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  1. ARIES Senes VS 6 Custom Signature, hyper rare, unique model ! Asking price : £2245 GBP !!! In fully working condition and real good condition. This bass has never been modified, except for the changed strap pins. Here are the specifications : Body : 7 pieces with, in order of appearance, red alder top, wenge veneer, maple veneer, mahogany core, maple veneer, wenge veneer, red alder back Neck : 5 pieces neckthrough flamed maple, wenge, maple, wenge, flamed maple Fingerboard : Macassar ebony Frets : 24 Headstock : 3 + 3 Tuners : Hipshot Ultralite Pickups : Aries Custom Neodymium humbuckers Preamp : Aries Custom Solfegio 3 bands 18 Volts Controls : volume (active / passive), blend, bass, mids and treble, 1 switch per pickup for series / single / parallel modes Bridge : Hipshot Type A Strings spacing at bridge : 18 mm Nut : brass Truss rod : dual action Strings spacing at nut : 9 mm Knobs : Aries Custom wood following the same pattern as the body Scale : 35" Hardware colour : gold Finish : gloss Land of craftsmanship : Croatia Serial number : 010109 Year : January 2009 Weight : 5.4 kilos Action : from 1,5 mm under the C string to 2 mm under the B string at 12th position Will come with a generic semi-rigid case. Non-smoking environment, as usual. The Šabić brothers, at the origin of the brand, are, for one, classical luthier and, for the other, electronics engineer. They manufacture instruments of excellent craftsmanship and with handpicked electronic components. Unfortunately, they stopped the production of their always unique and hand-made instruments to work for a brand-name Custom Shop three years ago ... This is, therefore, a unique instrument made to measure for an Italian bassist and I am the third owner. It is an ultra-versatile and super rare bass. The new price in 2009 was around 4.500 Euros… The bass has been fully set up professionally. It has two new batteries and has been fitted with a brand new set of LaBella Super Steps SS45CB strings (29 - 45 - 65 - 85 - 105 - 128). Link to all the high resolution photos and the below sound clip : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eich-IrjiKGxx3wAHupJPHlKSj_bNxjh Link to a video made by my friend Vincent : Here, a sound clip recorded with this very bass, except for the fretless intro and outro, by the same Vincent : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jezFSCAl3S_3Yl_dNcurxnARbRvVeAZ5/view What you see is what you get ! Look at the pictures taken under different lights to see the real condition : some few marks, especially close to the bottom strap pin and the usual light scratches, but nothing serious at all. Don't hesitate to ask for more.
    7 points
  2. That reminds me of a frightfully cruel** joke that did the rounds after Paula Yates' unfortunate death... When police searched Paula Yates' house, they found Amphetamine Sulphate and Angel Dust... but there was no sign of her other two children. ** or not, depending on your POV and SOH
    6 points
  3. Treated myself to a new amp, my first valve bass amp, and very pleased I am too. I noticed it while on holiday, on Gear4music's website and they had 7 in stock at £375! I have wanted one of these for a while and missed out (last time we were on holiday!) when Kenny's Music were discounting them heavily, so I thought 'what the hell' It will be for home practice and recording, and will hopefully match up nicely with my home built P bass I have another project in mind...…..I am going to have a go at making a B15 style cab to match it, the early double baffle one, like this one which is a modern reproduction made by a company in the USA called FlipTops It's actually marketed as an extension cab, and as such doesn't have the flip top lid, which I wasn't interested in anyway, so it will be a removable back with the fabled double baffle design at the front. I have had a quick doodle with it plugged straight into an Audient interface and it sounded great, it should be lush with the 2 Notes Ampeg cab sim added. Very pleased, I have been missing out on the valve sound for years!
    5 points
  4. Or the names of Frank Zappa's grandchildren?
    5 points
  5. Finally happy (famous last words) with my electric rig. Mesa D800 plus EBS Valvedrive through Barefaced Two10. My upright/acoustic rig is an Acoustic Image Clarus 2R through Barefaced One10.
    5 points
  6. I don't let other people use my gear. In the situation of supporting, "I am leaving after we have played". Nobody that I don't know quite well will ever touch one of my basses. I once played a gig supporting a former name 60's musician from Liverpool. His bass player (ex Eurythmics, allegedly) looked at my two Trace Elliot combos - which were already nicely balanced in the PA mix from our mindgame of a soundcheck earlier and he asked to use them. I was used to a nice low onstage balance. He wasn't and he turned them both right up, so the crowd out front got treated to what amounted to a terrifying bass solo from him, instead of turgid jangly 12-string 60's hits. People were holding their ears. He was not pleased when I walked onstage immediately and turned off and unplugged the one that wasn't mic'd up and turned the other one back down. On my way offstage, I told him (on mic) he was free to take a break between their songs to get his gear out of his car if he touched the volume again. -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - Having said all of that, I DO let people plug into my gear at the weekly jam night. But I have total control over the volume in that situation and take a spare bass for the mortals to use.
