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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285486670876

I like it. Thick board with what looks like a sub 9.5 radius makes me want to play it, just not for £800.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/612378401058195/? Dinged up but comes with hard case

Those look great, much better with the replacement pickguard. I've been casually looking for a reasonably priced STB DX 5er but you don't see many now

Yeah definitely, I originally bought it so I had a backup bass that I could carry in a cheap gigbag and leave leaning against a wall, ended up doing entire sets with it at functons. Was just a sweet bass that nailed the Jazz sound, I picked up a tort plate for mine (it was the sunburst finish) but apart from that it was stock. I later had a few Integras and currently have a SInsonido, something about the necks I really like.

Bargain that, I used an STB J as my backup bass for years. Loved the neck profile and bridge pickup on it.

While on the lookout for a cheap headless backup bass I spotted this, seeing as there's been a few chancers pricing these at £500+ recently it's refreshing to see one on sale for a more realistic sum. Has black nylon strings on it as well. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/7296772117004230/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3Ac5d3f3bf-1a31-4daa-bce4-a3b27a8b5270

The best Warwick shape IMO, I miss mine.

Not had an EUB in years but I use both the Platinum Pro and Stage preamps with a few piezo equipped acoustics and electric basses. If you don't need all the extra features of the full pedal then the Stage version might be useful and it also has a belt clip if you don't need a floor unit, it has the same sound but with just a 3 band eq (sweepable mids, guitar/bass switch), adjustable boost, phase and a 3 way low cut switch rather than a knob. On the Platinum Pro the brilliance (5kHz) is very useful for cutting string noise while still being to add a bit of treble (3kHz), I miss that on the Stage.

A guitarist I used to play with used to remove the backplate from his pedals, drill corresponding holes in his pedalboard and screw them directly onto it. Personally I want an onboard 3 band preamp where the bass, mid and treble controls are all dual concentric with the bottom knobs being a HPF, mid sweep and LPF respectively. I'd also wanf a compact tuner with mute switch and DI out but after checking it looks like Sonic Nuance and Peterson do make them.

From previous conversations on here there's been different tuners on Sire basses, mine (a pretty early Gen1 V7) had very cheap ones which were ok but a noticeable step down from what I was used to. Other posters had some very nice Grover clones with a grub screw at the bottom. Basically if they look like this with the grub screw at the bottom then there's no need to upgrade other that weight saving (pic courtesy of Bassassain): If they look like this then it's worth rectifying (unfortunately my pic)

I had a Gotoh 404 on my Sire which was much better than the stock bridge and retains through body stringing as an option, you do need to drill extra holes but it's easy enough. For tuners I had Schallers which again need new holes drilling (not visible if you put the stock tuners back on), great tuners but no weight saving. I'd probably get licensed Ultralites if I had another. I also put Nordstrand NJ pickups in mine although the Sire Gen2 pickups (with the Marcus logo) are superb anyway, tbh the oroginal Gen1 ones were great as well but I like Nords and some came up cheap!

Our main mix tablet is a 12.5" WIndows 10 convertible so we can run the full X-Air PC app, for my monitor mix I use an original Surface Go mainly so I can be lazy and have the same interface. Previously I ran it on Atom Bay Trail devices with just 2gb ram and it was fast enough, the PC software will run on just about anything.

We had serious dropout issues using the inbuilt router at a particularly busy studio and just use an external 5ghz router for all occasions now, our XR18 is all prewired in a shallow 3u rack bag so it's plug and play.

Saw that one, assumed it was a home build due to the janky headstock design. Some nice parts on it like.

Same, also same with those HK clones of Marleaux Consats that were on eBay for around £350 ages ago.

RE the whole "listening with your eyes" thing - with the licensed Barts it's usually the exact opposite. There's tons of posts on bass forums going back to the old Bart MkI days where people were wondering why their new bass with high end pickups sounded underwhelming only to be told that Cort/Ibanez Barts were nothing like the genuine article. Anybody who's had real Barts knows the Cort built Mk/BH aren't in the same ball park. Usable but ultimately pointless when Ibanez can build better in house pickups like the Powerspan or T1.

The mod you may be more interested in is the eq switch from VM3 to BEQ, the two plugs on the left. This one affects the voicing rather than just making the signal hotter.

I sorta do want to own an HB BZ-5000 one day, they look very well made. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/F-kAAOSwVyJk2mIl/s-l1600.jpg

Mismatched knobs, could it be he who shalt not be named under a different guise?

They're usually about £100 less than that IIRC, there's an identical one for sale on FB near me for £270. The Money Traders in the next town over has matching lefty guitar and bass Spirits in black, been in there ages.

I just wish there was a proper drop in replacement, as it stands you either have to do some woodwork or build a preamp if your electronics fail!

Got the preamp from https://analogworkshop.eu/ installed this afternoon on my piezo equipped SInsonido, I bought this one: https://analogworkshop.eu/products/piezo-preamp/ However the person I spoke to said this might be more suitable: https://analogworkshop.eu/products/fet-acoustic-vol-tone/ Both are £40 + £5 p&p. It comes prewired with PCB connectors, vol/tone pots, a battery clip and a stereo jack. I would recommend buying an extra 2 pin PCB connector as you'll probably want to connect your existing battery clip wires to the 9v+ and jack switch to make sure it doesn't constantly drain your battery. It sounds excellent in the SInsonido, tbh I think with the tone knob almost rolled off (to get rid of that piezo scratch/clank) it sounds much better than it did in its stock form. It's very clean and transparent which is my type of preamp, that's just straight into the desk as well without even putting it through my Fishman Platinum. If you want to get rid of the troublesome mic/pre in the Sinsonido this is a very good option that's easy to install. The downside is that mine came with a notched volume knob that is about 0.3mm wider than standard so doesn't fit my knobs, I assume this is an error and have contacted the supplier.

The TC BH250 is pretty small at 22cm x 23cm x 6cm and has aux in. It's bigger than the Elf, BAM and Gnome but a lot smaller than a LMII for example, not quite gigbag pocket friendly though if that's what you're after. PJB BP200 is also very small (17cm x 18cm x 5cm) and has aux in, pricey though. I was looking at the Gnome/BAM200 but compromised the nano size for features and got the BH250 instead.

Still a decent price really, aside from the pickups and bridge it looks identical to my old Korean built (2002) C5 which has been my gig backup for years.