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  1. Owen
    I have piezo bridges on two of my basses. I fancy piezo action on another but the bridge will not accommodate it. Could I place an under saddle kind of strip between the bridge and body or even in the neck pocket? Would there be too much pressure? It would probably be as easy to buy a new bridge, but I was just wondering. I need to get out more. TIA.
  2. Owen
    [quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1446250340' post='2898188'] He paid about £500 for it too 😩 [/quote] Double sadness
  3. Owen
    Or clear orange with binding. Or black with binding. I will be ok by the morning. Late night is lethal for GAS.
  4. Owen
    [quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1446249526' post='2898182'] There are very few 5's about, I think there are about 6 or 7. I played one after I did a set up for a chap who found one in cash converters When we spoke to G&L they said there were no plans to make any more as the balance was off... [/quote] Sadness
  5. Owen
    Semi hollow.
  6. Owen
    I am watching Women in Rock on BBC4 and Skunk Anansie are on. I have irrational G&L ASAT 5 string GAS. In metal flake with matching headstock. Fit.
  7. Owen
    Still available
  8. Owen
    2nd price drop bump - oh, the sadness
  9. Owen
    [quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1444822144' post='2886338'] sorry - thats nice but a little over my budget [/quote] It looks as though I have overpriced everything recently so see first post for offers'n'ting.
  10. Owen
    [quote name='Higgie' timestamp='1446168848' post='2897517'] PM sent. [/quote] Do it for us all Higgie!
  11. Owen
    This is a lot of bass for the money. I have waxed lyrical about them whenever they come up. It is light (8lbs 5.5oz) and has a fairly flat fingerboard. The neck has an asymetric carve on the back and has the Buzz Feinten intonation system. 35" scale. When I bought it originally it an MM type of humbucker in it (this will come with the bass). I will now list all I have done to it. Rout body to accept Seymor Duncan MM pickup. 2 x MM pickups = more betterer, obv. Drilled body to accept Active preamp. Got bored and took original pickup and SD pickup and preamp out and put a custom wound Armstrong P pickup in there. Installed an empty shell to cover the hole left by the SD pickup. Vol + passive tone (with funky chicken head knob) , spare hole so dummy pot + knob to fill hole and a KILL SWITCH because there was another spare hole. Did I mention a KILL SWITCH? The strings are "dead as" TI Jazz rounds (not flats) and they have a lovely springy sponginess to them. There is a D tuner on the B which slides down to A very easily. It is a silver one. But let's not get too fussy. So, yeah, this is not factory fresh but it is a really nice bass. So why am I selling? I just do not use it as I have others. If I had any backbone at all I would sell my two 4 strings as well but..........well...........maybe one day..................... It is very black if that kind of thing floats your boat. I do not NEED to sell this so if it does not shift then my world will not stop turning. It will go when it goes. As I have mentioned it is an awful lot of bass for the £ and if it was my only bass then I could be more than happy with it. Quite fancy it you know you do. [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151029_222544_zpsimgq2kit.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151029_222604_zpsvjblrw7a.jpg.html"][/url]
  12. Owen
    Bass. If bloke one does not come through by 7pm then it is promised to someone else. So I guess it is sold, pending.
  13. Owen
    No £ forthcoming at the moment so this is available again.
  14. Owen
    [quote name='owen' timestamp='1446112923' post='2896928'] it is a shame that Leicester is so far from me. [/quote] I am in Bangor, North Wales, so We would both need to make a 5 hour round trip
  15. Owen
    I am using Inno 140B braided core ones. They speak well with the bow with a rich sound. For me, much richer than Spiros. I have no experience with Evahs, but have never felt the need to look at them. I am happy with the Innos. They give a nice warm pizz with a meaty thud. Not Gut-esque but no metal Spiro boing. I realise that these are my opinions and not empirical facts
  16. Owen
    it is a shame that Leicester is so far from me.
  17. Owen
    [quote name='owen' timestamp='1445985036' post='2896013'] I like it a lot. How did you do that? [/quote] No, really, how did you do that?
  18. Owen
    Anyone interested?
  19. Owen
    Thanks everyone. It has been suggested that because the preamp is super high impedance for piezo that I could usefully put a 250k resistor across the mag input to lower the load the mags see. Someone else was in exactly this situation and this was done with good results. The bass is wired with a 5 way switch at the moment and that works fine. I had two soapbars made which had one J and half a P in each. Just because I wanted to try. As it happens I tend to stick to the 2xJ option and ignore the P. But you have to try! Again, thanks all for your input.
  20. Owen
    Bonkers price.
  21. Owen
    I like it a lot. How did you do that?
  22. Owen
    Bump
  23. Owen
    Sold pending.
  24. Owen
    [quote name='mxm' timestamp='1445679398' post='2893287'] Got the Aluma J in my Mex Jazz, more of an aesthetic choice as the bass is refinished in chrome. [/quote] Pictures. NOW!
  25. Owen
    I bought this in a fit of GAS. I honestly thought I was past this stuff. I have 2 perfectly good gig bags and several not so good ones, as well as hard cases and flight cases I never ever use. Someone take this and use it. I am going outside to have a word with myself. It is actually closer to pillar box red than the pinkish hue it has in my photos. My phone has a 70 gazillion pixel camera so I do not understand why it cannot take proper pics. Ho hum. It is in totally excellent nick + price is to your door. [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151025_210001_zps42vtwfqi.jpg.html"][/url][url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151025_210008_zpsykgblktn.jpg.html"][/url][url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151025_210031_zps9uvv6lr1.jpg.html"][/url][url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20151025_210058_zps8lncg1uz.jpg.html"][/url]
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