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Brilliant little Mustang in great condition for its 50 year age. All original & everything works as it should. Strung with La Bella flats & sounds fatter than a P bass. Will be sad to see it go but I've got a rather large double bass shaped purchase coming up. Straight sale only please, absolutely no trades. £2750 Collection only from Catford, London SE69 points -
Incredible Jazz bass from one of the best vintage luthiers around. Incredible relic job, the nitro checking looks spectacular in the right light. It's a 'proper' vintage instrument with none of the downsides a 60 year old bass. 4.2 kg, pickups are Bare Knuckle single coils. I've got a rather large double bass shaped purchase coming up so this is a straight sale only, absolutely no trades. £1750 firm I don't have a spare case for this so collection only from Catford, London SE69 points -
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1978 Fender Precision Bass. Great sounding and playing bass. Professionally set-up. I have owned this for one year in which time it has been in my music room for home playing/recording apart from one gig. A previous owner replaced the pots and output jack with correct Fender parts, the originals are included. I have replaced the scratchplate screws and control knobs, the originals are included, as are the bridge and pickup covers. Approx weight is 5kg, so a reasonably weighty one, but it balances nicely and doesn't feel too heavy when playing. A lovely instrument with 70s vibes in abundance. No truss rod issues. I would prefer payment by Paypal. I will not post this bass, but am happy for collection in person, or to deliver/meet up within 50 miles of HR9. This was a birthday present to myself, but I have not used it as much as I had anticipated and have found a lower priced P, which suits my needs, so would like this to go to a good home. Please ask any questions you have and be patient for replies (I check in a couple of times a day). Can be seen/heard here and in other videos on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDe8CelWW54 *Case not included.5 points -
2008 MIM Fender Roadworn 50’s Precision. These are very well made instruments and highly regarded, this is a good example. It is currently wearing flat wound strings and comes with a Fender gig bag. It plays well and sounds exactly like a P bass ought to. Other than the factory worn finish there are no extra dings that I can see. It is well balanced with a medium action, everything works and the frets are in very good order. There is a reissue chrome bridge cover included. The bass is lovely and light at 8.5lbs/3.9kgs. Not a back breaker by any means. I prefer the neck on my JV P bass and need to raise funds for a new project as my 70’s Precision isn’t shifting I’m hoping this one will. UK only no trades, pickup preferred but I can post if necessary within the UK at buyer’s cost.5 points -
Fair play.. that’s my little DIY rehearsal board! You could absolutely play a gig with them.5 points
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Best Bass is the one you want to pick up...5 points
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Might regret this, but I think the time has come for me to move my trusty rig on… £750 *ONO* Mark Bass Traveller cabs with Roqsolid covers & custom flight case. Rig includes: 1x12 121H Traveller Cab 2x10 102p Traveller Cab 2 custom fit Roqsolid Covers Custom Swanflight flight case (**Ninja Amp Head can be included +£450) Here’s a bit of info: The flight case is custom made to fit 2 Mark Bass cabs and two heads. Made by renowned Swanflight and cost £500 new. Cabs and flight case have been used for a handful of gigs but are in great condition. It’s been a great rig to leave set up, plugged in, ready to go. Just wheel the case on stage, take the front and back panels off, power plug in and you’re set! Feel like I’ve priced this fairly for 2 Mark Bass cabs with Roqsolid covers, and the custom road case, but am open to serious close offers. Viewing/testing welcome!5 points -
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€2500 EUR: Leduc U-Basse 4 Fretless (UMM4 SF), "semi-acoustic" bass with a Brazilian rosewood (cut in 1895!) fingerboard, the patented free floating top and asymmetrical patented bridge (same patent for the both of them as they are intricated) and upgraded with a Fishman PowerChip! This very ergonomic headless bass is built like an acoustic instrument in mind, the free floating top allowing for huge dynamic range like an acoustic instrument and thanks to the Leduc-Benedetti single coil magnetic pickup and the Fishman BP-100 twin piezo pickup coupled to the Fishman PowerChip impedance matching preamp you can get typical fretless sounds when you use the magnetic pickup or close to a double bass with the twin piezo pickup when EQ'ed the right way AND you can even split the two signals with a stereo to two mono output jacks lead allowing you to dial very different tones for each pickup! Christophe LEDUC is now retired and the last retail price for a similar model (with a set neck and without the mother of pearl U.Bass logo) was ... €6100 Euros! Link to the U-basse page: http://leduc.fr/index.php/basses/u-basses-a-table-flottante Link to the patent: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?KC=A&date=19940823&NR=5339718A&DB=EPODOC&locale=fr_EP&CC=US&FT=D NO TRADES! