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More pics as promised, in between the rain!13 points
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This beautiful bass has been bought and sold a few times on here, and the asking price has varied considerably. As a result I am a bit unsure of its true value... For that reason, offers will be considered It's enormously versatile due to the two single-coil pickups and 3-band John East preamp. The asymmetrical neck profile with flat(ish) radius is an absolute joy to play. For detailed specs please see the attached link to a previous ad. It is the lightest fiver I've ever played at 3.7kg, which is just over 8lbs! 😲It balances perfectly too. Although I've been lucky so far with couriers (touch wood!), I'm not keen on posting this. If a prospective buyer would like it to be shipped, I'll happily package it up safely (neck on or off) and pass on the dimensions, but I would rather leave the whole arrangement of a courier to you. I don't have a hard case, but it will be in a padded gigbag with additional packing in a stout cardboard box. Best I can do. Otherwise, I could deliver it (within reason) for fuel costs. I am often across in South West Scotland, so anywhere along (or close to) the A69/A75 corridor is easily accessible for delivery. Proximity to Stranraer makes Northern Ireland pretty doable too... Collection would be preferred though Cash sale preferred, but I could be tempted by some trades. Only basses though (4 or 5 string) - I'm fine for amps, cabs, effects, etc. Always worth an ask! Condition is good to very good, but it is not pristine. It's been loved, but it's been used, so there are a few minor marks and dents, few of which would show up in photos. More photos available on request. I have plenty of positive BC feedback - https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/74959-feedback-for-conan/page/3/11 points -
Played a private function at Southampton on Saturday with an 8 piece band. Venue is called Roddington Forge, which was a new one to me. But a nice place with a decent sized stage - shame it's upstairs so a bit of a haul for equipment. And the second outing for my newly acquired '96 Stingray - seems to be a good 'un. Cabaret included a magician who performed seemingly impossible 'mind reading' tricks - audience was....... errr...........spellbound. 😉10 points
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Punter photo from Saturday 🙂 we does like throwing a pose we does 😁8 points
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My current Stingray collection. IMG_4291.MOV7 points
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Hello fellow builders, I have decided to thin down the wood that I have so these pieces are the ones to go. Prices and sizes below the photos. Can send more photos if interested. Walnut Large piece - £70 Thickness: 7.5mm Width: 435mm Length: 750mm Spalted Sycamore £35 Thickness: 8.6mm Width: 290-435mm Length: 790mm SOLD SOLD SOLD Maple burl £40 Thickness: 6mm Width: 385-400mm Length: 500 (smallest) and 600mm Happy to answer any questions and can combine postage.5 points -
Eventually got them all together IMG_4291.MOV5 points
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Thanks for all the useful information. It is taking shape with a Precision body and Jazz neck: Felt a bit nervous putting the full tension into all the strings - a test if the parts can all take it without the sound of cracking wood! But all good, it sounds and plays fine acoustically and everything seems to be lined up as it shoud with what already seems like an alright action before adjusting the truss rod and the frets all seem to be the right height. Tonerider TRP1 pickups (just resting in the cavity to check they fit) and I also have the electrics (from Northwest Guitars), and have some black strap buttons and a string tree to fit. I'm just waiting for a cheap black scratchplate now which seems to be on a month long voyage from China. For the time being I'll just stick with the natural wood, will see how it looks with the full scratchplate or perhaps cutting that down to just cover the controls. Once I've got it making amplified Bass noises I might give painting another go (if I can be bothered taking it all apart again!), probably white, but as I can pick and choose perhaps should go with something a bit more unique like purple. If I feel brave I might drill a hole in the headstock to move the G tuning peg to be facing down (like a Stingray's 3+1) and cut off the end of the headstock just because it seems a simple way to make the Bass a bit more compact and save a bit of weight at the far end of the neck, would make it a bit more unique too. Total cost looks like it'll be a bit less than £350 for parts which is okay if it sounds and plays something like a Squier. If I really like the way it plays then some hipshot ultralight tuners and an xtender might be on the shopping list at some point, but that adds about £200.5 points
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Turning Manganese. The Vapours5 points
