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43 minutes ago, casapete said:

Fender Rumble 100v3 combo. Fabulous sounding amp for home or small gigs, and light as

a feather (OK - 22lbs). Has a good XLR DI output too. New currently around £330, s/h

circa £200. Had mine a couple of years and love it! 

I picked one of these up off Facebook recently, just for ease of rehearsal/jams etc. I must say I'm quite impressed by it! I paid £150 for mine too which is an absolute bargain.

Rob

I can't find these for sale anywhere?

My lightest bass is my '78 Precision. Lots of people think all late 70's Fender basses are heavy, and clearly some are, but this one is 8lbs 9oz with the covers off. It's an absolute delight to play. My '73 P bass is only a couple of ounces heavier too. 

My heaviest bass is my '73 Jazz at 9lbs 3oz. This is beginning to look like the lightest 70's  jazz bass ever made the more I look for another!

Rob

Thanks for the input chaps. Having slept on it, I think I'm going to leave it. 

Here's the bass I was looking at. '76 Jazz at BassBros at a price you just cannot argue with.

Someone will get a bargain and love it to bits.

Rob

I do like a lighter bass.

Mine are all a bit under or just slightly over 9lbs/4kg.

However, I haven't actually tried to play a heavier bass, I've just avoided them having had surgery on my lower back 8 years ago.

A bass has come up that i really fancy, and the price is right, however it's 10lbs 7oz/4.8kg, and it's too far away for me to go and try it. 

Who plays a heavier bass? How do you deal with it? Do you even notice/care? Is there that much difference between 4kg and 4.8kg?

Thanks,

Rob 

I used to use EVRI quite a lot, until recently.

I sold a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power on here late last year, it vanished into thin air after being tracked to one of their hubs. Getting a refund was a very painful and time consuming process, and I even had to provide my original purchase receipt from years ago to prove the value. I ended up refunding the buyer here long before I ever saw any money back from EVRI. It probably took 4 weeks to resolve, beginning to end, with me contacting them almost every other day via email & chatbot. I spoke to a real person ONCE.

I will never use them again.

Rob

A couple of months ago I was asked if I would like to join a newly forming blues band. I was quite flattered to be asked to be honest, as some of you might know I haven't been playing bass for very long (just over two years) having been a guitarist for the last 40 years. The guy forming the band is quite well known around here, having been in two rather famous and successful bands in the 80's, touring the world and doing TV.  The other musicians are not slouches either, one moved to Chicago for five years to immerse himself in the blues, and the drummer has played the Royal Albert Hall, twice!

Rehearsals are low key but diligent affairs, well run, well planned, briefed in advance on what to learn. Three new ones each week, and by the end of rehearsal they are recorded as a reminder of form and structure. All rehearsals are at the band leaders house, in his cellar, which is well kitted out and comfortable, and we often retire to the pub around 9.30 for a bit of reflection.

The thing I hadn't anticipated, was being asked to try out a few of the numbers on lead vocal. Which I did for the first time on Wednesday, and it seems they have stuck and are now my tunes. More will be coming my way in due course. It's the one thing I thought I would never do again, sing lead vocal. This time last year, I would never have managed it, as playing bass and singing is a whole other level of difficult than playing guitar and singing, but here I am. 

Onwards.

Rob

10 hours ago, shug said:

 

Ha! Y'ain't wrong.

More to come, too, ancient and modern. Got a lovely 72/3 Traynor Custom Special head, all present and correct, an early series Demeter pre amp, a big ol' Aguilar 412, an Ampeg 212 (Great, heavy as, though), coupla old school power amps, maybe a couple of pre-amp pedals. Probably more...

How you liking that Bergantino?

 

Love to you and Jan

 

Shug

What are you going to do with all the room at home that you will now be able to use? 😂

The Bergantino is really nice. It’s hard to describe how it sounds really, it just sounds better than everything else I’ve tried I suppose. It’s very open and responsive, very natural sounding.

Shug, you have often chided me, over many years, on my amps/gear/guitars obsessions, but here you are, quietly revealing that you are just as bad as the rest of us, with a ton of lovely vintage and high end gear, that i had absolutely no idea that you had, because you've been keeping it quiet all this time! If you want to talk, you know where I am.

Hope to see you soon,

Rob (& Jan)

25 minutes ago, BassAgent said:

I even seem to remember I have a J. Torres neck on my Precision. It's a fantastic neck, especially after I had one of NL's best luthiers refret it.

