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Been a bit of a journey on the bass merry go round. Hoping to slow down now but hey, that can easily change tomorrow. As far as regular production basses go, I’ve never owned a Yamaha, Sandberg or Sire bass which I find a bit odd tbh. * means I still have Valenti Jazz #042 Valenti Jazz #146* Ovation USA B768 Elite bass Breedlove Atlas Solo fretless Gretsch G5440 (x2) Bolin NS-5 Spector NS5 CRFM Spector Euro 5 Godlyke Disciple Godlyke Deity Warwick Streamer Stage 1 Warwick Corvette Std Warwick Streamer Std 4HH Warwick Streamer Std 5HH Status Energy 4 Status Groove 4 Ibanez Ashula II Ibanez Cerro singlecut 5 Ibanez SRFF806 LTD RB-1006 Rocco Prestia Overwater Aspiration Elite 4 Overwater Aspiration Elite 5 Overwater Aspiration Deluxe 5 FL Overwater/Tanglewood J Cort GB94 Cort GB99F Cort GB74 Cort GB75 x2 MTD Kingston 5 fretless Tune Bass Maniac Flea bass Tanglewood Curbow 4 Tanglewood Canyon III fretless ESP P bass Musicman Sabre Fretless Musicman Cutlass Musicman Silhouette bass Musicman Bongo 4H Musicman Bongo 4HS Musicman Bongo 4HH Musicman Bongo 5HS Musicman Bongo 5HH Musicman Sterling 4H CAR Musicman Sterling 4H white sparkle Musicman Sterling 4H honeyburst Musicman Stingray pre Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray 2EQ teal Musicman Stingray 2EQ black Musicman Stingray 3EQ 3TS Musicman Stingray 3EQ fretless Musicman SUB teal (X2) Musicman Stingray 5H teal Musicman Stingray 5H black Musicman Stingray 5H Lavender Sterling Ray 34CA Sterling Ray 35 honeyburst Sterling Ray 35 Black cherryburst G&L Tribute JB-2 sonic blue G&L Tribute JB-2 sunburst G&L Tribute Kiloton G&L Tribute JB G&L Tribute L-2000 blueburst G&L Tribute L-2000 natural G&L Asat bass G&L Asat bass hollow body G&L SB-2 G&L L-1500 G&L L-2000 silver flake G&L L-2000 sunburst G&L L-2000 Flametop/J neck G&L L-5500* Squier Classic Vibe Jazz Fender MIJ Jazz fretless Fender MIJ 62 Jazz Fender MIM Jazz 5 Fender MIM Classic series Jazz Fender USA Std Precision trans white Fender USA Std Precision Blizzard Pearl Fender USA Dimension Deluxe 5HH Fender USA Std Jazz 5 fiesta red Aria Pro II fretless 5 Hohner Jazz fretless Hohner Jack bass black Hohner Jack bass natural Hohner B bass Hohner MusicMan copy HH Marlin Sidewinder no name Rickenbacker copy Satellite short scale Westone Thunder 3 Ibanez Cimar P bass edit: need to add (all 2021) MusicMan Classic Stingray natural MusicMan Classic Sabre 3TS* MusicMan Sterling Pearl blue G&L CLF research L-1000 gold Fender Dimension Dlx IV HH Lakland 44-60 see thru white Warwick Thumb Dirty Blonde* Warwick Streamer LX Jazzman*

The Forest Green looks superb. Shame it doesn’t have an ebony board and a matching headstock. My second pick would be Snowy Night.

Over the years I’ve owned five of them in various combinations of 4 and 5 string, HS and HH but my current one is the first single H I’ve owned. Thought I would have to sell it to purchase the Valenti Jazz I recently got but swung it that I kept the Bongo too. Glad I did as well. It was the favourite and last Bongo sold from a seller’s personal collection. Which was thirteen years to the month after I sold him my white Bongo 4HS. In my opinion they are great basses and I’m currently enjoying the bit less thunderous tones of the 3EQ single H. Sterling Ball said the single H is point and shoot and that’s about right. I was forever on the EQ controls with the two pickup ones. This one is more plug in and play and has a StingRay vibe but the sound is smoother and to my ears doesn’t have the top end ‘clank’ of a 3EQ Ray. The bass is also very light with a super fast neck.

