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Made in Japan, 2014. One of the nicest necks, fast and slim with vintage radius fret board in a lovely dark rosewood. The body is carved and the bass is well weighted, very light and comfortable. These models were made for the Japanese market and so are fairly rare, this one is antique white in colour. The are a few minor dings and blemishes, nothing major or very noticeable and only what you might expect from a well used, but looked after 8 year old instrument.8 points -
I guess I better review the new Cort basses in detail, right?7 points
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Hi all, This is a much loved and gorgeous instrument which I've had for over 10 years. Sounds totally ace. Maple neck and fingerboard. It's had some upgrades: US Bartolini NTMB 918F preamp Nordstand Fat Stacks pickups - which are lovely in both humbucking and single coil modes Tortoise shell pickguard from Jeanies - the people who make them for Lakland USA black Hipshot Ultralite Tuners Black string tree Black Schaller strap locks and metal knobs Push pull knob for passive / active mode. A light scuff to the upper horn (see photo) The little plastic catch bit for the battery compartment at the back has come off (see photo) - I use a house key to open it. It stays shut and works fine. ----- Extras: The strings on it are new but not the greatest, so will include a brand new set of Ernie Ball Slinky Cobalt which I love. And a new 9V battery. And new soft case - very light but good enough to carry it home in : ) I'm based in Liverpool and still a bit nervous about shipping but open to it. If you can make it to mine, you're of course welcome to try it through a couple of different amps/cabs (Aguilar, EBS, Acoustic Image). Any questions, just let me know. Many thanks6 points -
Gigging. When a bunch of people are leaping around enjoying your music. How often do get to experience actively giving people joy as directly in that way? One if the best feelings there is.6 points
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OK! Here's the bad news. Prices for CHB-1 and CHB-2 basses are increasing from £500 (Made in India) to £895 (Made in the UK). Here's the good news. MASSIVE bump in quality. Made by highly respected luthiers in the West Country UK. Totally UK made and finished. Assembled by ourselves in Bristol. This means lower carbon footprint. Quicker leadtimes. UK jobs being created. We are collecting samples on Friday and will have them available to look at, and play, at the ACC Liverpool for the UK Bass and Guitar Show on the 2nd and 3rd of April. We hope to see you there.6 points
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Back up for sale, this lovely Kramer in beautiful condition with original case. No trades as I have made some recent purchases...6 points -
Here we have an original 1973 Fender Precison body in Candy Apple Red, heavy relic beauty coupled with a stunner of a Lakland J neck bought from @Quatschmacherof this very parish. The engine room consists of a Nate Mendel P bass loom and Lindy Fralin 10% overwound pick ups. Bridge is original to the bass. The original P was parted out by a guy in the states, shame as I would’ve bought it complete but was too late. I do have pictures of the original bass to confirm this. Sounds killer and strung with La Bella LTF. Weight 4kg and comes with a Fender moulded case. Shipping in U.K. included and test drives welcome. The map is back !!! ***For sale on my website but Basschatters can get a discounted price on here as discussed with the team behind the scenes! *** I’m not a big ‘shop’, more a collector with a side hustle. www.thebassmonkey.co.uk5 points -
Rescued from a local studio… The headstock had met an accident. The body though was unscathed. I bought it from the original owner as I’ve always fancied one…then set about buying a really decent neck to make it a solid bass again. Brand new Roasted Maple Fender, which feels amazing and is snappy as hell and skinny…I then realised the boffins at fender had made the headstock holes too small for the original fender tuners. So I bought a set of Hipshot licensed 1/2” diameter machine-heads which are ace. the body itself is a satin black - sometimes looks Smokey grey and then totally black…has some shinier areas - suppose that’s the nature of matte black. plays well/sounds great - needs a last fettle on the nut - i can’t find my nut files and don’t want to bodge - but with commitments to family/house - can’t get to local luthier for weeks. The supplied nut was only guide grooved and I have E/A just about right but nothing slim enough for D/G so white it’s playable it could just be inched better. This is the Mk2 version and has rotary selector/volume/volume/tone and an edge socket. The selector has 4 positions which mix all of the coils in various combinations 2 warmer/vintage and 2 bright - slappers delight. you can then blend/vary as you wish. high mass fender bridge and a decent weight - about 9lbs. Fender bag included. Original neck and tuners included. The neck is split across the headstock and I’ve glued and clamped it but it’s done - in all fairness. Shipping can happen in UK. £25 uninsured/more if insured. Can do a hiscox case for shipping which will change the end price. I’m not after trades - I’ve got a full rack and full cases. So need to slim down the stuff. I’d be keeping it, but about 2 days after bringing it home, I bought my old Musicman Bongo back which does the HH thing wonderfully and a couple of J types I have sentimental connections with. So - a massively tweaked modern classic. I’m in Manchester and collection (evenings and weekends) possible… Thanks Andy5 points -
