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    [quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1439828877' post='2846082'] Great to see the vintage getting some gig time. I always think if you're going to have it, might as well use it! How about a picture? [/quote] Here's the old girl. Definitely a time and a place for a good vintage bass in my life. Apologies for the sideways pictures - everything I post at the moment seems to be on the wonk...
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    [quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1447838858' post='2910756'] Ear Peace. Sounds like a John Lennon protest, or a CSNY song. [/quote] Give ears a chance!
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    Nice basses - I had two natural wood coloured ones back in the late 80s/early 90s and they were pretty decent.
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    Now that's a beautiful bass!
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    Hi all, Unusual one this and I wasn't sure how best to price it. It's a Japanese SGC Nanyo SB301 passive unlined fretless bass from 1988. Anyone who is familiar with these will already know them as being very lightweight, comfortable basses with very playable jazz bass-ish necks. I've owned it since 2009 and I've had a couple of mods carried out to bring it up to its current condition. I'll explain... When I got it, it had the original SGC P pickup, but the J pickup had been replaced with a Bartoloni, which had gone a bit microphonic. The original passive controls also included a blend pot, but it made the 'both pickups on' setting quieter than either individually. Hmm. So I got both pickups replaced with a new Wizard PJ set, which sounds great, and at the same time got the controls changes to vol/vol/tone/tone (as on a Les Paul). I should say all this work was carried out professionally by the techies at Sheehans Music in Leicester. I have all the original wiring and the pickups it came with. The eagle eyed among you might notice that the pole pieces on the Wizard set are slightly wider than the string spacing on the bass, which is slightly narrower than a P bass. But the sound is absolutely fine with no difference in volume (presumably the magnetic field is big enough for it not to matter? I don't know). The fingerboard is a lovely slab of rosewood, which I've lemon oiled regularly, and it has always worn flatwounds to my knowledge. There are the tiniest string marks on the board, but nothing that affects the feel or playability in any way. Currently strung with a set of Rotosound 40-100 flats with plenty of life in them. Cosmetically it does have a few marks on it. The front of the body beneath the forearm has a few scuffs, and elsewhere there are superficial dings and scratches as expected from a 27-year-old bass. Overall it plays well, with comfortable medium/low action and all the important bits working well. It's pretty loud and lively when unplugged and good fun to play, even tho I'm not a particularly great fretless player! I've used it for perhaps a dozen gigs since 2009, plus a bit of recording on a friend's country / bluegrass album, but it hasn't come out of its bag for over a year now so that's not enough for me to hang on to it really. I checked the previous sales on Basschat to get an idea of the price, so £145 plus postage was a sort of guess based in that. It comes with a tatty but clean Ritter gigbag too. NOW SOLD
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    Mine's a Hot Rod Deluxe for a few years back which is a special edition with a Jensen P12n speaker. I had an older blues deluxe which was never the same after a repair so this was a welcome replacement. Sounds great. Just swapped the whole set of oldish valves for a set of JJ valves and it sounded the dogs danglies when I gigged it last weekend. I run it on clean channel with a Mooer hustle drive and pure boost providing varying degrees of gain, then hit lead channel for lead boost. Paired with a HSS strat it sounds great. Happy days!
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    My Fender Hot Rod Deluxe was playing up with some cutting out/cracking noises when i was playing. Turned out to be some dry solder joints, which my local repair guy fixed. But in the process of elimination getting there, and while the amp was opened up anyway, we agreed to pop in the whole set of new JJ valves I'd got for good measure, as the old ones had been in for at least 10 years. Gigged it on Saturday night and whoa! It sounded brilliant - much clearer and open sounding. Chuffed. I'm reasonably inexperienced in the ways of guitar valve amps, being mainly a bassist and only more recently gigging regularly on guitar as well. So apologies if my post is stating the blindly obvious - I expected it to sound better, but it really has just woken it up.
