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Having a small clearout on the basis that I'm a massive hoarder. All of the below excludes postage, so you are encouraged to pick up from my house (between Newcastle and Wylam) or from my office (central Newcastle) ideally. However I can be really reasonable with postage, especially if combining, so please get in touch. I can also deliver if you're quite local. I think I have priced everything on the low end of sensible using BC and ebay previous prices, but do feel free to make offers if you think I've got it wrong. It's safe to assume that everything below is in perfectly working condition, and unless otherwise noted everything is in good physical/cosmetic condition too. Pedalboard items have velcro underneath. If you fancy any actual effects pedals then check out my other for sale thread. Photos can be found here. Shure GLXD16 x2 - £300 each. I've had one of these on each board for years, but I no longer use the boards and so the wirelesses are going too. In excellent condition bearing in mind they've been stood on. On things to note are the velcro, the slightly loose cable cover on one transmitter (common on these, surprised it hasn't happened on both) and some slight wear on the transmitter belt clips. Pedaltrain Nano x2 - £40 good condition, £30 well used. Used but fully functional. There's a dent in one of them and they have lived on the floor a lot but they're solid. Come with softcase. Cioks Adam - £60 Excellent power supply. Will come with a suite of cioks leads as well as the IEC cable. Cioks Grip - £10 Can be used to help mount Cioks power supplies.
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Hi all. Like most of us, I have a lot of bass gear. I recently filled in for a mate's heavy rock band (Stingray and Spector, distortion, loud) for a few gigs and also started playing out with my acoustic lounge trio (fretless EB and EUB, clean, very quiet) more and I realised that for both very different gigs I just went for my Quad Cortex. I only really used my HX Stomp in my previous band because the patches were already built and the board was already put together. Anyway, this is turning into an online recipe and you don't need this much backstory but the point is that I realised that I have gear that I use and gear that I don't, and the gear that I don't is going. All of the below excludes postage, so you are encouraged to pick up from my house (between Newcastle and Wylam) or from my office (central Newcastle) ideally. However I can be really reasonable with postage, especially if combining, so please get in touch. I can also deliver if you're quite local. I think I have priced everything on the low end of sensible using BC and ebay previous prices, but do feel free to make offers if you think I've got it wrong. It's safe to assume that everything below is in perfectly working condition, and unless otherwise noted everything is in good physical/cosmetic condition too. Pedals have velcro underneath. Accessories (such as the power supplies and boards, as well as DIs etc) can be found in my other for sale threads. Photos can be found here. MXR M80 Preamp - £110 I've had this since new and it was my first pedal preamp. In fact I believe that it was pretty much the second (at least mass-market) pedal preamp after the Sansamp. Modern, clean tone with huge low end and also a second distortion channel. Temporarily removed from sale, let me know if you're interested and I can add you to the queue or this will be back up in a few days. Sansamp Paradriver DI v2 - £150 My favorite pedal preamp and for a long time this was the mainstay of my analogue rig. Fantastic on bass, just as good on other things. Like a BDDI but less of an inherent mid scoop and more punch. Comes with the box and manual. Temporarily removed from sale, let me know if you're interested and I can add you to the queue or this will be back up in a few days. Line 6 HX Stomp - £420 And the mainstay of my digital rig for a long time! Not sure what to say about this to be honest, it's become the standard modeller for bassists for a reason. Optional extra foot switch below. Brightonion Mini DMFS - £25 I bought this as custom order (1 of 3 that I have done, I do love James' stuff...) before he made specific HX Stomp footswitches. TRS, dual momentary, works with a variety of effects but ideal for HX Stomp. Brightonion Pedalboard Controller - £65 A memory of my 'big pedalboard' days. This was another custom order and is a variation on the 'AB pedal with loop, buffer and tuner'. The customisations that I asked for were to have the buffer always on and to make both outputs switchable rather than always on. So this is now a one stop I/O option for a pedalboard. Signal flow is Input A/B switchable > buffer > switchable loop > output A/B on separate switches. My use case was to switch between wireless and wired basses on the input, have all my pedals in the loop that I could on/off all at once, and to have the outputs go to an always on tuner and my amp, with the ability to mute the amp output. Other uses are of course manifold. Buzz Electronics Double Patch Pedal - £15 Inputs and outputs for your board. Keeps cables tidy, reduces strain on expensive pedals, that kind of thing. Link. Behringer BDI21 - £15 Sansamp clone. Sounds the same but made from plastic. TC Electronic MojoMojo (boxed) - £30 Excellent low-gain and transparent overdrive. SOLD Harley Benton CPT-20 (boxed) - £10 SOLD Mini pedal tuner. To be honest, it's an excellent mini pedal tuner. Behringer TU300 - £15 Normal sized pedal tuner!
