lemmywinks

I use the gold and white GPs, my mate works our local electric shop (used to get a discount even before he worked there, nice blokes!) so i can get a box pretty cheap. I think they're £1.50 each usually, used to get a box of 10 for a tenner

I leave them in for about 6-7 months before i change them, had one die on me after i left it in for 9 months.


Think i've said before that buying a box of 9v batteries is false economy, guitarists circle round em like vultures and you end up losing half of them!

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+1,000,000!

Last thing i need!

Scored this little beauty off eBay for £45. Worked out at about £60 including postage, it's an Aria STB

Been looking for a cheap and nasty bass as back up as i hate having to look after 2 decent basses at a gig (2 stands, 2 hard cases etc.).
Took the white scratchplate off, put some used but still good strings on it, gave it a liberal clean and lemon oiled the fretboard and it's sweet! Thin frets and quite a loose feel mean it can pull off a convincing fretless impression. The bridge pickup is great, pinched harmonics are very loud and picked notes sound full

Thing is, i want to look after it and keep it nice now!

Aye it's quite well made, came the next day too!

What does a buffer pre involve, is it like a seperate fully fledged pre amp or something simpler? Again i'm pretty ignorant about this sort of thing!

Cheers for the replies guys!

The Piezo i bought was a whole bridge assembly. This one:
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I was originally going to fit it to my bitsa fretless. However i scored this on eBay last night:
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So i'm thinking of putting the piezo bridge and fretless neck on that body. As it turns out i patched things up with an estranged friend at my last gig. Conveniently his dad is brilliant at this sort of thing, makes guitars and basses and is always up for trying out new ideas regarding electrics and construction, so i may have a decent guy to do the hard work for me

I think the active circuit in my other fretless looks like causing more problems than it's worth. Would i be able to get away with just maybe a volume pot for the piezo if it went in the passive jazz? Or would there be a big difference in output?

Is there anyway to sort of bypass the buffer preamp, to make things a bit simpler?

[quote name='tauzero' post='541355' date='Jul 15 2009, 03:07 PM']I'd rather like a Superfly with a knackered output to use as a pre-amp. [b]Anyone got one[/b]?[/quote]


Most Superfly owners by the sound of it!

Bargain price on this, should fly!

+1 for Sir Duke. It's now my favourite part of our set!

Also "Magnificent Seven" by The Clash
Jaco's "I Can Dig It Baby" (Little Beaver i think)

Just found this whilst looking for a project bass body

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£34 for the fully loaded body, postage included

[quote name='bartelby' post='540602' date='Jul 14 2009, 07:01 PM']Pink's not so bad. My dad often goes misty eyed when he talks of his 60s Fender P in salmon pink...

His look then turns nasty when he continues and says he sold it when I was born...[/quote]


Buy him this one for Christmas, look all sincere and teary eyed when you give it him.

And get someone to take a picture and post it on here

We usually stick to the 2x45 rule, although sometimes chop the first set down to extend the second depending on what time people decide to start drinking and dancing
I think this usually ends up being 12 songs in each set, depending on what we're playing. Oh and sometimes we have to play Sir Duke twice cos people love it (i don't complain either!)

Sometimes we do a solid 1hr30 or just an hour

I remember one of our first weddings was a Greek do, turns out the bride's side of the family only wanted to hear the Bozouki player they had hired so we did about 10 or so songs then packed up. We had a Walkabout cancellation the previous night (still got paid) so ended up earning £1200 for 40 mins work!

No postage though, if he'd post it it would be gone by now

If your anywhere near the Midlands then this:
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3 bargains here:
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If you can stretch your budget a bit:
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Have no idea about the basses but that looks sweeeeet!

"Father, why do you hate me?"

Our old guitarist's missus had one of these, she used to bring it to gigs for me to use as a spare. Hers had Hello Kitty stickers on it....

I found that unplugging the bass and trying to get a clean note unamplified helped wonders. I learnt at uni and didn't have an amp, by the end of the first semester i could slap pretty well!


When i needed to learn the thumb and two finger popping technique (Black-eyed blonde) i went back to this method to make it easier to get a clean technique down

[quote name='Musky' post='537860' date='Jul 11 2009, 01:24 PM']I have the opposite problem. I like my strings to sound deader than a very dead thing. I'd use flatwounds, but I don't really get along with the feel of them.

Anyone know how to kill off a set of new roundwounds? [/quote]


I'm sure if you paid the postage loads of us would send you old sets of strings. I threw out about 10 complete sets of Elites/Elixirs/Hartke strings not so long ago

Will get one up tomorrow as i've got a wedding today, got an hour to shower, shave and have tea!

The Michael Kelly acoustics seem to get good reviews, fretless available as standard too.
I played a really nice Takamine fretless acoustic a while ago too, don't think that was too expensive (2nd hand)

The bass has a luthite/ebanol construction IIRC. Also i think they did different colours of this finish, the silvery one is the one you see on the net all the time

Yeah they were at silly low prices for a while (i think £360 was the lowest i saw), bear in mind that Rays were going for £550+ at the time. I've seen a few on eBay go for £400+

I think now Ray prices are a bit healthier the SUB prices are better too. Personally i think £400 is about right for one of these without a case, it's new MIM Fender territory

Hi

I'd like to add a piezo bridge to my bitsa fretless. It's a J type with an active circuit

I'm assuming that after drilling the hole from the bridge to the control cavity it would be a simple matter of fitting a blend pot and attaching the wires from the different pickups to this, possibly including a volume pot for the piezo. Please pardon my ignorance (i'll be getting a hired lackey to do all this btw so i don't destroy my bass) but would i be able to take the signal from the piezo through the blend pot and then to the active circuit? Or would the piezo signal have to be independent of this?

Cheers for any help

Steve

You know Dood ended up buying another cos he missed it so much?


Cracking pedals these btw

So Larry Graham's not cool now?

Right, who wants to buy my bass gear?

How much was yours up at?

I didn't really know what to value it at, the last one that sold on here went for £375. That was a passive version with no case, had a MM scratchplate though, it was also priced for a quick sale

As this one is the active version and has a quality case i thought an extra £35 was about right