neepheid

4 hours ago, rwillett said:

We might theme the Bass Bash as the "North West and Scotland Bass Bash, Petting Zoo and Glam Rock Fest" now.

You rang?

2 minutes ago, ezbass said:

I feel a tier 2 fail in the offing as I’m looking very hard at a roller bridge for my Epi Casino and pretty sure I’ll be ordering one in the coming week. By doing this, I avoid going out and buying a Gretsch 5420 or similar (well, at least it off for another while).

Can it nae wait?  What's wrong with the bridge on it at the moment?

16 minutes ago, sprocketflup said:

My first time I've participated in one of these threads as I knew it was pointless in years past, so no surprise I've just bought something. It's JPJ's second hand Line6 G30 wireless system for my second stage bass as swapping one wireless between the two (fretted and fretless) Barrymored the jack plug on the fretted, so this is so I can have each bass with its own system/signal and save wear and tear.

If I'm not mistaken that is tier 2, so I'm still hanging by my fingernails onto tier 1.   However, more than happy for the Gear Abstinence Thread legal teams to debate the validity of my claim

I think you're on shaky ground here - it's gear, it's being plugged into a bass, it's very much in your signal path.  This is like arguing that you're still in because you bought a "guitar" pedal or something which was not specifically designed for bass.  Last year I bowed out because I bought a pitch shifter - it is not bass specific but it's definitely gear.  If I hadn't got that, then the wireless system I bought after it would definitely have had me bowing out.

Two separate wireless systems seems like an indulgence/convenience to me, as much as you describe it as a wear and tear saving exercise, you didn't have to do it that way - you could have left the bass you use least during the show wired up with a cable, for instance.  Or just accepted that jack sockets fail, repaired it and carried on as you were.

For sale is one EHX Battalion preamp.  I bought it new last year during a bout of pedalboard troubleshooting to replace my Joyo Monomyth but it turned out that the Monomyth was fine and it's what I'm used to so this is now sitting around idle.  Great pedal for a bit of consolidation, gives you some EQ control, overdrive/distortion, it has a compressor and a noise gate and of course has a DI out (with separate level control).

I only used it a handful of times, it's basically as new - feet still attached, no velcro.  Comes with original PSU and in original box with all the stickers and gubbins.

I'm asking for £80, including postage, but will lop off a fiver if you can collect in Aberdeen.

All I can say is "oi oi, Triad gang represent!"

I wouldn't mind knowing what sets these apart from the Squiers being made in the same place, save for a change of decal.

1 minute ago, Chienmortbb said:

Stratocaster bass?

Finally a five string version of the Reverend Triad.  The (stock) pickup switching is identical to a Strat, yes - N, N+M, M, M+B, B.

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

I know Gibson did some weird and wonderful shaped p/gs on the SG shape, but WTAF?

There's no way that's factory fitted.

12 hours ago, LowB_FTW said:

 

Damn that GAS.

 

Mark

I think this will make quite a few folk happy.  I'm sure I've seen people lament the lack of a fiver whenever I mention my 4 string Triad.

4 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

Stranglers - Peaches. Had no idea how to tune my bass when I first started playing, so I had to re-learn it once I did. Unsurprisingly, it suddenly made a lot more sense!

 

Went on to learn the entire Rattus Norvegicus album, which on reflection, was a great tutorial & has probably had a long-term influence!

Bloody doppelgänger!

More new Sire stuff (as noted by Bigwan above - because I hate it when people come along after me and pretend like they're the first person to ever mention something) - it seems that the 6 series is focusing on being lightweight - that'll please a bunch of folk for whom weight is an important consideration for them.

There's a P6 (PJ) and V6 (J) been unveiled in addition to the M6 at the start of the thread...  active/passive with 3 band EQs but no mid sweep.  You gotta buy a 7 for that.

P6 - 4 https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqt

P6 - 5 https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqy

V6 - 4 https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqq

V6 - 5 https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqe - although a couple of the pics are the 4 string, oops. Blue and red ones are 5s.

2 minutes ago, MichaelDean said:

I need one of these in my life. The black sparkle with blocks and binding? Yes please. Need to work out how to make that happen...
https://www.andertons.co.uk/sire-v7-alder-5string-bass-2nd-gen-in-black-sparkle/

Well, as I understand it, it goes like this:

You give Andertons money

Andertons give you the bass.