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    Sure the timing isn't great, even tho it was unavoidable. But in fairness using that image would be pretty unwise at any time I'd say.
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    I had two Thunder 1A basses, and a Spectrum ST. I remember them as being decent basses, though not outstanding and I sold them all in the name of upgrading. I briefly had both a Thunder 1A and a Charvel, but the Charvel was way better than the Westone (despite it's none more 80s pointy headstock, which is why i eventually sold that too). I seem to remember that the Thunder 1A weighed an absolute ton as well. I think i paid £80 at the time for it, so I was very grateful, but I don't think I'd use one much now, certainly not over a decent Fender P bass.
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    Had a great one on Saturday, for a wedding anniversary party. Had to learn a couple of cheesy tunes which the hosts had requested, but they went down really well in fairness. I wasn't on bass for this one tho - was covering lead guitar and vocals instead, which meant a chance to gig my newish PRS Bernie Marsden, plus my recently acquired Dunlop mini wah etc. All good. My well travelled drummer even complimented me on my guitar sound and solos. Yay not bad for a bassist then... In response to the ear plugs point, I always wear them too. Ive got a set called Ear Peace that come in a red steel tube. They are soft rubber with different strength inserts, and come in different skin tones. Work well for me.
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    Fairly sure Fender didn't make an unlined fretless in 1961....maybe that's one of the bits that ain't genuine. Hmm
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    Price drop bump - now £360 + postage This needs to shift to pay for other gear, so drop me a line if it interests you!
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    Getting smacked in the teeth with my own mic when someone accidentally bumps into the stand. Happens too bloody often but no one would understand me singing with my gum shield in.
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    Thanks all for your views - much appreciated as ever! Yeah taking it on the chin seemed the right option on the night, and realistically still is. Just a stand after all, and could have been worse etc. I guess the attitude of the person responsible is what annoyed me most - at least if she'd seemed apologetic it would have been my turn to say "don't worry it's ok" which is probably what I'd have done anyway. We've got public liability as part of my instrument insurance, so were covered for such shenaigans. Live and learn etc.
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    I'd like your opinion on something.... I did a gig this weekend - a birthday party function event - which went pretty well. Apart from the drunk woman who staggered backwards into one of our speaker stands, knocking the stand, the PA speaker and our desk over as she slid to the floor, amazingly missing the piano player sitting right behind it. We had to stop the gig to put things right. The stand was broken. But rather than apologising or even acknowledging it, she stood straight back up and went back to her table. Now - what is the correct way to handle that situation? I said nothing to her about it, mainly because I didn't want to risk spoiling the rest of the audience's night by having an argument with this drunken guest. There was nothing she could do to put it right anyway. It got me thinking about what the best way is to handle that kind of thing? Any thoughts?
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    Bump - any interest?
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    I used to sing as a kid in schools etc but only really discovered my adult singing voice after i gave up smoking about 10 years ago. Saying that, it still took a fair bit of practice and experience of singing live etc for me to form it into something better than just shouty backing vocals. Like some of the other people here, my voice isn't particularly what I'd have chosen to sound like - strangely it's not like Bon Scott or Steven Tyler (what a bummer...) - but it's loud and has a good high range without needing falsetto, which works well alongside the other singer in my band whose voice is much lower. Over this summer i had laryngitis which dragged on for ages, and i sort of learned a different way of singing without using my throat so much - hey presto its unlocked a whole extra dimension of my vocal range and my breathing. Its occurred to me that I'm only now finally probably singing in the correct way. I guess the point I'm making is not to be disheartened if its not easy at first, or doesn't sound like you'd expect. It takes practice and experience like any other instrument, and giving your voice a bit of TLC doesn't go amiss either. I few lessons to point you in the right direction would probably help. There are singers fronting successful bands with voices ranging from the bloody awful to simply unspectacular, so don't be too down if you're not Don Henley straight away.
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    incredible cabs these, and they seem to respond really well to being played loud too. Quite big, but ohhh, so worth it when you hear them!
