Sparky Mark

I bought a scratchplate and pup cover for my MM Sterling from Dave. Arrived in quick time, as new and superbly packaged. Great price too.

Thanks Dave.

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Very good condition Trace Elliot Series 6 GP12 AH200 head and Classic compact 1153 ported single 15" cabinet. 

Everything works exactly as it should and delivers the classic Trace Elliot tones in a lightweight (by TE standards) package.

£350 collected from Bury St Edmunds or localish meet up, including Roqsolid covers, Klotz Jack to XLR speaker cable and mains lead.

Thanks for looking.

6 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

Mo once offered me a fretless lesson. Wish I’d taken him up on it!

Mo Foster – A History of His Fender Jazz Fretless Bass – FretlessBass.com https://share.google/3o3Q4mBuGEY8oYkqg

6 hours ago, Marky L said:

 

Drummer? Wrong? Shocked??

^^This. It's "brave" indeed to repeat a drummer's comment without a little research IME. 

10 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Chatting to a friend the other day, back in the 70s his band needed a stand in bassist for a European tour. They auditioned Pino and turned him down. 🙄

Perhaps Pino was crap back then and your friend's rejection spurred him on to become the player we all revere today. He should feel proud.

7 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

Didn’t Sky Arts produce a three part series on drummers that didn’t once mention Neil Peart?

 

N.B. I haven’t seen it, but I was told this by a drummer who had.

Your drummer friend was incorrect. According to IMDb NP was referenced in the first episode. 

19 minutes ago, Misdee said:

It'll inevitably be the same old hoary favourites, Seven Nation Army, Smells like Teen Spirit, Peaches, Runaway, Walk On The Wild side ect. 

 

Also, expect revelatory and hitherto unheard anecdotes about how Bernard Edwards didn't know what strings came with his Stingray and such like.

 

Such a great opportunity wasted. Still, a crap series about playing the bass is better than no series at all.

That's the spirit!

So which three bass players would we have wanted to select and analyse their own and others iconic bass lines? Can I start with Mr Paul McCartney?

Who else?

Hiya, I'll take these please. PM on its way. 

51 minutes ago, ossyrocks said:

 

Further to this. I have had a Luthier recommended to me by Ged Green in Cheadle. Ged was the man in these parts for top notch work, and I've used him for decades, but he has now hung up his tools to retire.

He has recommended Jim Fleeting - https://www.jimfleetingguitars.com/
In my conversations with Ged, he recommended I use Jescar 47104 fretwire, and in a subsequent conversation with Jim, he said the same, so that's what I'm having fitted. It will also get a new bone nut. I drove it down to his workshop this morning and dropped it off. I'll post pics of the completed work and my first impressions in a few weeks when I get it back.

Rob

Are you going for the stainless steel or nickel steel frets? SS will last forever.

This is a nice combo for a pretty good price.

31 minutes ago, ScottBass86 said:

Headrush 112's

 

Surface marks but overall good condition, one with a cover.

I've used these for home practice, standalone amps for gigs and bass monitors while playing in a rock band and they've been great, but have my eye on setting else.

 

I also have a couple of speaker pole stands, and a short XLR to daisy chain them that you can have for free if you take both.

 

Reduced to £175

 

Collection from Nottingham NG5 or I can meet within 30/45mins drive

 

Scott

 

 

Blurrrrrb:

 

The HeadRush FRFR-112 is a lightweight 2000-watt full-range, flat-response powered cabinet that perfectly complements your HeadRush Pedalboard, Gigboard, or any other multi-FX/amp modeler to give you a realistic room-filling sound with the authentic feel of a speaker pushing air. We built the HeadRush FRFR-112 just for you, the discerning guitarist/bassist. That’s why we focused on the key features you demand.

FRFR-112 Features

 

Specially-voiced 12-inch woofer and high-frequency compression driver

2000 watts of peak power

(2) XLR/TRS 1/4-inch combo inputs

Independent volume controls and clip indicator per input

Contour EQ switch

Ground-Lift switch

XLR output for FOH or additional FRFR-112 cabs

Lightweight and flexible tilt-back cabinet design

Cabinet can be pole-mounted

 

 

I closed the other thread in error!

