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I’m selling a stunning 1997 German made Warwick Streamer Pro M. As you can see it’s in a rare metallic emerald burst. The finish is incredible in the flesh. Tonally it sounds fantastic. My understanding is that what looks like one MM style pickup is actually two jazz pickups, located together, with a phantom coil in between to eliminate hum. There are separate bass and treble controls for each and a separate vol/blend knob. The bass weighs in at 4.3kg on my scales and it’s in great condition. One or two small dings but no bad ones or buckle wear. It comes with a nice hardcase which is in perfect nick. New strings and it has been fully set up with great action. Can ship to EU or UK but can also arrange to meet in or around London9 points -
I make necks for my Zoot bass range from Roasted Maple I buy in from my supplier in the USA. In the workshop when I cut through the bulk timber, the colour throughout is consistent with not lightness in the centre or anywhere else. However, when I clear coat the finished necks, the natural colour goes at least two times darker than the raw roasted timber. I have to say that the scratch on the headstock in the picture does indeed look to me to be a bit suspicious? Maybe they were trying to sell it as "Roasted maple colour tinted" and not the real thing? I maybe wrong, but I'm not convinced it's the real deal. Here are a couple of shots of what Roasted Maple looks like before & after. I only tend to buy in "Flamed Roasted maple" but the colour of the non-figured would be the same colours. I hope this helps.8 points
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I really do wonder what you hope to achieve in this discussion. I started this thread merely to say that I respected and admired the deep technical understanding others have of music, and that I someday wished to possess even some of that level of understanding. Your contribution appears to be that it is not necessary because the theory describes the music, not the other way around, ipso facto to use theoretical knowledge to help write a piece of music is putting the cart before the horse and, therefore, wrong, and that it's much better to use intuition when writing music. This is very "what came first, the chicken or the egg" territory. In reality, it doesn't matter. I could spend hours trial and erroring my way to something that sounds good when actually somebody already did the trial and error years ago and somebody is able to explain why the result of that works well, and had I just applied that technical knowledge sooner, I could save my self several hours. That is not cheating, it's not incorrect, and it is not less musical. You may prefer to fumble around with your ears and experience in some false sense of musical purity, that's fine; don't let me spoil your fun, but have the respect to not tell people they are wrong or less musical for applying their theoretical knowledge to a real world situation; that's precisely the point of learning theory.8 points
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Price drop to £1800 I bought this bass off here last year, and although it's a fantastic instrument, I bought it because of my love of The Police, not my need for yet another P Bass. I'll try to give as much info as possible, but I don't know all that much unfortunately. The serial number dates to 1978, however the previous owner believed it could date be as late as 1980 given Fenders of the era. The finish on the back of the body isn't original, and is a strange matte finish. The front of the body could be original as it retains a nice smooth gloss, but I don't know for definite. The same goes for the neck, it appears the fingerboard has been planed down and refinished, but the headstock and back of the neck could be original. The bridge has been replaced with in the basses lifetime as well. The metal grounding plate from under the pickup is also missing and only the bridge ashtray cover is original, the pickup one is a newer reproduction. Everything else appears to be original. It also comes with a non original late 70's fender case. The bass was setup by Jon Shuker just after I got it and is strung with Thomastik flats. It plays really nicely, and sounds exactly how a fretless P bass should. I don't want to look into couriering the bass for now, so collection only from Leeds. If you have any questions please feel free to ask! Edit Could be interested in a trade for a Stingray7 points -
Hah! The guitarists in my band were gutted I had a request at all 🤣 Never had that before! Joel over at BassEmpi.re asked if he could interview me, and I eventually got round to it after waiting on some pictures. https://bassempi.re/horas-bassist-mike-on-crafting-doom-metal-with-cornish-witch-trials-lore/7 points
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The drummer in my Jazz band stood in on a gig with Noel Redding. So I've played with someone who played with someone who played with Hendrix. How's that for tenuous?!7 points
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Whilst doing a session replacing an existing bassline by someone else I remarked to the client, the guitars sound great by the way. ‘They should do’ he said, ‘It’s Dominic Miller.’ ’Aha’ I said suitably chastened. Struggling for a reply I went ‘and as ever Tom sounds great on drums’ thinking it was the producers regular skins man, Tom Hooper. The producer leaned over and said quietly ‘That’s Dave Weckl’ It won’t be a surprise to learn I was eventually replaced on the session by Pino Palladino. The client was on a huge ego spending trip and had no interest in a Hereford Hillbillies’ input into his project. I thought Pino did a decent impression of me as it turns out 🤣6 points
