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  1. Beedster
    Are you selling on the same terms Lawrie All joking aside, what an amazing attitude. I so wish I could afford that stunner, but like you I'm finding that in so many ways an aluminium instrument seems to be a better fit 👍
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    If anyone in my band could play the line better than me, especially if it's either going to improve a recording or save studio time/costs, they'd be welcome. It's not exactly unheard of even among well known/virtuoso performers
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    Still there in August
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    I consider myself technically a very average bass player, very average, but rightly or wrongly I also consider myself to be musically/artistically and acoustically/structurally literate. The best compliment I ever received from a fellow musician was: "You're one of those players who no-one notices until you stop playing". I try to live by that, don't stand out, be part of the whole, but nonetheless make a difference. You don't have to be much cop at bass to do that 👍
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    Mark needs to recruit, train and manage his staff better than he does. They lost my business by taking payment for a £1500 item that was not in stock and it appears was never going to be, and then when I contacted them they pretty much blanked me, forcing me to get PayPal involved to secure a refund. Mark was away at the time, which perhaps explains the problem, but even so it’s still his responsibility. He should make sure his staff don’t lose him customers as the result of poor training and poor systems
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    Very nice work @Berserker
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    There's simply not enough 'The 17 Best....' lists, so many default at 10 or 25, whereas 17 makes so much more sense
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    If there was one locally yes I’d possibly agree, but I always had to travel several hours to find that type of shop even back in the day
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    In fact I've just checked, i didn't have to pay a penny, the store covered all costs
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    With well stocked online stores and distance selling regulations, you're actually buying far less blind than has ben the case for the last 60 years. Show me a 4-walls shop that would let you walk out the front door with £1500 worth of amplification one day, only to walk it back in two weeks later, tell 'em you don't like it as much as you'd hoped, and ask if you could you try again with another one? I've tried £1200 gear recently on trust alone, no cash up front, all I had to do was cover return postage if I didn't want to buy it. I don't think we've ever had it better to be honest, on which basis I cannot understand why anyone other than the few real specialists - e.g., Bass Direct, Bass Bros - would have a physical presence at all
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    Wise words my friend, thank you. Reminds me of the old truism about the double bass: "Each an every one of them is destined to become firewood sooner or later"
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    Hi @Richard R, funny you should ask as the project was put on hold as I simply didn't have the time to do it properly, but I'm hoping to resume next week. I took the advice of a carpenter and bought a spindle sander, I think it might be overkill for the job but I dfound one quite cheap so it seemed a better decision than trying to bodge it with saws and handfiles (not suggesting that others would bodge the same job using these tools, I just suspect that I would)! Re holes, I would use dowling but suspect wsome of the builders on here will have better ideas I'll update once things start to happen 👍
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    Thanks @walshy 👍
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    Someone like Shipley https://www.shiply.com/ would be able to move this around the UK relatively cheaply and safely (there's also @walshy's mate who does man-and-van musical instrument work). I've used them many times to move large items like 3.5x2.5m studio desk and a sofa, the great advantage being that they'll take really large items and that they don't require packaging!
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    No amount of bubble wrap stops them losing it
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    OK, this has been sitting here at this price for 8-months, I'm getting the hint! I do need to move it out of the sound booth where it currently lives as the booth is being moved on Friday and will be in pretty much permanent use following that. If you can collect it in the next few weeks from my home in Whitstable you can have it for £500. Hell of a lot of amp for very little cash 👍
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    I wouldn’t choose this unit in the studio but live it does very well; it’s always a compromise with mic and DB but the Nadine makes it less so 👍
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    DPD have dropped down the league table mate for sure
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    I've been using DPD until recently when they dropped the ball massively, checked my bank re a claim I made and DPD payments appear to go to Parcel2Go now. And yes, I will never use them again, they simply refused to accept that they hadn't collected my packages despite not being able to explain where those packages were and why they'd not been delivered. Steer clear at all costs
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    That has made my day @Happy Jack, the basslines that I grew up to. And if you're worried about intonation perhaps go and listen to some AI generated tracks. Personally I prefer to listen to music 👍
  21. Beedster
    You want it you can have it FOC Andy 👍
  22. Beedster
    Need to get rid of. alot of stuff that's taking up space. Something of a bargain I suspect! Tenner or for postage? WYSIWYG Neck/strings not included
  23. Beedster
    Need to get rid of. alot of stuff that's taking up space. Something of a bargain I suspect! Tenner or for postage? WYSIWYG
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    Mesa don't really do light, but you can hear the weight
  25. Beedster
    Enfield Fusion Jazz body with 2xQuad PUPs, Badass, 3-band Glockenlang EQ with various push/pull options also. If you want to build a versatile bass, this does everything from Flea BSSM era to Flea Stadium Arcadium era, to Jamerson, to Stanley Clarke, to Bernard Edwards, to..... I could make this simpler by saying that if they played a Precision, a Jazz or a 'Ray, this bass can probably do it! Nicely aged natural oil finish, everything fully functional and undamaged. This is the body of an Enfield Fusion/Avenger built by Sims Custom Shop https://www.sims.guitars/enfieldguitars as opposed to a custom body with Sims Quad PUPs installed. In short the quality of the body, the routes, the circuits etc is as you'd expect given Martin's reputation for high quality work. Further info on this model (which was rebranded from Fusion to Avenger but like all Enfield basses is now discontinued) can be found here https://www.sims.guitars/enfield-guitars/avenger
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