Beedster

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

Yes! Mine was the result of keeping amplification volume low to avoid feedback and therefore having to dig in with both hands - increasing muscle tension around the shoulders as I did - just to be heard. The fact that you're now in a band sounds awfully familiar. Advice, make sure you are able to hear yourself and to be heard without you having to do anything different from what you'd do practicing at home. Plenty of folks on here will advise re how that can be done 👍

Likewise although it being a Jazz it was never going to work really! I've just looked at the pics on my computer as opposed to my phone and you're right, it's in worse condition than I'd initially thought. might be wrong but the frets look to be either extremely dirty, tarnished or even rusty? Either was I'd be giving it a wide berth

Very nice, I really like P-Basses with a metal control plate aesthetically but also functionally as the circuit can be tweaked/fixed without removing the whole plate. Lovely work Peter @WabiSabi, I might be getting in contact soon 👍

There's no rules, many players use that configuration, you won't know if it works for and your instrument you until you try, but there's no substantial reason why it shouldn't 👍

Second hand DB strings, yep, I've bought used strings on here many times, there's a degree of risk involved - for example one was fine until I installed it and it started to unravel - but the seller couldn't have predicted that and none of the guys here are not going to sell you anything dodgy. You just have to be patient and keep your eyes open 👍

I've owned basses in worse condition, but those strings..... The Fender rosewood necks have had a mixed reception with much talk of movement/instability and sharp/protruding frets, which is a shame because they look bloody lovely

Well these used to be considered budget but are now £500..... https://www.thomann.co.uk/lenzner_supersolo_jazz_double_bass_3_4.htm?glp=1&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqtKP2KHmiwMVuZlQBh3MxgzTEAQYASABEgJcFPD_BwE In my view silver wrapped gut A and E strings are often and audible improvement on plain gut equivalents, and they tend to be lower gauge which can be helpful both in playing terms and bridge/nut modification terms but if plain gut isn't working at all I'd be thinking about a more traditional option e.g. guts on G and D with a sympathetic pair of steels or synthetics on A and E. Having said that I do have a new/unused Lenzner silver wound E string here somewhere.....

Two f***ing big ones, for that 🤣

I'm guessing if you have a broken piece of kit it's a good way of replacing if FOC.... Worst decision eBay ever made was not allowing sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers

I lost a claim with eBay when I sold a fully functional DigiDesign interface and had it returned as faulty, the return being demonstrably a different unit in terms of serial number and condition from that in the photos in my listing. But when I pointed this out to eBay.......... The buyer claimed that I had in fact not sent him the item in the photos and that I was scamming him 😡 I realised I wasn't going to win if someone's prepared to be that devious and gave up. Ebay were not interested at al, they algorithms had made up its mind. As someone said above, careful who you sell to

Very short but actually very effective 👍

I should add broadcasting to the list, which performers of the time were also up in arms about, until they realised how rich it was going to make them 🤔

Celeb factor 👍

There’s more than one of me mate 😆

This ^ I play music because of how it makes me feel and no amount of AI will change that. to me and to many people music is what is was way before tech, an emotional, social, and spiritual internal and external communication process. When we look at music as a product AI will change many things, but so did the advent of audio recording, the advent of electric and electronic music, and the advent of digital, all of which were talked of as gamechangers (both positive and negative) at the time. And just as previous generations found, new ways of being creative with the new tech will open up new opportunities for some and close doors for others