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What about Steve DiGiorgio and Tony Franklin ?
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What chorus pedal is it Stew ?
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Due to the Covid-19 situation and severe back problems (67% officially disabled because of it) plus right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which, after more than 3 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4 kilos and also the ones I'm not really using as well as some stuff I don't use. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. EBS Drome 12, made in Sweden, 17 kilos. Second owner !!! NO TRADE ! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £315 GBP !!! (new price was 1139 Euros...) Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. Fully working and in excellent condition. Non-smoking environment as usual. This combo has been fully serviced and comes with the original owner manual, the power cord and the original receipt. I'm only selling it, because I got my AER BassCube back from a full service (4 months delay). What you see is what you get ! Look at the photos taken under different angles and light to see the excellent condition. Here is the link to the 13 photos in high resolution, plus the user manual : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pOpLQ40hLO00pXfZCP9SIiqwWjQ49xcA?usp=sharing Don't hesitate to ask for more.
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Due to the Covid-19 situation and severe back problems (67% officially disabled because of it) plus right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which, after more than 3 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4 kilos and also the ones I'm not really using as well as some stuff I don't use. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. BASSLAB StepAbout First Version, two-channel preamp and routing matrix for bass, guitar and Chapman stick. It's in fact a twin Richter BassXX preamp. If you don't know Richter preamps, they are the most transparent preamps to date. It's also an excellent headphones preamp. TRADES MAYBE, BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT IT'S A $775 USD PREAMP ! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE ! NOW £170 GBP ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £170 GBP !!! (new price is 775 USD, if you can find one...) Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. Fully working and in well used condition. Non-smoking environment as usual. This preamp has been fully serviced and comes with a power supply (not supplied with even when bought new). It can also be battery powered, see photos. Link to the BassLab StepAbout page, check the video to see all the possibilities : https://basslab.de/stepabout-elektronics/ Link to the Richter BassXX page : http://www.richter-ee.de/home.html Link to the price list : http://www.stick.com/shop/prices/ What you see is what you get ! Look at the photos taken under different angles and light to see the well used condition. Here is the link to the 24 photos in high resolution, plus the user manual : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YAR73rCtLL2GxFhSln9dZnkkd9tEJawp?usp=sharing Don't hesitate to ask for more.
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Fed up with carrying a fretless and fretted bass to a gig?
Hellzero replied to jazzyvee's topic in Bass Guitars
French curry wording for single sitar bridges. -
And here is my mémoire, in French, about the subject (origin of guitars and basses) written some 20 years ago. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MH6uXdr4PAOTlt9h-vh1aVaeeYCTSfPj/view?usp=drivesdk
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If you want precise adjustments, yes. If each pot is always full on, then no. And take an MN type blend, so there won't be any loss when both pickups are "centered".
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If you want to be able to use your controls all along their curve, excursion or rotation (or whatever you want to call it), use linear potentiometers. If you want that on/off thing use logarithmic potentiometers. And like the others I hate this plate grounding. That said a single ground point, called star grounding, is the best way to do it, avoiding ground loops (which is one of the typical basic Fender bass or guitar noise issue). I'd like to add that mixing two pickups precisely with logarithmic volume potentiometers is close to a nightmare...
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Due to the Covid-19 situation and severe back problems (67% officially disabled because of it) plus right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which, after more than 3 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4 kilos and also the ones I'm not really using. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. ACG Finn R Type Fretless 5 Custom Spec Level, November 2014. NO TRADE ! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £1895 GBP !!! (new price is way more than £3000 GBP and some time to have it finished...) Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. Fully working and in excellent condition. Here are the specifications : Body : black limba Top and back : thick flamed redwood with two black accent veneers Neck : set in with a small tone block of Macassar ebony, 5 pieces of, from center to external side, Macassar ebony, ash and wenge (asymmetrical profile and fast neck, think JP Basses or MTD) Fingerboard : thick (7 mm) flat radius acrylic impregnated Birdseye maple with a black accent veneer Positions : 26 with partial fret lines and Luminlay side dots Headstock : angled 3 + 2 shape with flamed redwood top and back and two black accent veneers Pickups : 2 x ACG FB humbuckers Preamp : Richter BassXX 3BP-CC (filter based) Controls : volume, blend, stacked bass and treble with active/passive push-pull, stacked mids (cut/boost + frequencies sweep), passive tone (only working in passive mode) Tuners : Gotoh Res-O-Lite GB-350 Bridge : Hipshot "A" Style