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  2. Misdee
    I've had nothing but positive experiences buying from Bass Direct over the years. I've had a couple of very nice new basses and various pedals and accessories from them. I've never been to the shop but the staff have always been pleasant and helpful by phone and email. I'm just glad that there are still a specialist bass gear vendors with retail premises in the U.K. We all take it for granted but they would certainly be missed if they were gone.
  3. kevin_lindsay
    The Sunny Side Of The Street - Benny Goodman
  4. TrevorR
    🤣🤣🤣
  5. alexsga
    not to be confused w the other brand AMT 😁
  6. Lfalex v1.1
    Uh... tried the EUB through the C8. Spent ages tinkering with the Zoom B3 for just the right smidge of compression, chorus & reverb. Compression, it transpires, was a mistake, so I switched it out for EQ. I leave the reverb on, simply to make it sound a bit more organic. Notice that I've bought mentioned any of the amp/cab part of the signal chain? Nothing to say. They're both great. Except for the unerring accuracy; reveals my playing to be slow and sloppy! More practice needed. Oh well. Never mind! 🤣
  7. TrevorR
    Speaking of Superlight TTs… this popped into the inbox today… Super chuffed as it was listed originally for delivery by the end of April, so gaining a few months on it is great news. As a new build, ordered last September, I’m a little intrigued to see whether it will have the solid paulownia body or the newer maple core with paulownia wings design that they announced over the summer. Not worried either way but it adds an additional little element of surprise into the anticipation. Can’t wait to give it a run out a church on Sunday evening and at the weekly jam on Monday. Watch this space…
  8. fretmeister
    That's lovely!
  9. TrevorR
    Enjoy it!!! I so very nearly pulled the trigger on that one - or it’s close clone - last year but decided not to as it duplicates the pickups on the VM I got last year. I was really looking for a TT SL for that Jazz look and feel. That said, the VM is a great pickup combination - both sound great individually and the blend sounds are lovely too. Do give us your in depth review when you’ve had a chance to properly put it through its paces…
  10. The fasting showman
    The Fallouts that I've gone on about ad nauseum. Complete with replacement Schallers and OK from a distance DIY competition stripes. I very gingerly swapped the La Bella DTFs from the white bass to the red. The combination seems to work even better this way round; weirdly the flats on the red bass sound like my old fender messed up tele bass modded into a P bass with TI flats ( now owned by Ash)....somehow the bass sounds 50 years old with flats a year older than they did on the white bass! The white bass is much more polite in a good way...it left the factory with a nicer setup. The rounds really suit it. The red is more of a bass of extremes; glassy with rounds and more boxy / tubby in a good way with flats. It's useful to have them sound more different from each other. Thanks to Shepster for stoning the frets on the red bass ( initial setup as stock was a 'Friday afternoon special ') and to Beedster Chris for the Schaller BMs.
  11. tobiewharton
    Great little chorus pedal. Glwts
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  13. vbance
    I visited Bass Direct for the first time Saturday, wanted to try a Gibson LPB. I phoned a few days before to let them know of my interest. No complaints from me I had a great time there. Left alone to play for I guess an hour before being asked what I thought. Sadly, and I was gutted, I didn't get on with it but not a wasted drive up they bought a the fender p I took up as part exchange. Two great guys working that day.
  14. TrevorR started following NNBFRBD (Not New, But Freshly Refurbished Bass Day): my baby's back - Wal content
  15. TrevorR
    That’s fabulous news, Rich. You’re going to love playing it!! I still love my Pro 2E a quarter of a century after getting my hands on it. Going to sound great at the ska gig. Paul is such a star, he did a similar job on mine back around 2010ish, including changing the pops for ones with integrated shafts and it really gave it a new lease of life. Enjoy!!
  16. franzbassist
    Sweet!
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  18. The fasting showman
    There's a lot in what you say, I put some Resolite tuners on an old Fender and it really thinned out the sound, a lot of low mids disappeared. I suppose it could help some basses but in my case the old tuners went straight back on.
