Ander87

yes! it definitely gives me that vibe @police squad...! Today I should be receiving the new La Bella strings for this beauty (alongside gold flats for my other bass). I'll share a family picture once I sort them up and pick up the other bass which got a jaguar mute just now!

You.... you're good, you! (read in De Niro's voice) ... Worked a charm!! I had no idea about my allocation of attachments etc - a lot of crap as you can assume by my history of basses sales and trades...! THANK YOU. Well now, I shall add a couple pictures at the top!

Aha! I did read your posts, thanks for sharing and the demos too! I'm a P bass man but this little thing definitely brings some good joy!! Cheers! I had never played short scale basses and I'll be dead honest I wasn't thinking much of them - nonetheless my feeling for the last half year was 'if I ever go for a short scale it'd be the JMJ'. I did lost an auction on eBay for it at a very decent price and funny enough as ended up with my white Limelight as a rebound ha! Fantastic bass, but preferred my charcoal and purple ones - glad this one made it's way back to me. They really do look cool, tons of mojo! Still have to try it in a band setting but I would imagine this sits great in a punk rock gig! Gorgeous collection! That G&L was tempting me not long ago...! Well about the pictures... For the last 2 months or so, whenever I try post a picture all I get is the message '1 file would exceed the total allowed size of 3.596kB, and was skipped' Could any mod help or assist? these are local files from either laptop or phone, personal pictures or google pictures that I try paste too... Best, Ander.

Well... I've had a lot of gear dramas. If you see my posts here you can tell I'm a usual criminal of sales trades and whatnot. I picked up a guitar recently after letting go of one of my (admittedly redundant) Limelight P basses (jazz necks, nordy pickups)... And guys even if I was a guitarist in a past life, for the last 3 years all I've enjoyed is bass. Got a fender US special tele guitar last week with hopes to record demos or gel back in and gosh I just do not enjoy it anymore. It feels closer to doing the dishes than making music. I find ideas for bass whilst playing guitar and switch in a moment to my preferred instrument... ... With that in mind I did some reflection and thought 'what is the bass that is different to your Limelights that you'd still use?' - I hate having stuff I don't use in the house, and well the options for buying new are slimmer considering how the prices are lately, and I've gone through gear worth 2.3/3k£ and can admittedly say that for my budget and the price/quality, the 1k£ish range is what I prefer most... I've also gone through 19 basses since I started playing in October 2018 - yep you've read that right - mind you some where returns the next day or week or just passing by as part exchange etc.... but I've learned enough about basses to know what I like. Comfy neck, passive, fender types... ... So I decided to round it up to 20 basses and will want to retire for a while (admins, can I be banned from marketplace?.... Seriously.... can I be banned from there?). I saw a good JMJ for £800 and went for it - I'll be selling the guitar and back to three basses - the short scale is handy for when I'm on my mates' little Ford Fiesta for gigs so that I don't have to keep my bass in my lap in the rear seats for 2hrs. A short scale should fit nicely in the boot, as it's just a bit longer than a regular tele - Probs not bigger than a baritone guitar. The pros: * Finish on nitro, tasty relic * 'Grown up bass' sound - it feels like a real thing! Very nice sound, proper passive P vibes but with a sweeter top end I'd say (probs the scale/strings) * I don't like big necks and this is a P profile, but being short scale means it doesn't dig into my fingers like a regular P/Stingray does. * Light at 3.5kg which is a big plus... I'm used to 3.7/3.8kg tops these days.. * Flat wounds make a lot of sense on a bass this type, does pick very well which is grand The cons: * Why on Earth did Fender use LONG SCALE strings on this bass? the actual strings on E and A roll around the tuning peg * Why on Earth again does it come with a LONG SCALE gig back? These cons are honestly a joke - easy to fix which is good, but man.... seriously 🤣 I get it's probably money saving but it's very cheap of a bass that retails over 1k£ I'll be putting appropriate labella flats (760F-MUS) soon and may get an appropriate gigbag I will post picutres if someone points me in the right direction - the last months I've not been able too as all my pictures exceed the 3.5kb limit it says? (of course it does, who has 3.5kb pics?) I'm really hoping that with this journey having gone from actives to passives, from 5ers to 4 stringers, headless basses, modern, classics, cheap and pricey..... I'm genuinely hoping I can retire or go on a long hiatus of not buying more stuff - I've put a lot of thought into all my rig to continue going down this way ugh! Best, Ander.

