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  2. joe_geezer
    That's great!
  3. charlieotto48
    charlieotto48 joined the community
  4. Bass Wielder started following KSD 4 string (properly hot rodded)
  5. Bass Wielder
    Right….here is a fantastic representation of ‘Fender’ Jazz style bass. The construction is highly regarded in the ‘jazz copies’ world. Being more of a 5 sting player, I put it together with great upgrades for an upcoming project but the video guys preferred a solid colour vintage looking bass, which I now own and upgraded (‘ing’….nearly finished). This fantastic bass now plays and sounds far superior than the price (and brand) suggests, but owes me £500 +……nearest to that would make me happy (collected preferably but can post if buyer covers p&p). (Willing to drop off if within a reasonable distance or en route somewhere). I can try to recover the cost by stripping it back to original and selling bass and parts separately but that would be a shame as it went remarkably well so I’m going to try to sell it as is…. In great condition with no obvious or major damage etc…I hope the pics do it justice and I will list the mods done. Feel free to question me but take my word…you will not be disappointed with this superb instrument. KSD bass £250, East J-Retro deluxe preamp £100, EMG’s £100, Badass 2 bridge £45, Brass nut £10, Tuners £45, Ernie Ball strings £25. I’ll describe the sound as fat and snappy. My favourite combination of East and EMG wins again. The feel is fast with a flatter radius than Fender stuff so really comfortable and easy on the ‘bends’. What do we think lads?🤞🏽
  6. mustafunk1
    Hahhah let see, fro the moment still available 😉 yes it’s a nice bass 👈🏽
  7. kwmlondon
    kwmlondon changed their profile photo
  8. Shaggy started following NBD! A modified OLP Tony Levin 5-string Ray-a-like!
  9. Shaggy
    I had one of these many years ago; facing was indeed quilt maple veneer, I think mine was original spec with a passive circuit and a very weedy pickup (definitely the weak point). Good value for what they were, but I sold it on pretty quick.
  10. Carl_D
    Under A Raging Moon - Roger Daltrey
  11. bassplayer76
    Great little cab, I love mine
  12. baldwinbass
    Where Dead Angels Lie - Dissection
  13. kwmlondon
    Will take pics in the daytime tomoz. Need to get it open to see what preamp it has…
  14. Russ
    Love it. They look like Nordstrand BigBladeMan pickups. Those things rip - got a set in my Spector.
  15. scrumpymike
    My band played one of our two annual freebie gigs at the Globe in Somerton. We do these in return for them letting us use their functions room whenever we need to rehearse. Last night we were in the main pub area and as usual it got pleasantly crowded. Although all 4 of us are gig-hardened, the band is relatively new and it was good to feel that our improvement trend continues. The steps are small now but still satisfying. This turned out to be one of those rare gigs where you leave with such a buzz that you don't care whether you get paid or not. Everyone was up dancing - including the staff in between serving - and the whole place was bouncing. The sound of live music was pulling passers-by in off the street and the place was so full early into the second set that some folks who couldn't get in ended up dancing on the pavement looking in through the window (see pic). This was my first chance to gig my recently-acquired short-scale Wilcock Mullarkey and it delivered everything I had hoped for. Up there with the best in terms of playability, it sits perfectly in our 4-piece mix running through my Ampeg SVT-7 Pro head and LFSys Monaco FR/FR cab, even managing to cut through the powerful lows that our guitarist's new Strat puts out. Another important bit of kit in delivering this 'heft with definition' is the Always On HPF I recently got from Broughton Audio in Canada. My amp delivers 600w into my 600w-rated cab and I got the HPF to protect the driver from potentially damaging low frequencies. Much to my surprise, I find that this tiny box of tricks does as much for my tone-shaping as my bass and amp controls. Shame they don't sell in Europe but luckily I was able to get mine via a contact living in Canada. Fitting in musically and socially with the band, making good equipment choices, learning new stuff, connecting with the punters, improving my own performance level ... there's so much to being a gigging bass-player. I found it intoxicating when I started playing 50 years ago and I still do.
  16. Grooverjr
    Surely there are few on here who needs convincing about ACGs but ..... I recently had almost all my basses in storage for about 3 months due to a big intercontinental move and when I got them back it was a joy to be reunited with them all but it was my ACG (not the shortie, that is still in the box until I get the hangers up - delayed gratiication 😁) that really blew me away with the playability and the feel through the instrument. You don't need all the active bells ansd whistles to have a marvellous instrument and the joy of the ACG is in the DNA, especially the neck shaping. Given how much other things that were mass produced but have a 'name' sell for, 900 quid is a steal.
  17. Geek99
    You don’t show the back so I don’t know. @tauzero was being a little cryptic but if you show the side and back he could maybe compare
  18. Rob MacKillop
    Yes. Anna notates the tuning at the start of the score for the 6th suite, all five strings. It’s an incredible suite, but I have to admit some of it is beyond my skill on any instrument. 😔
  19. kwmlondon
    Ahhh. Cheers. Could it be one of those really thin veneers?
  20. HeadlessBassist
    Actually, you are absolutely right - Suite Six was the one that needed the E-string and a 7/8th sized instument called the Violoncello Piccolo.
  21. Geek99 started following NBD! A modified OLP Tony Levin 5-string Ray-a-like!
  22. Geek99
    He means that his “photo flame” is different to yours. It would be a lot of trouble in manufacture to make them different so it probably is actual flamed maple I get why you call it wallpaper and it isn’t irrational, but that looks real to me
  23. Today
  24. Rob MacKillop
    And the violoncello da spalla, thought by many scholars to be the instrument Bach wrote for.
  25. Rob MacKillop
    Here’s a good introduction to the 5-string piccolo cello, tuned CGDAE. Watch her left-hand fingering at the end. Bach always wrote as if he had the instrument in hand.
  26. wallyp
    wallyp joined the community
  27. kwmlondon
    Ouch. To be fair, the ‘ray is better looking…
  28. kwmlondon
    Sorry, I’m afraid I don’t understand. Not totally clear what you mean.
  29. Sean
    You are teetering on the brink of owning a Spector... I've got 3 Jap BBs but nothing does the PJ magic like a Spector.
  30. binky_bass started following I've quit facebook so that I spend more time here!
  31. binky_bass
    No social media at all here. Deleted my FB account over a decade ago. Never had an X/Twitter/Instagram account. Though I suppose BassChat is a form of social media... So I'm guilty of that.
  32. tauzero
    It seems a lot of trouble to go to to make every single front different though.
  33. Supernaut
    Definitely US. This came from a parts bass made by a Sadowsky employee. No real markings on it to identify as such. The pickups were scrubbed out and headstock left blank for fear of repercussions. I still have the neck - Brazillian rosewood fingerboard, Graphtech nut, Schaller tuners.
  34. Rob MacKillop
    Are you 100% sure about that? Edited versions cannot be trusted. I’ll have to look up the Anna Magdelena Bach manuscript again. My understanding is that it was for 4-strings with the first string down a tone, and that the 6th suite was for five strings. But I’m no Bach expert.
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