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    I've been playing in covers bands for years, but the last time I worked on original material with a band was about eight years ago (aside from depping). But working on new material with an original band again over the last couple of months has suddenly awoken me as a player all over again - I'm hearing things differently, and have got room to explore and stretch my wings a bit. It's wonderful! It's also really changed my bass playing too - I'm standing back a lot more and being guided by the music as to what to play and how to play it. Aiming for something a bit different rather than just learning stuff and repeating it. Sometimes the results are really sparse bass lines, where before I might have been tempted to add in too much. Sorry if it all sounds really obvious, but is puts been a real breath of fresh air to me. Not before time neither. Covers gigs are definitely still where the money is at, but my sanity is loving having some creative fun on the side.
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    More pictures added, this time showing a bit more detail of the maple top and bird inlays. I've also tried to show the small area of very light surface scratches from belt/jeans rivets etc on the back - these are imperceptible to touch, and hard enough to see at all unless you're looking for them. Just thought it would be right to mention them.
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    [s]Have just put this up for sale on the 'Other musically-related items for sale' forum. Sadly no longer using it for anything, tho it's a great guitar, as I'm almost entirely playing bass these days [/s] I changed my mind on the sale after an evening of blissful playing - it aint going anywhere!
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    [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]Hello all,[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I'm selling my very nice PRS SE Bernie Marsden Signature. Its almost mint condition, Korean made, bought new in 2015, and barely left the house since then. These are now being discontinued in favour of USA-made versions I believe.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I've owned it since October 2015, when I wrote a fairly lengthy 'New Guitar Day' post on it shown here:[/font][/color] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/272245-ngd-bernie-marsden-prs-se"]http://basschat.co.u...-marsden-prs-se[/url][color=#000000][font=Helvetica]/[/font][/color] [font=Helvetica]In a nutshell, it's a singlecut Les Paul-alike, with a neck modelled on Bernie Marsden's own 1959 sunburst LP known as 'The Beast'. [/font] [font=Helvetica]It has a mahogany neck and body, with a solid maple cap overlaid with a figured maple veneer. [/font][font=Helvetica]It features two volumes and a master tone, wrap-over bridge, vintage-style machine heads, mahogany fretboard and the usual flying bird inlays. [/font] [font=Helvetica]Full spec here: [url="http://www.prsguitars.com/2015/seberniemarsden"]http://www.prsguitar...seberniemarsden[/url]/[/font] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]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], which involved tidying up the string slots in the nut and giving it a fret polish. It did wonders to improve the action and tuning stability, compared with how they are 'off the peg.' Its strung with 10-46 Ernie Balls. [/font][/color][font=Helvetica]The action is beautifully low and buzz-free.[/font] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]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. It comes with an immaculate condition PRS SE chocolate brown padded gig bag, which again has only left the house half a dozen times.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I've put a cream Gibson Les Paul pickup ring on the selector which, which I think looks cool, but I'll include the original ring too. Its a 30-second job to swap them.[/font][/color] [font=Helvetica]The exact weight is 3.5kg - which is lighter than my 2001 Strat and very comfortable to wear. [/font] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I'm selling it because my workload is now almost entirely bass playing, and I've already got two Strats for the very occasional guitar gigs. I also need to cover the cost of a newly-bought Epiphone Jack Casady Bass (which is worth a whole other NBD post of its own…!)[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]Price is £425 & postage. They retail for £595 new.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I'd prefer meet / collection within a sensible distance of Leicestershire, but I can post too. Will work out costs etc.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]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[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]they show all the right details.[/font][/color] [attachment=219947:PRS7.JPG] [attachment=219949:PRS3.JPG] [attachment=219950:PRS4.JPG] [attachment=219951:PRS5.JPG] [attachment=219952:PRS6.JPG] [attachment=219953:PRS2.JPG]
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    Great basses. I've been gigging one for last few weeks and it's definitely a keeper. Much more versatile than you'd think too. Black ones look super cool too!
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    If you can, get one of each. If you can't, just get a good Precision.
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    Great cabs these - i've got a 1210 and i've used it for every gig since i bought it.
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    CamdenRob very kindly donated to me a volume pedal he wasn't using. It arrived first class, well packaged and in great condition. Top man to deal with.
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    I've got EXL165 nickels on my jazz bass and they're great. I've always used Rotosounds but really like these too - more so in terms of the feel, and they seem to have lasted well too. I've also wound up with a set of new NYXLs which I've yet to put on the bass - the D'Addario rep brought some along as a raffle prize at the Midlands Bass Bash.
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    Lovely guitars - my first ever electric was a E series MIJ 1957 reissue Strat, in some strange metallic aqua blue (turned out to be quite rare colour apparently). It was great tho. Lovely grain in the maple neck/fingerboard, nice guitar. I ended up selling it for a 1994 MIJ Strat, which despite the lesser pedigree, was a better individual guitar for my tastes, and which I still have 14 years on. Both cool guitars tho.
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    Wow - yeah I've got a jack casady that looks exactly the same, but that Gibson is the daddy definitely! Stunning looking bass that.
