Beedster

Mouth meet soap, now off you go and do the necessary. This is Basschat, not Sensibledecisionchat, have you not read the T&Cs?

Oh dear.... You told us about some basses for sale and people discussed both the basses and the prices, the consensus being that on the whole they're a bit pricey. I'm sure the seller's a lovely guy, but it's a bass forum, we're not here to discuss personality 👍

Indeed, the old quantity versus quality debate rears its head again. I was gigging recently through my Ashdown Drophead, which has a lot of tubes and a lovely fat and full tone through the 15" cab, exactly the sound I was looking for. A fellow bassist - who I know really well and who's a lovely guy - came up and said something along the lines, "Your bass sounds really dull, muddy, and boomy". We all have a sound in our head and we all have different ways of achieving it, and as is the case with basses, no matter which model/configuration we use, we often end up getting close to that sound, one person playing a PJB cab with 4x5" speakers can make it sound more like a 15" cab than another player actually using a 15" cab. The science and numbers are really helpful guides, but they're far from the whole story

Mesa Diesel 1x15, 2x12 and 106 (essentialy the top half of a 1516). Awesome cabs and yes, I'm very brand loyal 👍

Is there any real benefit to buying a brand new (£1500) bass, or should I just go for the more affordable options? Find the bass that works for you, I've owned basses valued at £150, £1,500, and £15,000. In the final analysis the basses that have worked best for me and which I've kept hold of have been towards the left hand side of that list. But we're not all the same, so we have to do a lot of trial and error, which is where the fun lies

I think many of us would have done just thew same

I'm not sure the same can't be said of the listings that are the topic of this thread, but at least the Swedish instruments are interesting 👍

https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/22-items-wanted/

There’s an Items Wanted forum Franco, well come to basschat 👍

The answer is in identifying the problem, does the weight cause pain, or does it cause fatigue, does it impede your technique, or does it simply annoy you? And BTW you’d be amazed how little difference a massive route under the pickguard actually makes 👍

This is what I call a collection................. https://reverb.com/uk/shop/januszs-gear-depot-5

I was assuming it was a shop so please excuse that comment 🙂

That’s quite a nice way of doing things, he’d fit in well on Basschat 🙂

A largely boring collection of basses photographed poorly

He expected a used bass to be perfect, even new basses aren’t perfect….

There will always be unhappy customers. I try to be a good forum member when I deal with people, but I've had several negative responses following a sale, the best being the guy who bought a stunning Yamaha BB2024x a few years back. It was immaculate, but he kicked of a pretty massive fuss about it being in his words 'totally unplayable'. This was odd, as firstly it was a high-end Yamaha, so unplayable doesn't compute, and secondly I'd spent a lot of time setting it up; I play light and with rounds have very low action, something the beautifully engineered Yammie neck allowed me to do. But when his problem became clear - fret buzz due to the action being too low for his playing style - and I suggested that he simply raise the action, over and above calling me several names and accusing me of deception, he replied along the lines "When I buy a bass I don't expect to have to set it up, I'm returning it as faulty". I took it back, and reported him as 'difficult' to the mods 🤔 We all have different expectations, while there are always good days and bad days for businesses, I'm not sure that all the feedback in this thread relates to poor service and/or instruments on the part of the shop, or to the at times excessive expectations of used instruments on the part of the buyer 👍

Beautiful bass, I’m very sorry to hear about your reason for sale, I hope things improve for you all 🙏

Frankly you're in London, where there are a lot of bassists, plus it's an easy place to get to for most people (you could have been in Aberdeen), plus you're now talking to the largest online community of bassists in the UK. You've made a good start 👍 Might be an idea to take a few photos and post them here, I'm no expert but there are a lot of very helpful folks on this site who are and will offer good advice Good luck

The former has not decent science attached to it and largely comes down to experience/opinion/rhetoric, the other can be measured objectively and systematically using technology. Where's the fun in discussing the latter

Yep, posted this book earlier, the subtitle is a stark reminder, because it's a view that not many in the West consider (also worthing noting that Churchill and Roosevelt considered siding with the defeated German army to push the Soviets back east...

Christ it’s even worse in print 😡 USA must be very proud of itself tonight