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Hey Basschat, I've just started properly recording this bass and loving the bite from it! Anyone else here using a P-elite and want to share some photos/videos?? Cheers, Bill.3 points
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Am I in a minority in really not liking gold hardware on basses? There have been some gorgeous basses for sale on the marketplace that I would have been all over had it not been for the fact that they were fitted with gold hardware. Instead of approaching the buyers, I find myself researching the availability of silver or black replacement hardware. Is it me???3 points
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*** SOLD *** Up for grabs is my Sadowsky NYC VINTAGE PJ4 Jazz body and neck with Precision pickup in the middle and a Jazz style pickup at the bridge. It is in excellent condition. Nice and light. Superb tone, slim neck and quick playing action. Weight: 7.8 lbs. Serial: 5780. FINISH | '59 Burst BODY | Alder NECK | Maple 21 frets FINGERBOARD | Ebony, 12" Radius, 1 1/2" Nut Width, Vintage Tint PICKGUARD | Tortoise HARDWARE | Chrome PICKUPS | Sadowsky P/J WEIGHT | 7.8 lbs. (3.54 kg) The history of this bass as far back as I know it is: Andy Baxter http://andybaxterbass.com/details.php?id=715 sold the bass to psychoandy in the summer of 2014 with "one careful owner". I bought the bass from psychoandy in November of the same year. So it's had three very careful owners. It's no longer quite as pristine as when it arrived to me: there is some buckle rash, a shallow 1" scratch in the lacquer on the player side lower horn (I can't get a decent photo but if it's a deal breaker I can post what I have) - and the output jack has a tendency to work loose. I am selling because I need to liberate some cash for a project (non-bass) I'm working on, and whilst this was once my 'go-to' bass for all occasions, it has fallen out of favour. I have a 5-string Metro that ticks many of the boxes this does, and my four string of favour is currently a yamaha BB2024. It comes in the hard case it came to me in (as pictured on the baxter web link) and I am prepared to ship at the buyers expense and risk. Local pick-up from Chertsey, Woking or central London is preferred. I am also willing to drive to meet if it's a reasonable distance (for some petrol money). Please feel free to ask questions. The only trade option is a beaten up old Fender USA precision valued at less than £650 + remainder of cash my way. That may be a pipe dream, let's see. Sensible offers considered. Feedback thread here:2 points -
I have an M6 and a Walkabout. Both great heads. I prefer the Walkabout to be honest. The lack of headroom on it was a real plus for me. It is has the characteristics of an all valve amp when you push it hard at a gig which is great. Through the right cabinet it is loud enough for any gig if you don't require pristine cleans at high volumes. I have used it anything from at open mic nights to stoner/doom gigs competing with JCM 800 an Mesa Dual Rectifier half stacks. The M6 is very much a clean machine, but you can get quite a cutting aggressive sound out of it. Great for modern rock and metal and percussive slap techniques and also great platform for pedals. I also has an idiot proof EQ section. It is ridiculously loud so it is nearly unusable for home use. I say nearly because I still do, but only when the wife to be isn't in. I can left the Walkabout with two fingers so don't think that I will ever need a lighter or smaller amp than that. The D800 will be a class amp though. The EQ section on the D800 is very very similar to the M6, but the amp will be much much lighter.2 points
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I like it ❤️2 points
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To be honest, it's more about knowing your capabilities and when to, or not to, wade in with the size 12's Especially when you take what would be a perfectly acceptable neck and then do THIS with it! But, with a bit more work, it became this: Then, with still a bit of fine-tuning to do, it started getting to where I think I was trying to take it: I could cut deeper than this, but to be honest, from a playing point of view, this gets me up to the 22nd fret with not the slightest feeling on the fretting thumb that I've reached the body . I'm going to classify that as 'objective met'2 points
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Five strings: I've tried, oh lordy have I tried to get on with them. But I don't Fretless bass guitars: (See above) Boutique or coffee table basses: Sometimes, the wood looks beautiful, but it just looks weird as a bass body. Complicated knob/toggle switch arrangements: I'm easily confused and all those micro-decisions would make me cry. Amps and Combos: I love my Genz Benz Contour rig so much, I can't imagine using anything else now. (I realise that this statement will probably bite me in the bum before the year is up...) Multiple effects pedals: Even my Zoom B3 seems like overkill in my current band. I loved having 9 or 10 pedals on a board, but it just became impractical, especially when you're playing in pubs with barely enough room to stand on both feet... So, to recap, by this time next year, I'll be playing a five string, fretless Fodera through a vintage Trace Elliot stack via a pedal board so large it has to have its own generator.2 points