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After stupidly selling off all my pedals and going for a digital multi effects pedal type thing I realised my mistake and bought a small limited amount of stuff I will actually use. Compressor - Overdrive - Chorus for those 80s moments - GR preamp / Di. Simples.6 points
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Absolutely terrible news, I'm sorry to hear it. Could we bypass the payment system to register Bridge has a seller? Seems the least we could do.6 points
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There's no need to be unkind to others merely because you are an intellectual powerhouse of immeasurable capability.6 points
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NOW SOLD! Gallien Krueger Neo 4x10 speaker cabinet for sale - was part of a rig but amp head now sold. Spec for the cabinet - Lightweight design 800 watt power rating 8 Ohm 4x10” Cast frame Neodymium Paragon speakers Bi-ampable horn Speakon and ¼” jack inputs Poplar ply cabinet Black Tolex finish with interlocking corners Dimensions – 18.5 x 23.5 x 26.5” Weight – 64lbs I've used this cabinet with a tribute band, playing mainly theatres. It's been very well looked after, never thrashed at all and is in truly superb condition. It has been flightcased from new, and the flightcase is included in the sale. I also have the original unused GK castors that came with the cab, along with the original GK speakon to speakon lead, again unused. I'm in East Yorkshire and cash on collection is preferable. However my last few gigs in April take me to the following places - Redditch, Shrewsbury, Ipswich and Birmingham. I'll be using the cabinet at all of these places (all central theatres) where you can pick it up anytime between say 4pm and 7pm or after my gig ends around 10pm. ( Obviously if there's interest then I'll bring my Fender Rumble combo to see me through the gig!) I'm also happy to deliver for the cost of my diesel, or meet up somewhere so long as it's not the other end of the country - think Yorkshire / Lincolnshire etc. Thanks for reading, cheers.5 points -
A busy early evening with 410mm x 80mm x 15mm of aluminium, a 3.5mm drill, a 4.5mm drill, a countersink, a pillar drill, some cutting fluid and some wire wool has produced this. I'm rather pleased and smug, so clearly something is going to go wrong now This is the new backbone, 15mm vs 12mm, same width and 10mm longer. Weighs 1.2Kg which is more than I thought.This puts the body weight around 2.4Kg without electrics and bridge, so I'm in the right weight area. The surface scratching between the second and thrird rows of holes can't be seen when I look at it. Odd. This may get anodised or may not. I was fooling about with anodising some years ago, and I do have a rather nice 30A PSU I could use, but not yet This backbone is now on the mule and it doesn't bend very much. Possibly 0.2mm but not even sure about that. Given I'm using tug boat cables for strings, I'm happy. I have a set of low tension strings to go on as well but for the moment I'll stick with what I have. Now I can get on with setting the dammed thing up and not worry about flex. I can also get on with printing the rest of the body thats been on hold until I knew the backbone height. Everything is linked together and as I change one thing, something else gets changed as well.5 points
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I love crotchets and training wheels. Knowing about these has kept me in work as a professional musician who can read music, understand theory and ‘hear’ well. It’s all part of the same thing, they can’t be separated out and certainly I’d be wary of denigrating them so readily in public!5 points
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I think I sold my MIJ P bass during COVID to finance an MIJ Jazz that I really should have hung on to. The Stingray has been with me for years now, five years maybe? Anyhow, I've never had all three types of bass at once. I fancied a precision so bought this beaut from @kevham who is a true gent and I've now bought two basses from him. Black and maple Player P bass. Classic look, classic sound. I'm starting to use more drive and distortion and need to play with a pick for more songs so it was a good excuse. Just need to fit a D tuner (already purchased from Bass Direct) then decide later what strings I want, rounds, flats or tapes.... Really high output from the stock pickups in the two minutes noodle I've had.4 points
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MIJ Jazz in Maui blue. Arrived yesterday but only got around to testing it out today. Fit & finish are superb, pickups fine normally I would change them but I’m going to dabble with a Frank Bello pedal and see how it goes with the Geddy settings that are covered in the Bello pedal, *tuners feel fine too* might stick a Hipshot extender on tho. All in very happy…..*famous last words 2 tuners really stiff in turning so looking for a set of HB10’s*4 points
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Looks chaotic but I'm trialling ideas with pedals in my arsenal. I'm wanting to get an early Cheap Trick/Tom Petersson tone, which was achieved with valve guitar amp set ups. I'm also trying to introduce the illusion of 12 string bass but that is secondary. Tonebone (splitter) / Fishman Platinum Pro (HPF/tuner) / TC Bright Spark (Drive) / TC Plethora X5 (effects) > Tech Soundsystems Blackcat amp. I'm using the Tonebone to send the output straight to the front input of the ampamp, whilst taking a parallel out (from the Tonebone tuner out) to the Fishman and effects. The Fishman has a HPF which I have maxxed out so that this parallel signal has as little bottom end as possible; I have the option to EQ this signal but not found it necessary yet. The signal then goes to either the Plethora (for Chorus+Octave or Flanger and the option of the Spectracomp Compression) first and then the Bright Spark or vice versa... unsure if I have a preference for which first/last. The output from here goes to the rear of the amp where there is an attenuated input which I can decide how much of this affected signal is bled in. The good thing is the the effected signal volume/blend can be adjusted from the Fishman and/or the adjustment on the amp rear and it is not affected by increases in preamp gain or output gain. Turning up the input gain gets me more of the 'clean' signal without adding the effected chain.4 points
