EssentialTension

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='595813' date='Sep 11 2009, 04:34 PM']Simples*. [size=1]* Y'know, a year or two from now, we'll look back at all these posts that finish with "simples" and wonder what the f*** that was all about. [/size][/quote] I'm wondering that already.

I buy what I can afford that I like and can use. 'Expensive' would be what I can't afford. I don't buy that.

Mrs ET has started calling me Mr Alzheimer. Or so she says.

Sold Lee a DC Brick, fast payment, top man.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='595254' date='Sep 10 2009, 11:48 PM']Hello Mr. Far0n! Nah... I've just looked that one up, and it's reinforced my general feeling of 'money well spent'...[/quote] That's a nice feeling.

[quote name='RichB' post='595233' date='Sep 10 2009, 11:22 PM']Well just as I thought - I know FA about theory, back to playing roots. [/quote] If you knew FA about theory you wouldn't know they were roots.

[quote name='3below' post='595131' date='Sep 10 2009, 09:20 PM'].... 30 years ago ... At that time you could not give Hiwatts away - how times change ....[/quote] I had a Hiwatt 200w and Hiwatt 2x15 cab in the late seventies and remember selling the whole rig for about £90 - mind you that was about two weeks wages after tax. The £90 paid for a car.

Some more than others but yes.

[quote name='markdavid' post='595177' date='Sep 10 2009, 10:04 PM']you could rout a jazz pickup near the neck and have a JPJ configuration[/quote] Now JPJ I could go for but the neck J would need to be right up against the neck.

PJ for me, but you need to figure out what it is for you. What pleases me isn't going to help.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='595046' date='Sep 10 2009, 07:33 PM']Nah.....right up in Scotland! If they could guarantee it was actually brand new and not ex demo...id be more serious about it.[/quote] Even at that price it's a lot of money if you're not sure what you're getting. I'd wondered if it might be a return.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='594984' date='Sep 10 2009, 06:31 PM']Yeah you probably found it too. I asked on price on a new stock item and he said £1480, so I said no chance. I cant decide! They said I have a 7 day money back guarantee![/quote] Are you near enough to go and see it, try it, first?

My seller reckoned that the price you have found was less than the price they would pay.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='594959' date='Sep 10 2009, 06:02 PM']Well Ive scouted about (like the connection!) and ive managed to find one of these amps that is new, the one with one input, with all the mesa bits apart from the box. Its been on display as most amps have, but watched over carefully. Im not going to say how much....haha....or where...yet, as I might just get it. Put it this way, its less than £1100 brand new! Do I trust the store and go ahead? Thanks[/quote] If that's where I think it is, then I considered that one too. Did you ring them? I wasn't tempted enough by the price compared to what I played for non-display that was local and I could actually try first and easily take back for service if needs be.

I always come back to ..... Fender Precision ..... although I'm rather attached to my Lakland Decade too.

Anyone tried one of these? [url="http://mesa.stores.yahoo.net/cst-quickdetach.html"]Quick Detach Tone Luggage[/url]

[quote name='Clarky' post='593599' date='Sep 9 2009, 09:07 AM']Its easy to find a market value for 90% or more of the basses for sale on BassChat (eBay, Gumtree, others). In these cases I agree a firm price should be stated, otherwise it looks uncommitted on the part of the seller (and frankly a bit spivvy). I can see the argument for PM offers if the bass in question is very difficult to value (due to scarcity, mods, damage etc) - but as stated that does not apply to the vast majority of basses for sale through this forum.[/quote] I agree with this.

[quote name='sharpester' post='594115' date='Sep 9 2009, 05:54 PM']Will a short scale bass help me improve as a player more quickly?[/quote] The simple answer is no. However, if you find a shorter scale bass that somehow suits then maybe it would help you - but not magically so. Shorter scale basses (or some of them anyway) do have a faster feel because there is less of a stretch but speed is not the only thing that matters (I'd say there are many things more important than speed). On the aching hands - I think most bass players have that at least sometimes and anyway it may be related to your technique more than the scale length of the bass. [quote name='sharpester' post='594115' date='Sep 9 2009, 05:54 PM']A second related questions is, how does the sound differ with a change of scale length?[/quote] Well, it differs with different basses but - on average - I'd say shorter scales have a tendency to sound kind of darker. But McCartney's Hofner and Jack Bruce's Gibson are both 30" scale and sound nothing like each other.

[quote name='Clarky' post='594229' date='Sep 9 2009, 07:43 PM']No hard feelings, eh?[/quote] I just had another little play through it and - guess what - no hard feelings!

[quote name='Clarky' post='594229' date='Sep 9 2009, 07:43 PM']No hard feelings, eh? I did buy some D'Addario strings off you [/quote] And at a very good price if I recall.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='594216' date='Sep 9 2009, 07:32 PM']Yeah.. shockingly expensive. I got lucky on eBay, otherwise I'd still have crippling GAS.[/quote] At this moment I have no conception whatsoever of the true nature of GAS. It is fully dissipated.

[quote name='Clarky' post='594219' date='Sep 9 2009, 07:36 PM']As it happens I got mine second-hand (on BC) for £700 [/quote] Yes, I knew that.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='594136' date='Sep 9 2009, 06:09 PM'][/quote] Very cute. The basses, not your knees.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='594079' date='Sep 9 2009, 05:31 PM']That's winter-wear in Geordieland, man. If it were summer, that'd be Y-fronts at most.[/quote] We're so soft down here. I keep my long ones on even in the summer.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='594138' date='Sep 9 2009, 06:11 PM']I want one but I cant justify the NEW price tag. £1400?![/quote] Well, I did buy a new one and I did get to try it first. I beat the price you quote and got what I felt was a more than fair trade-in value on some other gear. However, as you imply, they are expensive new. My 'justification' was that I couldn't bear the GAS any longer once I'd tried it out and they appear second-hand fairly irregularly. Now I can't wait for next week's rehearsal and gig.