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The finished Bass. Mark is due to visit the workshop this Friday to take delivery, and we may make a short video/sound check.12 points
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About ten years ago we were looking for a new drummer. First chap we tried spent over an hour setting up the biggest kit we had ever seen, and then proceeded to drown the rest of us out. Mutual agreement he wasn't the best for the band. Out of desperation we then tried a 14 year old kid who volunteered through a friend. Sort of did it as a favour as he had never been in a band before - turns out Sam was God's gift to drumming. He won the Yamaha U18 drummer of the year competition a year later, we recorded a bunch of Toto songs for his A-levels, and then he left us in his dust when he disappeared off to become a session musician! It was quite humbling to have a tiny part in his development.10 points
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Hi For sale this lovely and rare Japan made Bass. from the early 90's. Gotoh pu's and electro Active 9v with bass and treble. 4.1kg The bass is in very good conditions. I'm not interested in trades. cheers6 points -
Bass Amigos, Its Steve Fishman aka Steve Lawrence here. Someone asked about my gear and sound with Hugh. Missed this one by a decade or two. Its P bass for me and even the Burns bison (UK c.1980) is a PJ . Most of my basses have had J pickups (added before I found them) but I use the P pickup only as a general rule. I still have the Peavey Max but last several years have been using a Genz Benz Streamliner a lot. Theyre great but I dont love the eq with 3 fixed (not my fave) frequencies prolly to sound SVT-like SVT isnt my 1st choice. I endorsed PV and have a couple of T40s and a Midibass. I also have a cool vintage Carlsbro 200W valve amp for loud bands. Im currently doing projects incl Glen Matlock & The Maestros w Clem Burke and Gilby Clarke and Intergalactic (post psych postpunk). Im gonna try to look on this a bit more often. Love to all bottomly people!! XX Steve https://epi5050.com/musician5 points
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Hi, i'm selling this Geddy Lee built in 2006. Everything works perfectly. truss, frets, neck. very good conditions, no major dings. No trades. Cheers,5 points -
Talk about blowing your own trumpet….5 points
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That's sexual assault. If a man had done that he'd be in serious trouble.5 points
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**SOLD** An absolute gorgeous bass. Handmade by the guys in Alpher basses. Real punchy pickup on this with the split coil. Very comfortable and lightweight. Purchased this from Alpher last year. This bass is the first of the Hammerhead range which has now been moved into production on the Alpher. Pheral - The guys told me that it's only the neck that has been manufactured by a 3rd party company. The Body and all electrics and hardware are all done in house. Any questions please don't hesitate. Only gigged twice. Comes with softcase. Mark.4 points -
Price Reduced to £745 + Free UK Shipping This is the lowest I will go to before simply putting it back into storage for a few more years! Much loved, highly rated and hard to find Vintage Yamaha BB1600 Bass Guitar. Alder Body, Maple neck and Rosewood fingerboard with Mother of Pearl Oval inlays. Passive Electronics. 34" Scale Length finished in Cream. A much sought after solid workhorse bass with exceptional build quality. Re-strung with Rotosound Swing Bass strings and intonated. Included is a mid 1990s Freestyle high quality hard case with plush black velvet lining. Hinges and clasps all in full working order. Some battle scars as pictured on both the bass and the case - as expected for their age. There is a chip in the nut (pictured), but it does not affect the playing, the tone or the intonation. Just amazing sweet, sweet tones that blow me away. Listed elsewhere. Stand not included. The Back Story: Back in the 1990s, a US band played at Band On The Wall on Swan Street, Manchester. Across the road at the time, was the guitar shop of Di Maurizio (Morris) - a talented player and guitar maker from Huddersfield. The bass player fell in love with one of Morris' unique hand-made basses and traded in this Yamaha there and then. I was in a band in Huddersfield at the time, and knew Morris since he was our Lead Guitarist's teacher. Morris knew I was looking for a new bass, and he called me up to say he'd just had a 'peach of a bass' traded in. He wasn't wrong. I bought the bass, and I've had it and looked after it well for the last 30 years. Lockdown shook things up a bit, and I ended up moving from playing bass to playing guitar. It has spent the last 4 years unused and so, with some reluctance, it's time to let it move on so it can continue to be heard. It's tone is just amazing.4 points -
Let me see. . . . a musician is having some success and the Basschat massive isn't happy about it. Well there's a surprise.4 points
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A new branch of HMV? You really must think it's still 1987. 😄4 points
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In the days when I was using a full backline, for local gigs it was cheaper and convenient to get a taxi. Taxi drivers have no qualms about "parking" in the middle of the road directly outside the venue for me to load in and out. The fare both ways was only slightly more than the cost of parking and definitely less if load out was after midnight, and the overall convenience of not having to carry the gear great distances or messing about looking for free or cheap parking outweighed any additional cost.4 points
