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We saw one a few years back called Oasish, they had the whole Schtick down perfect, muddy wall of sound, no charisma between them, gormless looking front man..they were spot on! 😁3 points
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Full on - and take care of any EQ from amp or DAW. With a passive bass you really want all the output the pickup has to offer.3 points
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Never thought I would do it, but my aluminium addiction is getting worse and I have decided to part with my Sandberg VM5. I have ordered and got it from Sandberg in 2013, but I have switched to 4 strings soon after. It sounds great and has won most of the blind tests among my other basses. Mint condition (always wanted to make this joke). But seriously, it has some slight sights of use and has absolutely no functional problems. Now for specs: Alder Body Maple with rosewood fingerboard neck and matched headstock NO INLAYS (has block decales now) 35" scale Sandberg pickups with 2 active/passive preamp with bridge coils split Comes with original gigbag ~4.5kg on bathroom scales Actually has no neck inlays - blocks on the photos are only stickers, happy to take them off if you want to. 1100 1000 GBP. Based in London, but can organise a courier at buyers expense.2 points
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For sale: My 1978/1979 Pre Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray, great pro instrument in good condition, transition model; body and neck dates 1979, pre 79 bridge and serialnumber. Epoxy preamp. pots dats 77 and 78. Frets are in very good condition, truss rod works fine. The playability and sound are really fantastic. Weight is 4,3 kg, so relatively light. Generic hardcase included. £2000 Pricedrop £1875 WITHDRAWN2 points
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Just got and fitted a lovely new Electro Harmonix valve from our friends at Watford Valves, as recommended by Derek as an early breakup valve. In short it sounds fantastic in my Trace. With the valve pre set to full, the gain at 9 and the low compression at half, it gives me that tiny bump of breakup at the edge of every plucked note. Been pursuing that tone for so many years and have finally got it.2 points
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Paid gigs Unpaid gigs Rehearsing for paid gigs Rehearsing for unpaid gigs Rehearsing without gigs in the diary Playing at jam sessions & open mic nights Washing my hair Just saying ...2 points
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For some its Spend a fortune on boutique basses i need, because i cant play on anything other than hand built basses, but never leave the bedroom with them, so spend more money on basses that im happy to take to gigs (and amazingly, i can play them)2 points
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Hi guys We've dealt with this character before. He always uses 'Gear' at the beginning of his username and joins from a Nigerian based IP (we've now banned access from all Nigerian IPs) but now he's found out how to use a VPN it seems. I'm going to add a warning about scammers in the wanted forum as it seems this is always how he contacts people. At the weekend Rik and I are doing some work on the forum and one job will be to flush this idiot away once and for all. Sorry about that chaps ped2 points
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If you'd read my post right at the beginning of this thread you'd know that the three bolt micro-tilt system was dropped because Fender's engineering practices and quality control did not allow the mechanism to be installed in such a way that let it to operate as intended without any unwanted side effects. If the neck pocket and heel of the neck have been machined properly a single bolt would be all that is required. It the mating surfaces are flat so that there is 100% contact and the neck is a snug fit in the pocket, the bolt is only there to hold the two parts together when under the tension of the strings and even then much of the force exerted on the joint will be tending to pull the neck tighter into the pocket. The bolt is only there counteract the lifting action of the string pull.2 points
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I played guitar for 30 years and have been playing bass for about 15 years and have never got it. I've had lessons. Read books. Gone online. Bought 'better' basses. I'm still a root, 5th octave player who throws in a pentatonic every now and then. I think the understanding music part of the brain is related to language and maths, and I (even though I'm 1/2 'foreign') can hardly speak a word of another language and had extra maths every Saturday morning throughout my school days (I'm not bad now, but I'm not a natural). But, I play in two bands. We get paid gigs and I'm complemented on my playing by the rest of the band (though of course, they could be sh*t too and just don't recognise if I'm good or bad). Learn as much as you can, if you can, but don't let it get in the way of enjoying playing.2 points
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1000£ Reluctantly putting up my beloved Marleaux Votan for sale. The best bass I've ever played. Only selling because im a Jazz-bass man with small hands and sausage-fingers and the Votan is a bass for real men. Absolutely even fretboard with zero dead-spots and it can sound P-bass, MM or Jazz on steroids. Mint condition. Only been used on a few live shows but mostly in my home. Two small dings in the wood. But at least one i think is a natural one in the wood. I'm based in Sweden. I will answer any further questions in PM. Can provide YouTube-links and sound-samples. 2012 build, im the only owner. Comes with a gig-bag and i can ship if it's required. http://www.marleaux-bass.com/marleaux-bass_votan.html1 point
