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  1. Bump - some interest locally in this, but still available. Was something of an impulse purchase this one, which I can't justify so could really do with shifting it on...
  2. Hello all, [b]NOW WITHDRAWN [/b] [b][s]£375[/s][/b] - final price drop before I withdraw it from sale. Its a 2015 PRS SE Bernie Marsden Signature, which are very well-thought of as among the best of the SE range of Korean-made PRS models. These are now being discontinued in favour of way more expensive USA-made versions. Its almost mint condition, as I bought it new and I seldom gig on guitar. I've owned it since October 2015, when I wrote a fairly lengthy 'New Guitar Day' post on it shown here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/272245-ngd-bernie-marsden-prs-se"]http://basschat.co.u...-marsden-prs-se[/url]/ In a nutshell, it's a singlecut Les Paul-alike, 24.5-inch scale, with a 'wide fat' profile neck modelled on Bernie Marsden's own 1959 sunburst LP known as 'The Beast'. It has a mahogany neck and body, with a solid maple cap overlaid with a lovely figured maple veneer and stunning sunburst. It features two volumes and a master tone, wrap-over bridge, vintage-style machine heads, mahogany fretboard and the usual flying bird inlays. It all adds up to a full-throated sounding singlecut, with a full neck, which sounds richer and meatier than an SG, but slightly brighter than a Les Paul. Full spec here: [url="http://www.prsguitars.com/2015/seberniemarsden"]http://www.prsguitar...seberniemarsden[/url]/ It's had a pro set-up by Leicester guitar repairman Howard Smith [url="http://www.howardsmith.co.uk/"]http://www.howardsmith.co.uk[/url], so has lovely low action, with no buzzes, and plays really well. Its strung with 10-46 Ernie Balls. I own a couple of other Korean guitars (an Epiphone Jack Casady and a Crafter DE7 electro acoustic) and fair play the build quality, fit and finish on all three of them is really high quality. The rosewood board is beautifully dark and close-grained, the fretwork and inlays are clean and neat, and the bodywork is top notch. Condition-wise it's about as near to mint as you could get, having been played onstage only a handful of times, but not even for a full gig. There are some tiny (and i mean really tiny) surface scratches on the very back where it's rubbed against zips/buttons on jeans etc, but you'd have to go looking to see them. It comes with a PRS SE chocolate brown padded gig bag, which again is in perfect condition. In the pics its got a cream Gibson Les Paul pickup ring on the selector but I'll include the original ring too. Its a 30-second job to swap them over. The exact weight is 3.5kg - which is lighter than my 2001 MIA Strat and very comfortable to wear. I'm looking for [s]£425[/s] [b]£375[/b] posted, (They retail for £595 new), but I am open to sensible offers. I'm in Leicestershire and happy for anyone to pop over and try it over a cup of tea and some biscuits, and I'll knock a few quid off for collection/meet up. Fire away with any questions, and I'll do my very best to answer them. I'm sorry some of the pics are at the wrong angle, but i can't figure how to change them and they show all the right details. [s][b]NOW £375[/b][/s]
  3. [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1468349731' post='3090374'] I guess we all have drum stories but one of the first things I ask is who is on drums. Time is not negotiable.. I can play on and behind but I don't want a push either. I like to think I can make the drums work but you don't want to start from a negative position where it is as much as you can do to make it 'ok'.. I'd pass........ [/quote] Thats true - I'm talking about 15 years ago having to contend with a piss poor ( and usually pissed up) drummer, who was eventually sacked and replaced with an only marginally better one. Nowadays I wouldn't hang around.
  4. oh good lord...thats shocking. Worth about £25.
  5. I've played with a couple of rubbish drummers in the past, and its bloody soul destroying. When you're trying to build some dynamics into songs and a baboon on drums just wrecks it all by playing the wrong arrangements etc. It sounds like a nightmare mate - best of luck with seeing it through tho. Haven't the rest of the band noticed how bad he is then?
  6. I've played a lot of Fenders (not Custom Shop, just regular MIJ and MIA ones) and by and large they've been good. My two main gigging basses are two modern-ish, secondhand USA basses which are very good, along with a USA strat and 1990s MIJ strat (also both secondhand) But I'd agree that there are also some which are pretty uninspiring to play. Not bad, just a bit nondescript. There are definitely lots of good ones out there tho I reckon. EDIT: Of course, i'm speaking as someone who wants just a decent, solid, passive bass that plays nicely, sounds good and which I can cart around pub gigs and functions etc. If you want a bass beyond that, then of course there are other basses that do more and better things for more money. Horses for courses etc.
