LukeFRC

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1359804612' post='1960468'] You cannot expect that the whole membership will feel as warm and fuzzy. [/quote] I felt warm and fuzzy when I met you McNach

were they your support band? you could have said hello!

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1359768734' post='1960248'] I hear what you're saying Luke. From a personal viewpoint I don't think I've ever bought a bass purely to make a profit on it. I do buy and sell a lot of stuff but pretty much every bass I buy is because I've really fancied owning it and giving it a try (I'm not including stuff where I've taken something in PX and have said up front I'm only doing it to sell onwards). [/quote] hence my point - it depends on the motive. Not everyone is as principled.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1359765689' post='1960213'] Why would you make an offer based on what the seller had paid? just because you want the bargain he had? Sorry, nope. I know people who have made their living spotting a deal and jumping at it and selling it at full market price (maybe after a bit of work). Most car dealers do it, are you going to walk on to a forecourt and say "Yeah, i saw this one on gumtree last week for £500, so i'll offer you £500, instead of the £1000 you want". My response would be "Well why didn't you buy it then?". [/quote] a dealer will be paying tax and other costs, there will also be a guarantee of some kind based on their work. Folk are happy to pay for this. their focus is speculating money on things in order to make a profit. If folk want to do that on Basschat that's fine but I personally would prefer they did it in the affiliates forum like all the other dealers (bass gallery, bass direct, bass gear etc) would

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1359761213' post='1960166'] Anyone remember the Fender CS that was sold on here several times, before finally being advertised for a far higher price? Caused something of stir at the time AFAIR. Opinions on the matter seem to have shifted in the intervening years. [/quote] too right- I've been reading this and wondering what has happened to this place in the last few years! Quite a change I think - I always thought there used to be a unwritten rule that you didn't try and make a profit out of buying and selling on here. Yes when ebay/inflation rates/or things generally going up in price get involved it gets more complex. [quote name='molan' timestamp='1359718056' post='1959197'] I'm inclined to agree. Lots of people lose money on most basses they sell. If someone makes a bit of profit now and then I can't see what's wrong? [/quote] It used to be if barry sold me a bass for £700 and I didn't get on with it I would sell it for about £700 to someone else - even if the bass could have fetched a wee bit more elsewhere, sticking it up here for £1000 a month later... it's not 'wrong' as such but kinda against the spirit of the thing. But then there are lots of different shades of it being right or wrong - like if I buy a bass and two years later everyone wants that bass so the value has gone up then aye you would stick the price up from what you paid. But if you bought something and 2 min later stuck it up... well the motivation for buying it seems to have been profit and not wanting to own a bass - that's when I think it can get a bit dubious for the forum. If it's about basses and there are small amount's of increase sometimes fine, if it's about folk trying to make a profit off each other then it all gets a bit crappy. (and if it is then shouldn't Basschat should be charging £5 per bass ad or something?) Like I'm fairly good at photography and words - so I can make a bass look nice (which makes it easier to sell), you work in a bass shop so I'm sure could easily sell things through there at a higher price (even after comms) just cos we have the abilty to take something from someone in the community cheaply and turn it into profit through our skills.... it doesn't make it morally right does it?

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1359717342' post='1959172'] It´s a good option but since you're buying a bridge why don't you get a high mass one instead? [/quote] cos it's a P bass- the general opinion is that high mass on jazz yes, on Precision no as it softens the perceived attack (thump)

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1359673299' post='1958787'] I think one of the main factors rounds became more popular is that they're @ 1/2 the price of flatwounds. If they were both about the same, then I think you'd see a lot more flatwound players (when was the last time you tried a bass in a shop that came with flats?). [/quote] I always presumed that that was because string makers will make less money off of flats as they will get replaced less regularly!

My last originals band (a while back now) did really really well given the lack of gigs we really played... and people loved us, why? cos we didn't take it too seriously and had fun. Which the audience could join in. We also were fairly intentional but weren't hanging our pride on being successful - and it showed.

[quote name='soul deluxe' timestamp='1359641132' post='1958085'] this was a sh*t bass literally,ended up round this guys house once at a party, he was a guitarist, but he had a bass.. was an encore p bass.. im not joking when i say it had dog sh*t all over the pickups... why, i will never know... strings were about as dead as they could be, not really the fault of the bass as there not hugely bad instruments if set up correctly.. but a bad experience all the same [/quote] oh look... a bass covered in poo, probably dog poo. I know what I'll see what the strings are like.... oh look dead as well...

