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  1. uncle psychosis
    Fender Japan '62 (reissue) custom telecaster with bareknuckle pickups and hiscox hardcase. Guitar is in very good condition and I am the original owner. I believe that the serial number dates this guitar to 2006. The guitar has been upgraded with Bareknuckle pickups and a 4-way switch to give both series/parallel wiring in the middle position. The neck pickup is a Yardbird and the bridge is a Piledriver. This combination was recommended to me by Tim from Bareknuckle as being very versatile---and it certainly is. It can do pretty much everything except death metal (and with the 4-way switch I reckon you could even give that a try!). This guitar really sounds great but I'm concentrating on bass now so its not getting the love it deserves---its time to move it on :-( Bareknuckle are some of the most highly regarded after market pickups in the world, read more about them here: [url="http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk"]http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk[/url] The guitar also comes with a Hiscox hard case which is also in great condition. [b]There are lots of photos of the guitar and the case here[/b]: [url="http://s978.photobucket.com/albums/ae269/uncle_psychosis/guitar/Telecaster/"]http://s978.photobuc...tar/Telecaster/[/url] Please note that there is a *small* ding on the back of the guitar near the jack socket (this is in the photographs). Its purely cosmetic, and it really is tiny as the photos show. When you're playing you can't see it anyway! I still have the original pickups. These will be included with the sale. Alternatively if you don't want the bareknuckle pickups I can put the originals back in and we can haggle a bit over the price. I am looking for £600 (or near offer). The only trades I am interested in are for bass guitars---particularly a Fender Aerodyne Jazz or Reggie Hamilton Jazz. I may consider other 4-string fretted basses too. I am based in North West Glasgow but I can travel a bit (within reason) to complete a sale. I am also regularly in Edinburgh and Fife (Dalgety Bay). I am prepared to post the guitar but would prefer to deal locally if possible. Please get in touch if you have any questions or interest.
  2. uncle psychosis
    I'm also interested in this - pretty sure a PJ is my ideal bass... but it does seem hard to find one I can afford!
  3. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1325383156' post='1482752'] Honestly, in my opinion, you shoulda decided what you wanted to do, and emailed him asking him for the money, and kept asking for it, then open the dispute as you have. I personally wouldn't have then changed my mind and offered to go halfs, and then recinded on that offer. The fella may only check his emails once a week, got the email about the pickups, and sent the money straight away then found the others... I would be annoyed and offers being changed. Apart from that, go through ebay complaints was right thing to do. [/quote] I agree with this. I don't think you'll have done yourself any favours with the dispute by changing what you asked for either. The best way to deal with an issue like this is to do everything through eBay. Personally I would have sent him one polite request (via ebay messages) to cover your replacement tuners and after that it would have been straight to "item not as described" and let ebay handle it all.
  4. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='M-N-Y' timestamp='1325237303' post='1481133'] Probably a little more than your budget but these are monster basses build and tone wise. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/162608-fs-yamaha-trb-1005-trans-dark-red/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/162608-fs-yamaha-trb-1005-trans-dark-red/[/url] [/quote] I've got one of these. It's brilliant. Highly recommended.
  5. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='stonecoldbass' timestamp='1325211202' post='1481075'] Beacause the older music gets... the less valuable it is?!?! [/quote] That's basically what copyright law says
  6. uncle psychosis
    They're one of these bands who I'm sure I'd like but have never really listened to...keep meaning to pick up some albums but they all seem quite expensive given how long they've been out for...
  7. uncle psychosis
    Man, thats really nice. Don't suppose I can interest you in a 5 string Yamaha?
  8. uncle psychosis
    Can't help you amp-wise but bass-wise since you're happy with the Jazz and want passive I'd say....get a Fender Jazz G&L are also worth considering too. Jazz-wise the classic players series get a lot of love. If you go second hand there are also a lot of bargains out there at the minute. Its definitely a buyers market.
  9. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1323977050' post='1469495'] I was told that studying physics will earn you more or less minimum wage unless you do great things, (not saying you haven't or won't this is just another example!) and that if you actually want to study physics you're more or less giving up a fancy car and a fancy house. [/quote] I wasn't going to get involved in this discussion but I had to once I read this post---its [i]completely and utterly[/i] wrong. Physics is one of the best degrees you can do in terms of getting a good, well-paid job at the end. People who are highly numerate and highly trained in problem solving are very attractive to the financial services industry (actuaries, risk analysts, investment bankers), the manufacturing industry (quality assurance, manufacturing engineering, r&d engineering). You can go into teaching, become a patent lawyer, write computer games or other software---even working as a post-doc at the bottom of the academic ladder you'll probably be earning upwards of £28k. Don't just believe me either, ask PriceWaterhouseCooper: http://www.rsc.org/images/EconomicBenefitsHigherEducationQualifications_tcm18-12647.pdf They did a study for the Royal Society of Chemists and found that the top five highest paying degrees (on average) are Medicine, Law, Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics. You'll find similar figures from other sources if you look for it.
