Moos3h

Hi all My Dad and I made an Ampmaker amp over Christmas and absolutely loved the whole experience. We now want to look at other projects and I really fancy making my own on board three band EQ and preamp (perhaps with a couple of switches for extra stuff too). The patient bass that it will end up in is a Cort GB74 so a U-retro would drop straight in but we are dead keen to build something. Does anyone know of any guides plans or kits we could look at? Cheers! James

Probably not the sort of thing you're after but for a cheap 'Jack of all trades' amp, I don't think you can beat the TC BH500. It's got dirt if you want it, spanky cleans if you don't - spectra comp for added fatness, tube drive and tweeter tone. Boat loads of tonal options!

Yeah, IMO the design is a bit of a pain - you have to watch SC as it'll cause clipping - 12 o clock is quite high, I use a dab, usually not over about 9 o clock and find that's loads!

Grab an Alto one from Gear4Music. Silly cheap and two year warranty. Done!

Almost impossible to prove or disprove but yes a dramatic change in extremes of temperature could cause it but my money would be on a sudden shock - enough to travel down the neck and cause movement enough to break the lacquer. Edit - were the strings detuned? And was the hard case one where the neck is actually put under tension when shut?

Nicely written post!

Smoooooth buyer! Top man, thanks mate!

Could sell it (you'd get about 150) and buy a TC BG250? Not perfect but light and reasonably loud.

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1421334367' post='2660029'] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]When we supported Showaddywaddy a few years ago we were very surprised to see they had a rack of Squiers.[/font] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Not sure what to make of that but there's a joke in there somewhere i expect.[/font] [/quote] <punt and dennis> SHOWADEHWADDEH! </punt and dennis> Probably not much call for that joke these days...

The Horns?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1421264747' post='2659196'] I was asking BRX to clarify, please don't speak to me in that way. [/quote] It was meant as a friendly dig in the ribs, as I hoped the smilie indicated. If I have caused offence then I offer my apologies.

Well the replacement should hopefully get here tomorrow or Friday so fingers crossed! My. BH500 is back but I've got man flu and gavebt been up to testing it.

I'm chalking this one up as agree to disagree I'm afraid Milty

Actually, some good news - the best way to clean a speaker is to get a small dog to urinate on it!

Go to Tesco/Sainsbury/Whatever and buy 'Walnut Oil'. It's fantastic!

Oh yeah, looks like it's gone. Damn.

Agreed, don't wet it with anything, just dab off the excess. Dogs. Yuk.

Grab one from Thomann.de? They are only £38 or something daft!

Back in your box Wayne - that's twisting his words It's a fair point that 'mainstream' music shops often stick to Gibson and Fedner plus a selection of pointy sh*t that the majority of buyers would at least recognise. BG, BD etc. do brands that I've never heard of with my status as 'enthusiastic amateur' - it's a different market but I know if I wanted to check out a whole range of instruments regardless of what was on the headstock, I'd look to one of those shops.