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Thanks. I only play 4 strings anyway. The SE215 can distort the bass at times if I dig in, I need to keep the Tone Hammer DI tamed somewhat to keep things under control. We have an electronic drum kit, which the drummers don't like much at all, I think for what it is, it's a reasonably good one and probably quite expensive, but there's nothing like a proper acoustic drum kit. We've had all sorts of issues with the electronic kit - swapping cables in and out to troubleshoot faults, guest drummer uses kit & changes all the sounds, then regular drummers have to fiddle about to get a sound they like, etc. It brings a mountain of problems compared to the simplicity of a real kit. The only advantage I sort of get with the rubber pad kit is the ability to manage the volume of it, but just stick a proper kit in a booth and it should solve that anyway. I'm not a drum expert but I think there's misconception amongst a lot of church goers, pastors, etc, that drums are LOUD, 100% of the time, and it's most certainly not the case, if you factor in drummers not just using sticks but the likes of brushes, hot rods, etc, volume can always be tamed for the gentler stuff anyway. And for the louder stuff, well that's what screens / booths are for. Anyway, that's another issue entirely, but boy do I miss playing with a real kit. Thanks for the KZ ZS10 Pro recommendation. Did you or any of your team upgrade the cable, foam tips, etc? Thanks for this. It's funny, I've had the foam tips on my SE215 from the start as I gathered they were better for fit, feel & isolation, yet I've stuck with the standard round silicone tips for my own listening at home, which I do on Shure SE112 earphones. These entry level Shure earphones are way better than any Sennheisers I've had at a similar price, but not as good as the SE215 as you'd expect - they are half the price. We generally keep our SE215s in a box at church - we were encouraged to do that when we went IEM, I guess so nobody could turn up then say that they'd forgotten to bring them, and/or so people wouldn't wear them out using them a lot at home when the church had paid for them. Now I mostly do take mine home, but only to help with bass practice as I can plug them into my practice amp. I never forget to bring them to church as they're always in my backpack with my pedalboard & cables, etc. I'd get a set of SE215 for my home listening if I thought they were more reliable, but having seen 2 sets have an earbud crap out, I couldn't keep throwing another £100 at home earphones every time that happens, so I make do with the SE112. Back to the earphone tips - I've always felt that the round silicone ones want to slip out regardless of me trying different sizes, are never that comfy, and don't offer much isolation. I've got a bag full of spare round silicone tips from various Sony & Sennheiser earphones I've had over the years, but I'm really going off them having used foam tips in the Shure SE215 IEMs. I will definitely try the foam tips on my SE112 for home listening. Then I'll probably throw out all my spare silicone tips. That said, I'd be interested in trying the triple / christmas tree silicone tips you mention. I've never tried them. I know what you mean with fighting foam if you're taking them in and out a bit. Our worship leader will deliberately speak into the mic during practice so we don't have to remove our earbuds, but if anyone else around you in the band or a random person nearby wants to take to me, I have to take them out which is pretty annoying. Is there a particular triple silicone tip you can recommend, that fits with both Shure & KZ ZS10 Pro? I plugged in my SE215 at home earlier and the right earbud is definitely cutting out, so I can rule out the 3.5mm earphones to mixer cable anyway, though I do think we should upgrade these at some point. I'll mention it to the sound guys and see if I can have a new set, or see if I can talk them into getting me a set of KZ ZS10 Pro for half the price. I think the SE215 sound pretty good, but for £100+ I'd expect them to be more durable. I went to try the different foam tip sizes earlier (I've always used the large ones), and mistakenly thought I'd mislaid the medium (2 dot) size ones, looking at the contents it appears they come with S, M & L sizes in silicone, but strangely only Small (1 dot) and Large (3 dot) in foam, so no chance to try the Medium (2 dot) in foam. Might try and find some online, as going from large to small seems like one extreme to the other - though I do prefer the small to the large, I'd like to at least try the medium.
