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I remember buying both of these as if it was yesterday, how the hell are they now considered vintage! I'll add specifications and review below. Both are great units for what they do. Both are however big, and I mean big. But they are also pleasingly solid, and compared to the interface I've replaced them with, they are very satisfying to use (I've now got this from Avid https://www.thomann.de/gb/avid_artist_mix.htm which feels like I'm using a kindergarten toy by comparison). They are both in fully working condition, but whether they will work with your software/hardware is not a discussion I can get into, they both worked perfectly with my 2010 iMac running Pro Tools until I had to update the software to run an RME interface, and whilst there are workarounds, it really wasn't wasn't worth my while testing them. £60 each or £150 the pair. Only joking, £100 the pair. I have no idea why you would buy the pair, but hey, not for me to judge
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FS: DBX 160XT 1U rackmount compressor **SOLD**
Beedster replied to Beedster's topic in Effects For Sale
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FS: DBX 160XT 1U rackmount compressor **SOLD**
Beedster replied to Beedster's topic in Effects For Sale
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I spent a bit of time researching the best mid-budget rackmount compressor for bass and this kept coming up. However, having bought this, and as the result of Covid, I'm now spending most of my time on voiceovers so bought an Avalon 737 which is great for both vocal and bass so this really isn't being used. I paid £325 for the unit newly refurbished, a steal at £225 Chris
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Yep, usually a few on eBay also
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Don’t be so reserved Harry, tell us what you really think
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And he was mid-way through recording one of the great bass lines as well
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How can a bass that no-one would associate with him sell for significantly more than Macca's Hofner, or was it simply inflation? I always associate Wyman and the 'Stone's great basslines with that lovely 3tsb Precision anyway. Oh hang on, that was Keef
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That narrows it down then Bilbo
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Indeed!! What do you think of the verse bass line? I always thought front PUP of a 4003 on flats with a pic?
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I'm not sure if you're one of the bad-back group Jack, you always strike me as a rather robust and rugged chap, but if in the future your back does give you any jip, you would be extremely glad of a Precision with good vintage Japanese pedigree that looks the dog's danglies yet weighs only marginally more than a second class postage stamp. I paid almost twice the asking price for mine, and that was a lot cheaper than I'd seen previous version sell for on Reverb and eBay.
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This is a great bass going very cheap and about to finish.......
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Limiting the Length of Threads/Adding new Categories
Beedster replied to Chienmortbb's question in Site Issues and Questions
On reflection I was over-critical above. I'd like to add that if you ask a specific question on this forum, and you frame it well, thereby constraining the range of answers and the degree to which opinion might overpower knowledge and experience, you can get some really valuable advice here. I think part of the problem I was trying to describe above is that a lot of threads start out pretty vague and get progressively worse. -
Always loved this line, might be synth
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Sounds like you need an EBMM Reflex Game-changer. I hated mine more than I’ve hated any other bass, but then I love Fenders https://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/the-game-changer
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Did your parents/family help with your musical life?
Beedster replied to Nail Soup's topic in General Discussion
Often the way, I see so many parents who give their kids all the support they could ever want, only for those kids to simply waste opportunities and talents, whilst so often it's kids who, whilst by no means unloved by their parents, have to fight to for opportunities who seem to shine. Having said that, there are a huge range of factors that will moderate the support/success equation, not the least of which personality (in both the nature and nurture sense); some kids are just destined to waste opportunity whilst others seize on it, so at the very start of things you have the interaction of high/low support parents and high/low motivation kids. I think that I would have done better with more support, my Dad simply wasn't interested, in fact despite not being a musician himself he saw fit to criticise every instrument teacher I had, and my Mum was of the 'that's nice darling, you got Grade 8, you can have an extra sausage with supper tonight' type. A pivotal point in my life in fact came when my tutor told my father that without a better instrument I wasn't going to progress. I was studying Grade 8 at the time, I think I was 13 so pretty decent for my age. She advised buying new, not because it was a better decision, but because in the days before the internet, buying used was more problematic. She gave my Dad a list of instruments in descending price order, and was explicit is saying of the bottom one "Do not buy one of these". We went to the shop she'd recommended, I played about 20 instruments, and he then said "You're having that one, it sounded best" which was of course the one my tutor has explicitly stated not to get. It was 40 years ago, but still makes me angry. His attitude was characterised by "I'm not going to have some snotty orchestral teacher tell me what to do". If she's said 'Do not spend £10,000 on ........ as those instruments are rubbish" he'd have bought one just to fosters her off -
Assuming this is in good working order it's a great bass at a very good starting price. Extremely light as you'd imagine, albeit with surprisingly good tone and two PUPs (bridge piezo). It's had the mod that buffers/regulates balance between PUPs and makes these instruments infinitely more useful also. No connection with seller. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-PBAC-hollow-body-Precision-bass/174441656122?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160811114145%26meid%3Ddcaf4addc2a14d8cba685e2e48b8145a%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D7%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D324302669069%26itm%3D174441656122%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2334524%26brand%3DFender&_trksid=p2334524.c100667.m2042
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For sale on ebay! Vintage 80's air guitar!!
Beedster replied to gazrack's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
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Yes, heft, grunt etc all play their part
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Watts have nothing to do with loudness or tone. IME a 25w tube head such as a B-15 through an efficient cab can blow a 250 Class D out of the water on both counts. But as ever, it’s horses for courses, volume isn’t everything and tone is a very subjective thing
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FS: Warmoth/Musikraft/Dimarzio Jazz Bass **WITHDRAWN**
Beedster replied to Beedster's topic in Basses For Sale
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Bought this back a few weeks ago having sold it to Graham a while back (and needing a bass to replace my Flea which also went in the Covid fire sale), but post-Covid is still trashing my income so needs to go again. Original link (plus my even earlier FS thread) here It's a lovely bass and worth way more than the asking price (and hey, I'll always buy it back once the finances are restored anyway!). I'm out and about in the south this weekend - Canterbury, Portsmouth, Bath - so may be able to deliver. Cheers Chris