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden : €2500 Euros (£2200 GBP is an approximation and I will only accept payment in Euros)!!! Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. In perfect working condition and, except some marks, a few dings and scratches, in very good condition. Here are the specifications : Braced patented floating top: red cedar Body: Honduran mahogany Neck: one piece Canadian hard rock maple Fingerboard: Brazilian rosewood from 1895!!! Positions: 24 with front and side white dots at the correct position (fretless) and mother of pearl U.Bass logo to the high register extension Headstock: none as it's headless Pickups: Leduc-Benedetti Samarium-Cobalt single coil magnetic pickup with Brazilian rosewood cover + Fishman BP-100 twin piezo pickup Controls: volume, volume (both located between the top and sides of the body) Preamp: Fishman PowerChip allowing signal splitting and impedance matching (the hole at the back is to access the piezo gain control with a small flat screwdriver) Tuning tailpiece: Leduc aluminium Bridge: asymmetrical patented Para rosewood Strings spacing at bridge: 19 mm Nut: ebony(38mm width) Strings spacing at nut: 10 mm Knobs: Leduc aluminium Scale: 34 inches Hardware colour: black Truss rod: one, single action, 100% functional Finish: natural wax Country of origin: France Serial number: 7521-P Year: 1994 (first generation) Weight: 2.680 kg ! Yes 2.680 kilos ! Action : from 1.75 mm under the G string to 2.25 mm under the E string at 12th position (can even go lower, but was perfect for me as it's designed like an acoustic instrument, so higher is even better) Will be delivered in the used original Leduc gigbag. Non-smoking environment as usual. The bass has been fully set up professionally by Christophe LEDUC himself. It is now fitted with a brand new set of Elixir 14077 Nanoweb nickel plated strings (45 - 65 - 85 - 105), which really serve this bass and will also come with the set of Thomastik JF344 (043 - 056 - 070 - 100) that you see on the pictures for a different tone and feel. What you see is what you get ! Look carefully at the photos taken from different angles and lights to see the real condition, which is very good with some marks, a few light dings and scratches. Here is the link to the 15 photos in high resolution: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bnKxlYTYgwRRH5br9WKqZrnoNNrOLUa_?usp=sharing Due to severe back problems (67% officially disabled because of it) plus right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which, after more than 4 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4 kilos and also the ones I'm not really using like this one (here because I also own a brand new Leduc U-Basse 6 fretless made to measure) as well as some stuff I don't use. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. Don't hesitate to ask for more.4 points -
Just spotted that one of our very own, session ace @Kingbassist is the special guest on the latest SBL podcast. He’s talking about life in the business and what it takes to be able to hold your own in the pit or on a session. Sounds like a good listen!4 points
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I think it is simply a bad refin. There would be no earthly reason to have an extra pickup there. It’s an interesting bass and the appointments look period correct, no reason to disbelieve the story, but the price is about double the value, in my opinion. If it were originally a dark green colour, I can only think of sherwood green, which would make it a matter of considerable financial regret for the poor unfortunate who decided to repaint it.4 points
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I have one, and a ‘69 Mustang (purchased through the forum a decade or so ago). Even though the Pony is clearly based on a Mustang (and this is true of Vincent’s P and J basses also), there are some really clever design features which make them quite different instruments. They are incredibly even across the entire fretboard, and I find the zero-fret (instead of a nut) makes the open strings feel very controlled (and it opens up some interesting muting possibilities of the open strings with the left hand which aren’t possible with a regular nut). The honey-combed body makes the bass incredibly light in weight, and amazingly resonant (which is noticeable playing the instrument unplugged). The bridge gives you the option of traditional string mounting (ball ends through the back of the bridge), or they can sit through the bridge within the base on a piece of wood which is connected to the body to further increase resonance (their website could explain