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So, I joined a new band a few weeks back. I've also been selling off a lot of gear that wasn't being used or likely to be used. I sold off a gorgeous jazz bass and an Aria SB. I didn't think I needed another bass but being a "jazz guy" who doesn't have a jazz I was tempted to buy a Sire. Then I joined the new band... The sound for that band is my Stingray, big meaty bass sound with some drive and not so subtle effects every now and then. But they also want to do acoustic sets. Acoustic bass guitars don't have the best reputation so I went for a semi that can be used for electric performance too. An Epiphone Jack Casady came up on eBay Sunday night and after breakfast on Monday I'd bought it. The seller could not have been better. The bass is in immaculate condition. I've binned the roundwounds it came with and stuck on some Fender tapewounds I had spare. The good: It looks amazing. Even the back of the body is nicely figured wood. The neck is chunkier than expected, the fingerboard is gorgeous, I love the massive tuners on the headstock. The range of tones and playability is superb. First bass I've had in a long time that's making me want to explore it instead of just instantly feeling over familiar with it The not so good: Finding a case is hard at the moment. The D string put incredible tension on the neck when tuned up. Slightly better with my tapes on but I think a neck tweak may be required. They didn't do the blue one in left handed.11 points
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I purchased this from GaryMac a few years ago but I’ve barely played it. The text and photos below are his, as they are extremely accurate, but I am happy to provide additional photos on request. This is a truly superb example of a P bass. Great build quality and weighing in at a very shoulder friendly 8lb 12oz. All original and everything functions perfectly. The finish is lovely, just a few dings and the paint job is still vivid. Pickguard is not buckled, just the very common crack adjacent to the output socket and plenty of pick marks . Nut measures 42mm. Frets are all good and the trussrod works as it should. Neck pocket is nice and tight. Pot codes dated 38th week of 1974. Neck end stamp. 0103-1255. Which is: P bass. Fretted maple. 12th week. Friday. 1975. The case, which I believe has always been with this bass, is an older and rarer one, issued between 1967-71. The condition is exceptionally good and the catches all function properly. It also comes with Fender hang tag and the original owner’s manual. I don’t want to post. I’m happy to meet halfway or for it to be collected. No trades thanks Revised price £2,400.11 points -
Bodies and necks made, painted and finished here. Products assembled here. Strings from here. 90% of the value of the bass will literally be tooled and created in the UK. I think I can say "made in the UK" 😉10 points
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Worst Probably my custom earplugs, but only because I got them with the connecting string which is annoyingly microphonic. The slightest touch or movement on something reverberates down into the plugs and ears. Best This9 points
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Dear BassChatter I am writing to you today about the growing problem of Distress Caused By Videos Of Children Doing Stuff And Having Fun Doing It Syndrome. It's impossible to underestimate the profound hurt caused by involuntary exposure to videos of children doing stuff and having fun doing it. This hurt manifests itself as a deep, aching distress, the visible symptoms of which are pursed lips, cognitive dissonance and swelling around the collar. People suffering from Distress Caused By Videos Of Children Doing Stuff And Having Fun Doing It Syndrome are too often dismissed as being fatheads or moaning bleeders but nothing could be further from the truth. Their suffering is genuine and they need our help. To this end I have established a charity with the express purpose of supporting sufferers from DCBVOCDSAHFDI syndrome but support doesn't come cheap. So dig deep and send me what you can - even a paltry £100 could help. Let's make a difference. Patron Remit cheques, money orders to: PO Box 1176, Lagos, Nigeria8 points
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That's nothing. I learned to play bass, guitar, piano and didgeridoo whiile I were still in't womb, wrote my first symphony in wax crayons by 6 months, and at 5 I played my ultra-famous paper-and-comb concerto with backing vocals by a troupe of trained colobus monkeys at the Albert Hall to an audience including the Queen, John F Kennedy, John Lennon, the Aga Khan and Shergar. At 10 I was practising 26 hours a day while busking in Times Square and made my first million playing you-hum-it-I'll-play-it to Michael Jackson (he hardly touched me btw). I married Kylie and played a duet with my other wife, Dua Lipa, before divorcing them both and moving to a Brazilian favela to get real. These days I'm so over the whole music thing, I've deliberately unlearned how to play and am now learning sitar, playing only behind my head with my feet. What's more, we never had any famous or musical types in our family. We would have got up 2 hours before going to bed in a hole in the road but it was full of fake Yorkshiremen so we had to wait. Etc7 points