  7. Unless i'm particularly learning some new songs, i barely play between one gig/practice and the next. Kids/job seems to be the main reason!
  8. I only had one precision from about 1994 till 2005, which i used for everything and took everywhere with me. It finally needed a refret and i bought another as a back up, since when many others have come, with a few becoming permanent residents. I could easily live with just one. But i like having a few to choose from. Saying that, having too much gear does panic me and makes me want to sell things! So amazingly somewhere between 'too many' and 'not enough' seems to be about right.
  9. Hello [b]NOW SOLD[/b] Having a clear out and not using this so it can go. It's an Aguilar Tonehammer DI and preamp pedal. It's basically the front end of a Tonehammer amp/EQ in pedal form. Just to clarify, this one also comes with the the Aguilar 18v adaptor, tho it can run from two 9v batteries (included) as well. The adaptor is a genuine Aguilar one, which itself cost £25 to buy, and which is an optional extra. The pedal is built like a tank, and in the same brilliant condition as when I bought from a fellow Basschatter. It has one small scuff on the side of the casing, and Velcro attached to the underside, but apart from that it's barely been used. Good pedal, lots of useful EQ and tones, as well as the AGS function which gives everything from a bit of warmth and grit, right up to some fuller distortion. I think I only used the pedal about half a dozen times to beef up a particular bass that I've since sold. Boxed, with manual and range of different ends to suit adaptor (international fittings I'd imagine). [s]Looking for £140[/s] [b]£125 posted[/b]. I'll knock a tenner off if anyone wants to collect from Leicester or thereabouts.
  10. I play in two bands of different genres, but in both my playing is pretty prominent for the structure and drive of the songs. I've always ended up playing in bands with lots of space to fill onbass, so I have a chance to create some unusual and hopefully distinctive basslines as a result. Its usually really pumping, rhythmical and melodic, so if I can be considered to have a style I guess that is it, just by default really. I got a brilliant back handed compliment at a gig with my covers band recently. A bloke said: "that was great - you should just sing, your guitarist should play the bass and you should get someone else in on the guitar." Sort of managed to insult everyone bar the drummer.
  11. Phil sorted me out with a lovely tort scratchplate. Good man to deal with and happy with my purchase!
  12. Oh yeah and I sold a Squier MIJ silver series P bass I had while I was at university cos I had no money whatsoever. I ended up with £80 for it, to a bloke who worked at a secondhand shop.
  13. A brand new bass I bought for £1300, but after nine months of gigging it I decided it really wasnt doing it for me and off it went. Ended up getting about £750 in a part ex for it. Ooh what a stinger that was. I got a lovely bass in exchange which softened the blow somewhat, and which I like to think has by now paid off some of the difference... Bugger tho innit.
  14. Caught the tail end of something called Wolf Alice earlier on. No idea what the music was like but they were giving it some stick and having a ball, so might have to YouTube them. Also caught Baaba Maal follows by some kick ass Afrobeat stuff, but again didn't catch who they were. Sorry I'm not much help am I?
  15. Thanks for all these responses - sorry i'd forgotten i'd posted this question! In terms of the current set up, its just not as clear or distinct sounding as my Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates-equipped strat. The BM's neck pickup I do like a lot, but back to back with my SD-equipped HSS strat, the bridge pickup is just a bit generic. Not by a huge margin in fairness, so it could be opening a whole Pandora's Box searching for some elusive tone in my head, when there's a very useable one right there. Hmm.
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  17. Hello, I'm mulling over swapping out the bridge pickup on my PRS Bernie Marsden, but not sure what might suit it - i see all sorts of pickups being described as 'working well with maple necks', or 'longer scale / seven-string guitars etc' I guess the BM is much like a Les Paul in construction, but with a slightly shorter 24.5" scale. I've got a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates in my strat, but that's deliberately chosen to be bright, hot vintage sounding in that guitar. Any experience of swapping out pickups in a PRS SE, and what did you find worked really well? I saw Whole Lotta Humbuckers mentioned once before, but haven't heard them first hand. Or I could just leave things as they are and enjoy playing!
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