this much better than I’m doing!) For me, the best way to describe Vincents in general is having the dna of classic Fenders, but being a very modern/stable/consistent instrument at the same time. And they’re beautifully crafted (by hand), with all woods and metal (except for the neck) sourced local to their workshop. Out of the gate, the vintage Mustang has more low end heft and general bassy gooeyness (this could also be the 12 year old strings), but the Pony has a more modern attack/articulation (without been like an active bass, obviously), and you can dial in that extra low end after the fact with EQ/saturation if you want it. My Fender has over 50 years on the Pony (and their construction and components really are very different) so it’s a little unfair to compare, but the Pony totally stands up, and even does some things better. I’d definitely check one out if you were curious! Here’s a little video I made for Vincent after I received the bass.. full disclosure : I purchased one of their P-type basses and loved it so much I got in touch with them to ask if they’d make a Mustang-esque instrument. Turned out they’d already been planning to do so. They sent me this one when it was ready and I did a little testing for them, and didn’t want to send it back so ended up buying the bass.4 points
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I would buy a used Behringer bass overdrive for £9.99 then spend the rest on booze, drugs and a cheap hooker, coz that's rock 'n' roll.4 points
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Sold Reverb Cioks DC7 with doubler cable In pristine condition, only about 6 months old, and used on my second board but no longer required. Pride includes U.K. postage.4 points -
I also plan to bring: a cheap and nasty pedal with a challenge to get a usable sound from it. 😑4 points
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@Richard R The meeting went incredibly well. Instead of just sitting there and moaning, I went in with a positive approach, 6 pages of detailed ideas on how I think we can improve the Worship Team and, instead of using the word problems, I referred to them as weaknesses. The main areas of weakness with our Worship Team that I addressed were; Poor Communication, Persistent Lateness and Lack of Commitment. My Pastor was grateful for my honesty (albeit blunt at times) and welcomed my ideas, he's going to have a word with the main offenders and put some rules in place. He reminded me of Hebrews 12:15 and it confirmed that a positive approach is always the right one; "See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many." In short, I'm staying and the future looks bright.4 points
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Well it's showing as out of stock.... But who knows what that really means on Bass Direct. Could still be being made or could never have existed at all!4 points
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Well it’s not last night, but I’ve learned this evening that we’ve been booked to play at The Pappillon in Southend on Dec 1st. It’s one of the more important venues to get your foot in the door in the area, and it’s a pretty hard gig to land, so we’re all stoked! Not expecting an enormous crowd on Southend seafront in December, but if we can impress the owner/booker then maybe we’ll be able to swing a night or two next year!4 points
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Bit of an odd one. We were at the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket last night, support for Spanish blues/rock artist Susan Santos who is doing a UK tour. Lovely venue, which I am told will hold 250 at capacity - we've played there before to a packed crowd supporting Danny Bryant so we were all looking forward to this one immensely. Easy load in, very relaxed, great soundman. Mezzanine area for the bands and staff to sit and relax. Susan was very nice, as were her band - bass and drum session players hired for the tour. Sound was brilliant, great big stage. I don't know whay went wrong but only 34 people turned up and they sat, poker faced, through our set with polite applause between songs. Then exactly the same during Susan Santos' set - which was fabulous. She is very good - good guitar player, some very good songs. Session guys were amazing. Difficult to get into it when there is nothing coming back at you although we had a number of people come up to us at the end to say nice things. Sold one CD and had the promise of a future booking in our own right but I'll believe that when it happens. Susan Santos at soundcheck - my guitarists picture.4 points
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My amp died last week, so I needed a new amp at pretty short notice. A local BCer kindly loaned me this Tecamp Puma 900 for my gigs last weekend and casually mentioned in passing that he might be interested in selling it. Fait accompli... Heaps of power/headroom, really punchy sound, simple controls, that Taste knob is a fantastic contour control - a little adjustment on it dialled the "boxiness" out of the sound of the single 12" cab right out of it into the kind of thick, hefty but defined tone I was looking for. And yes, that's where the master volume was for the gig on Saturday...3 points
