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    I rediscovered these recently while having a bit of a clear out. They're pretty much surplus to requirements now as my tastes have gone in a different direction since I bought them. 

     

    They are identical to the necks fitted to the Q and XQ5 line of bases from the mid 90's, when Music Yo were selling Steinberger parts online.  Fantastic necks, very stiff yet  warm and full sounding with a consistent response all over the neck. 


    Each neck is 34" scale, features 24 frets and includes a head piece with five brass ferrule embedded in the heel. The headpiece doesnt have single ball end string clamps so a string clamping arrangement will be needed.

     

    They are cast in a single piece from a mould, rather than hollow formed from layers such as Status and Modulus necks.  I'm not sure about fingerboard radius but either 14 or 16".

     

    The nut is 45mm wide

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    The neck heel is tapered, check the photos for measurements.IMG_20230809_062149.jpg

    68mm

     

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    64.5mm

     

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    80mm to the line

     

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    Heel depth 26mm

     

    There are four necks for sale in total and the price is per neck, excluding royal mail postage which I'll confirm in due course. They're offered on a first come first serve basis. One of the necks has lost a little of the black finish and has a slightly different headstock design as you'll see in the pictures. These are purely cosmetic differences. 

     

    Feel welcome to drop me a line with any questions.  If you fancy collecting from west central London, I'm in the UK until next Wednesday. After that point, a friend will be posting them out for me.

     

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    EDIT: One has sold already.  Three left

    Two sold, two more left.

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  2. 9 hours ago, gafbass02 said:

    Mine was just insane. 
    I took the covers band I play for to my local, where I’ve played literally hundreds of times with other acts and all my mates go etc etc. It’s much smaller than our usual venues, so I knew it would be a squeeze, but I was totally unprepared for the sight that greeted me when I arrived! Cases and cables were just everywhere, it was utter carnage. 
    We started playing and a few songs in, the power to our area died. It took ten minutes to get it back on and the router connected  to the iPad for the Xair mixer again. 
     Next song - the mic stand on the guitar amp just randomly collapsed…and the guitarist’s board locked up and had to be restarted. 
    Then the power went off again. 
    Another ten minutes later we were back in business (again) - when the singer’s acoustic battery ran out. Engineer ran up and switched it while he switched out to electric for a song. 
    Back to acoustic again for the next song and his transmitter failed…so the engineer switched it for a cable mid song…

    …which failed in the next song. 
     

    Then the drummer threw up all over his kit…. A lot.  I mean a LOT. 

    Then he did it again….and again…so much it splattered my bass as it bounced back off the snare head. The entire kit and drum mat was just coated in the stuff. And the walls. And the drummer. And basically everything else. 
    We stopped.
    Singer did an acoustic song to finish the show whilst the drummer went white and scraped chunks off his kit…Gig was over. 

    … Until the drummer decided to keep going, and so we pressed on and did three more songs with the poor lad looking very peaky and a tremendous smell hanging over us... Show must go an’ all!
     

    Crowd loved it, we had a great time and are being rebooked for a higher fee. 
     

    We’ve not had a single issue at a gig in three years. 

    I think all three years’ worth of minor niggles caught up with us in one night!

     

    Sorry, no pics, the pub was too full of people dancing for the engineer to even see the band and we were all busy dodging chunks!

     

     

    No pics? It would have been great for the FB page! 

  3. I've owned a Spector NS6 Euro and still own a Shuker 6.  I've discovered the c string on a 6 is hard to hear in the mix.  It overlaps with too many other instruments in the mix and it's rarely required for meat and potatoes type songs.  Plus it makes the neck really wide if it's rarely used and, if I'm honest, finding the A string with muscle memory can be a little overwhelming sometimes.  I've concluded that the 6 is probably best left for trios or duos where it has the space in the mix to be heard.

    I find fours kind of limiting in the low end.  I like having that B string to stamp some authority on things.  I did consider at one point restringing the Shuker F#-B-E-A-D-G for an experiment but it's days in my care are probably numbered now.

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  4. 21 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

    Playing with various pedals and onboard pres and I really enjoy the hi-fi but not sterile sound I get from the onboard East Uni preamp. 

