lemmywinks

Is that an OLP? Headstock looks weird.

I was going to have a sneaky bid on this as it's local to me and cropped up in my "basses, nearest first" search, so personally I'm a bit miffed it was flagged here at all. Bunch of b@st@rds! Will probably go for the right money though, high early bidding for a Squier even before it went on here.

Keep the head, get a lighter (and better) cab.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1395125948' post='2398877'] His/her listings say that if anyone doesn't follow all those directions then ebay will automatically open an unpaid item dispute on his/her behalf I'm sure that ebay doesn't 'automatically' open unpaid item disputes. And he/she would have no defence against a buyer who them pays by paypal, even if the T/C state cash only. [/quote] I'm pretty sure that you have to offer Paypal as a payment option, the guy is nuts. EBay would piss themselves laughing if there was any dispute, his red font ramblings mean absolutely nothing. If ever there were an eBay member that needed trolling it's this guy.

MIJ Aria here for £70: [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/aria-pro-ii-bass-guitar/1052941623#photo-content"]http://www.gumtree.c...3#photo-content[/url] A Cardinal or something? Not clued up on these, obviously the paint job and the chopped off headstock devalue it but still cheap for parts or restoration.

I bought one of the cheap touch up kits (you can get them in Poundland) which consists of a some wedge marker pens and wax sticks in various shades of brown to black. I used it to cover multiple scuffs in an old Aria (open grain stained black) but I guess it would work for making screw holes less obvious too. With some careful blending with my finger it turned my bass from a beaten up old workhorse into a nice almost new looking instrument in about 15 minutes, definitely worth a look.

Hey look they do a Musicman one too!

Definitely a fretted model. I suppose you could always pull the frets out with one of these: Personally I think it's cheap tat but each to their own!

It's a Mazeti, cheapo eBay bass from a few years back. Decent enough by all accounts though. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mazeti-6-String-Active-Thru-Neck-Maple-And-Walnut-Bass-/130929635412?nma=true&si=kvUqnsZJST70a1NLtzVJ3omciXs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

They were about £120 new IIRC.

If it's a standard jack you can bend the pins, if it's a barrell jack you have to replace it.

Been doing the same thing, my tech guy is fitting a buffer preamp to a piezo bridge to blend with passive mag pickups. Interesting that you say it's not worth blending them, I'm having 3 seperate volume controls on mine, may be a better idea to just have a switch and a tone control. I had seen the East piezo preamp and it looks tidy, will maybe think about getting one when I have the bass and have a better idea about whether I should change anything.

It's just personal preference, I gig cheapys nowadays and they're actually very nice basses with nice pickups and comfortable necks. I really dislike bass snobbery and the whole "not good enough for me" ethos you get, especially for covers/function band players because obviously we all [i]need[/i] a new custom bass to play Good Times right? Up until last week (when I played a Hofner violin bass - horrible!) it had been years since I picked up a bass I couldn't happily gig, kids are lucky these days for sure.

Could I ask what sort of connectors you use? Provided it isn't a secret of course!

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1394563415' post='2392800'] So... you need to solder on a solderless connection to avoid the need to learn how to solder. [/quote] You know what I mean! I thought the OP just wanted less hassle when wiring pickups in, dunno if he can solder or not.I've thought of the standard screw terminals before but they're pretty big and control cavities can be pretty tight. Don't know if you can get small terminals with screw connections at both ends, would be handy.

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1394553586' post='2392601'] Just to be clear, my comments refer to non touchscreen use, and Windows 8 with a keyboard and mouse is hopeless IMHO. It is for tablets and touchscreens, which if you actually work on a machine (spreadsheets, word processing, email etc) rather than just surf the net, a touchscreen is as much use as a hog roast at a bar mitzvah. Windows 8 is a hog roast. [/quote] I'll post again and hope you actually take a look this time: http://www.classicshell.net/ Windows 8 is pretty much Windows 7 with a tacked on touch interface, there's a full desktop there and the only thing missing is the Start menu. Install the above 5mb freeware program which takes less than a minute and you have full Windows 7 functionality. It's a full desktop OS which is very much like the last one, not quite sure where you're getting this tablet OS stuff from as the tablet version is different, it only runs the metro apps and is designed to compete against Apple and Android tablets. Maybe you got confused between the two?