I may have overdone it a bit, over the years !5 points
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Subcutaneous Homesick Bruise ～ Bob Dylan4 points
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For anyone with an orange Bongo, the pg on mine is an OE one, back in the days when they offered a lot of variants - the swirls are orange and black - called tiramisu, I think they’re still available from Chandler (Pickguard Planet) in the US - they are EBMM’s supplier - must get a new black one for my Sabre - current one is heavily scuffed from use!!! PS you can get cheap Stingray pgs on the internet but judging by the standard of a white pearl one that came on a used 1993 Blueburst Stingray I bought (the pg delaminated within a few months) it’s worth paying the extra for a decent one IMHO.4 points
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Great. Come work for me in customer relations 😉4 points
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Thank you chaps! Appreciated! It is a bit galling, but needs must, I'm just contenting myself knowing that I'll get back on the Mesa train later this year all being well. They simply make the best amps. To me, the M-pulse is as near damnit to a tube sound as you're ever going to get from a hybrid amp. It's 'that' close. When I get the 5 string, I'll be sure to clobber the singer around the head with it for making me do this.4 points -
I've gotta give a big heads up to Michael Dempsey, original bass player with The Cure and then with The Associates.4 points
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I could smell it a mile away! 🙂4 points
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I think you have accomplished more than you will perhaps, at the moment anyway, realise. Many years ago, 1965 to be precise, I was 9 years old and the only one of a group of pals who didn’t have a bike. As with most families, money was tight and there wasn’t any likelihood of me getting one any time soon. Without letting on to me, my dad, my pop, uncles and so on had scavenged around for bicycle parts; frame, wheels etc. My dad worked away from home at this time, leaving early Monday and returning late on Friday. Sunday night I was packed off to bed and my dad secretly set about assembling this bike. Goodness knows what time he got finished. I got up for school the next day; he had already left for his train, and I found this bike sitting in the kitchen. I’ve never forgotten that moment: “My dad made that for me”. It took many years for the deeper significance to become apparent, but at that point, the moment was enough. I hope in the years ahead, your son will carry with him a similar cherished moment. Bravo Sir.4 points
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60’s Kay 70’s Audition 80’s Fender 90’s Hondo 00’s Marlin 10’s Wish 20’s MD Phillips4 points
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I've had this lovely Honeyburst Star Bass for a couple of years and it rarely gets used despite being a great player( due to my Telecaster Bass having its 50th Birthday run-out in 2022). These Pro Series MIK were the ones to have and strung with Flats it has a full 34" neck (unlike the more recent and hugely inferior Chinese versions) and comes complete with a lush Warwick Rockbag case. The top and back are gorgeous flamed maple and it is in excellent condition and has no issues for a 10 year old bass.The neck is straight, has no dinks and the action is low. The previous careful owner upgraded the Justa-nut to V3 I believe. It will also be supplied with the Warwick User Kit which includes manual, warranty documents, straplocks, polishing cloth and truss rod adjuster, all in its own little Warwick soft case!3 points -
Light the blue touch paper and retire eh? I suspect all Barefaced are trying to do is to protect the horn drivers from their customers so they don't have too may repair claims from crazy amp mis-matching. Playing with a heavily distorted sound passes much more energy to the horn so Barefaced seem to use OEM Eminence drivers. Nice speakers but still subject to the laws of physics. The driver is rated at 250W as the result of a test where filtered noise is driven through a sample speaker for hours at 250W. If it can take the heat it passes. That doesn't mean it can handle all the power at all the frequencies. For the bottom octave of a 4 string I doubt that there are many (any?) 10" speakers that could handle 250W and indeed Eminence state that their 250W Neo bass speaker should be de-rated below 80Hz in a medium sized box. That's because those power levels at low frequencies ask the cone and coil to move beyond their excursion limits. Let's be fair about this, giving advice on reasonable use isn't simple for any manufacturer as you have no idea what a customer is going to do with the speaker. Since the amp is only rarely going to get anywhere near it's peak output which will only be for a fraction of a second the heating limit of the speaker will rarely if ever be reached. Fortunately most bass guitars don't pump out much fundamental so the excursion limits are rarely breached. Bass guitars don't have a lot of top end to trouble the horn driver either so you can usually get away with an amp which is higher rated than the speaker. Obviously the seller has to balance the extra sales appeal of calling their speaker 500W against the chance of somebody actually doing that and making the speaker fart out by boosting the bass or blowing the tweeter with lots of distortion and having to deal with returns and a reputation for failures. The clincher is usually that you can't sell your speaker if you don't make the same claims as your rivals so in the end they all give in to over-claiming3 points
