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When I was searching for Musitronics and Lovetone gear, I got a good sense of the pricing and noticed some units lingering on Reverb and similar sites for years. I made a fair offer on one of them, but the seller responded quite aggressively, insisting he knew the 'market value.' That pedal is still up for sale—and in the meantime, I've owned three others.

For anyone who likes Jamerson you might enjoy this video, some nice playing and good info

Maple Road hasn't rehearsed in years. However the band leader called rehearsals on Tuesday night for the last two weeks. The purpose was to help one of our dep drummers get up to speed. It was just me the band leader and the dep drummer. The rehearsals were effective and worth the time. Daryl

I've taken the A/B switcher out, it's not powered and not essential. Moved stuff around to add the Brassmaster, also put chorus after the Mojo Mojo.

This is it with the local basses

Well, a while back (2 years ago in fact), Klos started offering replacement necks. I had the idea of "wouldn't it be cool to have a Wal with a graphite neck?" So, I ordered one. There were massive delays as they were tooling from scratch. No big deal, I'm a patient man. I ordered a G4 body from Warmoth as well as some Herrick multicoil pickups and a Lusithand NFP Special preamp. Along the way, aside from the wait, other things raised their heads. Herrick pickups were too deep to fit in a standard MM hole. Fine, get the route deepened. What I didn't know was the pickups were actually too big anyway as for some reason, the holes where the screws go to fix them to the body. So, I had to have the cases files down. Funnily, Martin said he was aware of this issue and yet they didn't put it on the product page. Hopefully, they'll have sorted that issue now as he makes really good gear. As the neck holes had to be drilled I wasn't doing that. So, I got it back last week and here we go. So, does it sound as I thought? Yes. It's not quite Wal sounding as the Lusithand filters go to about 4kHz rather than the Wal's which only go to about 2.8kHz. So there's more top end if you want it. Kind of like in the realm of Modulus sounding top end. The preamp and pickups are insanely loud. I had to wind down the preamp gain about 50% to get an equivalent sound as with my Wal, with no clipping. I did ask Ian Klos for some other things as well. He's a really nice guy and I spoke to him on the phone for about an hour one day. So, I had the nut width made wider to accommodate my playing style. I also had the radius altered, string spacing changed and a hipshot for good measure. The body is a Warmoth G4. Walnut body with a Black Korina top. Bridge is a Babicz with Harley Benton knobs. This is the 3rd thing I've bought from Nuno at Lusithand and he really knows his stuff as well as being incredibly helpful too. Herrick pickups are great and the peeps at Klos make great gear too if you like graphite. I can honestly say it's one of the most comfortable necks I've ever played. With the demise of Status going wood only, if you want a replacement graphite neck, you could do a lot worse than order one of these. When I get a moment, I'll upload a video of me noodling around.

I know there are quite a few people, myself & Eldon included, who haven't bought one because of the poor bursts. They'd sell even more if they sorted them out

The Behringer BDI21 may well be your friend then Steve, it’s pretty much 90/95% the same only a tenth of the price.

Some of us like to do fade ins using the volume knob, and it's a heck of a lot easier to fade up to 100% than it is to fade up to some other amount. No I won't buy a volume pedal!

It's places like reverb that cause this One person (like our German friend with guitar bodies) lists an item at x, lots of people see that it's listed at that price and assume that's the value- despite it not selling in some case for months or years. Things seem to appear like busses. One comes up for sale, and then all of a sudden there's now 5 - all at similar prices. Capitalism I 'spose Fundamentally - as had been said many times over - it's only worth what someone will pay for it

If Jack (a) had a multimeter, and (b) had the slightest idea how to use one, then no doubt Jack could indeed do this thing. I leave electrickery to those who don't realise that 'amp' is short for amplifier.

I originally found this link on Flat Eric's blog, and a very fine read it is too. https://westone.forumotion.com/t971-westone-us-design-development-history

I’ve had exactly the same experience as you with the Kingman basses - loved my V1 long scale but just too big for my needs. Now got a V2 short scale and find it much better! Use it into a Fender Rumble 100 combo which suits it well. Incidentally the V2 necks are made of nato with walnut fingerboards. Mine is a bit dry too, so will be giving it a light oiling to sort things. 😊

NBD! 3 and a bit months later, I finally folded! A bass with jazz pickups was the one glaring omission from my collection and it's been quietly nagging at me that if I wanted to try one, I'd likely never again find anything else short scale, of Japanese-made quality, with these sorts of hardware specs, and this light a weight, at this kind of price. So I finally returned to the Vox website yesterday morning. Found they had one last black A2S left and they'd dropped the price to an insane £299... Grabbed it there and then. It's fate I tells ya. It turned up today and it sounds sooo good, far better than any bass has a right to for £299. At current prices just the Aguilar pickups & preamp would usually come in at more than the cost of the bass on their own! Absolutely crazy bargain.

