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I'm thinning the herd so this beauty has got to go. It's a stunning bass with a beautiful birdseye/flame maple neck that many 'rays of this era are known for. This bass also had a fret level and set up by John Shuker last year. It comes with a hard case which I believe is original. It's not one of the Musicman moulded cases, but I've been informed that it's a SKB which were used along with the G&G cases around this era. It's certainly made for a Stingray as the inner moulding at the headstock has the lower cut-out for the G tuner. Manufactured 29th October 1992 Maple neck with Rosewood board Ash body Translucent Teal finish Matt black/white/black plate Metal battery cover 'Off-set' string entry type bridge with mutes 6 bolt neck plate Weight 9lb 13oz Neck width at nut 43mm It's in wonderful condition with only a couple of indentations to the finish on the body (nothing at all that has gone through the finish). I'll try to capture these and add photos later. EDIT - Photos added showing the worst bruises I can capture. As you can see, they take nothing away from the bass. I'm just trying to be thorough. Collection or meet up only on this at present as I'm short of packaging materials. I am however willing to drive a fair distance for a motorway services rendezvous! Not interested in any trades at this time thank you.11 points -
All parts original, recently refretted and checked up by Joseph Kaye. Accepting trades & offers with some return in cash8 points -
Say what you want what you really really want 😁6 points
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A month ago I ordered a MMB-5 kit from Pit Bull guitars in Australia. I customised the order though. I asked for an Ash body as opposed to basswood and I ordered a Babicz bridge to replace the normal one. Today I received an e mail saying it had been finished and if I was happy they would send it. So once it arrives I will document the build on here. The first thing I will be doing is ordering all new hardware and pick up. I haven't decided on what yet though.5 points
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NO LONGER FOR SALE See last post below for a new video demo! Tentatively putting my Overwater up for sale on here. I'm in no rush to sell it but open to sensible offers. Anyone in the SW London area is welcome to give it a try. Anyone who's played one of these knows the kind of quality you can expect from this. It was built for me in 2017 by Chris and the team and would cost around £3500 to have made now I believe. I originally ordered it with an East J Retro which I have since changed for a J Tone giving it a more vintage sound and the versatility of a passive tone control. It will also come with the extra capacitors which are easy to switch out to adjust the roll off of the tone control. I also swapped the pickups from Overwater Ceramic to OWs new Alnico ones. I will include both sets of pickups for the buyer and a Fender Hard Case. Spec is below, let me know if you have any questions, it's in very nearly perfect condition, a few marks on the headstock and a couple of tiny dinks on the top of the neck are pictured below. You are welcome to try in Chessington, KT9. I will also consider posting fully insured. - Maple 21 fret bolt on neck - Nut 46mm -19mm string spacing -MOP block inlays -3mm side dots (1mm bigger than standard for extra visibility) -Alder body -J Tone Preamp -OW Noiseless Alnico Pickups (Ceramics for more HiFi sound also included) -Hipshot Ultralight Tuners -Custom Seafoam Green Finish -35" scale Many thanks Dan The tiny black mark in the picture below was just rubber and has now been cleaned off.5 points -
For sale / trade my Cort Rythimic Jeff Berlin Condition 10/10 Very, very, very amazing bass !!! 3,5kgs ! Babicz Bridge Bartolini USA Custom Ebony fretboard Hipshot Ultralight Dunlop Strings Abalone Dots Thanks !5 points -
Well, it's been a bit of a whirlwind start to the year bass wise as my search for a fretted bass that I get on with continued at a pace. Back in November I purchased a Sandberg from @DoubleOhStephan after seeing another similar Sandberg on the Bass Gallery website. Obviously, due to lockdown, I was unable to pick up the bass. In late January I also decided to buy a short scale Warwick from The Lord of the Dead @Osiris thinking that really this was my last dealings with full scale basses and that I'd probably settle with the short scale Warwick, essentially it was my backup in case of disappointment. Due to lockdown I was also unable to pick up the Warwick either. By March I was going up the wall and my resolve crumbled. I bought the original Sandberg that had tickled my fancy on the Bass Gallery site. It arrived on the doorstep and here it is... ...it has everything aesthetically I want in a bass, matt sunburst finish, gold hardware, it is simply one of the most beautiful basses I've ever seen. I played it for 10-15 minutes and put it in the rack. Last Saturday I was granted an audience with the Overseer of the Egyptian Underworld to pick up the Warwick. I got the bass home, here it is... ...I was really surprised at the build quality, an amazing bass for the money, gorgeous, lovely. I played it for about 10-15 minutes and put it in the rack. On Thursday I finally drove down to @DoubleOhStephan to pick up the original Sandberg, I got the bass home and here it is... I don't know what it is about this bass but I can't put it down, perhaps this is the one?5 points
