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[quote name='Bassassin' post='67073' date='Sep 28 2007, 07:40 PM']The "too good to be true" thing does happen - a week or two ago a 1977 Ibanez Les Paul Custom copy, left handed (incredibly rare) one owner from new, not played in 20+ years, original case - appeared on my local Gumtree for £50. These things will see the better side of £500 on Ebay these days. I missed it by about 5 minutes. Jon[/quote] It does happen occaisionally. I missed out on an Antoria Jazz Bass @£35 ono, which from the photo looked immaculate, in local free ads paper about a month ago. Was being sold just as I phoned. Don't know why, I didn't offer the seller double there & then! There again I picked up my lovely Rickenfaker (with case) while ago in the same paper for equivalent of £90, as well as Shaftesbury Telebass more recently for £20

[i]And, a real rarity, from the same seller, a Jolana D, made in Czechoslovakia in about 1984/85: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jolana-D-Bass_W0QQitemZ250170264692QQ"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jolana-D-Bass_W0QQitemZ250170264692QQ[/url] If I had the readies right now, I'd bite his arm off for that. J. [/quote][/i] Me too! That's a nice bass

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='65599' date='Sep 25 2007, 10:47 PM']Anyone heard 'Sunrise' by New Order...Hooky in full attack![/quote] That bassline is full-on - he pulls out all the stops on that one! Have you heard 'Broken Promise' from Brotherhood album?

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' date='Sep 25 2007, 07:01 AM' post='65148'] [i]I only ask because I read a comment on another thread that made my blood boil. Apparently you aren't a real musician unless you go out and play 'in the field' so to speak.[/i] A sad misguided statement - wouldn't take much notice... There again everybody's entitled to an opinion. I gig about once/twice a month, which fits in nicely with my life. Sometimes due to other constraints, I find I can't gig at all. It's not a problem. There was a period in my life, albeit about about 10 years ago, when the band I was in did 200+ gigs a year, anywhere. Back then I didn't feel any more of a 'real musician', just quite malnourished & knackered really

[quote name='ahpook' post='64517' date='Sep 23 2007, 10:14 PM']i know that paul, the has one of these and is happy with it...anyone else tried one ? i'm going to be playing a radio session soon for a community radio station and will miss the sound of my ampeg pre-amp. i know the di level isn't up to much, i'm curious how noisy it'll be. my sansamp was taken out by an exploding electric mistress a while back and i've not got the funds to replace it.[/quote] I've got two in my set up, for different sounds. I think they're quite good, especially considering the price. I've gigged them, etc & never I had an issue with reliability. But, not a fan of the plastic case. It does with the knobs , feel a bit flimsy & fragile. However, I have got two - backup available. I used a Sansamp (on loan) for a while prior to getting BDI21s. To my ears (though I'll probably get shot down by the Tech 21 afficianados) I think the BDI21 is comparable. There was a good A/B on the BDDI & BDI21 with soundclips on the old website, if I remember(?) Quite interesting results.

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='64231' date='Sep 23 2007, 12:11 AM']Anyone heard of him before.....I think he was in the Skids prior to the Armoury Show. Love the tone he has on this track. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV77kAhd10k"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV77kAhd10k[/url] I think he is playing my favourite bass , Aria Pro SB1000. Also features one of my guitar heroes, the late, great John McGeough. Despite being a Skids & Banshees fan, I don't think the track is upto much but I'm loving the bass.[/quote] Good call - a top bass player. Very underrated. What's Russell Webb up to these days? Great shame, Armoury never got the recognition they deserved - brilliant live. John McGeough's death was a sad loss. Another great band from around this time were the Chameleons. Anybody remember them?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='64435' date='Sep 23 2007, 06:46 PM']That Rickalike wasn't a Kasuga - everything about it (apart from the dual rods) says Matsumoku to me. Blimey - didn't know that was your ES-175! Not a bad price atm, still time for some eleventh-hour Ebay madness. And you do know that Kasugas [i]weren't[/i] made in the Tokai factory, don't you? J.[/quote] Yes that's mine. A lovely guitar, but running out of space. Plus, I'm a bassplayer. I understood that [i]Kasuga manufactured guitars for Tokai[/i] as well as other suppliers(?) That is according to several sources including vintageguitar.com, & even the Tokai forum.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='64379' date='Sep 23 2007, 03:05 PM']Nice - but being a lefty & a bit on the dear side (considering the twin truss Rick copy sold for £170 yesterday - ) means it probably won't sell. Maybe it's the time of year - but JapCrap isn't selling the way it was a couple of months back. Jon.[/quote] That's quite true actually. That Rick copy did go quite cheap, considering prices seen in the past months for similar basses. You could have ended up with a matching pair of Kasugas there! Talking of which my Kasuga ES-175 ends today, though I'm not too unhappy with it's current price...

