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SO chuffed! I was the only bidder and won a Maruszczyk Elwood L 4A and picked it up this afternoon. Couldn't be happier! Super lightweight but perfect balance, insanely good build quality, Delano pickups, Glockenklang preamp and in a gorgeous natural finish that feels fab. All for under £600? Very happy with that! Came with the case and all the candy including a set of strings too. Pics to follow in the morning. Can't wait to crank it through my gigging rig - first low volume noodlings are very promising indeed. Cheers, James6 points
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Price massively reduced, I really need to free up cash, before holiday/Park festival season properly kicks off and I've got to play every day & night! Ah man... This is one of those 'I don't want to sell, but maybe need to' situations. This is my favourite bass I've owned. But, it's looking like I've been dealt early onset OA and need to get the lightest bass available or find another job! I'll double check, but this isn't heavy, it's about 9.5lbs, a shade over IIRC. It's currently the top of the line Yamaha BB, made in Japan. I bought it new from Yamaha London less than a year ago. It was the first in the UK I believe. It's alder/maple, has their newest lightweight hardware in a great satin finish. The bass is actually midnight blue, but tends to look more of a black in photos. It's string with D'Addario EXL170-5, as from the factory. It comes with a really plush hardcase too. It's passive, with VVT controls, but like with early BB's, the range if tones available is fantastic. It has 18mm string spacing, and the nicest neck I've played. I thought I liked a wide chunky neck on a bass, coming from a Sadowsky, but the Yamaha is something special. It's very comfortable and has a beautiful construction and matte feel. As I say, I'm not keen to let it go, but I'm struggling with my back/hips/knees... And this isn't even a heavy bass. Not looking for trades as I'm going to be looking at Sandberg Superlight series. I'm on the Isle of Wight, but Portsmouth/Southampton meet up is possible. Any specific photos/questions, please ask. Condition wise, there are no injuries to report. Neck and headstock remain completely as new, and there are no chips/dings/dents to be seen. The back of the body of the bass has some light swirling from my shirt buttons, but I couldn't pick it up in a photo.5 points -
Will the excitement never end?! Bridge is on. Don’t ask about the black screws...so mundane is the story I cannot even be bothered...in a side note, chrome screws on the pickup now...as it should be.5 points
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Here’s some pics, though...4 points
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I paid £300 and spent the rest on vodka. My bass looks as good as anything out there after 1700 quids worth of vodka.3 points
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And you don't want to buy from a dealer with a bad Attitude.3 points
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My first self built bass. I bought a fretless neck and a loaded body from here and sourced the other bits from ebay. Finally got around to building it today but made a school boy error. I forgot to buy the strings. Our own Gary Mac is doing the honours so I should be up and running next weekend. I've not played fretless since the '70's so it will be interesting to so how it goes. Anyway, there's the picture.2 points
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And a 2013.2 points
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I've cut a new fretboard for this bass and this time I measured twice and cut once!! The previous neck was 31.5" with 24 frets, for the new neck is 29.5" and obviously has to fit in the same neck pocket and the bridge has to be in roughly the same place. So this works out as the replacement neck being 22 fret for it to fit correctly. As the chance of me getting the intonation exactly right having not tried this scale length before I think is minimal, I'm removing the original brass inserts for the bridge and filling the holes so I can repositioning it later. I'm also going to redrill the holes for the string anchors as I have a better version I'm going to install. This is done by widening the top 4mm of a 10mm hole to 12mm diameter. to do this I have a small piece of mdf with a 12mm hole in it that is placed over the original hole. One of the string anchors is used to centralise it before clamping the template in place. This is the body with the brass inserts removed Then this the body with the holed infilled The body had also picked up a very small dent which I sanded out. I tried refinishing but couldn't get it to match so I sanded the finish off the walnut and started to finish it again. Fussy, but I want it to be right This is the body with the topped sanded and the string anchors holes redrilled.2 points
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Good choice.2 points
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john martyn some people from grace and danger easy to learn and super expressive2 points