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Not even the original artists play their lines live note-for-note perfect vis-a-vis the recordings, so what's is there to worry about? We're musicians, not a bloody jukebox!4 points
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Heh, my first thoughts when reading the title of the thread were "... by the police?" Sorry, I'm a terrible man. Congrats on the interview4 points
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When learning the rules for 4 part harmony, it was quite annoying to find out that Bach's 4 part harmonies break the rules all over the place 😡4 points
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Unless you work for Boeing...4 points
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I’m going again tonight, it runs every two weeks. I’ll try and play with the drummer before it starts and see how it goes4 points
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Took it to practice last night with a hipshot d tuner fitted. Really big, thick, meaty bass sound. I haven't directly compared but I think the output is a lot stronger than my US Jazz. Playing a precision after a few years without one just proves that if anyone tells you using the neck pup on a jazz "gives you a precision" they are completely and utterly wrong. Or trying to sell you a jazz.4 points
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😂 Riskiest name ever...4 points
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I shall try not to let it affect my day. I'm not promising anything mind. I'm not trying to prove anything, but it shows that musical theory can be directly applied in composition. Also that making vacuous statements like: is rather silly. Not least because if I know (for example) tapping a triad over a particular chord sequence will work, I know what it will sound like, but mainly because 'don't tell me what to do!'4 points
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Oof, some proper pretty wood there ^^3 points
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Hey Rob, check you still have your watch. And don't buy anything from him.....3 points
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Thanks for all the knowledge and humour. I’ve decided to go for a beautiful Stingray Classic 4H 2eq from 2011. Weighs in at 9.2lbs so maybe not the lightest but not the heaviest either. It should be with me next week, at which point I’ll do the obligatory NBD thread. There was an option for a Special at the same price, but I loved the aesthetics and the wood selection of the one I’ve gone for. Happy days.3 points
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this has to be record for the longest a thumpinator has been for sale surely?3 points -
Sorry to hear this guys, big love to you both. Id be happy to help too if need be on a zero commission basis ( on the website and insta etc...) but to be honest Basschat is as good as anywhere to get started.3 points
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I just had a whatsapp message from our guitarist saying don't bring my amp this weekend as we are Di'ing and using IEMs. However, my "DI" is my Aguilar 350 and a convenient seat/table is the 2x10... just in case... I think if I ever had to rely on public transport or storage space/money became a problem I would think again, but the security of having my own amp as a backup is not something I'm willing to give up.3 points
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Its' a lot easier hanging it rather than bolting down. I'm going to try that first and see what it sounds like. I can make a sledge but thats more complex and I still have to make the pickguard to fit. This is the first print draft of the case to check for fit, are the spring lugs right, does the pickup fit snugly. There's a little bit of play of the pickup inside the case, but a thin 1mm foam layer will fix that, the top of the pickup case looks great, but would benefit from a chamfer on the edges. Can't find my springs to see if they fit on the wider lugs though I think the neck and bridge versions are different sizes as the strings are slightly wider at the end. I think this is the bridge pickup, but since I can't find the otehr one, probably run away with the springs, not 100% sure. Rob3 points
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So there's this 747 on a treadmill3 points
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Just a brief heads up. Just ordered the Harley Benton GPA100 - £78.00 shipped. I could have done without the bass/mid/treble knobs, but I'll just set those to noon and see what happens. At present it's not going to see much (if any) live action, but it'll do for the odd times I just want to have a noodle on the bass or EUB at home; I'll squirt the GED or dUg into it and report back. I do miss not having an always available set up in the house.3 points
