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[quote name='tom1946' post='1188984' date='Apr 5 2011, 01:36 PM']I have 2 basses for sale at the moment and sadly I've had an offer on each, one was £65 less than the asking price and the other £55 below. To my mind that is a bit insulting and they were turned down flat. By all means make an offer but make it sensible![/quote] [quote name='cheddatom' post='1188995' date='Apr 5 2011, 01:50 PM']I always find it odd when sellers complain about "low ball offers" and the like. Some people seem to get really pissed off with it. In business I negotiate all the time and no-one gets offended. It's actually put me off making offers when i'm buying stuff on here.[/quote] Tom1946: It wasn't me, but as a long term buyer/seller/hoarder and gear junkie, I think a 300 offer on a 365 bass is perfectly reasonable if you haven't stated its a firm price. Chedda: 200 would be insulting and lowball on the above example, and you'd feel the same if it was your gear. Take my recent SG2000 sale, I wanted 1200 for it, I was offered 1000 and was perfectly happy with that. If someone offered me 700 I'd show them the proverbial door.

[quote name='steviedee' post='1188970' date='Apr 5 2011, 01:26 PM']Hi I dunno if anyone has the issue but its driving me nuts on the bridge pickup of my faker is angled forward if I loosen off the screws it eases out and straightens but then the screws don't sit flush![/quote] Bung in slightly longer/stronger springs, or add washers between the spring and the frame to firm up the existing ones.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='1186850' date='Apr 3 2011, 05:08 PM']I think your best option is the 51 P-bass with flats. It fits the look & sound and from experience there are some muso snobs around that scene who may not appreciate an Ibanez. The 51 P-bass plays it safe & delivers[/quote] +1000. F**k looks, the new "Rockabilly" wave is more interested in cherry print, knuckledusters and crap bowling shirts with badly printed flamejobs, and has NOTHING to do with real thing, so you will never win unless you have covered your instrument in 10,000 rhinestones and the obligatory dice knobs. They have done nothing but damage and cheapen the scene, same goes for Psychobilly, where theres 100x more double-bass snobbery. 51 RI P-bass will sound the best, and looks trad enough without snobs criticising you for having a "normal" off the peg P-bass.

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='1045927' date='Dec 3 2010, 04:14 AM']Hallo! Looking and sounding fantastic! One of my students took a pic of me with my MPC in my studio which is still awaiting the rest of its surgery (the bass, not the studio) - the bottom horn still requires thinning down and the top is to be thinned a tad - and the lower edge of the body is still a bit pointy - the real thing is slightly flatter! The bass is at an angle (I see when I'm with you!!) too so looks a bit thin across the top side etc. Nice hat eh? [/quote] Haven't I seen that Elektra somewhere before Glad you started the mods, I had the damn thing for YEARS and never got round to "Squiring it" !

Looks like I annoyed some people here. OK, I (personally) never really got on with the concept of "a song" as opposed to a performance, a good example being "Brown Sugar", which I have never ever heard a really good cover of, or any kind of backslapping cabaret exercise. I don't care HOW good the original is, if its played badly or without any conviction or with half the band SIGHT READING it, then I am likely to go home. I have a major problem with a stage full of 40-50 somethings with brand new boutique equipment wailing away aimlessly, adding 25 extra solos to "Mustang Sally" and playing everything in dead military 4/4 with no feel or swing while they disguise their paunch with something "the wife" picked up for them from Burtons, over their brand new loose fit 501s. It just smacks of desperation, although thats where the money is unfortunately, so originals bands get strangled in favour of another mind-numbing "The Fred Starwrangler Blues Experience plays Clapton" at the Dog and Duck. The only really REALLY good covers band I have ever seen and went back again and again to was Paddy Goes To Holyhead. They actually nailed most of the stuff with good accuracy and proper presentation and stagecraft. They are a rare thing. Tribute acts are another thing entirely, but I have to say both Dressed To Kill (Ceteras band) and "The Musical Box" (Canadian Genesis tribute) were BETTER than the bands they are copying. They put the work in and it paid off in bucketloads. I'd rather see DTK in a pub than Kiss at the Enormo-dome.

I have players and under-the-bedders. The players I dont give a flying f*ck about, they are all battered and chipped and as long as they play and sound good, I don't care what state they are in, empty pickup holes, chunks out of the body etc, and I don't care if I drop them (within reason). The fact that I have some fairly desirable kit in that condition doesn't worry me, I bought them tatty for peanuts, and I'll leave them like that so I never have to worry if I dink them which is almost definitely going to happen at some gig somewhere. I have an 88 Steinberger XM that has been resprayed badly at least 3 times with car paint, all the binding is missing, and it has a custom camouflage finish at the moment, but I love it to bits and I will gig it and throw it around because I know I can't make it much worse than it already is, and it sounds IMMENSE! The super duper pristine ones I am frankly scared to get out of their cases too often, and they only get used at home or for recording.

Pay to play is bollox, but can sometimes be indulged if its a really good slot you are getting for an originals band. Pay to play for [b]cover bands[/b] is DOUBLE bollox, as everyone knows cover bands always attract a half decent crowd and make people dance and sing along when they have had a few, this keeps the beer flowing and the landlord happy. Face it, most venues are booking almost exclusively cover bands nowadays as they know its an instant crowd and even if the band is sh*t (which most cover bands are in some way or another) they can still get away with it.

Bass 2 for slap Bass 1 for everything else.

I spent about 250 quid modding one of my Epiphone thunderbirds, and I think it is now one of the nicest instruments I've owned. Does everything I want, looks the absolute tits with the stripped back blackness, EMGs etc, sounds INCREDIBLE through the Ampeg, lightweight and easy to grapple, even with the neck dive, and people usually exclaim "FUUUUCK!" when I take it out of the case. I'm going to build a Mk2 when I get the time and the spare funds. This one will have extra toys...

Right then, time to flood ebay with as much stuff as we can until the end of April, then everyone STOP. I am not paying those kind of fees for the risk associated with selling on their site.

Scarce but not collectable, its probably worth around 200 quid unless you can find a nutter, or hold onto it until 2017 when it will become "L00K R@RE V1N7@G3"

Why not just buy an SVT3 pro and a Boss OD1, and save yourself 2u and 14 pounds of wrist damage? or do you actually use the onboard compressor and octaver?