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Hi everyone , I'm selling my Xotic 5 string P bass. I ordered it new directly from Xotic through Bass Direct in 2016 , as it matched the spec I wanted . I used it sparingly on a tour I was on as I needed an authentic P bass sound , but haven't really used it since ( I've always been a Musicman player ) I had the bass set up by ex Sounds Great luthier Matt Ryan in Milnrow , who commented on the high build quality . The Xotic benefits from a push/pull active / passive master volume , a very transparent 3 band eq with master tone and luminova dots on the side of the neck that glow to help you out on dark stages / pits etc . The condition of the bass is 9.75 / 10.00 - The only marks I can see , are fine scratch marks on the scratch plate that were already on when I collected the bass - Hard to see on the photos and barely noticeable up close . Although I have hardly used the bass - I've used the gig bag a little - it's still in very good condition though . I'm not looking for any trades for this , and as I think I've priced it very competitively I'm not open to any offers . I'm looking for a UK sale only , and I would prefer the buyer to collect , although I'm open to discussing different delivery options . Thanks for taking a look . N2 points -
Yes, I'll trade it for £500 cash, lol. Sorry couldn't resist, I'm only after some cash tbh.2 points -
Is possible that your band mate may be even less keen on that scenario than you are. 😐2 points
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Mine arrived Thursday too, best £16.50 I’ve ever spent. What a collection - I thought the John Entwistle book was good, but Geddys is amazing!2 points
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My SB2 is shod with thomastic. I tried my newly aquired SB1 with flats that were on the bass and in the end changed to rounds. Theres soomething nicely aggressive about the sound with rounds.2 points
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There's more to the story which is why I had no problem taking the money. Blue2 points
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And here be pics:2 points
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yeah, ain't gonna work with my ELF mini rig with one or both 1 10"s hehe2 points
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If I can find a buyer fir my BBP34 I will be all over this.2 points
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Slick stuff from Cory and his band. B Slade with the amazing laid back Sharay on bass. He reminds me of KRS12 points
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The question about the hardware was a valid one, since you had just stated a change in hardware colour to black by a previous owner, along with a link to the original ACG web page spec. Other brands of black hardware are available so how are BC members to know what has been fitted? You also posted the previous owner’s sale thread, in which it states that there is buckle rash and a dent, so again it was a valid question. I don’t understand how valid questions on a sale thread for a bass costing £900 constitutes a “crap” of your thread? i am not a time waster as my feedback on BC will show. I was actually genuinely interested in buying this bass, but I’m sure I’ll find something suitable from a less rude member.2 points -
Great guys and we've been using their stuff for about a year now: Map Bass, Airline 3P and Rivolta Mondata in the band. We do have a casual non-endorsement relationship with them so feel free to take this whole post with salt to taste, but I'm happy with the quality on all the stuff we got and none of it was special order or anything. Wouldn't be using or defending it otherwise. General thoughts on the Map Bass are that it's incredibly heavy but also possibly the deepest bass I've ever played. Get a lot of other players asking if I'm using a sub octave or something but it's just a very strong fundamental and a lot of output and low end. In fact there's so much low end that I struggled a bit to start with but after lowering the pickups it's now got a nice vintage growl to it. Still very high output and I have to severely rein the gain in on my pedals to keep it clean. We went up to the demo day they did last year with most of the range in and I was impressed with all the higher end stuff. Lot of nice decorative touches across the range that you wouldn't find on a Fender of similar price but the lower stuff definitely felt like it could do with a setup. They're very interesting guitars and get a lot of attention - lots of other players and audience members asking what they are.2 points
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Things have really picked up out of nowhere with all these acoustic gigs. Well, not really out of nowhere. I have a suspition about why I started getting these acoustic offers. I played Cafe Soeurette Saturday night from 7-10 ,great hours and a nice engaged crowd. I'm playing a Sprecher Micro Brewery gig this Saturday night. I also found out my primary band will be opening for a national headliner at a large country festival this summer. 3 weeks ago I had nothing. Blue2 points