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I'm sort of in the middle. As a young sprog I had proper piano tuition, so can read music to a useable, if not supreme, degree and have a moderate grasp of theory from the lessons I endured (seemed like torture at the time, but nearly half a century on I wish id paid more attention.) But as a practioner myself I have learned never to underestimate a good musicians infante understanding of, and feel, for the subject, even if they couldn't necessarily vocalise it to answer a question. They know what sounds good for any given structure, timing, or progression. Good authors read a lot of books, and good musicians listen to a lot of music. All the theory knowledge in the world won't on its own make you a good musician or songwriter without significant time spent playing and listening as well. Radiohead likely know that for good musos the needle doesn't reside at one end of the scale or the other, but sits somewhere between the two extremes. The harmonious balance of musical ying and yang, if you will.3 points
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Just an update on my situation now. I do own a Gibson SG Standard short-scale bass which I am struggling with in terms of tone, and it does suffer some neck-dive. This week I've just purchased a Sire U5 short-scale which is by far the best short-scale bass I have ever played, it balances perfectly, I can get a P bass tone which is what I was seeking, and it also has a J pickup near the bridge, so it's a PJ short-scale bass that ticks all the boxes for me. It has an Alder body with string-thru option, Maple neck with rolled edges and frets, it's lightweight, no neck-dive whatsoever, and the added bonus for me is, I actually like the way it looks.🙂3 points
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I have a theory about it, but perhaps I'll stick to my intuitions.3 points
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I spoke with Bernard at Fender , he was very helpful and found out it is a Fender custom shop build for Sting.3 points
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pretty sure, if it came to it, there's a foot switch somewhere on the compressor that might turn it off?3 points
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I was going through some old SD cards last night; all the photographic content should be on a PC and backed up elsewhere, opening one drive and there was a a folder containing a video clip from a gig I played for BBC Introducing at Reading's Purple Turtle in October 2017. My wife must have filmed it and I'd never seen it until yesterday. Even though the band all ended very badly/abruptly, I can look at this and take some joy that we were a very tight punky/alternative unit and on fire that night. I wrote the music, singer the lyrics.3 points
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Far from complete, lacks a G&L! Lovely set though!3 points
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Theory is a model. You can use a model to predict what might happen given a set of initial conditions. You can use a model to explain why something happened.2 points
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Fender American Special Stratocaster 2018 Walnut limited edition Occasional home use - This is 'as new'. Custom Shop Texas Special pickups Restringed with D'addario 9-46 It includes Thomann Tweed Hard Case (worth £73)2 points -
I did eventually buy the CQ20. The WiFi is so much better than any of the mixers I have used, although the M18 is missing from those I have tried. What has impressed me is the noise....there is none that I can hear. It is also much smaller than I imagined and a better form factor than the Soundcraft or Behringer/Midas competitors. I also love the chorus for bass guitar, in fact all the effects seem pretty good. I also love the Double Tracker and plan to use it on tomorrow's gig. I have not needed the groups/DCA yet.2 points
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I really wish someone could beat this argument into Jeff Berlin so he'd finally shut up.2 points
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I'm sure I don't play anywhere near all of the basslines I can play note-for-note perfect, but I think what I play sounds close enough and good so I'm not overly fussed.2 points
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king of wishful thinking - go west2 points
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Having taken waayyyy too much music theory, I tend to agree with Adam Neely that, although correct and all, this is an attempt to place a round peg (modern chord loop), in a square hole (18th century composition rules). I'd just as soon bet that the writer was sitting at a piano, noodling and found this progression. It's a good progression too....just didn't start out as figured bass...:)2 points
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I always wondered why the English were so hell bent on conquering Scotland. Sure, they had bagpipes, kilts and haggis, but otherwise what was the attraction? Scotch? Not that we were all that smart for acquiring Texas and Florida. That's come back to bite us in the arse big time. 😲2 points
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G - B - C - Cm The relative minor of G major is E minor, so going G-B is a preparation for a nice V-i "perfect cadence" into E minor. Nothing unusual. From this perspective of E minor, the B-C is V-VI — a perfectly standard "interrupted cadence". Within the first three chords there's been a nice chromatic voice going d-d#-e — with the C-Cm, this then reverses, so you have d-d#-e-eb. This gives the four bars a nice looping round on itself quality. There's a probably a specific name for the Cm-G iv-I "plagal cadence" — eg I can think of pieces by Bach that end like that — but if I ever knew it, I've forgotten it. All these elements would make sense to someone doing A-level music. But I do think the theory is just explaining why it sounds good to us, rather than suggesting to the composer what should come next. Personally, I think that the important part, given that this is rock music, not classical music, is the inner voice with the chromatic steps looping round on itself, rising hopefully, falling plangently.2 points
