Rayman

Rich tone in my experience of buying, selling and trading with them have been great to deal with. I would recommend them personally.

Aria IGB 50? I have an IGB68 5er, great bass.

Absolutely don’t doubt it at all. I can’t believe that a (used) £1500 Sandberg for example, is going to be so incredibly better than this V7. I’m sure it would be better…. but is it worth the expense? I’m thinking not right now.

Nope. It’s also me and Mrs Raymans 5th anniversary, so a romantic dinner it is instead.

So I’m reaching a landmark year this year, and I decided to treat myself to a new bass? Well of course I did! I have an amount of money, and my budget could stretch to something nice, to mark the occasion. I’ve been window shopping for a couple of weeks, probably for a 5 string….. possibly another Gibson Thunderbird, maybe Sandberg, Musicman, Shuker …. there’s a bunch of stuff in my watch lists…. But there’s a fly in the ointment A f*****g Sire V7 5 string, that I can’t put down. It does everything, it can sound like anything, it plays beautifully…… I got it for peanuts, and quite frankly I cannot fault it in any way. It’s ruined everything! Now I can’t justify buying anything else, because I can’t believe that anything else is going to be that much better?!? 😠

Well…… not really ……. simply because I decided to put a Hipshot BT7 onto my Fender Meteora instead….. so technically I still don’t know the answer to the original question!

Sorted thanks

Any idea which model of D tuner will work for this?

Very cool, I remember them from back in the day. Ibanez factory I believe? Same as Cimar and others…..

It’s a fabulous bass. Gigging with that and a Kramer era N2, via a Markbass rig, at the time I was like a pig in s@#*.

That’s it! Alan (Homerplaysbass) and I traded a lot gear between us. I remember that bash, and I remember you being there along with some of the original Bassworld members.

What do the experts ( @cetera ) think of the Ethos series? Made by Cort in Korea…. they look really nice, but are they “Proper” Spectors? I’m considering one…..

I had an identical one….. maybe 20yrs ago? Fabulous thing it was. I had that and an N2. Stupid to move either of them on.

I’d like to see that!

Do you have a bass, that might not be your most valuable, might not be your number one choice of gigging instrument, might not even be your favourite particularly…… but it’s the bass you pick up and play the most, it’s the one you generally reach for when you’re learning new stuff or just noodling at home, it’s your number one basically? I do…. Sire V7. It plays fantastic, sounds fantastic, looks fantastic…… it does everything with bells on. I didn’t expect to like it quite so much when I bought it (in a sorry state) last year, but it’s become my “go to” for almost everything. I’m considering gigging it in place of taking two (differently tuned) Thunderbirds to gigs. It’s not quite the right aesthetic for an original rock/metal band, but…… who cares right? A surprisingly great bass.

I’d like to try one, I just hope it’s a better offering than the OLP Tony Levin and the Fleabass from a few years ago. Both budget signature basses and mine were both dreadful.

I got lost in Maida Vale while waiting to record my vocals for a BBC session in the 80s. I wandered off looking for food, but ended up in some kind of office area. I found the drummer, and we wandered up and down various corridors before finding our way to the studio. A slightly irritated producer was waiting for us.

Oh man, this happened to me and a band I was in during the 80s. Our van was fully loaded overnight ready for a gig the following day. In the morning, it was gone, with all our gear in it. Heartbreaking. I hope this has a happier ending.

Fleabass “water bass”, the blue one with the orange pick guard. Described by Flea himself as “not a toy”, that’s exactly what it was. A terrible little thing, cheap components, cheap wood, and it sounded crap.

I only buy via strings direct or from Newtone directly. Amazon and EBay are an absolute no no in my experience.

I have. I’m lying in a hospital bed with a new knee 😣

Yeah agreed, this finish the best one.

Ooh, I haven’t seen another one for a while. Nice basses.

Schwiiiing! Nice

Yeah, the best active jazz sound I ever had was with a Hohner B bass, which regrettably sold. So I was hoping this one would be close to that…. it kind of is, but kind of isn’t too, but it sounds really awesome. No need for any pointless “upgrades” here.