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I've had an idea.... and it may be a good one I've come up with a workable and cost effective design for a control system that would allow users to effectively use midi PC data to set presets on their existing analogue pedals. It wouldn't involve any electronics or soldering on the users part, and would be easily retrofittable to virtually any pedalboard, and wouldn't take up any more space than a power supply. The idea is that there would be a number of channels, and the user can define which pots they control. They could be multiple pots on the same pedal, or many pot on multiple pedals. Is this something that you as a pedal buyer/user/lover/addict (delete as appropriate) would be interested in? Any questions, comments, suggestions will be welcomed. I anticipate a lot of comments regarding cost so lets say for argument's sake it costs no more than £35 per channel. edit* If anybody has some programming skills and would like to come onboard with a project like this then id welcome a partnership. I have all the mechanicals down, but the programming is beyond me. PM me if your interested.1 point
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Always in pursuit of certain tones... I've definitley racked up too many of these along the way. The 2x10 and 1x15 go on top of each other to make a great sounding stack. 4x10 was my personal favourite, real sweet on its own. Cash or trades considered, I'm based in Egham 5 min off M25, J13. I also travel around the UK quite a bit for gigs so worth an ask if you're not London-ish. Trade wise, mostly thinking basses. A nice fretless, Fender five strings, a Music Man or something with a juicy neck pickup. 104HF -£450 £400 £350 In good shape with a roqsolid cover. Bought from new, noticed the tweeter doesn't work but never bothered to send it back as I always liked how this one sounded- all 4x10 speakers and cab is in great shape. I put a black speaker cloth in front of the grill to mask the orange cones, can easily be removed. 4 ohms, Made in Indonesia. 102HF - £300 In good shape, everything works and sounds just as it should. 8 ohms, Made in Italy. 151P - £320 Traveller cab, very close to new shape. Barely been used. 8 ohms, Made in Indonesia. Would sell the 2x10 and 1x15 together for £5801 point -
For sale or trade beautiful Ibanez Volo bass Btb 33" scale and 17mm string spacing, with tipical E-C configuration. Comes with soft case. I can consider offer for straight sale or trade.1 point -
Hey folks - my name's Nick and I live in Edinburgh. I've been playing since I was in my mid teens (going to be 40 this year) and moved to Edinburgh a few years back. I'm originally from London but was in Aberdeen for a few years too. Due to the arrival of kids etc. I've struggled to find time to play over the past 3-4 years. Part of trying to get this part of my life restarted includes coming back to forums like this so I thought I'd do a quick intro. As a player I tend to aim into the Jamerson/Babbit/Jerry Jermott/Willie Weeks type space. I got really lucky when I was young as I had a couple of year learning with Paul Westwood who taught me basic harmony and how to walk through jazz standards before showing me how all that stuff culminated in James Jamerson. Since then I've done a load of different things (blues, big band and small band jazz, functions, originals, drum'n'bass / breaks, country / singer songwriter stuff). Gear wise I'm pretty much a J-bass guy - my main squeeze being a through neck 5 string which wears some old flats (it looks fancy but it's basically just a jazz bass with a narrower string spacing) running through a Genz Benz Streamliner and some Barefaced cabs. If anyone knows any good jams or teachers in or around Edinburgh then let me know.1 point
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That's lovely !1 point
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Then you'll end up with a 115 that can't keep up with the 410, so whatever additional low end it might have, and that's not much best case, won't be of any benefit. If you had a clean slate what you should do is find the 8 ohm cab that sounds the best to you, and if one wasn't enough add a second. +1. Your stage rig drives the stage, the PA drives the room. No one needs more than a 4x10 or 2x15, unless it's to impress the kiddies in the audience.1 point
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I have made my book available again - but only until May 7th, as some people (elsewhere) were asking me for copies. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1798712652/1 point
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i think it will be most useful on a loop switcher based rig for fully automated preset control. but it would still useful without one, the user would just still have to switch the pedals on and off.1 point
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even if you could get the two cabs to work, each speaker in the 410 will get half the power of each 15" speaker. It's a crapshoot if this will sound good, but you won't be utilising all your power1 point
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Yeah but if you make the cab 16R then it'll get half the power the 4x10 gets, so is it worth bringing for the tiny amount of volume it'll create? I know metal is loud, but do you really need more than that 4x10? They're LOUD! If I really needed more I'd just get another matching 4x10, they can be had for quite cheap these days as people don't want to move them.1 point
