Roger2611

I would like to add a different slant to this thread, we gigged the other weekend at a proper little venue, the DJ wanted to stream our set live to the tinterweb thingy, anyway we went on a played a blinder, the DJ came round afterwards and said he had been unable to stream the set because as soon as we went onstage the wifi went down and didn't come back until we had finished..... he asked if anyone had used a digital wireless system.....it turns out I was blocking the wifi for the entire set!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-PRECISION-BASS-Guitar-All-Set-Nice-Player-/291420633709?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item43da05fa6d This one worries me a little, I read somewhere that a genuine Fender neck with truss rod adjustment at the headstock will always have some kind of inlay in the truss rod hole, it that is correct then this is not a genuine Fender neck! Any thoughts?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1428674095' post='2743674'] OK ;-) This why I am constantly surprised that musicians who own or have owned custom or high-end basses can't see that one bass is not any kind of substitute for another at anything other than the very cheap end of the Fender copy market (and perhaps not even then). In the high-end and custom instrument market there is no "best bass". There might be basses that are more suitable for you and basses that offer better value for money to you, but ultimately it's all subjective and dependent upon how much disposable cash a particular person has available to buy musical instruments. [/quote] This is so true, I own a good few Precisions of different eras and countries of origin, each is entirely different to the others, none are better or worse, just different, they are all worth what I paid for them because I could afford them and liked them enough to add them to the family

Just looking at the listing again, it was sold for the £1200 asking price which has got him a negative feedback from the newish buyer, just saying "Fake Bass" it just goes to show, if in doubt...get it on here and we can tell you if it's an obvious wrong un!

I have the Stage Clix system that plugs directly into the bass, it has been totally faultless other than some problems with interference when using some active basses which I fixed by building a small link lead that moved the transmitter away from the actives of the bass, sorry the OP has had issues with theirs

Kitting out our new van on the morning before going off to play the biggest gig we had ever played I managed to smash my left thumb with a hammer...claret everywhere, spent the next few hours with it stuck in ice, amazingly managed to play the gig without any problem, my thumb nail fell off a couple of days later.....roll forward a good few years and three days before another big gig, I shut my right thumb in a car door with much the same results as the first time...in the run up to any big gigs nowadays i wear boxing gloves for the whole week preceeding the gig

The bridge is wrong, the truss rod is wrong the seller is wrong...nuff said!

If people you respect as musicians are telling you "you are doing well" then bask in their compliments, start believing them and you will be an even more accomplished player in no time at all. My big moment was when a guitarist I really respected asked me to play on a recording session for him in place of the usual pro session bass player he had used before.....that was a massive boost to my ego.....turned out some years later that said pro session man was actually away on tour when the recording was happening...still I had bigged myself up by that point and never looked back...to this day I am far better than that bloke and nowhere near as good as another bloke

Awesome, I love Elites, just ordered two lots, that will keep me in new strings for a while, cheers for the tip off!

You get days where your mind is just not on the game, i usually realise it after the first song I play, I just put the bass down and walk away, come back to it the following day....if i keep playing I won't get through it I will just get the hump and dent my confidence for a few days

I use DeOxit, it is fantastic stuff...i read somewhere a top guitar tech was asked "if you were only allowed one bit of kit, what would it be" he replied instantly "DeOxit" it's not cheap but I have had my can for about 5 or 6 years so on a yearly investment about £1.50 a year it's not bad value

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-57-Reissue-P-Bass-White-Blonde-Precision-Bass-/111628043469?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item19fd8cc4cd Just come across the above....how many points can you spot that says this is probably not a 57 reissue bass! So relisted due to crazy person or relisted because the original buyer got someone with a bit of knowledge to look at the pictures and decided not to lose a shed load of money on some dubious Fender(ish) parts. At a guess, possibly a standard mexican neck with 70's logo applied, possibly a Mexican 50's clasic body as it lacks the bridge cover holes but appears to have the right scratchplate and looks to be ok for the blonde finish they had, black plastic gasket on the neck plate is wrong, knobs are wrong, finger rest is wrong! I would report it but Ebay won't do anything about it

Mine has standard Dimarzio super distortion pickups fitted, it is a beast of a guitar, it's as well built as any guitar I have ever played, certainly worth saving and, if still fitted with the original pickups they will continue to gain value

Free to good home or going down the tip before long, a 19u Mixer fight case with detachable lid and front panel, I used to house a Peavey XR800 in there and before that a Mackie CR1604 so standard size for any 19u Mixers, this is the old school metal covered flight case, the best way to describe it is, weigh your mixer, in the flight case it will be double the weight....so in the case of the XR800 about the weight of a family car! If you have a light weight mixer you want to protect it's perfect, if you have a heavy powered mixer then unless you are in to bench pressing small planets you don't want it! Collection only from Northampton as it is way too big and heavy to post Cheers Rog

12 offers and still no sale, and it's been advertised since year dot...I think the seller has a different preception of its value compared to everybody else! i did offer to take it off his hands if he paid me a tenner and covered the postage....never got a reply, must be considering all the similar offers!

Yes, found in river was my first thought when I saw it, I reckon it's worth the 40p he's looking for.....oh hang on a minute!

I used to work for a Rolls Royce dealer, when i first drove their cars I thought they were good but not ten or fifteen times better that a run of the mill normal car so I couldn't get my head round why someone would spend £250.000 on car, but to the people who were spending £250.000 on a car it is the same as most of us spending £500 on a car, the Fodera is probably not worth the money and is certainly not going to be ten times better that a decent Warwick / Spector etc however to those that can afford it it is like most of us buying a cracking Squier bass....I guess if you can afford it enjoy it

It had reached a fair old price last time I looked at it

i was told by a Fender rep that Fender do not make a genuine neck for any of their guitars with a plain trussrod hole, all genuine necks with the truss rod adjuster at the headstock end with have some kind of different wood insert

I either love it or hate it......not quite sure which yet!

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1427928791' post='2736103'] This bass has overtaken a Fodera Singlecut for the "ugliest bass award" for me. [/quote] I own one of these Itallian built beauties, it's a fantastic honest little bass, I gig it at the occasional wedding, it sounds great but you have to be really careful where you stand otherwise it will feedback horrendously which at full resonance feels like the bass is about to explode in your hands!

Excellent, I see they have learnt plenty from the Ebay specialists such as "he who must not be named"

I also love his work with Gary Numan and Paul Young, it got me into fretless playing and still frustrates me to this day!

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1427397485' post='2729971'] Read the text too. I hate the word 'Awesome'! Words fail me... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ShonKy-Bomber-6-string-guitar-Rustic-style-Plankcaster-Awsome-/221723519782?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item339fc06b26"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item339fc06b26[/url] [/quote] Quick tip, if you hate the word awesome, don't watch the Lego Movie