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GrammeFriday

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  1. It is my pleasure to open this feedback thread for the very excellent Mr. Jon the Boat. Jon bought a Barefaced One10 from me, in a trade that was delightfully cordial and smooth. Prompt payment, excellent communications throughout - all the good stuff. Jon may be new to Basschat, but he's definitely got the hang of things already! Enjoy the new cab, Jon, and welcome to the wallet-draining world of the BC marketplace! Cheers, Nick
  2. Brian bought my Barefaced One10 - no fussing, no messing, just the good stuff - prompt payment and excellent communications. I also had the pleasure of meeting Brian in person for the handover in the Stourbridge Aldi car park. He is a really great guy - very friendly and totally cool about the fact that I initially went to the wrong branch of Aldi and thus arrived late! Enjoy the cab, mate, and I bet you enjoyed that 3:2 win today!
  3. Cheers, MungoBass. Almost as much of a bargain as your lovely Cort C5 over on the Basses for sale thread! (If I didn't already have an A5 I would have bought it from you by now!)
  4. Was on hold last night, but buyer backed out this morning, so back on sale.
  5. ONE CAB SOLD ALREADY! ONLY ONE NOW ON OFFER! ... Gone ONE GONE, ONE TO GO! I suspect that these need no introduction for most of you, but in case you have any doubts: yes, these really are as astonishing as the hype says they are. How on earth can something so small and light sound so warm, loud and fat? And when you put two of them together ... 500 watts at 4 ohms! Lordy! I bought them during lockdown and have used them pretty much every day as my home practice/rehearsal setup. I really do love them, but I'm now GASsing for Eventide H90, and my Charvel JJV isn't shifting, so these are next up. (And to be honest, I also prefer the more hifi sound of my pair of Big Baby IIs to the warmer vintage tones that these offer, so that makes parting a little easier. But only a little!) Immaculate condition - not even the slightest suggestion of this 'tolex peel' thing that I have read so much about on this forum. Full specs here: https://barefacedbass.com/product-range/one10.htm New, these would cost you £549 each with covers, so at £450 apiece you're getting a decent saving for good-as-new gear - even more so if you buy them both as a pair. (Go on, you know it makes sense!) I don't have any suitable packaging at the moment and would much prefer home collection in South Birmingham or meetup within reasonable driving distance from Brum, but I am willing to post to England, Scotland or Wales only (thanks for nothing, Brexs*it) for an extra £25. No trade offers please, unless you have an immaculate Eventide H90 to offer me! Thanks!
  6. Thanks, BillyBass. Yes, I too noticed that this was indeed the main axe of the (really good) bass player on the Sam Ryder New Year tv show.
  7. Yep. Charvel are owned by Fender, which is why they were allowed to use the Fender headstock shape.
  8. A truly gorgeous 5-string presented for sale in what Charvel call 'Lambo Green Metallic', but I think would be more accurately described as metallic British Racing Green. It's quite hard to photograph - my pictures don't do it any justice, I'm afraid, but here goes anyway: I bought this bass last Autumn, and have thoroughly enjoyed home noodling on it, but when gigging time comes I still find myself reaching for my trusty Sandberg. And a massive and sudden upswelling of GAS for an Eventide H90 means that something has to go, so here we are ... First thing to say about this bass is that it looks STUNNING. I normally hate gold hardware, but on this bass it works so, so well with the green finish, 'caramelised' (i.e. roasted) maple neck and cream pickup covers. In fact I'd say that the aesthetic 'togetherness' of this bass is reflected in other aspects too - the whole instrument gives the impression that it has been carefully thought through from the ground up. You have JJ pickups but a Precision-style body, which I really like. The alder/maple woods combo is classic, as is the tone - I had been expecting it to sound very zingy and modern, and was actually quite surprised to find it actually has more of a vintagey, 60s jazz tone by default, although of course you can get a more modern top end (or whatever else you want) using the 3-band eq (cut and boost). The volume pot is also a push-pull active-passive toggle switch, so you can run it in passive if the battery were to fart out mid-gig. Passive mode sounds good too, although there is no passive tone roll-off if that matters to you. The low B is excellent, especially for a 34 scale, and is fully integrated in terms of both tone and feel with the other four strings - I think the very chunky Badass-style bridge helps a lot with this. The neck is graphite reinforced, silky smooth and very slim, and the fingerboard has rolled edges and a very shreddy 12”-16” compound radius. Oh, and it even has Luminlay side dots, too. Truss rod adjustment is Music Man style, with that nifty little wheel thingy where the neck meets the body. Weight is 4.1kg on my digital postal scales, which is nice and light for a 5er. Better still, and despite the light weight, this bass balances perfectly on a strap. I have zero tolerance for neck dive, and am happy to report that this has no such issues at all. In short, this is a lot of bass for the money. Cheapest new prices seem to be from Gear4Music and Bax at £769.00, so £675 for this bass is a decent chunk off, especially considering that it is in immaculate, as-new condition. Happy for you to come and collect from Birmingham B30, or to post within England, Scotland or Wales for an extra £25. I'd also be willing to meet halfway within an hour or so's radius by car. No trades on this one, please, unless you have an Eventide H90 to offer! Thanks for looking!
