Roger2611

In:

Spector forte

Spector Legend Custom

Yamaha 735a

ESP horizon 5 string

Matt Freeman Squier

Markbass 121 combo

Trace Elliott SMX350

Digitech drop pedal

Out:

1979 Precision

Custom shop 62 Precision

Status Energy Matrix

Status Matrix S1

Road worn Precision

Jap 62 reissue Jazz Bass (in and out very quickly!)

Westone Thunder III fretless

Usa Stingray Sub

Still to go:

Bass Collection SB801

Early Fender Precision Lyte

Possibly 2 Mesa subway 1x12 cabs and a Walkabout head....still not sure I want to part with that yet!!

All in all I put a few grand back in the bank which is a 1st!

I would like to offer up the Digitech Drop pedal, yes, sure it works better on guitar than on bass but for the few songs I need it for it saves a drop tuned bass on stage and another offstage in case of issues with the main bass!

Hated it! Trying to load both in and out and the ignorant just stood there and were completely unable to comprehend an "excuse me please" as you stood there with heavy speakers in each hand, again the ignorant who thought it entirely acceptable to want to walk across the stage to access the loos whilst we were setting up / stripping down, rather than bother to walk down the shot corridor signed "to the toilets!" A pub that couldn't work out how their own light worked which meant we were either in virtual darkness or complete daylight....I have to admit I haven't really enjoyed playing this pub, last night just re-enforced my dislike!

I would like to offer up a bit of Bruce Foxton candy in the way of Down in a Tubestation at Midnight 

Definitely a room thing, I was getting rather grumpy that a full fat American Spector Forte through an Ampeg B1E into 2 Markbass 1x12 cabs sounded weak and uninspiring, I moved the cabs to a different position in the room and bang, there was the sound that I expected to get out of a set up like that!

I saw Peter Hook and the Light the other week, the guitarist was fantastic, he played all the Joy Division and New Order stuff really well, don't know who the rest of the band were, I also think they had a drummer but didn't pay enough attention to be certain 🤣

https://www.facebook.com/doublesevenguitars Try this guy, his name is Matt, he was our guitarist in our rock band for a while but also worked for some high end racing teams so was pretty familiar with wrapping for the race cars

He is a good guy and would do you a really nice job

Rog

I will happily pay more just to ensure I don't buy from Amazon, don't get me wrong they are absolutely brilliant at what they do...prices are usually great, the stuff gets delivered 30 seconds before you even ordered and my high street gets more and more empty every time I see it and my council tax goes up by the maximum amount each year as I am expected to help fill the void left by the drop in business rates from the empty shops in the high street!  

I remember seeing Stiff Little Fingers in Leamington Spa some years back, Ian McCallum managed to pink torpedo up his guitar part during the song.....Jake looked over at him and gave the dreaded death stare....at the end of the song he announced "that was called .......... well it was for those of us that could f**king remember the song!"

 I had a Fender Custom shop 62 Precision...it was nice, sold it as my standard Mexican made 50's classic was nicer!

I am currently using a Yamaha 735a as it gives me 5 strings and still sounds quite a lot like a p bass

We were "lucky" enough to be joined on stage by a rather drunk young lady who managed to knock the fan over and promptly stand over it, skirt around her neck, knickers on show, we tried to get the older lady she was with to recover her from the stage and were proudly told "that's my daughter!"

Got to be Paul Simonen's Precision seconds from destruction and a step into immortality

We put our sub at the back next to the drummer on the opposite side to me to try and get the bass out evenly on both sides of the stage, however, knowing that sub bass frequencies are not known for doing what we want them to it probably makes very little difference, other than giving us somewhere, away from grubby fingers to sit the PA head!

I was lucky enough to find a Behringer V Verb for a decent price, it was absolutely brilliant for the 2 whole weeks it worked until one day with a tiny wisp of smoke it completely died, Behringer refuse to release schematics for products so once it dies it cannot be repaired

Check whether the XR18 will allow you to link aux's to create a stereo mix, I have a UI24 as an enclosed IEM set up, we tried running as mono in ear mixes but the clarity was poor, switching to stereo mixes allowed us to place all the different instruments in different places in the stereo spectrum and really improved the sound, of course the trouble is that for each IEM out mix you are using 2 aux sends so even the UI24 only really allows for 4 stereo IEM mixes unless you start routing to use the 2 headphone outs as a 5th stereo aux send!