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Yesterday the right earpiece of my Shure SE215 was crackling & cutting out frequently so badly in the very first song that I ended up pulling both ears out and they stayed out for the remainder of the service, as I understands it’s not good to have one earpiece in and one out. It was extremely weird to hear only the room sound through the main room speakers & subs facing away from me (silent stage) especially when some people in congregation would come in at the wrong time, like start singing a line too early. Also the volume was pretty crazy. It doesn’t seem that loud when I’m out there as 250+ voices kind of absorb everything, but up on the platform everything is so loud with my ears out. I’ll have to do some testing to figure out if it’s the earpiece itself, the earphones cable, or the male to female 3.5mm cable that we plug the earphone cable into to connect to the personal mixers. It’s incredibly annoying as on my last set of SE215 it was the left ear that crapped out. They’d had a good bit of use to be fair, but this set that replaced them isn’t even that old. I could try to find out if they’re under warranty, but I suspect it was from a bulk order the church did a few years ago. Whilst I’m doing some testing of them I plan to try the different size foam buds, as I’ve only ever used the largest 3 dot one. Has anyone else had issues with SE215 letting them down? Also I wonder if the fact we use cheap 3.5mm cables to go to the personal mixers doesn’t help. We use ‘Amazon Basics’ ones which I’m not sure is the best idea. There must be better ones out there, only recently I got the sound guy to replace mine as I was getting a hiss cutting in and out which went as soon as that cable was changed. Any recommendations for good quality 3.5mm male to female cables for this purpose? Thanks I’m tempted to try the KZ ZS10 Pro IEM as I believe it’s great for bass for the price (around £50) and is multi driver. I suspect it could still end up costing more as I’ve read that some have upgraded the cable and/or foam tips on these. Still cheaper than Shure’s multi driver IEMs though. Would appreciate any thoughts on this.
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Phil bought a Precision bass from me, paid up quickly and was great to deal with throughout. A credit to Basschat.
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This is now sold. Thanks to Basschat & buyer -
Tough crowd. Now a crazy £475 collected. Just under what I paid for it & with significant upgrades which buyer is pretty much getting for free. If I sound desperate it’s because I am, I need rid of this ASAP, there’s a very good chance I’ll offer UK shipping soon if I can get a box and some packing materials.
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Open to sensible offers (collected from Southport or St.Helens area / North West meet up). Genuinely surprised this is still here after nearly a month. Also now on eBay with several watchers & 'best offer' enabled.
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Fender Japan FSR Aerodyne Jazz Bass. £895 - *SOLD*
dmc79 replied to sunfish's topic in Basses For Sale
OOF! What a beauty. GLWTS -
Some fabulous basses on sale right now. This is an absolute beauty. GLWTS -
I'm starting to stress about some impending bills and need this sold ASAP, I will make a final price drop to £500 (collected from Southport or St.Helens area / North West meet up), which I think is a remarkable price for a bass with great upgrades and a lovely neck which to me plays as well as, or better than, a USA P bass. I absolutely will not go below this price, as they sell for around this without upgrades. If it doesn't sell at this price very soon, I will put it on eBay at an increased price to cover the fees. I would much rather it go to an established Basschatter though.
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Many thanks to @ped for sending me some of said BC strap blocks. I'll try them out, as well as some loud Ernie Ball lime green ones I've ordered. These Litorange 'Grolshlocks' look fantastic, good value for money too. Made of silicone, so I guess stretch easily to go over the strap button. I may end up trying these too. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
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SOLD Rotosound Swing Bass 66 ‘SM665’ Stainless Steel Rounds 5 String 40-125, long scale hybrid gauge. New in unopened pack. 40-60-80-100-125 RRP is £36 so save yourself a tenner. £26 posted to mainland UK. Will post same or next day as payment received, depending on my work shifts. -
Price drop to £550. I could do with this out of the way, it might have to hit eBay soon
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Thanks. But with £10 shipping, I’ll pass. I don’t need anything else from there.
