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I never check my threads on this, or any forum; I wait for those [i]1922Horseburger replied to Rat cage for sale [/i]or [i]Reply to thread 'Just bit my drummer's leg'[/i] emails. So if he was expecting notifications and not getting them...? Or maybe he just doesn't know how fast we gather here when we smell blood! -
Hi Richard, Just skipped through, listening on laptop. Learn to Fly : Production and instrumental performances very good. Drums occasionally seem a bit inconsistent in volume, but that's nitpicking. The vocals vary a bit in style and there's some iffy moments in the chorus - maybe pushing it a bit too hard, need to focus on hitting the note (and if in doubt, slide up from flat, don't start sharp....) Like a Hurricane : About the same I guess. I'm less familiar with this song... maybe a less obvious choice for a demo tape? My Sharona : This seems to suit your vocalist better (And he doesn't flinch on the line about "getting it up for the touch of the younger kind")
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Maybe his notifications aren't working?
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[url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/small-coomber-pa-system/1010263696"]http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/small-coomber-pa-system/1010263696[/url] For only £3000
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Where are you based?
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Is it passive? Where are you based? thx,
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I thought '00' was the price...
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Hello all, Ibanez GWB35. A really easy to play fretless, a beginner should have no problem with it. Upgraded with widely-recommended Bartolini NTBT preamp (I still have the original preamp, and black knobs if the gold are not your thing). volume contol pull/push switches between active/passive modes. Currently strung with Labella deep talkin' flats, which I chose to give a punchy sound that could sit in any track while providing the expression only a fretless can. The flats are good to slide on for little inflections (or correcting tuning, in my case) or bigger slides. When strung with rounds the board gives you the more typical fretless sound with all the 'mwaah' you need. Good condition, no issues. Has been owned by a couple of other BCers before me, and apparently well-looked-after by all of us... One small area of paint has somehow been shaved off on the bottom left corner, but it's not into the wood (see linked pics). Fretboard perfect for practical purposes - only the lightest of scratches on the fretboard from having been tried with rounds, discernible only by eye in the right light. 16.5mm string spacing Scale 864mm/34" Width at Nut 45mm Thickness at 1st 19mm Thickness at 12th 21mm Radius 305mm Given the preamp upgrade, hopefully a bargain at [color=#D3D3D3]£350 collected from Cambridge.[/color] SOLD Happy to meet within reason (maybe incl. London?) or post too - postage via parcelforce within the UK is about £15 I think. I can put it in a gator semi hard bass case for £25 extra but it's not the best case for this particular bass as due to the longish upper horn, the strap buttons have to be taken off for it to fit in! It is a good case for a P bass or similar though. As for trades - Interested in a quality passive short scale (mustang?) with whatever cash adjustment necessary, or if you are close enough to Cambridge to meet up, try me with any other interesting passive I guess - would have to be a good'un, easy to set up well and play just as this is! BTW I also have a Yamaha RBX375 I will probably sell soon that could go into any deal. (the wiring isn't quite this messy - I separated the wires out a bit to show the pre!) [size=5][b]More pics: [url="http://s1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff414/topomorto/IbanezGWB35/"]http://s1234.photobu...to/IbanezGWB35/[/url][/b][/size] Thanks and any questions, let me know! -
Sounds pretty decent. I guess for me it's more "I want it" than "It's what I want" but knowing the exact price makes it easier to imagine pressing the 'buy' button... -
Any clue on what the shipping costs would be?
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SOLD - Fender Precision 5-String USA :: 2009 :: Now £800
topo morto replied to largo's topic in Basses For Sale
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Nice and warm and nice chords! Should spend more time up at that end of the bass.
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There's a [url="http://www.pmtonline.co.uk/cambridge.html"]PMT [/url]opening on East road soon, taking over the hole left by Blockbuster. Doesn't look like it's going to be open in the next few days, but maybe by the 28th..?