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Korg Pitchblack works well for me, big display, easy to use, handles low B no problem.1 point
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The Six Pastilles were a funny Pistols tribute back in the day1 point
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I didn't see that one! My pic was from last Friday's gig, but I only received the pictures last night.1 point
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Thankyou! I can literally scan ANYTHING. size depending... even 4 string basses!1 point
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That was pretty much the solution! 😛 She didn't like the removal process much. Clearly not one for waxing.1 point
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Yes, we supported them at the Thekla in Brizzle a couple of months back. They were fantastic. (Playing at the Thekla was a tick off the bucket list too ) EDIT: here's a dreadful pic I took from our privileged AAA position.1 point
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Well, if we're showing photos, here is one of last Friday's gig, a young photographer caught some good moments from the side of the stage as well as more conventional shots from out front. I like the atmosphere of this shot.1 point
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My GMR 5 has 5 and my GMR 4 has 4, all slightly offset so no two are on the same grain-line of the wood of the neck, so distributing the strain. My Aerodyne Jazz has four set in a square (and is also stable as a rock). Stability - this is OT, but most spinning wheel designs have three legs so they would be stable on the uneven floors where they were most often used. German "castle" wheels have four legs, suggesting that typical German homes had level floors centuries before the rest of Europe and North America. I'm sure you really wanted to know that 🙂1 point
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Nobody's Diary really works well with mandolin doing the high synth melody, guitar doing the lower synth stuff and bass and cajon driving it along.1 point
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In other news, courier insurance has paid out on my lost IEMs... so it's time to get busy looking... Current wishlist... JH : Lola, Roxanne, Layla 64 : N8, 12t, 18t UE : Live Noble : Kaiser Encore ...but the hardest decision is quite possibly the colour scheme! 😛1 point
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That actually looks much nicer to me than the original. Beautiful!1 point
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Six!! Wont be interest in another then :-)1 point
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Punter came up and handed me a slip of paper once, with a request on it. At the end of the song, I announced "We've had a request from one of you lovely people, it's for a song called...", I unfolded the paper and read, "...'youre crap, pack up and fk off'..." Nah, not really. But it's only a matter of time till it does happen.1 point
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At the end of the day it's just a box you stomp on with your dirty boot :) Here are another two older boxes. Full freq Rangamaster with high gain CV3007 (mil spec OC44), so it gets dirty from the start. Of course it works great with tube amps, but it gives new life to solid state amps, imo. As it has beautiful high end zing I used to set the amps flat, with just a booster on as my main "eq/preamp". I am a huge fan of germanium FF, but even well tuned FF might be too much on bass. So I used old clean up trick. The whole FF magic lies in guitar volume knob, but I don't see any bassplayer willing to actually use it. So I put pregain instad of fuzz control (which is fixed at max). It sounds like this: https://bitchcraftband.bandcamp.com/ My mate used Rick into Hiwatt, with FF in between, to record all basslines.1 point
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Think there are people out there (non-musicians) who don't understand or realize the difference in music styles. They just see a live band playing songs. Either that or he was just rather drunk. Dave1 point
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Up for sale my Sandberg Basic TM4. According to the serial number the bass was made in Germany in 2008. It is an excellent bass but I need funds to cure a serious GAS attack, so off it goes. Some specs: ash body with a beautiful redburst open pore finish. Maple neck (quartersawn, see pics) with a rosewood fretboard, 24 frets no front markers Delano Pickups J+MM Active 2-way Sandberg electronics Vol (push/pull A/P), Bal, Tre, Bass, switch to split the MM pickup. The bass is in excellent conditions, it only has a small ding at the edge of the fretboard at the 16th fret (G side – see pic) which cannot be felt while playing. Some dings at the tip of the headstock. Everything else is in perfect working order. 660 630 600 £535 ONO – insured and trackable shipping within EU included in the price. My BassChat feedback: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/252963-feedback-to-jag-atk/?tab=comments#comment-2653072 some pics:1 point
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Picked up my Carvin B1500 off Gary, an absolute gent. Great communication throughout. Went out of his way to save me a couple of hours driving and bought me a coffee! Great seller. Buy with confidence!1 point
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Just sold my Hohner B2A to Gary, great communication throughout, and a perfectly easy transaction all in all. Cheers mate!1 point
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Just bought a Jackson off Gary, nice fella, seems we have much in common hahaha !!!!! Everything went smoothly with zero fuss or drama, Top bloke I'd say !!1 point