lemmywinks

I have one, it's pretty good for the money (I paid £250 for it new ages ago), handles quite a lot of low end and isn't as heavy as you'd think. I used mine with the 500w Hartke HA5500 One thing to watch is the baffle board working loose and making the cab sound awful. Only took a pack of screws to fix but was annoying. All in all it is a good way to run your head at 4ohms with one cab and a small budget, if you can stretch to more cash then i'd recommend a Schroeder 1212 or similar 4ohm cab. I wasn't impressed with the 4x10VX cab i heard so i would probably choose the 215 over it Was selling mine for £90 but had no takers! I also think Phil the bassist on here uses one

I ordered from them using a bank transfer (not online, cost me over a tenner but still cheaper than buying over here at the time) and got a fuss free service. Arrived very quickly and the bass played great straight out of the box. The only problem was Nat West messing it up at my end! Read a recent thread that said a bank refused a transaction cos it seemed out of character for the account holder, maybe ask your bank why the payment didn't go through?

I think Ampeg are still the nuts but most folk really don't wanna lug an 8x10 and a huge head around. My full stack days are long gone. Look on any big festival stage and there'll be an Ampeg on there somewhere, still the industry standard after all these years (for those with roadies anyways!)

I've been impressed with the EHX chorus units i've used (Electric Mistress and Small Clone). SCs can be picked up for £30 or so and they're built like tanks. Bear in mind you'll need an adapter to use them a standard power supply though (unless it's a Nano version of the pedal). The Boss SYB series can be picked up for around £50 second hand and are good Synth pedals for the cash. I sold mine purely cos it wasn't getting used but have a hankering for another...

Cheers bud, gonna look into getting one I think. Cheapest I found including shipping was in the US! What are they actually made of if you don't mind me asking? Just wooden base and hard foam legs? Feeling a blue peter moment coming on! Cheers Steve

Am really interested in one of those Auralex Gramma jobbies. How much difference do they make? Also what sort of money did you pay? I've seen em for around £50 inc. shipping Ta Steve

Get one luthier built, that's what i'd do! Have to admit i am slightly jealous of your budget

Here y'are! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/warwick-corvette_W0QQitemZ120407767445QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item120407767445&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/warwick-corvette_W0Q...%3A1|240%3A1318[/url] Hard case too and £350 BIN (£30 postage though) Not too sure about AMG pickups though, should be MEC (or hopefully EMG!)

/\ /\ Agreed! /\ /\ You can pick up 2nd hand Corvettes for under £400. There was one i saw go for £276 (i flagged it in the eBay section), that was one of the special editions too with the MM pickup. I've seen a few last year go for the £300 - £350 mark. The active Corvette Standards in swamp ash were under £600 new, bubinga ones a little more Rockbass ones are decent IMO, same electrics as the Warwick i've got. Some on here don't rate em as much but i liked the one i tried. Really would suggest looking for a used German one though

Read an interview that said he took the G string off all together. His tech also said that he pours water over himself on stage a lot, leading to the pickups in his TBird losing output. I thnk his tech was a bit annoyed with him for that as he said the pickups are hard to source. He also said Mark's not very good in music stores and refuses to try out pedals he suggests. He said Mark only uses a certain Boss pedal (forget which) but won't use the new ones, meaning his tech has to constantly look for old pedals as he goes through a few every tour

Haha, reminds me, must brush up on my Photoshop skills!

The Ampeg would do the trick! Alternatively look at the Sansamp or MXR M80 pedals. I use an M80 to mimic an overdriven head and it does the trick, you can blend the two signals so you keep the low end.

Think Schnozzalee has some damn nice Corts for sale/trade

This looks fantastic now! It's gone from 80s cheese to modern day class in one fell swoop! I thought it looked horrid in the original photos (gold hardware on orange/red paint?) but find it quite desirable now How much did you originally pay if you don't mind me asking?

I had a similar problem with a couple of pedals, turns out i wasn't using a regulated power supply, just a generic cheapie. Tried it with a proper Boss one and all was good!

If i want to mod something and don't have the tools/skill to do it right then i'd take it to someone who could. For one less night on the pop i'd have a bass i'd be far happier with which would have a higher resale value I agree that it's his bass and he has every right to do what he wants, unfortunately that includes slapping a silly price tag on it Until we see a shot of the bass with the offending pickup surround removed we can't be too sure of his honesty RE the listing either as this could well be disguising poor work. Who knows though, it may be an accurate routing!

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='455623' date='Apr 6 2009, 04:16 PM']I like it . (I'm gassing JPs at the mo) But isn't he asking too much for what it is?[/quote] Way too much IMO! If the body didn't have the extra pickup (and hideous surround) then it wouldn't seem too bad. Wonder what the odds are on there being a massive, sloppily routed hole under that surround?

Don't forget to check Zoot basses out, mine's a beaut

[quote name='clauster' post='452269' date='Apr 2 2009, 11:28 AM']1. A decent news section - for example, if someone in editorial had a glance through this (or other) forum, they'd be aware of what's going on at Barefaced Bass/ACG/DHA etc etc[/quote] +1 on that The news sections in these magazines is usually just another couple of pages of thinly veiled advertisements, mostly for stuff i don't want or need. Before i joined this site i had no idea half the luthiers in this country existed, pretty worrying as i used to read 2/3 music mags a month

All Pms replied, cheers guys!