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    [quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1446418826' post='2899314'] I've owned two in the past (a McCarty and a Swamp Ash Special) and the build quality is peerless. The best sounding guitar I've ever played is a PRS McCarty Soapbar; simply stunning tone and playability. [/quote] Wow I bet! I used to have an SG with P90s which sounded lovely, tho I didn't get on that well with the rest of the guitar design. But I imagine that sound applied to the feel and build quality of a PRS must be divine.
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    UPDATE - I am weighing up whether these items would sell better separately. I have a buyer potentially interested in the LR Baggs p/up, and would consider taking it out and getting a blank strap pin/jack input installed in its place, if I had a buyer who wanted the guitar but not the pickup. I'd obviously prefer it to go as one sale, but if the pickup-less guitar is what you'd rather get, I'll drop the price amended accordingly. Ideally I'd be looking at £280 for the guitar + case, or £360 for the full works (which means you get the LR Baggs pickup for a rather bargainous £80....) I'd rather keep guitar and case together for posting purposes. Each of those prices is for collection - happy to work out a postage cost too. PM me if that's of any interest. Cheers folks.
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    I've picked up one of the Bernie Marsden PRS SE models after gassing after one for ages. And yes it is a cool guitar. Not a day has gone by when I haven't played it walking round the house, on the sofa etc. It's great. In terms of what I'm gassing for now, it has made me sit up and take notice of real USA PRS guitars ( after a lifetime of Fender dedication ) and I've realised they're absolutely awesome, tho well beyond my price range. But keeping an eye peeled for an American PRS singlecut. Mmm.
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    [quote name='madshadows' timestamp='1446319285' post='2898595'] Lovely guitar, congrats John [/quote] Cheers John, Yeah it's definitely one of those I seem to leave permanently lying round the house to pick up and noodle on as much as poss! In case you're wondering from the pics too I couldn't resist putting an old spare Les Paul p/up selector ring on it just for added LP vibe!
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    Bit of a belated NGD but I've only had limited time to write anything on this since purchasing it a few weeks back. I've been lusting after a PRS SE for some time, mainly to replace the neck humbucker sound I was missing by just having a strat. I narrowed it down to a SE Custom 24 and this Bernie Marsden signature, which I chose because it was just bigger and meatier sounding than the 24. I'd heard all sorts of things about the Bernie Marsden which turned me off - that they were really heavy, with a massive thick neck etc. Certainly mine has neither of those - it's the same weight as my USA strat (3.5kg ish) and while the neck is full and fat, it's not ungainly or a baseball bat like a 1951 CS Nocaster for example. The fretboard does feel noticeably wider than a strat for example, and is flatter radius, but its not too alien and adjusting to it doesn't take long. The bird markers seem really well fitted and neat, as is the binding and fretwork. It's loud and resonant when unplugged, which translates into a very usable set of humbucking sounds when plugged in. I played it for two songs at a recent gig and it sounded great - cutting nicely thru and not murky. The neck pickup particularly is really creamy and responsive and the bridge pickup nice and bright, without either being too high gain. It's lighter sounding than a full on Les Paul, but fuller than an SG, with none of the latter's neck dive either! I've always liked LP Juniors so am very happy with the wrapover tailpiece, though it does seem to take a bit longer for new strings to stretch in, maybe because of the greater angle that the strings have to wrap round. At the end of the day it's a £600 Korean made PRS, rather than a £2k+ USA version. But it's well made and very playable, light and comfortable, and exactly what I need as a companion to my main USA strat. All in all tho, a very likeable and cool looking guitar so far. Just need to get a few more gigs under its belt to see how it performs long term - I can't wait...!
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    Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer. One of the first albums i heard as a kid and I still love it. V V Brown - debut album. I think I'm also the only person who bought this a few years back, and i think its mostly great.
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    Artful Salad Dodger Feast 17 Black Rebel Mobility Scooter Club Mixed Grill.i.am
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