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Another benefit with the Dunlop, you can use a normal strap with them. Useful if you forget to take your strap with you and need to borrow one.

I’ve never liked fitting the body part, I worry about the screw splitting the wood. It’s probably very unlikely, but I’m rubbish at anything involving tools, so prefer to get it done for me.

Yep. I stopped using them and switched to the Dunlop, they’re a lot better. Someone said you should check them each time, but you really shouldn’t have to, at least in my opinion.

I’ve always preferred the Dunlop. I had the screw on thing fall off a Schaller strap lock once. It had been on really tight to begin with, but had loosened over time.

Weird solo stuff.

Yep!

Bass direct near Warwick. They have an excellent selection, they’re really helpful, and their instruments are usually well set-up, unlike a great many non-specialist shops.

It’s not, it really was 😂. I did a gig with it in Paris and got lost trying to find the venue, after trudging over the same bridge for the fourth time in twenty minutes, I came so close to taking it off my back, and throwing it in to the river 😆.

There’s a nice looking 5 string in the sales section at the moment.

One of my tutors at uni has an Overwater signature model that’s based on a jazz bass. The first one they built for him caused him to have back problems, he let me hold it the once, it was ridiculously heavy, though my 7 string was something like 15kg.

They’re incredible instruments. I had a 7 string at one point 😁. They mostly seem to come in 35” or 36” scale though, I’ve gotten used to the 33” scale of my W&T.

I’d still go. I don’t know who any of the bands are, still might be a good weekend though, and the scenery around there is spectacular, it’s worth going just for that.

There’s already a thread going.

I think white basses in general are quieter than other colours. Maybe it’s a tone thing? You’re hearing one as being louder?

I’ve got the TC Unitune. It’s very accurate and reads a low B extremely well. My only gripe with it, which is quite minor really, it doesn’t stay switched on for very long, if you’re tuning from scratch, say after putting new strings on, you’ll need to switch it on a couple of times before you’ve finished.

I think there are adverts, at least there’s a little box that says advert. I use Adblock so don’t see the content.

As a buyer? I bought stuff online and had money refunded by my bank. The first time I’d paid through PayPal as a guest too.

Did it briefly experiment with one? I advertised a bass on there last year. Someone contacted me who turned out to be a total pain in the donkey, he was also extremely rude. He was on here briefly too, a friend of mine had an experience with him. When I looked on Gumtree he had feedback for being abusive and a time waster.

I’m possibly wrong, I certainly haven’t seen in figures backing this up, it’s just my personal experience. I think a lot of people are wise to the pitfalls of buying online, plus they are protected to a large degree, both by PayPal and their banks. I think nowadays it’s the seller who’s more at risk, I think scammers have turned their attention to them. This is particularly the case on Gumtree, at least from my experience. That’s one of the benefits of selling on here, you do kind of know people, or at least know of them. You can see their posts and feedback etc.

I’m actually more worried about being scammed as a seller.

They have that on Talkbass. The for sale section is split into sales in the USA, and those for Europe.

I can understand that. I like to try instruments before I buy them. I’ve also found that my idea of mint condition, can often be at odds with another person's idea of what mint condition means. There’s also the postal and insurance thing.

I’ve never seen anything like that. You’d normally need an interface to convert your analogue signal to a digital signal that your laptop can see. You’ll also need some kind of DAW, something like Reaper.