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Hi all, I have my precision bass for sale. With lots of fantastic extras and mods fitted. Firstly, a lovely bass in its own right. Build quality is superb. Balances nice and is really nice to play. Action is nice and low and every string sings. Its been modded to a very high spec. Gold adonised scratch plate for that perfect 50s look. Badass bass ii bridge rrp £120. Really helps this sing and sustain. Seymour Duncan custom pickups (rrp £120). New pots and wiring. Steve Harris rotosound flatwound strings. Rrp £60. In fantastic condition - really nice. Pick up Leyland Lancashire9 points
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Up for sale is my Pedulla Rapture RB4. From the serial number I believe this is a 1996 model, and as such it does have some dings in the body and a bit of wear and tear - I've tried to capture these in the photos but please let me know if you want any specific shots. Features a single Bartolini pick up with active electronics. Controls for volume, bass and treble (+ or – 15dB) and a mid toggle switch. This bass is nice and light and has a slim neck with a fast action, so easy to play. Also comes with the original hard case. Please note the bass looks teal in the photos but it's actually a bit more green looking in person. Only selling as I've barely played for years now and I've unfortunately been made redundant recently. I spent years and years trying to get this bass and that's why I've held onto it for so long, but this thing deserves to be played rather than hanging on a wall 'just incase'. Collection is preferred from Derby, but I'm happy to drive a reasonable distance to deliver/meet in the middle. Thanks.8 points
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Meant to post this earlier but forgot... A while ago I joined a newly-formed Eagles tribute with a lovely, talented bunch of lads. Months of rehearsals and a handful of gigs later, we're really starting to settle in to it. Here's a couple of clips from a gig in my home village the other weekend. Gear-wise, it's the usual for me. Handbox R-400, TKS 212 cab.... and the Maruszczyk Jake PJ to cover Randy's P tone in the early days, and Tim's Jazz tone from the Kong Run era. Eventually I'll probably switch between an actual P and J. I'm new to this IEM lark, and I'm still getting used to it. We have lots of refining to do. We don't run a silent stage, 'cos we like amps. 🙂6 points
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got some sonicakes lying around so why not.. suprisingly good for the price. mounted on a £1 IKEA board. powerbank/usb powered using a Joyo ZGPw6 points
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Rumbled! Yeah, I'm still lurking around in here, in case of gig cancellation. IIRC it was a cancellation that allowed me to attend last year. They say lightning doesn't strike twice, but you tell that to the Empire State Building!5 points
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This Saturday 7th, Blood Bikes benefit in Pwllheli And the following Friday 13th at Worcester Music Festival4 points
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When I joined my first band non of us had the faintest idea of how to play our respective instruments, and never had single lesson, not even from a book. Best way to learn how to play your instrument is playing in a band. You don't learn how to play with other people from sitting alone at home and playing with yourself. Find the right band for you and join it!4 points
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I love the sound of the bass on its own (which makes it great when practising), but the feeling of playing bass in a band or with others is the best feeling even if you’re just locked into playing root notes with the bass drum, that feeling of locking in with a drummer is like a drug I can’t get enough of. I’d say get out and play with others ASAP, especially a drummer if you can. Life is short, grab it by the balls. Jump in and go for it, it’ll make you a much better player in a much shorter time. Plus you get to share the love of music with others into the same thing which is another bonus 😊4 points
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I would have assumed that was a poster for when he is playing at the local sports and social club, after the bingo.4 points
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I hate it when people post pics of a red C2, I already have a great micro setup but it just makes me want to buy one along with a BAM200 for no other reason than it would look fantastic.4 points
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You're ready already! Just need to find the right people and the right music. Bass is definitely a social instrument that works best playing with others. Luckily, one of my best friends is a drummer, so just doing boozy rhythm section practice/jam sessions was my starting point. Then I joined a 3 piece that just did practice stuff, then onto bands that were a bit more serious and played live, now I also do some Dep stuff so can have very little practice time before playing live. I'm yet to play anything bigger than pubs and small festivals though so there's still hopefully a progression. The gradual progression seemed a good way of doing it.4 points
