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Bump.

bump for pics

Sold Steve my Marilyn. First rate BCer.

It's all the usual suspects showing up in my for sale threads!

Yeah, this is a great bass. It's such a shame I didn't land this 3 years ago.

Thanks! Actually, I forgot to plug the fact that I get closest to Freddy Washington's slap tone on 'Forget me nots' on this bass. Really, the neck pickup tone is IT.

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yep, it's totaled.

Actually, here's this exact bass being demoed when it was brand new. [url="https://youtu.be/ou4fRXKYTfg"]https://youtu.be/ou4fRXKYTfg[/url]

bump. it's time to sell everything. would listen to all kinds of offers.

edit: now asking 1900 pounds

edit: more photos!

[url="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/222hw7liz5ypk96/AAAkvYHCRs4CuE5BODrHfTS7a?dl=0"]https://www.dropbox....BODrHfTS7a?dl=0[/url]


Got this recently in trade. MINT condition. Really really cool bass, but I'm cutting down.

edit: As in, everything is going to go.

It's an ash-maple bass with jazz pickups, so that's the general character. Aguilar OBP-3 is known to work really well with single coils & this bass is no exception. Very good playability.

If you like jazz tones and sixes, or would like to try sixes, this is a good bass. Easier to play than most sixes and the tones make it easy to have a working tone across the strings unlike with more finicky basses.

Here's a link to a previous for sale thread: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/230714-traded-de-gier-elevation-6-please-remove/"]http://basschat.co.u...-please-remove/[/url]

From which I copy/paste the specs:
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]body: swamp ash[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]top: burl maple (front and back)[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]neck: maple[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]fingerboard: pao ferro[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]pickups: Haeussel Bigmags[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]controls: blend, vol (pull passive), bass, mid (pull shift), high[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]preamp: Aguilar obp-3[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]tuners: Hipshot ultralites[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]bridge: De Gier by ETS[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]weight: 4.2 kg[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]string spacing at bridge 18mm[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]scale 34[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]24 medium frets[/font][/color]



And here's a vid of[s] the sister to[/s] this bass: [url="https://youtu.be/jVKi_1weHdk"]https://youtu.be/jVKi_1weHdk[/url]

This is the sister instrument to the fretted Marilyn I sold a couple of years back. It's time I admitted to myself I don't really play fretless. Also, it's time for my biennial 'sell everything' phase. I've had this bass from new, it's in mint condition. Played this on a few gigs, it's defo a gigworthy fretless.

This is really up there as far as fretlesses go. Very versatile thanks to the bartolini magnetic and Ghost piezo pickups. Can do 'that bridge pickup tone.' My ideas or intonation just never quite justify using that tone. Can also sound pretty close to J Giblin's Wal tone. Going full piezo gives a faux double bass tone. Excellent playability, the best out of the MTDs I've tried. Lightweight. Play wear practically non-existent. You can see on the fingerboard that it has been played some dozens of hours -- the 'markings' don't show on camera.

Specs and features
Mahogany body with acoustic chambers
blackened redwood top
maple neck
ebony board
35" scale
18,3 mm string spacing
pretty light weight, will measure but it's on the lighter end for electrics and very much so for sixes

matching headstock and back of headstock
world logo
luminlay inlays (these are a HUGE benefit for playing in the dark, like an orchestra pit -- you 'charge them with a mini flashlight (included) and they glow in the dark. [i]Not[/i] visible to the audience!)

More photos [url="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0b5u4dubpif8nmr/AADP1BExfnXNLto6w_IiQhMya?dl=0"]https://www.dropbox....6w_IiQhMya?dl=0[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]VERY powerful 1U power amp. 2 x 1000 W RMS at 8 ohms, 1950 W at 4 ohm. That's per channel. No bridged operation exists. (Nor is it necessary ime) [/font][/color]

[url="http://www.powersoft-audio.com/en/products/touring-amplifiers/k-series/k2.html"]http://www.[color=red]powersoft[/color]...-series/k2.html[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Not to be confused with the cheaper models. Fits in most rack bags depth-wise. Very clear tone.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]It's big brother is listed here for 2699 quid.[/font][/color]
[url="https://www.djdeals.co.uk/prod-details.asp?AID=3064"]https://www.djdeals....ls.asp?AID=3064[/url]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Mint condition.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Asking 1800 quid shipped. [/font][/color]

edit: getting out of playing. Therefore not interested in trading for personal use.

For the inevitable trade offers, if tradebait == undervalued mass market stuff I'll listen, but I REALLY prefer cash at this time, so your stuff should be [u]greatly[/u] [u]undervalued[/u] for me to be interested.