Nice L/H Maya Jazz, looks in good condition. If it's anything like my P-Bass & Rickenfaker - a lovely instrument, worth the price IMHO. Shame it's a lefty! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Left-Handed-Bass-MAYA-1970s-made-in-japan_W0QQitemZ170151907598QQihZ007QQcategoryZ68177QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Left-Handed-Bass-MAY...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] Item 170151907598

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='63067' date='Sep 20 2007, 01:06 PM']Yes, I've used AuctionSniper in the past and a very good piece of software it is. BUT ... Firstly it takes all the fun out of it, and secondly I always bid my highest bid first time - I've never seen the point in starting at £10, wait to get outbid, put in £30, wait to get outbid etc. etc. I have no qualms about sniping being unethical. For a sniper to beat me, he has to be prepared to outbid me. Simple really. I don't worry about being beaten by £2 either. It's not really £2, is it? If I raise my bid from £121.30 to £125.30, that's when I discover that his bid was higher than mine, his now stands at £127.30 and I'm STILL being beaten by £2! Do the research, set the bid, never change your mind. There'll be another one along in a minute.[/quote] I agree with you it can take the fun out of it. But, for someone like me who has no self control with regard to impulse buying (according to the wife), I find it instills some descipline. I'm not tempted to keep on bidding, with compulsion to win the auction... I'm probably a bit sad!

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='62853' date='Sep 19 2007, 09:49 PM']Mine was the £121.30 so I got pipped for £2. I was playing last night, so unavailable to raise my bid, but I wouldn't have anyway. Nice as it was, I suspect that it was more of a conversation piece than a player. Now if it had been a very early piece by ROGER Rossmeissl ...[/quote] I used to have same problem. Have you ever tried 'sniping'? Some find this practice 'unethical'. But it saves hanging around the computer sometimes at two in the morning.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='61756' date='Sep 17 2007, 04:35 PM']At work and googling it will be unsly (I type this in notepad and rapidly paste in) But soaking them in a tube of alcohol based solvent is supposed to work. Sounds right, will soak out the grease and not corrode like boiling, oull the out, wipe off the swollen out the coils gunk and hang them to dry outside.[/quote] Hi Oli, How's it going mate? I soak mine in Isopropyl about once every six months, in cut to length metal tubes. It does get most of the crap out, & doesn't stress the string in the same way as boiling.

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='58353' date='Sep 10 2007, 06:10 PM']Check out the new single by a bass supergroup [url="http://www.myspace.com/peterhookneworder"]Freebase[/url] Considering this has Hooky, Andy Rourke & Mani playing bass on it i'm afraid I expected a lot more...it doesn't go anywhere.[/quote] Jury's still out for me. I think this track is still work in progress, with no vocals. Apparently, quite a few guest vocalists involved in this project, including (unfortunately) Robbie Williams. All three of them have got a lot to live up to. Hopefully it will be good. Let's wait & see.......

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='57610' date='Sep 9 2007, 03:44 AM']Hey Nick how's it going?[/quote] OK thanks, had computer problems. Did a gig & tried wristband; it kept moving around, sliding up & down - I have quite thin wrists. Wound got worse - my son reckons I've now got lepresy! I like the height of my bass as it is (below the waist). So I think I'm going to relearn/alter my technique. In the meantime, I'm having to back to fingers for all our songs until my injury heals! I've suffered minor abrasions in the past, but nothing as bad as this. I think this is partly down to having an excellent new drummer, he keeps me on my toes - bastard As a result, sometimes the whole rythmn section might be going a little bit too full on! I bet Dee Dee Ramone never had this problem. Thanks to everyone for advice & tips.

[quote name='gypsymoth' post='56552' date='Sep 6 2007, 03:14 PM']same here - I won't have a guitar or bass with a hard edge or pretty binding. and why should I? conform to the instrument? gimme a break. get one of those heavy metal studded wristbands and let the stupid thing know who has to conform to who.[/quote] Along with the vaseline mentioned earlier, I'm going down the wristband road, together with a matching headband like Mark Knopfler! No seriously, I think I'm going to have to alter my technique. It may sometimes look cool slamming into the bass, giving it 100% etc, but at the moment my wrist which is presently oozing pus from a very inflamed sore isn't!

