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A couple of beauties under the hammer at the Gardiner Houlgate guitar auction this morning. A lovely-looking 66P 'burst refin went for £3000, and a 63P Oly refin went for £4400. Both also subject to a +26% buyer's premium.

14 minutes talking about a bass, and about 30 seconds sliding around on it like a toddler on roller skates. Next thing you know it'll be James Corden doing a demo of an F-22 Raptor.

Of all the Lonnie Donegan tunes, you chose Chewing Gum... gah!

Hmm.. not my cuppa tea. Retails for about £1500.

Nice work!

To be fair… if you’re after that tone and you can’t do wet farts on demand, there aren’t many other options out there.

Still nothing. I fear no news is not good news.

I'm trying to work out what the actual issue might be here. Are you saying there's no friction and you can't stop your hand moving in time..??

Re: my slightly vague ‘AccuSwitch’ reference earlier, this was a minor scandal about 20 years(!) ago, in which respected cab builder Accugroove added a mysterious sealed black box to their cabs which they claimed offered switchable impedance. It was swiftly identified as snake oil. A very strange move. I’m sure @Bill Fitzmaurice remembers that one!

Always New Moon for me. https://www.newmooninsurance.com (note: I’ve never had to claim, but I’ve heard nothing but good reports)

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/fender-sparkle-finishes

As mentioned above, a tweak of a knob sorts it.

Yeah, I'm generally averse to excessive EQ-tweaking, so I had to take a deep breath before ramping the mid, but what a difference. So much character. re: the input gain, my old '71 isn't the hottest. It would be set a lot lower if I was using my Maruszczyk Jake.

I'd come to realise there's definitely something different re: the core tone of the 'old' WB-100 and the new mid-knob version (and presumably this applies re: the R-400 too). The new version seems bigger, wider and cleaner. I chatted to Leszek about this, because I quite liked the more complex mids of the earlier version, which just 'happened' with the bass and treble set flat. His answer was simple and obvious - 'Turn the mid knob up more boldly'. To paraphrase the longer answer, the preamp in the new version is built so the mids and highs saturate less readily, to achieve a super-clean signal. So, last night, I did just that. I pushed the mid knob (600) more than I ever normally would on an amp, rolled the bass back a little... and introduced the mid glow I was looking for. Yum.

Did someone say 'Accuswitch'? 😄

Here's another clip from the bass bash on Monday. Something a bit slappity.

^^^^ These are also my preference.

Here's Warwickhunt and Ghostrider jamming at today's Tyneside mini-bass bash. The overdrive you can hear is just the sound of the WB-100's pre-amp being hit hard. The power stage was barely ticking over.

...and here's some more general pics. Warwickhunt: Ghostrider, Bassoctopus Ghostrider Warwickhunt: Dave Wilson (Aye, that one) Bassoctopus Howard the Bass Doc

A few Basschatters got together for a mini-bass bash today. It was fun. Here's some of what was there, starting with Howard the Bass Doc's iconic 1963 Precision.

Give them a good rub with a cotton t-shirt to tone down a lot of the initial clank.