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    Hello, I’m selling my 2013 Made in Japan Fender Mustang bass. I’ve owned it since 2018 during which time it’s been periodically gigged, mainly as a back up to my P bass, but always well cared for. Cream white, with a lovely dark rosewood fretboard. I swapped the brown tort scratchplate for a white one but will include both in the sale. It was set up with medium/low action by renowned Leicester luthier Howard Smith soon after I bought it and I haven’t had to tweak anything since. Frets are in really nice condition. There are a couple of minor dings on the body from gigging - nothing serious or unsightly and I’ve tried to show them in the pics. Other than that it’s a really nice, clean, resonant and loud bass! It’s currently strung with Daddario medium scale 105-50 nickel roundwounds with a decent bit of life left in them. It’s been a great bass which has done some good gigs in big venues with me (Butlins Minehead 70s weekenders, Bournemouth Pavilion etc) over the last couple of years but I just find I’m not using it anymore except around the house. Weighs in at a very comfortable 3.6kg. Comes with a well-padded Original Gigbag Company gig bag. Bag is a little bit tatty on the inside but clean and perfectly usable. Looking for £750 which seems pretty fair. Would prefer collection or meeting up, but will post within the UK at cost. No trades as I’m cutting back on kit. I am based in South Leicestershire but travel to Derby every Wednesday if that helps. Cheers.
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    Really cool gig as part of the Andy Wales Blues Band at the Donkey in Leicester, playing a mix of originals and well-chosen covers. We’ve only done about half a dozen gigs so far and most have been support slots etc. This was I think our second or third full-length gig, but it was nicely busy in there. We went down a storm! We’ve been making a point of rehearsing every week which combined with our familiarity of each others playing styles means we are really on it in terms of being tight and interacting with each other. It also means we bring at least one or two new songs to each gig to keep it fresh. I’ve previously gone straight for Precision Bass with flatwounds for this sort of gig, but last night opted for Yamaha BB604 with lots of active growl and punch which worked a treat and added a new dimension to it. Some very nice things said to us afterwards from the audience, so really buzzing. Feels great!
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    My older brother had some friends who played in a local teenage band, which inspired him to also start learning guitar. I wanted to be a drummer but had neither the space or the money, so settled instead on bass, (partly to annoy my older brother too). It was the mid-1980s - the era of the double live LP gatefold sleeve, and pictures of Steve Harris, Gene Simmons et al in full flight onstage just made me instantly realise “Wow. I want to do that!”
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    NOW SOLD - cheers. Bought this just last month from fellow Basschatter Geoff90Guitar with a view to running it with my other Markbass Traveller 121H cab as a portable 2x12 rig. It sounds great but alas I prefer my existing combination of 1x12 and 2x10 as seen in the background here. It’s an Italian-made cab, clean and in really great condition. These 1x12s seem to come up less often than the more common 2x10, 4x10 or 1x15 cabs. I find 12” speakers to be right in the sweet spot of adding some warmth to a pair of 10” speakers, while being smaller and more portable than a 15”. Haven’t even had a chance to gig it yet, but shortage of money, car repairs needed and the fact I’ve already got a few other Markbass cabs means I’m moving this one on. PRICE DROP to £250. Prefer to meet up somewhere suitable or collection if you want to try it out first (you're more than welcome obviously). I’m in south Leicestershire but travel to Derby fairly regularly if that's any help. Nice one.
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    Most of the rock and metal I grew up listening to 30 years ago doesn’t really float my boat any more to be honest. I’d very rarely choose to listen to any of it. On the other hand I’ve been getting back into EDM/house/techno on my weekly motorway commute (aka a traffic jam) which I was well into back in the day. But I’m realising that most of the new stuff I’m buying isn’t grabbing my attention either - seems I’ve already experienced the heyday of good dance music in the early/mid 1990s. Hmm.
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    One bass is cool. I only started looking for a second bass when my P needed a refret and I was doing pub gigs so bought a back up, which I kept when the P was repaired. If you’re not gigging and/or needing a back up for a temperamental vintage instrument then one bass is fine.
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    There’s two issues aren’t there. The fact it’s badly paid / unpaid and the fact the venue isn’t any good anyway. Ive happily done gigs for free / pocket money with original bands to get that practice and get us gigging - but they’ll be worthwhile things like local festivals, support slots etc. Empty pubs, rubbish venues etc. Barely worth the effort even for paid gigs let alone unpaid ones.
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    Yeah cheers folks. I bit the bullet and bought the second 1x12 cab that was up for sale to make a 2x12 rig. And so far so good. I’ve got a blues trio gig on the weekend at which Im intended to give the rig its first outing - some of it is straight P bass with flats territory, but some is flailing on a Mustang with distortion etc, so I’m interested to see how this sounds. At moderate levels in my back room it sounds slightly smoother, warmer and a tad quieter than my usual 4x10 or 1x12 + 2x10 arrangement, just in terms of how much air it’s pushing. But I’m confident it will sound good.
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    You'll be mighty glad of it come the depths of winter. That's if you've got enough money left over to switch it on...