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I think when it comes to cabs, there are EU based makers who make cabs as good or better. Paying a premium for Mesa ones doesn't seem to make sense... I'm sure they are very good, but there are lots of good cabs about . With the amps though - what else is there in the same kinda sonic sphere? @wateroftyne suggested Handbox ... but of the two one has brand recognition (and you can presume on long term support) and is less of a risk of the unknown, and you can google, or start a thread like this, and find lots of user reports. I think it's easier to justify spending the extra on the amp front. It's been a good thread this though, it made me think again about amp choice. I think I'm pretty happy with my amp. I think the only ways I would change it would be to go all valve route, or to go for a more hi-fi cleaner sound (specifically wish I had bought the Warwick Hellborg rig that came up on here a while back!) The combo is lovely, but there's part of me that just enjoyed plugging separates into one another!2 points
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All depends on the guitar colour, gold doesn't go with everything. I personally hate two bits of wood sandwiched together that are a total obvious mis-match and look like someone threw the last couple of bits off the floor together to make a few more quid with a body.2 points
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😂 I’m gonna git you sucka! Top film!2 points
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Dont like gold hardware, don't like exotic woods with swirly grain or spalted woods, don't like curly horns or anything that looks like an implement of torture. You get the picture.2 points
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ooh wow!! my perfect Sting bass!!!2 points -
Reduced to £400 - this is an unbelievable price for this cab - this will be the ONLY reduction. I am reluctantly selling, what I consider to be, one of the best cabs I've played through. I bought this to compliment the Glock Rock head I had but after trading that for the Glock Soul combo, which I subsequently sold in my eternal search for a modern day vintage Trace Elliot sound, it became superfluous. This really is a great piece of kit - Ideal for rockers (less so for the Funkers and Soulsters) Plenty of oomph and has that "kick in the kidneys" grunt we've all come to expect from Glock - TBH I'm surprised that they're not spoken about more. I'm sure that it will make somebody very happy. Spec here: http://www.bassgeardirect.com.au/product/glockenklang-space-deluxe-12-cab/ These retailed for over a grand new, this one is super clean (9/10) and comes with a non original cover. Could be a bit of a steal. Cash sale preferred though I will consider a P/x for a Vanderkley MNT or EXT 1x12.1 point -
After much trying out and research, I’ve finally sorted out my small rig. It’s unbelievable that this little lot ( Aguilar AG 700 and a Barefaced One 10) can produce the sounds that it does in such a lightweight package. Rehearsal tomorrow night should be fun!1 point
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No brainer, whoever got this got themselves a great cab at a great price.1 point -
A few tips: On your master channel try and EQ curve similar to the one below: Also, put a high pass EQ on any instrument that isn't needed in the bass frequencies and you'll free up room for the actual bass instruments and it'll stop that area getting too muddy.1 point
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That was the road I took Chris. Ordered direct from Entwistle. It was cheaper and quicker too.1 point
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Maybe he saw it on eBay already but decided to sit on it himself...1 point
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Thanks very much, but my 8x10 days are definitely over, barring some miracle situation where I don't have to haul one...1 point
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I keep it, too good this amp1 point -
