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... or natural if the wood is good enough.5 points
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Swapped out my Bright Onions A/B switcher with a Providence Dual Bass Station, which meant a 12V power supply was needed. Added a GigRig Supanova to provide this, and tidied up the wiring underneath at the same time.5 points
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For Sale/Trade: Warwick Teambuilt GPS Streamer LX4 - £1100. Heading elsewhere for sale in the New Year. Great example of a classic bass. Purchased new from Bass Direct 6 months ago as a ‘replacement’ for a 2002 model I sold years ago. Will supply with Hiscox case. The knobs have been replaced with John East black but the original ‘gold’ will be refitted. Machineheads: Warwick Machine Heads Nut: Just-A-Nut III Neck Wood: Ovangkol neck Fretboard: Wenge fingerboard (fretted) Fluorescent Side Dot: Luminous side dots Fingerboard Radius: 20" Scale length: 34" (long scale) Width Nut: 38,5 mm / 1.5" Width 12th fret: 54,0 mm / 2.1" Width 24th fret: 62,1 mm / 2.4" Fret quantity material and size: 24 Jumbo Nickelsilver frets (width: 2,9mm/ height: 1,3mm) Frets: IFT - Invisible Fretwork Technology Body Shape: Curved Body Shape Bodywood (Topwood / Backwood): Swamp Ash back with Flame Maple top Pickups: Active MEC P/J pickups Electronics: Active MEC 2-way electronics Pot layout: Volume push/pull / balance / bass / treble Bridge system: 2-piece Warwick Bridge Strap system: Warwick security locks Construction: Bolt-On Hardware colour: Gold Hardware Included accessories: Warwick User Kit bag including hex key tools and Cleaning cloth (RB PROD WGPS TOOL CO)4 points -
Left to right, BassMonkey LPB P neck, Limelight jazz neck, Limelight jazz neck...4 points
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For sale. lakland skyline 44-64 gz. Purchases earlier this year. As good as new condition, no marks or dings etc. Has a set of Dr bass black beauties currently. Plays and sounds amazing! Here's the blurb The Skyline 44-64 captures the rich and defined power of the early basses that revolutionized the four-string low-end world. The tone and power of a well-preserved vintage instrument with flawless Lakland fretwork and neck refinements makes this a modern classic. Specification Nut width 1.5″ Nut type Delrin Width at final fret 2.48” Fingerboard radius 10″ Scale length 34″ Frets 20 Neck wood Flat-sawn Rock Maple Body wood Ash Fingerboard wood Ebony Tuners Hipshot Ultralites Truss rod access Neck heel: 4mm hex Controls Volume/Volume/Tone Bridge Lakland Dual Access (through body or through bridge) Pickups EMG GZR P & J Set Doesn't come with a case unfortunately. Postage is not an option. Happy to drive/meet up in the midlands or further if interested.3 points -
Withdrawn… decided to keep it. Up for sale is my Fender Japan '75 Reissue in Olympic White, with a bound and blocked neck and tort plate. I bought it from @Gareth Hugheson this forum for a very reasonable £700. Since then I’ve swapped (Tim Marten did the work) the Bill Lawrence J45 pups for Aguilar HCs (J45s will be included) and it’s wearing a new set of Thomasik jazz flats. Bass has a few battle scars and small mods - flush straplocks on the upper horn and on the back (in a Dingwall inspired move) and a Kiogon wiring loom with a push/pull series/parallel switch on the tone pot. Serial number is P046083, which puts it at either 1993-1994 or 1999-2002. It’s a lovely thing… looks great, sounds great. Selling because the old adage ‘you can’t have too many jazzes’ was disputed by my wife. Turns out you can have too many. Bass is in Somerset, but can be collected from London EC2 with a bit of notice. I’m asking £675 which seems good value given the oversupply of pups. No hardcase so postage (at buyer’s expense) would need to be gigbag inside bass box. Weight? Dunno. Will check, but it’s no twinkle toes.3 points -
Anyone who's ever been in a working band knows the band lead bag/box. It's a thing of utmost importance but over the years it collects a few casualties and weirdos along the way. It contains the living, the dead, the injured and the "just in case". Over a year ago I decided to sort the band lead bag out. I disposed of the dead, straightened the injured and nursed them back to health, carefully calculated the various lengths required and purposes, wrapped them neatly and filled the pockets with spares, fuses, connectors, a torch, generic spare strap etc etc. It was a thing of beauty. Then I filled another bag with the walking wounded, weirdo's and stuff that was worth keeping just in case. Guess which fookin bag I picked up and took to our first gig back after the apocalypse 😔 ?3 points
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I would never voluntarily listen to Footloose. I absolutely love playing Footloose live.3 points
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Am a RHCP fan, but will give this tour a miss. Ticket prices are nuts, particularly when going to these large venues, where IME the chances are I will end up watching the gig on a large screen. Prefer to see some up an coming act in a small venue, having a few beers with some friends. More affordable and more enjoyable IMO.3 points
