Kev

13 minutes ago, Tobe said:

Mods are a bit giddy aren't they. You have Frank Blank saying folk are "tossers" and his post remains. I post genuine replies to people who quote me and they get removed. 

Nice 👍

Thanks for reading what Rich and I had to say and taking it on board, top chap.

That about wraps this thread up I think, cheers all.

1 hour ago, Dan Dare said:

 

Fair enough, but you have left replies to me up and deleted all of my posts (and those of others), including those which were strictly factual. If you're going to moderate, do so impartially.

If you're going to be a member of this forum, do so in a nature that wastes as little of our time as possible.  

We're volunteers, and we do the best we can.  Try doing the best you can, please?

Gorgeous! 

27 minutes ago, JeanF said:

Hello, ship to France and how much??

I can 🙂 if you want to message me your details I'll get a quote for you, I assume it will be in the region of £50-£75 fully insured.

They're such gorgeous instruments, the neck is a work of art!

Surely the best bet is to return it mate?  Lovely bass, but seems a shame to throw that money away, their returns policy is pretty good from memory!

On 05/04/2023 at 23:17, Kev said:

It's not a new one to this thread, but may I present my entry into le club:

 

Just as a heads-up to any who may have missed it, I am looking to move this magnificent beast on: 

Gutted, to be honest, but sometimes you have to look at them as tools and right now this isn't the right tool for the job

1 hour ago, mattbass6 said:

This isn’t one of the Chinese made ones that were just released. I think these were full fat Canadian built ones, introduced when the JT collab was first announced. Happy to be corrected of course. Either way, they did a limited run and are very cool 😎 

These are also Chinese built, just a limited run in this spec to launch the series.

Absolute hard luck on the Duran tribute splitting after waiting so long for this!  Which one were you with out of interest?  Shared the stage with a cracking one last year, bassist was playing a regular combustion I think?

Certainly seems a great shout against the insanely overpriced real thing! 

GLWTS 🤘🏻

On 13/06/2024 at 20:21, Bobo_08 said:

@phipschi Thanks a lot for you post, your bass looks really cool. I would very much like to hear a sound comparson. There is very little info out there regarding ownership or reviews. I am interested in the craftsmanship, neck pocket, fret work, neck feel, weight, balance etc. 

 

@Machines Indeed there are a several options between 1500 to 2000 euros... Sandberg, Maruszczyk being an obvious european made options. Then there is FGN which are very high quality Japanese made instruments as well as Lakeland models. Several of these brands would maintain reasonable resale value too. 

 

I also noted that compared to some of the promotional videos and other sources, the prices have increased dramatically, more or less doubled in the last 2 to 3 years, making a fairly basic P bass just under 2k Euros. 

 

 

How much?!

When i've seen influencers with these, I assumed they were super cheap.  Did they used to be, or have they always had that kind of price??

My favourite colour of these basses 😍

Don't need to go big, this fella will do the job https://www.darkglass.com/creation/microtubes-x/ 

Definitely worth trying to pick one up 2nd hand maybe and see how it compares, or I think Bax Music do a 30 day trial, so you could grab one to compare and return if it doesn't help?

Move this convo away from politics please, folks, otherwise we'll just get rid.

I play progressive metal stuff in drop B, BF#BE, so similar but not the same.

A lot of it is down to personal preference.  I use a .125 on the B as if I go any heavier, I find it comes too dubby and loses high end harmonic content.   I doubt id change it for A#, as the tension is very similar.  Couple of bass set up tips; Get the neck as straight as it can be, even a tiny bit less relief will really help.  When stringing up a new A#, when you know where the string will break over the bridge saddle, take the string off and bend it slightly at that point.  The thicker the string, the more this helps get a clearer low string.

I personally wouldn't go to 105 for a F, I use a .95 for an F# and would think .100 would be fine.  As long as you're using some compression, which I'd definitely recommend, you don't need to worry too much about balancing things out.

I do keep lows clean, I think my crossover is somewhere around 120hz off memory, but again this is to taste.  Difficult to do with the gear you use, and can't really be duplicated with EQ'ing.  Considered swapping that B3K out for a Darkglass X?  It'll be a big upgrade and will allow that crossover.

Forget about FoH, the sound engineer would rather just use his tricks than undo yours first.

