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    I've decided to keep these on my pedal board as a reminder of why I shouldn't sell these as I'd only buy more in a couple of months. They're really good pedals and I just haven't given them a chance so they are staying and I will grow to love them dognammit
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    As always whatever gear I have at the time is the right gear for the job
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    The inputs, outputs and power supply are all mounted at the back of the pedal so you can get them really close together on your board.
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    I think that there used to be a field where you had to state your location before you could place your ads but I didn't see it when I did this one but I do have my location underneath my avatar
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    Another episode about to end in my love/hate relationship with effects pedals. I fancy trying them, buy them and then realise that I don't need them so here we go again. Bought brand new last August and have been gigged a handful of times this year so they're in minty fresh conditon. All 4 have had the small rubber feet removed and velcro added for pedal board mounting. Included are: 3rd Dimension Chorus - designed to Emulate the Dimension C from back in the day Blood Moon Phaser Tube Pilot Overdrive All are boxed and ready to go. Ideally I'd like to sell all 4 as a lot but could split them. They're only between £30-40 new so I would like to sell them for £75 plus postage. Buy them at the asking price and I will include the Compressor Sustainer for free (not sure if I have the box but it will be well packed)
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    If I've dated this correctly then I have a February 1999 Yamaha RBX 765A for sale I bought this during the bad old times of 2020 as I thought that it would be good to have a 5 string should the need arise for me to have one but it hasn't and I doubt it will so I am offering it up for sale. Condition is really good for a nearly 23 year old bass. There is light swirling across the back of the body and a small amout around a couple of the cotrol knobs that I could only see when I held it up to the light but there are no dings or dongs anywhere on the body. There's a tiny chip out of the paint on the headstock but a touch-up pen or even red nail varnish should hide that. The gold hardware is looking pretty good. There are a few shallow indentations that I can't feel while playing at the back of the neck around the 9th fret. The pictures make it look like it's bright red but it's a darker shade of translucent red. The last picture of the headstock is the closest to the actual colour Soundwise it's pretty snappy. I've had it doing a good impression of Flea & Rhino but there's plenty of scope for adjustment using the onboard EQ. It's nice and light, for me anyway. I don't have anything to measure it by but it was incredibly comfortable for the first set of a gig I took it out for just to try it out live. I have a functional gig bag to carry it around it which will be included and it has a new Duracell battery and D'addario Prosteels fitted. I would prefer pickup or meet up but I do have a box that I could package it up in if you're too far away to do either. I am looking for £225 or closest reasonable offer and would prefer bank transfer to avoid PainPal fees Although I've posted over 100 basses plus amps, cabs etc it has been while so I don't know how quickly they're delivering at the moment and the prices seem to have gone up since the last time. I normally use UPS and they are quoting me £40 for delivery. Any questions please fire away. And now for the pictures:
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    I've just checked my account and I registered in November 2016 - this is the first time that I can recall that they've done this offer
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    Take your Daughter to the Slaughter - Iron Maiden All joking aside, this is actually the first dance song choice for next weekend's wedding
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    I'm going to be trying out a set of their coated strings courtesy of this offer
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    Try to keep your fingers and hands as loose as possible. I have a tendency to get really hyper during a gig and play far too hard. Avoid sugar like the plague as i have found that this can make it worse. Caffeine too as it can dehydrate you - you need to drink as much fluid as you can. Also avoid peanuts as they can cause a flammatory response in your wrists and joints. The downside to this is that I enjoy coffee and wedding cake during the gig so have had to knock that on the head Plus what Andy said above. I don't pick up my bass at home unless I have a song to learn or strings to change
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    The most I've paid for a ticket was Jerry Lee Lewis maybe 5 or 6 years ago - in fact it was for his 80th birthday tour. £90 a ticket but we were 4 rows from the front and it was an incredible show. Most gigs are a huge wait followed by,usually, a bad support act followed by another long wait but they kept it going all night. Also got to see James Burton and Albert Lee. I tend to go for the smaller Academy sized gigs as it gives you the opportunity to get closer and generally the sound is better as well. I've seen Motorhead, ZZ Top, The Damned and the Frantic Four at the Glasgow one and will be seeing Skunk Anansie there next year. The tickets were something like £35 each. To be honest I think that for anyone who is a fan then this could very well be their last tour in the UK, apart from maybe some of the festivals, so now's the chance to see them. I've got some good memories of the shows, one of which was when we were in the venue but just outside the seated area at the SECC in 2002. It was still quite quiet as we'd arrived early. I heard a noise and turned around and saw Flea in a kilt with a cup of tea come out from behind a curtain, realise that there were people in the venue, before disappearing back behind the curtain again.
