Beedster

Funnily enough I was listening to a Rush compilation a mate did for me today and thinking what a great band they are. The mate in question's a folkie and I never quite understood why he's such a massive Rush fan. I found myself liking them to Jethro Tull today (!!!!), so perhaps can start to see the link? Either way, great band, and great bass playing on pretty much every track

I'd like to know who that guy is, massively overpriced, based in the UK but prices everything in US dollars. He had a couple of old Fender parts (tuners) I was after and despite many messages he never replied, which makes me suspect they're all fakes. Like you say, there's someone out there who'll buy it

I've recently invested in a decent bow. I played violin, then viola then cello as a kid, so have some experience. The first time I played the DB with a bow it felt extremely natural. The same couldn't be said for the sound. Whilst my bow control seemed pretty good (e.g., coordination between left and right hands on scales, arpeggios), the quality of the note varied hugely, even with relatively little change in pressure. The main problem I'm finding is that of hitting 8ve harmonics all over the place, , especially on the start of notes. It's actually quite a pleasing tone which would be quite lot more pleasing were I actually trying to do it! I'm not sure whether as it's a new bow I might have underdone (or overdone) the rosin, whether I need sticker or less sticky Rosin (Pirstro Evah/Oliv, not DB specific AFAIK), whether the strings aren't especially bow friendly (E/A Spiro Weich, D/G Obligato), whether I simply need to work on my technique, or whether it's something else. Any thoughts welcome Chris

[quote name='joncaulfield72' timestamp='1383409790' post='2264201'] Hi Beedster, I can collect Sunday or Monday if nobody has picked it up from you. Cheers Jon [/quote] I should know tomorrow Jon so will let you know Chris

[quote name='Shaggy' timestamp='1383400109' post='2264058'] Blimey, this is hell of a deal for someone!!! Driver is a near new Eminence (Kappa I think), cab is UK made; proper ply construction - rats fur covering a tad scruffy (or was!) but I spent a long afternoon once hammerite-ing the grille. Very lightweight for size. Anyone wants the original Scorpion driver they can have it for postage, but it'll need a re-cone Really fancying that Bassman rig of your Chris if you still have it..... [/quote] Hello mate, good to hear from you. I really like this cab t be honest but have an Ampeg 1x15 and a BF 69er so am a little cabbed out at present! And yes, not only does it sound very pleasing but it weighs nothing! A guy I know who has a studio is probably going to have it, if not and you fancy it back, let me know Cheers C

We should also all have tache BC avatars for Movember?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1383143040' post='2260708'] I know what you mean, I'm in Cornwall at the moment did 60 miles had 4000 feet of climbing. What I was going to ask was if you're down the weekend of the 10th come and do the Hellfire Sportive with us. [/quote] Ha ha, wish I had the time, hope you're doing the Epic Wayne? Thanks for the invite anyway, perhaps next year when with any luck we'll be back down in Kent? C

I loved my SVP but needed to match it with an Ampeg power amp to really get he sound I wanted. Problem was that the SVP plus SVT300 was 5u, weighed a ton, and was about 250 more watts than I needed. Now have an V4-B and am very happy C

They'll be on eBay in a few days! You'd have needed a pretty big vehicle to drive that lot away wouldn't you

[quote name='Finbar' timestamp='1383151005' post='2260856'] Found one on Gumtree and messaged the chap selling it. He replied, and I sent one back trying to barter the postage in with it, then... no reply. Left it a couple of days and messaged him again, and he said I didn't reply to him, so he sold it to someone else. Absolutely gutted! [/quote] [quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1383119409' post='2260288'] I have one that I dont use any more, pm me if you want to do a deal. [/quote] There you go

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1383122608' post='2260351'] You still cycling, Chris? [/quote] Yep, you'd love it where I live Wayne, 500m climb to to the top of the Cambrians quite literally out of my back door. I ride Machynlleth/Dylife/Llanidloes and back occasionally, 1800m of climbing total in 3 hours! Ride to work is 450 metres of climbing! I never realised how flat Kent was

VT pedal and SVP are Worlds apart. I'm guessing the folks who think the VT sounds like decent Ampeg haven't played through decent Ampeg. The SVP through SVT-300 was one of the most sublime bass sounds I've made

Two guys have PM'd me saying they'll collect this but neither have replied saying when (it's first come first served as far as I'm concerned). This might be in part because the PM system doesn't seem to be letting people know they've got a new message. I'll give them a couple of days to reply and if they don't come back to me by Friday we'll arrange something subrob. Cheers Chris

Nothing here either. I'm guessing the alerts aren't working due to the increased PM traffic resulting from the 'no replies to wanted ads' thing

Bought a Coda

Buy it, refin if you can't live with it.