The Tribute Kiloton is also a good bet. The passive, single MFD humbucker and three way switch sounds great. Also the J width neck, is for me at any rate, infinitely more preferable to the bigger neck on the L2K

If a single H Bongo with 3EQ qualifies for the StingRay part, I have to say that I’m happy with my P-J-MM trio

Thanks for that! Bass sounds great. More bottom end on tap than any of my other basses. Passive sounds really nice too. Keir

Might need to try again in better light. These are the best I can get. iirc the Aguilar OBP pre amp on #42 was encased in a small metal box? also somehow the blend pot is on the wrong way round. Turning it up I get a load of mids which I am guessing will be the bridge pickup. Doh! been a really long day🥱

Sorry yes blend not mids. there’s no centre detentes on the bass and treble controls and set at zero they sound similar to the tone and output when the passive circuit is engaged. Can’t see any branding etc on pre amp and there’s not much play moving the plate around but I got some pics if it helps any Incidentally does anyone know the whereabouts of #11, a teal green Vintage P5 with Norstrand pickups and black hardware? It used to pop up from time to time on here but haven‘t seen any mention of it in years.

Just picked up this trans white Valenti which was for sale local to me. I owned the Basschat candy apple red #42 for around a year more than a decade ago now, so I know just how good Nino’s basses are. The seller was a guitarist and couldn’t tell me what preamp it has. A check on the Valenti archive doesn’t list the circuit either. Wondering if anyone can shed light on what it is before I have a look inside? Front to back it has volume/mids/passive tone (pull up for passive)/concentric bass and treble. Pickups are Aguilars according to the archive. Both pickup covers have hairline cracks running across the middle so guessing someone maybe over tightened them in the past. Otherwise the bass has no issues at all. Truss rod has the MM wheel and works fine. Very light on the shoulder too. Wondering too if any basschatters owned this bass previously? Anyway here are the pics

That video was great. Really liked that👍🏻

Overwater by Tanglewood Aspiration Deluxe

Seen some of the Ibanez Premiums go for £600 or thereabouts on the classified’s here. A lot of bass for the money and enough left over for something else bass related? USA Fender Dimension is another one that regularly sells below their worth. I got one on here, a Deluxe HH 5 string for £600. Killed my GAS for another StingRay 5 as soon as I got it.

No experience of playing any with the roasted maple necks but did have a black cherryburst Ray35 which had a mahogany body and was lighter than the ash bodied honeyburst Ray35 I had at the same time. Logic says go for a used USA one but I was happy owning the offshore ones (having owned the full fat USA ones previously) They looked, played and gigged much the same. There was a natural Ray 35 with the roasted neck for sale here at the start of the year which I really wanted. Looked ace. Unfortunately I was flat broke and couldn’t get anything of mine shifted at the time.

Gumtree. I think it was the same bass that was on Facebook marketplace at £400 a few weeks before. It was advertised at £333 on gumtree but after a spot of haggling, seller very kindly offered to do it for £300 including shipping. Came with a heavy duty Warwick rockbag too.

Just picked up an Aspiration Elite 4 string too with the (I think) Wenge dark wood top. Battery was ever so slightly loose in the compartment and the bass was needing a set up but otherwise really chuffed with it.

Paul bought my G&L Tribute LB-100 bass. A proper stand up guy and a total credit to this forum. Couldn’t have been any easier a sale. Deal with confidence!! Keir

Nick bought my Cort GB99F bass. Great guy to deal with and made payment very quickly. A credit to Basschat! Keir

Those look great. Hopefully one day.....