bobmartin

8 hours ago, alyctes said:

Dag nabbit...  Cash flow does not permit.  Bah, humbug.

 

Good lluck with your sale

Many thanks. My "T T Timing's" not so good though.. 

SOLD

Price Drop £425

With a set of "La Bella" Tapewound strings and set-up by Mansons guitar shop.

One owner, gigged twice, and as I'm hardly playing any bass, let alone fretless, it's time to move this instrument on..

The current new price is around £600 pounds. Delivery at cost to buyer, or collection, and sent in a professional cardboard shipping shipping container.

https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/srh500f_1p_05.html

Sorry, no trades.

5 hours ago, Paul S said:

 

Sound lush on a LP Jnr DC, don't they!

 

I haven't gigged with it yet, and I bought it off eBay in an "as new" apart from the dodgy nut. I'm very happy with it through my Markbass 802, and it has a broad tonal range just of the tone pot alone. I need to set the pick-up height, my first humbuckers since heaven knows when..

Thanks for the comments, and I'm happy to report that it's the nut which is too low, which is a relief considering that it could have been a vibrating truss rod..

The luthier who set it up insisted (over the phone) that it was a string problem, 'cos TI's have very poor quality control. What can you say?

The bass is a Gibson Les Paul Tribute DC and the first short scale since 1970 when I started with a EB3, and makes a proper bass sound.😉

Bob.

I have a new set of Thomastik Jazz Flats on a recently set-up short scale Gibson bass. There's a buzz on the F on the A string which is not fret related, as I can bend the other string to the same spot and there's no issue.

But here's a thing, I'm only getting it when one finger is touching the string. I get the buzz when playing it with my first finger, but not when all my 4th all fingers are down on the string, or even one other. So the vibration is coming from the other side of the played note? How can this be?

Bob.

2 hours ago, Hellzero said:

 

How can someone recommend something he didn't try ? 🤔

 

 

If you're referring to my comment, I'm referring to the fact that my MB 802 works well with 2 eq's and that others have spoken in favour of the 2 eq's on the Quilter. Check my earlier posts.

57 minutes ago, BovvieBoi said:

What cab did you use with it? I could probably stretch up to £1000 for some serious gear

I haven't used one (Quilter), just seen video reviews, but it only has 2 tone controls and seems able to make a range of sounds. there's a few users on this forum.

1 hour ago, BovvieBoi said:

 

Lack of EQ on it though... Would a decent EQ pedal make up for that?

 

I you want to make a deep full sound without a specifically sounding mid frequency then 2 tone controls is fine IMO. I can go straight to the sound I want with no messing, and that's with a bass that only has a treble cut.

The Quilter Bass Block has similar controls, and my departed GK had 6 tone controls of which I only ever used one, the contour.

(The horn unit isn't hissy by the way.)

A Markbass 802 is within your budget and has a switchable speaker output. Light too. 

I though SB was all synths?

Before regulations changed, it was easy to wrap an elastic band around jack sockets to keep them tight, and I still do it on basses that allow this. The new less serviceable sockets were intended to stop owners pushing screwdrivers into high current/voltage electrics, but has turned into a money spinner for the maintenance folks..

The cheap and cheerful Ashdown OriginAL has an input impedance of 4m Ohms, ok not the 10 m of the Platinum but should do the job. Has a 5 band eq as well..

Thanks for the interest, but I've decided to withdraw this combo from sale. 

2 hours ago, eude said:

The combo has one edge over the separates, and that's the ability to lean the cabs back from monitoring purposes. I guess it's not going to be a deal breaker for everyone, but I would certainly found it useful, or certainly would've when I gigged loads pre kids...

Eude

I got the impression that the combo cab was smaller than the stand alone cab and I couldn't easily find the tweeter switch, is there one?  I don't know about changes to the cabs, but I have contacted Ashdown who assured me that the Original amp remains the same. 

I've had GK combos for ever, so at the the moment I'm just interested in the amp that I can run with a GK extension cab until I get some spare cash..

The  amp and 1x12 cab (separates) combination sounded really good to me. There's a 3 position horn setting which I preferred off. The new price for the stand alone amp is £279 (on the Ashdown Site), but this might be for the next new batch to arrive.  Andersons are selling are selling the cab for £199, making the pair £478. Cheaper than the combo but with the flexibility of separates.

Gallien Krueger MB150S-112 III

For sale due to lack of use. In an unmarked condition, apart from a little patch of paint loss on the front right top corner as seen in the photo, having had minimal use, and including a gig bag.

Owned from new and used for a background dinner music gig, now finished..

The Thomman.de listing puts this amp at the second most bought combo.. https://www.thomann.de/gb/cat_rank.html?ar=142875

The high impedance input which makes it compatible with Double Bass piezo electric pickups, also because the speaker is infinite baffle the D/B doesn't feed back so readily in the lower frequencies.

GK says..

“A longtime favorite of the biggest session artists in the industry, GK’s MicroBass remains the standard for high quality compact bass amplification in and out of the studio. With its sturdy welded aluminum chassis, the MicroBass Series III is equally at home on the road or in the studio. Used alone or with the 112 MBX extension cabinet, this little powerhouse delivers a surprisingly large and articulate sound.”

South Devon. Buyer collects or meet along the M5.

11 hours ago, play loud and clear said:

Hi bobmartin
Thank you for your message... the head never served... from which the word new and the small price goes with:..
Best Regards 
Michael

That's as maybe, but "new" usually means from a retailer, boxed etc.

Tis a good price though..

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But it's not new, surely this post should read, as, or like new?

The used value of these is going to be very poor. Avoid...

I wanted one because I demo'ed my latest bass (Ibanez) on it, and the mid shape really suited it. But the second hand value of my GK gear wasn't good enough..

Bass isn't my first instrument anymore so I have to restrain myself re new stuff.

I'm just down the road from you funky884, and had bad GAS for this amp 2 months ago,

but I'm over it now..

I forgot to mention that It's a fretless piezo model SRH 500F, I'm not looking for a Jaco or fusion sound, more of a warm D/B one that fits well with acoustic pianos. 

I'll give a larger set a go, the nut will have to be enlarged but no probs because I want to replace it (graphite) with an ebony one at some point.

Tapewounds? 

I got the different weights from the D'addario site using the "compare" tool on the Chromes page. It's about a 24lb difference. I want a little more thump and not such a clear attack.

I want to try a heavier set on an Ibanez next that has a narrow neck, compared with any other bass that I've owned. The current set are (flat wound) Chromes, 45's to 100", and I think that the 50's to 100' might suit me better, but there's a tension difference of 24lbs.

Is there any chance that I could damage the neck? The tech in the shop was muttering a bit..

I found a simple solution, which is inserting s piece of fine string under the strings and pushing it up to the nut. Works a treat.