Kev

Just took delivery of a rather bonkers little Meris unit from Nathan, next day delivery and as described, top gent!!

Haven't seen any sign of the Shuker up for sale so hopefully things aren't as bad as all that after all! If you're active on socials, he has listed a few things that a little engagement with would be a big help!

Didn't he use it on Under the Bridge too, or was that just for the video?

Hardly comparable companies, and Flea left Modulus a good amount of time before they folded, his Flea bass was rebranded as the Funk Unlimited. Also, I think Musicman have made MANY sales from Flea, as he's associated with the instrument, even if he never had an artist model with them. Put it this way, a hell of a lot more people bought a stingray than a modulus because of him.

Oh right, I haven't heard that story, I just knew he wanted a flea signature model. If he was demanding that all Stingrays be Flea Stingrays, that's insane. Is there anywhere I can read about that??

I'm sure the Stingray would have sold just fine without the Tim Commorford and Joe Dart models too, but it still doesn't really explain what he thinks he was "right" about, or how those artist models didn't do wrong by Leo, Tony, Louis and all of the other stingray players?

Interesting, what does he think he got right/Flea got wrong? Sounds like he gave him the opportunity to give him an artist bass before signing with Modulus, and then Ball went ahead and did artist basses in the future with others bassists anyway, trashing his original arguement. Seems without doubt a missed opportunity for them?

Who on earth designed that part of the kit? I mean it's not difficult to do for a tech minded person, but what an awful way to implement a firmware update in 2023.

I just want a better answer than "1 works for me"

So if something did happen that rendered the bass unplayable, jack socket failure, tuning peg snapping, pickup screw failing etc, would you just sit the rest of the gig out or would your band stop playing and call it a night?

I suppose those that don't have adequate control over something like that happening probably do. However well maintained my basses are, something going wrong is ultimately out of my control, why risk it? My band's live setup is pretty complex, with dmx triggered lighting shows, midi triggered patch changes, backing tracks, IEMs, clicks, the works. It's all run off one rack and effectively a macbook, and we are far from being able to afford to have a backup rig. If the macbook dies on the day, we can't gig. It TERRIFIES me, so I like to control what I can control wherever I can.

No, not sure of the exact model but proper US Jazz pickups.

I had the Dave Hollingworth signature model, it was a nice bass but felt like it was built to a budget, and the Bart pickups were oddly quiet (i'd had the same in other basses and they have been fine before).

For those who don't take a backup, is it because you literally don't have one, or you just don't want to, or physically can't, take an extra instrument with you? I kinda get that people are saying that they've never had a problem in xxxx gigs so don't need it (I suppose they don't have fully comp car/home/breakdown insurance for similar reasons? As ultimately that's all taking a backup bass is), but its such a minimal effort if you use a vehicle to get to gigs that I just don't really get why you wouldn't, however unlikely it may be.

I've thankfully never had to use a backup, but I've seen many who have needed one who didn't bring one and have either had to stop the gig, try and restring or otherwise transcribe as they go, and it looks totally unprofressional. It's an anxiety I don't need

Always two. Have to have at least one as a backup, and i'll often use them both for different tunings. I'd never take more than two unless I have rodies

To be honest the only one that stands out as being TOO cheap is the Mesa, mainly because I don't know anything about the Arkham and I swore I had a similar Jazz that didn't go for a huge amount more. I think they would have scammed many more if he'd have gone the FB route instead, that's assuming they haven't...

Bugger, I just crafted the perfect 73 character password.

You don't need an email address to log into Basschat, just a username and password is enough. I think you can choose username or email off memory.

Hopefully if you contact Paypal or your bank and explain what happened, they may be able to do something for you. I know its already been said countless times before, but please, please don't use Paypal F&F to buy anything on here unless they ARE your friend or family and you know its them. Insist on normal goods/services paypal, and if the fee is an issue for the seller, offer to pay the extra 3% to cover it (and yourself). If they still don't agree to use it, and cash on collection isn't an option, run a mile. Thanks to those who reported the threads and alerted the team, we acted as quickly as we could. An event like this is VERY rare on Basschat but everyone needs to remain vigilant, especially when it comes to sending money to people you don't know in an insecure way. And yeah, if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't.