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  1. Cat Burrito
    I wish Fender would do a 1951 reissue Precision again. I've owned 3 and it's the only bass I regret selling. Don't know how well they sell but it's long overdue a reissue.
    5 points
  2. Jean-Luc Pickguard
    Like this?
    5 points
  3. molan
    Hi all, the business is technically still ‘active’ but the web site needed a complete overhaul and I simply haven’t had time to complete it. Unfortunately/fortunately my private marketing consultancy business has really taken off and I can earn more from this in 2-3 days than bass retail can generate in a month! I’ve been mostly working in movie marketing for about 18 months with a good friend who’s a producer and we have 10 films out this year. Current project is working on one with a Biffy Clyro soundtrack so that’s been a lot of fun. I have maybe 25-30 basses stashed away to relaunch with including Ritter, Fodera, Alleva Coppolo, Atelier Z, Suhr and a string of vintage Fenders and some JVs as well. Just need to find some time to get them all photographed and the site finished. . .
    5 points
  4. gary mac
    I would probably go with 45-105, because I've played everything from heavy Rock to pop and soul on them. It's important that the instrument is set up properly and also that you know how to get the best out of your amp/cab.
    4 points
  5. Lozz196
    Herebe our latest offering, from our 4th album which will be released on 01 Aug 2019:
    3 points
  6. dave_bass5
    I’m a huge fan of this series, but I only just came across this episode and it blew me away. Such a lovely groove.
    3 points
  7. Bassdude BE
    Squier CV 60's precision fiesta red. Connoisseurs probably already know what series of classic vibe precisions this is (run from 2008-2012). According to many, these are next to the JV series "the best squier basses ever made". These gradually increase in value, this bass has no scratches or dents, no defects and the thumbrest and screws (not on photo) are included. There is a set of old flatwounds on it that fit well with the bass. In short: A nice playing P-bass with a good sound (the stock pickup sounds surprisingly good!) And Pino looks. I recently got this bass in a trade deal with Torvic here on the forum and I've got around 450Euro/400£ invested in it myself, but a good offer is welcome. The bass comes without a suitcase or gigbag, but I have plenty of packing materials (I'm an expert at packing instruments.. ) and you will get a standard levys strap with it. You can test / pick up in Ghent center (BE), shipping will cost you another tenner. Kind regards, Don
    3 points
  8. DoubleOhStephan
    Do Fender make a P with Jazz neck? If not, that.
    3 points
  9. fleabag
    I had over 100 new kitchen tiles " go missing " from Ebay. I paid for the goods via PP. I was told by PP that they had proof of delivery from the courier. Trackable doesnt always mean a signature is required. The courier hits a few buttons on his courier pad to say the item has been delivered. Thats all PP / Ebay need. After a few weeks of messing around with messaging ( had to do it on Facebook with My hermes ) who denied everything. They dont have a customer line anymore ( no surprise ) so FB is the only way. In the end, i found out the courier had delivered the tiles to the Chinese Takeaway 30 yards away, who in fact never received the goods. I got so hacked off with the courier ( who probably stole them ) and the seller, who didnt give a hoot. and Ebay and PP who didnt a give a hoot either, so after about 7 weeks or so, i contacted my bank and got them to reverse the payment. Suddenly, PP took notice ... i paid twice because he only sold in bundles, and i needed 2 bundles to complete the job, but for some reason, PP only reversed one of the payments, and that caused more mayhem. But the bank of HSBC helped and i got all the money back, but only because i got my teeth sunk in like a Jack Russell with a rat. Bar stewards, the lot of 'em.
    3 points
  10. knicknack
    @wateroftyne
    3 points
  11. la bam
    In all honesty, for me, one great tone that mixes perfectly with the drums is much better all round than changing patches all the time. Give the sound guy a good chance of getting the rhythm section mixed perfectly by giving him a consistent sound and let him worry about vocals, guitars and keys the rest of the gig.
    3 points
  12. Jabba_the_gut
    A few more little jobs done today. I'm just finishing anything that may cause scratches etc. before I get round to the final sanding on the neck. Drilled the holes for the neck and cut the neck screws down in length as they were long enough to go all the way through the fretboard. No idea why but one of the screws decided to snap! I was quite lucky as there was enough showing in the neck that I could remove it carefully with pliers. Any less showing and it would have been a nightmare of having to drill it out..... The screw came out without too much fuss and, most importantly, without causing any damage or scratches. I had another screw which I trimmed then fitted the neck. I've also made the cavity cover template a little tighter fitting so there is a little less gap around it (wasn't masses around the original, I'm just being picky!!) so I'll make the new cover tomorrow.
    3 points
  13. SurroundedByManatees
    I was looking for a good Music Man for a while, that needed to have a lacquered neck. I don't like the oiled ones as much.. Today I went for a drive to pick up this 30th anniversary model! Its such a beautiful bass... Tommorow I'll be done with the set up and give it a spin. I haven't heard it with proper fresh strings yet, but it sounded great already with dead rounds. So I guess flats would sound great too. First I'll mount a set of fat beams for full Stingray aggression
    3 points
  14. Merton
    Alan’s almost finished, and he’s done a stupendous job as always. Stunning
    3 points
  15. Deedee
    Squier Classic Vibe 60’s Precision When lisitings go bad! Now withdrawn.