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ha ha! sorry about that! Your description of the Streamliner sounds like what I would say. It didn't lack lows and the preamp section add some nice warmth... but it felt lacking in weight somewhat. Like you, I used to own a CMD121P combo to which I occasionally added an extra cab, and it never let me down even if it didn't always make me smile. It's what made me get my first LM3 head. I have not tried the other Mesa heads, but the D800/D800+ have some 'quality' that I don't find in other compact heads. When testing it against an LM3 I could not put my finger on it... but after I bought the D800+ and used it for a bit, I am very happy I did. I have used it a lot with Urang Matang, without PA support, in mid-size bars, beer gardens etc, and it has always behaved (with the pair of Two10) brilliantly. Getting a fat, well defined, with serious low mids and no 'boom' has always been easy. I generally play a Stingray... I love my mids, but I want a strong low end too. No problem. The voicing knob on the D800 changes the character of these amps a lot. I thought it would be some kind of contour control, but it isn't. With it fully anticlockwise you approach Markbass LM3 territory. As you turn clockwise the knob, it becomes more... 'organic'. I tend to have it around 9-10 o'clock... It doesn't one inherent voice, it covers quite a lot of ground. If weight is a consideration, you should definitely try one of those (D800+ in particular) before going for the bigger ones, and see what you think. Over on TalkBass there's a long thread on the Mesa Subway range. There's a few people who own/ed the M6 or M9 and they generally like the D800. Some say they still prefer their M6/M9 while others say that tweaking this that way gets you in M6/M9 territory and they love it. I don't know personally. The designer participates in that thread and had some comments about how to get that sort of character out of the D800... worth checking, but it's a LONG thread1 point
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I had to contact Ibanez after an issue with PMT a couple of months ago. PMT were trying to fob me off basically. Ibanez were brilliant and it was sorted in very short order.1 point
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No problem, just PM if/when you feel like it Urang Matang... ha! That is a fun band to play with. None of the recordings is me, however. I was briefly in the initial incarnation of the band, before they had a name... a month or so in, the drummer (my friend who brought me in) had some family issues and we stopped. That was early 2010. Then I got busy with other bands, and they eventually reformed with someone else. Fast forward to summer 2016... their bass player can't continue and they have like 10-12 gigs over the next 3 months, and they contact me. And what was a temporary situation became permanent. We were supposed to work on new material and be recording this year but there are... "internal disagreements" and we may be reaching the end. But... anyway, long story about nothing, sorry! Thanks for listening! Back on track: why did I choose Mesa? I had borrowed a D800 a while back and compared it to my Streamliner 900 and Little Mark III... I liked it better than the other two. It felt "bigger" in a way that the other amps did not, hard to describe... but the LM3 was good enough so I did not feel I needed another amp. The Streamliner was my backup, but then I sold it and decided to get a second LM3: they're reasonably common and cheap used. However, meanwhile I got seduced by the Barefaced Two10, and got a couple of them, the 4ohm version. My plan was then to get that second LM3, and I could use them as master/slave when I needed more power for both cabs. That would be the cheaper option. But I saw the D800+ had now a bright switch that allegedly 'fixed' its dark character that some commented on (including myself), a semiparametric EQ for low and high mids, and more interestingly: an adjustable HPF. It is ok for 2ohm... so I decided to have a go, knowing I could return it if I didn't like it. But I liked it, a lot. And that's my story. I'm full of boring long stories today1 point
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I am expecting VIP backstage access and a front row seat to look at your nasty donkey1 point
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Ha! That’s excellent. Stank Donkey has has a nice ring to it though. I know what to call my next band now, cheers 😅1 point
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Just looked at that FretTrax video with Victor Wooten - very impressive. A lot of ideas taken from the Industrial Radio system like using a different notes to send patch changes and left hand only triggering. The big innovation here is that it doesn't need split frets - there must be some sort of analysis going on to determine which string was fretted for each note, including multiples. Also noted from their website that it does not do open strings - only fretted. It's a long time since I hooked my Wal up to the midi interface but I'm pretty sure it does open strings as well as fretted.1 point
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Good afternoon, Produkt , and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share. (but you knew that anyway, I suppose..! )1 point
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Poundland1 point
