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  1. prowla
    I was having a chat with Chris Childs (Thunder) at the recent Birmingham show and he said he was getting a Ric sound on his endorsement Sandberg (a nice bass!), but I said the same thing about the lower registers but it wouldn't do it going up the neck, to which he nodded and agreed.
  2. prowla
    The best bass pedal. 🙂 I split the signal to 2 amps.
  3. prowla
    @NancyJohnson Haha! 🙂 (It was another Ric I picked instead of mine, though...) I've often said that a key distinguishing feature of the Ric is the way the sound changes as you move up the neck; it is entirely possible to get the sound if you stick to below the 7th fret, but where most basses sound gets thinner as you move up, the Ric gets thicker. ( @cetera stuck to the lower register in the blind test.) Probably the only other basses which have a pickup at the neck are the Billy Sheehan ones (which also has stereo outputs) and an EB3, so I'd expect they might have the same characteristics. I've got a selection of basses and the ones I gravitate towards are my Rics and my Warwick 5-strings.
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    Righty-oh; it's arrived! I might get to play with it this evening.
  5. prowla
    Nah - no Warmoth on that!
  6. prowla
    OK - if it said MIDI, then it should be fine. I meant, as opposed to a 5-pin DIN cable from a 70s cassette deck! (Well, actually my decent hi-fi system uses DIN cables.)
  7. prowla
    I'm totally bowled over with this one...
  8. prowla
    @stewblack The 5-pin DIN leads are MIDI ones, not audio, right? (The wiring is different.)
  9. prowla
    That truss-rod is on a wonk. I think we've had a Brazilian oportunidade featured on here before...
  10. prowla
    It wasn't as daft as a comment as might appear, as one might not be included with a s/h unit! 🙂
  11. prowla
    And a USB cable to connect to the computer?
  12. prowla
    Just checking...
  13. prowla
    Calling a PJ a P is taking the P... ...or is that adding the J?
  14. prowla
    Here's to yours!
  15. prowla
    If you put the scrunchy thing on the headstock you won't see the end of the silks...
  16. prowla
    Do they qualify as "vintage" now?
  17. prowla
    The thru-neck Shaftys are one of the better Ric copies; there is a thriving 'fakers community. My selection: L-R: Shaftesbury 3263 (made by Eko) semi; it's claim to fame is there's a picture of Wyman playing on in The Stones. Vorg Matsumoku bolt-on neck 34" scale 70's; I call it "avocadoglo". A headless doubleneck with Ric copy pickups on the bass. My Rickenberger (real Ric pickups on a Steinberger). A CMI thru-neck, contemporary with the Shaftesbury and other brands. A recent Retrovibe Renegade, labelled "Red Baron" on the TRC and now sporting a Malteot Seymour Duncan pickups. The 70's Japanese ones seemed to be produced at a number of factories, the most famous being Matsumoku, and have logos applied for customer orders; thus it is possible to have identical instruments with different names on the TRCs. Facebook is the best place to go and @Bassassin is the person who knows the most about vintage fakers here on BC.
  18. prowla
    I've got a J-Retro in one of my basses and it is really a great piece of kit - deep and authoritative bass.
  19. prowla
    Somebody's bid £1 - they'll be disappointed if they win!
  20. prowla
    I hadn't realised it could play notes from a MIDI controller - I may be giving that a try...
  21. prowla
    I'm in (Member #5)!
  22. prowla
    The "vintage" Fender ones with the threaded saddles (ie. multiple grooves across the saddles) might be suitable; I've just got one on a mandolin/guitar ("mandotar") conversion I'm doing.
  23. prowla
    I've got some other MIDI kit, including a Yamaha U16 USB interface, so hopefully that'll work. My MIDI rack made an appearance at a recent Bass Bash. I've dabbled with a couple of other synth pedals too. So this should be fun... The SS is great, but limited in saved settings.
  24. prowla
    Yep; curiously I may have some time available...
  25. prowla
    Well, I've just joined the club, pending arrival of the v3 from the Panda folks... I had looked at s/h ones (which are upgradeable), but a new v3 is under €300, so that'll do nicely.
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