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  1. mcnach
    If someone doesn't bother to go back to the ad and edit the title to indicate it's sold, which only takes a few seconds, do you think they'd bother going back to it to click on a 'sold' button?
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    Weight was completely and utterly irrelevant to me for a long time, so I very rarely thought of even mentioning it, let alone measuring it! These days, without being exactly an old decrepitude of a man (yet ) I do care: I like lighter basses as long as they balance well, so I'm more aware of it. My point is: not everybody has the same idea of what's important, and trying to make everybody else comply with what we think is reasonable or even obvious is a frustrating path. However, nothing stops us from asking questions and a seller who cares would happily answer those questions. I've often found the comments in for-sale items very informative. And the non informative ones? Easily ignored like a lot of other posts in any other thread. edit: harder to ignore are the rude comments like those found on the Ken Smith bass... what are they thinking?
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    How does it matter the way it's advertised? The owner of whatever item for sale has the right to name their price, and telling them it's too much, publicly, is tacky at best. If someone is advertising something fraudulently, I understand getting involved (although reporting it to the mods is probable a better option), but otherwise, why would you want to contribute anything that potentially causes the seller to lose sales/money? The old "If you don't have anything nice to say, best not to say anything" I think applies very nicely. When you see something on a High St shop that you think is overpriced, do you stand at their door telling everybody who walks in that the shop is charging too much? No, right? It would seem very weird... and the shop owner might want to come out and have an 'energic word' with you...
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    Like the guy who was apparently interested in a bass I was selling a while ago on Gumtree... after a few texts, we're arranging to meet for him to try it, and he asks me if I could drop the price. I did, a bit, I am generally open to a bit of negotiation... then silence, and comes back the next day asking me to lower it further because he saw he could buy a new one for just £10 more than I was asking. Of course, it was not true... so I replied very enthusiastically saying he found a really good deal and that he should go with it. What did he expect? He did buy my bass, at the price we agreed, but I was very close to ignoring him...
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    Band name!
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    DR Strings

    mcnach replied to a topic in General Discussion

    I didn't think that was possible... unless you paid them for something that should not incur import fees. I'm confused...
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    DR Strings