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Help me with this - why can I not get on with this active bass?
Jack replied to Minininjarob's topic in Bass Guitars
It's the end of the first verse phrase that always got me. I have to confess to just playing the second half of the verse twice on a few occasions. The "A . . . B . . ." is a lot easier on the fingers than that run up the d string. -
Help me with this - why can I not get on with this active bass?
Jack replied to Minininjarob's topic in Bass Guitars
Whilst singing lead and jumping around to boot. -
Help me with this - why can I not get on with this active bass?
Jack replied to Minininjarob's topic in Bass Guitars
Excellent role model and one of my early reasons to get a Stingray, even though I later found out that it was a Sterling... You need a pick, an SVT and a lot of practice to sound like that though, it's more than just the bass. -
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Hi all, The bass I am selling my Spector Euro Rebop bass. It's a beautiful bass that is all Spector in terms of feel and somewhere between a Spector and a Stingray in terms of sound. I'll spare you all the usual fluff about how I'll be sorry to see it go and such, but honestly it's a really nice bass and I'm sure it'll make someone else as happy as it made me. What I will say, without any hint of hubris or salesmanness, is that this is a LOT of bass for the money. You can tell it's one of their nicer ones as compared to my NS Pulse II it has a few better appointments such as the 'full fat' preamp instead of the junior, smoother neck join cuts, etc. Location/Postage I'm based between Newcastle and Wyalm, about 15 minutes from the Metrocentre. I work from home most of the time so I can be flexible with collection or can deliver if it's sensible. I can be near Durham quite easily and my little brother lives in Northallerton. I can post as I have the box. Price This is up for the same £750 I paid for it. Which is either the right price (as that's what I paid) or a massive bargain (as prices have gone mental lately) depending on how you look at it. This is the price that Bass Bros offered to buy it from me for before they ghosted me for the second time, so I assume they would have made a healthy profit on top of that price. For these reasons I think that this is extremely fair. Spector ReBop MM Bass Specs: Scale: 34" Construction: Bolt-on Body: European Alder Top: Figured Maple Neck: 3-piece Maple with Graphite Rods and Truss Rod Fingerboard: Maple Inlays: Black Spector Pickup: Aguilar Dual Coil Electronics: Spector TonePump Hardware: Black Bridge: Aluminum Locking Body Finish: Trans Blue Stain Matte Additional photos here.
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Thanks for the response. I kind of feel better knowing that it's hard, makes me feel less like an idiot. It doesn't have to be perfect as this is for my 'acoustic' trio and not like a a loud party band or anything, just the bass line has a very different vibes with me just planting root notes on a fretless. It needs some kind of wooble... I guess I'll set up the tone generator, plug it into my computer and have a real mess around, starting with distortion into tremolo as you have suggested.
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If we're speaking about effects and sounds, can someone help me sound like Robyn? I need a choppy synth sound, been messing with the tremolo and synths but can't quite get there. Any ideas?
