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Hey Folks, I'm freshening up my Spunky Jazzer and thinking of fitting a J-Retro. Would anyone be so kind as to do the dirty and measure there's for me please. I'm looking for center to center on the screw holes and point to point down the center line in mm. Many thanks in advance, Pete.

Hey Folks, My 2002 Thumb NT4 has started distorting when I dig in on the E with the Bass up to about 3/4's or above. I've tried a couple of different batteries (both good) and it's not that. It's fine on the A string from C up but pretty bad on the E string from A down, awfully bad when digging in on the open E. If I knock the bass back to 3/4's it's gone. Any ideas or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Heads Up Folks, We've just discovered this very nifty little app for ios called Band Diary https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/banddiary/id470255352?mt=8 It's a fantastic little app that everyone in the band can use and it's 69p. Everyone can put your N/A dates on it so no more frantic phone calls outside the pub or whatever. Use it to schedule gigs, rehearsals, add Youtube links to songs then you're all learning the right versions and fans can access your dates too, we havn't got any so I've not figured that bit out yet but...... Check it out, it's a real labour saver.

Hey Folks and Warwick experts especially. I've noticed on the last couple of gigs that the back of the neck on my Thumb is getting a bit sticky feeling. I can also feel small bobbles as well and have to wipe the neck after every couple of songs or so. I've had it a few months now and not waxed it yet, however I'm a tad worried about doing the back of the neck as I like a Satin feel rather than Gloss as I find gloss to be very erm "Non Slidy" Your help would be very much appreciated. Cheers.

Hi Folks, My band need to do so basic demos for the website and as we're all pretty busy we'll each be doing our own tracks at home then mixing it later. Since I got my Ipad I sold my USB interface for the PC so I'm wondering if there's any way I can use my Ipad to record onto my basic PC DAW, I have an Ipad to USB lead. Failing that I have a the drum tracks as MP3's. Is there any way I can record the Bass part on my Ipad to these then export them as either WAV or MP3 to send for mixing. We're not after super duper audio quality at this stage, just something to put on the website for folk to get an idea of how we sound. Thanks in advance. Pete.

Hey Folks, I need to get a new used) gig worthy head, 500 watts absolute minimum with some warmth to the tone. I'm sick of throwing money at amps only to find they don't work for me, my budget won't stretch to new high end stuff so I'm looking for suggestions for used amps to consider please. The nicest sounding head I've had up to now was an Eden WT550 but that went into clipping to early so it had to go. I liked my SVT3 but not enough to keep it so that went too. I'm currently using a H+K Quantum 600 but that's too aggressive in the mids for me, It sounds just like the Markbass TTE500 and I didn't get on with that at all, no sirree !! I've been thinking about the Ashdown ABM series as they're supposed to be a warm sounding head so first question is any ideas on how they compare to the Eden WT series tone wise and I might as well throw the SVT7 in the mix too as I dig the Ampeg thing. I'll welcome any other suggestions you fine people have. Thanks in advance.

Hey Folks, I have a BFM Omni 2x10 cab running at 8 ohms as in it has two 16ohm Eminence Beta 10 drivers. I'll soon be taking delivery of an Omni 10.5 (1x10) to pair with it. I'd like all three speakers to see an equal load, ie, so it thinks it's a single 3x10 cab. I can't get my head around what Ohms the driver in the 1x10 to be, also as I'll be daisy chaining will I need a special lead for the purposes thereof. Thanks and apologies in advance.

Hey all, Just wondering if anyone's tried one....apart from Dood that is. I fancy a fridge, I've neither owned one nor played thru' one for that matter and I think it would be rude not to at some point. The NX 810 is fairly lightweight as 810's go, versatile in that they're a 2 x 410 or single 810 sealed cab and at a decent price, made in England too. They get decent reviews on TB so what say you chaps ?? I'd be interested to hear if anyone has had the pleasure.......or not ! Thanks in advance.

Hi Folks, As above please gents. Anyone using Flats ?? Cheers.

