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What a surreal moment. 19 years ago I remember watching a DVD of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones where I first saw Victor Wooten play his version of Amazing Grace. He was my first bass hero and he played this unique shaped bass that I fell in love with. Never in my wildest dreams did I think of holding one, and now I finally got the chance to own this brilliant Fodera Monarch 4 Standard ❤️ What a marvelous piece of art and a beautiful sounding instrument.32 points
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That’s a ridiculous thing to say. It might not be a thrash album, but there are plenty of heavy songs on it that are definitely metal.7 points
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well im sure Lemmy stole his identity from the mayor in trumpton town, shocking 🙂 are there any more ? ?6 points
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I am selling my Ibanez Portamento as I am on a quest to find a fretless Stingray but need to make space for it first. It is very light and well designed, the piezo plus two pick-up configuration gives it a huge range of tones, from double bass to jazz. Full specs below. I am based in Paris, but travel regularly to London (~once a month). I can post it in the EU via UPS insured at extra cost. Not keen to post to the UK due to the paperwork but happy to meet in London for a sale in person. It comes with a generic hard case. It currently wears LaBella White Nylons but I also have the original flatwounds it came with. Exchange possible, only vs a Fretless Stingray 2 band eq in Sunburst or Natural (obviously plus cash your way). Any questions, let me know! neck type: SRF45pc Maple/WalnutNeck-through top/back/body: Okoume wing body fretboard: Bound Panga Panga fretboard bridge: Custom bridge for AeroSilk Piezo system bridge string space: 19mm pickups: Bartolini® MK-1 neck pickupPassive equaliser: Ibanez 2-band EQ w/Piezo active tone control Scale : 864mm/34" Width: 38mm at NUT Width: 62mm at 24F Thickness: 21.5mm at 1F Thickness: 23.5mm at 12F Radius : 305mm6 points -
So, having decided it WAS the blocks I liked, I decided to pimp my Betsy! Saved me £200 and it's lighter with better pickups! Before & after pic:6 points
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I bet you’ve never seen these two together in the same room. Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Repeats Rob Halford out of Judas Priest6 points
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2 years without a post in this topic... Time to change that... NBD 😁 https://ritter-instruments.com/instrument.php?id=22134 points
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Today's time taken was sorting out the neck pickup chamber. Mainly: - shielding - pickup ring fixing where, underneath for three of the holes there was a void The original chambers were a combination of partial shielding plates and conductive paint. Where I have exposed new timber, I added copper foil, soldering across to the existing plates and checking that all three elements had full grounding continuity. The latter was a case of cutting and fitting shaped timber sections that would glue to the sides of the original chamber for the pickup ring screws to screw into: And double checking with the pickup that there weren't any obstructions, ready for adding the height foams and fixing screws: And that will be one of the jobs for tomorrow along with, hopefully, wiring it up.4 points
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I was exactly the same. I got my first P bass just over ten years after you, but I grew up with pretty much every bass player that I aspired to be like playing a Fender P bass. If I was five years younger, then it might have been different as many pros started using all sorts of other basses. But when I was a kid they all played either a Precision, a Jazz, a Rick or a Gibson EB short scale thing - most of them had a P bass It was a big thing for me to get my first Precision in December 79. I felt that I had crossed a rubicon, that I while I may never be a superstar or even particularly successful, I would always be a serious gigging bass player. Forty three years later, I'm still doing gigs with that same Fender Precision...4 points
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Metallica have had 3 extremely good bassists and never really made the most of any of them4 points
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Bought over lockdown as a self soothing splurge when I was vibing from the Brothers Johnson. It's lived its life as a case queen having only done 2 Christmas gigs last year (because its a Christmassy looking bass), and played at home occasionally since I got it. I exclusively play 5 strings so as much as I would love to keep this its kind of silly having it sit in a case looking amazing. There is some minor marking on the bridge pickup from use (I have corrosive hands) but all plays and sounds as it should. Dtuner is included with the addon that lets you have 2 separate drop notes on the key. Based in Chorley, south Preston. The only trade with cash your way I would consider would be Bongo 5HH in outrageous finish. Test drives welcome and encouraged. Considering the price of these new now, I think this is a fair shout at £1800 I'm not a fan of posting instruments so collection / meet up is my vibe. Timewasters and tyre kicker's, please kindly move on. I haven't got the energy for you3 points -
Like new - good low action for acoustic- 2014 about 3kg. Fitted case nice and loud. Great Fishman pickup with tuner bought for project that isn’t happening so better if it went to a home that’ll give it some play. can post for about £25 - not looking for trade at mo.3 points -
