NancyJohnson

I know I have some expensive kit/each to their own etc but you have to wonder who this appeals to as well...it can't be on many people's radar. Just because it's rare doesn't make it any good. £9k? Maybe they're just hoping some deep pocketed punter with a love of vintage kit (ie Noel Gallagher or Joe Bananamassive) might just pop in for it.

Doing it yourself? There's quite a few You Tube videos showing the process staining a body with amber/reddish/black dyes, then applying layers of clear coat/rubbing back and repeat.

I loved (LOVED) the Hellborg DR strings although they didn't last very long before going off. They were radically different from any string I'd used before. I still have a set that I'll put on something at some stage. The Dogal strings are/were made in Venice and they sold direct much to my annoyance I only found this out after we came back from the place. If these are as good as the DRs, it might be worth a punt.

This is definitely one of those albums for me that I bought several times; vinyl (twice), cassette, CD and then CD again. They could have put the Blu-ray out at $25 a pop and made a small fortune off that alone. Ack.

The sadness here is that the album didn't get a standalone 5.1 release. Boo!

I was in a band yonks ago who shared the ICP acronym. Individual Cheese Portions.

I'm rotating a couple of artists. #1 Bobbie Dazzle (kind of homage to 70s Glam Rock; it kind of reminds me of The Darkness crossed with The Time Warp) and #2 Rosalie Cunningham (which is just interestingly different...lots of decent time/key changes).

I'm not saying the whole set up didn't work or anything, this was more a case of there being no fixed settings that worked out of the box every time. Back then I was running Ashdown kit, then Hartke when I had my endorsement with them. In general, I'd route the high frequencies through the BDDI and then into a 2x10", the lows into a VTBassDI and into either a 4x10" or 1x15". All the cabs had HF horns; I'd turn these off for the low frequency signal. Arguably, things got a bit more gnarly when (and I'd forgotten about this) when the highs went through a Tech21 GT2 and the BDDI handled the lows. I wish there'd have been (no pun intended) some crossover in the ownership of the Waterstone and the DP-3X pedal...this should have been the dream setup!

I've got a fairly basic 5.1 system (not Atmos) and a Blu-ray player and the Steven Wilson stuff I've got in the surround (primarily XTC, Tears For Fears and his solo work) is stunning. I tend to rip the discs to MKV and stream from a NAS. Got to say I was a bit surprised with Wilson getting involved with Kiss/Destroyer, it's an album I like a lot, but equally unsurprised that the band went the $$ route and only included it in the Super-Deluxe version.

I did some experimenting with a crossover when I had my Waterstones 12 string; my experience? There's no ideal/set crossover setting. My signal path was bass > crossover > processing (Sansamp BDDI (highs) and VTBASS (lows)) > each side of a stereo Poweramp > cabs. Dependent on my desired settings on the Sansamps determined what I wanted to squirt into them via the crossover. It became fast apparent that there was no fixed setting or sweet spot; tonal characteristics changed constantly. The room, cabinets.

Can I ask a question on rewinding, what is the actual point? If you simply like what it sounded like, replace it with a like for like unit, if you like the way the pickup looks (patina) then replace it with a like for like unit and swap the cover. While I'm of the belief that all pickups sound more or less the same, any of the tonal nuances that you believe were there from the original unit, rewinding will effectively remove those; you're effectively creating a new pickup. I suppose £50 is a decent price to save a bit of hardware like a pickup, but you could have picked up a like for like replacement for a tenner more.

Evening. Anyone got this? Thanks.

Generally favour Elixir Nanoweb strings; they last forever and are tonally consistent. It's just simpler to stick with one brand I'm happy with across everything rather than trying to keeping a spreadsheet going. This isn't to say there may be a rogue set of Dunlop or D'addario loitering in there.

Perusing Thomann, cheapest bass neck is £168 (Allparts)...for £190.00 I could buy a HB Jazz and butcher reshape the headstock.

Like the question header says! I do love my old Aria Primary, but I think I'd like it more if the board was rosewood(y) or blocked rosewood(y).

We just need to take it for granted that Gibson haven't been particularly concerned about faithful(ish) reissues unless they're Les Paul or SG models. Suppose we can also apply this analogy to the business by and large ignoring what people are actually asking for as well.

Suspect the point of the original post was that (despite them having a thousand basses in stock), that there is an awful lot of product that's available to ship within a few days - be this basses, guitars, brass, whatever - rather than it being able to be shipped same day. From personal a perspective, I'm fairly picky in what I want to use, so would probably struggle to find any more than two or three basses that I would want to own from whatever they carry from their current level of inventory.

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Just a heads up. Facebook marketplace. Colchester. £900 (or offers)...Babicz bridge too! Cheaper than the current Epiphones!

I'm uncertain what sort of payment terms suppliers offer businesses like Thomann (or what their markup would be), but with logistics being as they are nowadays it does make more monetary sense to take an order from a customer, buy-in the part/instrument from the European distribution company and then ship from Thomann, even if it adds a few extra days on the delivery. I'm sure some suppliers can facilitate deliveries direct to customers, obviating any necessity for Thomann to even touch the stock it's selling.

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Perhaps I should approach the good people at Aria Pro II to build a 1978 Signature Primary Bass, but god knows how they'd replicate it for the masses. It's got a decent backstory; Friday night Gumtree purchase as part of a job lot (£50!), Schaller machines, but everything else was missing bits/broken. It took a few days to straighten the neck (truss rod wasn't under any tension). Put a Delano pickup in, new loom, Hipshot Kickass bridge, Straploks. Every time it goes out, I ensure it gets a fresh ding. It's a workhorse.

Subscribe to the Matt Horn channel on YouTube. He's the drum tech for Falling In Reverse. It's all bodycam footage; covers everything from getting up to going to bed. Very watchable.

I bought one. I just wanted to see how much I could actually read given the gnarly and indistinct grammar and syntax he generally uses. It was unreadable. To rehash one of Eric Morecambe's more memorable lines, '(Mr Philips) uses all the right words, though not necessarily in the right order.'