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3 hours ago, JohnR said:

If I hadn't already bought two basses this month I would have snapped this up. 

Don't stop short of a hattrick

I am left handed with my wedding ring on my left hand, it just doesn't bother me at all. The guitarists are both right handed and they take off their rings because they find it interfering. 

So after a few weeks this is where I am... Got a great preset where I split the signal and gave half going through the fat bass amp and the other half going through the tweed guitar amp. Still finding it generally fiddly, here's some observations...

The bass overdrives sound too fizzy for me and lack warmth, need to investigate more.

Sometimes I tinker around adding and removing effects and then the pedal switching stops working... E.g I add the wah pedal but somehow it just doesn't work! Quite frustrating.

Still need to change the mode so I can use the individual buttons to switch different effects in and out.

Using the effects loop is great for my synth pedal.

Used this to DI for my last gig, no amp and in-ears. Good sound out the PA sub but again the fizzy overdrive just got annoying after a while. No idea if anyone else noticed but it bothered me a lot 

Love the pairing with the compact, lightweight cab!

I have listed this on Reverb at £850 and got some interest but would prefer a sale here. Make an offer of interested. 

Just putting out a feeler because new kitchens are more expensive than you think... 

I recently got this bass with the intent to use it in my 80s band. It's brilliant and it's rare and it's been made even better! It's a factory fretless, I've added a Nordstrand MM pup and a Retrovibe Stinger pre, as well as having a new nut fitted. It's wearing flat wounds and it's had a very recent full setup. 

Realistically I just don't need a second fretless, I barely play the first one and that is staying with me forever. 

If anyone is interested please drop me a line. Price is negotiable, just had to put a number in there.

The pics are from before the upgrade, so on the plate there's now one less knob and a jack socket.

I genuinely feel a bit sorry for these kind of people. They're desperate to show off their "knowledge" and be seen as some kind of authority, but he's just shouting into a void. If you liked your tone and amp, effects choices then it's perfect. Because it's artistic expression, not precision engineering.

Offers around £100 will be accepted.

9 hours ago, joe_geezer said:

Hi guys,

 

Just recorded a video in 4k so you can really see the detail of the body with the glassy finish... yep still in good condition after all these years!

 

 

Even through my phone speaker that tone is gorgeous! Awesome playing too.

Here I go again...

Got rid of my Headrush MX5 and Boss ME-90B. Wanted to go compact and the MX5 got me really keen on touch screen effects. 

So it's a Boss GX10 with an EHX Bass Mono Synth and a wireless. Just want to add a page turner pedal and then that should be my gig setup. 

That's a lovely bass, don't think I'd ever see a blue bodied Aria before, though I have seen a red one with a blue headstock... Replacement neck maybe?  Anyways, gorgeous bass, hope you get it back to gigging condition.

On 24/01/2026 at 23:59, Gasman said:

Was I being unreasonable?

Absolutely not unreasonable. Some people like to have an idea in their head that is probably more suited to recording than playing live. In my 80s band we have a sax player who also plays keys. Even if he didn't play keys I'd want more sax all the time!!! You don't see many bands of our ilk with a sax player, and when the sax player is good you should make them the star of the show IMO.

Need to move this on, offers welcome.

There are some intros and endings we simplify or remove entirely because they might rely on a piano riff or something studio trickery but none of the shenanigans you mention in the op. That does seem quite odd and energy that could be spent on learning whole new songs.

Good luck 🤞 

2 hours ago, Cato said:

There's a few more brands operating in that 'cheap but decent' price bracket these days, so I suppose if the new tariffs are forcing Harley Benton prices above those of it's direct rivals in the US it probably makes sense for Thomann to withdraw & concentrate on markets where they can still be competitive.

I see your point, but while I'm far from an expert in such things, I doubt anything in that price bracket is built in the US using parts built in the US. So "cheap but decent" just won't be a thing for US consumers any more. Will those of us in Europe face rising costs from Harley Benton to make up for the hole in their finances from losing US trade...? Who knows. I don't think anybody wins in this, sadly. 

Now upgraded with the Retrovibe Stinger preamp and a Nordstrand pickup. I also had a new nut fitted because the old one was worn to bits.  I've currently got flats on this but I'm thinking to go for some tapewounds to get a bit more brightness out of the sound and still keep the fretboard intact. 