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Free to a good home (or rehearsal space!) - probably worth a few quid still but thought I'd give something back to the BC community... Works fine, the tweeter is a little noisy but fine when playing, and silent when off. Carpet covering in decent enough nick. Collection only please from Cullingworth, c20mins from Bradford. Cheers, Rick5 points
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I have let other bands use my rig four times, each time there was varying degrees of damage, each time I pointed this out to the perpetrator I was simply greeted by bemused shrugs. The final time I warned the bassist, he seemed to be taking it all in, they started playing so I went to the bar, when I came back there was a pint glass, an ash tray and spilt beer on my amp. I just wandered on to the stage unplugged the bass and began packing up my gear as the were playing. When I pointed out the bassists infractions he began arguing with me so I threw the remainder of the beer over him and continued packing up. It got close to a punch up but despite being the kind of chap who would, if involved in fisticuffs, close his eyes and wave his hands like poodle swimming, I do look far meaner than I actually am so (thankfully) they thought better of it. Since changing to an FRFR set up I no longer have this problem as most bassists take one look at my rig and just scratch their heads.5 points
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Many congrats to young @Leonard Smalls (again) for his double and @upside downer for the joint win in April. That now puts Lenny on a hat trick and as he chose the picture last month, upside downer has provided the inspiration for this one. As he says .............."I've gone for daft again, I'm afraid I just can't help myself " I think this will provide the option for many stylistic approaches! Usual rules apply. You know the drill: ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and written/recorded this month. ❌ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ❌ Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, Easter truce now Expired. Also on thin ice with panpipes, to be perfectly honest. ❌ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you. A line or two offering an insight to your inspiration will be good as well , it works nicely on the voting thread. Deadline wise , following a Zulu theme last time, we will call midnight on African Liberation Day , and yes, yet again, you probably have till about 19.00 on the 26th, ( the clue given here is that African Liberation Day is the 25th) Go To It , no excuses , 2 bank holidays to spend recording as well4 points
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Give it to your guitarist telling him it will make him sound better......,4 points
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Well, NPD (new plane day) today! Tooltique did a good job with restoration. Pretty much ready to go, just a quick sharpen/hone and away. Was going to start with the neck but the ash body blank was too tempting, so jointed and glued.4 points
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Yes. Yes it is. You'll end up wanting more strings soon... I have several 6 strings, a 7, an 8, a 9 and a 10 string. I once had a 13 string bass too. Roll with it sir, accept your fate... You're now one of us, there is no going back!! One of us... one of us... one of us... one of us...4 points
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Payday presents to myself - Uprising & Catch a Fire arrived in time for the long weekend. A bit of a luxury when I already have them digitally but it feeds my collector habit (still a fair bit of Bob Marley to go) and it feels like music that is best played on vinyl. .... not sure if the half speed mastering thing is really worth it or if its just a new sales gimmick.4 points
