uk_lefty
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Sold subject to the usual. Leather strap, Fender 60th anniversary edition. Really nice strap, used but not at all put under strain. This came with a bass I bought recently but I already have far too many straps. There's a knackered one on eBay for £25 so for BC friends I felt £20 was fair. Happy to post for another £3.50- 1 reply
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Now we have the singer in place we are refining the early set list, chucking out some of the male vocal songs and putting on ice some others. It's great having a confident singer who knows their range and just gets what the band is all about. She's given us all homework and we will have some cracking songs for the next rehearsal. The only thing we are struggling with is song structures and fade-out endings, but more practice will get us there. Feeling really good about this band, just eager to get gig-ready!!
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I started up an 80s band some time ago. We are still "forming" finding the right songs and so forth but it's feeling good. So I wanted an 80s bass and having sold off three basses at the end of last year I was feeling good and came across an Ibanez Musician from 1980, fully original. Struck a deal and it was delivered yesterday by the owner and used last night at band practice. First impressions: chunkier neck than I'm used to but not unmanageable. Weight is ok and a decent strap. Lots of knobs! These are a bit excessive I think: vol vol tone, three way pup selector, active/ passive switch, bass, mid, treble... So for ease of use it's both pups on full then using the active to find the sound. I played through an Ampeg head and Trace cab with the EQ relatively flat. This bass cuts through the mix! Gorgeous consistency all over the neck in terms of tone and volume, lovely for high fills, really nice sound for finger pops that I can't seem to get with other basses. So far I'm chuffed. Terrible photo, but I've been too busy playing it to just admire it.
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The very excellent Boss ME-90B for those who prefer physical knobs, buttons and foot switches. It's a great pedal indeed, save your own presets or use it as an all in one pedalboard. Packed with features and incredibly reliable. Loving the amp simulations now that I'm using in-ears a lot. Reason for sale: I have other pedal based things like my wireless system and I want to put them on a board so unfortunately this needs to go to make room. It's been very well looked after and will come with a power supply and the original box. The Bluetooth adaptor is not for sale I'm afraid, I'll be using that on my new pedal. Pickup from London, Cambridge or St Albans. Or I can post it to you at cost.-
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No but I keep seeing them in one of the Denmark Street shops and I really want one. Unfortunately they don't do them left handed which is odd considering the originals came in left handed and Aria are usually pretty good to us.
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I ordered mine on Mew Year's Day. Everywhere was saying it's out of stock for weeks yet, DV247 said it's in their main warehouse... Who knows when it will arrive. Really looking forward to Boss sounds and touch screen editing.
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Ooops! Well, to be fair I'm left handed so... 🤪
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Sorry if this is not an option but one thing I do when getting fingertip pain is to switch to playing with a pick. Luckily I have free reign over my tone, fills, etc. so if the attack and note choice is different, as long as the fundamentals of the bassline are there it's ok. It made me improve my pick playing to a point where I will play almost anything with a pick if I need to.
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Get some gigs for my new 80s band Risky Business. Ideally first gig before end of March. Get some fresh material in for The Desert Penguins, ideally for the second half of the set. It's a really solid set list but i'd love it if we could shake it up and make picking those end of night songs a bit tougher than just going through the same ones all the time.
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Ashdown ABM Neo 1x15 cab with switchable tweeter. Owned from new, some minor scuffs on the tolex (photos to follow) but absolutely sound. Never pushed hard. Really good compact cab, weighs in at less than 15kg so an easy one hand lift. Takes speakon or jack. Only selling as I recently acquired a 4x10 and my office is becoming too crowded. Will post at cost.- 1 reply
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Very good condition, comes with box and power supply. Excellent for guitar, very good for bass. They usually go for a lot more but I'm selling this just to recover what it owes me. Really good pedal, used it for my last gig. Bass gear is well covered, 7x usable amp Sims, cab Sims, Darkglass distortion, plus all the other guitar effects and amps. You can do parallel processing, add external pedals, endless possibilities. I love it for the touch screen editing, only use the PC to backup settings and a firmware update when I first got it. Collect from St Albans area or will post for a fiver. -
Boss VE-20. You can Google for all the details but here's my view after a fair while owning it... It's superb for finessing and evening out vocals for performance or home recording. Like any pedal you need to get the gain right if going through a PA. It can do some nice stuff like adding a second and third part harmony to your voice. It can "double" up your voice to add extra presence, it really doesn't sound like there's any delays, it's just a good thickening of the sound. Overall its great, if I did loads of home recording I wouldn't be selling it. As it is I'm just not getting the use out of it and was really only using the "megaphone" effect for the mid 8 in one song while playing live. I just need to get back the money it cost me as I've already spent the proceeds. Collection from St Albans area or I can post for a fiver. PM me with any questions. Pretty sure I have the original box.
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I change gear so often that I don't think there's a particular sound apart from whatever it is I play close to the bridge, usually finger style, and there's probably some licks I'm tiring out each time I play.
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I've only had a brief play with it but cranking the gain gives a nice wooliness round the edge of the sound. There's definitely some "poke" to it which I was looking for, I'm confident there's sufficient volume here. It's a different flavour to my ABM and Bassman. I don't have any info on the cab, it has what appears to be two speakon inputs (one could be a link, not sure) and I have no idea the wattage or ohm-age but I'm guessing it's a 600w as most of these seem to be.
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I've been reading this thread with interest... I've been using a Headrush MX5 for a few months now which is the same "form factor" as the GX10 and also has a touch screen. I'm really impressed with it, mainly for the touch screen and how easy it is to create and edit patches. I will probably sell it and replace with a GX10 purely because I prefer the Boss bass amp simulations. This would mean that my ME-90B is going too. I'd be ok with that, while I really enjoy the ME-90B for it's simplicity I hadn't experienced touch screen digital effects. A GX10 will cover me for guitar and bass. I've also got the Headrush on a small pedalboard so I can have my wireless and vocal FX mounted with it, a GX10 would just slot in as a direct replacement...