Could you confirm that you are selling two of these for £175 each please? If so, perhaps adding "each" after the £175 would clarify. Cheers. 

2 hours ago, Rosie C said:

Well I did it! We went to view an AH300 tonight. I took my fretless jazz to try it and it sounded fantastic! Lovely condition, and it came with original manuals, sales receipt and the pedal board. Flippin' heavy though. Sadly my partner bought it for me for Christmas so no playing with it for a few weeks. ☹️

 

I have a couple of questions - did the 15" cabinets not have Trace Elliot badges? There's no sign it ever had one. 
 

Also the electro fluorescent front panel doesn't work, the seller said he thought it was deliberately disconnected, so that's something to look at. Any suggestions where to start with that?

Anyway thanks for all the advice and opinions, I'm very happy with it!  😊

Have you looked through this thread yet? There's a lot of brochures showing the badges used over time.

On a different tangent but definitely linked; think of one of your favourite classic bass lines that sounds great, iconic even, in the recording mix. Then Google to see if there's a recording of that bass line in isolation. For me, they are rarely a tone that I would use at home whilst practicing, they often have much more essential mid content. 

Looking at the grain on the neck it would appear to be quarter sawn, which helps neck stability, and is often a chargeable upgrade. 

Beautiful amp, congratulations. My only comment is that unless you believe the valves will be unseated from their sockets during rough transit or handling, I'd remove those retainer springs, that could potentially scratch the glass. I replaced the spring retainers on my amp with the Ampeg Birtcher style retainers that just hold the valve base. My amp never moves though, so not really needed.

1 hour ago, JottoSW1 said:

I'd like a trace preamp but I already have a nice Ra300. Currently doing duty as a stereo keyboard amplifier, it doesn't seem to get desperately hot even when im giving it beans...

I've got one of these and it's effectively the TE Series 6 GP12 pre amp with an adjustable mid pre shape control. It cops the TE heft really well.

FS-EQ12-DI – Ashdown Engineering https://share.google/lx57PeJ9I6rntwTU6

1 hour ago, Rosie C said:

 

Yup. I tend to agree. The amp and 2x10" I quite like and I could make an offer. But at the moment my other half is suggesting I get an Elf combo right now, and come back to invest in vintage TE kit next year once we've moved. Which makes sense as I can gig the Elf as well. 

I think it wise not to buy any vintage TE gear unless it's exactly what you really want. Don't compromise, you can almost predict that once you buy anything different, what you really wanted will be advertised for sale somewhere.

New TE equipment is pretty expensive IMO, and although very good, sounds quite different to the vintage gear. I did see a guy playing rock/pop through an elf head with two of the single 10 cabs in a small pub and it sounded really good, but I'm not sure how that rig would perform in larger venues?

How is this powered please? Thanks. 

2 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

 

Maybe not gigged but I am curious about the amount of crap that is visible on the cooling fan blades.  Is that a hint of rust there too?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To be fair that's pretty clean for a 40 year old fan; it must've been cleaned of dust/crud a few times. I'd be more concerned about the amount of fluff inside the amp, which is why I prefer the sealed heat sink cooled heads. They're pretty much pristine when opened up.

1 hour ago, Rosie C said:

 

It's a very small world!  I was searching on the web for information about TE amps and found stubmandrel.co.uk   

 

That story about the castors is just a little bit scary. 

 

Right now this is the top of my list. Looking at other camera angles I think I can get used to the differing widths of head and cab. It's right at the top my budget (over actually), but as the lovely Mrs.C is happy to have my amp in the lounge, this un-gigged example seems a good punt. 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226888373496

 

 

Another thing to consider is how the amp is cooled. The AH250 pictured is going to be fan cooled, which you may be able to heat spinning when practicing at low level in your living room. There are 200 watt Series 6 and 250 watt SMX series heads that have rear heat sinks so are completely silent.

6 minutes ago, Rosie C said:

 

Ah, I should make clear I've no intention of gigging this amp - it's just for my practice space. We are moving house next year but the removal men can worry about it. Likely in our new home we'll have a combined lounge / practice space because we're downsizing which is why I'm also looking for something that looks tidy.

This is the model of 410 combo I tried and loved. Series 6 GP12.