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The Superfly? Yeah they had them made overseas incredibly cheaply leading to high failure rates and then everywhere sold them off at £199 to get rid of stock, at which point Ashdown kinda washed their hands of them. I bought one, sent it back a few times (can't remember where I bought it but they were very good - it arrived with one side down IIRC) and finally got one that worked OK and didn't overheat after I removed the useless outer casing. Got a lot of use out of it in the end (never trusted it on an actual gig though) until one side went down again at which point I sold it for £60 and didn't buy an Ashdown product again. Interestingly the famous Ashdown customer service mysteriously disappeared when I needed support with that product despite them previously answering questions about its usage pretty quickly, funny that - maybe they were all on holiday or something? There was some comically late damage control by their rep on here a while back but I think the amps had all exploded/been binned by then. Great idea though, shame about the quality control and design.

In the main it's pretty bulky and heavy gear, commonplace so if you want one you have a lot of choice and wasn't particularly expensive to begin with aside from the fancy stuff. See Peavey, Hartke and Warwick also. While my experience with Ashdown gear wasn't brilliant (it's the only kit that consistently let me down) I did use my Superfly as part of my home/rehearsal rig for a number of years when I couldn't be bothered setting my main head up and it sounded good. There's some Warwick gear at our rehearsal room as well which kicks, all cheap to buy so If you can be bothered carting it about then enjoy your bargain bass rigs! I put my Hartke stack up for sale after lumping it across two fields at 3am after a crazy wedding gig so no more of that for me.

Am 100% stealing that!

As said above - never send an item to an address other than the one specified by Paypal.

For farmers/bricklayers with larger than average posteriors? Surely MDP isn't branching out into furniture conversions? 😱

I wonder why he puts that video up on all his bass auctions, it's a completely different bass which sounds absolutely terrible.

There's a new bass, seems like this one took a bit more work to bolt together due to the body and neck being completely incompatible. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-guitar-with-EB3-single-and-Musicman-twin-coil-pickups/193044925422?hash=item2cf25fcbee:g:mVUAAOSwDyldUWfF Here's the neck pocket:

Nice one thanks, that's my birthday present request sorted! Had a small glass of nice cider and our cat jumped on the glass table, slipped and knocked it over the little Behringer, had to take it apart and clean it with alcohol at 2am so wasn't best pleased and it hasn't worked properly since. Can't do without a mixer for learning songs so it's a long overdue purchase. Love the nano tank btw, what's in there and is it all bio? I have a bare 22l upstairs waiting to be set up.

When you Google Basschat the 1st result has the tagline "The biggest and best forum for bass players in the UK and Europe! " so signing up and expecting the forum to be about broadly reproducing a certain frequency spectrum is possibly a little naive. You're probably better served with Bill Fitzmaurice's forum (Bill also posts here from time to time mainly on technical stuff, as far as I know he hasn't posted a picture of his cat in Off Topic yet): https://billfitzmaurice.info/forum/

I take it this can play MP3s over the USB connection? I'm looking for something so replace my ailing Xenyx 302USB which was great until my cat jumped on my desk and knocked a drink over it.

"Comes with genuine 3inch leather strap" Hey at least the strap is genuine!

I'd offer £350 for this instead if the P pickup isn't essential: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cort-GB94-Seymour-Duncan-pickups/223613186776?hash=item34106272d8:g:LZMAAOSwffBdSK17 Also in Sire P7 territory for that price: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sire-Version-2-Marcus-Miller-P7-Swamp-Ash-4-String-Natural/273873549677?hash=item3fc422b96d:g:qzMAAOSwXcVcwD3j Still plenty of money left over to put a high end preamp in there if you choose, especially if you keep an eye on the classifieds.

Email Fender and ask if the pole pieces can be raised by pushing them up from underneath. I did this with Nordstrands on my Sire after emailing them, they said it would be ok but not to lower them again afterwards, I just applied a bit of pressure rather than tapping with a plastic hammer like they recommended though. Some pickups don't have any leeway for this though ie the pole pieces are flush with the pickup on both sides. Failing that you can buy pickups with a matching radius, Nordstrand will do them for you - EDIT - looks like they're £155 a set at Bass Direct, not sure if they're 60s or 70s winding though.

So what you're saying is that this beautiful instrument has an automated folding mechanism for ease of transportation?

I quite like that! There's a bass one too: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Personalized-Bass-Guitar-Small-Mini-Version-Of-Patented-Products/283146781160?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131003132420%26meid%3D6a1e6c8f6e77413aab43660b4c57eef7%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D283146791957%26itm%3D283146781160%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

I've mentioned this guy's "creations" on here before, this seems to be his masterwork though and that fact is reflected in the price: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Greek-Bouzouki-Electric-Bass-Guitar/273968649656?hash=item3fc9cdd5b8:g:5CkAAOSwFMpdVqEo A bridge our favourite converter/bodger would be proud of: A headstock which could easily be used for deep cavity searches: What can only be described as "innovative" string routing and a nasty deep crack running parallel to the fretboard: Sincere apologies in advance to any of our members of Greek heritage.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/String-Winder-Peg-Removal-Puller-Electric-Drill-for-Guitar-Bass-Repair-Tool/163147067455?hash=item25fc52b03f:g:CBkAAOSw8PJb5bH~ Have one similar to this, was a couple of £ and takes the monotony out of restringing.

Same here, Sarzo for me is the guy who played a USA Cirrus with Dio. Always wanted a proper Cirrus, stunning basses IMO.

Wasn't talking about you in particular, you can play it detuned and that's what I did before I had to switch to a 5. The theme of the thread seems to be songs which need a 5, in reality I can't be bothered detuning at gigs and it's easier just to have an extra string. Even with a detuner it's extra faff especially if you need a low B/C. EDIT- Also I didn't mention 24k Magic anyway, no idea why that video is there! I was talking about Uptown Funk (which needs a 5 really) and Runaway Baby (which can be done downtuned).