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  1. Hellzero
    So you got it, Tony. Is it up to your hopes or even better ?
  2. Hellzero
    Wood & Tronics Zoid Custom. 😉
  3. Hellzero
    Opened strings are the key to intonation on fretless instruments.
  4. Hellzero
    Yep.
  5. Hellzero
    IBTL.
  6. Hellzero
    Mark a line with a pencil on the side of the fingerboard where the dots should be. Use a chromatic tuner to find the right location. It's a beginner trick for double bass. 😉
  7. Hellzero
    Doh, I thought it was a fire issue.
  8. Hellzero
    And sold.
  9. Hellzero
    On hold.
  10. Hellzero
    Sweet !
  11. Hellzero
    This bass was mine and is a terrific bass, more versatile than you might think at first glance. Unplugged it sounds exactly like a Pedulla MVP4 (I had both at the same time, so could compare). Plugged, even if it's a passive bass, it has a very good output (but not a crazy one) and the fact that you have a volume and a tone, plus a series/parallel switch per pickup makes it a very versatile bass. Furthermore, you have a phase inverter switch which makes you go back to typical 70's sounds. The 3-way toggle switch coupled to the two volumes and tones adds even more versatility. The frets are still the original ones marked in A position. We examined it closely with Christophe Leduc and came to the conclusion that everything but the bone nut was original. This bass is in fact the 6th made by Mike Pedulla and Sam Orsini (the number 6 is stamped in the pickups cavity and at the back of the control cavity lid as the serial number is a kind of fantasy). The pickups mounting system is also original as there are no holes in the pickups cavities were the pickups height screws would have gone. There were Marshall amps knobs on it that were replaced by more authentic nickel ones, but Mike Pedulla explained that, with Sam Orsini, at that time, they were making quite only repairs and some instruments with what was in the drawers, hence the discrepancy between the 20 to 30 instruments made in 1974~75. This is a real piece of history !
  12. Hellzero
    It's a sound on its own, closer to a sitar where the strings rattling vibration comes from the bridge and not the fingerboard. Some like it, some don't, but it's not per se a fretless sound.
  13. Hellzero
    Dominique Di Piazza used leather on top of the original saddles to make his first flat sitar-like bridge.
  14. Hellzero
    You can buy the saddles only or make some bone (or very hard wood) flat saddles yourself. It's not that complicated, but you'll have to move the bridge away for a perfect intonation...
  15. Hellzero
    Vic is selling a Mike Sabre Dominique Di Piazza Signature 1 on this very parish :
  16. Hellzero
    Eyb web page : https://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/ddp-bridge.html
  17. Hellzero
    As I wrote a lot of times, it's simply a flat sitar bridge conception. It works best with bone flat saddles. John McLaughlin played a guitar like this. Eyb in Germany is selling the exact same bridges as Mike Sabre and an ETS dedicated bridge.
  18. Hellzero
    Sold my TrickFish Trilobite to Giacomo. A fast, smooth and easy transaction. You can deal with Giacomo with confidence. Cheers mate.
  19. Hellzero
    This is called a third hand, hence @KiOgon joke. 😉
  20. Hellzero
    Again as I'm waiting a delivery by DHL that is taking a lot of time and another sent yesterday through UPS... Maybe UPS and Thomann found an agreement ?
  21. Hellzero
    Sold. 😊
  22. Hellzero
    Sooner than we might think.
  23. Hellzero
    I'm in Belgium, not in the U.K., and the answers I received today (if anybody reads the previous posts) are a bit of a concern...
  24. Hellzero
    I'm waiting an order from Thomann since the 26th of November. In this order, there's a little Joyo MA-10B Portable Bass Amp that is toggling between "in stock" and "in stock between 3 - 5 weeks". So I just rang them right now and what I've heard is a bit of a concern : the amp has been back in stock only the 10th of December and my order will be despatched. The Joyo is now back in the "in stock between 3 - 5 weeks" items. Everything seems ok, but the operator on the phone wasn't able to give me a shipping date, because ... UPS refuses to work with them since a few days and DHL did exactly the same after UPS left !?! Is it me or is there a big problem with Thomann ? How can couriers refuse thousands of deliveries except for a financial issue ? To me, it stinks a lot !
  25. Hellzero
    Theoretically, all modulation effects like reverb, delay, chorus, ... are better sounding placed in the effect loop (parallel being better). That said, you'll have to try by yourself. Most of the time, most people prefer the effects between the bass and the input. Give it a try...
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