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Or one that has a built-in compressor, tuner and an octaver - Complete Bastard.3 points
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I don't like working but the money I get in return stops the bank people complaining at me about not paying the mortgage (they were quite clear they expect all of that money back), so I put up with it and get on with it. Apply the same principal to being in a cover band and you'll be grand. It's how I handled it on the rare occasions I helped a mate out with his cover band when they lost members at short notice. Learning things you find unpleasant can open you up to new things you wouldn't normally encounter if you were just in your usual sonic area.3 points
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Fender Vintera and a Bitsa (‘83 Elite body and ‘96 US neck)3 points
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When I received it, it was in a sorry state. It was originally sunburst, but had been routed for a Jazz pickup which had been filled (badly) and resprayed (also badly) in not-quite-Fiesta Red. I got it cheap and set about turning it into the beast above. There's still a slight shadow of the Jazz routing that you can only see in certain light, but David did a smashing job of sorting it all out for me. The before:3 points
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Made a couple of changes for the better I think. Swapped out the TC Spark for the MXR Thump, WAY more functionality of course, and I do love the MXR bass range! The Thump is actually marginally smaller than the Spark too, which has allowed me to swap out my COG Knightfall 66 Mini for my custom COG Tarkin, which again, has a lot more functionality on it. Chain is: Bass -> MXR Thump -> COG Tarkin -> Boss TU3W -> MXR Envelope Filter -> Boss OC2 -> MXR Bass Chorus -> Noble Pre -> Amp Si3 points
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Yes. Good price. Neck dive, though, in part, caused me to sell mine. Also, the body shape makes the neck feel much longer - it sits much farther to the left than Fender style basses, and so your fretting hand has to reach much further. That gave me symptoms of carpal tunnel, and was the other death knell signalling the end of my relationship with that instrument. I had the same problems with both the 4 string and 5 string Thumbs. Such a shame, they felt, played, smelled, and sounded great otherwise.3 points
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Selling my Retro Singlecut Veillette. This one is a peculiar beast…usually Veillete made Retro singlecuts strictly passive, with a string-through bridge. This one has got a single rail bridge, but no stringing through option and a very powerful Audere onboard (although the flat eq sound is still very usable imho… love those Citron HB!) Zero fret, maple neck and wenge fingerboard, poplar top but I don’t know the body wood (I lost the mail that Martin Keith, who used to work for Veillette at the time, sent me with all the specs. Nice and helpful guy, by the way) I am not the original owner, but the bass was in very good shape when I bought it. Only some negligible cosmetic issues, some scratches and all that… but I had it refinished and set up by a very competent luthier. It looks and feels fresh out of the factory. The bass is well cared for and it has served me well. As far as my wife thinks, I am selling it because I have too many basses… 😇 (little does she know about that jazz bass I have already set my eyes on…) The new Retro , as listed in the “in stock” section of Joe Veillette website is on offer for USD 2100 and it is a very different instrument today, with a single neck pickup. Comparison is not easy. I am looking for 1100 euros. The bass is located in Italy (as the bass owner) Shipping is not included in the bass price, but can easily be arranged at buyer’s cost - I have a good track record of sturdy packages sent around Europe Comes with a Veillette soft bag and I will pop in a set of fresh strings for the lucky new owner. Should you need more pictures and sound files, feel free to PM Thank you and have a nice day Nicola2 points -
40+ plus years a guitar player and resisted all that time playing the bass... always loved a good bass line though. Then I got an invite in 2019 to help out a local band who'd lost their bassist just before going into studio. Absolutely loved it. I'm a much better musician for the experience and we're still rehearsing and recording together.2 points
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Snagged this one as soon as I could! I saw it on Brian cooks russian circles board and couldn’t not give it a spin! clips to come once I’ve got to know it a bit2 points
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2010 NS5H2 - now sent to BassDirect.2 points -