I've learned that this was factory made as a lined fretless. The board is really thick, feels like ebony or a cheaper version of ebony with a weird name... Either way it feels gorgeous and can draw out a lot of richness in the sound. The back of the neck feels really good too. I'm still experimenting with the preamp but I should get there soon. Too many new things going on at once and I need to properly sit down with this working on the right songs to get it where I want it. 

Well, well, well!!! Took it to band practice last night. My word this thing LOVES a distortion pedal and being played with a pick! Who'd have thought it?!?!

The rehearsal room had a lovely Trace Elliot head and 4x10 last night and the combination was pretty glorious.

On 12/01/2026 at 16:53, Sparky Mark said:

Sounds like Andertons may be employing the assistants too disinterested and rude to work in Denmark Street. (That used to be a pretty high bar). 

I think the splash of grey in my beard gets me slightly less disrespectful treatment on Denmark Street than I had twenty years ago.... Go in, get ignored, ask a question, get treated like rubbish, some bloke walks in to buy cheap strings and says he produces for random persons 1, 2, 3 and the staff may as well have wafted him with palm leaves and fed him grapes while carrying him around in a sedan chair.

A very excellent 300watt Warwick amp (head only, not speaker). In very good working condition, lovely deep sound, very usable compressor, lots of EQ control. Can do scooped, straight ahead rock tones, pokey jazz tones and probably a lot more. 

Good working condition, only slight tiny issue is that the treble knob is a little loose, needs tightening inside which I'm not brave enough to do. 

Bought recently with the speaker, but I only really wanted the speaker.

I live near St Albans but work in London and Cambridge occasionally so could meet at any place, or post at cost. £20 for 24hr delivery. PM me with any questions.

It's a lovely little amp but my office is becoming overcrowded so it will go up for sale at some point. 

2 hours ago, eude said:

Did you have the ME-90B before this?

Still got it but I was using it as a manual pedalboard really, if that makes sense?  

I now think I know what I want... Either, set up a "memory" e.g. U0-01 with my base sound and then U0-02 and U0-03 with the variations on that like chorus or drive... OR set up a User memory with all three buttons engaging different effects. Positives and negatives to each but this is the kind of thing I was struggling to understand how to get working. 

I've just been through the guitar patches now with my electric guitar and they're fantastic. Some really usable ones, even when the more weird effects are involved. I'm disappointed Boss has put absolutely zero effort into the Bass presets because the GT-10B from years and years ago had fantastic, usable bass presets and loads of them! If Boss brought those back as downloadable patches for the GX I'd be first in line.

@Al Krow thanks for your info. I've spent a lot of time today with the unit and going into the manual in depth and despite some blunders I'm now getting there. I think the Headrush MX5 was a lot more intuitive to get started, but the Boss is less intuitive because there are so many possibilities for configuration and that makes it so much more powerful... Plus the Boss effects are better! I'd still like to have it a bit more intuitive and better graphics on the screen but that's a trade off for other features I guess, can't have it all.

My GX-10 arrived yesterday and I've had a tinker today... So far I'm underwhelmed to be fair. I sold a Headrush MX5 to get this and I'm not wanting to knee jerk but the Headrush was so easy to use straight away, the Boss is a little less intuitive. 

So far I've gone through the presets and none of them are up to much. That's sometimes to be expected but the old Boss GT-10B had bags of great presets so its disappointing they haven't been carried forward. 

Trying to create my own patches, I can't work out how to do this without having to over-write a preset. The manuals don't go into this but I read somewhere that the initialize function gives a blank canvas for you... It wasn't so blank and it still seems I'm overwriting a patch. Oh well, will keep playing.

One thing I want to do is use the EQ blocks to create a "thumpinator" substitute, has anyone done this? I really want to get a good punchy bass sound.

I am struggling with the parallel processing. I can get it to give me either both channels mixed or a select between Channel 1 and 2 but never Channel 1 with the option to mix in Channel 2 if that makes sense?

I need to figure out more about how to use the limited number of foot buttons to change sounds live. I'm feeling this is either a limitation or I need to build patches next to each other that allows me to do different things...

I'm going to keep experimenting and I'm sure I'll get there, slowly but surely. 

Sold subject to the usual.

Leather strap, Fender 60th anniversary edition. Really nice strap, used but not at all put under strain. This came with a bass I bought recently but I already have far too many straps. There's a knackered one on eBay for £25 so for BC friends I felt £20 was fair. Happy to post for another £3.50