Beedster
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How the f**k could you be surprised, it’s about as good a rig as Mesa have ever produced, and given that in real terms it’s between Mesa and Ampeg in the race in question, it was always going to be awesome. Glad you like it however. I’m 100 miles away and haven’t heard it yet, can you turn it up above 2 so that I can check it out?
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The End! “Auditions for The 602...a diary.”
Beedster replied to AndyTravis's topic in General Discussion
Whenever any musician says that they are ‘like’ someone famous, I know that they will be nothing like them. 100% nothing like them -
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It’s been their role since Ancient Greece
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You may be right Loz, looks like Brazilian but might not be. Either way it is a lovely dark rosewood and nicely played in without being worn -
Original FS thread here, some useful tips if you are thinking of buying and refinishing. BTW it's a '62 RI with grounding strip to back PUP
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PS the board is beautiful dark Brazilian Rosewood
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Lovely 26 year old bass, suffering from the woes that afflict all the Fotoflame models in the end, that is the Foto finish is splitting. It is however a lovely bass, typical of the early 90s MIJs. I’ve been using the neck on my ‘68 Jazz and was going to strip and refin the body (I did the same on a Fotoflame about 10 years back and the finish comes off very easily). However, I’m now selling the ‘68 and even though it’s a bit cracked, the finish on this bass still looks amazing, so seems best to leave it, or at least let the new owner decide. Price is a bargain, no haggling and no trades please. Chris
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Interesting interpretation of "New"
Beedster replied to Beer of the Bass's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
If something is unused I guess it's new. If that were not the case, how long would something have to sit on a shop shelf to become used? Flip side, plenty of musical instruments are well used but still sold as new, having been played over and over again by prospective buyers, but never actually bought. I guess 'new' is a bit vague both ways -
I’m thinking of doing the same, I just need one more Gen 1 Compact Or a Mesa 1516EV
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One of the most sublime bass tones out there. I’ve got flats on my Modulus Flea - very similar bass - and it blows my mind every time I play it
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Look out Cape Town
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So Walshy, as a fellow Precision (and Flea) player, how did you find this compared to the Super Twin? -
Fair point. The pre-amp solution allows him to use one bass only for both precision-ish and ray tones, the VMP solution is potentially better because it allows him to have flats on one for the John Deacon sound, and rounds on the other (I would have the flats on the 'ray because that is a glorious tone, but not everyone agrees). Not quite sure how he's going to get close to the Geezer tone either way, but I imagine a key part of that was very hot tubes and volume set at 11
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Wouldn't it be ironic if that part was recorded on Deacon's 'ray
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Put back to stock, the cycle of life I agree Paul, there's a lot of folks get very agitated about the precision of Precisions, but you could move the PUP a few cms each way without a dramatic change, as I've found with my Fernandes. There used to be a lot of talk also about PUPs that are too close to each other interfering with each other but I've not read anything in that space for a while so perhaps that was disproved. And if reverse P was good enough for 1980's Yamaha BBs, it's good enough for me
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Bummer. But to be really honest mate, you only need one, seriously. I used the BB-750 with one Mesa 4x10 a few times and got noise complaints from Cape Town
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I might be wrong, and it might be the unusualness of the PUP configuration, but even the bass side looks much closer to the neck than bridge that is the case with standard P-PUP placing?
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So you’d entrust a dream Mesa rig to me. When do I start?
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Casters pop out. It’s Mesa
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Nearly every violin in eBay has marking suggesting it’s 400 years old. Sorry
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Everyone like Yellow Submarine
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Reminds me of the classic Steve Coogan...... ”What’s your favourite Beatles album?” ””The Best of the Beatles”
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There are so many albums that to me are nothing more than the emperor’s invisible clothes. People in the know have suggested that I ‘try’ to like them. My Mum used to say the same about spam, suet pudding and homework. I rest my case
