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Collection in person only. That's why it's likely to go cheaply.

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1482243122' post='3198754'] Unfortunately domestic luthiers are going to have to put their prices up eventually too - they may have enough wood/parts in stock at the moment to allow them to cash in on boosted orders due to the Fender price but once they run out they'll find all their parts are costing more to import. I can't think of any UK luthiers whose instruments are 100% UK sourced, though would happily hear if there are any. Once they need new parts, I can't see many absorbing the higher cost - they'll pass it to consumers. [/quote] I doubt there are any basses that are 100% domestically sourced whatever country they are made in. Gus, Overwater and Wal all make the majority of their hardware (or have it made especially for them) but where do the raw materials for these come from? Is anyone using UK grown wood for their guitars and basses? Gus use English Cedar for the bodies but the necks are Canadian Cedar, and while the carbon fibre material for the outer wrap comes from a company on the IOW, I don't know where the raw materials themselves come from.

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1487921432' post='3244089'] Not a sleeve but the Gator GR-2S is exactly the correct size for these amps. I had my LH1000 in one and it was perfect [/quote] Unless the lids are much deeper than normal I wouldn't consider that rack to be big enough, as for me part of the point of rack mounting amps is so I can have the speaker, mains and any other leads permanently attached to the amp in order to speed up setting up.

Thanks for posting that. I'm liking that song a lot. Is this going to be an actual physical release (CD or vinyl) or just download?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1487848425' post='3243458'] A serious musician would understand the concept of different basses, sounds and even dress being appropriate or not in different playing circumstances. If you are in this situation you just have to decide how serious you are about your playing. All this "tell 'em to F Off" is no very grown up. [/quote] Yes image is important, and I would be the one of the very first to acknowledge that, but AFAICS the band doesn't really have very much of an image, and the bass currently in use by the OP is IMO perfectly adequate from a visual PoV.

There is no ONE bass that will cure my GAS, because there is no one bass that completely covers every musical application. While I don't really need any more basses other than these: There would always be room for a fretless 5-string Gus with ACG pickups and electronics, and a Fender VI style 6-string without the ridiculously narrow neck of the Fender VI. But I don't actually NEED any of them. At the moment I'm just looking at replacing my current 4 cabs with 2 small lightweight ones and then I could honestly say I'm done.

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1487840105' post='3243347'] Re the custom option, I would not go down that route unless I knew exactly what I wanted out of a bass. The risk is throwing all that coin at something that may not ultimately be right as a package. You could find yourself looking to spend money again real soon. [/quote] I think where a lot of custom builds fall down is that the person commissioning the bass gets involved in all the wrong decisions, such as woods, pickups, electronics and hardware; when they should simply go to their luthier of choice and say how they want the bass to look, feel and sound and let them get on with picking the components that are going give the correct end result.

It might be worth visiting your local [url=http://www.epiphone.com/Support/Dealers.aspx?mappath=/Support/Dealers/Europe/United-Kingdom]Epiphone dealer[/url] and asking them or at least getting a contact for the UK distributor.

[quote name='Bridgehouse' timestamp='1487791798' post='3243017'] This was another option I did think about - but I know nothing about them really.... [/quote] Which is exactly why you need to get out there and try a load more basses before making a decision. If I had that kind of money to spend I'd want to explore every option first, and not just rush out and buy the first shiny thing that I have coveted for a while.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1487785626' post='3242916'] This. I can't think of many proggers back in the day who used Fenders bar John Paul Jones and occasionally Geezer. [/quote] There were plenty. It's just that they weren't as visually or sonically noticeable as those who were using Rickenbackers and other more interesting basses.

I don't think that any band I've been a member of has lasted more than a couple of years without a line-up change.

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1487781534' post='3242845'] Up until quite recently I thought Daft Punk was a genre.... G. [/quote] Apparently it was a description of their previous band's debut single.

Do they have a keyboard player? If so, I hope his rig consists of (at least) a Hammond C3 plus Leslie, an original Fender Rhodes, a couple of Mini Moogs and a huge wall of Moog modules.

Image is important. And I find it hilarious that "Progressive" rock band should be so boringly conservative. I'd have understood it if they had deemed you Yamaha to be too conventional. If this was me, and I really liked the music I'd be tempted to turn up to the next rehearsal with either a Fender in exactly the same colour as the Yamaha, or something really weird looking, but in a nice safe sunburst finish.

[quote name='Jakester' timestamp='1487774662' post='3242710'] I believe that if you list something on eBay for sale you are obliged to use PayPal as a payment method, even if you've put cash on collection in the listing - so your buyer can still pay by PP even if you don't want them to. Of course, there's nothing to stop you agreeing cash on collection , but you can't insist. [/quote] You are obliged to offer PayPal, but you aren't obliged to accept it. II rarely offer collection in person as an option on the items I sell, so if someone wants to do that they have to contact me to see if it is OK, at which point I always tell them that it will be cash payment if they want to collect - and I point out that eBay themselves recommend this approach. Anyone who quibbles with this, gets their bids removed and is blocked from the auction.