    5 points
  7. - Can be closed- I keep it- Thank you for your feedback- PEDULLA Hexabuzz, AAAAA flamed maple, 6 strings fretless, limited edition, new ! Asking price : £3720 GBP !!! Only possible trades : Leduc U-Bass 6 Fretless last generation (3rd) with possible cash my way according to its condition or an early generation with cash my way, again, according to its condition. A Leduc U-Bass 6 fretted may also be worth of interest, of course. In fully working condition and like new ... without forgetting that Pedulla stopped manufacturing instruments this year ! Here are the specifications : Body : limited edition two wings AAAAA flamed maple Neck : 3 pieces neckthrough laminated maple Fingerboard : polyester coated high gloss ebony à la Jaco Fretless : 24 lined positions Headstock : 3 + 3 Tuners : Gotoh / Pedulla Pickups : Bartolini / Pedulla humbuckers Preamp : Bartolini / Pedulla 9 Volts Controls : volume, blend, bass and treble, switch for mid boost / cut Bridge : Hipshot Type A Strings spacing at bridge : 17.5 mm Nut : bone Truss rod : dual action with two stiffening rods in the neck Strings spacing at nut : 8 mm Knobs : Pedulla black anodized aluminium Scale : 34" Hardware colour : gold Finish : high gloss Land of craftsmanship : USA Serial number : 9843 Year : 2015 Weight : 4.9 kilos Action : from 1 mm under the C string to 1.5 mm under the B string at 12th position !!! Will come with the original Pedulla hard shell case. Non-smoking environment, as usual. What to say about this fantastic fretless bass, nothing finally, if not a plethora of superlative : a real studiobeast. Just plug it in and play it to understand why Mark Egan is true to the brand. It’s has lots of mwah, it growls, it's super easy to play and it sounds terrific. So, why selling it, would you say : I don’t like necks with a high gloss varnish ... Yes, I know. The last new retail price, if you can find one as Pedullastopped manufacturing instruments earlier this year was around £8.500 GBP… The bass has been fully set up professionally. It has anew battery and has been fitted with a brand new set of Fodera Nickel strings (34 - 45 - 65 - 85 - 105 - 130), which suit it marvellously. A new set of LaBella black Nylon will be offered with the bass. Link to the Pedulla web site :http://www.pedulla.com/html/mvp_buzz.html A sound clip made by Olaf, the previous owner : https://soundcloud.com/foxtrott-2/continuum Here, a video made by a former owner with LaBellaBlack Nylon strings : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7gXlZgVJs&feature=youtu.be What you see is what you get ! Look at the pictures taken under different lights to see the real condition : it’s new. Don't hesitate to ask for more.
    4 points
  8. I worked in the Hastings factory, wiring and assembling mostly AC30s with cabs, organs and disco decks. The guitars came in from Erith and were soon out the door again so I'm afraid I can't tell you much about them. All the guys there were in bands, we had a lot of fun, everything had to be played/tested, amazing how much stuff 'left via the back door' all the bamds were never short of kit 😎 Definitely worth repairing it's a lovely piece of bass history. @Christine My first bass was a home made copy of the teardrop bass, made by my Dad and me when I was 13/14, after seeing the Rolling Stones using them, long before working at VOX.
    4 points
  9. @Silvia Bluejay and I just love Trader Joe's in Pasadena. So does Lee Sklar. Guess it's a bassist thing.
    3 points
  10. Just back from Tesco and no-one approached me for a signing. Might need to grow a beard...?
    3 points
  11. The most obvious "I've been hacked, my wife posted this" post ever. You can't fool us you know.
    3 points
  12. *next door reports missing flowers* Although - if Andyjr purchased a nice bunch of flowers, by the time he got them home he'd have repurposed some twigs into a tree sculpture featuring volute to display the flowers on - and hand trimmed the petals into swifts. You've done this before for your lovely Wife, right?
