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9 hours ago, Chris J. said:

Hi

Where about in Edinburgh are you?

Chris.

I live in Stenhouse (EH11 3ED), and work at Kings Buildings (EH9 3BF), so those are the two areas where you can find me more easily, but I'm not against travelling a bit in town either.

PM me if interested and we can figure out something

We used to cross paths all the time... happy to see him doing well

On 30/10/2025 at 12:21, ColdFusion said:

Hey all. Looking to get my first 5 string and saw this Sire on bassbros. Just wondered if anyone had any experience with these? 

I had actually been looking at fanned fret Ibanez's, Dingwalls etc, but now thinking I might have been trying to run before I can walk and that it would be better to get a 5 string at a lower price point in case I don't get on with it. 

 

Anyway here's the exact bass in question, seems a reasonably good price? 

 

https://bassbros.co.uk/product/2024-sire-marcus-miller-v7-reissue-5-string/

 

Thanks in advance for your help/comments/condemnation :). 

 

 

Edit - Sorry, just realised I posted this in the General forum rather than the Bass Guitars - I can't see a way to delete it though, sorry! 

Nice bass and not just as an entry point. Affordable no longer needs to mean 'meh'.

The bass I'm using the most right now is another Sire (Z3-5), while other basses that cost up to 4x as much stay at home. A Sire V7 is a very nice bass, they can be a bit heavy in my (limited) experience of that model, but they're nice.

1 hour ago, TimR said:

I have a great app on my phone called Chordbot Lite. 

 

You can program chord progressions in and then play along. 

 

I'm sure there are other apps and PC programs but this is incredibly simple and intuitive to use. 

+1 for the Chorbot app, very useful and supereasy to use.

... and still available

On 07/11/2025 at 22:46, joe_geezer said:

I joined facebook (about a year or 2 ago) and since have stopped posting here as facebook seems to have consolidated everything I use to do on the web in a single website!

 

It's actually taken the fun out of posting and reading about bass guitars and bassists... It's just all superficial click bait & with little to know substance. I 

suddenly realised I was just scrolling through endless reels of 1 minute videos designed to grab my lizard brain attention. And the groups are just again, post a flashy pic of a fancy bass and lets all celebrate... zero discussion, good or bad 🙂‍↕️.

 

So I have decided to quit facebook and just use bass forums and X. At least with X there's discussions but not so much about the bass guitar, so that's actually a good thing, it's an untapped market! 

Anyway, does anyone feel the same or am I just getting old. great to hear you thoughts 🙏

I'm only keeping FB because my main band uses Messenger primarily, and we get a lot of interactions with people and gig info etc through it... but I no longer really use it personally. It's become a really ugly place. The videos kept me going for a bit, it was an easy way to kill a few minutes here and there (as long as you don't go into the comments), but there's some much AI-generated crap... that was the last straw.

I seem to have substituted it with Reddit. I found a few subforums that are pretty good. 

On 08/11/2025 at 16:31, Liz Woodsend said:

Is this pedal still available?

It is!

On 08/11/2025 at 09:33, Terry M. said:

Count yourself lucky if it's "only" 10lbs. The one I mentioned that I tried in Andertons felt like it was at least 11 🤞

My Z7-5 was just over 9 lbs and Z3-5 under 9 lbs (I don't recall the exact weight right now)... so fingers crossed

Edit: No, the Z7-5 was 8.0 lbs actually, I can't trust my memory 😄 BUt both are light.

On 27/10/2025 at 17:48, Len_derby said:

Come to lovely, sunny Derby. It’s……..erm……..in the middle. 🤪

You know the island doesn't stop at Hadrian's Wall, right?

Just the DR Blue Neons available now.

6 minutes ago, Boodang said:

Digital mixers are the mutts nuts for live work. We got an xr18 and have never looked back. I love the studio FX you can use, fully parametric EQ on every channel, and 100 band rta, really helpful you get a professional sound. 

The RTA together with the parametric EQ makes it soooo easy to tune out feedback frequencies. That function alone is amazing. 

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

Easthouses Miners near Dalkeith. A nice venue and staff very friendly and helpful too. 

I'm more used to old analogue desks. 

We've been using a pa hire company on a few gigs and will be going down this route from start of next year. At the moment we're half and half so not using our own desk every gig.

Dave

Aha! Indeed, we played a new year's gig there this year. It's funny how a lot of this kind of venues look the same, yet they're distinct enough.

Fender rounds - sold

TI Jazz flats - sold

Labella white nylons and D'Addario black tapes - on hold

still 100% available: DR Neons 

44 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Last night was our first gig in 4 weeks but things starting to build up as we head towards Christmas. 🎅

65th birthday party, always difficult at these trying to motivate the audience to dance but we had dancers up early and altho not a full floor it was encouraging. By the end of the night we had the floor pretty full.

Considering we haven't played in weeks the band was spot on. One or two very minor mistakes that only we would notice so that was good.

Had trouble with drums going thru digital desk. We were getting incoming signals but nothing going out the front. We eventually managed to get drummers vocal mike going and then his bass drum but we were now at doors open time and had to leave it at that and get the sound check done. 