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I just tried a variety of Sandbergs. After trying both the TM and the TT the sound I ended liking the most was the TT in passive mode. The TM was a cool slightly different sound too. So I guess a passive TT 4 or 5 string is in my near future. All the Sandbergs I played had amazing quality and feel, I can’t believe I didn’t try them before.3 points
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I just swapped over to the Lusithand pre, the Double NFP. I'll give some first impressions. The controls are volume, LPF front pickup with a pull switch to activate a resonance boost, LPF pickup rear pickup with pull switch for resonance boost, and pickup blend. Because of how small my test bed control cavity is, it has needed some creative positioning, so the volume knob is nearest the output jack and the blend the control nearest the fretboard. It works fine for a test. (The blend knob works the opposite way around to that on the ACG - that's messing with me, but of course it works the same way that it does on the Wal preamp. ) My first impression is...it sounds fab. This is exactly what I was looking for. It has to be adding harmonic distortion, because the system sounds 'gnarlier'. It's not that it doesn't sound clean, but it's not pristine. When I dig in now, there's a lot more grit out of it. The ACG/East system has been commented previously to be very clean, and it is. It's a beautiful sounding preamp. It also goes lower in terms of the LPF knob frequency; the Lusithand cuts off a higher. The difference is quite noticeable. I do miss the ability to blend back in the treble, as found on the ACG, or the 'pick attack' bump that is on the Wal. I do think Nuno should consider this. I will tell him. But overall my first impression is that it sounds really really good. I hope it comes through in recordings, which I will sort as soon as I can. I think we may have solved the 'grit'/preamp side of things. The test bed doesn't have the mid bump/compressed 'push' to the mids yet of the Wal basses, but it really is sounding a lot closer overall. I am really pleased.3 points
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Having just joined an originals band after zero gigs for 2 years, I have 4 in the diary already in the next 3 months. I haven't gigged original music in over 15 years, so it's quite exciting.3 points
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I always thought the orange and tangerine Bongo would’ve looked great with black hardware3 points
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Return of the map (you'll all be singing it to yourselves) Lovely lovely bass, good luck3 points
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Not quite a pedalboard but seemed like the most appropriate thread to post it in 😅 this is about two thirds of my overall collection.3 points
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70s, Alembic.3 points
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Afternoon all, Some of you may well remember my post from 2018 (I can't believe it's four years ago...) found here: Well, I finally created a follow-up and I'm rather pleased with it. If you're a precision bass type of guy (or girl) then this should be right up your rue. Let me know what you all think - constructive criticism welcomed of course.... This will probably end up as a run of prints as before, if there's enough interest that is. Cheers!2 points
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Big SUB logo Sterling 4H. Mint green, maple neck and board Jazz profile neck. Good condition. It's the older one with the hot preamp. I just knock the volume control back a bit and it's fine. Only selling as moving onto short scale. £200 Weight 9lb 4oz May trade. Try me with anything! Any details needed please ask. If anyone wants to buy and have it shipped,I'll make sure it's packaged well and the buyer arranges their own courier and insurance etc. Collection/trial much preferred (but will post from) from Blackburn BB22SH. Possible meet up.2 points -
I did some stuff on a guitar for a mate and he “paid” me with this - handy 🤣 Its a really decent overdrive, and sounded much warmer and nicer than the previous drive pedal I had. I’ve just bought a TC Spectradrive, so this and my comp are up for sale. Here are some pictures2 points -
My final clearout bass bargain..i have more basses than the ability to store them so its murder your darlings time.. The kiloton is a great musicman 'zone' type bass yet passive. The MFD pickup range is as hot as they get and this is no exception. Beautiful trans 'root beer' finish over mahogany. Smaller body shape (same as the SB-2) makes this good on the shoulders. I fitted a hipshot and the dropped D rings lovely on this. 4kg on the trusty bathroom scales, mahogany body. I have a thing for carbon fibre wrap on scratch plates and this is no exception, underneath is a tort plate, but I have added black carbon fibre which looks tasteful imho. No heavy dings or scratches, some very light signs of wear but nothing to cause any concern Happy to post at buyers expense, will always ship insured. Happy also to meet up within reason in Kent or M25 with some consideration towards petrol and coffee.2 points -
For sale, my glorious Spector NS2000/4, in superb condition - light finish swirling but that's about it. I sold this to a friend a few years ago and after much pleading he finally sold it back to me. I thought I'd keep it forever but I have... overspent somewhat lately 🙄 Made in Korea, neck-through, EMG HZ pickups. Weight is 9.5lb. Collection from Dartford preferred, but I can post at buyer's expense and arrangement. No trades at the moment.2 points -