    3 points
  13. I most humbly apologise Maybe would it help for me to disclose that, because this was a reused neck blank, and because I started making the acoustic before deciding to give it to Matt, and when I started making it, I was aiming for a 42mm nut and the neck blank JUST fit, but then when I talked to Matt, he plays a 43mm nut to get a 37mm string spacing and so, actually, the fretboard overhangs the neck in places by almost 1mm each side and I am banking on the radius of the neck carve being tight enough in those places for the fretboard edges to be angled enough for the fretboard to merge into the neck and if it doesn't I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do and that worries me a bit and when things worry me a bit I start writing impossibly long sentences that make most readers give up half way through and, now I think about it, MrsAndyjr1515 muttered about doing much the same during what she describes as the tortuous forty years we've been together and that she regards THAT as the true meaning of a long sentence.
    3 points
  14. Can you stop doing all this so f ucking perfectly? I want to see pics where the chisel slipped, where you misread 3mm as 30mm and drilled a huge hole through the finger board making the truss rod embed itself in the wall, probably quivering slightly through its suddenly unleashed energy like a bad cartoon arrow grrr
    3 points
  15. I know there are cheaper alternatives, but I love Luminlay. It is SO easy to fit. I do recommend use of a good quality bradpoint drill (I use the Fisch ones from Axminster) but it's basically: Measure and mark the centre with a sharp centre punch Drill 3mm or so depth Check the stick goes in OK Pop a drop of CA on the end Push it into the hole Cut flush with a razor saw Sand the edge Less than an hour in total and here we are: Final job is filling the tang slots and it's ready to fit to the neck
    3 points
  16. What is your definition of a pro bass player? If it is the guy out of U2, Sterephonics or Thin Lizzy, then just know enough to play the songs. That's fine, but if you want to be the musician you claim, learn to become fluent in bass. The beauty of scales is that they are a shape. Learn that shape in every position and you've become competent. Learn all the scales in all the different shapes and how to put them together in interesting ways you'll be on the way to becoming the player you are talking about. You'll still only get to play the songs, but you'll sound better because you'll be a more confident, flexible and accomplished player. James Jamerson will be talked about while there are still bass players taking breath, because his simple lines were intelligently put together, because he knew his theory inside out.
    3 points
  17. Vintage? That looks suspiciously like Skank has put that together in his home workshop using spares obtained from Allparts.
    3 points
  18. But is it any good for metal? 🤘
    3 points
  19. You've got a bunch of drooling bassists here, is it worth repairing? Yes, definitely, look at it, it's gorgeous and a piece of history. I want that bass 🤩 It might be worth putting a set of cheap strings on it and tensioning them, it may well pull the neck straight after a week or two. The twist although not ideal might not be the end of the world as long as the truss rod can still set the neck and there is sufficient bridge adjustment to set the action. Put some strings on it and tune it, then leave it and see what happens, it's lasted 55 years, a few more weeks won't make much of a dent
    3 points
  20. If we're back to being silly - this reminds me of that time when I had a very delicate conversation with my sex-doctor (a delightful young lady from Paris), about Philippe Pétain and the Vichy French, while she had my knackers in a testicle vice... I defy @DoubleOhStephan to produce a picture of a testis vice. 😄
    3 points
  21. It's surprising how often that little store cupboard standby has come to the rescue of a mundane recipe. Of course, only the larger Waitrose have it in stock although you can get it online from Ocado. We're lucky up here in the rural Wolds - we can get it fresh from the Farmers Market in Louth on a Wednesday (that said, Simian Simon, the local monkey chuckler has been in Magaluf for the last couple of weeks so there's been no fresh while he's been away. No doubt he'll be in a hell of a mood when he gets back till he's caught up again.)
    3 points
  22. Sounds like electrical interference. Are you using a daisy chain power supply, if so what else is connected? Try the Muff by itself - being the only pedal connected to the power supply as well as being the only thing in the signal chain.
    3 points
  23. My wife's just gone to the West Indies Jamaica? No, we've got a villa in Barbados we go to every year but she's gone out early this time because I've got a business presentation in Frankfurt and the nice thing is that the villa pays for itself because we let it out to friends we can trust and the woman who cleans and looks after the keys is an absolute treasure and costs peanuts; mind you, the only problem is there's one couple who go there every June and the husband always has a tendency to slip one or two of the books we leave for guests into his bag and brings them home with him because he says he didn't get around to finishing them and he always claims he'll bring them round to us but he never does and we always say we'll really have to mention this to him but we don't like to cause a scene over a couple of books although the last time he did it he took my copy of Polly Toynbee's book about social capital and a new one would cost £29.99 on Amazon and I just couldn't buy a second-hand copy, that would be simply de trop.