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1394547567' post='2392517'] I've been a PC person since day 1 and have hated apple because of their firm belief anyone not using an apple product was inferior. The one thing that has really changed my mind recently is Windows 8, which for tablets seems fine, but on a desktop it is hopeless. [/quote] [url="http://www.classicshell.net/"]http://www.classicshell.net/[/url] You can also change the Start button to the Win7 one if you so wish: [url="http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=174"]http://www.classicsh....php?f=18&t=174[/url] If Microsoft hadn't forced the tile interface on people nobody would bat an eyelid about WIndows 8, it would just be seen as a continuation of the good work done with Windows 7. I am using Win8 with Classic Shell installed on a touchscreen laptop and it's very nice to use (and super quick), I actually prefer it to WIndows 7 ever so slightly. If I didn't have a touchscreen I would prefer Win7 though as they tiles are quick and handy sometimes but on a non-touch laptop they are a chore to use.

For a neater solution you could use the little PCB screw terminals, solder the wires to the base pin and then shrink tube it.

[quote name='goblin' timestamp='1394506870' post='2392078'] My load is incredibly large, [/quote]

To be honest if that's all you need then a basic laptop will be more than enough, eBuyer have this for £250: http://www.ebuyer.com/584180-hp-255-g1-laptop-h6r11ea-abu For something more portable they have this for the same price: www.ebuyer.com/623492-acer-aspire-v5-123-laptop-nx-mfrek-001 Neither will set the world alight but they are neat little machines for 250 notes, maybe add a cheap mixing desk (Behringer Xenyx 502 for £30) for more control over audio output as well as being able to plug your bass and headphones in for silent practice. You can get a silly amount of portable computing power for your money nowadays. Ebuyer are very good btw if you do want a PC/Laptop.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1394312295' post='2390267'] How dare you mock the Loggins ;-) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E[/media] [/quote] Talk about answering your own question.... I actually quite like Danger Zone because it's 80s cheese fun, being bombarded with the Top Gun soundtrack on repeat whilst being locked in a car on the way to Dumfries is a pretty tortuous experience though. Still at least it was better than the SImply Red album my old fella bought and in fairness he did like Spandau Ballet too so there wasn't a total lack of well written tunes.

My parents' have always had awful taste in music (Cher, Michael Bolton, Kenny Loggins....) so car journeys were a nightmare until I got a Gameboy and some headphones for Christmas. I'm making sure my little'un grows up with decent music around her, her favourite song is Peek-a-Boo by Devo and she also likes De La Soul. Although currently she's fixated on Aquabats, no bad thing really.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1394278733' post='2389787'] Good to see you back. I had hoped you was ok & was just thinking last month that I hadn't seen you on here for some time. [/quote] I have been here off and on, mainly buying stuff! [quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1394279080' post='2389792'] For laptops, there's lots of good things in all budgets. I've got an HP G62 which has the fan in the bottom corner & is prone to clogging up & overheating. To get to it, you have to take the entire laptop apart & it's underneath everything (literally). It takes about 3-4 hours with a map & tools. [/quote] Toshiba did this too (although it looks like they've changed their design now), they used to put their main fan right where it would be covered my someone's right knee. I got given one for repair and as I have a glass lounge table I couldn't reproduce the fault, took me ages to realise what was going on! One of the things I like about AMDs new low clocked APUs is that at their normal clock they are fanless, even in turbo mode they are cold to the touch.

I picked up a little HP Touchsmart 11 for £290 delivered, it's an 11" Windows 8 ultraportable with a nice touchscreen and a low clocked quad core CPU with decent integrated graphics. Does everything I need to as well as some light gaming (PS3 era), the best thing is that even under load it runs completely cold. If you want to spend a bit more you can get a nice full size laptop with a modern i5 (runs cooler) and dedicated Nvidia GPU for under £500 these days. Personally I wouldn't bother with a Chromebook, they offer far less functionality than a netbook and sooner or later you'll need to do something simple and it will come up short. Btw if you get WIndows 8 you'll need this: http://www.classicshell.net/

Just started using the Schaller knockoffs on eBay, £2 a set: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141121590871?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 Seem to be very similar to Schaller ones and available in the usual 3 colours. If you fit Schaller types you'll need a hole punch, guide here: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/70420-schaller-strap-locks-and-how-to-fit-them-properly/page__p__681912__hl__straplock%20guide__fromsearch__1#entry681912