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Muzz started following Markbass 104HR - *SOLD* , Yamaha BB414 VW (Vintage White) , Lekato MW-1 5.8Ghz Wireless System and 3 others
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Here's my favourite workhorse bass, I played this one for a good couple of years until my neck/back issues reduced the weight I'm comfortable with down to 'something starting with a seven', so I just don't use her any more. A shame, because (and I say this as a massive P fanboi) it's a very well built P/J which simply does the job. The J pickup in particular is very strong...not that I ever used it (see 'massive P fanboi' above). I'm a tinkerer, so at one point she had another bridge and some Ultra-lites on her, but she's back to stock now (same bridge holes and just four very small holes behind the stock tuners where the Ultra-lites used to be)...one thing I never even thought about changing was the pickups; if you like a good passive P/J, they're it, frankly. She's strung with new D'Addarios. She weighs between 8 1/2 and 9 pounds, which is sadly out of my range these days. Condition is very good (tho she could do with a bit of a polish), I've tried to show the small dings/bruises and two tiny chips. I'd much rather meet up (I can drive 75 miles from Manchester to meet), but if I really have to post, let's say £20 and cross fingers.
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Lekato Transmitter/Receiver running 5.8Ghz, so well out of the problematic 2.4Ghz range. Fully working, you can run this one way from a mic to the desk (it's XLR connectors) or the other way round from the desk to a headphone amp like the Behringer P2. I've lost the dual USB charging lead, but they'll come with a single one, and they're ubiquitous these days (except in my house, apparently). Here's Lekato's blather, which focuses on the mic -> desk usage, but as I say they work great the other way round, too. https://lekatodeal.com/en-uk/products/wireless-5-8ghz-microphone-system-plug-on-xlr-transmitter-receiver £80-ish new now, so how about £55 pick up/£60 posted?
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This was bought for a project that suddenly found itself without an endpoint, so I'm clearing out. It was fitted to a bass and then a few weeks later removed. No marks, fully working (obv). Comes with all the gubbins. Per EMG: 'The HB was developed for Steinberger Sound for their infamous headless bass. It is a ceramic P-Style bass pickup in a guitar humbucking housing. The ceramic magnet adds presence, punch, and loads of output. It is recommended for bass guitars with a string width of less than 2 inches.' Here's the full data link: https://www.emgpickups.com/hb.html IIRC it was around £90, so how about £55 pick up (har har)/£60 posted in the UK?
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John East P-Retro - never to be made again?
Muzz replied to CameronJ's topic in Accessories and Misc
I bought one about six or seven weeks ago from Jon, tho I note now it's showing Out Of Stock for all colour knobs... -
How was Your rehearsal last morning or night ?
Muzz replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
Which reminds me, the new Spinal Tap movie's due out soon... 😀 -
Just chatting with my pal Napper and he mentioned he's working the Damnation Festival this year (Doom, Post-Metal, Black Metal, etc). Just had a look at the lineup, and not a single smile in any of the band photos, it's hilarious, they all look like the photographer's just told them the band van has been nicked. Fave band name for the weekend is Crippling Alcoholism...at least they're contemporary in their misery...I'm just waiting for an even more modern one called Switching Broadband Providers... I was asking him about hiring a drum screen for some recording we're doing, because we're getting horrendous mic bleed, and he said 'Horrendous Mic Bleed? I think they're headlining the Friday night...'
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Flats. Figured I should at least try them, but I should've known (I would these days, I'm much wiser about what'll suit me) they wouldn't work for me. After a very short tenure (in retrospect, the fact that I didn't cut them should've been an indicator that subconsciously I wasn't commited) on the original recipient, they ended up on an acoustic bass, where they work really well...and don't stink like those phosphor bronze ones do...
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Nope, mine were all 3EQs, and no matter what I did I just didn't like it. On the Markbass heads thing, there's a jumper (well, there was on the LMIII, and I suspect others, too) on the main board that sets 110/240v. I bought one in the States years ago and brought it back here. Not going to say setting the jumper wasn't a tense moment, but it ran for years afterwards...
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The Stingray thing? A brother from another mother there, Lozz, I bought three over the years just to be doubly, trebly sure...and I was right. Still don't like Jazzes, tho, but every bass I have has a Jazz width neck, so there's that. I bought an Alembic, an Overwater and a Sei (not all at once, I'm not made of money, it was over a couple of years) just to see what the fuss was about, and I didn't like them much...at least they're the sort of thing that if you buy carefully secondhand you can move on without losing much money for the experience...
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First 'proper' bass, a Jetglo bought for my 16th in 1980*, I had it for about four years, sold it for an arse-clenchingly small amount, bought a 70s P** which wasn't very good, then about a year later Pointy Things were all over the place and I succumbed to them for a good while...bought a new one for my 50th (the old misty-eyed nostalgia thing), really didn't get on with it so it went back by return post, then I thought I'd made a mistake so I bought another and realised nope, I hadn't... *Not wanting to sound to privileged, this was a 'No, don't want a party, no, don't want anything else, yes, you can have all the money I get from anywhere else, I JUST WANT TO BE GEDDY LEE...' **And I was so numb I've no idea what year it actually was; it was black and maple, and so was JJB's, soooo...
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The problem/common factor is the SE didn't do (or get to do) his job properly. In the case of the Stranglers, everything else was good, but the bass had been reduced to the new Subsonic Mud Rumble which seems, along with the Deafening Cannon Kick, to be the latest in sound trends for SEs mixing rock bands.
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I've used backline a couple of times of late (not my idea), and both times it's reminded me of how hard it can be to get a decent stage sound without over- or under-whelming the room with bass; I've been spoiled by a mixable feed to my inears, where I can hear exactly what's going on at a reasonable volume, something that's often elusive with backline. Oh, and the ability to turn the guitarist down cannot be overstated...
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Tragically, the last time I went to see the Stranglers (admittedly a couple of years ago, the first tour with inears, so they may have got it sorted now) at the Manchester Apollo, the soundman did exactly that to JJ Burnel...
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They're like Stingrays for me: I love everything about them except playing them, because they really, really don't suit me. I've had three of each, because on at least two occasions for each I thought 'I must have been wrong about the last one'. They are an iconic bass, and I really wish they suited me.
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This one is for a close friend of mine, he offered it to me but I said I'd just sell it for him and pass it on. Great condition, just a little dusty because it's been sat in a house for a long time and not out on the road. I guess everyone knows these; a great compact 410 that's plenty for gigging and is comparatively light and easier to schlep than most 410s (it's pretty much 2ft x 2ft x 19"). I had one of these for a couple of years and if it hadn't been stolen (not this exact one, obv) I might well still have it. FWIW it's one of the earlier Made In Italy ones, rather than the later Indonesian builds. I note the Indonesian ones are around the £650 mark new, and this one's had very little strenuous use, so I think £300 firm is right, given the logistics below... Logistically I can meet up/deliver within a 75 mile radius of Manchester, I'd much rather do this than ship.