Guitar Nerds Anonymous

And a few of the frets are a bit rough, all pretty easy jobs tho'...

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@TurtleRecall that setup you have is incredible. The trace looks a beaut (as does the basses). I have the GPX12...what's that underneith?
My mate is a pro bass player (as is his dad) and has loads of fancy, expensive basses of all shapes and sizes; he uses a fender squire affinity jazz bass for his workhorse these days as it's light, has a very manageable neck, and sounds brill.

^^whoah that neck is srsly wonky. Bit of an oversight no?

Still, it looks and sounds cool though which are the main things innit.

Am having an Carlos Dengler morning. I still think Untitled #1 off the first Interpol album is hands down thee coolest bassline ever recorded.

^^whoah that neck is srsly wonky. Bit of an oversight no?

Yeah, I thought so... He wasn't too pleased with the angle himself but wanted me to play it for a bit and see how I felt about it... It plays fine but the strings are just way too far away from the body... Not enough transfer between bridge and body with that few threads in the stud either...

Plus side is it's probably gonna sound even better once that's fixed!

Cheers! The top one is an AH600SMX, 2x300w solid state power amps with valve and SS preamps.

The one below is a VA350, 6x Sovtek 6550 output valves and the option of either the 11-band preamp or the valve preamp with nothing but a volume knob. Sounds amazing :)

I got it serviced a couple of years back by a guy called Ken Cumberlidge. He's in Norfolk but I can highly recommend him. I received really interesting and well-written email updates from him through the whole process. Proper story teller, in a good way :) after replacing the tubes and a bunch of caps and other bits he tested it with all his oscilloscopes etc and found it was making 400 clean watts before it started breaking up. It's a beast!

400 clean watts

Rah

:)

This is all three of my TE amps.

Can't really see the top one, it's a V-type valve preamp (apparently modelled on the Alembic F1X) into a TE PPA300, which is a 2x150w power amp. It's the one I gig the most, as it's significantly lighter than the other two :)

Edit: If anyone's got a Class D power amp going spare, ideally 2x 4ohm or 2ohm minimum, I'd be keep to buy it. Or any recommendations?

Oh, and I've also got a Warwick Rockbag 3U wooden rack thing (fabric covered) with a knackered zip on one of the end flaps, free if anyone wants it and can get to New Cross to collect it.

Just dug out the relevant email from Ken, here's the excerpt, I was off by a few watts :)

Finally, I've just hooked the amp up to my signal generator and oscilloscope, to check that she's throwing the right shapes and to measure what kind of power she's able to put out. The shapes are good - nothing ugly or horribly unbalanced and no sign of parasitic oscillation - and the figures tot up as follows:

VA350 working into a 4 Ohm dummy load.

1kHz Sine wave injected into the Line Input and the signal generator's amplitude increased until the VA350 reaches the threshold of clipping.

At this point, the RMS AC Voltage at speaker output was measured as 39.6

Power calculation goes as follows:

39.6 squared = 1568.16

1568.16 divided by the 4 Ohms of the dummy load = 392.04 Watts

Loud enough for you? ;-)

Cheers,
Ken

^^absolutely savage.

Our old bassist had a 200w Matamp head, it was thunderous. Can't even imagine what 400 clean watts sounds like.

I must confess, I've only ever gigged it once.

I know. I'm sorry.

Currently experiencing a powerful perceived need for an Epi Casino. Can't afford a proper old one. Don't want a new one. Anyone got any hot tips for where to look?

I've never owned a semi (etc), would love to live with one for a while... I might be picking this up on Sunday if all goes well...

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hotpiss!

Sweet! Looks like one of the early reissues. Srys dibs if it doesn't suit... I've just been gazumped on a '99 pooburst Longhorn.

Apone... maybe look up Epiphone serial decoder and then keep an eye out for the Peerless factory letter prefix? They're supposed to be the best of the Korean ones.

Oooh. Hot tips. thanks man.

Oooh. Hot tips. thanks man.

One of these (BIGSBY!) is on gumtree in Manchester for £400. Hnnnng....

Bloody hell joe, just seen this, that iz seriously out. Not just out.
I'm really surprised he let you have it. It obvs isn't going to play well.

In other news, my Sigma acoustic that I spent far too much money on getting ponced up (easily more that it's worth on a re-fret, set-up and new nut and pins) is playing and sounding fricken amazing. Oh and those bananas expensive hand made strings are the shit. They sound great. I fucking love it.

Would sell the Guild if I hadn't destroyed any resale value by sanding the top. Hey ho.

In other news
Stainless steel frets are GREAT!!!! hardly any friction, and should last for eva!!

Hurrah for the Sigma!

Also hope the Moswrong's working out, Joe...

My life-enhancing/wasting obsession of the day is finding a medium-scale bass that plays. The Squier Vintage Modified Tele Bass looks ghastly. Squier did a 32" scale P-bass around '86 or so, but they're hard to find.

So just tumbled down the wormhole of Japanese online auction fantasy and discovered the History SZP-2M (which later became the Cool-Z ZPB-M1R, fact fans), made by Fujigen Gakki and therefore Tokai/MIJ Fender quality, and cheap as anything secondhand over there. Really, really cheap. Disadvantage is a non-Fender headstock. Cute, though.

p bass with a leftover stingray headstock sans the low slung g tuner?

nice doe.

Perzactly.

Even been looking at auction proxy buying services but I think I'd run into size/shipping probs. Pffff.

I used to have a 3/4 scale MIJ Fender Jazz, it was fucking awesome... BTW The Notrite is amazing, still can't bear to give it back to get the bugs sorted out... Also looks like the Danelectro is coming my way on Sunday... 🙌

Splashy.

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God, I hated those H|H amps, they used to have them in the rehearsal rooms at Alaska... Yet some people love them!

Nowt queer as folk...

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