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Hello all.. EDIT: Brand new Elixir strings and fresh setup 🎉 £2350 - Open to trades of 5 string Xotic/F bass or similar Specs from the Mayones website below! •Body - Profiled Ash •Top - Spruce/Matching Headstock •Construction - 6 Bolt - on - custom profiled heal •Neck - Maple - additional carbon-fibre rods •Neck dimensions:Width at nut – 43.0 mm Width XII fret – 61.7 mm Width XXIV fret – 70.8 mm Thickness I fret – 20.0 mm Thickness XII fret – 23.0 mm •Fingerboard - Rosewood, 20” radius •Scale - 870mm (34,25") •Frets - 24 medium jumbo Ferd Wagner •Markers & inlays - Luminlay side dots, SGM-23 Super Green in Black pipe, 3 mm •Tuners - Hipshot Ultralights •Bridge - Mayo Vintage bridge, 18mm string spacing •Nut - Graphtec Tusk •Pickguard - Tortoise 3 ply, clear acrylic ramp between pickups •Pickups & Electronics - J-J / Delano JMVC 5 FE Jazzbass Twincoil Humbucker Set •Active May 3 band preamp •Control - 2 x Volume, Stacked bass/treble, tone, active/passive switch •Body finish - Satin •Neck finish - Natural wood / Matt finish (T-NAT-M) •Hardware colour - Chrome •Strings -SIT Nickel 40 - 125 •Weight: 8lb 14oz/4kg I mainly use this bass passive as that's what I prefer generally ( #flat9vAnxiety ) but it sounds great active! Has only been out on one gig this year unfortunately so it's pretty much mint condition other than a few scuffs on the back of the neck (pictured) which don't affect playability at all. Has an incredibly playable neck and a wide variety of sounds! Comes with Mayones flightcase. Considering trades of 5 strings of equal value or similar + money my way/yours. - Happy to deliver within reasonable distance of North London for a small fee for fuel (would rather do this than trust a courier!) Thanks! Jack IMG_1595.HEIC IMG_1596.HEIC3 points -
I'll go for aone of each... goodie and baddie. I think the band Placebo are OK.... but I love Brian Molko's guitar sound..... powerful and overdriven yet percussive: Might be sacrilege to say it but I always thought the Clash had a bit of a lame guitar sound in their punk days compared say to the Pistols:3 points
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Headless “ travel bass” for when we can travel again lol. Great for practice decent sounding and playing bass. Little use bought new for £400 recently GAS forces sale free UK postage included3 points -
Current incarnation: (do have drawers full of pedals but these are the ones I actually use) Yes, a bass wah. It is great fun! Then there's a polytune (tracks the low B better then the Korg pitchblack does), the cali76cb is set for punchy attack and boosts the signal a few DB. Two fuzzes. The Pickle does 'Muse' like, Giygas a more organic 'Beastie Boys' like girth. Then the Le Bass has a lovely tube drive in its fusion mode and spices up the overall tone a bit, giving it even more punch. I hear a lot of misconceptions about using compressors from fellow bassists, might start a thread on this topic soonish. Compressors are NOT used to compensate bad playing technique and several different comps can be used to either warm up your tone or make it more punchy and aggressive. They don't level out your touch but envelope each individual note you play when you set them up properly, emphasizing your touch rather then smashing it. My board too sits on a pedaltrain with a HB powerplant stuck underneath. The cheap HB seems to do just as good a job as my pricey VoodooLab PSU does and takes less space since it fits underneath the Pedaltrain.3 points
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Thanks, seeing it done in person makes it nice and clear and looks like this guy has other setup videos too, thanks so much for sharing! Man, thank you so much! So generous. Feeling very welcomed and excited for the bass. Hopefully I'll be in a position to pay forward the kindness to someone else in the future3 points
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I have 9 basses in total, an 8 string with octave strings included. Each instrument inspires in a different way and makes me come up with different stuff. If I could only maintain one then that would be a hard choice to make. Purely from a functionality pov, I really only need one five string for the stuff we play with the band. I do own two four string basses but rarely use those. Playing on the six is just a lot of fun, I don't really need one at all for the stuff we regularly play.3 points
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Important News Flash ... Normal Service Resumes. Message Ends. ... And the joint winners are... @Leonard Smalls and @upside downer ..! Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ... BC_Chal_Cert_2021_04.pdf ... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...3 points
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Q. Why do dogs lick their balls? A. Because they can.3 points