I can absolutely help with your question, lowdowner. I was fortunate enough to acquire Pino’s 79 stingray fretless sunburst backup bass, direct from Pino on commission via bass gallery a good few years ago. A magnificent bass in all respects. Sadly, it failed to endow me with any godlike chops or groove and unbelievably, when recently sold on, my ownership was not deemed sufficiently relevant to be mentioned in the gallery’s online description, only the former keeper’s.2 points
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Mine has a Lollar (single coil) pickup and it's great. Not a CV bass, more of a bitsa.2 points
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I stopped going to big shows because of companies like ticketmaster buying all the tickets before they go on sale and reselling them for several times the price. I just refuse to give in to them. I'd rather pay £20 - £30 for smaller shows and still see some awesome bands who often put on a better performance2 points
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Fair enough. I just can't listen to songs I've played over and over for five years that I used to really like. Now I either associate it with the memory of a bad gig or realise I've played it very, very wrong for too long!2 points
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@philw was/is the UK importer for Veillette. He's had a few crackers... I have an 80s Veillette Citron - one of less than 280 built and possibly one of 3 in the UK - seriously good bass. If this is in the same league somebody's getting a real treat.2 points
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I had an, admittedly, tongue in cheek row with the guitarist in my band about this. He flat out accused me of not liking most of the songs we play in our covers band. I told him he was wrong; I don't like ANY of the songs we play. I was only half joking as we seem to play a lot more mid tempo soft rock than we ever did and I'd prefer something a bit more hard edged. But the audience seems to like it so who am I to object? And I like the band and showing off on stage so it's not a bad life really. But if anyone knows of a shoegaze/ My Bloody Valentine covers band needing a bassist, I'll drop this lot like a shot.2 points
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@funkle Dave built it as 2 coils and yes , it's massive. I thought about the Duncan "Stinger" after seeing folk on TalkBass mention them. Thing was ; Duncan's Custom shop wouldn't do business with Europeans , nor Thais 😮 Never been impressed by Duncan pickups in the past so took that as an omen. Dave quoted an extremely attractive price and it was here in 4 days 👍2 points
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Rehearsing songs you don’t like is a PITA and not enjoyable. However, having ‘been there done that’, those songs are often quite fun to play live, as the audience usually love those songs. My own, personal, bête noire was Madonna’s Holiday, hated it, punters loved it and I channeled their enjoyment into my playing.2 points
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Hmm my opinion on this is a little bit different. There's always a price to pay to do the things you want to do. To play a few songs you don't like in order to get all the rewards of playing live for me is always worth it. It's a bit like I don't particularly like photo shoots / filming videos but I understand it's something I have to do in order to function as an originals band. So if I want to play good gigs, get decent festival slots etc I need to do the necessary evils.2 points
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How utterly depressing.2 points
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It’s all good, it’s a good pickup, and It was a good price. I knew it might not work out, and I did not mind. Part of the journey2 points
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Ooooh. You’re only a few miles up the road from me. This could be problematic 😅2 points -
What I enjoy playing and what I enjoy listening to don't have to be the same. Certainly for my brief(ish) stint in a covers band there were some songs that I wouldn't normally give the time of day to from a listening PoV that I really enjoyed playing. Unfortunately there are several songs that I used to like, but can now no longer stand listening to, as a result of having to over-analyse them in order to learn how to play them.2 points
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I didn't like to say anything as you had already committed, but I was afraid of that - I have had exactly the same thoughts about hum cancelling nordstrand pickups before. I have a bassculture.de 51 splitcoil and I don't think it suffers from that problem - it has plenty of character - but it is hum free. Not a lot of information out there about it! I assume it's a version of the standard split p pickup but with 4 pole pieces and packaged like the original.2 points
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Couple of mine that i still really like. WAL is gone tho.2 points
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I have a different garden these days, which will require many more 10 string basses to build an adequate fence! And as you can see, I have already turned Binky into decking...2 points -
