LukeFRC

Vigier?

No I think you can. I think you need to know what you want to play. If you're a precision player and settled on that, or a Jazz or Stingray player or whatever- so that when you see the latest sexy bass that isn't what you have settled on you're happy with your direction. And if you know deeply in your heart and head that a different Jazz bass than your Jazz bass, for example, is just that - different, not better. But I think a better question is "what would you do with the money instead" - secondhand instruments are unlikely to devalue super quickly, the money will gain little interest at the moment (although debts are good to pay off).

of course it is possible. You would probably want to avoid Basschat though. It seems to encourage the "what else would you like" tendancies. I currently have four basses, which is probably two too many. Interestingly I've had unsolicited questions about if I want to see three of the four in the last few weeks... I haven't wanted too!

Not mine, mine is green

Saw @zomnius post from years ago and thought this link would be useful... 1981 slot-pole piece L1000 anyone? https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass/products/g-l-l-1000-1981

I'm half cured of GAS... that said give me some money and... 1- A precision bass. I miss having one. I thought I was over it and then tried the custom shop one they had in PMT. I've a long time half-want for a Bravewood. Ideally a custom colour of some kind. 2- I loved trying @Frank Blank's Rob Allen Mouse bass at a the Midlands bass bash.... I'd have one of them! 3- A random one from years back- Wes Steed used to be on here and make some lovely looking vintage basses. Including a Herbie Flowers replica. I didn't know who Herbie Flowers is, and still don't, but loved the look of that bass... It's from the time before relicing was a big thing too. I think @molan was the last person to own it and then sold it via Bass Gear ... and it's not been seen since. I hope it's got a nice home look the internet found a picture of it!

What’s the sea foam green precision?

Update from me: Lockdown means I have been using my headphones loads. iMac or MacBook Pro into a Behringer Q802 mixer as a headphone amp and then into the headphones. The recent relaxation of the lockdown rules mean that we got to have a socially distanced walk with the in-laws. They gave me the broken Edifier HD850 (which are sold as "Phil Jones tuned" in some sales literature from outside Europe and are either exactly identical to the Phil Jones H-850 headphones... or are from the same company but completely different components and tuning, just in the same shell...) Ten minutes, some plastic cement and lots of electrical tape and they are in one piece, but unable to fold flat. So I got to try them out back to back with compared to the AKG K-240DF headphones. Both were bought on eBay, one set was new at £35 and the other secondhand at £32. They sound so different. Neither are 'bad'. The AKG need a lot more juice too power them (600ohm vs 32ohm)... The Edifier are closed back and the AKG semi open back The Edifier has a lot more bottom end, but it feels like the mids aren't as flat. Testing a few songs, like the double bass at the start of Common's "Be (intro) " the Edifier sounds nice, there's a good stereo-ness going on ... but the AKG sounds a lot more like a natural instrument. I think they give way more detail, stuck on Billy Jean... a song we've all heard a million times... I don't think I had noticed the finger clicks before. On the HD850, now I knew there were there I could make them out, but they were very much lost in the mix. So both very different. I think if I had been given some unbroken Edifiers I would have been happy. But as it is the AKG K-240DF are a league ahead sound wise. (which is probably what you would expect when comparing a random chinese brand with Austrian made AKGs)

be careful how and where in your signal chain you Eq. I've got some Ultimate Ears UE900s or something like that - they are good enough to give a decent mix and headroom to play live (in my case at church) - but it's helpful to realise what you can hear in your IEM and what you want to send to the PA are not necessarily the same thing. Especially if you're used to hearing your bass from a cab, and you're now listening to your bass through a DI

Status Groove was their "stingray" a like. The @lowregisterhead is selling a Lakland stingray-a-like.

case in point - your Jazz... I bet if it was made by a company in Brooklyn you would be selling it for double the amount....

My surprise was I had the USB into the laptop, and then the out into the bass amp... pressed record and the GarageBand click track and drum loop suddenly was coming, very loud, out my bass amp! Was not expecting it to send audio both ways!

