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So I missed the Harley Benton Mustang-a-like first time round but bought one when the second edition went on sale. The plan was always to use the bass as an upgrade project. The bass is a fantastic instrument, great fit & finish, lovely neck ,light and well balanced. I saw all the upgrades others had done on the first generation ( Low End Lobster etc) but the @ped , @Andyjr1515 pathway really appealed. So stage one Eric Custom T'Bird bridge Pup from EY Parts fitted with the extra black pickguard surround to cover up the wider 'P bass Pup opening. I left the controls stock and I have been amazed with the huge tone from the EY T'Bird Pup. It's positioned 10ins from the 12th Fret, the so called short scale sweet spot. Stage two will be to replace the pickguard, upgrade the controls and add a second EY T'Bird in the bridge position. The cavity for the 3-position selector switch is very generous and I may replace the switch with a balance control with a mini chicken head knob. Very pleased so far!!12 points
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Took this bass in a few weeks ago as part of a trade, have used the original pics and description from the seller, Andy Baxter (www.andybaxterbass.com), definitely a site worth visiting for any vintage basses and amplification. Here we have a 1980 Music Man Sabre bass in excellent condition. White finish with a maple neck and a rosewood fretboard. Black pickguard, 2 band EQ, Contoured body, 2 humbucking pickups, internal micro powered pre-amp, brightness + phase in/out and pickup selector switches. All original and complete including the case. The body finish is in excellent condition with just a few small scuffs and tiny dings as well as a little buckle rash. The back of the neck and the fretboard are in excellent condition. The headstock is also clean with just a few small scuffs on the top edge. There are 2 small repairs to the pickguard - one through the screw hole nearest the neck joint (G string side) and one by the tip at the lower horn. The body and neck both date to 1980 but only the neck has a visible month which is May. The body month is very hard to make out but think it says Feb? The pots are dated to mid '79. The frets are in great shape with plenty of life left in them and the truss rod is fully operational with plenty of room to move. The neck is straight and plays smoothly. This bass has been fully checked over and set up with a fresh set of Ernie Ball roundwound strings. Serial number: C005479. Weight: 10 lbs / 4.53 kg Nut width: 43 mm. Depth at 1st fret: 20 mm. Bass is in Ireland… shipping can be arranged either by the buyer or myself I have all the necessary shipping cartons and packaging. Price £3,000 plus shipping11 points -
Near run thing last night. We have a weekly Bandeoke at a notoriously tardy paying venue. Sick of their shenanigans the band leader was forced to remind them of our agreement that we receive payment within a week or she could not guarantee her musicians would turn up. They coughed within a couple of minutes of the 6pm deadline so our strike was called off. Turned out to be a great night. Phew.9 points
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Bit of a feeler, but needs must somewhat. I may withdraw though. 1978 Precision bass in a nicely aged Olympic White: - Original finish throughout - Original pickup & pots - Original scratchplate - Original hardware other than knobs, which are RI replacements - Original thumbrest is included - Pickup ashtray cover is missing. - B width neck - 9.5lbs - Lovely dark rosewood board - Tight neck pocket - Simple gig bag included or you can take a Reunion Blues gigbag for an extra £50 I’d prefer collection/meet-up if at all possible. Lovely bass, in decent condition for the age, sounds awesome and is a good weight for the era. Only interested in an MXR M81 Preamp as a part-ex. Ignore the saddles and janky 80’s piezo here, original saddles are fitted now. Cheers Si8 points -
Well, the morning after the night before, and only 6 hours sleep because I have a plumber coming at 8am. I am blown away by how good this cab is. I didn't have to EQ my sound in, it's right there with everything set flat. It's got the right amount of everything, deep but not too deep, not boomy, not too toppy, lovely pushy mids and it's loud. I ran the Bergantino at around 9 - 10 o'clock on the volume and it was plenty, enough to control things from my bass. Also, I think every other member of the band commented on how good my bass sounded last night. It helped that we had a really good night musically. The band is really starting to cook. I'm a very very happy customer. Rob8 points
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You’ve got it all wrong. P basses are very popular on BC but everyone needs one so they don’t tend to sell them. I’ve had mine since 2006!7 points
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My band fell into that trap years ago. We'd build up momentum and then lose the audience with a lesser-known, albeit great song, that we put in because we like it. We realised in time our job was to entertain the audience, not educate them. Songs like Sex on Fire and Mr Brightside are seen as something of a cliche amongst the cover band community, but, they always, always work, so we suck it up and play them! Another piece of advice we were given by an agent, from feedback they had received for all of their artists from a number of venues was skip the slow songs. Whilst the singer may love to belt out a power ballad, or the guitarist to get lost in a lengthy pink floyd solo, the audience will get bored. Get them up dancing and keep the energy level up.5 points