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='56516' date='Sep 6 2007, 01:45 PM']does the P-Bass have the bridge ashtray in place?[/quote] No. It's not the bridge that is causing abrasion, but edge of body.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='56467' date='Sep 6 2007, 12:45 PM']try putting a bit of vaseline on the wrist before you play.[/quote] Many thanks for all the suggestions. Off to buy a tub of vaseline this evening! Fingerless glove might be a bit too 'metally' for me, & can't help thinking an armsock or bandage possibly looks even more 'self-harmish' - I dunno(?) Failing the vaseline, may have to try reigning in my right-hand pick style. I now understand why I've seen other guitarists like Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood & Joe Strummer with their arms seemingly strapped up. Thanks again

Hello, Does anybody suffer from same affliction as me, in that after playing with a pick for some period of time, I get horrible, (& painful) lacerations on my wrist (?) I get this after playing my Rickenfaker & edgebound Ibanez, but not with P-Bass. So I know it's down to body contour, bass height, & also playing style. I have not played with a pick so exclusively for a long time - I'm more accustomed to fingers. Guess my question is; in others' experience, does/will the skin eventually toughen up? I've tried long sleeve shirts, which have not helped.... Any suggestions welcome please.At the moment my wrist looks like a bad example of self-mutilation(!) Thanks

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Trace Elliot GP7 & WEM Dominator MK1 Bass - together or either. Covers all sounds I need.

[quote name='Kurt' post='47945' date='Aug 20 2007, 08:45 PM']Hi, does anyone know how to add an LED to a DOD250 overdrive pedal. I figure I need a new footswitch, an LED, a resistor and some wire. I can solder OK but I'm not sure how to hook it up. I've searched the web to no avail. TIA. Peace[/quote] Hi Kurt, DOD 250 is a top pedal, built one & use it as a boost. Makes a nice change from usual Tubescreamers. You need a [b]3PDT[/b] footswitch along with led etc, replacing DPDT currently installed. Following link to MXR distortion is an example on how to wire it all up. [url="http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album06/mxr_dist_plus_001"]http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album06/mxr_dist_plus_001[/url] Also, DOD 250 for reference [url="http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album06/DOD_OVERDRIVE_250_VERO_001"]http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album06/DOD_...VE_250_VERO_001[/url] For any other info, etc on pedals,schematics,excellent forum too, try: [url="http://www.diystompboxes.com/wpress/"]http://www.diystompboxes.com/wpress/[/url] Hope this helps, happy modding

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='48368' date='Aug 21 2007, 03:18 PM']This isn't a dig at you Nick but a general comment about flagging up eBay bargains. It's fine and dandy flagging up dodgy dealers or basses that look squiffy. It's also very generous to let other BCers know about BIN bargains that may have just been listed or ones that are maybe hidden away (listed in incorrect categories etc.). However, some folks who have their eye on a bass or piece of equipment that they're hoping no body else has seen, may well be miffed at having their 'treasure' flagged up for all and sundry! Those of us who post on this section of BassChat are probably regular eBay users and at times you come across something and think, 'I'll keep my eye on that, might go cheap enough'. The last thing you need is every other BCer watching/bidding on the same item. I hope you can appreciate that you may well not want that Guild (coincidently, neither do I) but someone may well be seething that it's been flagged up. I'd certainly be well hacked off if it had been a Warwick that I thought was a bargain. I can see an argument that says well Nick/whoever may have spotted a bargain Warwick/Glockenklang/Accugroove etc and posted on here hence I get to hear about it but I'd then be bidding up against my fellow BCers... I'd rather hope that another bassist (possibly yourself) might have spotted it and picked up a bargain. As I say it's just a general comment about posting re. eBay items and certainly not a personal attack on you, as I'm sure that you were doing it for all the right reasons. Though very well intentioned it's not personally what I'd want to encourage; does that make sense or do you/others disagree?[/quote] Warwickhunt, You're totally correct, agree with your comments, & I apologise. I buy things regularly on Ebay myself, & appreciate & understand where you're coming from. Posting in this fashion is clearly not going to enable anyone to bag a bargain.... Thanks Nick

Lovely looking B402 Active, at low price now (£144). Who knows,what it will go for(?) Item : 260149514491 [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260149514491&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=016"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=016[/url]

Not sure who's most mad; the seller or the bidders?!

[quote name='Hamster' post='45530' date='Aug 14 2007, 11:47 PM']+1 nearly all of the above. Sound good enough, last forever, cheap as chips. Just the name isn't fashionable? Goodness knows why, it's not as if they brought out the "Jade Goody Signature Model" is it Hamster[/quote] I've had several Peaveys. All good amps, & do take a hammering. I now use either Trace or an old WEM, depending on what sound I want. But, would have no problem going back to, or playing through one. If it gets you the tone [i]you want [/i]& is loud enough, who cares if it's a fashionable or not. Most members of audiences who aren't anoraks, don't really care, so long as the sound is not awful. If you were that bothered by the name, you could always take the horrible, dated logo off the front grill. That's what I always used to do.