    mcnach replied to a topic in General Discussion

    eh?
  8. mcnach
    That guy was partly responsible for my going ahead and buying a Schecter Model T Session without even having tried one: the bass caught me by its looks and it had the right configuration for what I was looking for... and this guy on the video had a few interesting songs posted playing along to. It led to my buying the bass (it quickly became my #2, which is as high as any bass could get for me, since #1 is firmly my Stingray) and to creating a cool playlist of music I didn't know...
  9. mcnach
    Maybe you aren't... but what if she is???
  10. mcnach
    Yes, mine was a previous incarnation with slightly different controls:
  11. mcnach
    I had the 4 string version (GB74). The two switches were one for various options on the bridge humbucker (single coil, series, parallel, or only series/parallel, I can't recall because I had a Lakland 5502 at the same time with a similar configuration)... and the other one was what some call a 'slap switch', which gives you a low end boost and treble boost too, while cutting mids a bit. I personally didn't like that:it sounds ok by yourself but mid-scooped sounds are not my thing, they bury the bass in the mix. The knobs were volume, pickup blend, and stacked active bass/treble EQ. The volume knob could be pulled, which bypasses the preamp (you lose the EQ, but it allows you to play if the battery dies). Mine was very light and very comfortable although I found the pickups a bit polite, but it wasn't bad at all. Build quality was great. Gigged mine many times. Very versatile and did the job well. Only sold it because I do prefer chunkier necks and I was preferring other basses to it, so during my last cull it went... but it's one bass I wish I had kept.
  12. mcnach
    But not two preamps are the same. Some do one thing better, and others another... So I can see why people may want both. I personally use the MMSR (3-band Stingray preamp) in a few basses, mostly because of the semiparametric mids, handy at my fingertips. I use it to get a bit more aggressive, or back off a bit, and even to control the drive level when using certain overdrives... I can also get a very musical controlled feedback effect when using overdrive and bringing the bass close to the speaker if I turn the mids up as I do it... and easy to back off to normal without taking my hands off the bass (I use that on the RATM band). The J-Retro (or U-Retro) is a favourite for me on 2-pickup basses, again the semiparametric mids are the main reason, but not only. For me the bass amp controls are to set the 'baseline' sound to fit the stage/room. Onboard is where I vary the sound during the set depending on how I want to sound.
  13. mcnach
    Any chance you could record a little demo? Especially illustrating the tape saturation effect... That pedal looks really interesting.
  14. mcnach
    Indeed. I watched a documentary once and read in various places about his practice of recording parts using his voice. I'm not saying he would never leave musicians to come with their own parts, but he generally seemed to have a very good idea of what each part should sound like. Personal life aside, musically the guy was pretty exceptional.
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    I don't see it as something to give you a distinct tone from click to click of the control, but more something that can give you a couple of variations on the basic bass sound, in passive form. A bit like my passive tone control, it may change continuously but there's only 3 positions I use it at... I'd love to try one before I go ahead and buy it... I may have to PM @krispn for that
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    as others must have said already (I haven't read the whole thing yet), poplar does not mean lack of low end, how did you get that conclusion? I only own one example (USA MM SUB) but I've played a handful of other poplar bodied basses (and pine, and other 'lowly' woods) and there's no lack of low end that I can tell. It does have a bit of a boring grain, but that's about it. Not the most exciting natural finish. edit: my fretless Precision is also made of poplar. No problems there either.
  17. mcnach
    It definitely must vary. I'll have to try them in person before letting my cash go, especially as I really don't need another bass: I keep playing the same two all the time and the rest are just extravagant decorations. I'll ask if any of by multiple band mates want to start a UFO tribute band. The length of the neck might be the biggest deal breaker, more than the neck dive, I think. Neck dive may occur or not, it seems... but the whole bass seems to sit a few inches to the right farther than I'd like to. Hmmm.
  18. mcnach
    Yes, white, because they don't make then red 😛 When I see the burst ones... it makes me feel like playing Lynyrd Skynyrd. Nothing wrong with that, I love them, but... I feel all swampy and hot and sticky. Black is cool. Black is always cool. But I like a white Thunderbird. Classy.
  19. mcnach
    Nice bass! I guess you were not going for a T-bird sound, as you put the pickup where a P would be (right?)... either way, that looks very nice
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    I hate Rics... 😛
  21. mcnach
    Indeed, the look was a great part of the attraction. I hear some people saying theirs do not suffer from neck dive, I think this is definitely one bass I would never buy without testing... or only buy used if cheap and I can move it easily if it doesn't work out... Aside from the neck dive, I suspect that neck must feel really long. I've had basses with short upper horns that even if they didn't neck dive, the neck just didn't feel comfy, with the first fret being quite far... and I use the first few frets a lot. Shame, it's a nice looking bass, and makes some nice noises too. Tone styler! That's interesting... I was looking at those a few weeks ago, they seem pretty cool.
  22. mcnach
    I know what Lewis Hamilton looks like... but I can't say I know much about his life outside a F1 car...
  23. mcnach
    Thank you for all the replies... In the end my old friend neck dive came to the rescue. That's a deal breaker for me. Not keen on necks that feel long (strap button positioning) either... Shame. They sound good and look good. My pocket is safe. Phew.
  24. mcnach
    I never even played one before... But I'm finding myself wanting a white one really badly, and go out and "rawk"... I blame Pete Way. Please tell me they are terrible and I shouldn't bother! 😄 edit: ... and I ended up with a Sandberg VM4
  25. mcnach
    You can't pay me to sit and watch that, so I'll take your word for it, whoever she might be.
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