    2 points
  16. oldslapper
    PJ bass put together by young @Beedster of this ‘ere gaff. Weighs 9lbs Neck sourced from USA by Chris, which as you can see had been lacquered at some point, and not finished particularly well at the heel, but never bothered me. Amazing beautiful dark rosewood board with the lovely 62 neck profile (wide-ish, but flatter) very comfy. He Put it together with this PJ configured P body It's been fully shielded, and wired with CTS pots and Tonerider Pickups with V, V, T controls, plus two are push/pull pots which are; A series/parallel on the P pickup volume control for the P pickup (single coil type tone) The other putting both jazz and P pickup in series (full big humbucker tone) The bass plays nicely, great array of tones, balances well and comes strung with flats and in a hard case and some spare strings. I’d prefer to hand over at this stage, either coming to Slappy Towers in Bath, or meet up within a reasonable drive time. I’ll consider postage if there’s no local traffic. I may consider separating neck and body if there are a couple of peeps interested in them. I’m going to say body £180 & neck £120 posted, as long I have both confirmed as wanted. Selling as I only have 2 basses at any one time and my Kramer aluminium does all things fretted and I have an incoming fretless. Any questions do ask.
    2 points
  17. Andyjr1515
    Oh wow! It's no consolation, but it is VERY rare for that to happen just with tensioning up. On the positive side, that is a very clean break. If you want to post the neck to me, more than happy to see if I can fix it...
    2 points
  18. stewblack
    Only met the guy once , but sometimes you just know
    2 points
  19. binky_bass
    How much did @Moos3h pay your for that? Almost bromantic. 😂
    2 points
  20. Al Krow
    One thing I should have mentioned about the NE is that it delivers thunderous, bone rattling LOWS!! Very probably the deepest, meatiest low end of any bass I've come across. Great review, Dan...and don't worry about forgetting to mention the B string - I think I've covered that off in my comment immediately above! 😂
    2 points
  21. Billy Apple
    I did exactly the same thing. Pay Pal didn't want to know until my bank reversed payment. Suddenly I started getting phone calls from them at 0800 everyday asking for their money. Now they were calling me, I got my point across. I got my money back from a vendor who I'd returned goods too (not as described). Pay Pal are tu7ds of the first order.
    2 points
  22. molan
    It’s mostly going back to my roots Dave - I worked in big studio movie promotion for several years and really enjoyed it. Now working with some of the same people but on purely independently produced and financed films. Way smaller budgets but also without all the politics of big Hollywood studio productions. The biggest bonus is that I can work almost exclusively from home and only have to travel into London about once every 2-3 months instead of every day. We have a very experienced team of people working together and we can short-cut all the time-wasting meetings and ridiculously long conference calls. All our materials sit in a central cloud based storage system and we chat via Skype and WhatsApp Makes it much more relaxing but still fun and, mostly, rewarding as we all deal direct with producers, writers, cast etc - I was most impressed to get Suki Waterhouse asking for my WhatsApp details last week and sending me little messages and requests for help in stuff, lol.
    2 points
  23. itsmedunc
    A quick Google search implies that a gift can be disputed. It looks like some forms of funding e.g. credit cards, then the rules change and PayPal have to abide by credit card regulations which are different! Some folking twits must lie awake at night thinking of how to scam others. Grrrrr.
    2 points
  24. Dazed
    All I’m going to say is everything affects the tone. Try some lighter strings and see how you get on. Your playing will have the biggest influence on your sound (ruling out effects and extreme eq settings)
    2 points
  25. Frank Blank
    I know this sounds whack but I used to have really light gauge strings (don’t know the exact sizes but they were the lightest they had in stock at The Bass Centre when I bought the bass) on a Jaydee Supernatural. I used this inappropriate bass with it’s inappropriately light gauge strings to play in a heavy goth band and subsequently a really heavy and fast thrash metal band. It sounded great though, drop D in the thrash band, real clarity but still plenty of depth. I find the lighter gauges easier to play (small fingers here). Latterly I was convinced to use a different bass with heavier strings but I was never really happy, that initial setup was ideal for me. No doubt my experience is a freaky outlier but there you go.
    2 points
  26. paul_c2
    I won't be able to do one until Monday anyway, I have a summer fair gig this afternoon so I'll not have time to record anything beforehand.
    2 points
  27. martthebass
    30th anni.....one of the best rays ever made.
    2 points
  28. Bluewine
    Great weather, grreat crowd. It was a good gig. It's so nice when you only have to play an hour. I had a blast! Blue
    2 points
  29. Doctor J
    If you didn’t type that on an electronic device made in an Asian sweat shop where worker’s rights are essentially non-existant, well done you!
