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I just took delivery of my Masterbuilt Alusonic J-Supreme. These are outstanding basses and definitely worth checking out! It has a great modern hifi sound and doesn’t need lots of tweaking with the 3 band eq. You guys have the luxury of going to Bass Direct to check them out, but I took a chance and totally relied on many discussions with Polly the owner of Alusonic to get the custom spec I needed. I’m going to sell my Sadowskys to finance another!18 points
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I've been after one of these since I saw a review in 'In Tune' magazine in 1984. It is a lovely and very well made bass. This particular example, having been in storage for about thirty years is immaculate. The Gordy brand is one of those fascinating little side roads in British guitar building that seemed to proliferate in the eighties. The neck profile on this bass is particularly praiseworthy. Its like a very fast jazz. The two humbuckers (Gordon Withams own make I think) sound nice and fat and the hardware is all very high quality. The woodwork is of a very high quality. All in all, I'm pretty happy to have finally anded one after a mere forty years....9 points
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Here are my current fretless basses.7 points
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Where to start, I've got so many that I've modified in one way or another. Apparently the beginning is a very good place so this is the first bass that got some serious work. It started life as a black Line6 Variax 700. This isn't mine but this is how it looked. Changes to headstock shape, tuners, fret markers, colour, binding, f hole, pickguard shape and bridge cover. Ended up like this, Build diary here if interested but unfortunately most of the pictures went missing when Photobucket decided they wanted paying.6 points
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3 Leaf Audio Proton mk4 envelope filter. Bought this October 23 from here but unfortunately have barely used. Classic case of needing to spend more time playing rather than buying things. Has some mild oxidation marks which I gather are common with this raw/natural metal finish. Looking for £330 posted which is what I paid. Knock £5 off for collection from Orpington BR6.6 points -
Metallica aren't racists, FFS. Hugh Tanner, the original guitarist, is black. He and Hetfield were in Leather Charm together before they joined Metallica. Kirk is Filipino. Trujillo is latino. They wouldn't be the first and won't be the last dopes to make that gesture in a poor effort at humour, especially in the past when enlightenment wasn't as easy to come by as it is now. Humans start as idiots, but we learn, some quicker thank others. Thankfully, most of us don't have every indiscretion photographed, ready to be dredged up out of context for some ill-guided outrage. Let's not forget this guy married a black lady, much to the delight of his family.6 points
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They were great in 1992, when I was 10. By the time I was 12 I was well and truly over Metallica, and it's only gone downhill since. If you watch early interviews with them, it's clear they were awful people from the get go really, but I was a pretty awful person in my early 20s too, and I think what's happened is, being millionaire rockstars meant they didn't have opportunities to grow and mature in the same way most people do, so like the music, they just got worse. Hetfield is a big thick bully, Lars is his smarmy little mate, Kirk is a braindead stoner - none of them have evolved beyond high school.6 points
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I have too many basses. They no longer fit on my walls and in my studio. My friends have some of them too. It’s getting silly. The other half has more than noticed too and is making grunting noises which is never a good sign. I really need to thin the herd. I wil sell but I would also be keen to trade. I’d be looking for - Fender VI, Barefaced / lightweight cabs, May even consider lightweight combo, digital desk interface and Macs. I may also part out if there’s enough interest. Precision bitsa in Oly white with maple neck and board. It sports an F logo but it is not a Fender bass. It is however built with quality parts. I got it from Shaggy from this very parish and it was one of his builds. It is a lovely bass that is now not getting any play at all as I have another Precision with a rosewood board that is more suitable for the project I’m in. It was my spare but I have a Jazz that I can keep in the wings for that. It has a few battle scars but it hasn’t been abused. There’s a few extra holes on the reverse side of the headstock where the larger tuners have been and there’s a small section of the front facing of the headstock missing too. It can be seen in the photos in at one of the the ferrules. Parts listening Solid alder body. Oly white finish aged to pale cream. Vintage-spec genuine celluloid tort pickguard. One piece highly flamed maple neck with skunk stripe. Slim Jazz bass profile; amber tint poly finish with '70's Fender logo. Truss rod adjust at heel end. Seymour Duncan Basslines SPB-2 pickup 10 position Stellartone Tonestyler Varitone. CTS pots and Switchcraft jack. Lacquered solid brass high-mass bridge imported from US. Through body stringing, Lacquered solid brass neck plate, Gold control knobs. Gold Schaller tuners . There must be £700 worth of parts I have never weighed this bass but it has to be sub 9lb or my back would tell me. I need to get some batteries for the scales before I can post an accurate weight. The bass comes with a semi rigid lightweight Gear4music music case . It’s wearing strap lock pins at the moment that I’ll change back to the originals that are NOT gold. Collection and trial from BB22SH. Possible meet within sensible distance and availability.5 points -