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1359642595' post='1958111'] No, I haven't got a phone number for him (nor have I usually had one when I've traded here). I could email him via his PayPal address, I suppose, but I have no way of knowing how often that gets used. (I don't know if he's read this thread, but I have PMed him that it exists.) [/quote] what have the mods said? Have you chatted to any locals to him on here too? You say the fella's been one here for at least 3 years, you've traded before... look at his feedback thread and start contacting other folk he's traded with, one of them may have phone number/address for him. Email him via his paypal address! That would be more useful than starting this thread! you don't know if he gets it true.. but if you PMed me on Basschat the only way I would know is if I came onto basschat. You email me and my phone starts blinking at me....

[color=#000000][font=arial][size=3]"[/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial][size=3]but the style I'm looking for is indie rock or blues rock. This is a very broad spectrum.... and it's not going to work if everyone is pulling in different directions/genres"[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=arial][size=3]I have a feeling that this band would not be fun to be in. No fun, no social side creating a buzz or excitement about what you are doing, nope turn up and play your (well his) indie rock and be serious it's all about being "successful" whatever that means to a 42 year old guitarist who's " [/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial][size=3]spent half my life getting my music to where it's at"[/size][/font][/color]

I clicked guitar but feel the need to specify I envy classical guitarists. None of this electric or acoustic nonsense- real proper classical guitar. I did an internship based in a psychiatric hospital and every week we would have drop in art sessions for a variety of in patients and out patients. A great wee group of different people all in different places in how they were and ability and skill in art and stuff. Well one day they were running a project and got a couple of the out patients in both in their 60's, neither of them that skilled at art really - but he bought this cheapish classical guitar in and books of music and started playing a bach piece. It blew me away - I'll never reach that level of musicianship, skill, technique and beauty in music. (im ok with that)

sh*te soundwise or contstruction? Construction wise an Epiphone T bird I was setting up for a mate. Honestly don't think they could have used a softer metal on the metal parts and just a bit nasty. Even worse than the made of cardboard dan electro I had for a while. Most other things you can get playable can't you? Sound wise... dunno, nothing really awful. Some really really bland sounds though. the epiphone above being a prime example!

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1359595080' post='1957422'] That's made my evening mate, thank you! [/quote] went back for a second listen! i think it's her voice that reminds me of ZvG - they are very glasgow sounding and you are more London... hand written notes in vids though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3h7nmL9PKM

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1359594416' post='1957416'] Warwick Streamer ChromeTone with an ebony fretboard, mate I f***ing adore it! [/quote] ahh I just found it, listened to a load of Kit Richardson stuff too... laptop speakers on low late at night but it sounds great man. (given I couldn't hear the bass at all ) reminded me a bit of zoey van goey (check out the propeller vs wings album)

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1359549823' post='1956382'] It's not just tone that we're after with kit though, [b]the attack and release, and the envelope, are as important, or even more so, than tone[/b]. Tone is a misleading word. True that a lot of our sounds come from what we do with our hands, but if your bass, amp and effects are not reacting to your hands in the way you need or expect, or in a way that pleases and inspires you, or in a way that fits your musical vision or the music you play, then it's time to change that kit for something that does. Of course, there is a lot of inexperience or ignorance around too, which the industry likes to capitalise on. I change my sounds quite often, I am on a journey of improvement. But because I have a POD X3 LIVE, I dont need to spend loads of cash buying and selling amps and effects to get what I want. And I have the ONE bass which delights me. [/quote] +1 which is all part of how it sits in the mix. I am going to hunt through your posts to work out what that "one" is

A festival/industry gig. Set up with 12 different venues in the town and music on constantly at them all, free to see anything. Deal was we all used the provided backline - which was great as some music shop had sponsored it all and it was all good stuff, you know brand new state of the art stuff.... except Ashdown had just brought out their superfly amp. Now by choice I wouldn't play ashdown, but I regularly used an ABM300 head and they arn't awful- just not my flavour. The superfly however.... arrrgh the amount of time i sat hitting buttons to try and set the EQ vauguely right, you couldn't work out the gain and volume and worst of all I lent back mid gig and put my hand on it and you could have fried eggs on it.