kevin_lindsay

My Groove Generator arrived in the UK yesterday (Monday) and is currently still in UK Customs. All being well I should have it in the next few days - yippee!! Looks like I'm gonna have a fun weekend!

Hi there. Thanks for the offer, but I'm actually downsizing my effects stash - hence the Low Pass filter being available.

Here's your chance to grab one of these units in immaculate condition for a knock down price.

Any questions, feel free to drop me a line!

The price now would be £1,499 for a bass like that from John

I prefer the stack layout - I love the ability to keep the neck pickup fully open tone-wise to retain that throaty roar, and at teh same time being able to slightly roll off the highs on the brodge pickup so that it doesn't sound overly "quacky" when it is soloed.

Here's a thing......... I was watching the start of the Pet Shop Boys set and thought "if there was distorted guitar playing along here, and the vocals were proto-operatic, this would sound like Muse!!"

Personally, I think Muse are a great band. Also, as stated previously, what's the deal with "the pipe". Is this the Jack Hargreaves influence - HOW!!!???

Personally, I thought Stevie was fantastic. The guy is a true musical legend, and hearing him playing live is a true privilege. As for the sound, after the first couple of songs the bass was clear as a bell on my TV mix (apart from when Nate switched to keyboard bass, then the bass sound dropped out).

The guy played a great set for a festival closing slot - just hearing the audience singing along with so many classic tracks supports his choices.

I saw the review clip in Bass Player a while back and always thought the unit sounded cool. So, thanks to you guys, I've now ordered myself one - yippee!!

Hi matey, welcome to the site!!

There's a great bunch of guys on here.

Gumtree is like any other selling medium. Some bad sellers in there, but most are okay. I got a wonderful Fender Custom Shop Nocaster Relic with both cases last July for....... £750!!!!!!!! Probably the best sounding and playing Tele I have ever played. I took the neck off when I got it and e-mailed Fender to verify everything - all OK and the spec for the serial number was exact. Also, the instrument had only been made by the Custom Shop about 10 months prior to me buying it.

Amazing deal!!

Lawrence - thanks for the purchase - hope you have fun with your new bass!

Sold pending payment

okay, i received the bass under 4 weeks ago and paid over £1,650 for it. Then there was the additional delivery cost from the USA and then import taxes. So, it's available with hard case for £950 delivered to UK.

It's a great instrument, details can be seen in the Gear Porn section of this site
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Anyone interested in this wonderful instrument?

1 piece solid maple neck - 34" scale and 9-14" fingerboard radius
Vintage style narrow fretwire
Chunky profile for a vintage solid & woody tone
Hipshot Ultralite tuners
Bone nut
Swamp Ash body - finished in pale pink
Single coil P-Bass pickup
Volume & Tone passive controls
Hipshot vintage style bridge
Tweed vintage style rectangular hard case

Any info - drop me a note and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Sold to a fellow Kevin - thanks!

Sold pending payment.

Thanks for looking

sorry for the quality of the pic. I had to use my mobile phone's camera function.

here I am in New York sitting in the apartment, wide awake due to jet lag, and watching garbage TV and playing my new USA Reissue '62 Fender Jazz Bass.

The bass is great, and I've changed the Fender scearchplate for a custom made nitro one.

So, does anyone want the original Fender plate for £15 delivered in the UK? I'm back in the Uk from Tuesday 25th.

Anyone who's interested, just let me know.

Thanks,
Kevin

Okay, so the pink wonder has been taken out for a test drive at a rehearsal - it sounds REALLY good!!!!! The Tone is just as a P-Bass should be with deep lows and a lovely top end "zing". Dead spots? Only the one at the Eb on the G string (8th fret position).

The neck is chunky at my own request - I wanted to emulate the early P-Bass style necks. The feel is big but is in no way clubby or clumsy - it feels really comfortable in the left hand and the notes have a fantastically woody tone - just what I was looking for.

In a band setting the bass sounds incredible - the natural sound just sits in it's own pocket on the mix and rumbles along. Everyone commented on how clear and solid it sounded. The colour is exactly what I wanted, so I'm extremely happy. delivery was quick also. Left Carey's workshop mid afternoon on Tuesday (around midnight Tuesday night my time), and was delivered to me here in Scotland on Friday lunchtime).

I'll try and get some sound clips posted.

Here's some initial pics (including some with chrome covers placed on the body to see how they would look)

Okay, the bass is being picked up today by DHL and will make it's way across the USA and Atlantic to me - should be here by the end of the week - depending upon how quick Customs are at clearing it this end.

As for the comment about the Shell Pink Nordy VJ5 - yeah, that was mine. I was actually looking for the shade of pink we've got on this new P-Bass, but due to my providing incorrect details, it ended up with the Shell Pink look. That bass played and sounded AMAZING, but the colour wasn't what I was after so it was sold - it's now in Austria.

As for my new pink bass - it's a traditional passive Vol, Tone layout. Swamp Ash body with 1 piece maple neck (fingerboard radius 9"-14"). The neck is CHUNKY - 0.875" at the first fret, and 1.0" at the 12th". I did this to replicate the hefty necks on the early P-Basses. They are incredibly comfortable and sound super solid and woody due to the baseball bat neck.

I'll keep everyone up to date with how it actually plays and sounds when it arrives in a few days time. Carey says that it sounds great, so I'm looking forward to receiving it.

As for the colour of the paint - I'm not sure. What I did was buy an A4 sheet of coloured paper at an art supplies store in Glasgow to show Carey what shade of pink I was after. That meant the sprayer could match the colour up rather than having to rely on my own description and judging it against something on a computer monitor.

Well, well, well............ look what finally arrived into the bass world? I love it!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Wes,

it was great talking to you yesterday. I've been mulling the options over and I think I know what I'm going to go for colour wise - just need to get the OK from my other half.

Will be in touch soon
Kev

I have the bass playing pretty great now, and the sound is great - really retro - BIG, ROUND, and WOODY. Sounds just like a classic P-Bass should!

The swirly figuring of the original tortoiseshell plates just looked SOOOO good!!!

And so to my early 60's style P-Bass.

I managed to get an original 1962/3 nitrocellulose tortoiseshell scratchplate from the States via Ebay for a crazy price. It looks great, but had a major problem in that it had been off the original bass for over 30 years just lying in a drawer.

Usually, these plates shrink over time, but the main shape is retained due to the instrument's scratchplate mounting screws and pickup routing. On mine, the plate had shrunk without restrictions. The upshot being that when John received the plate, it was a NIGHTMARE for him to get it sorted for fitting. the pickup routing hole had shrunk, so that had to be widened, and the plate had buckled and shrunk causing screw mounting alignment problems also. These issues were solved after a lot of sweat, swearing and shouting from John.

Originally, the bass had the covers and finger rest in place. I have since removed these for a more comfortable playing setup