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GarethFlatlands

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  1. I don't have any of those unfortunately, just thought I'd ask as I have a 6 string AGC that's ruining my tiny hands and we're both in sunny Sheffield. glwts, looks like a fantastic synth.
  2. Beautiful! Mainly commenting so that if I sell my ACG 6 string, I can consider this.
  3. There are a couple of £300 HX Stomps on Facebook marketplace from accounts created this year, which seems suspicious. The others are all £420+. As there's a GT1000 Core in my local music shop for £450, I think I'm going to go buy it if it's still there on Tuesday.
  4. The one gig I tried IEMs was using an XLR from my pedalboard (Behringer BDI-21) into a belt pack, while the FOH guy ran a jack from the 1/4" output into his own DI. I did it for the first time live as we I had to transport the PA, sound guy and singer in my Fabia and had no room for cabs. It actually worked great and meant I had to bring less gear, maybe I had in the back of my mind I could do that again but ditch the Berhinger and not replace it with a different, more transparent DI if I ever went back to gigging. For now, it's mainly so I can practice bass silently at home without having to fire up my PC and a VST.
  5. Thanks for the advice so far. Seems like a I might have been overthinking things (again) and the HX Stomp is a good choice. I'll check out the MOD and Boss units too. I briefly owned a Zoom B3 but didn't really like the quality of the effects enough to keep it for long. And maybe calling XLR out "essential" was overstating things, although I'm surprised more units don't seem to have it.
  6. I'm considering a multi fx (with an amp sim), but it's been a while since I looked. There seem to be more than I remember and I get option paralysis easily. The Helix Stomp jumped out at me as you can hook it up to your PC for some deep dive editing, and being able to isolate different frequencies and apply effects to them seemed like it would be very useful, but from what I've read the DSP isn't the best and there are presumably better options out there. The Hotone Ampero 2 looks good but seems to have had a slightly rough launch. I have a budget of around £500. Mainly for home practice but I may want to gig again some day, so a headphone jack and an XLR out are essential. I don't use a ton of effects so really just need excellent compressors and amp sims, and everything else would be a bonus. Instead of reading about them all for months and not buying one, what are you using and would you recommend it? Are you a millionaire who's tried them all and has opinions? Did you buy one and loved it so hard it cured your GAS forever?
  7. Lovely bass but being a short derrière with cramp prone hands, I'm a bit wary of the long scale length ☹️.
  8. Never thought I'd sell this but a lack of time to play and being the owner of small, crampy hands mean that this just isn't getting played and isn't likely to any time soon 😞 Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder and Badass II bridge installed (I don't have the originals). Currently doesn't have any strap buttons which I didn't notice until I started taking pictures but I can pop the Schallers back on and thrown in the leather strap they're attached to if that helps. The serial number dates it to around 2002-2004. Very good condition considering how much it's been played and gigged. Why is it £2-300 cheaper than other similar basses on Reverb? It's the price I paid for it, and without wanting to sound like Rebekah Vardy, I don't need the money. At least not enough to squeeze a fellow Basschatter for every last £ I can. I'd rather it went to a good home and got played. If it goes on Reverb however, then I'll align it more with the market price. I don't have a suitable box for shipping, so collection preferred from Sheffield (0.6 miles from the station), or I can meet you part way. I'd consider trades for a nice short scale or something with a less baseball bat-like neck that I can actually get my hands around, with money either way depending on what's on offer. EDIT:- I found a box in the cellar which should fit, so postage is potentially an option. I've had a few offers and am working my way through the messages in order of arrival.
  9. A handful of contrast issues reported by Chrome Lighthouse, the text could be a bit lighter too to make it slightly easier to read. But overall, looks great!
  10. Bought a set of Tonerider Jazz pickups from Bagsie, he posted them out very fast and was generally great to deal with.
  11. I'm missing out on discovering that no bass (or other piece of gear) will ever make me sound like Geddy Lee or Chris Squire. I'm never buying one so I can hold onto that dream.
  12. More slow progress for a few reasons. Once everything was assembled, I decided I didn't like the neck. This led to a sanding down, re-shaping and then 6 or so days spent re-oiling it with gun oil. During the re-shaping, the post on the E string tuner fell clean out. No problem, that'll go back in right? It did not, and the main assembly is rattling around and seems properly broken. Now, I have some Fender style tuners, but they have no bushings. I could buy some bushings, but the existing holes are the wrong size. I could dowel and re-drill the tuner holes, but the Fender style tuners and bushings need a 3/4 inch hole and 3/4 inch drill bits are weirdly expensive compared to metric ones. Another option is try to find some tuners that will fit a 12mm hole, but that's also expensive. Lastly, and I think this is the route I'm going to go down; use the neck template to make a template of just the headstock, and use a bottom bearing router bit with one of my other bass headstocks to make some holes the correct size in this new template, then transfer these over. A wrong move and I've taken a chunk out of a perfectly good bass neck, but I think it's actually the easiest option, and the only cost is the new bushings. Also, there are some nut files on the way, kindly loaned to me by ForbiddenWytch. They should be arriving any day now, so at least that's a job I can get done.
  13. Thanks for the tips and tricks everyone, I've had a couple of offers of loans of Hosco files so I should be sorted. I'll invest in a set if I decide to do any further bass building in future, but this will get me over the finish line for now.
  14. I have a set of small files, and one of them was spot on for the low E so that slot is done! I keep thinking about trying the string trick and then dismissing it. I'm just very much a "right tool for the job" kind of person, and an improvised method makes me break out in a cold sweat. Maybe I should just give it a go.
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