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    I've ordered a set of XT nickel strings to try using the offer. £40 strings for hee haw sounds good to me
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    I've owned probably upwards of 150 basses over the past 32 years and I would say that you can pretty much play any genre on any bass. I've done rock and wedding gigs on 12 string bass which is possibly as extreme as it gets. I've also gigged 4, 5, 6 & 8 strings, fretted, fretless, acoustic, semi-acoustic which were all chosen purely on what I fancied playing at the time
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    I'm using a QSC K12.2 via a Radial Bassbone currently and have been for the past 3 years. Our guitarist is using A Helix into a Headrush cab. We are about to make the jump to IEMs. At first I was hesitant as for the past 30 years the choice of rig whether GK1001RB, Trace 4x12" & 2x15" or BF One10 and GK MB500 has been mine and mine alone based on what I wanted to play through but IEMs are a group decision made by the whole band so we all have to agree. I have to admit that I am now excited at the prospect. I've just bought a set of KZ AS10 earphones and a Behringer P1. I've figured out a way to have this mounted on my current pedal board rather than having the smaller P2 clipped onto by trousers. I have to admit that I was tempted to go down the Roger Waters route of the big headphones using my Audio Technica ATX-M50 but I didn't think that they would work as well
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    They're worthwhile going to see at least once but they can be a bit hit or miss. SECC in Glasgow in 2002 they were fantastic (sound was usualy SECC garbage though), Hampden a few years later they were terrible, it was almost like they were killing time as I think they were playing the Reading festival the next day and I ended up leaving early - Biffy Clyro were supporting and blew them away in every respect Saw them again a few years ago with Josh Von Klinkerhoffen and they were amazing and even played Freakey Styley which I've never heard them play live
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    The best thing to do it to take one of them off and measure the diameter of the hole then check out the Hipshot website for the Ultralite that corresponds to the closest in terms of size. There are pdfs showing the dimensions on their website. If they are slightly small then what I do is tape a piece of paper to the outside of the part that screws into the tuner at the rear and wrap paper around it until it it fits snugly in the hole. once I get to that stage I then stick a small piece of tape to the paper to stop it unravelling. There are sleeves available from Hipshot apparently which do the same job but the paper is the best solution that I have found. The only thing is that the footprint of the Ultralite will be smaller than the existing tuner so you will be left with whatever is underneath these tuners. Not as bad as the traditional Fender type tuners where you're left with 4 holes but I think that there are indentations behind your ones that hold the tuner in position at the rear. The picture below shows what was behind the Rickenbacker tuners when I had them on my 4003
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    I remember when this was all fields
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    Oh and I used brand new drill bits. In fact I've bought loads of new stuff specifically for this including the countersink bits, digital callipers and so on. I am taking no chances with anything
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    I did email Rob at Status for advice, he suggested I use one of these:
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    Thanks for the replies and sorry for not responding sooner. Well that was terrifying! When I looked at the neck again in the light it looks like the holes had originally been drilled slightly smaller then enlarged but when they had been enlarged the drill hadn't done all the way through so there was a ridge all the way around the hole nearest the back of the headstock. This was why the top part of the ultralite hadn't been able to get all of the way through I tried to use a small round file but it was going to take forever so decided to use a large drill bit wrapped in sandpaper. I had my cordless drill set to screwdriver on it's slowest setting and carefully, after applying frog tape front an rear, went around the hole checking frequently. I had taken sufficient amounts off fairly quickly to allow me to get the tuners on properly. Then came the fun part - drilling 4 small holes for the screws for the tuners. I was terrified that I would end up going all the way through to the front of the peghead as with wood you get a uniform pressure of the drill against the wood but with graphite there's loads of pressure then nothing. Using digital callipers, the screws were 2.2mm. my drill bits were 1.4 and 1.9 going by the callipers (stated to be 1.5 and 2.0). I got away with the 1.4 by lightly moving it around after driling the initial hole to enlarge it slightly but for the xtender for the E I had to use the large one. I used a countersink bit to go around the holes by hand (not using a drill just turning it back and forth using my hand) to avoid the lacquer cracking That's all for tonight - tomorrow night will be drilling the holes in the heel of the neck
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    I ordered a Status Graphite neck and asked for the tuner holes to fit 1/2" Hipshot Ultralites. When I insert the top nut thingy that goes through the front to screw into the tuner itself it gets so far down before getting really stiff and not going the last 3-4mm. I don't want to force it for fear of cracking the lacquer. I've increased loads of tuner holes in the past but they have all been on wooden necks - is there anything special that I need to watch out for when increasing the holes on a graphite neck?
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    I'm glad I read this thread as I've just gone over to my parts box and have no new sets of strings and a really busy spell coming up. New D'addario EXL165TP pack ordered
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    He looked better, as did Rick, when they did the second round of Frantic Four gigs but I believe that he had to superglue the plectrum to his fingers so it didn't slip out of his fingers. I had the pleasure of being able to play one of my favourite Quo songs a few years ago while depping with a rock band - Big Fat Mamma, so here it is complete with Travis Bean Bass
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    I made the switch about 5 or 6 years ago. My reasoning at the time as that I had a fantastic but really heavy Stingray 5 string with the ceramic pickup so decided to get a 4 string Sterling (also with a ceramic pickup) as I thought that it would be lighter. Ultimately it weighed about the same but hey ho. I initially used a Hipshot with a double stop lever tuned to D and B. The B was mainly for playing Get Lucky which we don't do any more so I've reverted back to the standard lever tuned to D. I also used to use it for Uptown Funk but prefer using an octave pedal Most of the time I use it mid-song. a couple of examples would be at the end of the sax solo in I've Had the Time of My Life where if goes to the low D. I flip it down during the solo, use it for that part then flip it up when the vocals come back in as the first 2 notes sung are D & E. The other one would be the live version of Crazy In Love where it goes into Crazy by Gnarls Barklay so I need a low D for that. I do have a 5 string for times when nothing else will do but I don't think I've actually needed it yet. I'm using Ultralites for the other tuners and I imagine it would only be a few grams of a difference for the Xtender over the standard tuner As a young fan of Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton I learned how to play in drop D when I was about 14 to Eric Clapton's Bad Love and Another Brick in the Wall Part 2. They're slow enough that you can work out where everything is in relation to the new tuning The important thing is to set it up properly as per the aforementioned video. Tuning the E slightly flat, drop the lever then raise it up. Tuning up slightly and repeating this process until the E is in tune when you bring it back up. Vasoline where the lever makes contact with the tuner and graphite etc on the nut under the E string keeps everything flowing smoothly
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