I have been thinking about that and before I fit the board to the neck, I'm going to flatten the lines when it is cooler then put the board out in the sun and see what happens! I'm hoping that as the lines aren't that big that any expansion will be minimal. I will post how it goes!2 points
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Finished cutting the side slots so time to cut the pieces of aluminium for the fretlines. I have to cut each piece to suit the slot to wrap around the spine of the fretboard (if that makes sense!!) It is going to be a slow process to get this done .. I only managed to get 5 line installed this evening - but they do look nice!!2 points
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"well Mr Ball, I've been all over Talk bass and I think I know what will make people like this next bass..." "What is it?" "Tortoiseshell! They lap it up." "Pickguard? that's easy" "Trust me boss, they stick tort on anything over there" "Well we're the Ball family - we don't do things by half- how about we do tort inlays too!" "Oooh lets go for it" "really?" "yes, lets do the binding too" "oh yeah"2 points
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Hi all! I have up for sale my Mesa Boogie M-Pulse 600. One of the earlier ones given the serial number, so likely dates from 2001-2002. Had a full service last year with new input jacks. Selling (as like the P-Bass I have up, I need to quickly raise some £ for a 5 string and have my eye on ordering a WD-800 when available again). Here's the blurb from Mesa ; Handcrafted in Petaluma, California 600 Watts @ 4 Ohms (320 @ 8), Simul-State™ Power / 8 Tube Driven Power MOSFET, 2x12AX7 Active/Passive Inputs 4 Stage Vacuum Tube Preamplifier with Gain, Active Bass & Treble, Passive Mid and Footswitchable 5-Band Semi Parametric EQ that provides 15db of cut or boost from 30Hz to 12KHz Footswitchable Compressor with Independent Threshold and Ratio Controls Main Output Level Control Footswitchable Solo Level Control Footswitchable Parallel FX Loop with Mix Control Balanced Line Out with Pre/Post Switch Bass Tuner Output w/Footswitchable Mute 2 - 1/4” Speaker Output Jacks Slave Out w/Level Control Fan Cooled 5 Button Footswitch (Parametric EQ, Compressor, Solo, FX Loop & Mute) It has the typical Mesa tone - thick, strong and muscular tone with complete clarity. The BEST amp I have ever used. Pickup or meet up from Moreton in Marsh. On the Gloucestershire/Warwickshire/Oxfordshire border. Happy to travel a large radius to facilitate pickup. No trades. No offers. Priced keenly to begin with. Thank you for looking.2 points
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Yes, yes it is. And if your indestructible fretboard breaks Andy then the entire forum will be round your way with pitchforks.2 points
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I love being involved in any type of live performance, whether it be playing, acting, or running tech stuff. There's an immediacy to it which I find really addictive. Still, I know it's not for everyone and it's all good as long as everyone's enjoying what they choose to do.2 points
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Di Marzio for sure2 points
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Fortunately Rob was smart enough to do the Elrick one himself, and have Daric get involved too: Si2 points
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Heart attack and vine. Tom waits2 points
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Wish I had the dough for this, alas I Dough'nt. GLWTS2 points
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An amazing amp, and a terrific bloke to be dealing with. I can promise you, the sound you want is contained within this amp.2 points
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I can see clearly now - Jimmy Cliff2 points
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Hello Mike - hope you are well! 😊 Back on topic... Beautiful bass, Brian - GLWTS.. 👍2 points
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Didn't look, but I'm guessing Cologne? I do wish ebay had an "ignore" feature.2 points
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@Ben4343 that's a nice set up. If anyone is curious (which you're probably not) I decided to return my RM 500 to the retailer for a full refund. Why? im in Ireland and to post it to UK to have fan swapped out brings the total cost of the amp ever closer to the EVO ii, which with a headphone out would be enormously useful for me. So rather than get it fixed Im gonna get my money back and save a smidge more a for the evo ii. Many thanks to Dave Green whom I spoke with earlier. Absolute gent. Diagnosed over the phone that my fan sounded abnormal and offered to swap out the fan and ship it back same day. But as I said that would push the total money spent to €440. Another 50 and I can get a new evo ii so that's the plan.2 points
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I've seen various ones on Thomann for around £30-80, and which include a bass stand. For those standing, a quick but deceptively taxing exercise called the plank is useful for strengthening core muscles, which in turn help to take the pressure off of your back.2 points
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Well I think the bass is a hit!!..... 👍🏻2 points
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How do you find such people? Asking for a friend2 points