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Little ray of sunshine! The music may not be to my tastes but it’s a lovely story nonetheless.4 points
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Don't my purple Vans count for anything ? Lol Daryl4 points
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And another Turkish list. The most important instrument in Turkey is the baglama, or saz as it's more often known in the English speaking world. It's an instrument that can be found with slight variations spanning the Balkans to the Caucasus and Iran, typically featuring three courses of strings. My favourite version is the Albanian sharki, which I find easier to play than the baglama and quite an easy transition for a bass player. The most famous artist in the modern era is probably Neşet Ertaş, and this is possibly his most famous composition, Ah Yalan Dünya. What he lacked in technical perfection he more than made up with the emotion of his playing: Possibly the most famous baglama player during the era of recorded music is Aşık Veysel. He lost hos sight at an early age, and it was not unusual for blind children to become folk musicians. His songs are invariably very melancholic, and Kara Toprak is a personal favourite: Arif Sağ is someone who often uses techniques such as double tapping on the baglama. His Kirpiğin Kaşına is more traditional though, and in the traditional introspective style: Hopefully that's whetted your appetite for this instrument. Even if it hasn't, and I have included a very personal choice of songs here, I'd strongly recommend the fantastic documentary "Saz, The key of Trust" where the incredibly talented Petra Nachtmanova takes a road trip across the Balkans and Asia Minor to find the roots of the baglama. The full documentary is up on YouTube and for me it's the best musical documentary I've ever seen.4 points
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pic courtesy of Emma Bowden @armadillocentral.com Brilliant gig on Saturday at The Plough in Shrepreth. Good turn out, some lovely comments from the audience and staff and being not far from home. I had lots of friends and family in; which is always nice.Very good friendly venue; a great local pub that prides itself on on being a proper music pub- nice stage, good house PA and an owner who also knows his way around a desk; he did a great job on the sound while running a busy bar and looked after us really well. He also happens to stock some great beers and Mrs C was driving ! We had a great time one of the best pub gigs I’ve played.4 points
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Here's a good one in reverse. I auditioned for a classic rock cover band. This was years ago. They double booked my audition with another guy. I was able to watch his audition. A young guy, he didn't know any of the songs I nailed all three. They went with the other guy. He was a friend of the guitarist. He didn't last long. Turns out the guy had no transportation to get to gigs. They called me back and offered me the job You can imagine where I told them to shove their offer . The lesson, never audition for bands auditioning friends or relatives. Daryl4 points
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So, for a while I have been eyeing up the new ocean turquoise Gretsch junior jet ii bass, not having a lot of disposable income my wife had offered a couple of times to go halves with me on the cost of one but I had always declined. Anyway the other day my wife told me that she had a delivery and asked if I would sign for it when the courier turned up. Anyway the courier turned up I signed for the delivery and then my wife told me to open the box, I thought maybe it was a new computer chair or something, I opened the box and my eyes lit up when I saw a Gretsch box inside the box, I was over the moon. Anyway it is a great bass, the photo doesn't do it justice, in person it is much prettier and the colour is much nicer, it sounds great too and if someone told me this bass sold for twice what this sells for i wouldn't question it at all3 points
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You’re looking at the classic! This one was bought from Soundgas Ltd who specialise in servicing and repairing vintage analogue studio gear. They calibrated and serviced the pedal and fitted it with a custom UK power supply and a true bypass. The pedal is in great condition and sounds amazing. Why am I selling it then? Believe it or not, I actually find the digital reissue suits my bass better and frankly I could use the cash since wife’s redundancy. I don’t think you’ll find a better example in the UK. You’re welcome to come and play it in York. Cheers3 points -
Yep, good luck to ‘em.3 points
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I only play 4 of those strings. Supporting Hellbastard back in December3 points
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Closure: The bill came in at a rather more reasonable £510, for which I was very relieved. Perhaps more importantly, the instant I started playing the bass it was as if I'd traded in a cheap Chinese beginner's bass for a high-end instrument. Not just better than it was (with a warped fingerboard, well duh!) but substantially better than on the day I bought it and - if anything - even better than the Zeller 3/4 it replaced. No complaints from me. Thwaites did an excellent job. 🙂3 points