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Ales Vychodil AVPJ5 Bass (2019) with a beautiful and rare Copper metallic finish. Alder body, maple neck, bound (most probably Indian) rosewood fingerboard. Nordstrand PJ pickups, passive electronics, Hipshot bridge & lollypop tuners. 4,5kgs, good balance, comfortable to play: neck much like Sadowsky but smaller at the nut (close to Will Lee neck). Bass is in like new/demo condition! Trades considered/cash either way: a fretless jazzbass 4/5 strings considered too.6 points -
I am impressed with Ashdown ABM Neo cabs purchased recently but best purchase of the year is this that arrived yesterday. I love it.6 points
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The heady rush of selling my P bass has inspired me to relist my Fender Japan '75 Reissue in Olympic White, with a bound and blocked neck and tort plate. I bought it from @Gareth Hughes on this forum for a very reasonable £700. Since then I’ve swapped (Tim Marten did the work) the Bill Lawrence J45 pups for Aguilar HCs (J45s will be included) and it’s wearing a new set of Thomasik jazz flats. Bass has a few battle scars and small mods - flush straplocks on the upper horn and on the back (in a Dingwall inspired move) and a Kiogon wiring loom with a push/pull series/parallel switch on the tone pot. Serial number is P046083, which puts it at either 1993-1994 or 1999-2002. It’s a lovely thing… looks great, sounds great. Selling because the old adage ‘you can’t have too many jazzes’ was disputed by my wife. Turns out you can have too many. Bass is in Somerset, but can be collected from London EC2 with a bit of notice. I’m asking £675 which seems good value given the pup upgrade. No hard case so postage (at buyer’s expense) would need to be gig bag inside bass box. Weight? Not sure. Will check, but it’s no twinkle toes.5 points -
I have a Sage Green NYC Sadowsky PJ5 in a Jazz shaped body. https://www.sadowsky.com/past/view/5325.html. As you can see from the pics, the original plate is tort, but I had a white one made. Obv, both will ship with it. It has the Sadowsky case and gubbins. The zip is not quite attached for about an inch around the far back end of it. However, I have always carried it in a gig bag so I have not thought twice about that. I think that the picture with the white guard is the best representation of the colour. The plastic cover is still on the control plate so you can pretend it is brand new and peel it off. There is also a kind of plastic square on the back, presumably for buckle protection. It was there when I got it. I am not one for peeling protective plastic off! There is a tiny ding by the jack socket - close to the Bass and Treble dual concentric. I had forgotten it, but it is there. The rest is peachy. It is very lovely but I am not reaching for it. In an attempt to downsize my excessive collection of basses I am selling some. It is all you would expect a Sadowsky to be. Given that I have more basses than I need, I am not looking for trades - but thanks for thinking about it. Price is shipped with full insurance.5 points -
My latest stingray finally got one after years of searching.5 points
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This is more or less what I was doing when I was a kid…5 points
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Pffft Ralph was knocking this stuff out while he was a homeless bum with Willie brown and while he was learning to be a karate master with mr Miyagi!!5 points
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It’s all good to mock but if you’ve got soul, short arms and very large hands there needs to be a niche luthier. Hobbits like to jam too.5 points
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Here's my Westone Superheadless, bought by my wife as a surprise Christmas present back in 1985. It was very well used three and sometimes four nights a week around the social club circuit both here in the Northeast and well beyond, and although the original hard case is testament to those gigs, the bass has held up well. Like putting on an old pair of trainers, as someone once said 😝5 points
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Here's another James Brown one for you @Maude5 points
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Fender P Bass circa late 90s 2000,Lovely relic work done by Polish luthier Mateus Piotroski, weighs in at 8lbs 6ozs,40mm nut ,the neck has lovely old school feel,truss rod all ok,plenty of life in the frets strung with flats no dead spots.comes in a new tweed case.I am in Grantham Lincs .Prefer collection or meet,I do have a packing box to ship it in,but you must arrange your own courier,4 points -