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Fender Japanese Mustang Bass 2008, classic cream white and tortoiseshell livery. I have two of these little basses and a JMJ. This one has been my back up and rarely played. As a result it’s near mint apart from a small ‘bruise’ to the finish. The neck on this is slimmer than the original Mustang basses and the recent MIM and Squier editions. These Japanese models are highly regarded and don’t come up very often in this condition. The bass comes with a generic gigbag. The bass is very light at around 3.6kgs. It is strung with 40-100 DR round-wounds. Plays and sounds great as you’d expect from a MIJ Fender. No trades sorry, pickup preferred but if necessary I can post in the UK at buyer’s cost.4 points -
Hi folks I have always loved the look of Gibson EBs, possibly/probably influenced by some of my favourite bassists using them, but I have been able to find 'that' bass. Not easy to find a luthier who offers them either, however I noticed a build by Alex at AGH and asked him if he would make me something similar and here we are. Specs in brief are: Rosewood top over a 5-pc maple wenge neck through with cherry wings, 32" medium scale. Lower horn shaped to suit me so somewhat asymmetrical. Artec Mudbucker with series parallel switch and a Thunderbird style bridge pickup. V/V/T controls. Gotoh and BadAss harware (mostly because they were in my spares drawer). Sounds mega!4 points
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The humble Precision, imo best bass there is.4 points
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Bash him over the head. We all have to play songs we wouldn't necessarily listen to in order to entertain, it's the job, innit? It's not about him, it's not about what he likes, it's about the punters. Give the punters what they want, simples. He needs to get that through his thick skull, otherwise every time I've played "Don't Stop Believin'" through gritted teeth has been for naught. People have been sacked from bands because of this stick-in-the-mud attitude before, and just because he's BL simply means he could end up bandless.4 points
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Must be, I lost a fiver in the late 80's, a mate of mine found a fiver in 2002 a few streets away, I made him give it back to me4 points
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3 bands in a boozer in town and all for a good cause! It'll be a short set from us (45 mins I think) therefore we're going with 100% Felis Leo, no covers 😀 ... I like it that way. We're playing a couple of tunes we haven't played live yet, keeps it fresh innit 👍🏻 Looking forward to the support artists, feels a bit like the old days when I'd gig at the Joiners and Talking Heads and watch a lot of bands on the bill you never heard of before (I've been in covers bands far too long 😆)4 points
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Not posted for a while.4 points
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Interesting reading about it here: https://newatlas.com/music/stratocaster-70-fender-factory/ All of this just attests that even if Leo wasn't a musician, he was a true innovator and musician's listener, if not a true genius.3 points -
Quite agree, it doesn’t matter how good a song is, if the singer either doesn’t have the range for it, or simply doesn’t feel comfortable with it for whatever reason then that has to be the leader on not doing it. No matter good us musicians are we have to acknowledge that in the majority it’s the singer that sells the band.3 points
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When I was in a punk covers band some years ago the song criteria was had it been in the Top 30/on Top of The Pops. We did try to add in a few lesser known - but better imo - songs a few times but they just dropped the evening. Doing classic songs in a different way is always worth a go, check out Nine Inch Nails doing Cars with Gary Numan for example.3 points
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Surely that should be a monochromatic tuner?3 points
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Played a school, a primary school. Its the school the guitarist and keyboard player went to, so they don't get money, we do and it is a charity event. Went well although thursday night is not one where I really want to do gigs, but it was 8-10, so it covers the time we would normally be doing a practice anyway, except they pay instead of us! I bought some wireless microphone wireless link things about a month ago, I took them to a gig that we didn't use and hten they went missing. I spent ages going through *everything* trying to find them and the day before yesterday I contacted a few venues to see if they turned up anywhere. Last night setting up, I couldn't find all my mains leads (almost certainly as the last few gigs other people have put them away) and at the bottom of the bag was a small black box with my wirless senders in it! Could have sworn I looked in there. Anyway, tried, them, huge range, no drop out, the singer loves them.3 points
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Feel Like Bacon Love - Bad Company3 points
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Brimful Of Rasher - Cornershop3 points