    I've tried a lot of onboard preamps and Mr East has hit a lovely sweet spot with the higher frequencies on his preamps.  Plus for the 3 band U retro if you nail the sweepable mids and bass in the right place, you can get a serious amount of mid range growl.  I have three of them now and the one in my Status has turned it from Series I into a Series II in terms of timbre.

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  5. There have been some great updates on here over the last few weeks - thank you to everyone who has posted in this thread over the last 4-5 weeks.  Some of you may have noticed them appearing on the BC Facebook page.  I've tended to go for updates that have an 'ooh' factor about them, posts that make you sit up and take notice.  Posts don't have to be celebrity based, a relatable story is sometimes just as good!  For example an anecdote about arriving at a gig only to realise you had left your bass behind on the pavement outside the front of your apartment (yes, that WAS me).  Or maybe an interesting sit in with the band.  Keep 'em coming, it's a great way for everyone to check each others gigs out! 

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  6. 4 hours ago, neepheid said:

     

    Eh, don't over analyse it - I used to have a G&L Tribute L-2000 which I modified to give 27 different switch combinations (pickup select, series/single/parallel, passive/active/active with treble boost) plus 2 band passive EQ.  Found one combo of settings I liked (both pickups, single (inner coils), passive) and left all the knobs at 10 for practically the whole time I owned it!

    This is usually what happens with any guitar or bass related technological innovation that claims to offer an overwhelming number of options. It's why sliding pickups never really became a thing.  Or those passive mid filter circuits that were on Gibson basses in the seventies. 

  7. On 06/07/2023 at 06:40, VTypeV4 said:

    I always admired the Databass combo - so much power packed into that compact box.

    So much yes!! I remember playing one in the late eighties and feeling impressed by how firm the midrange sounded. That was back at a time when my gear knowledge was virtually non existent. At one point about ten years ago i even started hunting one down on ebay but never found one within the available window of interest.  Good call.

  8. 15 hours ago, BassmanPaul said:

    Mine are all 4Ω  and I drive them nowadays with a 2KW capable Class D power amp. :)

    They need a hell of a lot of power so the rig has to be planned around this limitation.  I had a couple as well but sold them because I couldn't swap amps.

     

    21 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

    Def agree re the TVX 410 cabs, sound great but I’d never want to try and lift one

    I had one too for a short time.  Very heavy and I think mine might have been wired with a pair of the speakers out of phase with the other pair.  I didn't know enough about speakers back then to look into it but it definitely lacked mids.

     

    9 hours ago, casapete said:

    Interesting! I still have my 800RB which is one of my favourite ever heads. Never ran it in bi-amp mode,

    but into two 4x10 8 ohm cabs ( by ‘Loud Inc’ - remember them?) it was phenomenal.

    I had a pair of RB700 combos and really liked them.  That boost control in particular was fabulous.  The only thing that let them down was the disintegrating rubber on the wheels.  GK replaced them but the same thing happened with the new ones.  The rubber was too soft and perhaps not vulcanised properly.

    I had a couple of Loud cabs as well, and they were pretty light for a non neo cab.  So light that they sometimes went walkabout on stage.

     

    My vote goes to the EBS Session 30 combo - a really modest little thing if you look at it but it put out a really, really full sound for a 8"speaker.  Perfect for low volume practice.  I ended up buying another after I sold the first one. 

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  9. 31 minutes ago, Misdee said:

    Reading between the lines, I think the advent of the internet was the beginning of the end for the Bass Centre

    I know why they went under, because one of their sales people was a mate at the time and told me.  I'm not going to share it publicly because I have no proof other than what they said, but the BC going under had nothing to do with the internet.

  10. We appear to be under attack from accounts with IP addresses originating in India.  Many thanks to those of you so far who have flagged the handful of spam accounts that managed to get through the automated Spam IP detection and blocking.   New registrations are temporarily on manual approval so hopefully they'll get bored eventually and go find an easier target somewhere else.


    We will probably have to introduce tighter security measures for registration in future though.
     

    Keep calm and carry on groovin' 

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