AndyTravis

Well, according to mate at Roland...since self isolating they’ve had no stock anywhere, completely sold out... Handy

I had one of those and sold it...because I thought my sonic port was working again 🙄

Might just get this and try on iPhone before buying an iPad... asked my mate at Roland to send me one thread closed I guess...

Yeah. I’m trying to check specs on the Roland iPad/iPhone specific interface - don’t want to buy an older iPad and then the interface not work. should bite the bullet and buy a big posh bastard and the top apogee interface. Seems a bit silly given the usage...

Hi keep struggling with garage band on my iPhone (currently with no facility at all), I want an iPad. I’m not after pro level recordings and enjoy the ease of garage band for sharing ideas and speed/ease of use. I also Want a new interface as neither Apple nor Line 6 seem to give a hoot that the sonic port stuff doesn’t work anymore... so. Can I buy a used iPad and get away with it? What’s the cheapest oldest model I will get away with? I don’t have to store much on it, but would like a bigger screen for my clumsy donkey fingers. And interfaces....what’s the best available within reason? I’m realistic - would love to have a solution for £300 all in, but don’t want to speaks more than £500 if possible. I don’t want to buy a laptop and interface etc, I literally want a Tascam Porta 02 with a touch screen I can email musical sketches from. And yes, I’m fine with garage band for this. cherrrz xxx

They’re not cheap though eh?!

My ex guitarist had a black over sunburst relic strat of his - was bloody amazing.

I had the 50’s classic in honey blonde, remarkably similar

So here’s the thing...if I’m following the right train of thought, the metro express at £700 ish are made in China. I know Warwick used to use “Grand Reward/Education” - for rockbass (after the snappy truss rod early models). And I think they may have had something to do with the chinese made series they ran for a brief period a few years ago. Grand Reward/Education produced the Squier Classic Vibes and Fender Modern Player stuff, they also made some basses under their own “Farida” brand... And their FJB is a very passable J bass - they were in around £150-£250 and an attempt at premium models was a bit of a flop. If they are indeed made in this factory - they’ll be lovely. But shows what Brand power is. I’ll be intrigued to try/see. If anyone has one delivered from the factory packing - I’ll be able to tell you if my theory is right 😉

@bnt if it was vintera I would’ve bought one. It’s American Vintage, meaning about £1500-1700 and not “cheap”.

I’ve owned way too many basses. And recently sold what I considered (and still consider) to be the best Fender jazz bass I’ve played. It was my job for 12 years, buying and selling basses - as well as guitars. I sold 1000’s of Fender basses, and set up/restrung more than that... In selling that bass to @Normski he mentioned he had a Metro which was lovely, but sat unused as he has way too many basses (he describes his stingray collection as a roomful’) - I had zero intention of taking a trade. This is a very recent “Metroline” - and I was in trouble the second I opened the case. Is it as “good” as the CS? Yeah, yeah it is...but it’s probably not as “special”. A change is as good as a rest, and this Sadowsky has had me playing bass again, and now after some tweaking to strings (New ones on today) and action (now a bit too low...if that’s possible) - I’m really enjoying it. Might’ve overstepped the realms of normal behaviour by buying a HPJ Metroline last night...but I’ve sold 3 expensive basses recently and it keeps me out of trouble. Anyhow...After a discussion with Drew of GBBL fame the other night, we got into a to and fro about bass players “chasing the unicorn”. Some Fenders are good, some are average, some are bad. What @bassfan wants from a Fender or Sadowsky May well be hugely different to what I want - so his version of “good” will be different to mine. There is no hard and fast rule to be applied to any basses by any manufacturer. If you fancy paying £1500 to find out if it’s for you, go for it - in fairness, if you buy used you’re limiting the losses. If it costs you a £150 loss after a few months, think of it as a rental cost. Horses/Courses...etc.

Maybe you had the wrong sadowskys 😉😂

That bridge isn’t the nice quick release jobbie either...

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This is happening...looks to be absolutely stonking...

True. I had a chance to buy a 60’s p a good few years ago. It smelt like a dirty old shed. And that put me off...don’t know if I regret it or not. I do love that 57/58 pbass look though.

I suppose you could get close with a Mexican Standard and a gold anodised? The Mexican classic 50’s (only 2tsb) often crop up at about the £500-£600 mark

Looks great 🧐 Edit - aha! Yers. Very lovely.

I always thought that...

It’s all this self isolating. Making me selfish...and a bit doolally.

I refer to my earlier post. Deffo that. As I’ve just bought it...

I’ve worked on 1000’s of basses, a well fitted shim made of an appropriate material (I seem to have Some slivers of rosewood currently) Will do a grand job. I can’t recall if the gotoh 201’s are plated cast metal or machined (tempted to say the plated/cast) which would just look a bit pants. Either way, OP says it’s not that big of a deal... I wouldn’t swap saddles over between bridges as I’d say the gotoh is a big upgrade to stock item.

And filing a nice bit of metal isn’t? 😂😉

Shim is less permanent if you want to use the bridge elsewhere though...