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Well that's a mouthfull. I've been playing Dingwalls for over a decade, starting with a Combustion and working up via an Afterburner 1 through to a Z3, and more recently have pretty much exclusively been gigging a ABII fretless, a mind blowing machine, but that's another story. Sometimes, you just hanker for something different, and I'm a sucker for anything in Lake Placid Blue. So I wandered over to Bassdirect, the dangerously close shop in my home town knowing this beast was there, with an idea I might have a bit of a noodle. Kind of flirting with a friends wife. I don't want to stretch the analogy too much, but she's absolutely a go-er. I can't say this bass is better than my Z3 or ABII Fretless, they are different beasts, but it absolutely is at the same level, and as with all these things on some aspects better. It has a fundamental mid grind and push that the Dingwalls don't do, or at least don't without fiddling, and just doesn't get in the way of your playing. And is very pretty. The shop was busy and I didn't even play through an amp - just a headphone amp - but was fairly obvious what it did. I "accidentally" tripped over a stand and the credit card I was holding fell into the card machine. Took it home and, after maybe half an hour actual playing time, took it out to gig at the festival we were playing that evening. A headline set, moving from the 37" multi-scale fretless I'd been playing the last 18 months to the 34" fretted Ken Smith. Ballsy (read dumb) move. But actually, there were a couple of hairy moments of adjustment, but man this thing kills in terms of sound2 points
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I'm interested in how those of you in covers band go about selecting new material. My band has an aspiration to refresh our set list but we (I!) keep banging up against our guitarist and band boss who simply dismisses anything by artists he doesn't like eg Fleetwood Mac, Oasis, Killers, or genres he similarly doesn't like eg anything vaguely punky. He is a lovely guy, a very good musician and he works very hard on managing gigs, rehearsals etc but has what I think is a blind spot in this area. I'm of the view we are entertainers, need to give the punters what they want which is stuff they recognise, can sing along to rather than more obscure numbers from 50 or 60 years ago. How do others do it?2 points
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Well I've gone and done it again, another ACG! It's no secret I'm a huge fan of @skelf's work, and I'm happy to call him a friend, so I guess it's no surprise that when I fancied another bass, it would of course be an ACG. I haven't had a 4 string for a while, and I've never had a super fancy one, so here we go! This is a Salace SC E Type 4 string. It's actually a downsized version of the original design, by about 10% I think. The scale is 31.5", which has become my go to scale length these days, every bass I own is the same. It has a Tasmanian Burl Blackwood top, with a Wenge accent on a White Limba body. Set in, asymmetrical Wenge neck, with an Ebony Fingerboard, super slim 36mm nut width and 24 frets. SB single coil pickup upfront, and a BZ1 hybrid humbucker at the bridge, with a 4-way rotary switch for front ceramic coil, both coils in series, both in parallel and finally the rear alnico coil. East Uni-pre with active/passive switching. Hipshot a-type bridge, 18mm spacing and Gotoh Resolite Tuners. I know single cut basses are a bit marmite for some, and single cut 4 strings are quote a rare beast, but I'm absolutely over the moon with it. It has such a massive range of available sounds, it's incredibly comfortable to play too. As usual, working with @skelf was a dream, amazing communication throughout and the bass arrived well within the estimated 12 month build time. Here's a cheeky unboxing video >> And finally, a few more pics... Cheers, Eude2 points
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Dear all Here's my Epifani UL115 purchased from this forum a few years ago. The search for series one Epifani cabs began at a BC meet after hearing a WT400 through an Epifani series one 4 x 10, for me it was the best sound at the meet and nailed the sound I'd been after for years, my roadworn precision sounded lush through the setup where other rigs just sounded tinny, without any depth or substance The series one cabs were Epifani's attempt at lightweight cabs, this one certainly is lighter than the size would suggest. The cab has a nice rounded sound without being wooly. The thing with this one .. the tweeter works, but it's stuck in one position. Other than that, everything is fine, overall the cab is in good condition, pictured here with my Orange Terror bass V2 which is also up for sale. The cab comes with a Roqsolid cover. Happy to provide more pictures or any other information I'm asking the £200.00 I paid for it Thanks for reading2 points -
Hello My name is Kelly. I'm from South Africa (Cape Town) and I have been playing bass (self-taught) for about 5 years now. I started off with a bit of drums when I was a pre-teen but outgrew my tiny kit. Went over to guitar (that I have been playing almost every day for the last 13 years now) and started playing bass about 5 years ago. I have only one bass guitar that I call "Moon". I found her in a liquidation shop for next to nothing. Beaten up and in desperate need of an amp, strings, tuners and some restoration (her lower horns were completely battered and broken off - my dad helped me rebuild and respray them) I bought Moon and we started our journey. She is a Venson long-scale bass guitar. I have never seen another one in person and they seem to be really hard to find on the internet as well. She has 4 strings, 1 really amazing-sounding humbucker, 1x volume knob (push-pull that splits the humbucker into single coil mode which sounds absolutely wonderful), rosewood fretboard, side dot inlays and a golden bat inlay on the 12th fret only. This bass plays like a dream and I will honestly never replace her with any other.2 points