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I even went and had a little boogie with the punters during our Night Boat encore5 points
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Days & Confused ～ Led Zeppelin4 points
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small difference, but the mutron sound on the MK3 is pretty pretty. 💎4 points
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Thin slime, between love and hate. Pretenders4 points
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I love ToneRider, as good if not better than boutique pickups without robbing the bank.4 points
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Don't pubs do great posters...4 points
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Great Christmas present for your budding Bass player, or to yourself of course. This is the Flat Walnut finish, which is the only version that has the cool black hardware. Lightweight at a tad under 3kg, or a shade over 6.5 lbs in ‘old money’ - so makes a great Travel, or noodling on the settee Bass. Low action all the way up the neck, no sharp frets and plays really well. Powerful pickups and VVT layout. Nice newish Flat wounds fitted and original Ibanez round wound strings included + Gig Bag. Can post via Parcelforce 24 hour, fully insured for £15 to the U.K. Mainland only - sorry.4 points -
Eye of the.... nope can't do it...4 points
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I would have agreed but for the way they are run, as a business. Everyone who was in the band earned from it, even Wilko for all his sniping. Reason? They cut in their manager, an old school friend, who invested their earnings and minded business. They own a large chunk of Canvey! Letting tributes profit from their inactivity made no sense. Besides, Lee wanted them to continue.4 points
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Last gig in Huddersfield for this year, the rest of December are all local gigs for us in the Sheffield area. A small pub in on the outskirts of Huddersfield, was a fun gig, compact and bijou so to speak and plenty of dancing from the punters. We had a chance to do the drummers XMas song and amazingly the crowd were singing along with the chorus halfway in which he was well chuffed about.4 points
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You don't see many of these about! It has Humbuster pickups. 🙂3 points
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A great fretless 5 string, in as new condition, barely used, doesn't fit with current bands musical style. Lovely instrument to play. Priced to sell @ £495.00 £450.00 Ibanez says: Specifications neck type: SRF5 5pc Maple/Bubinga neck-through body: Mahogany wing body fretboard: Rosewood fretboard fret: Fretless bridge: Custom bridge for AeroSilk Piezo system (16.5mm string spacing) neck pickup: Bartolini MK-1 neck pickup (Passive) bridge pickup: Bartolini MK-1 bridge pickup (Passive) equaliser: Ibanez 2-band eq factory tuning: 1G, 2D, 3A, 4E, 5B string: Flatwound strings string gauge: .045/.065/.080/.100/.132 hardware color: Cosmo black NECK DIMENSIONS Scale: 864mm/34"" a : Width at Nut: 45mm b : Width at Last Fret: 68mm c : Thickness at 1st: 21.5mm d : Thickness at 12th: 23.5mm Radius: 305mmR3 points -
Cort A4 Plus FMMH - flame maple blue. As new condition no dings. Bartolini MK1 pickups Upgraded Bartolini HR-5.4AP/918 preamp And Hipshot control knobs professionally fitted by Ward Guitars3 points -
Marmite We're All Crazee Now - Slade3 points
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Sire V7 in vintage white with tort pickguard and rosewood fretboard. These are fab basses for the price point, and the only reason I’m selling it is I’ve just bought a 2nd generation Vintage model, because I’m shallow and prefer maple necks. It’s hardly been out of the house to be honest. It was always my bass for home rehearsing and noodling, until recently when I started to use it for gigs, and liked it so much that I ordered a newer model. The 18v preamp is fantastic, with cut and boost for bass, mids and treble, with the mids being a stacked pot for sweepable mid frequency. You can of course just flick it into passive mode and just use the master volume and tone and pick up pan. The bass has green luminlay fret markers, professionally fitted by Simon Bamber at Sico setups. I only had this done as I ordered too much material for my Warwick, so got him to use the rest to do this bass at the same time. Bit overkill for a bass that was meant for home, but at least I didn’t waste the excess luminlay tube! I don’t have the charging torch, but any of the small key ring UV torches you can find on eBay or Amazon will charge the dots. It’s in really good condition, apart from some scratches on the control plate, around the bass pot. The bass was like it when it arrived brand new, and I never bothered sending it back. All in all, it’s a very nice active jazz for not a lot of money. It has an array of tones on offer and it plays really well. Currently strung with a fairly new set of Ernie Ball Hybrid slinky steels 45-105. I’ve had to take a bit of a stab at the price, based on what I could find for sale online, as I genuinely can’t remember how much I paid for it new. Collection/meet up preferred, but I can box it up if you care to arrange your own courier. No trades on this one thanks, as i’m just recouping some of what I just paid for the gen 2 V7. Thanks3 points -
