SICbass

Morning all, I've been trying to move on a bass on eBay here in Germany. So far, the only interest has been from people wanting me to deliver it. I prefer people try an instrument out before buying. Anyway, I decided to trawl the net a bit, just to see if my pricing was in the right ballpark. Imagine my surprise.... My ad on Small Ads followed by... @rsewipes unlimited ad. Notice how they started with my original price and then reduced it to there's.

Read the room…. PLEASE! 😎

May his next turd be a hedgehog. Onwards and upwards 👍

I like my V7 4-string and I‘ve had it for years. One slight nag, but by no means a deal-breaker, the controls are a bit faffy. My one had a stacked volume/passive tone pot, pick-up blend. Treble, stacked mid/sweep, bass, plus the switches. They all work fine, but on-the-fly tone changes take a little bit of practice.

This, 100%. Unfortunately, even a small amount of glitching on this renders the effect useless IME. Don’t get me wrong, I love the sounds on the F.I. but in the case of Ain’t Nobody it’s simply not usable.

My experience is that Ain‘t Nobody is kind of the one that got away. 16ths this rapid and in octaves, which are very tricky to play cleanly with no overlap whatsoever, tend to cause glitching.

Sorry to hear about your brother. Remember to pass up no opportunity to laugh when you are together. And, if you haven’t already, tell him you love him.

I saw what you did there 😎

You just know a bunch of us are going to receive these once secret Santa gets going.

Many thanks 🙏

With regards to this issue. Do you think it‘s worth investing in a steel ruler that is long enough to measure a 34“ scale length or is that gilding the lilly?

Bummer! That was a really cool idea.

Luvverly. I hadn‘t seen an AGB with the aged look. I thought they only offered that finish on the AFB. Do you feel that the fixed bridge affects the sound much? They are less faff than the moving ones, but is that at the cost of the woody sound?

I really want to try one of the Artcore basses. Most of the shortscale semis seem to have narrower string spacing. The Jack Casady has “normal” 19mm spacing and feels great in the hand, but for my money didn’t sound old-school thuddy enough. Thomann (with the exception of the Artcore basses) have the annoying habit of listing the nut width, but not the string-spacing at the bridge, which IMO much more affects how wide string-spacing feels. I love my Eastwood Classic 4, but even that is only 16mm spacing, which is sub-optimal

Yes, with my Eastwood Classic 4, when I need some old-school thump.