  19. Arnoldas started following Ashdown Bass Gig Bag and Zero Mod PB1​V2 Thumb Rest for Fender Precision
  20. Shabbs started following Custom Branded 70's Bass
  21. Shabbs
    Hi folks I've just acquired a 2 tone sunburst P Bass copy from around mid 70's I think. Neck plate is stamped made in Japan. Happy to upload pictures but can anyone shed any light on these basses? It looks like my 70's Maya bass. I've done all the usual searches but as you can imagine as soon as you search custom bass etc it's off to Fender we go. Appreciated Ian.
  22. kodiakblair started following Machine head advice, please
  23. kodiakblair
    Those keys are on there for a reason. Dead spots are nothing new. Instrument designers like Jim DeCola, currently headman at Gibson/former headman with Fender/designer of DynaBass for Peavey, are well acquainted with them and how to tweak them. It's simple physics, peghead mass. You take a bundle of loaded necks, with overly thick pegheads, stick some piezos on them, hit them with frequencies and record the results. Pegheads get gradually thinned by a sander to arrive at the average thickness causing least offense. Neck dive is caused by a poorly balanced bass. What device do we use to suspend our basses from ? It's not the tuning pegs so beats me why folk ignore the obvious. Buy another strap and adjust the bloody thing.
  24. knirirr
    I last saw the Echoes of Ellington big band, with Sara Oschlag last weekend. It's always a pleasure to see professional jazz musicians at work and it was an enjoyable gig. They even played a few unfamiliar tunes, which is always nice. This band made the excellent Jazz Planets album. No photos or video of the performance were permitted but one of the theatre's interior is below. The venue was an added bonus as it used to be a cinema I went to often and where I saw Star Wars when it opened in the UK in 1978. I've not been in there since the late 1980s and it closed in 1991. It still looks recognisable despite some major changes.
  25. Rich
    Outstanding review as always Looks like a good unit, and I like that they've included the adaptor options for those odd stomps that refuse to be like all the others. The 9/12 volt switching is good, but an 18v option would would have been good. It's a pretty crowded marketplace, so it'll be interesting to see how it fares against the established opposition.
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  27. Richard R
    The strap locks are superb.
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  30. Jack Higgs
    Hi mate, I’d take this off your hands if postage possible? Happy to pay the difference obviously.
  31. bassist_lewis
    Mine also came stock with DRs. I could never quite get on with them personally. I found a set of what I think are D'Addario nickels with the B string cut down (I got quite good at it back when S/S 5 string sets were near impossible to find) and they sound great! B sustains for days now!
  32. Linus27 started following Ashdown Bass Gig Bag
  33. Minininjarob
    Thanks. I wonder if the temp sensor is cooked? I will see if I can find it and test it.
  34. cetera
    Looking forward to seeing my friends in the fantastic Steely Dan tribute 'Simply Dan' at 'Wokingham Music Club' at the Royal British Legion this Friday night!
  35. johnbiffa
    TRY AN OFFER I'M FEELING GENEROUS £110 posted 😎 Very good condition recently taken in p/x but not displacing my current rig, THE EBS MICROBASS II PREAMP IS THE BASS PLAYERS ‘SWISS ARMY KNIFE’. A DI BOX, TWO-CHANNEL PREAMP, WITH SPEAKER SIMULATION, EFFECTS LOOP, PHONES OUTPUT AND LOADS OF OTHER GREAT FEATURES. THIS IS THE ULTIMATE BASS TOOL. PERIOD! Two Channels and A Useful Loop. The MicroBass II can be used as an active direct box, a one or two channel preamp, instrument switcher or blender. The two channels provide sound shaping from high end solid-state types to distorted timbres, using the awarded tube emulation circuitry found in the EBS range of professional bass heads. An incorporated effects loop gives the user added flexibility for connecting to other effect pedals, or for mixing in an external audio source such as a CD player for rehearsal purposes. Unmatched Flexibility. The balanced output with speaker simulator option provides unmatched flexibility in live and studio situations. Footswitches control mute and channel operation/switching. Other features include headphone output, low battery indicator, link and master outputs, bass, ‘sweepable’ midrange, treble, bright and edge filters, drive and effects mix controls. Price includes 1st class postage in UK
  36. sbrag
    Possible extra trade option of a black and Maple P bass. Ideally Squier or Mex with cash my way.
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