spencer.b

Has anyone on here done a trade on a bass that has an inflated trade price?

I make a living playing bass , upright and electric, from big international concert halls with an attentive respectful audience playing challenging music to weddings banging out the usual covers with a drunk idiot shouting in my ear with a daft request and everything in between been doing it 20 years now , it's not easy but I love it and have managed to support a family , I think being versatile and being in London have made it possible, I don't feel like having to do it has made me jaded or effected my enthusiasm for it, can still find positives in most musical situations, still learning, still checking out new music , still chasing that illusive dream tone through the classifieds on here! and don't know what else I could do now

I see what you mean bout a straight sale but if everyone did it then when you traded it would be for a bass that was worth the same in market value anyway and if you didn't do it you'd be mad to do a trade with a 30percent odd inflated figure against true market value on your bass wouldn't you? Not trying to start a fight here btw , people can ask for whatever they want in there ads it doesn't fosters me off but I genuinely can't get my head round and am intrigued as to whether people who use a trade price would accept a trade price from the other party in a trade? It came up cos a while ago there was something I fancied and I had one of the trades mentioned in the ad but they had 2 prices , £1000 and £1500 I think , it was a p and a j , same make same condition same value ish , so I thought do I say my value is £1500 for a trade even though it's worth a grand? I wouldn't trade with £500 cash , I actually passed it up, didn't wanna get involved , I guess Sibob this is actually illustrating your point that it encourages a straight sale !

I've been a bit confused by ads that have an inflated trade price, would someone with the inflated trade price accept the other party also having an inflated trade price or would they insist on the other party using the market value sale price? Otherwise it would negate the different price anyway?

Just stumbled across anaconda basses online but the website just has an email and they haven't replied, anyone know if they're still a going concern, anyone played one or got one ?

Whatever gets you there , Sometimes I'll learn it from dots ,sometimes read the dots on stage , sometimes learn it from the recording ( sometimes note for note sometimes a rough approximation) sometimes earhole it and bluff my way through it , it's all about context and your individual skillset Don't like TAB though

Seth's solo at 20.48 on the linked vid here is so good , check it out

Love this , bonus points for the gorgeous black as a custom colour with matched headstock jazz

Fair enough, so subjective anyway , personally think fret height , neck relief and break angle has far more effect on resonance than different woods

Doesn't sound identical to me

I thought re. the bit around 5 mins that the partscaster sounded way less resonant and didn't have the frequency range of the Anderson but the 2x4 sounded very similar to the Anderson , suggesting fretwork and neck joint contact plays a big part?? Not sure what the air guitar bit added to the discussion as it did effectively have a body cos of the contact points, I thought it did sound different, less focused maybe

Apologies if this one is already in the thread but I thought this was quite a good one as these things go , I thought that the different woods did sound different or was that what I told myself ??, jurys still out for me but I do know 2 seemingly identical basses can feel and sound different

Just got a sire v7 5 , love it but could do with a touch more relief to get the strings down a bit I think , anyone know what tool it needs , can't tell by looking Ta

I don't understand this thread however it's turned me on to Henry Cow and I've been listening all afternoon, love it

You'll definitely find a lighter jazz , funny how that 2 pounds make such a difference isn't it , I've got a 73 jazz that's 8.5 pounds, they are out there , one thing I've noticed about lighter basses is they're much easier to sell on here!

Seemingly similar players , both have an upfront aggressive tone and are very prominent in the music but to me Entwistle is loose and slippery and it sounds improvised whereas Squire's lines sound composed and concise , Entwistle for me

But you're seemingly offended by someone being offended by a misogynistic comment?

My gig is happening , I play bass for a living and simply can't afford not to do it , it seems crazy to me that that stuff is still on given the amount of infection and they say there's no spike in hospitalizations when's it's up 38% on Dec 21st and intensive care beds are taken up with unvaccinated patients denying others live saving transplants and the like , mad times

Digitech bass synth wah

I've got a CS p bass that was transformed by a shim , it worked fine but just felt it was a bit lacking somehow ,the shim allowed the saddles to come up increasing the break angle over the bridge and POW it now sounds killer As predominantly a double bass player I think that break angle is often overlooked on bass guitars

I call neck pup the front pup, bridge the back , doesn't make sense really does it! Bottom string low E for me