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With that money and you're looking for a jazz or jazz clone if it were me I would look no further than the Sire. Massive sound, very serious bass yet you can currently get one new from Thomanns ( the only place to buy them) for £338 including shipping to the UK. When they do come up 2nd hand which is rare the alder 4 string is about £275 ish. Check out Andre Berry playing one with Sanborn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_D5bpeF1Y .
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Bigwan plus one... The Sire is generally agreed to be pro quality for beginner money. Andre Berry and even Marcus Miller play them. Squiers can command high money, the JV series go for up to a grand - I know Gary Numan's bassist and he plays a JV Squier. If you're into Scott he just put up a video in which he specifically suggests that people can do worse than start with a Squier and maybe upgrade some components. He even cites two serious bassists who play Squiers. See time code 9:12 in this video [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0-MzMwfrc."]https://www.youtube....?v=1d0-MzMwfrc.[/url] What sort of music do you like /want to play? Do you like modern active bass sounds, thumpy gravelly P bass sounds, or jazz bass sounds? That will clearly define what sort of bass you need to look at. Budget?
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I'm near Diss, and although my initials are JV I don't have one, although one does live only 4 miles away from me. If you're new get yourself to the Burston Crown - great music nights Thursdays and Sundays. Not jams, but quality regional bands.
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Hm, seems "Fine! Buy another bass" doesn't include the 26th one. So my recently purchased Squier Vintage Modified Precision 5 string in white is up for sale (sigh). This one is pretty much as new. If you're not sure about whether you'll like a fiver, you'll like this one. The strings aren't too close together and its not that big a jump from a four string. If you've read up on these lovely basses you'll know they punch way above their weight (which isn't that heavy at all for a 5). Good finish and quality construction, great balance (no neck dive) great maple fingerboard, smooth frets. Good sound from the pickups in OE form but swapping out the original loom for a KiOgon loom with top end pots and cap makes a huge difference. So I have done that, resulting in a great pro sound. Even the B string is good and clear. Great sustain. Fully set up with a nice low action and brand new D'Addario nickel roundwounds. Dunlop straplock pins fitted. Looking for what I paid - £250 for the bass and I'll take the hit on the strings and loom. New with the loom and strings this would be nearer £400. Happy to post for an extra £20, which includes full insurance and well packed. -
OK, found a really old set of D'add chromes and fitted those. If the result was school student's homework it would be a B. Oceans of thump but being flats, old and re-used they're not making full use of the Sire's brilliant sound pallette, but then they're not supposed to. Lemons on an orange tree. Still it's worth leaving them on there to try out in a blues band context tonight. I might then end up with a J bass and a P bass spare both on flats. EDIT: Nope, doesn't work for me... off again, back with the rounds
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I had comments about using a Peavey Grind 5 at a jazz jam, and ditto a Hohner B Bass 6 at a blues jam . Folks is conservative is all. The answer depends on how thick skinned you are or how desperate you are to remain in band.
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Which one is the bass that will end your GAS
lownote replied to fiatcoupe432's topic in General Discussion
Even Einstein had a take on GAS. Scientists have confirmed that: The optimum number of basses is f+1, where f is the number of basses you have now. -
I'm hearing the Lb FL strings are not stiff or high tension..
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Sorry if this has come up before, but anyone tried flats on a Sire? I know I could try it without consulting but I don't want to spring for a set of Labellas to find it doesn't work.
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Cheers Chris
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If you have the choice, do you take just one bass on stage or a selection? I'm in an up-forming blues band with first gigs likely to happen in early summer. We're not pure blues, if there is such a thing, there's a hint of latin and funk in what we do too. Legacy GAS has ensured that I currently have three basses: a Squier Affinity 4 P bass upgraded with Kiogon loom, flats and a Tonerider pup, a Squier Vintage Modififed 5 P bass with Kiogon loom; a Sire V7 4. Should I take them all on stage with a view to matching song tone to bass, or am I going to end up confusing myself and looking a plonker? I suspect I know the answer but could do with a clip round the ear'ole from a wise person.
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Report back if you do so i can think about it. Getting happier with the stock pups + Kiogon by the minute, but you know - GAS...
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Only once a year - that's deprivation! I've done 26 basses in 6 years. Suggestions: Sire V7 fretless, Moollon Classic P
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Well, you know, Rich, even though I concede to you totally when it comes to knowing about Higgs bosons or juju or whatever goes round in wires, fitting the KiOgon loom did make a difference. Overall it's a cleaner sound and most obviously of all the cheap and nasty twangy top end is now a dignified subtle treble. Bottom end ain't wonderful, still a bit blurred and boomy/thuddy, not 3D and crisp and focused and all that. But I'm used to my Sire, which is awesome, and my other P bass is on flats so I'm not used to roundwounds on a P bass. And I'm in a raucous blues band, not a refained solo artist. So I've decided I'm not spending £130 on a Nordstrand or Oil City for a possible improvement, I'll just wait until a serendipitous buy comes my way maybe.
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Bands you adore that no one else has ever heard of...
lownote replied to TrevorR's topic in General Discussion
Dove and Booevil... The Telekasters... -
Thanks pup peeps for all the ideas. It would seem the Nordstrand is the only straightforward plug and play solution. But £130? Man that's a lot of money. Oil City Pickups have offered to make me a bespoke one to my exact spec for the same money, only they need my originals to copy the shape. Having seen and heard a rather excellent vid of the stock pup being played https://youtu.be/3Qpu8-Y-BUc I'm holding off doing anything until I trial a KiOgon loom, hopefully today.
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Eh, maybe it's just me
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Brand new strings. Pocket fit is no Sire but I've seen worse. Difficult to describe. With my Toneriders in my other p bass I just get great 3 d sound. With this one I'm constantly fiddling with knobs but never get quality sound. And turning the tone knob up off 0 is hopeless, it just gets brassy and I dunno, cheap. I want deep chocolate thump.
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Just bought one. Like many aspects of it but find the pickups quiet, muddy and boomy. And cheap and jangly sounding with the tone control anywhere but off. Can anyone who has done a successful upgrade of this bass recommend ideas. A KiOgon loom is probably a given, but which pickup? I like the Tonerider very much but they don't do a 5 string version.
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**SOLD**Sire Marcus Miller V7 5 string with official gigbag
lownote replied to Wilco's topic in Basses For Sale
[quote name='Wilco' timestamp='1487173536' post='3237759'] Loads of postal requests, but I'd rather not risk a courier. [/quote] Why not. I've bought and sold 26 basses, so that's 56 tranactions of which around 45 were by courier. Only one came a cropper when the vendor didn't put any packing/ protection on the bass inside its travel box. Plus you can insure it. Just a thought. -
[quote name='blue' timestamp='1487176112' post='3237786'] When we're looking for paying work we have to be very flexible on what we will accept. I know rock guys that are playing in country cover bands because they have paying work. Blue [/quote] +1 In my short time on your planet my first band as a bassist was a country dancing ceilidh band. And I'm a blues/ jazz man. But they were pulling down £250-300 a night every couple of weeks. And they weren't much good. The really good ceilidh band round here pulls up to a grand a night and has a busy diary.
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The only flats I have experience of are Daddario chromes. Are the LB fls stiffer or less stiff than them, anyone know?
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I have no problem forgetting them. The trouble is it's between learning them and going on stage...
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A friend told me to try La Bella FLs, claiming they're not as stiff to play as the others. Can anyone endorse that, I'm not in a position to experiment?