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I've te green model arriving sometime this or next week ready for a full video review, so I'll keep you al posted.3 points
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The only sensible point that Jeremy Clarkson has ever made (that I'm aware of) is that councils and pedestrianization are doing as much if not more than the internet to destroy the town centres. The town I grew up in still had the Blockbuster livery on a shop unit the last time I went back, the high street is dead. Meanwhile there's the Metrocentre shopping mall 20 minutes drive away, Team Valley (industrial estate/retail park, 15 minutes), the Arnison Centre (retail park, 10 minutes) and Dalton Park (outlet shopping, 30 minutes) that are all absolutely thriving. Why? Free parking.3 points
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Well this is going well - thanks for all the contributions so far. Great to see the Turkish material @chriswareham @Baloney Balderdash @Leonard Smalls I've been enjoying some of the more club orientated fusion that is getting used on a lot of Turkish holiday ads at the moment (and giving me serious holiday envy)! Looking forward to delving in to these contributions.3 points
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Hand on heart, there was no googling involved - wasn't the Mystery Machine predominantly green?3 points
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I’ve actually just picked up a second hand rig: a genzler Magellan 350 and a Barefaced two10. It sounds awesome at home and I’m looking forward to trying it at gigs over the next two weekends. I really like the EQ section and contour knobs on the Genzler, I think the orange contour channel is going to be really handy in a live setting.3 points
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Nobody can afford a new Stingray anymore3 points
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The thing with the current Line6 HX/Helix range is that all the upgrades are done in software. Not only that but they are all free. So although my Helix Floor looks the same as it did when I bought it six years ago, inside it's is very different. I'm currently on V3.7 of the firmware and I believe that there is at least one update that I haven't yet got around to installing. There was a major update a while back that improved most of the amp and cab models so that they used less processing power, which allowed you to have even more modules in a preset (not that I have ever come close to running out of processing power yet). I'm sure at some point there will be some major improvement which will technically render the current range "obsolete". But so what? As long as the devices still work they are still relevant. After all there's musicians using amps, cabs and pedals with technology that is at least 40 years old and they seem to be perfectly happy. My Helix does 99% of the things that I want and does all of those things perfectly. The 1% it doesn't do are highly specialised to my needs (MIDI-triggered gates and filters) and although I have a request in, I suspect my requirements are a long way down the list of priorities. However I've found work-arounds for what is missing. I've been using programmable multi-effects for 35 years now and the Helix is by far the best in absolutely every respect.3 points
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Good grief. I've just turned 56 and I'm feeling it this week. The last thing I'd want is to have a demo I did in the 80s come to light and the buggers trying to give me a record deal now! That ship of opportunity has sailed for me.3 points
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I had a Police tribute gig in Chatham, Kent. To load in you either used to bus lane and get fined, or as the precinct was dug up and you couldnt access it, a long walk with the gear. We spoke to the promoter for about an hour, then called it and went home. I'm at the point in my life where I dont need the hassle, I've been gigging the local Kent scene since 1987 and now I do i for fun3 points
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Chris from Turner Pickups here... The "old" pickups were wired internally such that each vertical row of 4 coils were all in series, effectively creating a single "coil" (just made of 4 small ones). Then the 2 rows each had their own pair of leads, so the usual series/parallel options were available, like a normal humbucker. The "new" pickups, which are used in modern Wals (Mk 1, 2, 3), are wired such that the 2 cols under a string are wired in series (RWRP so it's a small humbucker). Each of these coil pairs have their own output, and all of these outputs are buffered and summed in each low pass filter. I make my multicoil pickups in the "new" configuration, my "SEP" variant. I also make a modified version of the "old" configuration that allows for Series, "Standard P", "Reverse P", and Parallel wirings (my "SPPP" variant). The advantage here being that all wirings are humbucking. See below... SEP Variant SPPP Variant3 points
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To my ear, the that guy is playing it an octave up from the isolated track, and i don't hear an open A in there either. Here's the run I'm hearing on my phone speaker, noting that the E string is downtuned to a D. A -5-3- D ---- -6-5-3-0-3-5-03 points
