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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Whoops, I disappeared for a while
« on: November 19, 2023, 02:18:52 PM »
Thanks folks, good to be back.  First piece of business, update gear in sig - much has changed in the last few years!

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The Outpost Cafe / Whoops, I disappeared for a while
« on: November 18, 2023, 05:50:02 AM »
Hi folks

I don't know why or how it happened, but I haven't been here in over 4 years.  It wasn't a conscious decision!

How are you all?  What have I missed?

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Gibson Basses / Re: JCS sighting
« on: February 04, 2019, 03:56:23 AM »
Oops, should have been a Rivoli.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Nice LPB-3 at Ishibashi
« on: November 27, 2018, 11:18:20 AM »
What black pickups are hiding under those rings neepheid?

2x EMG-HB.  Active P bass split rails in a guitar humbucker sized package - http://www.emgpickups.com/hb.html

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Gibson Basses / Re: Nice LPB-3 at Ishibashi
« on: November 26, 2018, 05:02:41 PM »
Oh well, if we're sharing (it was Halloween, hence the Ghostbusters outfit):



Photo by Matt Jolly Photography.

The bass in question:


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Gibson Basses / Re: Nice LPB-3 at Ishibashi
« on: November 26, 2018, 06:38:19 AM »
I know that a lot of basses share an element of design heritage with guitars (Firebird/Thunderbird etc.), but I've never felt the Les Paul Bass shape lends itself that well to a bass.

Isn't it good that we don't all like the same things?  I love the LP bass, especially if they keep the body guitar sized - I am not a fan of the "oversized" LP bass.  I just really like that small body with the long neck coming out of it, perhaps it's the "wrongness" of it that makes it right for me :)

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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson Midtown Pickup Advice
« on: June 15, 2018, 03:31:04 AM »
I fitted a DiMarzio Model One to a Midtown Standard.  I also fitted a coil tap (or maybe series/parallel, can't remember now, sold it on a couple of years ago) onto a push/push pot on the volume control, for more variety :)


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Gibson Basses / Re: anyone in need of a Moog board for RD Artist?
« on: January 17, 2018, 03:47:39 PM »
The compressor really bloody works.  The expansion I'm a bit more meh about.  The bright mode does give it a different voice, accentuates some high mids - it's not all about treble.  I think it does something interesting to the sound that while I'm quite sure it can be achieved by other means nowadays, it has to be remembered as a product of its time.

I like it and I think an RD which has had a Moogectomy is the poorer for it.  But I would say that, because I have one, I guess.

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Gibson Basses / Re: 1982 G3
« on: December 22, 2017, 02:47:27 AM »
Twenty quid and an odd sock?

Can't blame a guy for trying - I miss my G-3 sometimes ;)

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Gibson Basses / Re: 2018 Gibson basses. New basses, new topic :)
« on: November 09, 2017, 07:57:15 AM »
I'm pleasantly surprised.  I'm not entirely sure it is 100% "Artist" (speaking as an owner of a '79 RD Artist), but it's no "Standard" either.  I guess it's more "Artist" than "Standard" and that's more than I expected.  Colour me intrigued (but because I have one of the originals, it won't be high on my shopping list)

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Gibson Basses / Re: 2018 Gibson basses. New basses, new topic :)
« on: November 06, 2017, 04:01:25 AM »
Well, I will say nothing about the re-emergence of the RD until it appears, but what has surprised me the most is how handsome the EB (2018) looks in black, with black hardware.  I guess it was just waiting for the right colour combo - the stealth bass approach suits its modern lines very well, to my eyes at least.

I may even get one.  Considering how "meh" I was about the 2017 EB bass when it first came out, I'd call that an impressive turnaround.

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Gibson Basses / Re: 20th Anniversary JCS
« on: April 25, 2017, 03:59:30 AM »
Apparently this problem is not that uncommon across numerous Epiphone models using the 3-pointer. There are some
long threads about it over at TB. Most just glue them back in and go their merry way.

It is not limited to Epiphones - I was stretching the strings on a Gibson Midtown Standard and out popped the post, taking a star shaped chunk out of the finish with it.  Gutted!

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Gibson Basses / Re: 20th Anniversary JCS
« on: April 24, 2017, 08:19:47 AM »
He's finally sharing his red one, eh?  Only took him 20 years ;)

I'd be all over this if I didn't already have a super sparkly blue royale one :)

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Gibson Basses / Re: Need pix of the brothers!
« on: March 21, 2017, 03:18:51 AM »
A pic taken by the singers daughter from our support gig in Inverness last Friday...

Cool pics, cool place, I played in Mad Hatters once, it was 2012.  I had to look that up, but I never forget a bass - it was my Victory Artist that night.  It was also the time of the curfew so I stepped outside after the gig to phone my wife and promptly got locked out.  Took some serious bouncer persuasion to let me back in so I could get my gear, he thought I was at it ;)

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Gibson Basses / Re: NAMM update from Chris (Embassy and Tbird content)
« on: January 23, 2017, 03:16:25 AM »
I'm out, I've had a think about it and I've come to the conclusion that I don't care about the top horn of the Embassy, but I do not like the headstock - if it had a batwing it would have been a case of shut up and take my money.  "What a shame", said everyone in neepheid Inc. except for the finance department.

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