Karma collie Ian - Culture Club Is that pushing it a bit much?3 points
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Rock n Roll Dalmation AC/DC3 points
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Blimey, that's drop-dead gorgeous and unbelievable value for the money!3 points
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The Cat Crypt In - Mud3 points
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i gave it a try and my first thought was that they were going to start playing this:3 points
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Mustaine is a bone-fide drooling loony - conspiracy theorist, bible-basher, bitter ex-member of a band that went on to be huge, and former drug addict and alcoholic, all rolled into one angry old ginger. The fact that he went on Alex Jones' show should be reason enough to avoid anything he says or does. A lot of "tr00" Metallica fans draw the line at anything that came after And Justice... - for Megadeth fans, it's everything that came after Rust In Peace.3 points
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If anyone's short of time, Wham's Last Christmas is the same four chords over and over...just sayin... 🙂3 points
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Baer ML 112 1x12 mid loaded cab. 8 ohm . Pretty much mint condition with cover . Fantastic and hard to find cab . Don't need any trades right now , thanks . £475 collected .3 points -
P for me. I love the blurry thud and authority of a precision in a band setting. I’ve had a few jazzes too which were nice, and main non-Fender is essentially an active Yamaha jazz bass. But a P just suits me - it’s a B profile 70s neck, nice and lightweight, plenty of thump and fits me like a favourite old pair of slippers.3 points
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I've played on a few releases and whilst I don't get involved in the funding side, I doubt that any of them have recouped the costs. The official line is always that music is an artistic statement, which is a nice way of us accepting we're being ripped off. All my bigger releases have been "critically acclaimed" in the national press but with studio costs and pressing coupled with the fact that people stream everything these days, it's never going to pay the bills. I absolutely hate the fact that the CEOs of companies like Spotify pay artists so little and always try and buy directly from Bandcamp with the smaller acts I like. Two things from the last few weeks that have saddened me; 1) a news report saying that younger artists were giving up on music as it doesn't pay the bills and 2) this latest trend on social media of sharing an imaginary Spotify festival based on your listening. I think artists have always been ripped off since the dawn of rock n roll but the reality is that the rich are getting richer and the actual creative talents are not getting a fair slice of the pie.3 points
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Nah. Ride the Lightning is head and shoulders over the rest.3 points
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Gave my JMJ Mustang it's first run outdoors since I changed flats for rounds. I was unsure it was a good move based on 'headphone' playing but I was well impressed with the punch and growl I got on stage. Really does continue to surprise me how great this lil' blue monster is.3 points
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Describe the full signal chain before and after the DI is inserted. The reason for the distortion will very likely become clear. With the limited info given so far it could be any number of hookups gone wrong .3 points
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I relearned 'Merry Christmas Everybody' earlier, nice bassline! 🙂3 points
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Bo Derek👇 Axl Rose 👇3 points
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Fork or five string?3 points
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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson heavily borrowed his stage act from this gentleman:3 points
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Frets are in the 10” to 14” radius fingerboard.3 points
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The sample settings for the Bass Driver DI were done with a vintage Fender bass directly into a mixer and near field monitors. The Blend is usually set to 100% since the SansAmp emulates vintage tube amps that have no blend control. What you are plugging the Bass Driver into will have an impact on the final sound. It's best to use the Bass Driver into a flat response platform when you first use it so you can hear and understand how it works. Running through other effects or a bass amp with its own EQ curve will negate the sample settings and the way the pedal is supposed to work. The unit does have a midrange scoop by design and backing off the Blend or increasing the midrange can help if you require more mids. We also offer the ParaDriver and VT Bass DI's for players that want more control over the midrange content.3 points