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Yes I regularly take the strap off to put the bass in its case. IF I could stretch these crap washers over the strap button they’d be so tight they’d need to be cut off. I need a stretchy strap block, hopefully like the Fenders but cheaper
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Thanks for the replies. For those who use a generic rubber washer, what size do you use? I just bought some of these as I was passing a local guitar shop. Sadly they are exactly the sort of crap I was hoping to avoid, and stupidly I bought 10 of them. They are much more plasticky than rubbery and don’t seem to have any stretch at all. I just tried to put one over the strap button (standard Fender one) and it wouldn’t even stretch enough to go over it. When squishing it between thumb & finger it does bend but nowhere near as easily as the Fender ones. But on pulling the sides out to stretch it over the strap button, it’s incredibly rigid and just doesn’t want to stretch. So, a word of warning: do not buy these absolutely crap strap blocks: Do the Harley Benton / Grolsch ones have a decent amount of stretch to them? Also are the Basschat ones an actual thing and are they still available to buy? Also has anyone tried the brightly coloured Ernie Ball ones & can vouch for their stretchiness? Thanks
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After one time when the strap slipped off the strap button and I only just managed to grab the bass before it crashed to the floor, I've been using the rubber washer strap blocks every time I play standing. I know that strap locks are an option, but I'm happy to keep with the blocks for now. I wasn't overly impressed with the Fender ones that sell at £5 for 2 sets (red and black). I gave a set to my son for his guitar, used the other set myself and one of them is ripped halfway across already, I'm paranoid that it will ping off at any second, then the strap comes loose from the button again and my bass goes crashing to the floor. Until I get some more, I'm making sure that the dodgy one is on the neck button, not the body one, but I need to buy some more. I realise it's pretty much just a rubber washer, so not very technical, and they'll all have a limited lifespan, but just wondering which rubber strap blocks people recommend. I'm not at all bothered about the branding, so tempted to buy some cheap ones in bulk, but just don't want to do this and find they are really crap ones that split in no time at all. Any help appreciated, thanks
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SOLD Price drop to £475 For sale, absolutely no trade offers whatsoever please, and yes I really mean that. 2021 Fender Player 75th anniversary Precision bass, in black / black / maple, 34” long scale, right handed, with upgraded pickups, knobs & wiring, and gig bag. Before I go any further as I know how important this can be, it weighs 3.9Kg / 8.6lbs on my digital luggage scale. It’s still a big ol’ chunk of wood, but lighter than every USA P I’ve had and balances well. It’s in excellent condition as you can see from the photos, has been well looked after (always in hard case when not being played) & is very shiny! There are no dings, paint chips, chunks out of the neck or headstock nibbles. The only minor cosmetic blemishes are: some scratching on the pickguard, 3 longish scratches on the back of the body below the cutaway (very hard to show well on photos as the body is so shiny that it just acts as a mirror!), and some small scratches looking down from the top of the body towards the pickguard, where I tried a trick I read about, which was to slightly unscrew 2 pickguard screws and slide a pick into the gap. I put a Tortex wedge in there, then when I slid it out, that powdery coating stuff that’s on them when new left these scratch marks on the body (I won’t be doing that again!). I’m guessing these may be able to be polished out by someone who knows what they’re doing, but if you know anything about black basses, these marks really aren’t that bad compared to the battle scars than can and do end up on them, and only really noticeable in certain lights / angles anyway, but I’d rather mention these minor blemishes as I pride myself in honest descriptions. It has a really lovely gloss poly maple fingerboard with nice fast satin urethane finish on the back of the neck. Usual 1.625” P width nut. The neck profile is fantastic, and always felt ‘just right’ to me. It’s not scrawny, but far from baseball bat territory, very comfy on the hands. Front to back, with digital calipers, it measures 0.825” at the 1st fret, and 0.905” at the 12th fret. I’d say it’s the nicest Precision neck I’ve ever played, and this includes USA models. The fretboard edges are nicely rounded and smooth. I know this isn’t always the case with Mexican Ps, but it genuinely feels as smooth and round as a USA neck to me. I’m actually quite sad to see it go generally, but especially for how nicely the neck plays. It has a Fender 75th anniversary logo on the back of the headstock, which is a nice touch. It’s strung with GHS Pressurewound M7200 (44-106) rollerwound ‘Alloy 52’ strings with plenty of life left in them. They are smooth and really sing. If you don’t want them, I can keep them & put some nickel rounds on instead, just let me know. Stock open gear tuners & bridge. Pickups have been upgraded to the excellent Fender Custom Shop CS62s. Box included. Wiring upgraded to USA specs via a Northwest Guitars Precision bass wiring kit: 250K CTS pots, 0.047uf orange drop capacitor & switchcraft jack. Great full range of tones compared