Absolutely gorgeous 😍

Up for sale I have my absolutely stunning Leduc Modern 4 bass guitar, built in 1994 by French master luthier Christophe Leduc.  Picked this up from Will at Bassbros last year, previously belonged to our own @Gardenerben.

Gorgeous design, the ash body under the red finish is really smart and the Padouk neck is one of the thinnest and fastest I’ve used.  Bass arrived to me in standard tuning but also plays in B Standard wonderfully.  Preamp is a clever little design; 2 band EQ, with the toggle switch on, the treble control also controls the mids.  Boosting treble cuts mids and rolling back treble boost them.  Dummy pickup coil hidden behind the control panel keeping things quiet.

Specs e.t.c.

Leduc M4

Model Name:              MODERN (1994 to 97)

Scale :                         34" (24 Frets)

Neck:                           Padouk

Fingerboard:                Padouk

Body:                           French Ash

Pickups:                      2 x Leduc - Benedetti Single Coils with Dummy Coil

Electronics:                 Leduc - EBS EL-5, 2 Band EQ with Treble Control Mid Switch

Bridge:                         Leduc type "H"

String Locks:               Schaller

Neck Depth                 1st fret: 21 mm, 12th fret: 22.5 mm

Nut Width:                   38mm

Spacing at nut:            9mm

Spacing at bridge:       19mm

Dimensions:                1060 x 320 x 60 mm

Weight:                        3.8kg

List Price:                    €4,400

Playing Example:        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cprRkNuqOw0

Originally built for French musician Sylvin Marc.  The bass was the successor to the MNV and precursor to the Maurad.

EL-5 Preamp

The bass is in really good condition for its age, hard to believe it’s 30 years old!  There are surface marks and swirls here and there as you'd expect, usual wear to hardware, couple of pots are a little scratchy but nothing to worry about.

25 minutes ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

It's definitely 100% finished and I'm absolutely not going to buy anything else.

10 minutes ago, lidl e said:

No, but i look at it every day.

 

Im going to build a guitar and get the artifakt for it. Will be a projekt.

Fixed it for you.

27 minutes ago, Oldman said:

These Round Wound strings
 

No flats

Well, its a la bella flatwound packet, guess I can't confirm what strings are in it?! 😅

If you fancy shifting the flats separately shoot me a message 

9 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

At some point Nate Navarro will do a demo. 

Which will sound amazing but objectively useless as it'll be 90% him showing off, rather than showing the pedal off...

53 minutes ago, Killerfridge said:

I assume you mean the Legendary87, which is based on a Urei 1176 (which is also what the Cali76 is based on), but it's attack times are about twice as fast as a Cali76, and as MrDinsdale mentioned, the Cali76 adds a fair bit of colour/saturation to the sound that the Legendary87 doesn't really replicate.

Yeah that's the one, I believe I have mine set up to the equivalent of a Cali76 set to the slowest attack time and fastest release, doesn't sound far away from the Cali 76's i've had from memory, but then again from memory I don't remember a huge amount of colour either! (I've had a big box tx, regular big box and a compact).

14 minutes ago, MrDinsdale said:

I think there is definitely some colour added by Cali. Perhaps a capture in combination with the internal compressors would be close enough to pass. I noticed some Boss OC2 captures, I'm guessing people do similar and add the capture along with a built-in octaver to get some flavour in there. 

I guess I mean the compressor model that's based on a Cali will already have the cali colour, if there is any, so I don't know what a capture would be adding really.  Do you have a Cali, did I see? Would be interested in how you find they compare!

Yeah the Boss OC-2 capture works well enough to improve the octaver on the QC.  It's a great pitch shifter but not great at getting that synthy octave tone, but the capture at least makes it quite dubby.

I have an OC-2 on the board though, and it doesn't really compare 🙂

1 hour ago, Killerfridge said:

The Cali76 capture sounds great, I just need to pair it with an external compressor to get the full sound

A capture?  The Cali 76 is quite transparent, so I don't think a capture of it would really work well at all.

I was referring to the full compressor model based on the Cali76, can't remember what it's called.

14 hours ago, Killerfridge said:

Interesting, how have you got a decent Cali76 replication?

There is a Cali76 based model that seems to work pretty well to me?