Digital desks are way over-complicated for my liking but it looks like part of his grouping or his drum presets are somehow muting. 

Overall everything was well balanced out front tho. Bigger venue than we expected with a decent sized stage so all good there.

The tone i had was spot on for me. Deep but not boomy with that little bit of growl when digging in. That Handbox WB-100 and Barefaced 212 set up is just sublime.

Used the Sandberg VM4 with MarloweDK as back up. 

Dave

 

What's that venue? It looks very familiar, I'm fairly sure I have played there.

I recently bought a Behringer X32 Compact to use with my main band, as we manage our own sound quite often. We were using a small 12 channel analog mixer with a single monitor aux, so it was quite a change. Digital mixers take a bit longer to get to grips with, in particular setting up the routing to do exactly what you want it to do, but what a revelation they are. 

I was a bit wary at first, delaying using the X32 live until I felt confident enough... but there's so much they can do, I was getting a bit overwhelmed. So I went back to basics and just set it up to be able to use it just like our previous mixer, basic functions only. That was pretty easy. Then, for each gig, we'd work out something new, saving each gig 'scene' as we went along... and before you realise it just makes sense. I think that because they can do so much, it's easy to get lost a bit, a bit like when I get a multiFX: I may spend hours just experimenting with the different sounds but not doing anything 'productive' with them.

16 hours ago, pst62 said:

Tomastiks please.

I've got two other people interested that contacted me directly first. If they change their minds I'll send you a message and see if you still want them.

15 hours ago, bassbloke said:

Fenders please.

replied

17 hours ago, essexbasscat said:

Labella 750's please 

DM replied to 

A couple of years ago I switched to 5-strings, and it doesn't look like I'm going back to 4. I have a few new string sets that I'm unlikely to use now... All for standard long scale basses.

Fender 7350ML *** SOLD ***

stainless steel roundwounds

gauges 45-65-80-100

new, unopened

£22 delivered

D'Addario ETB92 *** SOLD ***

black nylon tapewounds: warm tone, brighter than most flats, beautiful on fretless.

gauges 50-65-85-105

new, unopened

£40 delivered

Labella 750T *** SOLD ***

white nylon tapewounds: stainless steel rounds wrapped in white nylon. Very compliant string, brighter than standard black tapes. Covers a good range between deep and thumpy to almost the sound of rounds that have aged a bit.

gauges 50-65-85-105

new, unopened

£35 delivered

DR Neon BLUE NBB-40

Roundwounds with a luminiscent blue coating. They sound just like roundwounds. Blue under normal light, bright neon blue under UV/blue light.

gauges 40-60-80-100

new, opened just to see the actual colour properly.

£22 delivered

Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flat Wound strings JF-344 *** SOLD ***

Very nice flats, they can get thumpy like the best of them, but they have a strong low-mid response that I really like. Very compliant strings, not as soft as the Labella white nylons, but probably the most flexible flats I've tried.

gauges 43-56-70-100

new, unopened

£40 delivered

20 hours ago, Inga said:

looks like my egg yolkes.... in the morning 🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳 good yummy

slow day? 😄

3 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 

Imgur is blocked to any UK IP address due to various reasons mostly do to with unwillingness to comply with UK data protection legislation.

 

If you really need to see any images hosted with Imgur you'll need a VPN set to a non-UK location.

The Opera browser has a built-in switchable VPN that comes quite handy. Imgur image not displayed? Click on VPN and refresh. You can manually select a rough location worldwide, but whatever it chooses by default seems to work, so far. Click again the VPN button to turn it off, and you're back in the UK.

4 hours ago, ghostwheel said:

They probably mean it actually is Squier, not Squire.

Doubtful, it seems pretty far fetched.

🤭

On 15/10/2025 at 21:09, Kev said:

Unfortunately, from the various angles in all 3 photos, it consistently looks like the bridge is a tad too far to the right of the neck, you can see it from how the E string doesn't align with the pickup and the general look of the strings across the neck, but probably most obvious when looking at the truss cover.

 

It's an awful lot of work that is going to be needed to get all of this right, before he lifts a finger I would ask for a full schedule of the works he is doing, if you're insistent on going through with the repairs and not demanding a refund/heavy discount.

I'm not sure. To me it just looks like the neck is *slightly* misaligned, the sort of thing you fix by unscrewing the neck screws a bit, pushing the neck in the right direction and tighten screws again. The bass had issues, but this is getting overly picky now, I think.

9 hours ago, Fionn said:

In 8 years of touring we never said a single word to the audience that wasn’t integral to the music/ performance.
 

Zero patter since day one 

That's... something!

I don't know exactly what it is, but it is something.

Not even by accident? 😄

Johna bought my markBass Octaver pedal. Good chat, a pleasure to deal with  

On 05/10/2025 at 13:54, Lozz196 said:

I’ve just always used Lozz - with records/publishing etc that’s what I’m listed as for credits. 

But... what happened to the 195 ones before you?