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  1. Owen
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  2. Owen

    When 4 becomes 5

    Owen replied to Owen's topic in Build Diaries

    [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/CAM00124_zpslrhpgobg.jpg.html"][/url] Filling in the original bridge holes with dowelling (AKA matches) [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/CAM00125_zpsbybfw5ms.jpg.html"][/url] New machine head. If I knew what I was doing then I would have put it somewhere where the G would run straight after the nut. [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/CAM00127_zpsshgy3t0t.jpg.html"][/url] Finished bridge. The A unit happened to sit in the right place using and original screw hole so I bodged the rest around that one. [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/CAM00128_zpslg7ltu2g.jpg.html"][/url] Finished headstock. Dodgy string alignment. Do I care? No. The pickup seems to be fine, but the G+D side is quieter than the B+E+D side. I will raise it up to see what difference that makes. The strings are old spare until I get it working properly. It took about 2 hours, and I am the bodgiest of the bodgers and it was OK. String spacing is a bit tight, but nothing I cannot work with. Good times!
  3. Owen
    No worries
  4. Owen
    Yes please. PP?
  5. Owen
    I have specced one up to use in Church and tried one out in situ. The room is a 450 seater and during set up we gave it some beans to see what happened. It got pretty loud! I am still waiting for delivery so cannot comment definitively, but it would certainly be worth your hiring one to see how it works for you. It is hassle free to rig and packs down easily. I have friend in Cardiff who you could hire. He runs his with a loud soul band with 4 piece horn section having come from the standard RCF on poles tyoe of set up and is more than happy.
  6. Owen
    Lush beyond!
  7. Owen
    You can never have too much headroom. Is there anything about the Puma you dislike? If the rig works, don't fix it. If you need something to sweeten a piezo pick up buy an fdeck preamp.
  8. Owen

    Relic J5

    Owen replied to Owen's topic in Build Diaries

    The woodwork is done, including some heavy chambering. It is now going to Paul Nield (retro169 on Facebook) for an Oly White reliced finish, including matching headstock. I am getting a decal made which will read something along the lines of Ffendar Jass in a Fender script. This will be absolutely hilarious if you are a Welsh speaking musician from North Wales, but probably less so if you are not.
  9. Owen
    Me too. I have a tragic record of selling and then buying back. I have done this with a Streamliner and am now wondering about selling it again. It is a disease.
  10. Owen
    [url="http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/187546-gfs-paulownia-bodies.html"]http://www.tdpri.com...nia-bodies.html[/url] http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/350048-got-me-gfs-paulownia-body-featherweight-tele-build.html
  11. Owen
    Korg CX3 with MKII (Hammond copy) software with heavy duty flight-case. [font=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif][size=3]Playing a vintage Hammond organ isn't just about a sound; it's about a feel - it's about being engaged with the instrument. It's like playing a stand-up bass. You gotta dance with it a little. That's why so many keyboardists believe that even the best modeled tone wheel organs have fallen just a little short of the mark. But not the Korg CX3! The unique sound AND feel of the Hammond organ is reborn in the CX3. Not only is the modeling technology dead-on real - so real you'd be frightened if you weren't digging it so much - the keyboard action and response is astounding. Even the controls are just right![/size][/font] [font=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif][size=3]The Korg CX3 modeled tone wheel organ is so close to the real thing it's scary. At less than a tenth the weight of the classic original (yes, the chiropractic association is unhappy about it), you'll want to get to the gig even earlier to play your CX3. State-of-the-art modeling technology delivers the ultimate Hammond experience. Hearing it isn't enough, you have to play the CX3 to believe it. Not only is the action right, the keyboard response is right on. It's time to practice those windmill sweeps and falls![/size][/font] [b]Korg CX3 Modeled Tone Wheel Organ Features:[/b][list] [*]128 possible programs for immediate use [*]Drawbars - the backbone of the organ sound [*]Split function lets you use two sounds simultaneously [*]Look, Feel, Layout of a real organ [*]Analog Outputs: 2 analog unbalanced [*]MIDI In, Out, Thru [*]Headphone out [/list]
  12. Owen
    I have a Ryder P bass. I did not love the headstock so I bought a JIm Deacon P on here for £50 cos it had a nice neck. I swapped necks and flogged the other bits so that the whole excercise was cost neutral. I do not use it because I do not really like a P nut width (as I discovered after buying it) but I hate having things lying around. I bough a Wilikinson 4+1 kit to turn a 4 string into a 5 string years ago and have been keeping it for the right occasion. I mounted it all yesterday and the bass seems quite happy being a 5. Sadly the Wilikinson bridge means I would have to put a shim the size of a brick under the neck so that will come off. I have a spare machine head which will go onto the lower edge of the headstock and I have bought 5 individual chrome bridge units (£7.92 inc postage!) because that is the only way I can see of getting close to 15mm spacing at the moment. There is a one piece bridge out there but that is in black and that would be wrong. The Wilikinson nut is fine. Total outlay including bass = £95 + a new set of stings. Before with Wilikinson kit on it [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/CAM00110_zpsz9eejpyi.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/Mobile%20Uploads/CAM00110_zpsz9eejpyi.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
  13. Owen
    You are correct, I am comparing them to Spiro weichs.
  14. Owen
    The module in the Berg IP is not a Powersoft one. If only IP came in neo!
  15. Owen
    I have 4 tickets to see them in Manchester on May 13th if anyone wants them. £16.50 each. I bought them but found out that I am going with work after I had bought them,
  16. Owen
    When technique is subservient to the music. That was very nice indeed.
  17. Owen
    They are for Tuesday, May 13th at Band on the wall in Manchester.
  18. Owen
    Obv £16.50 each!
  19. Owen
    I bought four of these, but now cannot use them. £16.50 is their face value. I will post for free
  20. Owen
    Tiltback/monitor form factor as well? If this sounds like a shopping list, it is because it is a shopping list.
  21. Owen
    I have the hybrids at the mo. If you are a Spiro player but dream of a decent arco tone, then look no further (for me, on my bass). If that were what my tone goal I would be all over these like a bad rash. At the moment the braids are doing it more for me and I am fine with that (for me, on my bass). These are slighlty higher tension than the braids and I like the lower tension thing. If I could bow the Rockabillys then I would be using them. But if I were a Spiro kinda guy I would be on these - the tone is slightly less metalic - perhaps like a mature set of Spiros (on my bass, for me). Slightly lower tension than Spiros, but really nothing in it, but they have the same immediacy and sound focus (is that even a concept?). For me, on my bass. Who is next?
  22. Owen
    Phew! That was strangely attractive!
  23. Owen
    IIRC this Fishman piezo bridge is the same as the one Bolin used in their NS basses. It does everything you always hoped a piezo pickup would do, but had never actually heard it happening. Cemaes - in Anglesey?
  24. Owen
    I tried one once and confirmed what my old piano teacher knew. I am a one note at a time kind of bloke. I still struggle to walk in a straight line when I think of one.
  25. Owen
    [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1391960892' post='2362993'] some power amps have DSP built in with handy visual interfaces for the PC - it wouldn't surprise me if given the plans for a cab and the graphs of what it will do you could work it out yourself... [/quote] There are many things in life that I [i]could[/i] do for myself, but I have learnt that there are lots of things that I never actually get around to doing, so if it is already done by someone who knows what they are doing then the magic happens that bit easier! I would also like a little DSP box to put before the power section of my AI so that I could avoid carrying a rack around with me
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