Worst - Ibanez EDA900 It wasn't really bad, it's just it was a bit meh. These were the absolute coolest looking basses out in the early 2000s (in my eyes) and I always wanted one. I tried one out in a shop around 2004 and didn't really understand the electronics so skipped it, fast forward 16 years I thought i'd give it another go. Got on eBay for a decentish price, but 'road worn' condition. The controls were magnetic volume, piezo volume, active bass/treble (not separate !) and piezo EQ. The piezo sounded good, if you wanted an acoustic style sound - and the normal pickup sounded generically P bass, but the combined bass/treble didn't allow for much nuance. Used it at a few practices, worked fine - but didn't do enough for me - bye bye. Best - RedSub Coliseum 6 Not my first foray with these, I had one just before lockdown started last year - but it was an early production model, had a few QC issues (e.g. glued in neck pickup !), sold it after 6 months. Then I saw a 'damaged' B-stock on eBay a year later for £110. Looking at the photos, the main issues were a broken nut and a few sanding marks. Hit the BIN knowing if it was that bad I could return it. It arrived fine, with the broken nut still attached to the C string. Replacing it would be very difficult, so I just superglued it back on with no issues. Sanding marks were on the neck heel - who cares ? Compared to the first I had, this one has a better finish on top, sounded better and was £110. It's not an every day bass, but there for when I want to get down and dirty. Is it a Dingwall killer ? No, the headstock dive is crazy and not fixable with that body shape, the pickups and EQ are very average but stick some external EQ on and it makes up a lot of ground. Did I mention it was £110 ?4 points
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He'll just write S in front and TH after, it's all good 🙂4 points
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Here is a shot of my 87 Sabre and Sterling HH. They are different in looks and tone !4 points
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It's like a game of delusional b*llshit bingo. Widespan separate coils humbucker. I wired pickups up in series. I also love his precise approach to trussrod adjustment. I made the neck too flat and lost clarity on the first 5 frets. But it sounds great above the 12th fret.4 points
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I pre-finished the fingerboard with tru-oil before installing the gold EVO frets. The rear of the neck has an asymmetric profile.4 points
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I Can’t Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head is a pretty well known (and good) example:4 points
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I was thinking I'd not bought that much this year, but, well, umm, yeah. Bought a Hamer Cruisebass (below) that I'm in love with and while it's not strictly a purchase, I have an NS NXT 5-string EUB for my birthday in 26 days (and counting). I also bought three hardshell cases, a Fender Pugilist dirtbox, a GED2112-DI, an EMG GZR P/J pickup set and I have an Ibanez project arriving imminently. I think that's everything*. There's no bad purchases in there. (*Edit: I just bought an Ibanez Roadster RS-924 as a project.) Gratuitous Hamer glamour shot:4 points
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Vim Fuego : I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot.4 points
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NOW SOLD! For Sale - this Fabulous Overwater Custom J5 - complete with Certificate of Authenticity and Overwater Case. I purchased a few years ago because I wanted a really high quality "Jazz" - and this doesn't disappoint. I'm normally a "punchy-active-kind-of-a-guy", but fell in love with this bass sound which is classic and "unaggressive" (is that a sound??) but also surprisingly versatile. It has certainly fitted into all the musical situations I have played. The full and warm sound just always sits "nicely" in the mix. Previous owner had flats on it which actually sounded great although not for me. I've still got them if the buyer wants them. Currently strung with D'Addario round wounds. It's beautifully constructed with top notch hardware including Hipshot Ultra-Light tuners. And the Overwater "Noiseless J" pickups coupled with their own 'Flat Response' Buffer Pre-amp and Passive EQ are really lovely. Swamp Ash body and Maple neck (I think). Lots of spec detail on the OW website. (Plus prices - a new one would set you back £3.5k). I'm told it was born with a natural satin finish in December 2015, but swiftly went back to OW for the high gloss white finish that looks awesome. Condition is excellent. Only one significant blemish in the white paintwork which I have tried to photograph. A "dirty" mark rather than a proper ding/scratch. You need to look close to see it. Reason for sale is quite simply that GAS has really got a grip of me. I now own more basses than I can ever hope to play. And today, I scratched a lifetime itch and bought a Ken Smith from Bass Direct (that I can neither afford, nor justify!). Something has to go, and funds need raising. Holler with any questions - and you're welcome to try if ever in Stockport/Wilmslow area. Can post in that hard case, or meet part-way too if this helps a buyer. Cheers3 points -
SOLD 2016 Sadowsky Metro Line MV5 (Made in Japan) 5-String Bass in excellent condition. Sleek undersized 21 fret body shape Ash body Maple neck and fretboard 1.75" nut width Strap locks Hipshot hardware Sadowsky hum canceling Pickups Sadowsky Preamp active/passive w/VTC (Vintage Tone Control) 9 volt Weight: 3.9 Kg 19mm 5 string bridge spacing Inklusive Original Sadowsky Case Serial Number M9201 Shipping available 1850 GBP excluding shipping3 points -
Hohner Steinberger B2A 4 String Bass with EMG Pickups complete with Hard Case. Finished in graphite grey. The bass is in as new condition and also included some spare strings. Priced to sell at £400 collected will post for additional £103 points -