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Indeed, but it is my understanding that some (most?) Limelights do have Fender logos on them, and as you have mentioned necks and stuff get swapped all the time with FSOs. It's murky, isn't it? Again there was a really tight character limit and the Limelight-fakery seemed more obvious and egregious than the Fender-fakery. To me at least.
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Fake Limelight. Despite the logo it didn't actually say "this is a Fender bass" anywhere, it was being sold as a Limelight, which I don't think it was. If I'm wrong then great, I hope it goes back up. I just don't want some poor schmuck being scammed, which for all we know is how the current owner got it anyway, they might not be evil themselves. You only get like 100 characters so my message said something like "not a limelight, handwriting wrong, serial # and build date implausible".
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They must have cared a bit.
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I reported it, I may not have been the only one.
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The number is 012 but the build date is given as 2020. Limelight has been going for way longer than that, lending credence to the idea that it's not genuine.
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Wow, you must really like the amp...
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Anyone used this surge protected extension lead?
Jack replied to shoulderpet's topic in Accessories and Misc
I have one from the same range but double wide that's been under my computer desk for years, works well for that application. -
You seem like the person to ask for this, what does the voice switch do? The manual seems wrong.
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I've owned one Harley Benton (the single coil P) and played loads more. You could honestly play one of those and never need to upgrade. Mental what £100-£200 gets you if you aren't bothered by the brand.
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Hard disagree. In the good old days you had to have money to get started on recording. Hell even instruments themselves were relatively much more expensive than they are now. Yes, that barrier probably meant that generally people who recorded were a bit more serious about it, but mostly it just meant that poorer r less fashionable artists struggled to get off the ground. Being able to record on a whim and really cheaply undoubtedly leads to more dross, but it also leads to more gems. People like Walk Off The Earth would have never been able to do what they do before decent home recording. There are also people in this thread making the point that music is fashionable, and that your face has to be marketable. Not so if you can do it yourself. I completely agree. Viagra Boys, Highly Suspect, Red Fang, Doctor Dog, plenty of bands out there making new music every day. The other thing that people stuck in the last millenium forget is that bands have always been struggling against solo singers. Pink Floyd spent 57 weeks in the singles charts. Cliff Richard spent 1182. Ok, maybe that's about longevity as Pink Floyd weren't huge forever. Fine. The Rolling Stones spent 389, still a third of Cliff. Came here to say this but have been beaten to it. Music used to be an effort. Vinyl and CDs were expensive, and they had to be bought in person from shops that had physical copies in stock. Then you had to find them on your shelf, turn the hifi on and play them. Nowadays you just scream into the void and ask Alexa to play anything ever recorded. Yes there's always been the radio and music in shops but kids today who aren't interested in music probably listen to more music of their choice than even the most ardent aficionados did in the 70s. That's got to be diluting the charts somewhat. As too are the algorithms, Spotify plays things that are already more popular, as does Youtube. Ask it for 'rock music' and you'll be spoon fed stuff that's already doing well. If you're not paying too much attention or you just want music but you're not specific as to what, then you'll be changing the charts without even trying.
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Looks like old school Gallien Krueger, a 1001 and a rbx410?
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Question re. phantom power and using two types of mics into desk
Jack replied to missis sumner's topic in PA set up and use
Do you have the specifics on what those amps are? Most modern, prosumer level stuff should be fine. If you've got anything old, odd, or cheap then maybe not. I have to keep phantom power away from my hx stomp as it sounds all glitchy, but I think that's the only thing. -
That's not arguing, you're just contradicting each other.
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With signature stuff I always think that if you like the artist then you might have similar tastes. They're doing what you're doing, and they have a certain amount of free reign to design tools for that thing. Take the Mike Herarra Stingray. I too play punky, fun music. I too like Stingrays, I also like passive basses for 'that' pick tone a lot of the time. I also like bright coloured basses. I also like maple boards... The Ibanez K5 was the same. You can like Korn or not but that bass was amazing for heavy rock, you can tell that that's what it was designed to do.