LukeFRC

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1325116947' post='1480084']
Had a Ric 4001, 72 Precision bought new, Overwater also bought new, guild Starfire 4, Shergold 4 - 12 twin neck new, EB3 and many more too numerous to mention but the love of my life is now Danelectro. Loved the sound since seeing Golden Earring live in 74 but getting a left handed one, well you know the rest. Now got a L/H long horn and a L/H DC bass. Bliss!!!
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I had a DC for a while, mate of mine wanted a bass and it was a cheap and good option, luckily I had it for a while before he picked it up, I was impressed with the sound.

Interesting... I think I liked the PJ the best. I also quite liked the depth of tone of the Warwick.

Nice playing! Also I was sat there thinking the bass sounded familiar.... I have a similar JV 57'ri, SD pup in mine though. Surprising how they sound similar, well it shouldn't be but it was

I feel your pain. I used to play with two guys. One was brilliant and we could read each other so well.
The other was from a jazz background and always trying to prove something, half the time I had to plod to give the band something to click to.
Oddly after a year or so break I came back to the jazz guy and it's effortless and brilliant now. I guess people change.

theres a fella selling a neck for £35 on here, get that, a plank, a threaded rod (like the old fenders) and a bit of metal screwed into the base of the wood. Get the metal, drill holes 14mm apart, and some to screw it to the plank. Screw it together with some old strings. have a go. feels good- custom, not well then. sell the neck......

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1325105589' post='1479960']
Offer him £850. You won't lose any money on it if you sell it on. I used to be set in my ways with a P/Ray/Jazz shape and now I have a Big Al and Bongo incoming, and they are completely out there when it comes to style. This Overwater is just a nice slant on the Fender style.
[/quote] it is VERY bling though

either a upright bass.
Or a fender p or jazz.
like this http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfv0p_dylan-simple-twist-of-fate_music

what are the pickups on it do you know?

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1325095979' post='1479835']
I've just been back to see it, this time armed with a better idea of how the Audere works.

I found the out-and-out P tone. and it's bloody lovely.

Gah.. this bass is sweet! I just can't pull myself out of my Fender comfort zone...
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Do it.
Someone needs to buy this to take the temptation away from me

[quote name='mercuryl' timestamp='1325089418' post='1479720']
You do get way less volume with fingers than a pick .....
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my first bass had super high string tension, so i ended up with a strong right hand. I find picks quieter!

[quote name='mercuryl' timestamp='1325085476' post='1479663']
I'm always perfectly calm. Never get ruffled. I just don't feel the need to criticise other players' styles. Just didn't like you comment - didn't think it was constructive or helpful to anyone.
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Look at that photo in the man's profile. Utterly calm, I've been staring him in the eye for 5 minutes and he hasn't even blinked, that's how calm he is!

[quote name='rednose200' timestamp='1325086612' post='1479675']
Hi Frederick. With respect it may be worth that much in Belgium but it isnt here I'm afraid. [u][i]A really sweet one failed to sell last week on ebay at £775.[/i][/u] That was gross of commission and no doubt Paypal fees too. However we will wait and see what the owner has to say. All best to you for the New Year.

Ah --- those wonderful Belgian beers !!!!! You lucky guy.
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1. without links this is hearsay and not fact. And actually it's entirely irrelevant to what the seller wants to sell his one for. It was a separate instrument.
2. And even if it is true it denigrates the sellers thread. It doesn't help him get a sale.
3. Keep offers and justifications to PM, it's more polite- your discussions are best done privately.
4. This bass is what? over £2000 new? it could be posted to belgium for not a lot.....


EDIT: Looked it up, the ebay bass it was made by overwater but a much older model, badly described pick up only, and in not as good condition. I have a JV squire P bass, if I ebay Squier and see what they are selling at is that what my one is worth? Nope

I don't understand how a custom made awesome bass like this is worth so little on the secondhand market. What is it with overwaters? I would love this bass.

[quote name='Richeyrockshack' timestamp='1325075088' post='1479538']
Thanks everyone!

