LukeFRC

knock £150 or so off and I'll take it?

I’ve not met you, but imagine you have larger hands than average!

Or have the notifications for new threads turned on…

If you think back 12-15 years - the pound was fairly strong, interest rates were very low and it really was either basschat or eBay to sell things. it kinda makes sense that a smaller forum would have a sense of value of things that would be fairly static- so me buying a Mesa from @Beedster in 2011 for £400 and selling it again 3 years later I would probably sell it here, for about £400 - we all had ideas of value based on past sales. since then- inflation has shot up, the pound lost a lot of value because of B…reasons and general prices of new things have gone up lots- even compared to inflation. EBay has been joined by fb marketplace and reverb as places to sell - and reverb prices asked rather than sold or auction encourages higher asking prices. Covid left a lot of musicians with no work, and a lot of other people with money to burn- all pushing some prices up… in that environment and a standard USA fender nearing £2k new, how much something is “worth” isn’t as nailed down. So people’s behaviour changes mind you there’s some stuff in the for sale forum that’s been there ages - it’s not flipping if it doesn’t flip!

I think I may have missed those stories, and am too young to pick up the pop culture references! Apart from crime watch

I think the days of basschat being a lovely community where people sold on to fellow bass geeks and no one was trying to flip gear have well gone. Though I think we have to be careful with the why, not everything is people selling for profit, sometimes time passes and prices change, sometimes things get more desirable quickly - or other times people are having to sell gear for cash very quickly... I have a Lakland which I tried out and liked but was swithering to buy it or not, the guy was like "I need the cash for a car, it's a good price, please buy it" and came around my house to sell it to be en-route to the car dealers... What I normally do when selling is have two prices in mind. My mates-rate basschat price, and the advertised price, you know what - there's a big chunk of basschatters who will get it at the lower price, but the asking price hopefully scares off any flippers.

I think there's a place for questioning synth bass pedals and pointing out that an actual synth (or laptop and midi controller of choice) would do more better or whatever. But equally, as a non-piano player, I could stick a FI4 on my board and play synth bass stuff straight away with a fairly minimal learning curve (presuming reasonably clean technique), with no additional hardware or stage set-up changes. For what it's worth I'ld love a FI4 vip - it's an amazing little box... but I'ld also like a Arturia MiniFreak... not sure where the money for either will come from and how much I would use either....

Ahh - it wouldn’t surprise me tbh

Cloning circuits if fine ripping off trade dress deff not! having the original makers name on the pcb - awful - if it opens up easily and I get a chance I’ll take a photo of the inside of a real one

this

my last wee project was mashing together a Euna preamp and a Broughton high-pass/low pass ... running at +-17.5v or so, I had a switch to choose 10M, 1.5M or about 500k input impedance - 1-1.5M feels about right without losing something in the balance of the sound of a Bass IMO. I was just using TL072 though, cheap enough in the PCBA process that I didn't experiment with anything sexier. Sounds like you need to filter the DC from the output or something to stop the pops. you'll be no ones friend feeding DC into the PA!

It's not, it's Jost, fender use Futura I think it's the standard from the shopify theme

that's not something you see everyday is it?