Oh, well played! 👏👏👏

This CD is available in the U.K. via https://propermusic.com/products/visitor2035-visitor2035?_pos=1&_psq=visitor&_ss=e&_v=1.0 Its the 1970's latter end of....I'm playing bass, answering ads in Melody Maker and making slow progress. An advert draws my attention and I eventually have a jam with the band down in deepest Sussex outside of Horsham. Visitor 2035 go on to do a series of gigs at universities and some festivals. Whats most important is that we start rehearsals with some pretty hefty jamming which has served me well. We respond to a series of adverts from a German record company who were advertising on train platform poster boards! We sign on the dotted lines and record an album down at Pebble Beach studios in Worthing. The record company have taken on a few UK bands, I think 'A Flock Of Seagulls' was one. They falter on our release date for 9 months and slowly leave us behind. Its the dawn of punk and our Weather Report driven Chick Corea meets Brand X music is slowly disappearing from the mainstream. Abandoned, we go our separate ways, keeping in touch now and then and for a couple of fun gigs. 2022....we get a call from Hannover based M.I.G. Music.de ...we have an old fan working there and he wants to re-release the album, now CD. Why not hah! Its a fusion of rock jazz type driven instrumental music of which many of us were partial too at the time. Proper Music UK sell it as do M.I.G. We have world release, wow, didnt get that before... NOW with a recent review from R&R latest magazine edition….and bass gets mentioned first! I hope this short sound clip and picture link works: VISITOR 2035 CD mix and photos.m4v

Everything came up Milhouse tonight Venue 5 minute drive from my house Repeat customer and a great crowd And most importantly their limiter was broken so no sound issues!

RRP for these was over £1300. Paid £799 for mine and thought that was a helluva bargain (still do). The Aguilar AG 4J-70 pickups and OBP-2 pre-amp deliver the closest I've found to that magical 'bass tone in my head' sound.

I reckon that £1,500 is about the sweet spot for getting a really good secondhand bass! For that money, you are getting something that would cost around £2.5k new, which is pretty much the threshold of getting a really well made bass. If you have that much money to spend then why would you want three mediocre instruments rather than one top quality bass? You can only play one at a time, if you have one great bass and an OK spare then you're pretty much covered.

Popped my flats back on my p bass (augmented with a mud bucker a la Billy Sheehan) today - got a gig coming up that needs a more ‘vintage’ vibe - and the amount of low end through the ‘bucker is IMMENSE!! Such a huge difference from my usual rounds!!

Black and yellow instead Jim? 🤔🤭

It’s nuts and all that but I have a few festivals to play this year and I need to upstage the guitarist somehow. This one has a jazz width neck, too, which is so rare on a bass this size.

Yes, I was there! Its literally been decades since I last saw them live. And I had no idea they were celebrating their 50th anniversary. As there are already numerous Steel Pulse tunes posted here (and it is Dancehall Friday after all 😜 ) I gonna big up Cocoa Tea. I had no idea he passed away, and in between Selecter and Steel Pulse the DJ played tune after tune of Cocoa Tea. My personal favourite collab is 'Pirates Anthem', but I'll just enjoy his vibes solo this time... Ah heck, take Pirates Anthem too...I just love this song

Fair play, I will pass on the thoughts

Yellow with Black Speedblocks ala Yamaha USA... Or White with Red Speedblocks ala Yamaha UK... Blue with Orange ala Gulf Racing GT40ish

You could install a passive circuit, @KiOgon would not doubt be happy to advise and build it. If there was a Nobel Prize for bass circuits......

Not your fault. You are a retailer, not the manufacturer!

One more: and please, please tell them to ask NBE to hire someone who can do proper bursts for the CST. I am looking at the one in natural violet you are having in stock at the moment and, man, this is one bad take on a burst finish. Sorry. Looks like some apprentices must have been tasked with the spray paint job or, even worse, the candidates from the UK show Apprentice were sent to CZ to make basses for one day. Would not surprise me 😉

We really are spoiled for choice up here when it comes to luthiers. A guitarist I work with has used Gary for work on a brand new Martin acoustic and his 12 string electric and he rates him highly. He’s also very local to me so if I need a luthier then I think I’ll be giving him a call.