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I am reducing part of my bass collection. This time it's his turn to come out after years this beauty the pictures don't do it justice. Vigier Arpege 5 Yeard from 86. It is an active 18v. The used wood tops are awesome. This model has a pre-recorded selector switch with 5 sound and tone settings. Price 1900 euros Description Type : Solid body Number of strings : 5 Neck Wood : Maple naturally dried for 3 years Shape : D Finish : Glossy Fingerboard Wood : Phenowood Radius : 300mm/11.81'' Type of frets : Medium Number of frets : 22 Scale length : 860mm / 33.8'' Inlay : Dots Body Wood : Flamed maple / alder / flamed maple naturally aged Finish : Varnish dries for 5 weeks minimum Accessories Machine heads brand name : Schaller Type of bridge : One bridge per string End pin : Brass casing that inserts deep into the body and locks the strap button in place. Finish : Chrome Electronic Pickup brand name : Vigier Type of pickup : Single, twin coil in line Switch : Balance Controls : Volume Balance Bass Medium Treble Weight : 3,9Kg / 8.6lbs Delivered with case : Damaged Case Made in : France Any questions I will answer by private Only sale I am not interested in any kind of trades thanks.2 points -
Desert Thong Stanley Clark2 points
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I stopped listening to anything that man says after seeing his interview with Alex Jones. I don’t normally bother myself with what musicians think/believe/say, but sometimes you can’t avoid it, and he is particularly loathesome. I swore to never buy anything Megadeth after that. The only other musician I have sworn to boycott is Blackie Lawless. There are plenty of tossers about, and no doubt I listen to stuff by some of them, but there’s a mark that is a step too far.2 points
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Stick a Split P up front... 😉2 points
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While i am a jazz bass player, a P will generally sound better, but a J looks so much cooler!2 points
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Do you put new tyres on your car even if it's an old cheap one, I guess, so why not refretting a bass you like and already customised when rounding the fretboard edges? But get it done by a luthier, and not the friend of friend whose cousin knows a pal who knows someone who might get it done. 😉2 points
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It has a bit more history than you might think, but not just with me! I bought it when it was a year old and I had got my first (temporary) job working backstage in a theatre. It was with me for a couple of bands oop north and then all of my time playing in London. When I moved back, I joined a band that played the 80s rock club circuit all over the north & midlands. After a while, I discovered active basses (it was the late 80s) and sold it through a local shop to a guy in Leeds who used to play sessions. He then swapped it with a studio owner in Manchester for a Squire and enough money to settle a drug debt. It stayed in Manchester for a quite a while and then he traded it to a mate who ran another studio in Leeds, who kept it for many years until he got a 60s P bass. I saw it on Facebook marketplace during lockdown and recognised it immediately (it is quite an unusual colour / neck combination and I had put a Schaller bridge on it) and sold a Stingray five string to fund buying it back...2 points
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I've got Merry Christmas Everybody AND Merry Christmas Everyone ready for Saturday. Bring on the cheese!2 points
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I found exactly the same thing with my JMJ, it sounded a lifeless and lackluster with flats but really came alive with rounds, it just sounds bigger, clearer and way more versatile.2 points
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We've changed the intro to one of our songs for the NYE gig... Now it's full distorted Royal Blood bass doing Auld Lang Syne for 8 bars before coming in with our anti-hunting song 😁2 points
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An iPad/laptop running a synth plugin and a second hand behringer FCB1010 that you can program to act like a keyboard would be the cheapest option I can think of... and learn how to tap dance! I don't think you'd get very close with the pedals you're looking at to be honest. You'd have to play the keyboard parts instead of the bassline for a start...2 points
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Well .. last night I tried the pick below and I like it a lot 👍2 points
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there is a third part to this equation...2 points
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So this weekend I got my third ever bass (first one for 19 years!). I've been oggling reverends for a few years now and felt the split coil /bridge humbucker combo to be the best option for me (I've never enjoyed the bridge single coil sound much). Every single sound is useable both pickups sound great, I genuinely can't believe how much of a difference this has made to my sound. I was always of the opinion that amps and pedals had a bigger overall influence on your tone but I'm very happy to be proven wrong. Even my amp sounds ten times better, which I have never been fully happy with. Overall very chuffed 😁2 points
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Do they do a Corbett Short Scale too? 😂2 points
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Well well well! I have completed my mini pedalboard after a solid 2-3 years of not using pedals! polytune 3 mini - Effectrode PC-2A Compressor - Fuzzrocious Lil Fella - Zvex Woolly Mammoth fuzz - Zvex Instant Lo-Fi Junky chorus the Zvex design is not very inviting or friendly for stomping especially if placed on the side (against all knobs) so I stacked them under each other… very impressed with my Pedaltrain Nano!! My wife even asked me to pose with it as I accept it as my new Lord and Saviour (probs just taking the fosters at my excitement):2 points
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