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  2. bassplayer76
    Made in Japan, well used with plenty of scratches (see photos). Plays and records really well. No whammy bar. I’ve used it for home recording and it sounds fine, good variety of sounds. Only my playing lets it down.
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  3. bassplayer76
    Thanks for your comments-yes a truly beautiful looking and sounding bass.
  4. 0175westwood29
    Reduced again to £85
  5. 0175westwood29
    This is basically bosses big muff
  6. 0175westwood29
    Price includes postage
  7. 0175westwood29
    £80 posted need cash asap
  8. Hellzero
    And here is the Beedster II: An all maple varnished fretless Shuker Precision neck with wonderful rounded edges coupled to (what seems to be a Northwest) two parts swamp ash body (nitrocellulosic natural finish), fitted with two Seymour Duncan SJB1 pickups (CTS pots), Gotoh lollipop tuners and a Fender (slotted grub screws) BBT bridge with threaded saddles. This fretless is fitted with Thomastik flat wound strings and is a real delight to play with an ultra low action and very straight neck (the double action truss rod is just very very very slightly tightened), loads of mwah when needed, but also more double bass tone on the neck pickup with the tone rolled a lot off. So a very versatile bass and, to me, better sounding than all the fretless Jazz Basses I had and that neck is just pure joy to play. Furthermore it's not a relic sunburst à la Jaco like mainly all fretless Jazz Basses... Yes I was having an overdose of these and needed a more sober classy fretless. And even if I'm a Jazz Bass guy, I've always preferred the width and feel of the Precision Bass neck. Thanks Chris! 😊👌🏻
  9. Jakester
    So, played them for a good few hours at rehearsal yesterday, and I'm warming to them. The slight stickiness went pretty quickly and once I was actually up and playing with others, they felt fine - as @Sibob says, like a well-played in roundwound. The sound was great, though - from sounding really toppy and bright at home, they fit really well into an ensemble context, with a really strong fundamental tone. I'll be sticking with them for now (not least because of the price!) but I'd say they managed to improve on rather mixed first impressions.
  10. Geek99
    There are two different schools of thought. I take the view that I’m there to make people listening happy, either tgey or a landlord are paying. My personal level of perfectionism takes a back seat. However l also get the “get it exactly right” mentality
  11. Pea Turgh started following 1975 Fender Precision Fake?
  12. Pea Turgh
    I love it! 🤣. If it was priced accordingly, it could be brought back up to spec? (Apart from the ferrules 😬). Gut feeling it plays nice. Are you happy to share how much you paid for it @ronswanson?
  13. Marvin
    A very long day. Had a full rehearsal, setting up the whole PA, monitors etc. We seem to have a serious problem with the mixer...and a gig on Friday. Otherwise it was a fun day.
  14. Fishman
    Any recommendations for laser cutting steel for a neck plate?
  15. dave_bass5
    Wow, the soapboxes came out faster than usual for a BC thread 😂 Maybe i should have put this in off topic 😎
  16. TimR
    Bit of an odd gig last night. The rain maybe didn't help and apparently there was some boxing on and a local music festival. Maybe 30 people in. They appreciated us anyway. Acoustics very difficult to manage and a few times I couldn't hear the guitarist clearly enough which led to a couple of very bad bum notes and a complete restart of one song - I can't actually remember ever having to do that with this band. I need another clip box for the lights. Carrying cardboard boxes across the carpark in the rain doesn't do them any favours, and I really need to reduce the number of trips.
  17. dmccombe7
    Never too old to learn Rob. Dave
  18. PhilAllGaps1 started following TC Electronic Vortex Flanger - £35 Shipped
  19. PhilAllGaps1
    Pm’d you!
  20. amir93smith started following Smooth Hound Wireless System **Now £50 **
  21. Hellzero started following Beedster's wall of shame
  22. Hellzero
    I bought the Beedster II from Chris. Everything was fine as usual. The fretless bass sounds excellent just as Chris said. Cheers.
  23. GisserD
    i just used 12345 in the zip code and it worked
  24. bogleshake
    Quick update to say I'll be in Manchester this coming weekend, if anyone near there is keen and it'll save on delivery costs.
  25. warwickhunt
    I wouldn't jump to go down the mixer route yet as I've found most preamp pedals (I have 5 and all do) will drive an active PA cab. I'm sure someone cleverer than me (i.e. all of the above contributors) will know how many mV etc you need.
  26. The Guitar Weasel
    Yep those exterior patches are pretty horrible - I'm actually guessing that's a skint owner repair somewhere back in the distant past rather than a professional fix. They certainly look very old. I see a fair number of guitars and basses through my workshop that started off high end - and then as they got more battered - gradually moved down to less and less well heeled musicians. There's an old saying 'don't buy a luxury car from someone who hasn't been able to afford the maintenance' and this is sort of true of musical instruments too - especially the more complex and difficult to repair ones. Because of the possibly necessary cheaping-out on the repairs in its past this poor old bass is going to need a lot spent on it. It would be a shame however to see it some sort of sterile ornament in a corner.
  27. nekomatic started following Running a Phil Jones Double Four BG75 from USB power
  28. nekomatic
    I believe standard (i.e. deceptive) practice for the specs of power banks is that they tell you the mAh rating of the internal Li-ion cell, not the output. So it may actually be 20 Ah from the 3.7 volt cell, which would be about 75 watt-hours, which after boosting up to 20 volts gives you three and a half amp hours or thereabouts. If everything else performs as specified then I guess it should work, but not for as long as you might have wanted.
  29. itu
    I wouldn't bother. I expect the price to be irrelevant to the playability and sound it makes. Collectible? No. Soundmachine? There are better alternatives available. If the production year is important, the price does not mean a thing, although the parts are most likely a collection. "Handmade" details lower the price as well as desirability.
  30. Paul S
    Thanks John
  31. Paul S started following 1981 Aria Pro II Cardinal Series CSB 450 'Black n Gold' medium scale £350
  32. Paul S
    Next for the chop a 1981 Aria Pro II Cardinal Series CSB 450 'Black n Gold'. This was a top end of the range model with some lovely features but has been tinkered with over time. The original was a carved body glossy piano black with dark fingerboard, set neck, inset bridge and brass highlights on the bridge saddles, nut, tuners and other hardware. This still has the original bridge and nut, tuners have been swapped fro Wilkinson ones to give an off harlequin effect. I don't care. Knobs should be Gibson speed knob style but have been changed. Rear strap button has been changed and is no longer brass. Other than that this is as it should be. 3.5kg - an unusually lightweight example as these ore more usually over 4kg. As a result there is very slight neck dive that is cured by a wide grippy strap. Medium scale length. A few dings and scratches, most of which I am sure would polish out - certainly not bad for a bass over 40. This model is all about quality and tone - the pickup is one of Matsumoku's finest and is a really aggressive middy rock machine that chimes out and cuts through. I have tamed it with black tapes which also look as cool as, but it still is a monster. 42mm at the nut, 16mm spacing at the bridge. No case. £350 collected from Benfleet in Essex, 20 mins east of the Dartford crossing along the A13. No couriers, offers or trade, ta.
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