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Several pickups for sale. I've owned all these from new. 1: Sandberg Black Label Precision Pickup. Taken from my Sandberg Lionel and then lived in a padded envelope ever since. New price on these is £120 (DV247 / Music Store) £55 including delivery. GONE. ________________________________________________ 2: Aguilar AG-4P Was in my bitsa P bass before I turned it into a Stingray! A very nice 1960s recreation. Photo to follow for this one. £65 including delivery. ON HOLD PENDING PAYMENT ______________________________________________ 3: Dimarzio Air Norton humbucker. F Spaced bridge position for guitar. Medium output with a very flat and even EQ curve. £45 inc delivery. _________________________________________ 4: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Trembucker for guitar. Based on Billy Gibbon's Pearly Gates Les Paul. Like a PAF but with a little more output and a push in the mids. £65 inc delivery. -
Having a bit of a clear out. I almost always play my Sandberg or bitsa basses so everything else is going. This is an Ibanez SRMD200 4 string medium scale bass (New price £299 at Andertons) It's no secret that the stock preamp is a bit crap. This has significant upgrades to: EMG PJ-X set (New £140 ish) EMG BTC 2 band EQ on a stacked pot (New - £90 ish) EMG ABCX Active Balance control (new about £80) It also has a lovely set of Dunlop Medium Scale flatwound strings - that were a whopping £80 on their own. They should have at least another 5 years in them. It's in great condition and sounds amazing. There's a bit of dust on it that I didn't notice when taking the photos. The sticker covers the redundant hole that the original preamp used. No doubt a better sticker that was a colour match could be found! I am of course aware that modified basses can be more difficult to sell especially as the new price of all this would be over £600 (ignoring the strings), so this is up for a bargain: £350.00 PRICE DROP to only £300! PRICE DROP to a pittance of £275 because I've seen something I want to buy! That's like getting a full set of EMG kit with a free bass! Collection from Northants near J16 on the M1. I don't have any suitable shipping boxes and with the closure of the local PMT the nearest place I might be able to get a proper guitar box would need me to travel for a 2 hour round trip. That being said, I might be able to meet you somewhere in true Basschat dodgy service station tradition. Not looking for any trades as I really need to make some room in the house. -
Helix HX Stomp XL - Footswitches Too Close Together
fretmeister replied to Sharkfinger's topic in Effects
Headset mic so it’s always in the right place -
Alas the weight is too much for me. Ah well, at least I haven't risked divorce. -
Those old Carol Kaye lines were usually doubled with a Fender Bass VI and plectrum so I can see doing it with an acoustic giving a little chorus feel and more attack that only an acoustic instrument can give. Now you'll need a piezo equipped bass to do it live!
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Have a day out or even a weekend break - good Bass shop and then go down the road to Warwick Castle for a bit of tourism. It's an amazing place.
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I've had a lot of 5 string basses from the dirt cheap to the silly money. I've had scales from 30 on a no-name ebay thing to 37 inch on a Canadian Dingwall. Construction quality is far more important than scale length so don't buy a 37 inch or even 35 just because someone says it will be better because it might not be. My favourite B (and indeed drop A) I ever found was on a Marleaux Consat Custom 5 string. 34 inch scale. Delano pickups with a (iirc) Glockenklang 3 band preamp. With a budget of £2500 you'll have to look for a used one and be patient about it as they are very expensive these days. String choice is also very important on a low B. The Marleaux came with it's stock strings and they were awful. Did not work at all. D'addario Pro Steels suited that bass the best and the difference was night and day. I should never have sold that bass.
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The brown hat. Because I’m full of…
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La Bella do a specific Mustang string through set. They list the full speaking length of the string on their website so you can check before you buy.
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That’s lovely!
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As it happens I really like old flats for rock and metal too. As the guitar sounds have become higher gain, seemingly year on year, adding the now so ubiquitous Darkglass type bass tone just seems to make everything thinner and fizzier. I've been writing and recording with a mate and the guitars sound ace and he wanted a DG bass tone. So we spent a solid day trying all the presets available in the Neural Parallax plugin and then tweaking them and it was getting worse by the minute. Completely lacked any balls. It got a bit better when I swapped to a flats bass as the fizz from the top disappeared but it was still bad. So I went for my Helix instead with a slightly dirtier than expected Motown sort of thing. Like Jamerson / Dunn but with the Jive preamp on it and played with a plectrum. It worked so much better. Rhythm section sounded like a unit, clear separation between guitar and bass, and the narrower frequency range of flatwounds allowed the bass to be a little louder but still not get in the way of anything else. This is the way!
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Well, it's jazz so who really knows?
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So they hear all the wrong notes? This is getting worse by the minute!
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New strings. I mean - WTF?
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Wow!!!! Can I have a few more specs please? Nut width Bridge string spacing Weight. Thank you.
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I walked out of a Walter Trout gig in the first song because it was immediately painful. It was at The Stables in Milton Keynes and it was loud enough the back rows at Wembley. Out through double sets of doors into the bar and it was still too loud there. I have absolutely no doubt the people who stayed for the 2 hour set had permanently damaged their hearing. You did the right thing walking out.
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DR Hi Beans for me.
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I’ve never had notes becoming ill defined on a shorty just from going up a gauge.
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That's entirely dependent on staying with the same brand. Some strings have far bigger gauges but are lower tension than other brand smaller gauges. I suppose we are all used to relying on gauges for tension but it really is a useless way of judging tension when swapping brand or string type. DR hexcore strings are much higher tension than their roundcore even when the gauges are the same. DR Hi-Beam 45-105 are more flexible than D'addario Pro Steel 40-100 and so on. Tension isn't the same as flexibility either. There has to be a better way! Would save us all loads of cash in failed string experiments over the years.
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Nut widths on a 4 string that are over 40mm are just unfinished 5 strings. 5 strings should be limited to 44.5mm and not a micron wider! Can't argue with the tablets though. I'd have an exception for a sitting down classical / jazz gig but never ever for any singer in any genre. Totally kills the mood.
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I don't think I've ever ad a problem with them either. Certainly in recent memory everything big I've got from the US has come via them. Little stuff seems to be passed over to Evri (urgh)
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This forum needs to upgrade the "Ignore User" function to a "Launch the Drones" function.
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He's not your mate. Not with that sort of behaviour. He's just someone you haven't buried under your patio.... yet. And I congratulate you for your self control.
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These things are fantastic. Easiest practice tool I've ever had. Can even use your pedalboard with them. Bass > Cable > Pedals > Waza Transmitter. -
Please help before I throw my pedalboard out the window 🤣
fretmeister replied to bassben1's topic in Effects
I've been using it since the day it was available. I have run multiple paths, different EQ and compression settings etc etc. It still can't do a good Fuzz Face - and that's at full guitar volume, let alone the way a FF reacts to guitar volume being changed when it's first in the chain. TBF I don't think any modeller has cracked that yet.