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Design revision required - turns out my velcro is great at keeping pedals in place when gravity is working with it, not so much in the opposite direction. It was actually the adhesive that failed, not the velcro itself. Bugger. So a more permanent way of attaching the PSU is required. I could replace the tape with... better tape like 3M Dual Lock but I figured in keeping with the whole "make do and mend" approach I'd find a way to mechanically couple the PSU to the board. Someone on here, I'm sure it was put up a picture of using bike chain links as brackets to attach pedals to boards. As luck would have it, I had a small length of bike chain lying around so I spent a satisfying 20 mins or so bashing the rivets out of the chain. Thanks to T-Rex putting all the screws on the side and none on the bottom, I had to bend the links to make right angle brackets. This is when I found out that the outer links are too brittle to be bent, but the inner ones are fine? Anyway, some hammering and bending round the vice gave me this: Now, just need to find some screws small enough to get in those wee holes. Maybe tuner screws, maybe pickguard screws. Time for a rummage in the spares boxes!3 points
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Would rather be gigging than sitting on my arse. Music is meant to be played live and not confined to the bedroom.3 points
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Swindon. Nuff said. VID-20240302-WA0002.mp43 points
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I had an acoustic gig today. 2-5 at The Twisted Pear in Beachwood. Respectable size crowd and it was a nice place. Somebody spent allot of $$$ renovating. We were ok, my playing was pretty decent, I got paid and I was home by 6. Daryl3 points
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Some real irony to Aberdeen being a Low Emission Zone...3 points
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Latest batch of update photos from Mike, and time to start getting proper excited now, I think! 😊 Scheduled to pick up next weekend at present. Mike's been testing the various pickup connections at each stage of assembly, but has not so far been able to sound test them. I can't wait to hear them. He's a true artist and I've no doubt at all they'll sound every bit as good as they and the bass looks.3 points
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I have the following for sale TC Electronic Polytune 3 - £55 SOLD Xotic RC Booster - £90 SOLD Providence Anadime Bass Chorus - £130 SOLD Aguilar Chorusaurus - £90 SOLD Origin Effects Cali76 Bass Compressor - £200 SOLD Way Huge Pork & Pickle Distortion/Fuzz - £130 SOLD Strymon Zuma PSU + Mounting Brackets - £190 SOLD Pedaltrain Classic Jnr Pedalboard with Flight Case - £110 SOLD EBS Gold Flat Patch Cable (£5 each) - 10cm x 6 SOLD - 18cm x 2 - 28cm x 1 Can post or collected from Manchester. I have photos of everything so please enqurie about each item for more details.2 points -
After a few beers at Christmas I ordered a knock off Dingwall from Ali express.. I woke up the next morning to an email from the seller asking what “customisations” I wanted.. what a treat.. a custom bass!!… so I went to town, orange finish, 3 x pickups, maple neck… and a custom headstock logo! It arrived this morning - it’s awesome!! Obviously it’s not actually a finely crafted, custom instrument - but the finish is pretty clean and it sounds good, all the electrics work and it’s very playable!! The hardware is a bit lightweight… but for £279… it’s a lot of bass!2 points
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No, this time you can punch someone AND leave after 30 minutes.2 points
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You must have heard of contemporary psych-rockers Baba Zula? A fantastic sound. Have been lucky enough to have seen them three times. Improvisational, interactive (they very often go for a wander through the audience) and a new album coming soon. Seconded 👍 You are preaching to the converted. Serious GAS, I've got SIX of the things!2 points
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Everything you need for v3 is contained in the v3.60 editor. I’m going to ask if they’ll do a v3.61 editor to add the 4Control integration code as that works well.2 points
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Closest I could get2 points
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Well, maybe one day you'll be in charge, you never know2 points
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I’m kind of amp nerdy , I’m ok with that. Your Barefaced cabs are a great start. Simply gorgeous cabs. And there’s a ton of amps around today that will do the job. We’ve really never had this kind of selection available before. But it’s fun to do something funky. I went the Bergantino route and have no regrets. First bought some cabs (a 210 & 112) , loved them , and then picked up their smaller head , the Forte. Beautiful full transparent hifi. And then later decided to go wild , and picked up a nice boutique tube preamp and go old school. Monique. So I have a modular rig , many gigs I do just require a single cab , and can do modern or old school , with a ton of headroom. I use the same amp and preamp for rehearsals , but recently found a Barefaced One 10 to do that. Small , modular , light. With some serious slam.2 points