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Due to a change in direction and to fund another short scale 5 string bass I have for sale my Acinonyx bass. Comes with a New Gator Gig bag. ( £59 ) Strung with NEW Newtone Shorties. ( Original strings included ) Weight is 2.9kg on bathroom scales. Very slim and fast neck. Action is low at only 1.5mm / 1.75mm. Wide range of sounds from the pickup selector. Beautiful sparkly blue finish. Only 6 weeks old. Bought from Bass Direct. Total cost worth £1050 Offered at £699 including UK delivery with UPS. It's in 9.99 / 10 condition. From web..... 780mm scale (about 30.7”) 1.4” wide nut Alder body with Indian Rosewood fingerboard Parchment pick guard 2 propriety (of course – it’s what we do) single coil chrome cover pickups 4 push button pickup selector switches (including “all in” series mode) 4 tone selections including flat, traditional tone roll off, heavy tone roll of, and mid notch Very light weight – averaging 6.5 pounds 2 way spoke wheel truss rod Compound radius for excellent playability Proprietary custom US Hipshot bridge Proprietary custom licensed Hipshot oval tuning machines3 points
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This bass seems to be incredibly under-represented in terms of review, and those I've seen don't fit entirely with my impressions. So I'm going to have a go. I'm not going to compare with other Sire basses. The body First thing you notice is the bookmatched flamed maple to, supposedly AAAAA. The figure is very dependent on the angle light hits it, so sometimes one side will look much more pronounced than the other. It's a veneer (apparently the new DX model has a slab) over maple backing. The main body is alder, and has an almost square edge and the front carve has a longer than usual curve so it's a bit like a precision version of an Aerodyne Jazz. The alder is a rich dark colour and the maple is paler giving the impression of a bound top. IMHO it looks fabulous and is what caught my attention. There's no scratchplate, but an abundance of tasteful black knobs and one switch. It's not a heavy bass IMHO though I haven't weighed it. The Neck This is 'supposed' to be a P-bass, so I'd expect something comfortably above 40mm at the nut. It isn't, it's well into Jazz-bass territory, I measure mine at a smidgin over 37mm. I would say the neck is the best feature of a good bass. It has very 'rolled' edges, more pronounced than my Squier Jaguar; perhaps because the frets are set back, so the roll goes all along the edges, rather than the rolling being just between frets as on the Jag. The profile is supposedly an asymmetric 'C', I think slightly deeper on the bass side. This is genuinely one of the most comfortable necks I have played, feeling instantly at home, very like my Flea Jazz but perhaps 'fitting the hand' a bit more. Neck radius is quite pronounced. Headstock is the tasteful (some will disagree) and distinctive Sire shape with Marcus Miller P10 and a Sire logo in thin, slightly 3D silver writing that appears 'embedded' in thick lacquer. Visually, the neck is stunning. Roast maple with a nice figure and a fingerboard of even darker heavily figured maple with gorgeous abalone inlays. The dark bands along the side of the fingerboard slab oozes 'boutique' Tuners are the open type, chrome, nearer to Squier size than standard Fender, but with cast rather than pressed back plates. They work well with littel backlash. The new DX version has golden hipshot ultralites (but I prefer the more traditional aesthetic). The Nut It's a bone nut, not synthetic. The Bridge This is a 'slightly beefed up' BBOT with 'high-mass' bridge pieces. (DW version has a full hi-mass bridge in gold) String spacing is about 18.5mm and fixed. You can anchor stings on the bridge (this is how what seem to be a new set of decent stainless strings are fitted) or fit them through the body. I quite like the strings and will probably replace with Rotosound 66 Swing Bass through the body when they lose their sparkle. I can't comment on the 'as new' setup, as it was secondhand. It was pretty good, but I made tweaks. Truss rod adjustment is at the butt end, but there's a large recess making this easy. I had to add a 1/6 turn to get my preferred very slight relief. I dropped all four bridge pieces by about two turns of all the adjustment screws, a hefty drop in action. Any more and the g-string started to rattle; I suspect the E, A and D could come down a tad, but action at the 12th fret is about 1.75mm or less on the E, which is fine for me. Lets me dig in and clank if I want but sounds clean most of the time. I had to deepen all the nut slots quite a lot, maybe approaching 0.5mm to get the light action on the upper frets that I like, nowhere near buzzing. Pickup adjustment seems fine since I dropped the action, may adjust them once I have played it a bit more. Pickups and Preamp Pickups are standard PJ arrangement labelled Sire x Marcus Miller. With the switch in passive mode the bass sounds bright and punchy compared to my precision and jazz which have vintage style alnico pickups. You have a stacked passive tone and volume and a blend pot, all of which do what you would expect of them. In active mode you get four more controls (the passive ones still work). These are bass and treble and a parametric middle control. I found I could get a good range of tones by choosing a level for the mids, then adjusting frequency to taste. Repeat for different boost/cut settings. Helpfully, the controls have centre detents (except tone and volume) and if you set the active controls to the middle the sound is very close to passive mode with a touch of volume boost (apparently you can set the volume with an internal pot). This makes it easy to get a good starting position. Others have criticised the Sire preamp; I found it much easier to get useful sounds than my two basses with simple bass+treble active circuits. I have only played through fairly small rigs so far, but ones with a very good bottom end response. Through my brother's