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    I just try to relax and enjoy it for what it is - entertainment and fun. I get a lot of nervous energy before a gig but I try to channel it into giving it some welly once we go back onstage. Being prepared in terms of knowing the material as band helps; it’s not fun to be distracted or worrying about someone making a mistake or not playing a bit the way you want it - so ironing those things out in the rehearsal room mean you can enjoy the moment more onstage. Physically trying to relax a bit can be hard - I can feel the tension in my shoulders and forearms and hands sometimes which then just impacts on my playing, so really focusing on unclenching those is good. I used to do a lot of jiu jitsu and still use many of the warm up stretches before a gig to loosen my neck, shoulders, wrists and hands. And if things go wrong, don’t stress too much. It’s live music at the end of the day - every gig will have some wrong bits in it, whether it’s the sound onstage, the crowd, fluffed lines etc, not all of which you can control. But if you do your homework and be tight and confident as a band, those other variables will have less chance of derailing you. You’re a frontman with a T-bird - that’s a pretty cool situation yeah?
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    Looks like it’s going pretty well in that pic
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    Just back from playing a birthday party in Nuneaton. Personally was looking forward to it as a chance to test drive my recently-acquired Yamaha BB604 number 2. Fun crowd who were right up for it, and a tasty spread of food. Oh and the Yamaha sounded great too.
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    Began playing in 1986 and did first gig for a Xmas party in school in 1988.
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    I'm a bit of a Markbass fan I must say, having reached the age where weight/size/portability are a consideration. I've been pairing a couple of their little Traveller cabs into a compact rig - a TRV102P and a TRV121 - which sounds good. Been thinking now of trying a pair of TRV121 cabs for a modular 2x12 set up. A quick Google gave precisely no results for that set up - so just wondering if anyone has used a pair and how they found it. I play loud and am a bit of a heavy-handed baboon of a player, but so far the MB stuff has stood up well to my less-than-refined approach.
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    In answer to my own question, I emailed Markbass with the serial numbers and got a reply back which is cool. Turns out my cabs are all from 2006-2009. Can’t understand how the serial numbers say that, so in some senses it’s all still a mystery 🤷🏼‍♂️ I won’t lose sleep over it.
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    I wanted a T bird for many years - the coolest looking bass ever. Imagine my horror when I tried one and found it was the most uncomfortable playing position ever for me. Im just completely the wrong shape for it. Absolutely gutted. Still think they look cool tho.
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    Nothing this year on NYE itself. Doing a gig a couple of days before on December 29, but NYE will be with family this time around.
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    Two of the bands I’m in are regular dep jobs, so I play whatever the band has decided upon. The other band I play in does a mix of covers and originals, so we all chip in with ideas for both, with the understanding that if it isn’t working for the greater good then we leave it out generally. We’ve got an agreement to be open with each other about it and not take it badly if something doesn’t work. So far so good
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    My P bass has worn both Rotosound 77 flatwounds, and currently has La Bella 760FLs on it. The La Bellas feel considerably lower tension than the Rotos - ie i can stringbend normally on the La Bellas but not on the Rotos. I had a Epi Jack Casady bass with TI Flats on once, and they were lovely - very musical sounding flats, and comfortable to play, but probably as light gauge as I'd ever want to go.
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    I'm on the fence with flats as they don't suit all of my basses. Precision bass with flats - great. They are La Bella Deep Talkin' Bass. I used to have Rotosound flats but not my cup of tea at all. Mustang bass with flats - yes it sounded good, but in a totally different direction to how it sounded with rounds on, and ultimately it wasn't a sound I had much use for, so went back to rounds. Yamaha BB604 - came with D'addario Chromes which sounded lovely - flats but bright and loud, though too heavy for me. Now wears D'addario NYXLs which suit it perfectly.
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    I have a Protection Racket semi rigid bass gigbag/case, which is for full-size instruments - however, there are big internal pads which velcro to the inside of the case and with a bit of experimenting will hold my short scale mustang in place firmly without it moving around inside. Sure there's a few inches spare at the headstock end, but the case is firm enough that it doesn't sag or bend so it's not a problem. And they're really robust too - lighter than a Hiscox, but with shoulder straps etc and tougher than a standard gig bag.
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    I started off using Picato strings on a short scale bass as they were all the shop had (this was Wales in 1986). I used Rotosounds as soon as I got a decent bass and used them for many years, though I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't even realise they came in different gauges for a very long time... Branched out a few years ago to D'Addario NYXLs, and also started experimenting with a secondhand set of Labella Deep Talkin' Bass flats. So currently I have Labella flats on my P bass, and D'Addario rounds on everything else.
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    I play an older Fender Japan Mustang - allegedly a 1966 reissue. From what I gather the neck on that is slimmer than the JMJ Mustangs - just had a quick check and the nut seems to be about 38mm and the neck a very easy handful. Worth a try if you spot one secondhand - I've seen them go for between £600-£800 depending on condition etc. Very light and comfortable, but still oozes cool and sounds great - proper snarly and punchy, like a naughty little brother of a P bass.
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    1987 I was 13, so could have revelled in Bon Jovi, Dio, Metallica, Anthrax,Wasp and Cinderella at Donington. I’d have been well up for that. (Reality check to self - at the time I lived 200 miles away, did a paper round and had no money. Bummer.)
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    Exactly this. I had the classic thing of parents who thought it was fine as a hobby, but nothing more, and that influenced my thinking. Knowing now 37 years later how much of my life, my work and myself-identity is built around music, I wish I'd taken it all more seriously. That would in turn have depended on a level of insight, self confidence and resilience I didn't have when I was younger. It's worked out ok really, but if my kids decide they want to play music seriously, I hope the circumstances mean I can support them.
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