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[quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1360147005' post='1965464'] it's your bass so you should do whatever you want, but if you're never planning on selling it then a collector is never going to get their hands on it anyway.[/quote] Only if you're immortal. And plenty of people who aren't collectors like a nice original item. What will junior think when you pop your clogs and leave him what would have been a nice bass if only you hadn't American Pie'd it?
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[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1360143249' post='1965366'] I reckon that as players (not collectors) the question should be about 'will alterations make it more playable/flexible/better for me as a musician?'. If you don't like the way it is now or how it sounds then mod it by all means. [/quote] Even if the instrument in question is old, and either a) rare, or b ) a particularly good example of the original?
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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360095798' post='1964847'] Thanks! It was done for the September Basschat Composition Competition. I'm currently working on an idea for [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/198597-february-composition-competition/"]this month's[/url] competition which will be more electronica, but probably not quite so glitchy. [/quote] Thanks for the pointer.... will have to venture into that bit of the forum sometime. Didn't realise 'September' was just the competition month. I always find track titles which are just 'times' evocative.I think it's 'cos they're easy to relate to, you can think of Septembers or Thursday Afternoon (and, God willing, look forward to the next one)
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I'd agree that keeping an instrument playable is a morally loftier goal than keeping it all original (unless it's one of our aforementioned museum basses), so of course go for it on replacing strings, frets, doing neck refinish, etc. I'm not sure how much a 'good refret job' vs 'original but gnarly frets' actually affects the market value - will leave that for richer folks who actually dabble in that market!
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Millers music/Ken Stevens/whatever it's called is a reasonable place to kill a bit of time. Sometimes they even have something at a sane price too. DV247 not so much. Agree that Fopp is cool - only place I do my Xmas shopping apart from Amazon. Whole bunch of museums: [url="http://www.cam.ac.uk/museums/"]http://www.cam.ac.uk/museums/[/url] and quite a few of your of your beardy CAMRA real ale pubs if that's your thing. Cambridge Blue and Live & Let Live get quite busy; Elm tree is quieter and nearer the centre Depending on the weather you could practice your punting and serenade her on the waters of the Cam once she's done with what she's doing...
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OH NOES! it's good. Might need one. Sounds a bit like the SFT maybe?
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I think you might well like it. The things I didn't like were the aforementioned volume jump between the modes, and the weight of the thing - definitely a potential murder weapon.
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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360080233' post='1964515'] Besides I also make music like [url="https://soundcloud.com/bigredx/bigredx-september"]this[/url] as well as lots of other different things. [/quote] That's rather nice. Any other months in the works?
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FS: Yamaha 2024x (why is it still here?) 1700 EURO.
topo morto replied to Antiloco's topic in Basses For Sale
Serious prey attracts serious predators. Serious predators are big and slow moving. They will have caught the scent. But they may take some time to rotate their enormous bodies in preparation for the attack charge. -
[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1360077603' post='1964456'] I think that the heritage arguement is nonsense for a 77 P bass, but I have to say that when I modded a similar 77 precision that I probably lost about £500 plus when I did eventually moved it on.... [/quote] I think you are right, 'heritage' is perhaps the wrong word... that can be dealt with by having a couple in a museum. Assuming you bought the P for a fair price, that £500 is a measure of [i]something [/i]though...
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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360075918' post='1964418'] By all means save a couple of original examples of the P-Bass - maybe one for each time Fender made a major modification to the model, but lets not get over-sentimental about a mass-produced factory instrument from a time when it is universally acknowledged that standard were on the low side. (No offence intended to the OP) [/quote] As above - the fewer there are, the fewer people can have the fun of experiencing them. [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360075918' post='1964418'] It's got to do with attempts to over-preserve the past when that past itself was all about doing away with what came before and creating something brand new. [/quote] To me, the value of the an item that is in similar condition to how it was in the 1970s has no obvious connection to the value of, say, the 1950s to people living in the 1970s.
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The fact there's one in a museum, while evidence for the fact that the thing is historically valuable, doesn't help somone who would like one of their own and would like to appreciate it by playing it.