<<<<. SOLD >>>> USA 44-64 PJ, Olympic White, in as new condition. Alder body with rosewood board. Satin finish quartersawn maple neck. Jazz style neck 1.5” (37.5) at nut. Strung with LaBella 760FL flats. Lakland hard case included. weight is 4.3 kg. price is £1,850 to order a new one from Lakland would take six months and cost around £3,200 including import costs. I’m based in Pinner, Middx - close to Pinner Tube any trial welcome and I can ship for £205 points -
This is no ordinary bass... This is an M&S bass. Mint & Sparkles. 😁5 points
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Mastodon went downhill after Crack The Skye. Nothing good since then.5 points
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Trujillo is a phenomenal player, one of those guys who can and has played any genre at the absolute top level. Outside of Metallica he's jazzy, he's done punk/hardcore and he can be funky as hell I've been a fan since I first heard and saw him with Suicidal Tendencies in the 1980s. I've said it before I don't begrudge him the paycheck but, creatively, he's wasted in Metallica.5 points
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You know you're in trouble when Dave Mustaine is the most reasonable guy in the room.5 points
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Hi I'm not really up with Macca, but i ran through this a couple of times and hit record, mainly to try out this bass. It's amazing just how much bass these things can produce.4 points
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Here's my Junior Jet, heavily sanded on the back to take about 1cm off the thickness so it now weighs about a feather, and I've finished the wood with a black water-based stain that gives it a plum colouring. Fitted with a TV Jones Thunderblade and a Schaller bridge, a coil-split switch and with my custom tort plates, it looks and sounds great. I use it as a back up, but really it should be a front line bass as it plays so well; occasionally I take pity on it and give it a front line gig.4 points
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If Tony Stark made basses.... love it4 points
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Most heavy metal musicians never would have had realistic expectations of the fame and wealth the chosen few of them eventually achieved. Metallica were a genuine niche band until the very end of the 80's. The kind of success they eventually found would have been completely unthinkable when they were making their first four albums. When I first saw them on the AJFA tour, they were playing a 1500 capacity venue. When I last saw them on the Black album tour, they were playing an 8000 capacity venue. They were the exception, in the genre from which they originated. Megadeth were probably the next most commercially successful but they were not even close to what Metallica, as they became 'tallica, achieved. The rest of their peers never achieved commercial success at all and mostly broke up by the mid 90's. The point being, unlike a lot of genres where being commercially successful is a genuine prospect and probable aspiration when the band starts off, in Metal, outside of the pouffy hair stuff, that was completely unthinkable until the start of the 90's. Success would have come rapidly as a stranger and they were ill equipped to cope with all it entailed.4 points
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I had money before I joined. Awful place.4 points
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In truth, there are so many hilarious things about that film and so many awful ones. All of them (Newsted excepted) come across as awful people. Kirk especially comes over as a passive aggressive tosser. Plus, he can't write lyrics either. Frankly, they're an awful band. They've had some great material, but in every case it's mainly been ruined by crap production decisions and ludicrous egotism. I run a book with some fellow producers as to "How will Metallica ruin their next album." I won for Death Magnetic as since they're generally 8-10 years behind trends (plus they got Rick Rubin in) it was always going to be brickwalled and digitally distorted. The best one was Lulu when one of my fellow producers said, "it'll just be awful." He won that one. 72 seasons has the whole "stupidly attacky drum samples." Nobody needs that amount of 10kHz on a kick drum. It's so obviously samples. How very 2011. They're so far behind the times.4 points
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Hi All It's been a while since I've posted anything here. We ended up moving to Italy in the middle of the first wave of COVID. We've been re-structuring a house and finally, 4 years later, I've got a workshop set up in the basement. Sooo..... I'm making a fully acoustic bass. I've been planning it for what seems like forever. The idea is to make an acoustic bass that is designed to be amplified. It's not designed for acoustic volume, for that the body needs to be much bigger. My thinking though is to make the top as flexible as possible, then amplify the movement of the top with a K&K piezo, stuck on the inside of the top, under the bridge. It's a 'flarchtop'....So the spruce top is pushed into a tight radius (15 foot) by the braces, it's not carved like a normal archtop would be. It will have an archtop style floating bridge and tailpiece. I strung it up for the first time yesterday and the top didn't immediately collapse. Which is a good thing..... I didn't take pictures along the way, never got round to it. It still needs sanding, and heel cap and a few other bits, but the end is definitely in sight. A couple of pics....3 points