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Happy to be here, back to being active again!. (Mamayo is the name of my record label and 1st album), I'm here to talk bass and share my music as well as help anyone out who might have questions I might be able to answer - and to find answers to my own questions from all the wisdom here (bass players are the wisest band members, it goes with the instrument ).3 points
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It's been a while, but I have made a bit of progress. The neck is profiled, the fingerboard is attached and the wings are currently being glued on. I've gone for a neck break angle this time. The last one had no angle, just a step down to accommodate the bridge height, if that make sense. I glued on one wing then made a jig to match the angle with the second one. I was going to do a walnut headstock veneer to match the wings, but I forgot to cut one from the body stock and the bits of walnut veneer I had didn't match. So I'm going to leave it as it is. I think it'll look quite nice with the laminates on display.3 points
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This is Basschat. If "need" was what it's about we'd all have one main bass and a spare. If we like something, we buy it!!3 points
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So sad that I just couldn't get on with the Ground n Pound. In isolation, it was so great, but it just didn't play well with other dirt pedals. It's one of the few pedals that I really 'wanted' to like, but it just didn't click.3 points
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If they work for certain players then why not?? We are all different.😊3 points
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Not all have the hole. It was absent from my first 4 PB-50's. Present on one from the first run when Thomann switched factory in May 2018, absent from the red left hander bought last year. Yes, I've owned multiple PB-50s and never felt the need to return a single one. It's been one of the most important basses I've ever bought, had a house full of pretty basses with active EQ, CF/Graphite necks, fancy aftermarket brand pickups/ tuning pegs/bridges etc. One £78 purchase put an end to that malarkey. 9, soon to be 10, years later, PB-50 still brings a smile to my face 🙂3 points
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But some people like them, just like some misguided people actually like headstocks.3 points
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I had a matching pair. They sound epic!3 points
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Check this, it's from my new U-Basse 6 fretless:3 points
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So did I! Later on in life (much) I spent a rather pleasant evening sharing a beanbag with her while watching a solo bass gig by Steve Lawson. She was quite a lovely person to chat to.3 points
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Okay, I'll bite! Nice video and review thanks. I'm not completely sold on Totality, seems at higher distortion levels it needs that clean blend to keep the Bass/definition but then it sounds like a Bass and a Bass with distortion being played in parallel rather than one unified sound? I'm probably not the target audience though as I've never been much of an Animato fan, I prefer smoother more natural sounding distortions. Some of my favorite ways of distorting: Mild overdrive: Fairfield Barbershop Tube: DHA VT1 Tubescreamer: Way Huge Green Rhino V5 SVT: Broughton SV Pre Rat: Idiotbox Landphil Tonebender: MXR Brown Acid Muff: EHX Green Russian And I'm quite excited to have both of these on order: Overdrive/Fuzz: JPTR FX Tesla Wolf V2. Brassmaster: Latent Lemon.3 points
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Trouble with these reviews is they tend to get wrapped up with specs, because the main reason for buying a bass can’t be generally measured. All basses do a job to varying degrees, but does the instrument excite and inspire? That should be the deciding factor and is the reason why it makes more sense to try before you buy.3 points
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A bass player in a friends band used one of these in his originals band . I must say, that he used this in spectacular fashion, more or less changing effec5s for each song . Probabky the best sound from a bass player in a pub band I've seen . . Playing in an almost empty venue may have helped ..3 points
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Tuner £10 £290 for beer. Excellent!3 points
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If you play with your fingers over the pickup, you get used to the feeling of the pickup beneath your fingertips. If you move in front of the pickup or between pickups, there’s a big hole where there’s no plastic to stop you. A ramp fills that hole, and gives a consistent distance under the strings all the way across it.3 points
