Where do you shop mainly?

[Clockworkwar]

Where do you mainly shop for bass products?

[josh3184]

here!

[joe_bass]

GAK in Brighton.

[Noisyjon]

All over the place - Second hand (here, Gumtree, Loot, eBay, etc), online, in shops.

[yorick]

PMT in Birmingham.

[Mike]

Bass Merchant, Colchester. Ask for Darren (or Chris).

[neepheid]

Mostly online (eBay, here, Stringbusters, Axesrus, WD, Allparts), because the two shops here try to be all things to all men and that means bass gets squeezed into a tiny dusty corner of the shop. Have been known to buy strings locally and that's about it. Yada yada support your local shop and all that but what if they don't really support me? I'm always so underwhelmed when I go in that I rarely do so, and to be honest apart from the occasional "must buy strings now" moment (which can be alleviated by having a spare set in advance), I probably wouldn't miss the shops if they disappeared.

[Jamesk86]

[quote name='joe_bass' post='419069' date='Feb 25 2009, 10:12 AM']GAK in Brighton.[/quote]

I agree quality shop with great prices! I'm ordering a shed load of pedals soon from them!!

[simon1964]

[quote name='yorick' post='419085' date='Feb 25 2009, 10:35 AM']PMT in Birmingham.[/quote]

Me too. Best music shop in the Midlands bar none.

Also Drum and Guitar Centre in Nottingham, and Music Scene in Mansfield

Music Scene is a geat small little shop if you're ever in North Notts. Two of the staff are keen bass players themselves, and they usually have one or two goodies there along with the usual stuff. They had a nice Stingray and Wariwck Corvette last time I was there, and often have some interesting vintage stuff as well.

the old Sound Control shop in Derby is pretty good too - can't remember what its called now though.

And on here obviously!

Edited February 25, 2009 by simon1964

[birdy]

Here, Bass Direct and the Gallery. PMT in Birmingham for non bass stuff usually.

Steve

[stingrayfan]

America - when the £ against the $ was better. (my G&L bass)

Otherwise: here (several basses, Trace Elliot stuff), online retailers like Absolute (leads, mixer etc), Ebay (odds and sods like strings) and Andertons in Guildford, Surrey (Yammy bass and Warwick cab - great store).

There is a big guitar shop in my town but they're so aloof and overpriced, that I've stopped going in there.

Edited February 25, 2009 by stingrayfan

[bluesparky]

Bass Gallery usually, although i am guilty of shopping around on-line to find the cheapest deal i can.
It's not really helping the high street retailer!
Evil bay has been quite handy over the years, as has here.

[Tinman]

Rockbox in Northallerton. Staffed by two great blokes. So good in fact, that I'll travel 2 and a half hours to get there.

[fumps]

I vcan never make my mind up about Leeds shops, the Bass stuff just is so thin on the ground....kind of get sick of driving just to see they havent got hardly anything Bass related.

I think unless it's a Bass i'll just stick to shopping online

[Eight]

Bass wise, the singlest biggest source of gear is this forum. Ok so thats only three items but still...

Outside of that (and for everything else music related) - Dolphin (local store + online), DV247.com and eBay.

[harvey1-8]

[quote name='joe_bass' post='419069' date='Feb 25 2009, 10:12 AM']GAK in Brighton.[/quote]

Ask for Jim, best guy in there. Usually wearing a mudhoney cap.

[51m0n]

Pop into GAK quite a lot. Its me local.

Spent way more money at BassDirect mind (damn Mark and his mischievous scheming ways to part me from my money - to be fair this consists of having the gear I want and a nice set up, and letting me play it for as long as is needed for me to know I cant live without it, but!!!)

Anyone know what the cheapest source of DR stings is now the exchange rate to the dollar is rubbish??

[Linus27]

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='419113' date='Feb 25 2009, 10:56 AM']America - when the £ against the $ was better. (my G&L bass)

Otherwise: here (several basses, Trace Elliot stuff), online retailers like Absolute (leads, mixer etc), Ebay (odds and sods like strings) and Andertons in Guildford, Surrey (Yammy bass and Warwick cab - great store).

There is a big guitar shop in my town but they're so aloof and overpriced, that I've stopped going in there.[/quote]

Fleet or Farnham or other??

[dougal]

My last major purchases have been through here or gumtree. The last new bass I bought came from bass central via an American cousin.

here:
bought two basses
bought two cabs
sold EUB
sold two basses
sold combo and 1x15 extension

gumtree:
bought amp
bought cab
bought double bass

Strings, rosin etc I used to buy from Thomann.de - but the exchange rate has made that less atrractive now.

Other on-line retailers used are GAK, Andersons & DV247.com

[leonshelley01]

I tend to buy new "big" stuff (basses, guitars and amps) from either Coda Music in Luton or Machine Head in Hitchin. New effects have been bought online through either iMuso or Dolphin, and secondhand stuff through ebay.

[Tinman]

[quote name='51m0n' post='419171' date='Feb 25 2009, 12:20 PM']Anyone know what the cheapest source of DR stings is now the exchange rate to the dollar is rubbish??[/quote]
Just bought a set of Sunbeams from Stringbusters for £28.50. £1.50 of which was postage.

Just googled them and saw that Absolute Music are doing them for £23.00 Oh, I thought until I saw they're postage costs £6.00. £6.00???????? WTF?

[xilddx]

Waitrose usually have some ethically sourced farmed bass but I prefer wild bass caught on rod and line. Expensive though.

In terms of musical equipment, almost everything I buy comes from ebay. I buy the odd piece of kit from Thomann and Digital Village though. I almost never buy anything from a physical shop. I will except the Bass Gallery from that statement though.

[mrcrow]

[quote name='josh3184' post='419068' date='Feb 25 2009, 10:11 AM']here![/quote]

brilliant!!

i do too and then google for a check on spec and value

i get gak and dolphin coming up a lot

get my strings from busters or direct..depending

[Jambo63]

All over the place

Edinburgh shops - Red Dog Music (old Sound Control) / Guitar Guitar / Scayles
- also secondhand stuff from Gumtree and Duncansons pawn shop (got my Status there)
Online - Dolphin / Sounds Live / Thomann

Not fussy as long as the price is decent

[Deep Thought]

+1 for here-the vast majority of my musical purchases in the past couple of years have been from the For Sale page, if there's something you want and you have a bit of patience, what you want will usually come along before too long.
I like to use local shops if I can, but their stock is usually so limited that if they haven't got it, getting it can take weeks. Also a lot of the more 'exotic' stuff hasn't filtered its way down this end yet-my local chap, lovely bloke though he is, knew next to nothing about a Genz Benz Shuttle when mentioned. Neodymium cabs? Whassat then? Schroeder? Epifani? Never 'eard of 'em. Strings, picks and cables, otherwise it's online for me.