Well. I'm back to 3 basses for 2 bands, 2 of which can do back up for each other and the other one a short scale to spice things up or when we need more space in the boot.

Ah! I feel like I'm ready for my best bass rig ever...! 2 Limelight P's, the JMJ, HX Effects to a Eich T900 and Barefaced Big Baby II. Let the good times roll!

OFFTOPIC: Well. I resolved by selling back my telecaster guitar (one week old, but great reminder that my guitar days are proper gone and I've no business with guitars) and getting a Fender JMJ in Daphne blue that I'll be picking up this Sunday Nitro, Lollipop tuners, clay dots... should gel really nicely with my Limelight P's!

Yeah it’s a pity! Otherwise I’d have a mustang ala JMJ and a 51p p bass…!

… nope! Unless he’s changing his MO, Mark just does vintage precision and jazz basses, 4 strings exclusively. I’ll be in trouble if he starts doing mustangs or 5 stringers….! Ander.

Nope not to the best of my knowledge. I’d have one by now otherwise surely! Ander.

Hey buddy! Hope you’re enjoying that monster of a Stingray 😉 they do ultra light relics like my purple one, but I think they can do no relic at all. I love to have a bit of relic just so I don’t cry whenever I expose it to live music and stages etc but yep! Ander.

Brand new you’re looking at 1080 base price but you can add gotoh resolites and matching headstock and/or pickguard anodised and whatnot for not much more same as Bridge/pickup covers and whatnot. i don’t think you’d go further than 1300 going all in with covers pickguard resolites matching headstock and so on. Ander.

Bought a pickguard from Ash, fender original tort from 2009. Easy and quick to deal with, got exactly what I was hoping for - would defo recommend...! Ander.

Had a chance to deal with Alain for one of my Limelight basses. Top bloke and great communications, serious buyer. He had good patience and made every reasonable effort to meet and sort since I caught covid and had to delay the meeting because of this. Deal with @ead in confidence! Ander.

Happy for you @haimesy, welcome to the club. I've 3 Limelight P basses with jazz necks, and loving them badly! I have nonetheless realised I am good enough with 2 and not 3 so I'm letting go on the white one as I upgraded my rig to a barefaced Big Baby II with an Eich T-900 (BLOOOOODY HELL WHAT A CAB UPGRADE!!) Having said that I don't think I'll be able to ever part with my charcoal frost with flats (I want to do the whole Sean Hurley conversion with mute and all) or my custom spec'd purple/gold bass on rounds. Both on Nordys, both quite different, both a pure joy to play. I've been, like you, on a journey from Stingrays to Sadowsky J's to headless ibanez, sandbergs, alphers.... I think these Limelights are the most reasonably priced basses I have, and best bang for buck - back into passive territory, the only bass I remember often before my Limelight era is an Alpher Mako with J pickups, passive - that was the first bass that made me realise you don't always need active when you have good dynamics on the pickups and a solid constructed bass.

Hey mate!! I got in touch with the Creamery but for one reason or another I didn't notice much pull from them in terms of advise - was promised an invoice and an order but after 3/4 emails I admittedly let it go cold and sourced for other options. I tried the Lollar in the interim thanks to a BC'er here and found it to be a bit 'to contained' - very correct pickup and nicely balanced, but I prefer the cut of my Nordys so I went for the NP4V. Bear in mind I already have the Nordy Blade and the NP4A (the punchy, loud out version), so a vintage one would do me good. Sold the BKP '58 and got the NP4V which I really like - similar, very similar character to the BKP '58 as based on a '57/58 thing, but less boomy and more balanced. Funny enough, I'm selling my 3rd P bass and keeping the NP4A and the Blade, so I'll be posting the NP4V on sale soon, still have it boxed and all but oh well. Hope that helps? happy to answer any more questions! Best, Ander.

Bought a Barefaced Big Baby II from Matt. He approached me on my ask for cabs to offer a BT2 initially, and gave great advise and answered a lot of PMs as I was doubting between this BB2and a larger BT2. Relaxed and not pushed for the pricier cab, top bloke to deal with and would recommend again without a doubt! cab in perfect condition as stated. Best, Ander

... Well! I just got home with my Barefaced Big Baby 2 gen 3. The cover is amazing and the amp is built beautifully. Plugged it in and damn.... it does sound so. much. Love it. I will share more detail but in combination with the Eich is all I could've wanted I think! Well.... that's one out of two isn't it? Ander.