My '73 Precision.

Fair enough!

4 minutes ago, itsmedunc said:

Will you be bringing any of the cows along Rob? 😂

Do you want to give me a clue? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about!

7 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

Were B necks standard in the period? I thought they were made to order and C was still standard. Happy to be wrong  because I find B width much comfier.

It's why I have no desire for a 60's Precision Bass. Thank the Lord !

1 hour ago, OliverBlackman said:

Is that a reasonable price? It doesn’t seem that long ago that £2.5k would be appropriate for an early 70s p bass. He should really take the neck off, almost looks like a B nut from the pics. Pics of the neck pocket and pots should be minimum. 

£2.5k would have bought you one maybe two or three years ago. My '73 was £2.6k exactly two years ago. I do think this is a nice bass for a decent price right now. It should be a B neck, mine is, at 41mm.

Rob

7 minutes ago, phsycoandy said:

Sold

Not surprised at all at that price.

Bargain !

I love mine! 

GLWTS

What you see here is a vintage 1973 Fender Pro Reverb.

It has all the right parts, but not necessarily in the right order, as you see.

I bought this with restoration in mind, but in three years, I have only stripped it down and removed the tolex from the cab. 

This was a working amp when I bought it, albeit in need of a full service and restoration. I'm supplying it with two reverb tanks, on the off chance that one of them is working. I'm also selling two faceplates with it, one is the original and a bit tatty, the other is one I bought to use in the restoration and is much cleaner. The speakers are working, and the cones are intact. The mains transformer is changed, current one make and spec unknown.

There is no such thing as a dead Fender, someone will be able to restore this and have a wonderful sounding amplifier.

I would suggest new tolex & grillcloth, cabinet hardware and new mains transformer (correct parts widely available), full service, recap and revalve.

This amp does not come with a "roundtuit", I could never get one anywhere.

Collection or meetup preferred, for obvious reasons.

Rob

Removed from a vintage Fender 6G3 combo. Fully working, sounding good. no damage to cone.

Reduced to £10

Price does not include postage, I will need to get quotes.

Rob

These came on a Precision, but I was informed they hadn't been on it long. Hence, they are cut for P bass, and I have included a pic of them fitted so you can see the number of wraps available.

I have used them a little, but not much, just enough to play them in. They feel great, just like La Bellas should, I just prefer the lighter gauge of the LTFs.

Price includes postage to UK mainland.

Cheers,

Rob

2 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Anyone ever seen a logo like this on a 65 L serial number Jazz , I’ve never seen it before 

No, never. It does make me twitch a bit.

Andy bought my Babicz bridge. Paid promptly and then was patient to wait over Christmas for delivery.

Nice guy to deal with.

Rob

Shug! Good luck with the new year sale! Jan sends her love, Rob.

15 hours ago, asingardenof said:

Does the power socket on anyone else's Elf move this much? It's now one of two suspects in my glitchy hell from last night and wanted to see if this was ommon and/or something to worry about.

 

 

So, given mine does the same, maybe to a lesser extent, I don't know. My first thought was to investigate whether the socket is wired directly to the board or if it is chassis mounted then wired to the board by flying leads. Looking at some pics available on the internet, it's the latter, in which case the lateral movement should have no effect on the connections inside. 

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/internal-photos-of-trace-elliot-elf.1306639/

Rob

15 hours ago, asingardenof said:

Does the power socket on anyone else's Elf move this much? It's now one of two suspects in my glitchy hell from last night and wanted to see if this was ommon and/or something to worry about.

 

 

I just got mine out, confident that mine didn't do that, but in fact it does. It does move side to side a bit. I've never noticed it before.

Rob

I think the decision whether or not to take a spare depends quite a bit on the basses that you have/use. Mine are vintage 70’s for the most part, and very recently I had a pickup spontaneously expire. If I had been on a gig, with no backup, it could have been awkward. It was a Jazz bass however, so I could have got away with just using the other pickup for the rest of the gig. In the case of a Precision pickup failure, it’s game over. Since the pickup failure happened, I have bought a double gig bag, and always carry two basses. The chap who rewound my Jazz pickup (Ash from Oil City Pickups) told me that pickup failures in 70’s Fenders are becoming much more common as they hit that 50 year milestone. 
Rob