All Rice Now Free3 points
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curry on my wayward son - Kansas3 points
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Just got my Longsword to complete my board or at least the top of it. Still need a decent power supply, thinking Cioks 4 or Sol and a little DI to sit underneath. Only had 10 mins of playing with the Longsword but love it already, it pairs beautifully with the model feT.3 points
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Buckfast At Tiffany's ～ Deep Blue...something.3 points
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New board. Still not 100% sure if the Sansamp will stay yet.3 points
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When Ken Barlow exits Coronation Street none of the original cast members will be in it, so it will be interesting to see whether it rebrands as a tribute act or keeps the name and rips off the loyal viewers.3 points
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Milk & Alcohol - Doctor Feelgood3 points
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I'm putting the smart money on ; A 'RARE!! SQUIRE!! FENDER!! BASS!!' - pics of it leant against a radiator (taken with a potato), caked in dust, with just two-strings.3 points
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To answer the OP's original post, ie. where is the value in a USA Fender I can only add that there is just something extra built in thats worth it, especially in the standards. I can't speak for every model year however my own experience of buying a USA Standard as it was called back in the late 90's has been exemplary. Fender got back to their roots about this time after a few odd tangents in the eighties. The build quality on my USA standard is superb, materials, finish, playability and tone all make for a great and very reliable bass. I've owned it for nearly 25 years now and the neck has never moved, its only needed one fret level in that time and I'm told by my tech the frets will last for sometime yet. I never thought back then i'd still be using it to this day and its become my go to bass for gigging and almost and old friend. I've owned squiers, players, antoria's, ibanez's etc over the years and while I've never owned a bass that wasn't giggable, none have felt so comfortable and reliable as my late 90's USA Standard. For me the investment back then was well worth it and if I was starting out again, I would save up and grab an American Standard without hesitation. If I'd got one to start with, it may have saved me from years of being lost on a gear quest before I finally got my USA Standard, and of course a a fair bit of cash🙂3 points
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Penultimate gig of the year for us, at our home from home and secret rehearsal/recording space. Brilliant crowd, really supportive and they bought a few bits of our merchandise. I'm still feeling the love for the Warwick Sklar bass, so much so, I'm pondering whether or not to go for the German made version...3 points
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Managed to glue up the other piece of walnut last night. A shot of the edge, down to 27mm at the moment, so should be around the 26mm mark after sanding. It was out of the clamps this morning and on with the initial shaping. And after getting some shape to it, gave it a quick clean with white spirit to see how it looks. Then made a quick cover for the pickup, still needs shaping, but gives a general idea. May slim down the wings a bit yet, looks a bit fat in the bottom section. Will have to see how I get on this week and whether I can do any in the evenings.3 points
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Last night was odd. First time gigging in a new town (Montrose) and a new venue (the Black Abbot). Early start at 8pm - when we arrived in the room folk were still eating their dinner. The area we were asked to set up in was made unnecessarily cosy because of various bric-a-brac left and right but we squeezed in there. Started playing and got moaned at for being too loud. We did our best to back it off a little and eventually they stopped moaning. I was barely brushing the strings! Got some folk up dancing. After the folks who were moaning left the bar staff told us just to do our thing and the second half was a lot more business as usual. After an annoying start it ended up being a pretty good gig. Got asked for one more tune at the end. Nice early finish too (11pm).3 points