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So, rather than my real life situation, in this fantasy world I'd opt for a Lekato wireless and an MS-60B, the same as I have in my little bag, as I've got less than an hour and I've got to knock up a suitable patch without the benefit of ToneLib on the PC.3 points
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Actually, this looks a bit more neutral:3 points -
Like MacDaddy above, my basses have adjustable ramps that can be wound all the way down out the way if necessary. In fact, it was a design I put forward to Shuker along with the series 2 body shape that has been in production ever since. YAY!3 points
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Fantastic night at the Hunter Club in Bury St. Edmunds, playing with ‘For The Hornets’. 180 Cap venue, we sold 56 tickets in advance, and were at capacity when we played. Composite image as people at the front were too close to get us all in lol! Would you look at my barnet!3 points
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...and while we're on the Country theme, here's my band, Southern Frontier, playing at The Donkey in Leicester last night. Great gig, which we all really enjoyed and got lots of lovely feedback from the decent-sized crowd. Home for 9pm as it was a 4pm kick off3 points
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EBS Fafner II Bass Head. Fantastic amp, in fantastic condition and previously used only in a smoke free studio environment for recording and reamping. I am only selling as I need to downsize so I'm not interested in trades. Dave Marks gives much better explanation about the Fafner's capabitilies than I ever will so please check this video out to see what the Fafner II head can do. Collection only, or local meet up - Watford area - I guess the buyer would want to try it out first anyway.2 points -
Pics to follow. Comes with Strandberg gig bag.2 points -
Really depends on the setlist - if it was disco/funk stuff then I'd plump for an octave and envelope filter, if it was a rock/metal set then I'd plump for an octave and envelope filter2 points
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Some people think that about compressors.2 points
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I am most definitely an fx-loving bassist, but for £300 I‘d prefer a really nice foundation for the band over any embellishments. I’ll take a Cali Compact Bass and the best passive DI the leftover cash can afford.2 points
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I've just sold my PB50....nothing wrong with it, just having a cull and getting down to two, well, three, maybe four... ....to me it's a very traditional sunburst, in a good way. I should add that from what I've seen of Mr Stings single coil bass it's very much on the darker side, those 50s Sunbursts are quite variable ....no scratch plate, yet the Signatures have a white pick guard...? Don't dismiss the red though, the car based De Pont red was the first Custom Colour that Fender did, but not very Stingy😉 Mine was exceptionally well finished, not just for the money, I mean exceptional. I just couldn't find any flaws in it. Neck had zero sprout, no high frets, no rough frets. Neck feels super smooth, unfinished as in not varnished, I like this. Will attain an old played in look if you do the front pads on the car, and then have a noodle... Played out the box fine, but I always set my bass up to my taste. Took a nice low action, saddles almost on the floor on flats. 😎 Yes, it's a large 50s style neck as they were, but plays like it has a flat radius, I'm a jazz bass man by choice, but had no problem getting around it on the faster funk n disco I play. Ditch the OE strings, fit some Harley Benton Value flats for the proper sound. Those Budget Harley Benton strings are brilliant, again, not just good for the, money, both flats and rounds. Mine had the later Roswell pick up. Tuners were unremarkable....which means they were fine, I only ever notice a bad tuner. Bass held tune, very stable neck. Nice pots, good trim slope on the tone control. Unremarkable bridge.... Tone wise, well it's a 4 pole single coil and quite middy/trebly (may surprise a few, thats 50s style single coils) nothing like a Precision, much thinner sound than a P bass split, and thinner than an 8 pole jazz on the neck pup too, not a bad sound, just different, woody even. It needs those flats to get the best from it....did/does Sting use flats? For the money it's a no brainer, buy one, if you don't like it, loose a few quid, ain't like dropping a couple of grand on a Fender😉 ....mine flew away at £80 on Marketplace to a guy in a 50s/60s band....years of fun, cost me about 1 sheet per month. This guy does a great review, Spanish but subtitles. Buy one and enjoy. 😎2 points
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