  9. Nigel bought my DMC micro midi switching pedal, in as smooth and cordial a transaction as one could possibly wish for. Prompt payment, excellent and friendly comms; all the good stuff! Have fun with the pedal, Nigel, and all the best for 2023!
  10. Rich bought my Cog Effects T16 and custom 'Tarkinfall'. Prompt payment, excellent comms, all the good stuff; Rich is as fine and upstanding a member of the BC community as you're ever likely to come across. Happy (and noisy) New Year, Rich, and enjoy the pink LEDs!
  11. For sale, this superbly built and incomparably cute MIDI controller, designed for pedalboard use. You can assign it to any one pedal or make it perform switching operations across your entire pedalboard. Fantastic build quality; although it's small, it's an incredibly sturdy unit, built to last. Home use only - in immaculate condition. Selling as now surplus to requirements. Comes with original box and instruction manual. Full details here: https://www.disasterareadesigns.com/shop/p/dmc-micro-pro Happy for you to come and collect from Birmingham B30 if you are local, or I can post it to you for an extra £5. Thanks for looking!
  12. Two amazing Cog Effects pedals presented for sale, both in used but excellent condition. One is increasingly hard to find these days, and the other is (I think) entirely unique, so don't sleep on these! T-16 Octaver: The T-16 already enjoys cult status amongst octave pedal enthusiasts and probably needs no introduction from me, but in a nutshell it delivers jaw-droppingly huge, phaaaaat, warm, subby-to-synthy OC2-ish analogue octave-down tones in an improbably teeny tiny enclosure. (Approx case dimensions in cm are 9.3 x 3.4 x 3.1). Full specs here: https://www.cogeffects.co.uk/t-16-octave.php More pix: Custom 'Tarkinfall' distortion/fuzz: This Cog Custom pedal is one that I commissioned Tom to make for me back in early 2016, and as far as I am aware it is a complete one-off; certainly, there is nothing else quite like it anywhere on the Cog website, or anywhere else. (Let me know if you know different!) Tom dubbed it the 'Tarkinfall' as it combines two of his stock pedals side-by-side into one enclosure - a Mini Knightfall 66 Bass Overdrive and a mk2 Tarkin Fuzz, with each 'side' of the pedal getting its own independent on-off footswitch. Needless to say, this box gives you an extremely wide range of distortion and fuzz sounds to play with and mix together, and when both sides of the pedal are switched on, they operate in series, Distortion -> Fuzz, thereby giving you even more creative and satisfying ways to destroy PA systems. As for aesthetics, the Star Wars Empire logo was Tom's design idea (he said nothing else would do for a pedal this evil!), and to counterbalance all this evilness I selected pink as the colour for the two LEDs. Yes, pink LEDs. Approx case dimensions in cm are 12 x 9.4 x 3.4, and it has top-mounted jacks for optimum pedalboard-friendliness. Full specs for each side of the pedal are here: https://www.cogeffects.co.uk/mini-66.php and here: https://www.cogeffects.co.uk/tarkin-fuzz.php More pix: General stuff: Condition As stated above, both pedals are in used but excellent condition. Both cases have a few small scuffs and scratches here and there, but there is nothing of note to report, and the paintwork on both pedals is entirely intact and undamaged as far as I can see. Footswitches, knobs and jacks are all rock solid - no issues whatsoever. These things really are built like tanks! Pricing Happy to sell either individually or together. Prices are firm, and are as follows: T16 = £150 + £5 postage Tarkinfall = £325 + £10 postage Both purchased together = £425 + £10 postage Happy to consider trades of equivalent value, but lowball offers will be ignored. Collection / Postage Happy for you to come and collect from my house (Birmingham B30) or meet locally. As for postage, I can only do addresses in England, Wales and Scotland at the moment - really sorry about that, EU friends, and thanks for absolutely nothing, Brexit! Add £5 to the sale price to cover postage for the T16; add £10 to cover postage for the Tarkinfall or for both pedals together. Thanks for looking!
  13. Another VERY happy trader here! Just bought a fab Cort A5 with upgraded Bartolini pickups from Paul, and - like others in this thread - found him to be an outstanding seller from start to finish. Not only did he answer my standard 'is there any neck dive' question, but he did so by shooting a quick YouTube vid so I could actually see how the bass sits on the strap for myself. And this is just to pick one example out of the consistently helpful, friendly and prompt communications that I had with Paul throughout the sale process. Bass was sent to me promptly and in bombproof packaging, and is exactly as described. Paul rules! Thanks a mill, mate, and season's greetings!
  14. I bought a lovely Fender P from Graham. The whole transaction was a total pleasure from start to finish - great comms, super careful packaging, fast and efficient postage, and the bass arrived exactly as described - couldn't ask for more. And to cap it all, Graham is about as friendly and accommodating a guy as you could possibly hope to meet on this forum. I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you in person one day, Graham - beers are on me! All the very best in the meantime, Nick (GrammeFriday)
  15. Put a set of Pro Steels on it and played it last night, and ... boom. KILLER tone! So, so good. Doh, what was I thinking? Have now come to my senses, and am keeping it. Sale withdrawn!
  16. I've just bought an Epiphone Embassy from Paul. Prompt payment, excellent, friendly communications throughout, totally flexible about delivery arrangements, and bass exactly as described - in short, the perfect person to trade with, and a credit to Basschat. Cheers Paul!
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