Beedster

Anyone who loves high-quality vintage amplification needs to check out Mike's FS threads and get in quick because he has some absolute beauties! I came away from Mike's with some big boxes at very generous prices and I'm very pleased I did. Needless to say given the feedback already posted in this thread, Mike's a real gent to deal with 👍

@Owen I thought you had moved beyond such technology If DIY fixes don't work I'll dig out the details of the mic repair guy recommended to me a while back, rates seemed reasonable 👍

That's what tube amps are for 👍

Thr Baroque rhythm section (double bass/cello and harpsichord usually) was f***ing awesome, predating similar awesomeness by the likes of Chic by about 300 years 👍

Good thread 👍

That's a very cynical POV @Muzz

Every component makes a difference, and all other things being equal, the less engineered the component, the greater the potential magnitude of that difference. And if a difference exists it must exist in some amount and if it exists in some amount it can be measured (in theory). But in measurement we have noise (a metaphor in most cases of measurement, but literal fact in music/audio), which all too often means all bets are off when it comes presence of a wood-related difference versus the measurability of that difference and the importance of that difference. As the old scientific statement goes, 'not everything that can be measured is important, and not everything that is important can be measured'.

I was not commenting on the validity of the argument, just that it served a pickup maker to suggest that pickups are where the tone resides

I received the exact opposite claim - wood makes NO difference to tone at all - from a very well known maker of pickups. Go figure 🤔

No, it’s a bitsa but a rather special one, trust me 👍

I've always seen music as much about the social as the artistic, so when a few local guys who I both really like and who can really play got some momentum around a series of projects, I felt very happy to be picking up an electric again (in fact two, more to come.....) 👍

There might be another coming soon also...... 🤔

'71. It's a bloody beaut. Alignment of several stars 👍

Bands 🤔

I did 6-months but.......

Long story as to the why and the how, but very happy nonetheless. Original 1971 in all it's glory, weighs slightly less than the Titanic but is a joy, plays like butter and sounds like the Precision sound in your head. Bought for s very specific project that I'm now very glad I chose 👍

This is all run off the mill stuff these days, can't see any need for negative feedback, courier was crap, seller having a bad day, buyer perhaps a little too anxious (not a criticism, we've all been there). I've had a couple of way way worse courier experiences recently, complete comedy crapness, both made a whole lot easier by the fact that both the people at the other end - BCers of course - were very calm and cool about everything 👍

I can see why you might feel that, but there are no jibes, only comments based on the thread to date in which you've alluded to both financial harm and (albeit implied) psychological harm, despite going on to state zero risk of either in pursuit of getting this done and dusted. A jibe would have been be 'You're an idiot' or 'you deserve this', but I've said neither, I've simply, if a little harshly, suggested that you're dreaming if you think this will resolve well and without further distress. Hand on heart, I hope that if i were in the same situation as you and posted here, I would receive, recognise the wisdom of, and act on the basis of the same advice you've received 👍

I suspect that, of the above two posts, I would prefer to have been the author of the second 🤔

Keep on dreaming Eddie