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2004 Rickenbacker 4003 with the following upgrades: Hipshot Bridge and Tuners Seymour Duncan pickups Black scratchplate Approximate weight 4.5kg, just under 10lbs No case, original bridge, pickups and tuners not included. Condition: well gigged, presumably mainly with a plectrum as witnessed by scuffs on the neck pickup. various nicks and chips around the body. Main play wear is on the neck rear, possibly from chunky thumb and finger rings! Despite this, the frets are in very good condition. I got this in December, it required a thorough cleaning, the selector was stuck in the middle position and the bridge pickup had a wire off. The Bridge ground wasn't connected, having been attached with Blu-Tak. Really. The intonation was set properly since the bridge photo btw! All these issues were fixed. New Status roundwound strings fitted, 100-40 I can't get on with it, I'm moving over to short scale, and have a large car bill to pay off, makes sense to move this on Collection only please (Didcot), I've no means or desire to post this. Welcome to come and try this out.3 points -
Think all my active basses can be put into passive mode and will work without a battery. Its something i was always curious about just in case a battery died on me. I still change the batteries every year and i'll remove and test the off-load voltage every few mths or so. We all live and learn by our mistakes and pretty sure you won't do that again. @SuperSeagull Dave3 points
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Here's my lockdown bass. Dragonfly Fat Sound that i purchased from Bass Japan Direct, these are the stock photos. I did get some Nordstrand pickups installed, but can't say i really noticed much difference in tone to what was already in there. It's a Koa top on alder body with a rosewood f/b i think, which has an expoxy type finish. I'm very happy with it, and don't have much fretless GAS now. However, i would like to get my hands on a Fbass BNF at some point, or a Fender Victor Bailey j.3 points
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@Frank Blank - Jabba short scales, fretted and fretless, Ibanez SRC6, QSC K12.2, Grace Design preamp. @rwillett - Ibanez short scale, Fender Jazz bass, Fender Mustang bass, Telecaster, Westone six string, 3d printed guitar, small practise bass amp, small practise guitar amp, Mod Dwarf, various guitar/USB interfaces and quite a lot of software and a fair few laptops as required. I live next door Probably cake as well. @ossyrocks - '73 P bass, '73 J bass, '78 P bass, '87 MIJ P Bass, Fender Bassman 50 (rebuilt from the ground up by Gartone), Bergantino Forte D, TE Elf, Barefaced Super Compact and One10, Fender Rumble 100. @sifi2112 Vigier Excess 4, Mas26 (x2) sfx D3 preamp Koch ATR4502 poweramp @neepheid - Some and hopefully all of Epiphone Jack Casady, G&L L-1000, Epiphone Les Paul Standard, G&L Tribute LB-100, Sire D5, Reverend Triad, Yamaha BB1200, Harley Benton HB-50, Soloking MJ-1, Epiphone Explorer, Markbass Mini CMD 121P IV, Markbass NY 121 cab3 points
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I had my bass refinished from it's all see through purple finish to a clear finish to show the Quilted Maple top. I had a refret done, new chrome knobs and new pickups which are cream but i don't have a picture of those on this computer. I had the refinish and refret done by Toby Diggins at Jaydee Custom Guitars...... and this is the first bass i have kept flats on. They have been on for about 6 months now and i have to say i have taken a liking to how they sound on this bass. That said I doubt if my other basses will get flats.3 points
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the princess & the P-bass?3 points
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Bwahahahahaha!!! In truth, I have ... ahem ... well actually I have ... erm ... four DBs of varying size and design. BUT (and it's a big BUT) there's no real overlap between them and they are all for different purposes. So there. 😏3 points
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Who are you, and what have you done with the real @Happy Jack ?3 points
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The Passionfruit of Guavas — Bauhaus3 points
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That's the monster part. Imagine being the directors of a company where you're also the product. If you don't want to produce the product what happens to you, and your employees. Well, if you're multimillionaire and the company is worth millions, you pay everyone off and move on if you're sensible. But the pressure to keep the company running must be huge.3 points
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Nappy Talk ～ Captain Sensible3 points
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Agreed. I have hidden all the ACG-based comments, as they're just muddying the waters.3 points
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Wee will rock you - Queen3 points
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron3 points
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Also, what problem are you trying to solve? There are many ways to skin a cat (although, admittedly, most of them feel the same to the cat )3 points
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I am thinking of doing this one day in March, potentially go to Brighton and visit both GAK and the Barefaced HQ and try as much as I can!3 points