Colour/hardware combo needs to be unique/collectable but classic to generate the interest level. Pretty top wood is a given, surely. To me this has to be a Euro that isn’t so quirky that only die-hard fanboys would want it and it must be a bass that someone after a Spector Euro would buy even if they weren’t into the weeds with finishes. There’s a lot of potential buyers right here to guide the choice 😉

I will certainly put the idea forward

Well I couldn’t say no to that price.

Something like that

I don't use the HX One, but I had its predecessor the M5 for a while. It's really nice to have a device like that on the board for those effects that you will only need once in a while. For me, it eventually became too limiting because I ended up finding a lot of different cool effects in there, and I wanted to start stacking more than one of them together at the same time. For me, that meant that I later became an HX Stomp user, then the HX Effects, then the Helix LT, then the Helix Floor and now I'm using Helix Native (and other plugins) on a 100% laptop-based rig. But that sounds like it might be overkill for your needs 😄 I think the HX One is an excellent entry into the Helix ecosystem. You will either be happy with it because you only need one effect at a time, or you will find it limiting and eventually move up to the HX Stomp. If the latter happens, you will already be familiar with the effects of the Helix line, so you will have a much easier time dialing in the HX Stomp down the line.

I’d jump on the bike, ride to Warwick and pay the deposit now*. Serious. 4 or 5. *obviously cash ‘cos otherwise I could do it online 😉

Thats pretty much the height Ive settled at - I still have a tendancy to drift sharp but I think its just that Im expecting the fluency of 35 years of electric playing to instantly transfer to an instrument Ive only been playing for a few weeks rather than accepting that I need to put time into actually getting the basics right first Ive put some bits of tape on the side of the fingerboard, which helps with general positioning but, again, Im frustratingly imprecise. Mine has a heel at that position, which does help as a target but which also frustrates me because I've yet to adapt to the different hand position needed to play there. The current action is comfortable in the lower positions (up to about the 10th) but becomes increasingly uncomfortable for me past there. Again, Im used to a bass guitar so I think this is primarily a hand strength issue that I expect will lessen with practice. The unamplified volume seems decent as is but I dont have a full sized acoustic bass to compare to. Perhaps Ill increase the action as I become more proficient, I generally like my instruments to fight back a bit Unfortunately, mine has a much smaller bridge size (around 80mm) so an off the shelf adjustable bridge doesnt seem to exist - possibly in time Ill add making one to my extensive list of unrealised projects........ Anyway, realistically I need to take a few lessons and get the basics under my belt before concerning myself with most of this stuff

I would be absolutely shocked if there was any regulation that governed it. There is no safety issue (and an argument the other way), its just to get rid of noise, and I think that would be a hard one to regulate as then several genres would be illegal

Ive found that Im starting to gravitate towards that hand position on the higher strings but still closer to 90deg on the lower strings. My wrist injury is making it difficult to put in any serious practice at the moment though Ive paid for all the notes. Im going to use all the notes - whether the tune needs it or not. I quite like to be able to play the melodies of songs so Id like to be able to extend my range but really, Im trying to run before I can walk here Again, Im trying to run before etc.... I quite like the higher harmonics (5,4,3ish,2.5ish etc); in a couple of keys you can play occasional harmonic chords that absolutely jump out. I guess that'll stay the preserve of the bass guitar with some drive/compression. Curiously, Im finding it easier to play pinch harmonics on it than naturals. Anyway, I should probably concentrate my efforts on playing cleanly and in tune at the lower end rather than trying to be a fancy pants (note to self, must stop watching those orsted pederson vids)

I have an original solid maple Euro 4 (pre-LX) in that exact colour with a lovely quilt but without the DW neck. Looks and plays lovely! It was a standard colour back in the day....

Thanks @NickA And the good news is I got up this morning to a bass that was fully in tune. I did my usual string stretching routine a few times over the course of yesterday and it seems to have paid off. Got to say I’m really liking the sound of the Spirocores, much more mwah across all four strings than the Jagar’s that were on her when I bought her. So I guess it’s “all’s well that ends well” on this thread 😎

Yep - that vintage pedal which didn't sound the greatest back in the day is now a treasured collector's piece.

Please can someone test for continuity with a multimeter?

Good idea. It adds that extra pleasure you get from defacing a Fender lookalike.