BigRedX

That a poor argument, just quoting the part of my post that supports your view and not the part that explains my reasons for not advertising here. And they are this: Based on past experience I will be wasting my money and my time advertising this bass on Basschat. It was bad enough when I was selling the sorts of basses that should do well here, but what I got was endless "tyre kickers" and quibbling over what I considered to be a very competitive price and further arguments when my choice of delivery service and insurance was more expensive than what the potential buyer wanted to pay. And this was for a sub £200 bass. But, I'll make a deal with you. If the person who buys this bass on eBay says that they saw the eBay sale as a result of this thread, then I'll make a donation to basschat of the amount it would have cost me to advertise here. You can't say fairer than that.

I would imagine that everyone on Basschat who is interested in buying this bass has already seen it on eBay as a result of this thread. Plus my previous experience of selling basses here has made me reluctant to use this site to sell any more. You can see from some the comments in this thread that on the whole Basschat is not the sort of place that this bass will appeal to.

The price is what it is. As I said in the listing if you wanted a new Gus bass to this specification you would be looking at just over £5,000 and at least a 12 months wait. So for half the price you can get one that is in virtually new condition right now. There isn't a great deal of variation in the specifications of a Gus bass - the most important ones are whether it comes with single coil or humbucking pickups, and active or passive controls. IMO this bass suits single coils so I would imagine that if someone was looking at a 4-string fretless Gus this is hat they would choose. You might want a different finish, but that can easily and relatively cheaply be fixed by sending it back to Simon Farmer. I had my Red 5-string completely overhauled, and refinished including all the metal parts re-profiled and re-chromed for about £800. A simple refinish would be a lot less than that. I'm not particularly desperate to sell, it's just that I've taken a hard look at the basses I am using (and which I'm likely to be using in the future) and this bass isn't one of them. At the moment it spends most of its time in its case. I don't play any basses that aren't 5-strings or Bass VIs, and that is unlikely to change any time soon. Also, unlike here, where everyone seems to spend a large amount of time perusing the eBay listings, it is my experience that most people just dip in and out of the eBay when the fancy takes them. I've sold plenty of other expensive guitars and basses there, and some are quicker to sell than others. IME sometimes items sell within hours of posting the listing if someone makes a suitable offer, other times it can take much longer (and still end in a bidding frenzy at the end). Besides there is a great big "Make An Offer" button right underneath the "Bid Now" one. I'm open to sensible ones.

But it could do if you have other items in your signal path that are also adding latency.

Of course it does. All bass guitars have a fundamental bass guitar sound. What you get with this bass (or any other that has not been mass-produced) is an excellent constructed and supremely playable instrument which looks different from mainstream. That's what some people want. Others are quite happy with a Squier P-Bass.

Yes everything is fine. I've just had a very serious think about the instruments I'm using with the bands I'm playing in right now and those which have just been sitting in their cases for the last year without getting any playing time. Also, I'm looking at getting Gus to make me a Bass VI so the money will come in useful! I am keeping my two fretted Gus G3 5-strings and the G1 Guitar. There will be some more interesting guitars and basses appearing over the next week or so...

I assume that all of you who are experimenting with different cabinet combinations are only playing pub gigs with vocal only PAs? BTW do you check what your bass sounds like all around the venue, or just where you are going to be stood on "stage"?

IME maybe not in the cinema either, or at least not when there is dialogue too. I find that excessive low bass tends to swamp everything and make it really difficult for me to tell what the actors are saying a lot of the time. On the other hand with the generally terrible standard of most modern film scripts, maybe we should just sit back and enjoy the audio visual spectacle and not worry about what the actors are saying. Pretty soon it'll be like the original silent films with caption cards, so we can get the finer points of the plot.

Do you really want sub bass? IME it's pretty nasty, uncontrollable in most venues and mostly contributes to the band sound terrible.

He's probably got more than that now. I can't see the Overwater Original fretless 5-string I sold him in that photo!

The CD version is now available from Bandcamp

Are you sure it's not a Fenton Weill?

Also with two different cabs the sound won't be as consistent in all parts of the venue/stage (depending on whether you have PA support or not) as it would be if both cabs were exactly the same.

If your cabs are responsible for the sound the audience hear (no PA support) then you want two exactly the same.

Fenton Weill?

Not the first time BD have done this. I received a very expensive pre-amp instead of the the relatively cheap rack-mounting kit I had ordered. Unfortunately the rack mounting kit was far more valuable and useful to me than a pre-amp, so I was able to do an exchange with BD.

If it's not a ground floor room with a solid floor you will need to do something about the kick drum pedal. I speak from experience.

IIRC Martin Petersen of Sei bass gets the basses finished first before drilling any of the holes including those for the pots and switches as well as the screws.

How sound proof is the room at the moment and what level of sound is expected to be produced inside (just recordings being played on the monitor speakers or a full live band with amps and drums) and how much/little sound leakage from the room will be deemed acceptable?

11 screens worth (on my laptop) of posts from another forum in a foreign language accompanied by tiny photographs. A simple link to the forum thread in question would have been more useful IMO. In a minute someone will be along and quote the whole post...

Unfortunately its a sample of one of each type of wood, so scientifically the result is meaningless. Give a sample size of 100+ of each type of body wood and get consistent results from the majority of each sample and I will concede that you can make absolute statements about the effect of a particular type of wood.

Finally after many months of waiting while we get the mix right, the debut single from my latest band Hurtsfall - Lucid has been released today. We've had some very nice reviews already - "Fans of ‘The Cure’ and ‘Savages’ will easily find a place for ‘Lucid’ in their Spotify playlist" Off The Hook Music "A brooding little gem from Hurtsfall, hints of The Damned, Bowie, Depeche Mode and Host-era Paradise Lost" Down the Front Media Features the Bass VI tones of the Burns Barracuda. For this recorded version I added a bassline under the "guitar" part in the middle 8 but live the keyboards take over the bottom end at this point. Edit: actual CD copies should be available from Bandcamp at some point over the weekend.

Apart form my first guitar and first bass, I don't have any old musical equipment anymore. They have all been replaced by newer things that do the job better.

When I was playing in a covers band I always used a 5-string bass - either one of my Gus basses or an Overwater Original. They made the right sounds and as I've been playing 5 strings since 1990, they are comfortable for me to play. TBH I could have got away with a 2 string bass for the vast majority of our set.

It is my experience from the various Bass VIs I have played and from measurements obtained when looking to buy other basses, that apart from the Squier Bass VI (which already has a ridiculously narrow neck IMO), most budget Bass VIs have the strings set in quite a long way (relatively speaking) from the neck edges so the nut widths while seemingly quite generous don't tell the whole picture. Add this to the fact that many of them use standard guitar parts for the bridge, so overall the string spacing is somewhat tighter than what I would consider optimal. I've found it easier to adjust to relatively narrow spacing at the bridge then on the neck, which is why the Burns Barracuda is for me (for now) the best compromise. Ultimately I think I will end up with something custom made to my specifications for string spacing. Unfortunately the only way I have been able to work out if I can get on with the spacing on a particular Bass VI is to actually try one. One other thing that you do need to watch, which I mentioned in my original thread, is voicing. IME a lot of the instruments that are marketed as Bass VIs are more in the A-tuned Baritone category. IME you really need the 3 single coil pickup configuration to get the maximum versatility out of a Bass VI. I find that the best bass tones come from using the middle pickup either on its own or in combination with the neck or bridge. Bass VIs with just two pickups - neck and bridge - have a tendency to sound like bad jazz guitars rather than basses - in my hands at least.