Collection on London only which would have been okay for me as I was almost tempted and would probably have snapped it up if it was still silver sparkle, but the pics are low res and I can't tell whether there's a crack or two showing on the back of the headstock. If its just been oversprayed with red car paint from a rattle can, it might come off easily with acetone and reveal the original silver sparkle finish underneath assuming it wasn't stripped first.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194962269630
Any bass that looks like it was designed later than about 1967 has a harder time getting my attention.
I'm not keen on active electronics either, or anything with more than four strings.
I used to have an old EHX bass balls back in the 80s and have no recollection of what happened to it. I bought a bass sweeper for nostalgia's sake but it has taken up permanent residence on my board. I can get all the lovely chewy noises I got out of the bassballs, but without having to open it up to fiddle with trimpots.
Found an SY-1 at such a good price it would have been rude not to snap it up, so it is due to arrive on my doorstep tomorrow.
I'm not sure how it'll get any use in the band I'm in as we do mostly 60s covers, so it could end up on my guitar pedalboard rather than my bass board. Failing that I'll get to play with it for a few weeks before letting it go to a new owner without making a loss.
I didn't really get on with a EHX B9 organ machine when I owned one briefly, so I'm hoping the organs on the sy-1 will tickle my pickle.
Do any SY-1 owners here have any tips?
Does it work better certain inputs - such as a tele bridge pickup rather than a humbucker neck pickup on guitar? Or the Jazz pickup of a PJ bass for example?
Has anyone flipped the baseplate to put velcro on without affecting the rubber foot?
How would you describe your favourite tone from one of your basses, but without using any words related to audio?
My JMJ mustang going through a Roland microcube RX using the fliptop emulation, is like a big thick slice of the stickiest, gooiest chocolate fudge cake.
I tried that when I had sore fingertips. I drank a couple of pints of the stuff. I didn't notice any change in my fingers but I had blurred vision for a week.
Didn't this bass feature on the cover of Gentle Giant's 1971 album acquiring the taste?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiring_the_Taste#/media/File:Acquiring_the_Taste_front_cover.jpg
Back in 1982 when I was saving up for my first Fender bass I dismissed mustangs as 'not a proper fender' and was only interested in getting a precision. It wasn't until about 25 years later that I realised I much prefer mustangs.
I wasn't sure whether I preferred a white or sunburst vintage pro thunderbird, so I have both. If I don't look I have no way of knowing which one I'm playing as apart from the colour they are identical including the strings and setup. I also have a couple of mustangs, an off-white CIJ and a blue JMJ which sound fairly similar but each feels totally different to the other.
No, apart from the Fender mustangs, a couple of epiphone vintage pro thunderbirds, a Guild starfire, a hohner B2A, a danelectro longhorn, and a few others that I can't see from where I'm sitting.
I also owned a banjo, however it sold on Reverb over the weekend and was delivered to its new owner this morning. Blummin’ loud things banjos; they’re great for annoying the missus so much that she’s relieved when I put it down and play a bass instead.
If she likes a classic fender shape, but scaled down, the squier mini precision bass looks pretty good for around £140 new, or the harley benton equivalent for quite a bit less.