Paddy777

I’ve had a US 55/94 and it was great no doubt, but these are easily 90% of the way there, there’s an awfully large premium on the 55/94’s when the electronics are identical so they sound no different, the difference is the neck. The U.S. Lakland necks are really amazing, but they’re not worth and extra 2-3 grand - I think it says more about how good the Skylines are than anything negative about the U.S. ones.

Up for sale is my absolutely stunning 5 string 2020 Lakland Skyline 55/02 in trans purple. It has an ash body with beautiful quilted maple top, an ebony fretboard on a flat-sawn maple neck with graphite reinforcement bars. This bass is in excellent condition, it’s been gigged but has been very well looked after and there’s no obvious damage - it’s just not a brand new bass, I’d say it’s 9/10 and can’t find anything specific to note that’s negative about it 35” Scale with a 1.81” nut width, 22 fret with a radius of 10-13”. It is strung with Sadowsky blue label nickel 45-130T’s with the Tapered B string, so the combination of these strings and the Lakland neck gives this bass one of the best sounding B strings you could ask for. Pickups and preamp are both Lakland’s own LH3 which are in both the U.S. 55/94 and 55/02’s as stock. The preamp is Vol/Blend/Treb/Mid/Bass (cut and boost), however you can open the control panel in the band and change the frequency of the Mid control using the dip switches (275/600/900/1100hz). There is also a coil tap for the bridge humbucker pickup - towards the neck and engages the front coil only (60’s jazz) mid position is the full humbucker (both coils - stingray mode) and pointed towards the bridge is rear coils only (70’s jazz). The front pickup only also does a pretty convincing P Bass sound for a bass that’s clearly not a P Bass making this one of the most insanely versatile basses you can get - it’s extremely hard to get a bad sound out of this (trust me I’ve done my best! 😁) Included in the sale is an almost new ‘Protection Racket’ gigbag and Shipping via DPD Next Day (within the UK). It’ll be extremely well packaged and boxed so it’s safe for the journey, or collection from DH2, County Durham is also welcome Priced for a quick sale, no trades and no offers - this is a superb quality bass, at a very good price. Thanks for looking £875 shipped

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HX Stomp XL with original box, power supply & all paperwork/instructions etc that came with it. I’ve gigged this extensively - it’s still working perfectly and is in good condition, with just the odd mark/scratch on the finish, but nothing major and nothing on the screen. Duo lock underneath which I can remove for you if you don’t want it I have bought 2 of Ian Martin Allison’s preset packs at the cost of just over £70. The two preset packs that are on there are the: Signature Pack https://ianmartinallison.com/store/signature-pack Classic Amp Pack https://ianmartinallison.com/store/classic-amp-pack Theres also presets from Austin Beveridge and Tim Kirschke in there, and a fair few other ones from the Line 6 user library I have used this pedal for loads of different gigs, and if you’re new to Helix there’s quite a few presets in there for you to use ready to gig that I have used, so if you feel a bit worried about getting used to a new piece of kit then there’s loads of useable stuff there so you can just get playing immediately, obviously if you already know your stuff they still might be useful - the Ian Allison ones are excellent either way £425 inc free shipping

Best bass chorus there is IMO hands down,

Makes a huge difference imo, I also think the rest of the preamp is better quality too - zero noise from the treble boost etc which wasn’t the case before. I’ve just updated the listing to mention that the pickups are the Sadowsky hum free stacked jazz bass pickups, no single coil hum, inside of bass is all copper shielded as well

I’ve not got luggage scales but using bathroom scales with and without the bass it’s weighing 4.3kg - pretty average for 5st jazz, if you get a nice wide padded strap as I have, it seems to balance it pretty well. I’ve got rheumatoid arthritis and have done multiple 2 hour gigs on this without any issues. Cheers

I’ll get back to you in the morning and let you know

2nd Gen Sadowsky MetroExpress Jazz 5 string in Olympic white with tort. Upgraded preamp with VTC, in good nick - has been gigged but looks really nice and clean, just may be the odd superficial mark from general use - it looks absolutely stunning tho. Roasted maple neck & fretboard, 18mm spacing (upgrade to Metroline bridge for 19mm spacing - works fine in this neck if that’s what you wanted). Edit: The pickups are noiseless/hum free pickups rather than single coil Absolutely fantastic B string - really good, which shocked me, even tone all over the bass, plays amazingly well with a great neck - this is worthy of the Sadowsky name and is night and day better than the first gen (I’d say it’s what you’d have expected Gen 1’s to be) Looking to trade for a decent P Bass (I can add money on top for the right bass) or straight sale price - £595 Comes with Sadowsky padded gig bag - shipping can be arranged for £20 via DPD

I managed to find this again which suggests it’s a 2nd gen Edit: It comes from a blog post on a site I’ll link below 👇 it’s got this table for all the Sire basses that came out as Gen1, quite useful if you like that sort of thing (like I do 😁 haha). https://gsus4.com.au/blogs/news-promo/whats-new-2nd-gen-sire-bass?srsltid=AfmBOooMUHWtuQszqBm5NqKQabfJtub5oqkYPAcLS5tcJuEBKRBirlmW On another note @Davy I’m only down the road from you and if this is till here first week of Jan I’ll come up and get this

It’s sold now

I’m not 100% but I’m pretty sure the wooden screw plate battery cover this one has was a second gen thing, upgraded from the plastic ones you could clip shut on gen 1’s

Updated some trade options before I pull it!

Ditto!

34” scale