[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]This is a great example of Mike Tobias' genius. I have played lots of MTDs, and this one has the biggest tone of three, if also the least grizzle and sizzle, except for the mango-rosewood that was far too warm and soft for me. The woods are alder and rare bloodwood for the body, maple and ebony for the neck. As you would expect, the bass has a full body of note, with clear hi mids and highs. Lots of attack, too, not compressed at all.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The bloodwood is much more attractive in the flesh, it's one of those woods that are really, really, hard to get to photo well. The bass is in excellent condition and comes with the MTD hard case.[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Asking 2400 quid incl shipping. Both the bloodwood top and ebony board carry a hefty upcharge these days. In fact, I've only ever seen one other MTD with a bloodwood top. It has a complex deep red colour that changes with the angle of reflection and tonally it's between maple and ebony, afaik.[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]photos: [/font][/color]
[url="http://s626.photobucket.com/user/prkl0405/library/MTD/635%20bloodwood"]http://s626.photobuc...635%20bloodwood[/url]

Bump, I'm back and selling stuff. Lots of stuff.

I've owned this one. It's a really great 635. The rarer bloodwood-ebony 635 is better for modern gospel but this one is the one for rock. Should probably get it back. Will see about putting something else for sale.

Bought Mikkel's Celinder, everything went swimmingly, highly recommended!

Well, the prospective buyer experienced financial difficulty, so this is available again.

Sean's a cool guy, he absolutely did not oversell the guitar I bought from him, so I can give my warm recommendation!

Thanks! I'm trying to score a particular 635 so I'm keen to move something

Drool. I missed an AG6 by a hair. My bloodwood-ebony 635 proooobably sounds pretty close to this one, according to how Mike describes tone woods.

If so, that would make this here bass the best (my careful and weighed estimation! ) five-string bass for RnB and other modern afro-american music stuff where you need a full - no, make that HUGE - bottom for that rnb sound and an explosive attack because the mixes are so thick. To me, nothing works as well for, say, Beyonce numbers. Did I mention you can totally throw pops within fingerstyle lines and you, the player, gets to choose the relative dynamics between fingerstyle and popped notes? Someone buy this one so it stops taunting me!

edited to add:

Chris doesn't stress this enough: you can NOT get an MTD with purpleheart fretboard without buying an Andrew Gouche model! Go listen to Andrew's tone here [url="http://youtu.be/VFmP_fRCz5U"]http://youtu.be/VFmP_fRCz5U[/url]
Chops are prooooobably not included with this bass.

Mike has a brilliant eye for aesthetics, doesn't he? From fairly understated brown basses with natural finishes to bright, but still somehow natural tints... Yeah, the man is good.

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My goodness.

Michael will not use purpleheart in fretboards apart from Gouche basses, and it's got a pretty nice look and tone to it, so...

Traded MTDs -- actually, we've done lots of deals over the years -- and Mikko is a great guy to deal with!

Got this in a trade for the 635-24 , so off to block this goes.

This is one of the more punchy, aggressive and organic (lol) sounding of the MTDs I've had. Not too grindy, quite deeply voiced (maple neck + board) and the attack really is off the charts. Would work well for fuller mixes and or rock/blues/groove-kind of tonal environment. For jazzy/folk/humpa stuff, would probably need mellow strings (say, Thomastik Jazz Flats? mmm-mm) depending on how thumpy you're after. Me, I'd just pan all the way to the neck pickup and use more meat on the strings. Palm muting is also a wonderful thing. With MTDs, your technique definitely gets the spotlight.

The Dark Cherry (?) finish is hard to photo well, I'm attaching two photos with different WB settings. The colour is def not a warm red.

Price includes a new generic hard shell case, shipping to most European locations (some countries have restrictions on parcel size) and I'm throwing in a 5-string set of Dean Markley SR-2000 strings so you get to try the string mr. Andrew 'Gooch' Gouche uses. Best string for RnB/Gospel for me.

For the inevitable trade offers: this is not listed as for trade now -- life priorities and stuff. Since some you will have a bass you'd like to offer in trade: I'd be keen on a USA MTD Andrew Gouche six-string or an MTD 635 with walnut body, since I haven't had one of those. Alternatively, a fretted 635 Marilyn would be interesting. There are a few basses I used to own that I would be interested in, but the owners of those pretty much already know and aren't selling.

Otherwise, I'm going to try to end up with 1 less bass but more money than now in the end, so any trade baits will have to be valued so that I can flip them easily. I just don't need more albatrosses hung around my neck, already have a custom-built bass and a better known high end brand bass I damaged that can't be sold taking up space, sorry.

edit: proper resolution pics here [url="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m4g73h6lwvda14g/AABgaozZMUZAd276hhNnDiApa?dl=0"]https://www.dropbox....6hhNnDiApa?dl=0[/url]