Strings spacing at bridge : 19 mm Nut : ebony Strings spacing at nut : 9 mm Knobs : Richter-Warwick Scale : 35 inches Hardware colour : black Truss rod : one double action Finish : satin finish that has become shiny over the years Land of craftsmanship : United Kingdom (Scotland) Serial number : 0172 Year : November 2014 Weight : 4.680 kilos Action : from 1.5 mm under the G string to 2 mm under the B string at 12th position (can go lower, but was perfect for me) Will come with the original Hiscox hard case (2 keys inside), a set of Dunlop black Straplok (used) and the Luminlay torch. Non-smoking environment as usual. The bass has been fully set up professionally. It has received a new battery and has been fitted with a brand new set of La Bella White Nylon Tape Wound 750T-B-XL strings (50 - 65 - 85 - 105 - 135T). Certainly one of the best fiver fretless around. Top luthier build quality (Alan Cringean aka @skelf is in the top ten, for sure) and a sound to die for. The neck is a pleasure to play and the sound has tons of mwah. The original preamp was an ACG EQ-01 (there's a mistake on the website confirmed by Alan himself), then @Bass Wielder put a John East Uni-Pre and I removed it to put a Richter BassXX 3 bands preamp (filter based too, but with fixed frequencies except for the mids), which, to me, suits the bass better, making it easier to dial in the sound you want and having a full real passive path. The La Bella White Nylons are simply perfect for this bass (and any fretless, by the way) as they allow you to make very fast slides and also small accents with dramatic effect. There is absolutely no neck diving. I'm only selling it due to my health problems as it's really too heavy for my broken back. Link to this very ACG page : http://www.acguitars.co.uk/project/0172-finn-r-type-fretless-5/ Link to the Richter BassXX 3BP-CC : http://www.richter-ee.de/preamps1.html Link to the La Bella strings fitted : https://www.labella.com/strings/category/5-string-white-nylon-tape-bass/ What you see is what you get ! Look at the photos taken under different angles and light to see the excellent condition of this bass. Some very minor scratches and very small dings impossible to photograph, except for the two obvious dings photographed that were already there when I got it. Here is the link to the 45 photos in high resolution, plus some of the work in progress : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B8nKp4jd9M-0fXHwkpQAiz4FYEaeNpKr?usp=sharing Don't hesitate to ask for more.
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Fretted/ Fretless Headless Cricket Bat Bass
Hellzero replied to TheGreek's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
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There are two other transcribed versions. The one by Josquin des Prés, mentioned by @Dad3353 is indeed interesing. This one by Bruno Tauzin (let's call him the humble French Scott Devine) that covers only the 3 first cello suites, but it's really well transcribed (text is in French) : https://www.play-music.com/fr/product/bach_basse_cd.html?ref=ivevixiw Then, there's this one that covers all 6 cello suites, but I don't know if it's good or bad : https://www.halleonard.com/product/123294/bach-cello-suites-for-electric-bass
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Nice right shoe. 😉
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There's this official tripod : https://thinkns.com/accessory/nxt-tripod-stands/ Or this conversion kit that will allow you to use the more adaptable CR tripod : https://thinkns.com/accessory/the-end-pin-stand-conversion-kit/ I used to play a CR model sitting, because of a broken back, with the CR tripod and it was working fine.
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The internal combustion engine still used today invented by the local (to me) Belgian Etienne LENOIR. And certainly the most polluting idea ever !
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The CD invented by Philips in Holland, not Sony in Japan.
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Earlier AER One, Two, Three and BassCube didn't have a fan, but a heatsink almost the size of the back of the combo. The next generation had a small dead silent temperature controlled fan : full German quality ! I'm only using dead silent fan or no fan amps or combos as I really can't stand added noise when I'm playing. The Glockenklang fans make a hell of a noise when starting and are then dead quiet. The Warwick LWA 1000 has a very small fan that I've never heard or seen running. The worst amp with fans was the Hartke LH series : noisier than a jet at take off and some (deaf) people pretend these heads are quiet ! 😱
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And with the usual Brits successful story : "Another early proponent of the concept was Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002), a radar scientist working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence. Dummer presented the idea to the public at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D.C. on 7 May 1952.[7] He gave many symposia publicly to propagate his ideas and unsuccessfully attempted to build such a circuit in 1956." Meanwhile, in the Silicon Valley : "Newly employed by Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, successfully demonstrating the first working example of an integrated circuit on 12 September 1958. In his patent application of 6 February 1959, Kilby described his new device as "a body of semiconductor material … wherein all the components of the electronic circuit are completely integrated"." Nice try @Fingul !
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Good ol' collaboration. 😎
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Indeed, it's the Americans in Silicon Valley. 😜
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=heat+shrink+tubing&sprefix=heat+s&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_6
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What's a bitcion ? A Spanish word for a little bit ?