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Inspired by Chris' and Owen's posts above, I spent an hour with the pre this afternoon. I'd have to admit that it can do things that no SS pre can imagine. I've added an image of the Monique in operation - 'keep your hands warm in winter (or summer in Manchester). I've usually used the pre with passive basses but played it with an active Spector Shorty this afternoon, and pushed the EQ and sensitivity (one can see the glow). The Monique is indeed dangerous, and I've gone wobbly2 points -
My band are playing the Edinburgh Blues and Jazz Fest next week for any local BC'ers: https://www.ejbf.co.uk/artist/flam2 points
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What sounds good at home on ur boom box or on the radio wont always sound good live. Just noticed ..'Call Me' above. Thats the type of thing that works live, well written, danceable and drives hard. Its a very tricky thing putting together a really good set which keeps people entertained... been there a million times and it never got any easier with the years. Its that thing when u look out and the crowd are totally ignoring you then that tune has to go. You gotta be ruthless which can be painful when ur fav gets the chop.2 points
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A custom build RetroB 5 string. More details will emerge in 2025 😅2 points
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Hence why I said "anything within our collective technical capabilities"...2 points
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Dr Mabuse ~ Propaganda2 points
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Has a bit of a Wal vibe too.2 points
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Hard disagree on this point! That's maybe how your band works, but it's not universal. Everyone gets an equal say in our band, and everyone has a veto, they're just not d!cks about using it. We're an open minded four piece and are happy to give anything within our collective technical capabilities a go, and let the audience reaction be our ultimate arbiter.2 points
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Here too. Have to admit after decades of playing them and a few other types which didn't last long, ... a P bass just feels like an old pair of shoes.. it just fits so well... so darn easy to make work whatever Im asked to play.2 points
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What reaction do you get from your audiences? If it's a good reaction, maybe your guitarist is doing something right. Your problem is you are not suggesting songs the guitarist likes. Find some common ground between him, you and the audience. The last covers band I was in we had 3 rules, personal favourites did not get preference, every song had to have been in the top 40, and any song that did not get a positive audience reaction was out.2 points
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It’s a fine line - yes you’re there to entertain, but is there really much fun in playing identikit copy/paste set-lists to every other band? Our setlist is a mix of very well known (zombie, Enter Sandman, Seven Nation Army) and some lesser-spotted bangers like Longview, Self Esteem, Higher). And that’s how we like it.2 points
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We do a rocked up version of The Weeknd "Blinding Lights" and it always goes down great. I prefer it to the original, honestly! Whenever you're trying to genre shift something, you know it has worked when you get that look on punters' faces that roughly translates into "oh damn, I wasn't expecting you to do that song!" followed by them singing/dancing along.2 points
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what gigs are you looking to play? Weddings / parties etc - I would suggest potentially a different set of songs from those you might hear at a pub gig.... wedding /parties - you typically need to play stuff people might want or expect to hear at such an event, which might not necessarily what you'd want to play and what you might 'get away with' at a pub gig etc........2 points
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But think how boring life would be if that wasn't the case2 points
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Well if the singer wants to do a song and the rest of the band agrees with him, Shirley the guitarist is outvoted? What's the band line-up?2 points
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Fabulous bass, advert & photos. Wonder if I could flog my Ultra Jazz quickly enough 🤔 😁2 points
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I love the 'caged tubes' aesthetic of this, almost like there's a dangerous animal in there2 points
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Chop! In the name of love - The Supremes2 points
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I've Gotta Get A Sausage To You — The Bee Gees2 points
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My mini iby collection. Old, older and oldest!2 points
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All set up. Only thing is the Gator power brick didnt come with the 18v power supply and the power supply input isnt a standard size so really struggling to find a replacement 😫2 points
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