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    Why does it have two jack sockets?
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    Wow that is cool! Amazing looking bass.
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    Around the same time i also worked in a jewellery shop, and a cool looking, older guy came in one day. He looked faintly familiar. We got chatting, I served him etc and when he handed over his bank card to pay, the name on it is "Mr A Stardust". Cool.
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    A long time ago I worked for Roland, and one day we spotted two scruffy guys we didn't recognise wearing denim strolled about in the car park of our HQ. Turned out they were two guys from Status Quo (not Francis or Rick obviously) who were coming to visit someone there. I also got rung up by a guy asking for details of a Drum and Bass sound board thing for a JV2080. He gave me his name and details to send some info, and it was Marcus Miller.
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    I was lucky enough to win a set of the 45-100 gauge at the midlands bass bash raffle last weekend. They did sound and feel very good on Andy from D'Addario's five string jazz, so I'm looking forward to trying them once my current set of nickel wounds finally need changing. Will report back when the time comes!
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    Any pics? How many holes? Is it for MIM, USA etc?
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    Four at present. I keep selling stuff I don't need, but then rewarding myself for doing so by buying more stuff. So I have: 1970 Fender P sunburst/tort 1995 Fender USA P sunburst/white 2008 Fender USA J black/tort 2007 Epiphone Jack Casady Signature gold I genuinely do think that's my limit tho. I've had more basses in the past, but sold several cheaper ones to invest in fewer, better ones. These four all get gigged regularly too, so I really don't think I need anything else. Tho I haven't got a Rick, a T Bird, a fretless, a five string, an active bass etc....hmm.
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    Ah a good precision is a companion for life mate. The ultimate plug in and play bass. I've had all sorts of basses along the way too - some Bass Collections, Westones, Tokais, a Charvel in the 80s etc, but from quite early on the precision I had was the best, most reliable bass. There's a reason they're so popular. No they don't do lots of things that basses with active electronics, 24-fret necks or exotic woods and hardware do. But they do one thing very well - give a really good, universal, fat, usable bass tone which has laid the foundations of the last six decades of music. That's good enough for me. I've gigged one for the last 20 years and it's fair to say I'd take one onstage anywhere and be happy.
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    [quote name='paulmcnamara' timestamp='1462697399' post='3044905'] Probably one of the most under estimated basses out there? [/quote] I reckon so. I like the fact that its not a cheap version of the actual artist's bass - it's a model all of its own. Mine's strung with TI flats too, which sound amazing - a perfect halfway house between fat flat wound thump (which really suit it) and flexible, usable, mainstream bass tone. I agree with some of the other posts here too - it does cover a lot more solid body tonal territory than you'd expect by looking at it, which for me is a good thing as I'm not particularly a retro sort of player. The weight and balance are very favourable - different to a small solid body, but nothing that feels wrong or awkward. Genuinely really impressed. And Norris - I can bring it over when I see you later in the week - you're more than welcome to give it a whirl.
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    These are great cabs - I've got Richards old 4ohm version and it's incredible. Have a bump
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    A bit late as I actually got this last weekend, from a friend considering selling his who agreed to lend me his to try. Can't say fairer than that. I picked it up immediately before I was about to do a gig, so having sound checked with my normal P bass I decided to give this a spin. Straight from the off it sounded great, so I used it for the whole first half. It played well, looked ace (it's the goldtop version) and was much more versatile than I expected it to be. I mainly wanted it as a lightweight bass (currently have a niggling shoulder injury) and for a new more stripped back folky/vocal/alt originals band I'm doing. But it fitted in perfectly well for a loud classic rock covers set. The varitone dial stayed on the middle setting of 250 - the 500 setting just brought on rapid feedback on such a small stage - which gave me a P bass with flats sound. So far so good. The neck is a good handful but not a problem, and no issues of neck dive either. The build quality seems good - nut is well cut and the rosewood neck has neat, tight grain and no sharp fret ends etc. Really impressed by how loud it was too - real punch and meat to it, which isn't what I expected. As a hollow body it's got that slightly microphonic, airy, woody sound to it, but plugged in and turned up its surprisingly hefty and fat. Overall a really surprisingly versatile and usable bass, which is a lot of fun to play and which certainly turns heads on stage. Needless to say, I bought it off the mate in question on the strength of that gig, and can see it doing a lot more gigs with me! I took it to the Midlands Bass Bash on May 7 to give people a chance to try it out too. All good.
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    Ah it was you! Sorry I'm rubbish at remembering people's names at the best of times, let alone when everyone's got a real name and a basschat name...!
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    Indeed - just to echo what everyone else has said really. Cool to catch up and do some talking and playing with everyone. Thanks to Si600 for running the show. Frankly baffled how Andy the D'Addario man's Aguilar rig can sound so good and weigh about as much as a couple of empty suitcases. Same with those cool TC Electonic 1x12 cabs. I need to go shopping... Very taken with that black Status necked jazz bass too - I don't know the name of the chap it belongs to, but it was divine. And managed to pick up some D'Addario strings and bits in the raffle too, which is a bonus! Enjoy the rest of the weekend folks.
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