tedmanzie

interested in the MF 107.
can't pm due to ipad site issue, will do tomorrow on my normal mac.
did you chuck the manual and box?!

when i try to message someone from my ipad the box pops up top left, half hidden and too small so can't be used. if i'm replying to someone its ok.

I joined this site purely to sell a bass I'd had lying around for years. Zero post newbie guitarist.

I made all the newbie mistakes - no price, no pictures, no other posts. Thanks to the friendly encouragement of the other members I soon listed price and pictures, and the bass was sold, a feedback thread was started, etc.

6 months later i've got two new basses, bought and sold many pedals, and have met several very nice chaps when collecting/trading. My guitars are gathering dust...

So that's what the old style classifieds has going for it!



I'd prefer it to remain free, or possibly £2 a lisiting.


Here's another idea - keep it basschat, but create a guitarists sub-forum and guitarists classifieds?! Why not drummers too? Just an idea.

Ted

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1354638999' post='1888539']
I'm also a guitarist who progressed to bass.

I use on the bass pretty much every technique I used on guitar. String bends are cool, but I like the pre-bend release into a low note, especially with a swell on the volume pedal and nasty distortion and flanger and stuff - sounds wickid!
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yeah that's the one i like - the pre-bent note released to a semi tone down.
did you ever move over from pick to fingers when going from guitar to bass? - my alternating picking is the only thing i got really good at on guitar so i'm sticking with it!

hey thanks for all your replies
i guess its personal taste like most of you have suggested, but good to hear some feedback. i was a bit curious about the vibrato thing particularly.

[b]chris-b [/b]- my strings are thomastik flats and are quite easy to get a semi tone bend, but i think they are lower tension than normal so maybe that's why. i'm certainly no Hulk, i've only got short bunny arms only good for picking up carrots.

[b]spike-vincent[/b] - i'm glad you do this. i'm going to carry on!

cheers
ted

i've played guitar for years. lots of years.
now i'm into the bass big time - 6 months.

what's the deal with vibrato and string bending (guitar habits - occasional semi tone bends), and what i can only describe as 'string knocking' - this is where you basically tap/lightly slap the strings where the snare drum hits.

i'm expecting mostly 'what ever sounds good' replies, but i'd be grateful of any opinions. especially vibrato. don't know if this a bass no-no, or a bass o-k?!

oh and one more - because i've got flat strings i've discovered a terrible desire to do this thing where you fret the note an octave higher on the same string and slide down into it. you know - a kind of fancy frill. i suspect that this is the equivalent of the pub singer warble, and considered fairly awful.

ted

Bass related and under a tenner? Tricky! some ideas:

- plectrums! (yes! Picks)
- lemon oil
- strap locks
- one string
- james brown live in paris 1971 download from itunes
- tempo (ipad / iphone app - excellent metronome app!)
- membership fee for basschat.co.uk 2014!
- miles davis auto-biography, still the best musician's biog i've read

cheers!
ted

the location thing is made worse by the profile not showing up in mobile devices apparently.

[quote name='XB26354' timestamp='1354525126' post='1886847']
Maybe it did, but having not bought or sold for a few months, I started looking in earnest again recently, and was surprised by a ) the apparent large rise in non-UK sellers and b ) the large number of ads by people with no posts who have just joined to flog something, either with a link to an eBay listing or a one liner posted from a phone.
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I don't have any problem at all with people with no posts joining just to put something up for sale, or joining just to buy something without posting in the rest of the forum.

And in fact this is a very important plus side of the [i]old[/i] forum sales section as it is has a large amount of self regulation going on - eg. [i]other members[/i] will comment "you need to state a price" or "this thread needs photos" or "where are you based" etc and you can often tell by the buyers communication skills and responses whether they are worth dealing with.

You'll also get another member saying if they know the seller etc. So for this reason alone I am keen to keep the old section. I know i keep going on about it but obviously a lot of members feel the same way, and the impersonal 'classifieds' is not the best way going forward, unless it can incorporate a post/comment system to mirror what we already have in the old section.

Also i don't know if the photo upload is fixed yet but this is having a real detrimental effect on the sales section as a lot of people don't know how to link to photo hosting sites and we're getting loads of "email me and i'll send you some pictures" which is hopeless.

i've been bashing away for 25 years and reached the giddy heights of 'very average rhythm guitarist'.
i've also always loved monophonic synths and drum machines.
i was always listening to bass lines in funk/soul music and didn't care too much for guitar, [i]especially[/i] guitar solos which i generally cannot stand!
moving over to bass about a year ago has been brilliant.

despite my less than glowing write up, this is now SOLD

the conversations and comments in the forum classifieds also can help to sell items, or indeed increase the GAS!

Novation Nocturn, as new, MINT, £49 posted

Hardly used. Just didn't fit with my workflow but all works perfectly and in the right hands would be a brilliant tool.

Read about it here
[url="http://uk.novationmusic.com/midi-controllers/nocturn"]http://uk.novationmu...rollers/nocturn[/url]

Forgot about this!
Still for sale

This is [i]wicked[/i] low pass envelope filer pedal with adjustable sweep speed (slow or fast) and dial in the resonance. Can also dial in a massive sub low end to your bass using the low pass and the mix control! Phat Fat Phfat!
I love mine

still available

[quote name='Shambo' timestamp='1353943037' post='1880002']
I appreciate it's a work in progress but like Mr Horse once said, "No sir.... I don't like it". The marketplace has always been the spark of life for this forum and now that the new listings have lost their linear, conversational vibe for me the forum seems slower and... duller. Rare, coveted or keenly priced items generate more replies in sale threads and stay near the top of the board, whilst less exciting overpriced items sink quickly only to return to view briefly with the echo of a "bump.... bump........ pricedrop.... anybody?". That's a dynamism that the new classifieds lack.

I can't see the interaction between members that would normally take place in the old marketplace spilling out into the other forums and I can't imagine why it would. Questions asked in the new classifieds seem non existant and as the number of basses for sale grows I guess will mainly come to consist of.. "is this item still for sale?"
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+1
this is it in a nutshell.

Ped

Can you tweak the classifieds section so that it displays more of the headline?
Either smaller type or larger space etc.

At the moment it cuts them off really early so you get loads of headlines like:

Fender Precision Bass in Blu..........

5 String Warwick B...........

topic in 'general' deleted till classifieds is finished.
thanks
ted

Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

Digging through my early hip hop there are some really good basslines to be had - in house Sugarhill Band etc - before it all went drum machine.

hi ped

maybe you could create a thread somewhere for opinions / ideas re this specifically.
i've just created one in 'general' where i would like to get some feedback to be helpful, but please feel free to delete it if you want to make an official one.

like i say in the other thread, i think this forum is great and i appreciate the time and effort from your side.
the frustration is simply because i like the current marketplace and i feel we're losing rather than gaining.

i will stop going on about it now.

ted (three letter names rule!)

This a a classic 'it wasn't broken but we've fixed it'...
Who was complaining about the old 'market place' forum??
It was, and is. running perfectly well.
The old system was [b]much[/b] better.

£[s]60[/s] £[s]50[/s] £40 price drop!!

nice. vinyl rocks