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What about Motorhead and Lemmy?3 points
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I watched it, although I'm by no means a Metallica fan. Quite difficult, I found. A lot of the time I felt quite sorry for them.3 points
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This is probably my favourite documentary ever. I'm a moderate Metallica fan (I prefer they early work), but I find the story told in this film fascinating. I don't agree with the OP that all they needed was another bass player; they got another bass player immediately after Cliff died and the mess we see is what resulted! To me, Lars and James are what you get when you have massive success very early in life: you believe your own b***s*** and can't see anything you do as wrong. They're fighting like 18 year old kids because they've never had to learn how to work with other people, and it seems James had A LOT of "stuff" he should have been working through rather than drinking and abandoning his family to go shoot bears in Russia. Kirk comes across as surprisingly reasonable the whole time, trying to bridge the gap between Lars and James and make the band work, as does Bob Rock. To me the therapist gives them a lot of tools for communicating with each other. You can very clearly track how their language changes across the film: they're asking if they want to 'go deeper' on something rather than getting into a fight, and Lars even concedes his love of the name Frantic when others disagree with him. I also love the therapist's jumpers, they are absurd. All the rich person stuff is hilarious to me. James driving his ridiculous Goth car in a knock off Wehrmacht helmet; Lars clearly being forced by his wife to sell his Basquiat painting(s) for millions of dollars; having drivers; Kirk with his California ranch and subscription to Rich Guy Magazine.3 points
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Double trouble:3 points
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Been messing aroud with it for the last good while. It's deadly. It really makes a ruckus for such a tiny box. I have a few thoughts for ya. There are three modes, momentary, latch and auto. I would say i will stick with momentary 90% of the time. This mode is basically what you get in a freeze pedal i assume. You step on the switch and it holds your note/chord until you step off the switch. While holding a nite, you can play over the frozen sustained chord/note Latch is where the superego features come in. Thus allows you to build pads, soundscapes or beds using multiple held notes adding each time tou click on the pedal. I assume this isbwhat the superego does. It's a very cool feature and can make some really sinister sounds. I look at this as a bonus to the momentary mode which i got the pedal for. You can really see where the effects loop on the superego would come in handy. It can get a bit messy with modulation effects after it in the chain, which is how i have it currently. I might switch that. I'd say as i understand betterbwhat the gliss and speed/layer knobs do, i will use this mode more. The third mode, auto, is where a layer is added as you play depending in a set threshold. This would be fantastic for a guitar wirh like a shimmery reverb, but i dont see myself using this mode as much. Again, after i fogure out the knobs a bit better, i might use this mode. To me, if i had a freeze pedal, i wouldn't upgrade. But the size alone makes it an easy buy for me because this board has limited space. It is expensive, but you get the freeze plus some extra cool bits. And you save a ton of space. I simply couldnt get a bigger pedal on this board. So overall, im happy i found i. It was exactly what i was looking for plus extra. But pricey. Soundwise, i was only using headphone out from my tc bh250 into AKGs but i reallyxwant to hear it at rehearsal. Not sure it will get much use in the band, but a ron of fun at jams. One thing to remember is it isnt a looper, so youre not sustaining phrases or runs. Just notes and chords if that makes sense.3 points
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Ibby SR300 - P Tonerider... Ibby SR300 - Maida Vale Stacked Jazz Ibby SR400 - DiMarzio DP123 J's3 points
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It's mega wild to me that people are so quick to judge and libel people they've never met with no foundation 😉3 points
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What's the US equivalent of Glam? Do cover bands make a specialty of doing the whole enchilada theatre like you fellas?3 points
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I love some of the early Metallica stuff but Black onwards is all bad. On the odd occasion they wrote good music, they ruined it with dreadful production. I honestly don't understand why they're still huge when there's so many other bands making much better metal music. It's about time Mastadon or Baroness too their place as hard rock/metal giants3 points
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Playing at "I'm getting paid a shitload of cash so let's see how far I can push them" I suspect. The bit where he's playing the flamenco guitar part and James is like "oh shit, he's this good at guitar as well" was hilarious.3 points
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Posted this is my NPD thread, but posting here for posterity. New config with ehx pico deep freeze3 points
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Well, that's Tier 2 oot the windae - just bought a set of drum mics from @EBS_freak. Might as well get the rest of the bits I need to complete the PA now...2 points
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