    2 points
  30. Isabass
    SOLD Serial number 1679 Year 2011 Very good state The bass feels ans looks brand new. No marks, scratches or dings on the body, nothing. Color stunning candy apple green finish green Passive Bass Pickups Fralin Very light 7.4 pounds / 3.4 kgs Rosewood fingerboard Very low action shipped in gig bag Mike Lull Price drop 1300£/ 1450€
    1 point
  31. stewblack
    Has a few but some of them are very meh. Oh I also went through a tc electronic subnup
    1 point
  32. visog
    It appears you are correct - I stand corrected. This from a Talkbass poster, who sounds like they know what they're talking about - no guarantee I know! Also an earlier thread from BC too. Bunny Brunel might have had a hand in testing the Yamaha BB series, along with the likes of Abe Laboriel, Nathan East, Lee Sklar, and a bunch of other session guys, but as I've understood it, John Carruthers developed the "Big Body" series basses for Yamaha, with input from all those early testers. It was not Bunny's design, or named for Bunny Brunel.
    1 point
  33. visog
    "Hope you enjoy our new direction..."
    1 point
  34. fleabag
    Yup ! These payments can be reversed just like a normal Paypal payment. They can be reversed if funded by a credit card, Bank account or even if the funds are in the senders paypal account.
    1 point
  35. molan
    Yes, that’s definitely the one - I remember the initial panic of shipping internally in the UK because it was impossible at the time to get anyone to cover the full insurance value! Lovely bass. I was going to keep it personally at first but then a full custom Yin Yang became available so I took that instead. With hindsight I think I preferred this one. May have to stick a Ritter or vintage Fender up for sale now, lol.
    1 point
  36. Bassassin
    He is a visitor from a Time Before Shims.
    1 point
  37. mcnach
    Really good to hear. I love TKS. And no peeling vinyl covering on those ones...
    1 point
  38. Billy Apple
    I think Basschat is the only place where I would send goods and use bank transfer, but still only with established members with a Marketplace history. I do sell on Gumtree, but only face to face for cash. I don't even give my address out. I give the address of a local supermarket car park and tell them to ring when they get there. They have ANPR and CCTV which is useful if skullduggery is on someones mind. If they want to look at the item and handle it that's fine, but I ask for the money in my pocket first. I've been asked 'don't you trust me?' to which I say you're a feller I've just met in a car park.. of course I don't trust you! With respect to the OP, it's so obvious this is nonsense, I find it odd that people are still asking about this. I was thinking though, couldn't you string the scammer along and send them a box of bricks or something? Sure they'll get their money back, but they'll also get a box of bricks. Come to think of it, I've got an old Armitage Shanks 'Dominator' model bog and cistern gathering weeds in the back garden. It's there because the local tip are now wanting £10 to take it in. Maybe some lucky person in South Africa could get it!?
    1 point
  39. xgsjx
    I’d this just for me? I don’t do either of these. Though I did excessively swear at a piper once.
    1 point
  40. Cosmo Valdemar
    Probably an NS 2000/5. They're almost always listed as Legends in ads. I think they are better than Legends so there are sometimes bargains to be found!
    1 point
  41. bassfan
    Love that Dave. My favourite is Ceelo green doing I can’t go for that. The groove on that is awesome.
    1 point
  42. joegarcia
    PMed
    1 point
  43. TKenrick
    I took down the Me'shell transcriptions as I felt I could do them better... I'm in the process of editing them, they'll be back on the site soon.
    1 point
  44. ambient
    They could use a hacked PayPal account. My advice is whenever selling via Gumtree, only ever use cash on collection. They come, they try it, inspect it, pay cash and leave. Always have someone else in the house with you too.
    1 point
  45. Newfoundfreedom
    1 point
  46. karlfer
    I liked it Stevo (sorry, I appear to have gone Australian). Familiar rehearsal room I'm sure the very Floydian feel hasn't escaped any of you. Really liked your playing, perfect for the number IMO. Good luck with the project & enjoy.
    1 point
  47. fleabag
    Blimey - is this a video for the hard of thinking ? Surely even a drummer could work out how to adjust a strap
    1 point
  48. lemmywinks
    Been using the Gator Pro Go which has been fantastic and realistically priced: https://www.thomann.de/gb/gator_g_pg_bass_guitar_bag.htm
    1 point
  49. krispn
    I think the jmj is a killer wee bass and although more expensive is a fine shorty. I think as mentioned above the supro is the only other short scale I’d be into. Glad I have the jmj at my disposal and it’s gonna be my main gigging bass for the foreseeable.
    1 point
  50. funkle
    Hmm. When I said bags of power for an F112....the Tecamp Puma 900 (500W into 8 ohms) I had with that setup gave everything it could to the F112 and the F112 could take it all and laugh. The woofer is an absolute monster in that cab. I mean...you’re going to need a proper PA amp to make the F112 cry. I wouldn’t doubt that you could throw 800W into a single F112 and it would keep giving. I’m not sure about 1000W RMS, but maybe if you were careful....the woofer (Eminence 3012LF) I think is rated at 450W RMS. That seemed conservative to me. The BB2 has a modified Eminence 3012LF (I think). But since it’s not trying to make so much in the way of lows, it’s significantly louder than the F112 with less power. 500W into a BB2 is slamming.
    1 point
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