  10. uncle psychosis
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZsA3oyZY-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0myc1493Sn8 Two really simple but absolutely awesome lines.
  11. uncle psychosis
    There was a second hand Yamaha TRB1005 in the classifieds recently for about £400. Brilliant basses.
  12. uncle psychosis
    I've got one of these. Its ace. Someone buy this!
  13. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1322853828' post='1456781'] Everything we hear coming out of a loudpseaker is "processed". The very process of amplification is a process itself. There is an argument that digitised processing is not as natural as analogue processing but I can`t see anything natural about any of it. And that`s ok, because it sounds good. [/quote] This. If you like the sound that you're making then it doesn't matter how many amps/cabs/pedals/pickups/effects/ADCs/DACs/DI boxes you're running through. A simple signal chain is not inherently better than a complicated one. Just different.
  14. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='rapscallion' timestamp='1322665491' post='1454154'] Has anyone else had trouble with the floor covering on these pedal cases? After chopping and changing the effects in my signal path countless times, its starting to come up at the corners. I know they're cheap, but this seems like a pretty large design oversight. Any recommendations for a fix? at the moment i'm considering ripping it out and cutting a large sheet of fluffy velco and replacing it with that. I would staple it in the corners, but I'm not sure there's really much to tack on to [/quote] I had to fix a pedalboard which was in a similar state once. I went to poundstretcher, bought some self adhesive carpet tiles (a cheap car mat would probably do the same job), cut them to size and then stuck them down (using some "no nails" adhesive for added stength). Total cost less than £5 and works brilliantly.
  15. uncle psychosis
    If a [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CPHnZV0K-k"][u]ten year old girl[/u][/url] can play the bass then a fully grown man shouldn't need to do any kind of "strengthening". If you do, then you're probably using the wrong technique in the first place.
  16. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='Sean' timestamp='1322579166' post='1453019'] I've been browsing some wanted ads for band members and have found a band that claims to play venues on 'the house pa circuit' (sic). Also, wouldn't you be radically limiting the gigs you could play if you relied n the venue having a PA every time you wanted to play? Anyone able to enlighten me? [/quote] My band has done gigs in dozens of venues in both Edinburgh and Glasgow and we have never had to provide our own PA. All of the music venues around here provide PA (and limited backline). You might find that supplied gear varies greatly from area to area.
  17. uncle psychosis
    Wow. Just wow. Beautiful guitar.
  18. uncle psychosis
    I really like it--thanks. I'd probably make a few changes if I were in charge of it though...are you taking (constructive) criticism?
  19. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1321991481' post='1445292'] No worries - when I'm playing the D & G strings, I place the tip of my thumb on the A string & use the flesh on the side of my thumb to mute the B & E strings. It sort of borrows from floating thumb... Hope it helps? [/quote] Thanks, thats basically what I'm trying to do. What do you do with your ring finger and pinky? Mine keep getting in the way!
  20. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1321955383' post='1444696'] Check out Scott Devine or Adam Nitti's tutorials on YT (not very got at embedding these on here) regarding this very subject. I find the "moveable anchor" the most useful - thumb on pickup when playing the thickest string and then dropping the thumb down onto the string above (as you're looking down) the one you're playing and so forth and doing the same thing in reverse coming back up (hope this makes sense?). [/quote] Thanks for the tip. I kind of do that already. The problem is muting the E and (especially) the low B string on my 5er whilst playing the D and G strings. I'm good at muting the string immediately below the one I'm playing but not all of them at once!
  21. uncle psychosis
    Hi guys I'm trying to work on my right hand muting as I slowly get my way into playing fingerstyle (been playing for a while, but always with a pick). Floating thumb seems the closest technique to what my hand wants to do "naturally" so I'm trying to give it a whirl. Does anyone have any good exercises/videos/suggestions for floating thumb/ right hand muting? Cheers
  22. uncle psychosis
    Wow. If I had £1500 I'd bite your arm off!
  23. uncle psychosis
    Zvex fuzz factory has many levels of craziness. If you can solder you can also build one cheaply: http://www.musikding.de/product_info.php/info/p2192_The-Factory--germanium-fuzz-kit.html I've done it. Well worth it, especially if you're looking for mad sounds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S8xRiOqXtc
  24. uncle psychosis
    I mainly play with a pick and in my experience the thicker the pick the better. I'm currently using 3mm big stubbies and they do the job very nicely indeed. Am currently trying to learn more fingerstyle though---want to increase my repertoire a bit!
  25. uncle psychosis
    [quote name='bremen' timestamp='1321377032' post='1438452'] Wooten may only have chosen the colour but he's damaged his reputation by allowing his name to be associated with that wretched bollocks. [/quote] Thats my take on it too. I've always wondered how the scientists/engineers who work on this kind of thing feel about it. Do they really believe their own press releases?
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