Jakester

As a longtime drummer and now bass player, whenever this question came up in relation to drums the answer was always to go for mass ro block the sound, but with the mass decoupled from the main structure - room within a room, was the phrase usually used.

If your guy has a leccy kit, I would make the room w bit more comfortable, and then look to all play through a mixer into a few pairs of decent headphones - certainly cheaper than soundproofing a room.

YHPM!

Oh man, where was this last week? Still, happy with what I've got, but someone's got a deal!

Well, I deffo want it - just waiting to hear back from Ben.

Yes please!

Pm'd

Oooh, it arrived this morning! In my haste to get into the box, I cut my ruddy finger open

The finish looks even nicer in the flesh - the body's a deeper hue than the pics show.

Can't wait to try it out tonight! Top marks to Steve for a lovely bass, shipped superfast.

My pleasure!

Now sold - ta velly much!

For sale - a minter of a Squier Vintage Modified Fretless 4 string bass.

Bought from these very hallowed halls from Mykesbass:

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And used very infrequently since - I think it's been out of the house once. Since fitted with Rotosound Jazz 77 flats.

Comes with Straploks and slightly shonky gig bag.

Selling because I have bought (or rather, by the time this goes live, hope to have bought) a G&L L2000 Tribute.

How does £180 posted sound?

Some pics:

Russ;

Did you get my messages?

Cheers

Jake

[quote name='shantijoe' post='1189121' date='Apr 5 2011, 03:26 PM']Squier Vintage Modified Fretless Jazz Bass,

Hiya
I'm sure it would help to describe the modifications...
best wishes, joe[/quote]

Um, "Vintage Modified" is the model (like 'Deluxe', for example) in the Squier range?

[quote name='73Jazz' post='1189029' date='Apr 5 2011, 02:16 PM']I did 3 transactions here before on basschat an all went through very nice and smooth. great community here, great gentlemen to find as well!

but through my last for sale thread i am understanding alsothe different experiences here.
in detail.

i am offering a GL 2000 with a ding. to be honest and not hiding anything i took clear pictures of it.
a user contacted me and is a little bit concerned about this ding and asked for closeups with bright light.
so i went outside my house in full light and used also flashlight, so he could see this in detail. but to be proactive and clear all misunderstandings out, i also took a video of it,
so that he definitely is able to see how it is "in nature" as possible. So he has pictures, detailed pictures, clear pcitures with full light and a high quality video.
After this, he offered me 300 Euro, while i was asking for 350 GBP, which is in my oppinion a great deal for the bass.This means, his offer is roundabout 100 GBP less then what i am looking for and what is in fact 100GBP under a great price!?
So after this inpolite offer after my actions to make him happy, i didn`t answer this user again.

today there is another gl 2000 offered for 330 GBP and the user contacted me again, telling me about this bass and offering me 300 GBP for the bass.
Up to this point everything is no problem for me.But..

I answered word for word this:
" Hi,
thanks for your offer. You should go for the black one
kind regards"


Now, i have learned something!!!
he answered:
"Maybe i will. No need to be a dick about it though"

So i am a dick

edit:
oh i read this afterwards


"but is there really call for the attitude?"
This one is great..thanks.

I don`t want to offend you personally, but i think it is funny how you see the facts. you offered me once 300 Euro.


But please, do not start this as a verbal catfight in our case.
Everything is fine to me.
And to be honest, to recommend you to go for the cheaper one, is nothing i could see wrong in.
all the best to you[/quote]

I don't think asking for more information about a damage item is unreasonable - and as for the Euro thing, as u explained that was a misunderstanding on my part - I thought it was advertised at 350€, not £.

It's a ferking great big dent whether you like it or not. If undamaged , comparable instruments go for less than you're asking for a damaged one then it's not unrealistic to use that as a bargaining tool. If you don't like it, just don't respond.

Tom, presumably one of those was me.

As a buyer (and someone who's bought and sold tens of thousands of poundsworth of drum gear over the years) if someone doesn't put "no offers" or "price is firm" then they're inviting offers. It's not meant to be insulting, but frankly if I can get something for less that the original price, all well and good. I always expect offers, respond positively, and hope to reach an accomodation between both parties.

There's another bass on here, I've made a number of offers but it seems the seller has taken the hump, instead of engaging in a dialogue (and saying, nah, XXX is too low, what about YYY), and told me (when I made a comparison between another similar instrument) to go and buy that instead. Fine, you've done yourself out of a sale, no skin off my nose but is there really call for the attitude?

Bought a Rockbag double gigbag and Badass bridge off Andy - the bag shipped so quickly (next day) that I doubt many stores could match it, and the bridge wasn't much slower, both in perfect nick. Thanks!

PM sent.

Thanks for all your comments.

[quote name='icastle' post='1163581' date='Mar 15 2011, 07:55 PM']No reason not to use threadlock, but I suspect that if the saddle is dropping then the thread is so badly worn that threadlock isn't going to help you.
I'd be more inclined to work out whats happening and fix it rather than use workarounds.[/quote]


Hmm, I think it's unlikely to be that worn, as the bridge is reasonably new.

Could it be as a result of bad technique? As I say, I'm newish to this, and I do have a tendency to dig in quite a lot - could this be pulling the string and causing the saddle to move?

Hi all.

Newbie lurker for a while, mainly in the classifieds, but I've been having a slight problem and wondered whether any of youse luvverly people might be able to help?

I have what is now effectively a Mex Standard Jazz (it's a bitsa bought off here but the bits all add up to a Standard).

I recently had it set up and fitted with new strings, and it's a beaut.

However, pre and post setup I noticed that the E-string saddle seems to lower itself progressively on the grubscrews, to the point that the E-string buzzes constantly.

At first I just thought it was my lousy noob technique, but I just compared the E-string with the rest of the saddles, and its way down. A few turns to get it back up, and job's a good-un.

My question, however, is this:

Is it feasible/realistic/a good/bad idea to use some kind of fixative on the saddle grub screw - for example, a light threadlock, or some of the missus's nail varnish, just to 'freeze' the saddle in place on the threads? Or am I asking for a lot of trouble down the line and should I just put up with it?

Cheers in advance.

YHM

Hi;

Looking for someone in Birmingham, preferably South Brum - Moseley, Kings Heath etc - who can teach funk, jazz and slap.

It's got to be evenings only - I've got no chance of daytime, so that seemingly rules out Steve Amadeo.

I know the basics of reading, but haven't got a clue about bass clef - 18 years as a drummer have left me unable to read melodic scores! - so experience of teaching sight reading would be great.

Any thoughts?

BB, you have email.