    3 points
  24. If I haven't mentioned before... I do like a good volute.
    2 points
  25. These are excellent https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Gator-G-PG-BASS-Pro-Go-Ultimate-Bass-Guitar-Gig-Bag/1VQ7
    2 points
  26. Try any soul/Motown stuff in Eb. I used my 5 string more for a big soul/disco band than any other genre, purely because the band moved the keys around so much. I could really use the B string then to give the songs some oomph in the lower keys.
    2 points
  27. Anything. Don’t treat it like that. Play low E at the 5 fret, F at the 6th etc. Play across the fretboard, rather than along.
    2 points
  28. I'd suggest practising anything you play on a four but five frets up. The best thing about a fiver is not having to go down low even though you have those low notes waiting for you!
    2 points
  29. Far too sensible, logical, and therefore not GAS related. Sorry.
    2 points
  30. ...But the problem is, you might never "finish" learning the scales if the approach is to arbritarily learn all of them. There's scales I don't know, and there's scales I've learned but forgotten because they simply aren't used commonly enough to justify it. Instead, there should be a more rounded approach to knowing the relationships between scales and chords, ie when a certain scale might be used over a chord progression; or why it might change, etc etc. And also there is a conection between the actual fingerings used, the 'best' position to play something in, the intervals, the notes of a chord, what chord it is and why, and how the bassline fits in with the other instruments playing, eg is it doing its job as a strong bassline or is it "away with the fairies" in a particular place. There can be a lot going on, and if you stopped to analyse it you'd be focusing on note choice, harmony, etc but in the distance it could also be interpreted as a "scale" holding it together in the background, but its more of an indirect coincidence. To start with, its certainly worth knowing what's "diatonic" and if/when it departs from this (which is ridiculously easy to spot if its written music - because there will be an accidental!), what the most common variations are and what function it has.
    2 points
  31. I can't comment on the Genz but I ran a PF500 for about 6 years. loved it and still have it in my studio I have been using the RM500 evoII since christmas and I love it. A little comp and a little drive. I've been wanting to switch to Ashdown for ages as I think they're a great company. I'm even thinking about an Ashdown cab to replace my mark bass cabs
    2 points
  32. That was great, very upbeat and catchy.
    2 points
  33. Let's just stick with C major for now: Play a third (C E) then move this patten diatonically up the scale. I.e. C E D F E G F A etc. Same exercise but for all intervals E.g for a fourth it would be C F D G E A F B etc. Same exercise but a three-note pattern; e.g. C D E. This would be C D E D E F E F G F G A etc. Another example is C G E, which would be: C G E D A F E B G F C A etc. There are many combinations so this step should keep you busy for a while. Same exercise but with four-note patterns; e.g. John Coltrane's favourite C D E G: C D E G D E F A E F G B F G A C etc. There are even more combinations when there are four notes. Once you've done this, you will really start to know C major.
    2 points
  34. How'd you think he made his fortune..? 😉
    2 points
  35. I don't like mixing speaker types. EQ settings for 1 cab won't necessarily be right for a different cab. If you have something you like and want more of it - add more of the same. Don't add different.
    2 points
  36. I tend to think of it as "Do I want to learn all of that" , rather than need. If you want to, then ultimately, it will almost certainly make you a better player than before.
    2 points
  37. Earplugs, Kittens, Cheesy Chips and Knacker-Vices. A description of this thread and a great title for that difficult 2nd album.
    2 points
  38. Cheers Skank. That's obviously a vintage model, these days the incorporation of electrical stimulation has taken "pleasure" to a different level...
    2 points
  39. Not just me but the whole band! Only the 3rd time we've all been together in the same room since the brass and drummer joined!!! Check out my new (2nd hand) PPI bass, the Lakland, thanks to the wife for that.
    2 points
  40. Worrying, isn't it? Perhaps we should take a step backward and divert the course of discussion in another direction...
    2 points
  41. If Stub changes his mind I'll give it a good home 😎 It looks in very good nick apart from the neck, as @HowieBass says take the 2 strings off, take the neck off, leave it maybe weighted on a flat surface and see what happens. Electrics = no problem 😊 (Did I mention I worked for VOX late 60s/early 70s), them goodoldays 😆
    2 points
  42. I can't see having only two strings on it helping any with a twisted neck problem; if it was mine I'd remove the remaining strings and see how it responds.
    2 points
  43. 2 points
  44. Yes I think we’re done here - our annual Finnbass recruitment drive looks like it’s been a success!
    2 points
  45. Right this arguing has gone on long enough now. Don't worry chaps, I'll sort it! BREXIT (Thread locked)
    2 points
  46. I've been grounded with flu lately. Just emerging from the shadows but very weak and wobbly. So today is patch cable day! Yay!
    2 points
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