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  1. fretmeister
    That's lovely! The website people need flogging though. Can't spell "D'addario" properly. No nut width or bridge spacing information either.
  2. fretmeister
    Just in case - I have listed 2 medium scale Ibanez basses in the classifieds (I have paid my subs!). A 4 string and a 5 string. Both in great condition. In the unlikely event that someone wants them both I'm sure a deal can be done!
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    I don't think it's an integrity issue at all. The world has changed. Hardly any bands make good money anymore and everyone has to eat.
  4. fretmeister
    Quick video demo of it: Please excuse the sloppy playing! It starts off with both pickups, then just the bridge pickup at about halfway through. Treble and Bass controls at their centre points.
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    SOLD AND GONE The clearout continues. This is a stock Ibanez SRMD205. 32 inch medium scale 5 string. Now discontinued by Ibanez. Specs: 45mm nut 18mm bridge string spacing PJ pickups 2 band EQ with blend. 9V powered. Matt black finish. WEIGHT: only 3.3kg being roughly 7.2lb Currently fitted with £100 worth of Dunlop Medium Scale Flatwounds. They went on in 2023 so should be good for another 5 years if you look after them properly. They are a traditional sounding flat, not a modern fizzy, metally nonsense sort of flat! I have owned this from new and it's done a few jazz gigs. I bought in May 2020 from GAK. I liked it so much that I had a pair of them for a while. This one was by far the lightest though. The other was quite a bit heavier. The other one went to fund a PS5 (sodding kids). The matt black paint has a few marks here and there but nothing particularly visible. Nothing that goes through the paint. Selling for £250.00 ono. PRICE DROP to a really cheap £200! Collection from Northants near J16 on the M1. I do not have any shipping boxes and as my local (was PMT) closed there isn't anywhere I can get any. Not looking for any trades, I need house room. Thanks.
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    It's going to be like that old gag - Jimmy Page's telecaster sold a lot of Les Pauls. This pedal is going to sell a huge amount of HXOnes.
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    I usually have flats on my Sandberg TT4. Usually EB Group 2.5 flats, but sometimes Ti flats or La Bella depending on what I need. I've just put rounds on it for the first time in about 3 years!
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    16 pedals to start. Then about £10 per new pedal as they are launched. Limited user slots for new pedals. Have to use an app to put new pedals on it. I'm sure it will sell loads, but it really looks like Boss had a look at the Line 6 HXOne (200+ pedals in it, no cost for updates and new sounds, no need to use the app) and just did the opposite. The Boss is slightly more expensive too. I would really really like a Turbo Distortion that didn't have the mad hiss levels of the original, but I still wouldn't buy this.
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    Bump before the hell of eBay!
  10. fretmeister
    Lovely! I’ve been following them on IG and their instruments are beautiful.
  11. fretmeister
    I love that!
  12. fretmeister
    I did web searches when I had the idea to see if I could find anyone else trying it - no results at all! This is what happens when I'm left unsupervised! I've done it on DTF and on the Low Tension ones. After they are still not as easy as others but it's a welcome improvement and as you say, they sound DEEEEEEEEP. Duck Dunn is still my favourite player and nothing else comes close when I want that sound.
  13. fretmeister
    Floppy B is usually a string choice problem rather than a bass problem. Crap sounding B is often a mix of both. I've always been confused with gauge choices in sets. The makers seem to be obsessed with tension and gauge tradition rather than considering the feel. So many sets have really tight feeling D and G strings but the BEA can feel very floppy. Tension and flexibility are not the same thing. When I was playing 5 strings a lot I would always get a 4 string set and then pick the right B for that bass. I often found the D'addario Prosteel 130 or 135 to be the best option irrespective of what the other strings were. Sometimes a tapered string and sometimes a normal one. Then the flexibility / playing feel of the B was a lot closer to the rest. I think I mostly had 40-60-80-100-130 and 40-60-80-105-135 depending on the bass. String maker tradition of going up 0.020 out of habit makes no sense at all. End up with a .125 B just because the E was .105 and the B flaps around like the Inflatable Tube Man!
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    I find La Bella's sticky in the heat too. It's one of the reasons I mostly use EB Group flats and let them get really old - and using the handcream trick to age them fast. They are nowhere near as grabby. I did experiment with some La Bellas in a different way. I think the super smoothness is the problem. There's nowhere for the sweat to go. Other flats with a bit of a gap between the windings don't really suffer from the problem. So I used some Wet and Dry paper to slightly rough up the string along the entire speaking length and it actually worked and made them noticeably less grabby when the hands are sweaty. No tone change that I can detect. Just go slow to start - you can always sand a bit more but you can't put any metal back. I think I used 1500 grit. Don't do it on the bass of course - the tiny, mostly invisible shavings will stick to your pickups forever.