Hey to all in BC land, There has a couple of threads over the the last month about some very nice people going the extra mile to help other members of the forum. I'd like to share this story with you all as I think it sums this place up and to a degree the vast majority of it's members, I'd like to think so anyway. It's a bit of a long story but hopefully worth the read so please bear with me. So.... A couple of months back I bought a Markbass TTE500 off these pages and unfortunately it arrived with some damage to the underside of the amp. Basically two of the feet were pushed slightly into the base of the amp. No big deal I thought so I took the sides of the amp off and pushed the dents out, half an hour later, job done.....or so I thought. I hadn't realised that the chassis is made of cheese and I had stripped the bolts, Bugger.....two 4mm nuts later amp good as new and happy days. Although the amp worked fine I was a little concerned about the compressor so I contacted Gareth (Walbassist ) for some advise as he has the TTE500. I explained my concerns and he recommended I re-valve the head as It might have been dropped in transit....that would explain the feet ! He sent me some links to a shop where he's had good service, sure enough two days later the head was re-valved and working fine. At this point I couldn't decide whether I disliked the voicing of the amp or if something was still amiss so I sent another message to Gareth asking if I could send the head down to him then he could A/B it against his to double check. He readily agreed nice man that he is and it was duly dispatched for a thorough run through. All I was hoping he'd do was just give it a quick blast to make sure and then I'd get it collected and couriered back up here. Unbeknown to me Gareth had done so much more than I'd asked. A couple of days later I got a pm from Gareth explaining that he'd recorded samples of the amp with various combinations of valves, old, new, vintage you name it then done the same with his amp to compare. As most of you have seen his videos he does a great job. Wow, I was staggered to say the least, right of his own bat without me asking for it !! Turns out the Amp is fine, just not my thing. There's a bit more to this tale at this juncture...I'm not explaining this next part for any sympathy so please don't think that. What Gareth did next, basically a simple thing I guess meant so much at such a sh*t time that I'll always be grateful to him, ..... please read on.... During this time, about 3 weeks ago in fact our family suffered and terrible bereavement that knocked us all for six. We lost a grandchild, 6 hours old and we were all pretty devastated as you can imagine. My stepson and his partner couldn't bear to leave the baby's side at the hospital so my Mrs went to her sons house for the week to take care of the other Grand kids. I intimated to Gareth what was going on and I might struggle to get the collection arranged that week. No problem he said, "I'll arrange for the amp to be collected and delivered back to you. I'll pay for it this end and you can Paypal me the money back when you get round to it" Just this little extra thing, well big thing actually really moved me to the point of tears ! For someone who I've never met to do all of the above and then send the thing back to me as well at the end of it all is just amazing and I just wanted to share with you all that I can't stress enough how very truly grateful I am to Gareth for what he did for me. There's the extra mile and then there's the "extra mile" Gareth, dude, is there is such a thing as Karma then your I sincerely hope your cup overflow ! From the bottom of my heart, Thankyou.

Hey Folks, I'm wondering if you guys can offer some opinions / thoughts on the EdenWT550. I play in a Wedding / Function band and a Blues outfit as well. I've had a few recent purchases that have not worked out for me at all so would like to learn from others' experiences on this head. There's not much on Youtube and a few post on TB of them packing up or breaking down etc. Any thoughts chaps ?

Just on the off chance like http://basschat.co.uk/topic/86560-warwick-2002-limited-edition-fna-jazzman/page__p__850431__hl__jazzman__fromsearch__1#entry850431 I'm on the lookout for a Warwick FNA Jazzman and after being right royally pissed about on ebay over the last couple of days, deal done, seller shafts me etc etc I've got the bit between my teeth so to speak. Cheers.

What a fun two days I've had. I've just negotiated a deal on a Warwick FNA Jazzman that was on eBay. Starting bid was £550 and as I've been looking for one for a while I put a bid. the seller contacted me to say that "Ooops,I meant to put a £650 reserve on it" so I'm going to cancel your bid. I offered him a price and we then negotiated up to£600 cash explaining all the while that if he got his £650 reserve he would get less than £600 after the fee's etc. Deal done and agreed, I even managed to sort out collection from Aberdeen, not an easy task from Preston Lancs. The last one on here went for £500 ! He's now backed out of the deal to try and get a higher price for it. To say I'm gutted is an understatement, bloody annoyed about the whole episode as well to be honest. If he relists be warned that this chap might not be true to his word. Sour Grapes, me.....Well yeah pretty much.

Hi folks, I'm doing the sound for our band tomorrow and a need little help please. We normally use a desk with built in effects but tomorrow we have to use a different analogue desk and rack effects. I've had a play with it today and figured it out to a point. I've taken both outs from the desk into the effects unit then out to the amp. I've managed to find a decent reverb for vocals but what has just struck me is that we're sending the keys thru the desk as well and we don't want reverb on them. Something in the back of my mind tells me that I can use aux 2 (the desk only has 2 aux's) for effects but I can't figure it out as the effects unit has two inputs and aux's are just jack out. Anyone a bit more clued up out there who can help me out. It would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Pete.