Elf/Portaflex 15 setup pushing the bass up gave a huge sound. It certainly excels at harmonically rich, mid-heavy, funky sounds, and you have to work harder to get a good punchy but dark rock tone. It would be a sin to put flats on this bass, it brings the richness of new roundwounds out front and centre. Overall Looks-wise it's a complete contrast to all my other basses, it is very 'boutique' (and the new DX version even more so with gold hardware). It's a very nice, comfortable bass to play. The neck is lovely; utterly different from a precision despite the 'P' designation, although jazz bass afficionados should feel at home. The sounds it produces lean more towards the funkier end of bass playing to my ear, I look forward to seeing what it does in a blue or classic rock context over the nest couple of weeks... Biggest surprise? I'm a pretty meh slapper, but I actually find this bass relatively easy to play slap on, although this may be helped by me using it mostly with my Joyo BadASS with the compression turned on. Some more pics tomorrow, not got the light to get decent ones.3 points
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Phwoar! What a sound. Love the amp. Loads of heft and a lot darker than my ABM, but you don't lose detail. It does just what I wanted it to do! It's the best class D amp I've used from that perspective.3 points
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I took vocal lessons and found them really useful - they took me from "can I sing?" to performing gigs in about six months. One of the best things was increasing my range - I'd increased my top note 6 semitones after a year's lessons. I find it much easier to sing to octave mandolin which has similar pitch range to my voice. Lately I've been playing mandolin and that's much harder as I have to find my own pitch based an octave down. However, I think it's good practice as otherwise I rely on the octave mando too much. I also found it a great help to have a professional advising as I ended up with laryngitis twice, and a chest infection, and generally since I've been singing I've had to take much more care over my voice & lungs. Not like bass where I can just chuck it in a bag after a gig. Edit: I can't sing and play bass though, I don't seem to be able to carry two rhythms in my head at once. Singing to guitar/mandolin is fine though.3 points
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You want loud, light, portable and a great sound with your Ashdown head? Get a 17kg Barefaced Super Twin.3 points
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A 2010 Warwick Corvette Pro Series 4 in Honey Violin finish. Ash body, passive electronics. I believe this series is the Made in Korea series and, while I haven't played a German one, I would be very interested to know whether there's any actual difference between the two. Lovely neck, probably the best I've ever played on a bass. A couple of dings here and there on the body. I've tried my best to picture these. Edit: I've removed the text about the loose nut - this is a feature of the Just-a-Nut III! It is adjustable, and held down by string tension. Also comes with assorted stuff like strap locks, Truss rod adjuster and saddle fixings screws. Only moving on from it as I'm absolutely GASing for a Reverend, so I would strongly consider trades for a Reverend. Collection from Portsmouth please, or I'm up in London once a month - the next time being October 3. No postage on this one.2 points
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Barring an avalanche of cash falling on my head and a 10lbs Ken Smith turning up, I think my six string search is over. I've increasingly become a "Yamaha Man" of late with an FG180 (acoustic guitar), TX802 (synth) and a selection of Broad Basses passing through my hands. I've also owned a TRB6P and a TRBJP (MkI). I've always regretted moving on those sixers. They were both so playable and they sounded great but they were both too heavy to be 100% fun. The TRB6P was too close to 11lbs for comfort and the JP MkI was a bit chunky as well (and a weird orange colour). Anyway, I came across this MIJ 1994 TRB6 in a gorgeous cherry burst recently; it's in the Goldilocks zone for weight at about 9.75 lbs and has all the good things that the TRBJPI had without the unwanted bling. I'm pretty sure it's the 'version II' so brilliantly detailed elsewhere on the forum as it has a dyed blue laminate layer in the very pretty headstock. The key thing, of course, is that it's also an incredibly good bass. It has that wide TRB neck that's thin and perfectly carved to be very playable, great balance and a growly tone from the preamp that I'm pretty sure it shares with the JP1... sooooo (drumroll) it might well be 'the one'. It's the only bass I own at the moment and it's just asking to be played day in, day out which is a really good sign. It also has that special something that makes me play 10% better than usual. It's awesome. It's also near mint; I'm usually suss about minty 30yr old basses as they either sound weird, have horrible balance or are boat anchors. None of these apply to this one so I can only assume the previous owner took care of it and used it sparingly. Even the case is unmarked....it looks new. Anyway - no sound or movies as yet but the pics are testament to a seriously well made, simply beautiful instrument. It's killer! Anyway....PICS2 points