On a slightly more serious note... Shoegaze tends to be fuzz-laden and drone-based with post-punk influences. For actual examples try My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. OtOH Alternative Rock is now most definitely modern mainstream rock. It was only really alternative for a few minutes in the early 90s. HTH

[quote name='Svend' timestamp='1487706500' post='3242067'] Hi there may a stupid question. What kind of music will a Hollow body bass acommodate Best regards [/quote] Just about anything really. My MiK Warwick StarBass is on the tracks from my band's mini album [url=https://terrortones.bandcamp.com/album/the-monsterpussy-sessions]The MonsterPussy Sessions[/url] And for a complete contrast remember that Peter Hook of New Order and Simon Gallup of The Cure both use Eccleshall hollow-bodied basses.

I think you need to try a lot more basses first before spending any money. Given the sums being mentioned you could have pretty much anything you want so long as it isn't a super-rare vintage bass or something that's once been owned by someone famous (or some of Jens Ritter's more "out there" creations). So take a few days out and go and visit Bass Direct in Warwick and The gallery and Andy Baxter in London (for starters) and go and play as many different basses as you can get hands on.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1487754425' post='3242375'] Yes, but then i wouldn't have the responsibility of potential damage if someone else booked the courier. Thats the whole point. If you're willing to pack & post, then you reach more buyers. [/quote] But it seems from your OP that although you are willing to pack you are not willing to post (or at least organise the posting). IME organising the courier is the easy bit. You go on the Interparcel website and book their standard delivery via UPS with the appropriate insurance. Print out the shipping labels. Job done in about 5 minutes. Its properly packing up the instrument so that it won't get damaged on the way is the tricky bit. As a buyer I won't deal with people who insist on me organising the courier, because from my perspective if they can't do that then how can I trust them to get the packing right. As I said before if you don't want the responsibility of organising the courier, then don't offer shipping as an option.

Technically the buyer is responsible if they have arranged the courier. However if you you don't want the hassle of potential damage to the instrument by posting, then simply don't offer it as an option, or even mention it in your listing. State cash on collection only. If potential buyers can't accept this you don't have to sell it to them. If necessary remove any bids they have made and block them on eBay.

Personally I wouldn't bother with either reverb or delay as an effect for the bass, because IME in the majority of cases they simply make the bass less distinct especially in a band mix. The only time I've been able to make delay work effectively was alongside a sequencer synchronised gate which chopped the notes short enough so that each note could be distinctly heard as a separate entity. And it would need to have a tap tempo function to keep it in time - something a lot of individual delay pedals don't have.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1487696091' post='3241933'] If they were to dip into their past I'd quite fancy a bass version of the Moderne tin opener. [/quote] A guitar that apparently only ever existed on paper in it's original version!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1487692557' post='3241890'] No. Learn the verse, chorus and midsection and listen to the vocals! [/quote] In my case the alternative versions were by the same band but the album versions that they played had whole extra sections with completely different chords that never appeared anywhere in the single version that I had learnt.

One of the problems when comparing and multi effects unit against single pedals is that people are rarely comparing like for like. A budget unit like the Zoom which does lots of things well - maybe some of them very well, isn't really going to be able to compete sonically with pedals that only do a single thing yet are each still more expensive than the multi effects unit. What you really need to do is to add up the total cost of all the individual pedals that you would like, and compare them against a multi effects unit of equivalent value. What you will find then is that the multi-effects will do some things better than some pedals and some things not as well and what is good what is not will depend on the manufacturer of the multi-effects unit. For me multi effects win out every time in a live situation for one thing - PROGRAMMABILITY. I know when I hit the button for a particular preset on my multi effects unit it's going to sound exactly the same as it did the last time I selected that combination of sounds. I'm not going to have to worry that the knobs might have got nudged in transit or by an over-enthusiastic member of the band or stage-invading audience member. There's no point in having a fantastic sounding pedal if it's all to easy to turn that killer sound into the worlds nastiest tone by a slight mis-setting of a control or two. And want a slightly different distortion on the next song? No need for multiple effects pedals or scrabbling on the floor trying to remember which setting to change. Simply pick the preset for the song and I'm ready to go. Finally my "pedal board" is at biggest, half the size it would need to be if I was going to do it all with dedicated effects pedals. In the studio, I'll use whatever I need to get the perfect sound for the track. Live I'll settle for a maybe slightly less good sound, safe in the knowledge that it will always be the same overtime I select it, and that if I need slight variations for different songs (or even different parts of the same song) they are all just a single footswitch press away.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1487680678' post='3241735'] I don't think I could be trusted not to knock some peoples' heads together if they flew me over to Nashville [/quote] It might do the company some good though. Every time I get the hankering to buy something from Gibson or one of their sub-brands I just need to remind myself what they did to Opcode and the feeling goes away.