I mentioned a while ago was part of a team working on a new music doc for BBC Four - well, here's the first trailer. It's fronted by Sam Fender, and also features the likes of Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Sting & Mark Knopfler. It's on BBC Four on November 26th... I'd be chuffed if you set your videos and gave it a watch. Alan Hull was a fascinating guy, and you'll get to hear some sublime bass parts.3 points
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F Bass VF5 Maple 2012: N.O.S.3 points -
Beautiful! Thank you, but I think I'm sorted 🙂3 points
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Pretty sure if you ask it nicely it'll do you some reverb and maybe make you a cup of tea, who knows?3 points
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Thanks for sharing, I enjoy these isolated tracks 👍3 points
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I really love this one and it works a lot better than it should! https://youtu.be/JR3uz8rq4ng3 points
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Dead Or Alive / Nirvana, I'm genuinely fond of this3 points
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Speaking as the OP who titled the thread 'OK you can all give up the bass and go home now' I would like to confirm that this was intended as a joke, a plaisenterie, or, in a sense, a gag. Had I thought that anyone might take this suggestion seriously I might have entitled the thread 'They handed an 9-year old a bass and you'll never guess what happened next' but then again, I'd probably have left it as it is. I think I speak for many when I say I do not feel 'defeated' by displays of precocious talent though I allow that excessively sensitive people might view these vids, hoist the white flag and sell off all their gear, but that's for them to deal with.3 points
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You know how, after a show, amateur players love to tell the performers what they ought to be doing?3 points
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I disagree with the 'i could never play like that' sentiment. If you were willing to practice 6 hours a day, and knew what to practice, in a year's time you'd be pretty close (figures may vary for the individual).3 points
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Selling my 2007 fender custom shop Pino Palladino. This is an amazing bass. Strung with chromes. The bass was set up and stoned last year by the great Andy Warnock. Plays smooth and nice action. No trades, just selling. Thank you.3 points -
Just in case: I meant it, thank you. I was just having a bit of fun with the CAPS issue2 points
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Making Plans for Nigel - XTC2 points
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The Knoxville sticker is worth the price of entry alone!2 points
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I went through teh same kind of existential crisi 🙂 Therefore, My Stradi bass has a special feature. It has two Delano "The eXtend" pickups those are quad coils. Mine are specifically wired in order to have P/QuadCoils/Reverse P so I can choose. Each pickup also has its own preamp. Turns out the difference is quite subtle, but really useful when playing with the EQ. I'm pretty sure the most difference comes from the pickup placement2 points
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Maybe it's an elaborate drug dealing operation. Those 'instruments' are worth £100 tops. What the photos don't show is a chamber in the body filled with several hundred pounds worth of your finest Bolivian marching powder.2 points
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Cough…look over here…2 points
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they are u til you’re kids start whacking them. My wife said “it’s already covered in scratches and dents…” (it’s a 1966 candy apple red jazz). If I died tomorrow she’d accept £200 for it I reckon.2 points
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It's great to see youngsters taking an interest in something and pursuing it. I don't care what it is, so long as it's something. Most people now don't pick up anything - whether that's an instrument, playing chess or a sport, photography, astronomy, bird watching... Instead, the majority are glued to various electronic devices and that's about it. There have always been youngsters who are good at things. My younger nephew was very proficient on guitar and trumpet in his early to mid teens, but it stopped when he went to uni. I suspect, like many, he will go back to them when he's somewhat older (he's mid-20s now). When I was at school we had plenty of people who were grade 8 on various instrument - violin, cello, French horn, bassoon, oboe, classical guitar... As long as they enjoy it and are doing it because they want to, rather than hot house parenting2 points
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Apparently they've had a real challenge getting to the UK market, as most stockists feel they have enough strings already. @MoJoKe @Kiwi maybe we can sell them through Basschat2 points
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Thanks - feel lucky to have that one + these two.2 points
