Stub Mandrel

Set neck, not through, but the same 'Probucker' pickups as the Vintage Pro Thunderbird.

Which onel was it? If it was the bolt on neck model, they are terrible and feel nothing like a Thunderbird. If it wasn't the vintage pro, it was the lesser bolt-on version. I've decided to get an Embassy when the next batch eventually arrives in the UK.

Just downloaded the GDI21 manual -= it even has the 'slap bass example', so my pedal has the wrong back page. How odd.

Just got a Bheringer DI box, back of the leaflet shows example emulation of several amps, using three switches which aren't on the box! Presumably this is from some past iteration, or something. Does anyone know and is it possible to'retro fit' these to the pedal? A

I see an Epiphone Embassy in my future...

My Dad was reminiscing about the change from valve to solid state rectifiers. My grandad blew a few when fitting them to replace HT rectifiers because he didn't realise they needed a resistor to limit inrush current. When a selenium rectifier went on someone's TV, he said you could diagnose the fault as soon as they opened the front door and you smelt it.

The design means that when changing valves the HT is inaccessible - unless you poke something into the valve base.

In my experience, this style either fail quickly or last decades. The biggest problem is when they have a too-large diameter hole, causing the jack to move around causing noise, rather than the spring losing its mojo.

A Carling drinker, eh?

Just ordered one. £20 for an insurance policy if I have an amp problem and have to go straight into the PA?

I have a Behringer Tremolo pedal which does what it says on the tin. My 'Vintage Tube Overdrive' is supposed to be an exact clone of the Ibanez Tube Screamer, obviously anyone neurotic about having a first-gen op amp chip would disagree.* *Strange how when manufacturers change a product it ALWAYS sounds worse...

Can you put a bleed resistor (say 100K - 1M) across the standby switch so that the filter cap can partially charge?

The mains plug fuse will be quick blow. Perhaps you should be using a 5A there? 3A is more what you use for a bedside lamp. Is it possible that you have a shorted turn or winding on your transformer, easy to do if you have a toroidal mounted by a central screw.

It was the weight of all those knobs.

Sad to lose one of the fold. 😞

As bought: As mutilated:

I paid £180 in a shop for mine (Squier Standard Jazz, Indonesia, Serial number says 2001, built by Cort so a decent quality build). Over the odds, but it is a particularly nice example as the neck has darkened so it looks nearer 60 than 20 years old. I've tarted it up with pickup cover, vintage knobs, mutes and a thumb rest so it feels vintage and it sounds and plays well. 2004 model is supposed to have thicker body, but mine has the same thickness body as my Flea Jazz... But not worth a great deal.

I'm sure my waist isn't 32cm... and I don't weigh 12kg 13g.

Yes, I think that tab is simplified/has errors and of course it's a bastardisation of the bass and sax parts. But I guess what matters is that it's good enough people get the joke 🙂

Wow, I has finally learnt something useful from Basschat 😉

LOL! And look what I found 🙂 https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/hi-standard/the-pink-panther-theme-bass-91124

Bass Terror. Hybrid valve/Class D, but no lack of 'heft', honest!

Each to their own! I'd say that takes the funk out of, err, funk.

Not really learning it, but I went along to a rehearsal expecting to play House of the Rising Sun in Am, and expecting it to be a bit meh, even with some neat guitar work. But we did it in Em, no problem. And to my surprise and great satisfaction, it came out pretty much like this:

I find my effects great fun, but practically speaking I use them as effects in the same way that a movie uses effects to achieve something out of the ordinary. Too much effect limits my ability to change the sound and dynamics using my fingers. Now I have an amp with a valve preamp the utility of my MojoMojo is becoming moot as just digging in creates the massive sound I want and the jury is out on compression. A tuner is useful, but not essential, ditto an HPF. A chorus is handy for things like Purple Rain, and I will probably move this to be in the post preamp effects loop. My collection of overdrive, fuzz and distortion pedals are possibly redundant unless a real need comes along. Octaver is great, until other people join in. Phase, flange, tremelo* don't really suit. *Worked a treat on boulevard of broken dreams but the concept of a drummer taking his tempo from one of my effects didn't work.