JohnFitzgerald

Well, I hope never to have to sell it, so I'll come clean. £150. That was the asking price. I suspected it wouldn't hang about so paid him the asking price. I imagine I'd get my money back if I ever have to sell it.

Clean ? I might think about getting rid of the worst of the dust. Other that, all the tarnishing will be staying right where it is !

Had been looking for a wee while and this came up locally on Gumtree. Very poorly described. I had to buy it. [media]http://www.flickr.com/photos/zilspeed/sets/72157637339981903/[/media]

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1372360053' post='2124894'] Aaahh. If only. My confession: I took my Yammy TRB1005 Fretless to the band practice and..... I didn't enjoy it at all! I was spending far too much time getting my intonation right and not enough attention on the music. Now don't get me wrong - I LOVE playing my fretless - on my own. I don't have any probs. And, I've played gigs fretless when I had a Westone Thunder IIIb (Unmarked fingerboard) so it's not like I can't do it. Just don't seem to be able to give the appropriate attention in the band. Looks like there might be a TRB1005 up for trade..... G. [/quote] Geoff You have a very much delayed pm. Nevertheless, you have a PM.

I ended up buying a TC BG250. Once I had tried it out, it was a done deal. Nothing on the spec of either this or the Markbass confirms that they have neo speakers. But look at the weight. When you pick them up, they can't be anything else. They're so light. Mega impressed with the BG250 so far.

[url="http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Markbass-CMD-JB-Players-School-250-W-Combo-Amp/PY3"]http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Markbass-CMD-JB-Players-School-250-W-Combo-Amp/PY3[/url] Seems a bit of a bargain at the price. £425 street price for a 250W Markbass combo with a 15" speaker. Can't find one locally to try unfortunately. This or a TC BG250 or a GK MB115 ?

Note to self. Give thanks that even though you're left handed, you learnt to play right handed.

Got some snaps of my preamp. Just getting them sorted and will upload them.

My TRB5 has a Delano preamp in it, the original preamp is sitting here if pics would help.

I agree with the above. Schooldays and Romantic Warrior contain so many classic Stanley lines.

I had a Wal once for a week and it was such a dissapointment that I took it back to the shop and exchanged it for a Hohner Jack which was ten times the bass that the Wal was. I should explain. It was a Wal Pro Bass, so far less of a proposition than a custom. Nevertheless, I was so excited to get it in the first place and even more dissapointed when I got it to a gig and it was just dead. Of course, there's a downside to me swapping it out for the far better Hohner. I paid £350 for it in the early 90s. I'd probably get close to that for the Hohner now. Had I kept the Wal, I suspect I'd be adding £1,000 to that value now. I should have kept it under the bed and accepted it as junk and sold it now. The fact that it was a Wal would have been enough. I had a similar experience with an Overwater. Wanted to love it, didn't. Thankfully, when I got shot of that the shop where I sold it was ravenous to buy it off me.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1360427856' post='1970238'] Me too - great for you to get your friend's bass but what a wierd thing for him to say! [/quote] He plays in a tribute band that covers some band that had an album out about the dark side of something or other. Apparently this year is some sort of anniversary of that album and this year's set is very specific and to do with that album. They do well out of it, but you don't ever ever go off piste. If there's no fretless, there's no fretless. You stick to the script. I do get his point, and was delighted for the offer.

I had mentioned to a friend recently that I was looking to get a fretless. He very kindly told me that their set this year doesn't involve any fretless so I shouldn't go buying one but could try his out. Take it away,use it, look after it, but don't buy one when you don't need to What a great and kind offer. So I picked it up and set to getting my eye in. It's a Mex Jazz with line fingerboard, (or fongerboad as they used to say on alt.guitar.bass) It's sporting some upgraded pickups, and that's it. Wearing some flats too. So, got my eye in this week and took it out today for a 6 rehearsal. The owner was there too as he runs the rehearsal facility. Had intended using it for a couple of specific tunes but ended up using it for the whole 6 hours. Great for the mellifluous stuff, but also just generally great for everything. The poor old Yamaha TRB5 sat unused on the stand. The band loved the bits I had targeted for the fretless and everything else just worked fine too. Anybody else just play a fretless for everything ?

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That'd maybe be a step too far. Major believe suspension required, or just forget keys altogether and do the shapes and relative comparison method which I sometimes use. (Once I'm up and running, I think and play in sol-fa whatever key I'm in.) I'd need to think about this.

Both of the 5 string Jazz basses I have had were conventional BEADG. So was my Hohner B Bass V a million years ago. My recently acquired TRB5 came to me tuned EADGC. My first reaction was that I would have to splash out on a new set of string. Then I thought I would maybe leave it as it was and see how I got on. I'm quite taken with it actually. The low B is maybe a bit easy to access ordinarily and it's tempting to hit those low notes. Not having it, maybe makes me appreciate that a low E is far enough down and a D or C is just fine an octave above that. Having the high C without needing the 6 string feels quite liberating. I think I'll be leaving it tuned EADGC in the meantime. There's always an occasional possibility to drop down to DADGC if required. Fairly taken with it, it's a lovely bass. [attachment=126169:IM000796.JPG]

There'll be a lefty player out there who is looking for a TRB and can't find one. Ebay currently has a lefty TRB1005 which is maybe on its second or third time round the block with no takers at £560. If you want to sell, it's a bit less than that, even though that's a TRB1005.

Bought a Yamaha TRB5 from Ross and he was a gent to deal with. No problems at all. Cheers JF