LukeFRC

It’s really interesting meta question of what basschat “is” - is it a forum with a marketplace, or is it a marketplace with a forum attached. When I first found basschat the only reason I joined was to sell a pedal that was too specialist for me to have confidence selling on eBay - I stuck around for the chat and forum side- when I realised as a new bassist it gave me a way to sell my first bass and get a bass I really wanted at a good price I got more involved. The forum side is great and I’ve met some fantastic folk, but honestly my primary driver for a lot of the continued involvement is having the opportunity to buy and sell stuff and try out pretty much my entire GAS list. It’s really so much better to buy a bass from someone who you know looks after your gear. Basschat is great. I get the funding model, I have no complaints, I pay my dues if I want to sell something and it’s not unreasonable - but it very much thinks of the site as a forum with a marketplace attached, where my experience has been the opposite... and I wonder the effect on young bassists getting on here, as the fees will be act as a barrier- longer term what will the effect be? Less young folk selling lower value stuff, and less of the same folk buying slightly higher value stuff ... market slow down a bit and focus more on the high end specialist stuff where the fees are a neglible amount of the value ...

It looks awesome - for those who have lost track... which driver is this?

When I sold my Thumb I was offered a nice bass in trade, the value given by the other fella was “30% off the new price” ... which was a bit odd as that valuation was about £1k more than he had bought it for on basschat six months previously. (Presuming he paid the advertised price) i honestly think the slowdown down is that folk just have that little bit less cash in their pockets than a few years ago, it doesn’t take much before dropping £1k on a nice bass you don’t really need isnt as appealing. In a normal market the prices would drop to match what people can afford, and in some cases they are, but I think a lot of people don’t have as much cash, but aren’t doing so badly that they want to drop their price to get a sale... so it feels more stagnant.

Electrical tape works too

.... and he’s back!

Put your money down on the table and ask again when they will be available

That my old one by any chance? My first ever bass if so! (Yep jammy me managed to go from a borrowed Stagg that had been a failed CDT project to getting a Status as my first bass! it wasn’t *quite* as crazy as it sounds but still sounds jammy)

Yes - kinda - but read the manual - they describe it properly

HPF is affecting the signal into the amp, damping is affecting the way the amp interacts with the speaker in interpreting that signal. In a car the HPF will be affecting your right foot and how hard you put it down. The damping is if you’ve got your car on eco or sport mode. The manual is supposed to have s good discription about it in it.

Damping is how well or not a power amp can stop the cone from moving

I tried the walkabout and the m- pulse 600 when getting the walkabout - I wanted to prefer the 600 but the parametric eq on that thing was really not nice to use - I found the walkabout’s parametric far more useable and musical. YMMV But I don’t think one would apply the same logic to the more competitive world of PA - drop the active monitors and go back to passive speakers and a rack of big amps.... I think the problem is with how we have seen class D used in some in bass amps rather than the technology - yet we know that on bass forums folk really like lightweight gear ... so why spend time and money trying to solve old engineering problems? It would be like developing a new business focused app for a blackberry phone. Worthwhile, on a tech that was well liked and good - but also comnercially pointless.

@silverfoxnik - one for you? I was looking for one of these for ages.... ended up with a will lee instead but that’s a great price

I remember a bassist friend years back having a 4*10 made of ABS plastic - there’s another guy making them out of flight cases on Facebook

Is this valuable? All my basses have adjustable bridges and truss rods that mean I can set this how I like.

Yurk my least favourite question - the “I’m too lazy to even make you a low offer” question

If I went back 10 years and wanted to buy cheaper stuff I joined basschat - buying and selling, and young me helps the top end of the market move too. Now days if I were in that situation I’m unsure I would be in basschat, much less pay the subs to sell, Facebook marketplaces and eBay would be sufficient. Without that trickle of new buyers eventually the marketplace will slow.

I see your MB AC121 Lite combo and raise you one Mesa Walkabout Scout 12 (to be fair the AC combo is the only other combo I would be interested in)

How does he get that tone?

That’s crazy - like why the churn? Do you keep buying crap instruments. you know when they start sounding a bit dull you are allowed to change the strings rather than the whole bass!

So I’m being asked what I want for Christmas and wondered what bass books would be good to help me sharpen my playing? The thread can be more general as it’s good to hear from folks of all abilities and music styles rather than focus on me specifically. So Whats the best books you would recommend, and why?

You’ll need a list.... !

If it’s a good enough price that you can move it on if it doesn’t work out, and if you can afford it, then just go for it!

Q-tuners have a good rep but it’s still a mag pickup - I just think if he takes his ethos and uses piezos he’s making something that fits into his ethos as stated and also fits into a section of the bass buying public in the uk... Your friend would be competing against rob Allen and the other guys who make that kind of bass... (who in the uk) rather than every uk luthier who makes basses... it fits with the guys ethos, it would be a different product due to the woods used and I have a suspicion there would be a gap in the market ... otherwise my question would be why would I buy that bass over a Alpher/ACG/Overwater...?

I love the L1000 - It’s utterly amazing and can do by far the best precision tone I’ve heard. It made me realise that as much as I loved thru neck active Warwick’s and the like a nice passive bolt on bass is a joy sometimes