That Fletcher Munson curve is a right git sometimes. Always have to EQ at gig volume for it to work properly. When I'm using my Helix then I have 2 sets of patches - good for the house and good for a gig. They are really very different but they work in their intended places.2 points
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So many finishes I love... but for me, I keep coming back to WHITE - and it looks the best under stage lights (IMHO)2 points
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I think that's what we have to accept as bassists. We will not get the exact sounds. We can try to get close but it gets to a point where "that'll have to do". I wrestled with synth tones for an 80s covers band, what I made at home sounded pants with the band, and now I've done a few sessions with a pop-rock band and I've gone for stock Helix fuzz sounds and just fed them into my wah pedal with no clever signal routing or processing and it's done the job more than adequately. Also playing with a live band the energy to play with and your dynamics are worth far more than getting the exact tone off the record, time is spent far more effectively on learning the song than on chasing tones that we know are from other instruments.2 points
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I’ve just ordered two more Uni Tune clip on tuners (expecting delivery in the next hour or so). At £20 a pop they’re great value and work a treat. I can’t see the point of paying more for the Poly Tune version for a bass.2 points
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No experience with double bass, but I use the TC Electronic Unitune Clip on my electrics and ABG. It's identical to the Polytune Clip save for the (what's in a name?) polytune function - so it can only register one string at a time. It's slightly more affordable than the Polytune Clip because of that. I have two of them, but I'm thinking of getting two more and tossing them in the gigbags and cases I use the most. They work great, look great, and the display is very easy to read (and automatically adjusts orientation depending on how and where you clip it on).2 points
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For those that thought 8 was too many strings, here's an outdoor snap of the Conklin next to its bigger brother, Binky.2 points
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Special request from the website. The James Jamerson part to 'My Girl' by The Temptations. The issue was that the player in question needed a chart in G rather in the original key of C. I have posted all three charts; C, G (5 string low B) and G (conventional 4 string). https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/my-girl-james-jamerson/2 points
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As much as people complain about so many amps using the same few power amp modules now, at least there's a much better chance of a tech being able to source the right ICEpower module a few years down the line compared to proprietary ones unique to one model.2 points
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Hopefully I'll make this one 👍2 points
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I also supply the PA and the best thing I did was to stop buying black leads. I make my own cables so have a selection of red, blue, green, and yellow leads. It is very obvious which ones are mine, it is much easier which packing down as we don't have a mass of black spaghetti to untangle and it makes trouble shooting much easier. I can tell at a glance which speaker or monitor is plugged in where. I'm staring at 20m of orange balanced cable right now trying to decide if I need 2x10m or a 15m and 5m.2 points
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24 fret, full access, balances perfectly, sounds great, plays like butter.2 points
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I watched this and don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed it and he's fantastic player and entertainer. But he's telling people he can cop these synth sounds with the MXR when he was in fact using a 3 leaf Proton????? He even says you need the MXR for the ow ow sound. Someone in the comments mentions the MXR doesn't do that and he admitted to using a Proton 🤷♂️ He has the original track mixed much louder than his bass sound, and if you listen, the tones arnt spot on (which they won't be,as it's not a synth) all the pedals in the video (with the exception of the MXR imo) are great for synth tones.2 points
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Nice amp = Happy WoT = Happier audience, even if it's only a 1% increase.2 points
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Those who know me on Basschat will know my obsession with Chameleon Flip Paint which has been going on for nigh on 20 years 🤣. Here’s a few of my basses.2 points
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My latest addition. 😀 Fender Custom Shop Sean Hurley Signature, Aged Charcoal Frost.2 points
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