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Don’t forget that this what these guys do for a living, both performance and teaching. Therefore, it is (or was) in their interests to put the time in. Don’t feel bad about not being able to have the same dedication, their drive often comes from a different place. Of course, I realise that there are those who can and do have this level of commitment without the financial driving factor, but I imagine the vast majority of us do what we can, when we can so that we can also pursue the other activities that make up our lives. In addition, there are potential physical limitations that might stand in the way of that high level of dedication to a practice regime. Having had a lot more time for practise recently, coupled with the added drive of a new bass, has resulted in me acquiring tendonitis in my left forearm (too many one finger per fret, across the things and up the neck exercises). If you don’t rely on playing for putting food on the table and paying the rent, do as much as gives you pleasure (surely that’s why one does it). Regarding vibrato, I come from a guitar playing background where side to side vibrato seems to the de facto technique. However, when I came to play fretless bass (I don’t remember using vibrato on fretted when I first started and turned to fretless really quickly), I naturally used and use the nut to bridge action and I don’t know why (perhaps I was tying to emulate Pino). It’s certainly more controllable than sideways movement and, therefore, more subtle and pleasing to the ear IMO.3 points
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I received the email yesterday FYI... Hi Aidan , Thank you for attending Fretless Bass Pioneers. We hope you enjoyed our event. Please submit your questions or comments to: [email protected]. If you want more info on these kinds of events AND to see a replay of this event, please check the Berklee Bass Department Facebook Group. THE VIDEO will be available in the future, after some editing https://www.facebook.com/groups/berkleebassdepartment You have the option to Join the group. We hope you do because we would love your comments about the video and its easier to stay in formed about upcoming events, and there will be many. And you will also be able to view it at Thebassvault.com Hang with is as there are a lot more events coming... thebassvault.com is also a sponsor, so check out Vic & Steve's current happenings. And.... keep your eyes and ears open for the Track featuring everyone in the webinar! Thanks, Steve Bailey Chair, Berklee Bass Dept Victor Wooten Berklee Performance Scholar in Residence John Patitucci, Berklee Performance Scholar in Residence3 points
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I dipped my toe into the world of headless basses a couple of years ago and it was one of the the best things I ever did. I was looking for a 5’er that would be more suited to my 80’s band and came across this beauty. It’s shorter scale and headlessness makes for a supremely comfortable playing experience. You’d never think it by just looking at it, but it’s an absolute joy to play.3 points
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I think this is true of 100% of bass players, and, indeed, folk on the Planet..! We are all, in our own way, 'not like anyone else'. In fact, it's so much the case that we're all the same in being different..!3 points
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Quite happy with my Metro 16 at the moment. But I need a flanger and a chorus, and one more fuzz (maybe two more). And a Metro 20.3 points
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Oh go on then....one she's asleep in my guitar lead3 points -
Received my B:Assmaster this afternoon so thought I'd add it to give it a proper mess around. I also threw on the original Octabvre, I feel like two massive pedals makes more sense visually on the bottom row...3 points
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Say what you want about the war, but people knew how to enjoy themselves back then.2 points
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Let's do something different (I dare you not to smile)2 points
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Really like that Bassline, reminds me a bit of this2 points
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Oh, I thought you were being devious; apparently not. 'FRFR' stands for 'Full Range, Flat Response', indicating a very 'HiFi' type of design and phonic result. The idea is to have no colouration in the sound. Used for PA rigs, and is useful when using modelling amps, as they can produce (By... Erm... Modelling...) the sounds of different rigs. The 'FRFR' will reproduce this modelled sound with fidelity. Hope this helps.2 points
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I'm sure I would If I only knew what FRFR meant. Unless of course it means ... Frank's Rebarbative Frant! *Ritchings Park ?2 points
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'Best' is a relative term. It has maximally flat response in that size cabinet, but with weak low end. It won't be as flat in a larger box, but it will go lower. A smaller box with higher tuning would be appropriate for a PA top that's used along with subs, but not for an electric bass cab. There are none. For that matter in reflex boxes I don't use panel mounted ports, I use corner ports in all four corners. They work better than panel mounted ports, and they brace the cabinet baffle, top, bottom and sides as well.2 points
