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Mine arrived today as well!

There were some chancers on ebay trying to sell these at £20,000 - more than a real one!

Naturally I offered £40.

Andertons own comparison video is hilarious

From about £50 all the way up to a real one.

And they all sound the same.

17 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

1966 jazz bass in candy apple red. Stays in its case. Won’t take it to gigs, won’t sell it. Took 2 years of saving up to buy it.

 

 

You see, if you played jazz then gigging it would expose it to fewer people than at home.

Job done!

19 hours ago, Mrbigstuff said:

 

I guess this sort of view is what inspired @Al Krow’s question. I guess there is more chance of damage on a gig, but I tend to play anywhere between 30-90 mins a day at home, so not far off a common gig duration. My preference is to own mint or excellent condition instruments.

I think that normal use damage / wear and tear and the odd accident are unavoidable for just about everything. 

Even for a sitting down jazz performance at some point a music stand is going to get bumped into an instrument, or the player themselves is going to stand up and collide with something.

I gave up worrying about that sort of thing years ago as it was limiting my enjoyment of my instruments.

I do my best to minimise damage of course, but some things are just unavoidable even if just playing at home.

Yes.

No point owning it otherwise.

Insure it properly and gig it.

17 hours ago, danweb22 said:

Haha! 3.7kgs

I’m trying to work out the logistics of this, but currently failing - I’m driving all over the place at the moment for my youngest spawns university placement but nowhere near you.

arse.

Not that I’m thinking about buying yet another bass from you…. But do you know the weight please?

Asking for anyone except my wife…

Lovely!

Fab pedal!

Good demo:

If I had money I'd be buying this!

I couldn’t decide so I didn’t…

You need to put it here:

Dedicated forum for price assistance.

https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/121-wotzit-werth/

The clips in that video all show the IMA strings quite a bit louder to the point that I don't think that is just the string output being higher.

Many reviewers do that to make something more impressive.

I wish he had levelled the clips out so volume wouldn't be a factor.

I had it on a Fender Stu Hamm signature model. Was all good.

7 hours ago, bassmayhem said:

No response so far concerning the bug in the Hyper Luminal Compressor block. More voices need to be heard, maybe... 

They are probably working through a lot of emails.

Might even take a week to get to yours.

34 minutes ago, Russ said:

I still want them to put the guts of the current HX Stomp into the case of the POD Go Wireless, so you have a proper, small one-box gigging solution that's more usable than the current HX Stomp and less of a compromise than the current POD Go, and has the built-in expression pedal, wireless system, etc. They could rename it the HX Go.

It could stand to gain an XLR output too, perhaps. 

Doesn't really need an XLR. The jack outputs are balanced already. Electrically identical.

This was posted on another forum but didn't say which store.

"100V; 120V; 230V; 240V – 50/60Hz (tension set inside the equipment)
WARNING: The MARKBASS CASA is manufactured to be used in the country where they have been sold, and it is factory preset to that country’s voltage. So make sure you’re sending the correct voltage to your amp before you connect it to the AC power."

I realise that EU is mostly 230V and the UK is still actually 240V but that the allowable margins are quite wide (about 230 to 250V in the UK) but I wonder if there would be any warranty cover for power related issues.

I'd like to try one - looks very much like the old Hartke HA3500 that Stu used for years.

On 05/06/2025 at 10:23, Phil Starr said:

We are struggling to find a guitarist and if I'm honest it's because of our set, think Tina Turner, Pink, Blondie,Lady Gaga and so on. Most of the guitarists round here are of a certain age and want to play rock from the 70's,80's 90's and so on. This isn't primarily guitar music so not seen as rewarding.

Roughly 15 years ago I was in a band that did all that stuff - the guitarist we had was previously in one of the big military bands and she could sight read like nobody I've ever met before or since. Unless it was Guthrie level she'd just look at the page and it would be perfect first time, and she'd only need 2 or 3 run throughs to memorise it. She was scary!

Is there less finger sliding noise on these than a round?

I have one of these and it’s superb.

If I thought I could get another in the house and maintain marital harmony I would!

Has the OP mentioned the genre - I noticed the comment about guitarists not being happy outside of their genre but that struck me as a bit odd for a pub covers band?

Are all the covers some obscure nose flute death metal or something?

You can special order a Stingray with the SLO neck option too - that is basically the Sterling neck on a ray.

Not many used ones though, alas.

I’ve been bandless for coming up to a year and I did need the break but just as I was thinking about finding a new one, this thread reminds me of all the reasons I might not bother…

What is there?

The Crybaby Mini Bass Wah is now stupid money so is there an alternative that is just as small?

ta

1 hour ago, Musicman20 said:

Think it is absolutely identical. Back pickups on Ray and Sterling USA models, whether H, HS or HH, are all in the 'sweet spot'.

That's kind of interesting in itself.

I've found a few photos of stingrays with tape measures on the neck showing the pickup distance from the nut, and various youtube vids with measurements. And it seems over the years they have varied in placement by a good 5-6mm. As we know from 1960/1970 jazz basses where the bridge pickup is only 9mm further back on the 1970s one even a little movement can make quite a difference.