eude

I'm selling one of my ACGs, it's an AC Guitars TKO Modern 4.

It's a short scale, 30.5" and passive, so a bit more old school than a regular ACG, but with the super high end build quality and modern conveniences you'd expect.

This bass is very much a one off, the only TKO Modern bass that Alan has ever made, as the shape was originally designed as a guitar, but it works very nicely for a short scale bass.

It's very lightweight, I would guess not much more than 8 lbs, and is in absolutely mint condition, it's barely left the house and never been gigged.

The proceeds from the sale will go straight into a new ACG.

Specs as follows >> 

Body

Figured Maple Top Wood with Washed Out Black Stain
White Limba Body

Neck

Rosewood Fingerboard with 0º radius
3 Piece Ash Neck with Washed Out Black Stain
Medium asymmetrical profile
Alloy Side Dots
Reverse Standard Series Headstock

Details

Bolt-on Construction
30.5″ Scale Length
4 String
40mm Nut Width
Satin Lacquer Finish

Electronics

ACG PB Split Coil Pickup, reverse wound with Alnico magnets
ACG Passive – Volume/Tone

Hardware

Hipshot Type B Bridge, 19mm spacing
Gotoh GB7 Tuners
Black Hardware
Dunlop Dual Design Straplocks
ACG/Newtone Strings

Here some of Alan's photos on the ACG site >> https://acguitars.co.uk/project/0321tkomodern4/ 

The bass is currently strung up with TI Flats, but I'm happy to pop on some Newtone Nickel Roundwounds if the buyer would prefer.

Looking for £999 o.n.o. + shipping in the UK
I'm based in South London should anyone prefer to collect.

Happy to discuss shipping outside of the UK, message me.

Wee clip playing some slap on the TI Flats >> https://www.instagram.com/p/B4kKmFcH7_K/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Thank you for looking!

Eude

16 minutes ago, thebassist said:

Hi @eude - I've had a few days with the bass now and it really is brilliant. I wanted the advantages of neck-through while trying to get as close to the sound of a bolt-on as possible hence the wood selections and pickup positioning - I think it is as close as I could have gotten it.

 

Body

• Sputnik body with Jazzus headstock
• Northern hard ash body with ebony veneer
• Olive top

Neck

• Ebony
• 3-Piece maple with ebony veneer
• Mother of pearl dot inlays
• Abalone M logo

Construction

• Neck-through body
• 33" Scale
• 6-string with 17mm spacing
• 24-fret

Electronics

• Aguilar OBP-3
• Aguilar DCB D4

Nice one, it's a gorgeous looking thing, really glad it's doing what you want too, always a gamble with a custom, delighted it's spot on.

What's the spec on the bass?

14 hours ago, thebassist said:

It’s got the Jazzus headstock and the Sputnik body. It was either the Jazznik or Sputus

I think you chose the right name on balance... 😉

Congratulations, that is lovely!

Why are you calling it a "Jazznik" rather than Sputnik by the way?

Eude

5 hours ago, NickA said:

I don't doubt it!

 

Does it have special short scale strings?

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I get custom wound Newtones, but I have tried regular strings too with good results, easier on the headlesses as you just lop the extra off, I have to wind the excess round the tuners on the headed basses, hence the custom strings. There's nothing custom about them bar the length.

25 minutes ago, NickA said:

I was sorely tempted by one of those Salace basses ( the one that played the theme to the bass chat pod casts in fact).

 

How's the acg at the bottom end?

That Salace was Si's and it's a 33" scale 😉

The low B on my 31.5" ACGs are brilliant, perfectly musical and comparable to any decent 34" bass in my opinion.

Here's some noodles on the 31.5" headless ACG Salace 6er >>

https://on.soundcloud.com/pzt83

There's some low B being used on a couple of them.

The low B on another bass I'm lucky to own, my ACG Finn SC Classic 6 string, also 31.5" scale is absolutely phenomenal, in part thanks to a super rigid Wenge neck and a really solid and extended connection between the neck and body with it being a bolt on single cut.

Design and wood selection plays a big role here, and I think with Alan making all his ACGs by hand it's possible for him to get so much more from a bass.

Chere's,

Eude

2 hours ago, funkle said:

Ok, unexpectedly, got my bass back from my tech quicker than I thought, after getting the body and neck etc back last week. Here’s a teaser. It’s stunning. :

 

 

 

I’m still sorting things like pickups heights, setup, etc. Annoyingly I have worn out the centre detent on the blend control through repeated use, lol. I’ll work around it. 
 

It sounds fantastic with the Lusithand Double NFP and the original Turner pickups transplanted over and Andy’s neck on there. Great pickups and I’m always going to be a fan of this preamp. 
 

Spoiler…It does sound a bit different, but I’m not yet convinced the mahogany body has made a huge difference over using alder. It is different, and it is noticeable, but not the way a different fretboard wood or completely new neck construction was…however I will keep playing and get some Youtube recordings up soon. 

Well that turned out nice!

I just sold an MXR M282 Compressor to Jim.

Brilliant communications, super quick payment and an all round great guy to deal with.

Thank you buddy!

Eude

Absolutely stunning work!

Sold

MXR M292 Dyna Comp Bass Compressor.

In good condition, a couple of tiny scuffs.

Velcro on the underside.

No box or instructions, but everything you need these days is on the internet anyway  

More info here >> https://www.jimdunlop.com/mxr-dyna-comp-bass-compressor/

Really lovely demo here >> 

Quick note, this plays nicer with more vintage, passive sounds, an extremely hot active bass tends to push it's limits a bit, pardon the pun.