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Almost a floor and I closed the base in. The electrician has gone AWAL and I can't start the ceiling or lining until he's done the first fix.. I may have to go back to my mother's shed for a while.2 points
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@Belka The seller lists the value on the courier label, if they undervalue and it goes missing they'll lose out so above board is best. Royal Mail or likely Parcel Force take over when it arrives in the UK. They assess the VAT based on item cost + shipping/insurance. There may be import duty added, there definitely will be a handling charge ( normally £8). Keep an eye on the exchange rate Paypal are offering , it can be pretty poor. Don't offer to do a bank transfer, asking Americans for their details has them fleeing in terror 🤣2 points
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Put it on the back, or if that doesn't allow the necessary length put it on a side. It will sound the same no matter where you place it.2 points
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Looks like a 4" port will fit. It should make a big difference. Keep it as far away from the corner as you can. Was there any damping material in the box when you looked inside? Ashdown don't normally bother to fit any. If not, it would be worth putting some in.2 points
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I’ve just posted the book 1st class CDLT 👍2 points
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I would wonder about the whole arrangement and be very wary. Two long stories which may be of no interest below, suffice to say check what is and is not being provided to determine the level of competence the organisers have. There's a multi band thingy we used to do where a pro or semi pro band supposedly provided everything and ran the sound for the day, great everyone knows where they stand. Except the last time we did it we got told to bring all backline. When we got on the stage it was like a second hand amp shop. Amps EVERYWHERE. One guitarist had an unreliable amp of his own so he asked to use one of the many, many guitar amps on stage and said he just needs a clean channel and he won't change EQ or anything. It was like he'd asked to have a go on the bloke's wife AND a smoke of his cigs after. Weird set up. I also got asked last minute to dep at a "charity gig". Last minute being 10pm the night before an 11am set. I declined the dep invite having never even heard the band, but the drummer is a mate so I said I'd come and watch. The "organisers" provided an open door to a bar room with a stage area, no PA, and a gazebo in the garden for an "acoustic stage" which they'd put a solo act keyboard player in. No PA at all, no drums nothing. They just assumed bands turn up with absolutely everything, can manage with two plug sockets, or none in the garden, and all the gear comes out like a pop up play tent. Complete farce. The band were putting vocals through a 5w guitar practice amp, proper Argos job someone had run home to get and using their own amps and drums, then the makeshift "PA" speaker was being run down the garden so the keyboardist could start on time with a massive trip hazard electric extension. Keyboardist was shouting at the singer to hurry up and give her the amp so she could start. While he was singing. After his set Chris packed up all his drums and went home, no idea how the rest of the day panned out but suspect it got progressively worse.2 points
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Sleeping Lion2 points
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They made it sealed because it had to be when that small. When using a driver that has specs suitable for either sealed or ported the ported will always be larger, not only to allow the port to fit inside, but also to allow tuning low enough to make porting worthwhile. That's the trade off to realize the lower extension and higher mechanical power handing that ported gives. While on the subject of mechanical power handling, check the excursion chart. There's no point in using a larger port area to keep port velocity down with more power than the driver can take before exceeding xmax. I won't say I'd be shocked if the SICA can take more than 50 watts, but I'd be surprised.2 points
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Check out ChordBot on IOS and HookPad via your web browser as two other really cool tools for chord sequences. Mapping Total Harmony Pro kicks things up a gear if you want to get geeky. I have it on IOS.2 points
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