to the stock pots. Knobs upgraded to Fender Tele / P chrome, knurled flat top knobs (099-13600-000) to fit the 1/4 inch pots, as the stock knobs were slippery & not very good. It has a non Fender 3-ply BWB pickguard. Please note I no longer have the stock pickups, wiring, knobs & pickguard, so these are not included in the sale. Feel free to check my Basschat feedback & PM me if you want to buy it or need more photos. It’s set up with a nice low to medium action & the truss rod turns as it should. It’s sold as seen and described, with the inspection tag but otherwise no paperwork or tools. Serial number shows 2021, I’ve run it through the Fender serial number lookup, and it shows as registered May 2021, see photos for spec sheet. I bought this bass in person from an eBay seller in January 2023, her son got it new & had barely played it as ended up with a different bass. They even kept the tag, which is included here. I paid £480 for this, and have spent £145 on upgrades (pickups 100, wiring loom, pots & knobs 45). It hasn’t been heavily gigged, so I think £575 is a fair price for a great condition P bass with top upgrades (& a free gig bag). I’d go as far as to say that this upgraded beast with a delightful neck and relatively light weight (for a Precision) is an outrageous bargain considering the price of a new American Pro 2 these days. I’ve owned this for a year and a half, which is quite something given the basses that have ‘passed through’ the last few years. Every time I tried anything (including dabbling in short scale), I always came back to this one. I’m a little sad to be selling it, as it’s easily as good as any USA P I’ve had, but my holy grail bass has finally come up, so I have no choice. If money wasn’t an issue (it is), I’d love to be keeping it. I’m certain that someone will be very happy with this bass. I have no box or packing materials, so am listing this as collection only from Southport. I work near St. Helens, so could meet up in that area too, or somewhere in the North West within reason. There is no hard case included in the sale, but I can hand it over in a basic padded gig bag, which from doing a lot of googling I think is a Traditional Strat / Tele bag, it fits fine, but has no straps even though there are clips for them, just carry handles, 8mm padding and a pocket. No timewasters please and absolutely no trade offers whatsoever. Hoping to sell this to an established Basschatter. Edit: Sorry must have missed this when posted the ad, think I caught this partially on one pic, but forgot to mention it, there is a 1cm scratch / scrape mark on the floor-facing edge of the lower horn, just added a final pic showing it. Not visible when playing unless you plan on playing it upside down!
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@jrixn1 Many thanks. Any chance of an empty bag weight for this? I realise a decently padded bag will weigh more than a thin, floppy, circa 10mm padding one, but it would be useful to get a weight of this. The main reason for me wanting a decent alternative to the good old Fender shaped hard case, would be to just shed a little carry weight on load in/out. The shaped cases of the early 2000s are not too bad at around 4Kg (most of the full width hard cases that have passed through have weighed 5-5.5Kg), but still, if I could get a well padded gig bag at say 1.5-2Kg, it would help. Thanks for your help.
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Considering a gig bag with around 20mm of padding. Any chance of an explanation / pic of the shoulder straps when folded away on the FB620? Can't find a pic online, do they just slot away into a pocket or something? From what I can see, they unclip at the bottom of the bag, but I'd rather they detach completely than be stuffed into a pocket. I can't imagine I'd ever want to wear a bass on my back, so I'd rather they not be there at all really. I really dislike gig bags where the shoulder straps can't be removed or stuffed out of the way, and so hang down as you walk with the bag, I always worry they'll catch on something if I forget to grab them. Thanks.
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Which Claytons? Do you mean the rounded triangles or the ones actually listed as 'Sharp' with the particularly angry looking bird on them? I like that they have the slightly unusual size of .80, a good inbetween option to the usual .73 & .88. Where did you get them from? Can't see many UK stockists, and my usual place 'Dirty Riffs' on eBay doesn't sell them.
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Fender American Series Precision bass 2005 + case. £825 - *SOLD*
dmc79 replied to geoff90guitar's topic in Basses For Sale
What a beauty! Lovely bass in a stunning colour and great shaped hard case. A owned the maple version of this same bass for 6 years, chrome red looks fabulous in photos and sensational in the flesh. Someone will be very happy with this. How is it still here?! -
Finally gonna try the Dunlop Tortex Flex triangles, ordered a couple each of .60, .73 & .88. I used standard Tortex triangles for a while before starting to find them a bit too 'clicky' and moving to Dunlop Nylons. I miss the triangle shape though and believe the Flex is a bit warmer and less clicky, though still not quite full on Nylon in tone. A fun and cheap experiment anyway. . .
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Fender Am Pro Jazz Bass, last price cut to £900 - *SOLD*
dmc79 replied to Clarky's topic in Basses For Sale
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Paul bought a VTDI from me, paid up quickly & was great to deal with. Cheers!