25 minutes ago, SimonK said:

 

I am wondering whether rather than always arguing for creative exclusions (albeit fun!) it might be more helpful just to state what does count as a purchase? Something like:

 

Tier 1:

Bass Guitars

Bass Amps/Cabs

Pedals

 

Tier 2:

Guitars or other instruments including percussion

Guitar or other instruments/PA amps or cabs

Effects pedals

Studio equipment, keyboards, synths etc.

 

What fun would that be?  Boo!  Also, none of you are thick, you know damn well what is and isn't gear, but don't stop squirming, it's most of the fun (because abstaining from buying gear roundly sucks - we need the entertainment!)

Bags/straps are accessories/consumables as far as I'm concerned.  Hell, you could argue that straps are safety equipment, or even clothing!  Straplocks are gear though - so unless you're replacing a broken one - tough luck.  Go buy a couple of Grolsch and use the free straplocks that come with them instead.  Or enjoy the free beer which comes with those "straplocks", depending upon how you look at it.

I've already told you about the straps I ordered using my D'addario Player Circle points (accumulated from strings not bought this year for added piousness!) and I'm not out.  I debated whether or not to even mention it, that's how innocuous I consider these items to be in the context of this challenge, but I figured transparency would be appreciated - as well as give folk ideas for "legal" ways to calm their withdrawl symptoms...

2 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

I have succumbed, but in my defence, it is only an amp gig bag. £15 from my Chinese mate Ali.

From the rules - "There used to be a convention that things not in the signal path didn’t count. So straps, stands and the like were allowed. I'm cool with that - what do others think?"

I for one don't think something as paltry as a bag counts.  Protecting our gear is only prudent and perfectly in line with the mantra of using what we have (in this case, protecting it so we don't have to replace it).

12 hours ago, Richard R said:

Hypocrisy 1.01: I started this year's Gear Abstinence Thread, and now I am checking the updates on No Treble's website site 🤣

 

https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2025/01/23/namm-2025-new-bass-gear-reveals-launches-and-updates/

 

I'd like to play the Sterling MM Bongo.

 

 

I've been playing Russian roulette with FB Marketplace a few times a week.  The day we stop looking is the day we die...

"Peaches" by The Stranglers.  Learned it on the bottom four strings of a guitar so I had something to play when I went to the music shop to buy my first bass.

2 minutes ago, PinkMohawk said:

Has there been any mention of price yet? 

https://www.andertons.co.uk/search.php?search_query=sire m6

41 minutes ago, ead said:

It's in the diary Rob, not sure what I'll be bring yet as I've move a fair few basses on due to some arthritis problems in my hands.  I have found a massager thingy which is helping though, which is good (but maybe less so for the listening public).

 

I can't find last year's thread, possibly not searching for the right thing.  Can anyone point the way please?

 

Alain

Last year's thread - https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/486962-nw-bass-bash-2024-sat-may-18th/

Surely the answer lies somewhere in between these entrenched and polarised viewpoints.

Scarcity plays a part.  I could probably sell my G&L Tribute LB-100 (or my wunkay) for more than I bought them new, that's the way it is right now because G&L seem to have gone utterly AWOL in the last couple of years as far as the UK market is concerned.

24 minutes ago, Bolo said:

That would be the MTD/Tobias body shape.

If you say so.  To be honest, I only see nods to each other, rather than slavish copying.  Just looking at the regular headed M2/5/7 versus the MTD, the bridge end of the body is different (the taper to a point - an exaggerated version of a Ken Smith, perhaps?), the top horn is a bit sharper, the bottom cutaway looks a bit different (slightly less deep), the bottom horn looks a bit different too and the headstock is different (in the case of the 5 string, the 2/3 arrangement is also reversed).  Looks more like influence than out and out copying to me.

It's fan fret time... as someone alluded to in a thread about fan fretted basses, Sire have unveiled their new M6 range:

Looks like fretless is probably on the table also, dunno about lefties yet.

Skeleton official pages (subject to change and probably removal when things go proper official)

4 - https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bq-36831494282

5 - https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bq
6 - https://sire-usa.com/products/refn1ay3zbjam3bqs

So have at it - the headstock's gone, they're using their own body shape (adapted from the M2/5/7), so you're going to have to find new things to complain about

It would appear that part of Great Britain has broken off from the rest and is floating away...

9 hours ago, fretmeister said:

 

 

It is my first bitsa.

 

I don't have any string trees that aren't already on basses.

PM me your deets if you want it.  You can even have the rusty bit of the thread, for free!  (man, the zooming in makes it look so much worse than it is)

9 minutes ago, ped said:

Oh yeah it was hot as hell! But dial the volume back a tad and it sounded very P like

 

 

So that's what that round, sticky-out thing is for!