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Warwick 5 String Fortress Flashback made in Germany 1996-98 Passive with the stock MEC pickups this instrument is very well made. I have limited idea what I’m going to use it for but possibly Rock Music Plectrum type stuff. Or even thumping and popping heaven forbid It snaps out bright this bass despite the pick ups being underwhelming strung as it arrived with Daddario Chromes. I’m think I could go smoother with this instrument possibly La Bella or I try DR Legends ( never used them). anyway there you go , a rare instrument, it looks a bit different (bling?) but once I practice enough with its string spacing (a bit narrow for me) it’ll be a keeper2 points
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Exactly this. Properly designed cabs (LFS, Barefaced) have great dispersion so the sound is hitting you rears even when the cab is on the floor.2 points
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Gotta say Davie is a brilliant an fantastic bloke. Top notch fella. Not only have I learned a hell of a lot from him about basses and builds in other forums, but have dealt with him on buying and selling. I ordered a Roswell Filtertron from DE but got confused and ordered 2 by mistake. They wouldn't let me cancel the other one, but in steps Davie who bought it straight from me. We agreed a price and I insisted he didn't pay until it came through his door. The cash was in my bank before I posted it FFS! Recently I wanted a template to cut the headstock on my PB to the old tele style, a couple of days later it arrived as an MDF template, I was expecting a bit of paper! I asked him how much he wanted and he told me to put some money into a local charity box. I donated a fiver to breast cancer as his P&P was £1.40 and his time and material must've come to £3 so, yeah he's a good bloke and someone you can trust in any transaction. He don't suffer fools gladly, i.e. folks that just talk **** about their new £2000 guitar but are just badge whores, but will spend any amount of his time, vast experience and knowledge coaxing us newbies not to go down the rabbit hole of spending stupid money for something that won't really matter to how your guitar sounds. Brilliant bloke, glad to know him and thank god for him he lives such a long way from me, otherwise I'd be round his house every day!!! 😁2 points
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You do not mention budget. I don't play heavy rock but two modern 12s would surely suffice. I down traded my Monaco to a 10" Monza as the Monaco wasmore than I needed. I would look at either a Barefaced Big Twin or two LFSys Monacos. Two Monacos will be lighter and a £few hundred cheaper. The two LFSys will be about 114cm high stacked but the dispersion means you will not need the stand or box.2 points
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I regularly gig a big baby ii. I used to have two of them but it was overkill. I play in a Classic Rock band doing lots of festivals and big stages. Never ran out of volume.2 points
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You can shoot me for harbouring such an opinion, but as far as I'm concerned this is more for placating gear racists than acheiving higher quality.2 points
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I also have a Joyo MA10B in my partner's lounge (and a Hohner B2). Alternative heads for the C2 cab are an Elf (just loud enough to gig with a quiet drummer) and a wee Hotone mode redundant by the Joyo BadASS.2 points
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Having worked in retail and dealing with pre-orders, it's a slippery slope. My store took the idea to take full payment but we were unable to confirm a delivery date, others stores take notes of interest and then call when the item arrived and you could pay if you still wanted it. Both worked in different ways. Now I'm not sure how much visibility Andertons/Thomann have - but this clear issue here is the comms. See if Andertons were just open and said "there's been a delay and we're not sure exactly when they'll arrive" that would probably alleviate most of the frustration. I feel the same regarding train and flight delays, if customers were just told more of the truth, everything would probably go more smoothly. Anyway, a slight ramble, but I hope these show up soon as they do seem killer!2 points
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I’ve decided to move on my lovely Tech21 VTBass 500 head as it’s just not getting used. Why isn’t it being used you ask?! Well, I’m just hooked on my GKs so this is just sitting there as a never used backup and it’s SO much more than that! Actually, it's a fantastic piece of gear - basically it’s a VTBass pedal bolted onto a 500W power amp! Who could ask for more?! There are so many great bass tones on board here and the ‘magic’ happens in the "Character" control which can go from old school B-15 to SVT and then into more modern tones, all with the ability to blend with your direct signal too! Here’s a link to the instruction manual: https://www.tech21nyc.com/t21manuals/VT500_OM.pdf The amp is in excellent condition with just a few light scuffs & scratches. Everything works perfectly and I’ll be sad to see it go. I’m asking £325 posted for this or I can include a £60+ SKB amp gig bag (see pics) for just £25 extra at £350 posted. Direct bank transfer, Paypal (you pay fees) or cash on collection from Sandhurst/Camberley area please. Please see my extensive positive feedback thread for assurance of an honest, clean transaction.2 points
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Some pics have now appeared from an official photographer for our Tomintoul gig back in July with punk covers band Emergency Exit. Did add to the original post but its way back in the realms of history and i just liked these pics. First time i've seen more pics of the bass player than the guitarist too so this is a first. Dave2 points