Yes I think so. I’m pretty sure that’s what I was doing into GarageBand

As in tip is FS4 and ring is fs5 in stomp, your pedal is the other wayround with A is ring and B is Tip. but seeing as you can assign the pedals to whatever you want in the software I don’t understand why it would matter

But if FS4 = stomp 5 and FS5 = stomp 4 does it matter?

Photos upside down but you can scroll here with what each switch does - so it can be stomp 4 or 5 or whatever

You can change that

Here we go... you will have two or three by the end of the year!

I doubt it was made in Markneukirche as I thought they only moved there in 1992 after reunification

Here’s a question- to the folk who have lots of basses, do you have darker and lighter sounding basses in your arsenal? Do you use them for different things? reason I ask. My main bass for years was a Japanese ‘57ri, I’ve a fairly strong right hand finger style technique and digging in harder would unlock this wonderful grindy sound. (it’s not the strings hitting the frets clank as I have the action higher than that) I use this for a more aggressive louder sound and then hit softer for a less aggressive sound. my latest bass, an old Lakland 55-94 is a darker sounding bass, with supposedly “darker” sounding pickups and preamp... when I dig in the tone doesn’t change much, just gets louder! Now that could be a positive, but it’s a bit unnerving at the moment. I guess the question is how do people approach different sounding basses? Pickup swapping to get similar response vs enjoying instruments for their differences..

Often when folk refinish instruments my response goes from “I guess that suits them” to “meh” to “what where they smoking?” that though looks exquisite

Guy called Steve Evans who then went on to form a company called Beltona who make fibreglass resonators Or something. I know very little about guitars but I was nice that it was someone that was a Luthier rather than some bodger in their shed. So there you go - not that exciting! it’s quoted you twice - no idea why!

Hmmm... I've had a few... My first amp was a Hughes & Kettner QT600, Mike Walsh ( @Cosmicrain) of Zoot bass fame used to run a bass shop at the time and I've no idea how, but I ended ringing him up and he sold it to me, new for what must have been under his cost price. It was great, sold it to buy a Tecamp Puma which was also nice but I regretted selling it... about 12 amps later I tracked down another QT600 and that's now my amp. But a great deal from Mike to a very young bass player. My second involved visiting my aunt and uncle in my hometown... they spend a lot of time in the conservatory so after arriving ran through the side gate, past the bins and made them jump. I then went back to the bins as there was a dirty guitar headstock sticking out the bin... a quick look and it was a Yamaha guitar and it had "made in Japan" stamped on it. Going back inside my aunt was very pleased about doing their first big deep clean for ten years and had thrown out my cousins Playstation controller as he never plays Guitar hero any more. It was a beautiful '80's Yamaha SG400, I stashed it at my parents for a few months to make sure my uncle didn't remember why he had a guitar in the wardrobe and took it, it was missing it's back plate so I made one and worked out how to add coil taps to it too. I kept it for a few years and then as I'm not much of a guitarist, sold it. Some of the money from that sale bought a 1976-77 Yamaha BB1200 bass which was a Ebay auction I won for an embarrassing amount. I sold that a year to two later as I wasn't enjoying the sound and bought my 1981 G&L L1000. Essentially I don't think it cost me anything! Having sold the SG400 though I was missing having a guitar to muck around on, and an acoustic is far more simple to just pick up for a wee bit. But if I got one I wanted a smaller bodied parlour type... I had a budget of around £200-300 so was looking at cheaper Yamaha APX type stuff. When on eBay I noticed some odd looking custom guitar, a smaller bodied parlour type ... no maker, no labels, in Leeds where I live... It could have been anything coming out the cheapest factory in china! It wasn't a great advert. Except one of the images showed a closeup of the frets edges. And what looked unmistakably like a very nice bit of ebony, and well finished binding and fret ends... so I took a gamble, figuring if I had bought some cheap chinese pile of rubbish I would have lost a couple of hundred but I would at least have got a guitar (abet a bad one). I won it for about £280 I think. After traveling 30 miles to pretty much the edge of Yorkshire (or Leeds as the eBay seller called it) I turned up at a house in the middle of know where... and find an amazing hand built acoustic by a luthier who then went on to be come famous for different instruments, in a new Hiscox hardcore.... and the reciept from when the seller bought it secondhand for £1,500 or so! It sounds it too.