Moving on as I've realised lately that the caveman in me much prefers my bass tone without any compression.

£80 posted in the UK.

Thank you for looking!

Eude

I bought a GK Legacy 500, which I adore, but I tried and ELF a few weeks after I got it, and I honestly would've gone with the ELF had I tried it first. It really does sound that good, but I appreciate it's a pricey compared to the others.

There are other options too.

There's a little Harley Benton >>

https://harleybenton.com/product/block-300b/

Might be a smidge bigger, buy it's louder, in paper and has much more going on eq wise.

And, the BAM-200, as noted above by @JohnDaBass >>

https://www.tcelectronic.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DI5

As far as I've seen, the Gnome and the BAM are nearly identical internally.

This might be helpful?

To my ear, in the above video at least, the Gnome sounds a little dull compared to the others? Very little character or colouring, but of course that could be a brilliant thing to others.

I've only tried the ELF myself and heard in a band context too, and it really does sound good, very very good in fact.

In a not overly loud ensemble, it would be fine I'm sure.

Hope that helps!

Eude

14 hours ago, Paulhauser said:

 The fretted one in my prev post is this, enjoy 😉 😄

 

 

That certainly does not help!

43 minutes ago, TheAndelorian said:

These strings are gold - old ones Jon is using to set the saddle. I’m going for blacks. Custom ‘S’ knobs look pretty cool I reckon. 

Stunning!

How long till it's in your grubby mitts?

4 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

 

32"

Laaavly 

7 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

I've been in an acoustic duo since 2004, we rehearse regularly, write songs continually. We don't play very often, the odd open mic night here and there, I suppose we are as happy writing songs as we are performing them. It's taken me years to find the right basses but @Jabba_the_gut builds exactly the right instruments for our kind of music and I am very lucky to have two of his basses with a third on the way. What was more difficult was finding the right amplification. I tried all sorts of things over the last forty years in various bands and never really found anything I liked, even before playing in my current duo I disliked the baked in sounds of bass amps, all I ever wanted was the inherent sound of the instrument but just louder, sounds simple, difficult task. Thanks to @Bridgehouse's Interesting FRFR thread I tried out a QSC K12.2 and to my delight discovered it did exactly what I wanted, made my bass louder with as little colouration as possible, great, that's the louder bit solved. Now, although I play in an acoustic duo, our songs are quite diverse and I do need a certain range of tones. This is another great thing about using an FRFR, I think it is very difficult to settle on a tone if you start with equipment that has a baked in sound, with the QSC you and really start from scratch. The Jabba basses, tbh, sound glorious just plugged straight into the QSC, and that sound, with just the variation from the single tone pot on the bass caters for perhaps 75% of our songs but, some need a really bright almost funk tone and some need an almost double bass feel. Now the Jabba basses (fretted and fretless) are both strung with LaBella nylon tapewounds and while that sounds quite tone limiting they can produce bright tones but need a little help. Now, needing a little more tone shaping but requiring that tone shaping to, again, not colour the sound other than the changes I am inputting via the controls turned out to be quite difficult. Retaining the fundamental acoustic vibe of the instruments whilst tweaking EQ turned out to be quite tough, I watched hours of videos and tried out a heap of preamps but I always came back to Grace Design. They are built specifically for acoustic instruments, more for guitar, violin etc. really but I couldn't find anything better so, eventually, I bought one. I've had the preamp and compressor for over a week now but the QSC was at another location, this morning I got it back and I had my first chance to put it all together. Man, it sounds good, so quiet noise wise and it has the perfect tonal range, well chuffed.

 

That's a wonderful set up matey.

I remember you raving about the QSC a little while ago, sounds perfect for your needs.

Remind me, what scale length are your Jabbas?

5 minutes ago, danbowskill said:

I think that's their previous flagship to this....but if it's anything similar to mine (I see it has that valve powering a mini transformer as well) 👌.

I've had many top shelf amps over the years but this is the first to sound perfect with all eq knobs flat (for me)

I think you're right.

The Warwick stuff was always nice, I wonder why they lost their way.

I really hope that amp manufacturers start trying to make compact amps with old school solid state power stages, like the Mesa Walkabout.

I know Class D stuff has improved massively, but in the cheaper stuff it's just a bit pants still...

Anyway, I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for one of their old 1x10 combos of old for home use, o e of the Wamp ones.

There's one of the big boys at the Bass Gallery...

https://thebassgallery.com/products/warwick-pro-tube-ix

On 09/04/2023 at 18:16, la bam said:

They do look great amps those. Such a shame swr, warwick etc have disappeared. They did some cracking stuff.

Like a lot of bass amp manufacturers, they either didn't keep up with the quest for lightweight gear, or tried and missed the mark.

I have to say, I do kinda miss "proper" amps...

Said elsewhere, but bears repeating, absolutely stunning dude!

Just now, RikiB said:

P-bass,Fairfield barbershop,GK legacy 800 head.

I use a GK Legacy 500 with mine, and it's plenty, so the 800 would be excellent!

I've got two One10s, and one for home use, small gigs and stage monitoring would be absolutely fine.

Having the second cab makes for a very compact, flexible and powerful set up, with t a decent amp.

Paging @Merton who got my hooked on these wee cabs, and sold me one too, he has lots of experience of the One10 and Two10 cabs in proper gigging capacities too.

For the purposes you mention above though, I expect a One10 will be more than enough, and a Two10 might've been overkill anyway

Eude