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3 seconds? It's closer to 3/4 of a second... A punk originals band I was in got 28 songs into a 40 minute set, including some between song banter...1 point
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Thanks very much. Will ingest and implement1 point
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and Stainless Steels over Nickels for brightness and clank1 point
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Twice I have tried to! The first, my Fender Precision PB70US (as discussed in the John Deacon thread) went to a lovely chap here on BassChat. He wobbled a bit having moment when he wanted to sell, but, understandably after playing it lots more, decided to keep. I can't blame him really, it was a lovely bass I sold in a stupid moment ha ha! The other, another precision bass I sold when I was 18. I had the offer to join a well known local band as lead guitarist. Yes, I sold a bass that was dear to me. SILLY! - In a weird twist of fate though it reappeared both on eBay and hear some 25 years later! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it and recognised it immediately. The guy selling it originally was the son of the chap I passed the bass too. He subsequently sold it to the BassChatter who advertised it here. Unfortunately there were some misinterpretations of what the bass actually was and thus the value started creeping up and up, too far away from my budget. Apparently, the instrument in question resides in a studio around Suffolk or Essex! Who knows which, I don't know!!1 point
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Great until some scumbag nicks the car while you are sleeping up on the roof, it would be like a scene off Mr Bean.1 point
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My old Steve Smith custom long scale "EB-2" - foolishly sold to a BC-er several years ago, who recently very obligingly traded it back to me; in better shape too.1 point
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+1 to that, as also an Alembic and Wal owner Mine's an early one; a 1976 S1 long scale. Love it, but have to admit I tend to use more for recording than gigging. We're so familiar with the design now, but when you think what was around when the first Alembic basses came out, they must have seemed from another planet.....1 point
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Loads of new original material for a new band. Really happy with my ability to learn new parts (been making up my own for last few years), and surprised myself at getting my fingers around some fairly compley bits where bass plays unison with guitar. Looking forward to first rehearsal on Tuesday.1 point
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Just sold my Yamaha BX-5 to Ed is a smooth transaction. Good comms throughout, most pleasant experience all round.1 point
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I know it's frustrating, but it's just the way things are manufactured now. It's a throw away society. You cant win. Either a new board is expensive in relation to the cost of the amp, or the part is cheap but the labour of diagnosing and fixing is expensive. Got to put a mention Ashdowns way. I'm sure they pride themselves on their amps having serviceable parts, so they can always be fixed. The old school ways are the best sometimes.1 point
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May I nominate that for the Basschat Word of the Month award? I respectfully suggest for those who like to shorten words that the contraction narseness be adopted from this day forward. Narseness is like niceness only it's applied in an inwardly direction by shoving one's entire head up one's own fundament.1 point
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Not been asked that before. My wife has a theory which she maintains is a theme running through them all but to be honest I think she is trying to hard to manufacture something from nothing. The theory is based on all basses being feminine which to be fair to her I don't really disagree with but she has put way to much thought in to it and how that relates to each model. If you ever meet her by all means ask and she will be happy to expand at length on the subject. I am not a big fan of just model numbers which I think are very forgettable and impart no charactor and de-personalise the bass which I don't see as a good thing. Naming them takes ages because it is an important statement and forms associations for people and I would like them to be good rather than bad or stupid. So in short some I have named myself and of the current models those would be: Recurve , Harlot, Salace, and Skelf. Named by others: Finn. Krell which was named by Kev Hopper. The J Type named for marketing purposes. The R Type and S Type relate to the top horn or lower horn in the single cuts. A S Type has the top horn of a Skelf single cut. The R Type the lower horn from a Recurve. Classic is the first version of any single cut. E Type comes from design input from Ewan Beck. The A Type Krell is the version I did myself. Border Reiver refers to local history and as a small compact travel type bass crossing borders seemed appropriate. Think that about covers it.1 point
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