweramp side of the head/amp. Rolling this forward, this was the joy of using a 4U rack with a poweramp - sticking a 1U Sansamp in the rack gave me the option of an independent effects driven set up. If I wanted to go with a different bit of outboard gear (BDDI etc.), it was simply a case of plugging it in.

Just as an addendum to the original post, the P-pickup, maybe this'll help someone moving forward. The image below is identical to the P-pickup on mine. I've numbered the magnets A-D. Magnet A had come out and was magnetised to B, likewise C&D, but C&D were both unattached (they fell out!). Apparently this is a problem with 70s/80s DiMarzios. I was told on the Hamer forum that they just need to be glued back in with cement glue/contact adhesive. Evostick to the rescue.

The used to be a show on Discovery called Chasing Classic Cars - the host used to do a voiceover in the opening credits about it always something like, 'it's about the thrill of the chase'. After a 30 year wait for a Hamer (that arrived last week), I'd probably say that this is more apt until the inevitable GAS kicks in at some point (a Darkglass 1x15, which is apparently in the works):

OK, this might go on a bit, but this is pretty much it. When I was a wee lad, Hamer were the new kids on the (guitar) block; sure, I was aware of Gibson/Fender etc. but my exposure to these brands was likely via Beat Instrumental, Top Of The Pops, the Bell catalogue (and so on). I can still remember the fevered, 'what was that guitar?' conversations at school the night after seeing Slade on TOTP where Dave Hill would be playing the Super Yob or a Burns Flyte. (This would never happen now, I suppose, which saddens me!) Anyhow, in the early 80s, Hamer were carrying out some fairly persuasive and proactive marketing...I'd go up to Denmark Street with my mates and many of the shops there had piles of these full colour US-letter sized flyers for the various Hamer models (The Special, Sunbursts, Vectors, Standards, Prototype - just type 'Hamer Flyers' into Google and you'll see how radical this was); we'd all pick up the flyers and have them taped to our bedroom walls when we got back. Despite none of us having the available coin to actually buy one, we did feel that Hamer was our brand, which was odd considering we were just a bunch of home-counties kids; Hamer were a little bit mental, a bit risky, a bit exciting and a bit edgy. We were all huge Cheap Trick fans too, which kind of sealed the deal. On one trip to the smoke, I happened upon the Cruisebass flyer below...early to mid-80s. There was a small pile of these postcard-sized things and the same shop also had the bass itself (in the same red and black livery) hanging on the wall and it was just beautiful. Cue angels singing. Smitten. The price tag was ridiculously expensive, my memory is clouded, but I think it was well over a grand, maybe £1,250 or more. Back then I was doing filing in an office and earning £250 a month, £50 of which went to my mum in housekeeping(!), so it was unattainable - which is why I ended up playing Ibanez stuff for so long (£187 for a Ibanez Roadster RS924 was pushing it). I was always looking for one; I'd owned other Hamer basses...a Scarab, Chapperal and I still have a FBIV (Thunderbird), but I've always wanted a Cruise. Sure other basses curried favour (predominantly Thunderbirds) and a couple bobbed to the surface for a while (Rickenbacker), but the Cruise was always there just under the surface, just rare enough for them to be out of reach, with sellers believing they're worth way more than they realistically are. I paid £600.00. I know it's not much, but think about it for a moment, it's a handmade (boutique?) bass, made in pretty small numbers by a team of less than a dozen luthiers in a little woodshop in the Chicago suburbs. These were the same people who made these made the guitars used by hundreds of bands from (love 'em/loathe 'em) Cheap Trick, Judas Priest, Skid Row, Kiss, Def Leppard, Lita Ford, The Police, Aerosmith, Nick Lowe, The Pretenders etc. etc. Roll forward to 2021, @cetera was the first of many to let me know this was up stupidly cheap. It was always coming to me...

"Make sure you get my biggest fan in when you take that photo!"

Honestly, you all have no idea how pleased this makes me. I've lusted after one of these for about 30 years and snagged this one on eBay last week. Obviously, there's going to be good and bad stuff to consider when you're talking about a 35 year old guitar, so let's cover the bad stuff first (like you do). It was VERY grubby and unplayable out of the case; a frankly horrific back-bow on the neck (I slackened the truss rod by may two full turns), the bridge was at best 'gooped-up', so I needed to douse the part in WD40 to just allow the intonation and grub screws to move. The nut slots are quite wide, but the nut does its job, so no issues. The P-bass pickup wouldn't adjust up or down, took it out, the old foam wasn't doing anything, but more alarming across both elements of the pick-up, three magnets surrounding the poles had come out and two were magnetised to the other side (imagine two books next to each other with the poles between and then two on top of each other with the poles on the spines) - a chap on the Hamer Fan Club site enlightened me to the fact that 70/80s Di-Marzios were all prone to this problem. [Edit: I've added details further down the thread...the problem/solution might help someone in the future.] I've never seen anything like this before. After I reinstalled it (with springs and some soft foam underneath), I did feel that the D&G strings were quite a bit lower in output than the E&A. The strap buttons were loose, so I've taken these out and am waiting on some felts to arrive before I install a set of Dunlops. [Edit: I'll be cleaning the board and oiling it later today.] OK, moving to the aesthetics/good stuff, it does look fantastic to me. Paint is good (7.5/10), zero checking, but there is a bit of chipping around two of the machines and a little (inevitable) bucklerash on the rear (although no paint loss). It is very light (weee). [Edit: There's still a lot of meat on the frets.] After a set up and a bit of additional tweakage, it plays wonderfully, got the action down to what I'd class as 'clean with a bit of rattle. Tried it through the Darkglass and the dUg last night, I have to say it sounds decent enough through both, but feel that theDarkglass favours an active bass, this does sound nicer through the dUg. Nice dirt/grunt with everything open. Neck is lovely... Moving forward. Hmm. I will get a (black) scratchplate cut for it at some point, but no rush. While I do love a tweak, so at some point I'll swap out the pickups and loom. Again, no rush. This bass was more about the getting than anything else, I'm happy with it as it stands. I'll be 100% after I've done with the tweaks. Might even stain the board...