Luke, I've got some Doritos and a box of half eaten thorntons chocolates left over from Christmas.......fancy a deal?
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depends which ones are left, if it's all coffee and orange flavours....

[quote name='mercuryl' timestamp='1325077500' post='1479564']
I really don't understand these people who condemn pick players. I have never seen one of us pick players moaning saying "that's rubbish, he's using his fingers". In my view, it's all bass playing - each to his own. If that's what a person wants to do - that's fine.

This is a post about comparative bass sounds. Not about whether someone should use a pick or not. Okay, so let's call it a comparison using a pick.

I don't think it is helpful or constructive to other bass players to have comments like yours in a post like this. This is the kind of thing that ruins good forums like this. We're supposed to be helping each other with information - which I think I am doing here.

If you MUST be negative, can you please go away and "troll" on someone else's post. There are plenty of pick vs fingers vs slap topics on here for you to express your opinion.
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I think it was probably said tongue in cheek. I enjoyed the video. It's nice to see pick and finger playing demo, a lot of slap on the net.

isn't it the hi/lo z thingy.... like i know what that means off the top of my head

how heavy was it? (compared to other things?)

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1325074116' post='1479523']
[size=4]-5 for all of them. That pick does nothing for me.[/size]
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Stick a price you want for it, go a bit higher if you are thinking of bringing it down and then sit there till you get a bit or you bring the price down a bit.
Generally you will get a sale and if you don't the price is too high for the market at the moment for the people around- so for instance if you though your bass was worth £500 and other people didn't you may have to wait till either someone turned up who did want to pay that much, listen to lower offers (and a lot of us have some stories about the offers you will get "would you swap your 1961 jazz bass for my black dean metal bass and a packet of crisps it really is the best bass ever and I can offer both cheese and onion and prawn cocktail"
You just have to decide what you want to take. Generally don't make public what offers you get (though I held out for cheese and onion AND salt and vinegar) and then you decide.
If your sale price is £x and 3 people say they will give you that amount then you have to sort out a fair way to do it, normally first come first in line. complications come when you get "ill take it, in 2 months when I get paid" or "as soon as my hideously-overpriced-fender-which-i-have-been-touting-at-daft-prices-for-months-sell" decide how you want to act fairly and act that way, some people state this straight up in the ad, and sometimes it depends on the person. for folk i've not seen on the forum I have my price and the postage on top. They pay that they get whatever it is. For folk who I've seen round a while I'll often round the postage down or split it. at all time good coms is nice
Oh and the price doesn't imply that you will pay the postage unless you say so. So you can work that out after.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1325065482' post='1479453']
Ta for that. FWIW, the pre on the one I played definitely did stuff. Even set flat, switching it in really opened it up, and it seemed silent. Mind you, a shop isn't the best environment to check this stuff in detail.

That said, I'd run it passive most of the time, I think...
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second hand japanese fender 62ri, a jazz pickup and your local luthier?

I would go for the P. I've really not liked the sadowsky metros I've tried- the electronics are awesome but the trick is the turn them off and see what the bass sounds like, in the ones I've tried they have been quite dull and boring.

hmm idea for you WoT... ill PM you.....

I feel sorry for the blue one only allowed out at the end there!

<----- the one in my wee pic. One of the most amazing basses ever. yussssss

[quote name='algmusic' timestamp='1325023918' post='1479281']
I'm currently selling by bass and I'm usually of the mind that if I don't have a spare hardcase, I won't post it.

So I ask two questions:[list=1]
[*]Am I right?
[*]Or is there a safe way to post a bass without a hardcase or a cheapish way of doing it?
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1. if it's under £500 or so why not. Over £500 it starts to get to the point where picking up a secondhand case to send it in makes sense. Stick £30 on the price and find something second hand.
2. easy way:ask a shop for the box that fender or whoever post their basses out in.
hard way get box from bike shop. Wrap gig bag in cardboard, in a self constructed tight box. place that in big box with either bubble wrap or something to keep the inside box away from the edges of the outside box.

3.