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Not huge numbers in last night, but a good reception and ended up doing three encores. Before we started a punter came up who recognisedme from a gig with the other band a week before ... and in spoons afterwards a few folk came up to say it was agood gig 😎 autographs anyone? 🤣3 points
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Been lurking around the internet trying to find one of these, my first non-budget bass purchase, after much googling and research I had decided a Sabre seemed to be a perfect match for all my wants (looks, the sound etc), I was particularly taken with the videos made by Lobster on the Sabre I wrote to Musicman and asked if they would be re-issuing the Sabre again and they replied saying "no immediate plan to reintroduce the EBMM Sabre" The bass, manufactured May 8th 2013 according to serial number, had been bought new by the owner and stored immediately and still had the shop tags, plastic wrap and stickers on when I picked it up for the first time, the strings had corrosion on them making it a bit unpleasant to play but were replaced by the seller with some nice zingy nickel ones. The seller is a professional musician and a big Stingray fan, he let me look at / try his Stingrays and tbh this has changed my pre-conceived ideas about Stingrays - was particularly taken with a blue 90's stingray he had, added to my bucket list for the future 😀 Its still early days for me and I am still getting used to the pre-amp and options, but I think its a keeper! J3 points
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I've always preferred the tone and simplicity of the precision.2 points
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It could be done, but not by auditioning cabs. If you have the full specs on cabs it is possible to predict how they'll work together. The problem there is that full specs, including FRD, Z and phase response charts, aren't available for any cabs.2 points
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Bit late to the party here. After reading a good many replies, my advice, as both guitar and bass player, is, first: commit to using all four fingers; you will definitely be limited playing only 3-finger/3-note chords (unless you are doubling on some strings or using barre chords exclusively?; not sure what you mean by 3-fingered guitarists). I would doubt that your hand is really weak, but because you will be using it differently, it will initially be frustrating, no getting around it. Second, figuring out tunes on guitar depends largely on knowing chords and keys, not so much following root notes or the outlines of chords, as with bass. You will learn melodies, of course, but that also develops out of chords, keys, and scales. Finally, and most important, find a good teacher, someone with solid teaching experience, not just a guitar player who can show you a few things, and commit to the learning experience, whether that is chord study; reading, and playing from written music; or what have you. Of course, you can learn on your own, but why put up with the frustration that comes with trying to follow a book (to which you can't address the many questions you will have) or what are usually very slow, and also unresponsive, online/video courses that are, most often, trying to sell you something. A teacher sitting in the same room with you is essential. Learning to play guitar is challenging--but definitely rewarding. I hope this helps.2 points
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Yamaha RBX?2 points
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It boggles my mind that many bands still keep their name even though the original main men have passed away/on. Then these are merely tribute acts. The one that always comes to mind is Dr Feelgood. Once Lee Brilleaux passed away that should've been it, particularly as Wilko and Gypie Mayo were no longer with the band.2 points
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Many thanks for that comprehensive run down, Ito. I know most of them and like the work of John Patitucci and many others. You have it right when you say 'if the instrument does not talk to you' - if it feels like a block of wood with strings, it is.2 points
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Because the musicians have paid money to make it, and someone is benefiting from it. Is it not obvious? This ‘Music is free’ line of thought is the reason we’re in this quandary.2 points
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It's about 30 mins from me. Happy to help!2 points
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I pressed some buttons in some kind of fugue state and now have one due for delivery on Tuesday... 😬2 points
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It was a serious reply - there's absolutely no money in it. We're far too old and far too ugly to "make it" so we just make some tunes, record them and send them out into the ether to absolutely zero plaudits because we must suffer for our art - and we're terrible at convincing other people to suffer our art...2 points
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