Either way, it turned out the drummer was deaf in one ear and the rest of the band were too tight to invest in decent IEM set ups so the whole project was an expensive waste of money!

Reaper, I think it is the most intuitive of the DAW's out there, there are online tutorials for just anything you could wish for, their updates always seem stable and it is a fraction of the price of other DAW's 

7 hours ago, Roger2611 said:

One minor frustration, I have sold 5 basses through Bass Direct over the last couple of months, all sold for what I wanted back for them and all sold really quickly, my frustration is on how you get paid, I have had to chase on every bass to confirm I had been paid for them, I am still waiting for confirmation that the money for the final one sold has been paid in to my account!

 

There doesn't seem to be any process to let a seller know they have been paid for the bass sold by Bass Direct on their behalf!

 

I have brought loads from Bass Direct in the past and have always found them a pleasure to deal with, this was my first ever experience of selling on a commission basis and again I was impressed and generally happy with the process all I needed was a text or email to confirm that payment had been made! 

 

Just checked with my bank who have confirmed that it has been paid!

A final update, Mark rang me today to confirm that it had been paid! 

Would I sell through Bass Direct again, yep, without hesitation, I did put all the basses out on sale on other sales sites prior to moving them to Bass Direct and had absolutely no sensible interest in them, Mark sold them really quickly and returned the same money I had put them out for on the other sales sites, so the eventual buyers ended up paying 20% more for them, I priced them pretty keenly to try and get a quick sale, maybe I should have priced them 20% higher when I offered them out 1st time!

One minor frustration, I have sold 5 basses through Bass Direct over the last couple of months, all sold for what I wanted back for them and all sold really quickly, my frustration is on how you get paid, I have had to chase on every bass to confirm I had been paid for them, I am still waiting for confirmation that the money for the final one sold has been paid in to my account!

There doesn't seem to be any process to let a seller know they have been paid for the bass sold by Bass Direct on their behalf!

I have brought loads from Bass Direct in the past and have always found them a pleasure to deal with, this was my first ever experience of selling on a commission basis and again I was impressed and generally happy with the process all I needed was a text or email to confirm that payment had been made! 

Just checked with my bank who have confirmed that it has been paid!

On 07/08/2021 at 18:52, Roger2611 said:

Our guitarist in the rock band tested positive yesterday, we had rehearsed on Wednesday evening, I am gigging tonight with the covers band so took a lateral flow test yesterday and this morning, fortunately both came out negative so the band are happy for the gig to go ahead this evening

And joy of joys the rest of the rock band tested positive on Saturday and I finally tested positive this morning! That's next weekend's gigs out then! Bloody Covid!

Our guitarist in the rock band tested positive yesterday, we had rehearsed on Wednesday evening, I am gigging tonight with the covers band so took a lateral flow test yesterday and this morning, fortunately both came out negative so the band are happy for the gig to go ahead this evening

2 minutes ago, WinterMute said:

Best advice he gives, sort your room/monitors out and REFERENCE. Put simply, no-one's room sounds accurate for bass, mine included and I know what I'm doing, I exempt the likes of Abbey Road and Real World from these comments obviously!

 

 

Very much this, I realised over the last couple of days how much I was starting to dislike the sound of an Ampeg B1E into 2 1x12 Markbass cabs with a full fat American Spector with EMG X pups fitted, it was giving this horrible mid range with no focus to the bottom end at all...the answer, move the amp from one wall to another position in the room and I now have the sort of sound you would expect to get with a quality set up!

I looked at an early Fortress for sale locally last year, the neck was badly twisted, a bit of digging confirmed this was a reasonably common thing with the early basses, we tried adjusting the neck but it didn't want to know, the seller ended up taking it to a luthier who confirmed the neck was stuffed, I believe he just ended up hanging it on the wall as an ornament! 

I have brought quite a bit from them, always been happy dealing with them and happy with the stuff they sent me....there's a stonking recommendation for you!

Pretty much for all of the genres you mentioned, P bass and a decent amp!