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    Comes with the box and power supply - 12V. It will happily run off a suitable modern pedal board supply like a Cioks DC7 as long as you set that to 12V Amazing sounding thing - for me just plugging in with the EQ all at noon, and then turning the middle knob to "Old" gets an amazing bass tone. Only selling as I'm now using a HXStomp for guitar and bass duties. The valve adds a nice warmth as long as you don't turn the gain up too much (gets a bit fizzy then) and also has 2 separate Overdrive sounds with a control to blend the clean with the drive. One is quite traditional and the other more aggressive - but doesn't copy Darkglass at all. It has it's own thing. Actually sounds very nice for clean guitar as well - for that straight to desk sort of Nile Rodgers approach. Can be used for headphone practice and has an AUX in for an MP3 player etc. These are £350 RRP. The little cover on the Optical out is missing and I have no way of testing that bit. The rest is all tip top. I bought this on the forum. So I'm selling for £175 collected from Northants or add £10 towards postage as it's quite heavy. Good demo of it:
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    I like working out sounds! Do you have a particular example we can listen to?
  17. fretmeister
    Am I really going to have to be the one? Ok. Which of the other band members has the most attractive spouse... Just sayin'
  18. fretmeister
    Just be polite, maybe even tell them you'll do another month to let them find someone. Put a wanted ad in the Musicians bit on here - maybe even try and line up a possible replacement or two.
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    QUOTE FROM IG: "I've had a handful of messages already asking about this, so I guess I can come right out and talk about it. Mike Watt has been using a couple of my pedals for a while now, and earlier this year he asked if it would be possible to smash everything together into one box for a convenient all-in-one box for gigging and touring. After considerable back-and -forth and several prototypes, The Watt was born. The Watt essentially combines the Single Slice compressor with the Finally v3 preamp/D.I., giving you a tube preamp, variable HPF, and compressor, all in a conveniently sized package. Currently there are only two of these in existence, one for Mike and one for me, but I have parts on order to build more. I wasn't planning on even announcing this yet, but part of Mike's testing of the pedal meant using it at a gig, and I guess the word got out. I expect to have these ready to go by the end of September 2025." Wild guess - not going to be cheap!
  20. fretmeister
    Several pickups for sale. I've owned all these from new. 1: Sandberg Black Label Precision Pickup. Taken from my Sandberg Lionel and then lived in a padded envelope ever since. New price on these is £120 (DV247 / Music Store) £55 including delivery. GONE. ________________________________________________ 2: Aguilar AG-4P Was in my bitsa P bass before I turned it into a Stingray! A very nice 1960s recreation. Photo to follow for this one. £65 including delivery. ON HOLD PENDING PAYMENT ______________________________________________ 3: Dimarzio Air Norton humbucker. F Spaced bridge position for guitar. Medium output with a very flat and even EQ curve. £45 inc delivery. _________________________________________ 4: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Trembucker for guitar. Based on Billy Gibbon's Pearly Gates Les Paul. Like a PAF but with a little more output and a push in the mids. £65 inc delivery.
  21. fretmeister
    Having a bit of a clear out. I almost always play my Sandberg or bitsa basses so everything else is going. This is an Ibanez SRMD200 4 string medium scale bass (New price £299 at Andertons) It's no secret that the stock preamp is a bit crap. This has significant upgrades to: EMG PJ-X set (New £140 ish) EMG BTC 2 band EQ on a stacked pot (New - £90 ish) EMG ABCX Active Balance control (new about £80) It also has a lovely set of Dunlop Medium Scale flatwound strings - that were a whopping £80 on their own. They should have at least another 5 years in them. It's in great condition and sounds amazing. There's a bit of dust on it that I didn't notice when taking the photos. The sticker covers the redundant hole that the original preamp used. No doubt a better sticker that was a colour match could be found! I am of course aware that modified basses can be more difficult to sell especially as the new price of all this would be over £600 (ignoring the strings), so this is up for a bargain: £350.00 PRICE DROP to only £300! PRICE DROP to a pittance of £275 because I've seen something I want to buy! That's like getting a full set of EMG kit with a free bass! Collection from Northants near J16 on the M1. I don't have any suitable shipping boxes and with the closure of the local PMT the nearest place I might be able to get a proper guitar box would need me to travel for a 2 hour round trip. That being said, I might be able to meet you somewhere in true Basschat dodgy service station tradition. Not looking for any trades as I really need to make some room in the house.
  22. fretmeister
    Headset mic so it’s always in the right place
  23. fretmeister
    Alas the weight is too much for me. Ah well, at least I haven't risked divorce.
  24. fretmeister
    Those old Carol Kaye lines were usually doubled with a Fender Bass VI and plectrum so I can see doing it with an acoustic giving a little chorus feel and more attack that only an acoustic instrument can give. Now you'll need a piezo equipped bass to do it live!
  25. fretmeister
    Have a day out or even a weekend break - good Bass shop and then go down the road to Warwick Castle for a bit of tourism. It's an amazing place.
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