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@CameronJand your stank donkey should know bruvva 👊🏾1 point
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A stanky groove and a stanky tone! More great work @Bill1 point
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I have to say that's the first Bongo that hasn't made me think of toilets. It's pretty awesome looking!1 point
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Well played and it sounds lovely.1 point
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amps..1 point
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That’s correct- there’s no latency in a pickup. The latency arises when you try to use the signal from that pickup, analyse it for volume and frequency and then send an appropriate midi note message for it. A GK pickup/ Vbass setup does no midi conversion so no latency but also no actual midi. The Industrial Radio/ Peavey/ Wal setup uses frets split for each string with resistor chains all the way up the fingerboard for note sensing. So again, no audio analysis is performed for pitch sensing- just for note volume information so very low latency and consistent across the entire fingerboard but does actually send midi.1 point
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I was "forced" to try out the Elite P and J basses by my local Fender dealer when they first arrived at his shop. Very nice. Of the two, I considered the Elite P to be the better all-round instrument. Unfortunately for the dealer, he had already extracted my disposable income for an AVRI '63.1 point
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@dmccombe7 If you're in Biggar, we're not that far. I have a couple of BF Two10 and a Mesa D800+, if you want to meet sometime and have a little taste, maybe also in combination with your existing amp/cabs if you like. I used to have a pair of BF BigBaby 2, which unfortunately can't be compared directly, but I have a reasonable recollection of what they were like. The cab that @wateroftyne was using is a TKS S212, if I'm not mistaken? I still own two TKS S112 that I could bring too if interested. Their bottom end is very tight and precise, some say a bit lacking by default, but you can add a bit of bass EQ from your amp and they respond gloriously. They are very very light. The reason I got the Two10s was that I was a bit afraid of pushing the S112s too hard, and I could get a sufficiently similar sound from the Two10, but the Two10 has the bottom end by default and can take a lot more... But the TKS S112/S212 are beautiful sounding cabs. I used to have a pair of TKS 1126 that were monsters. Very clean, very big sounding.1 point
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Yes it is with maple wings and chrome hardware plus Aguilar OBP as an extra.1 point
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As BC's biggest Trace Elliot fan, I'm glad you're happy with your Trace combo, Mark. Welcome to the fold. I'm a big believer that nobody sold their Trace Elliot because it doesn't do the job, merely because they're heavy. As reliable as a wood burning stove and "kick in the kidneys powerful" - I've been trying to find a modern day replacement - Mesa/Glock and Darkglass failed to meet my expectations. If your gripe is that TE are too heavy, my advice is buy a head (15lbs?) and lightweight cabs of your choice. Problem solved. IMO you can't beat a good Trace Elliot.1 point
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looks great!1 point
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Bargain! If I was 20 years younger.1 point
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I can see how the poor design leaves that chunk of wood vulnerable. I'd point out to them that if you had caused the damage then you would have just bolted it back together and sent it back under the distance selling rules and they'd be non the wiser rather than highlighting the problem.1 point
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Beautiful! Mike Starr came to my mind...1 point
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My absolute pride and joy1 point
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New UK Rotos also have coloured ball ends.1 point
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just to clarify I've had the amp repaired and it's back to normal1 point
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That picture deserves lots of entries. I tried to record something earlier but it was a shittake.1 point
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Hi, suggest you check out www.themusiclab.co.uk. They're based in Hoddesdon, teach bass along with drums and guitar too. Can't speak highly enough of them - I'm a bass and drum student there. All tutors and students v friendly, supportive and (most importantly for me) patient! Pm me if you want to find out more. Good luck with the search, Hertsbass1 point
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