ChunkyMunky

And sold!  

And sold. Off to a loving home! 

Hello, everyone.

Up for grabs is my Kala U-Bass. I recently acquired this in a p/ex and whilst it's a fantastic bit of fun to play, my bank account is frowning at me. Circumstances force sale.

I'm based in Plymouth and postage is available if need be. Any questions, offers or rotten fruit, please throw them my way. Thanks a bunch!

Up for grabs is my Gallien Krueger MB500 Fusion head. Absolutely incredible and huge tones for the size of an old school laptop - what's not to like? I originally bought this used, power transformer has been upgraded (from factory) as well as the tubes. Circumstances forcing sale.

I'm based in Plymouth, any questions or offers, please feel free to ask. Social distancing and all the other good stuff will be considered, postage available if need be. I also have other items up for grabs too.

Thanks a bunch for reading. 

Up for grabs is my Gallien Krueger MB500 head. After seemingly owning almost every bass head by this point, this one along with the other GKMB500 (Fusion - with tubes) is among the best of them. Circumstances forcing sale.

I'm based in Plymouth, any questions or offers, please feel free to ask. Social distancing and all the other good stuff will be considered, postage available if need be. I also have other items up for grabs too.

Thanks a bunch for reading. 

Still up for grabs?

Wow, I posted this 5 years ago.

How did everyone find the DVD? Any good?

Over a year later, it's still really inspiring to see.

Bump for BassBod. This chap is the encyclopedia for all things SWR and more. Buy with the utmost confidence.

Thanks, itsmedunc! Yeah, I was a bit silly with it. These things happen.

Hi, all!

In my limited genius, I've managed to wreck the end of my overdraft without really noticing. Thusly, I'm having to trim my gear until I can recover financially. The amp itself? The legendary SWR 2x10 Redhead, sounds incredible. I bought this from BassBod and it's obvious he had truly looked after this. There's a VERY VERY faint hum and is fantastic elsewhere. Any questions, please feel free to ask.  

How on this lovely earth has this not sold yet?! 

Someone's in for a bargain then!

Huge price drop. Financial situation dictates this one! 

**£279!**

Just polished off a trade with Duncan. Absolute gent to deal with and to say he is knowledgeable on his stuff is a minor understatement! The chap simply oozes enthusiasm and knowledge with all things bass related, so if you're dealing with Duncan, you're in for a right treat. Unparalleled attention to detail regarding the equipment too, well worth the 300 mile road trip.

Up for grabs here is my SWR SM900 (pre-Fender). I bought this as a one off gamble as I'm a huge fan of the SWR sound and I was most pleasantly surprised by it. It's currently set for a 110v output but I will include the external power transformer so your potential new acquisition isn't suddenly moonlighting as a popcorn machine. I can also include the rack case I bought for it (stripped off it's gawky carpet finish with the intention of retolexing it to match a creme Fender Vibro-King combo the guitartist in a band I play with has. The words of Louis Balfour would say "niiiiiiice..."). Precarious financial situation at present is forcing this (exceptionally) reluctant sale. 

I'm based out of West Sussex and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Up for grabs is my SWR Mo Bass head. An amazing sound and one that encapsulates the 'SWR' tone that it's known for. Precarious financial situation forces a reluctant sale. 
I'm based in West Sussex and if you have any questions, please feel free to send them through. Thanks!

This is so tempting. 

Hey, y'all! As the title says. It's your favourite overly inquisitive engineering student back once again. 

Anyone here into CNC stuff at all? I'm looking to get some stuff going with a Workbee CNC kit and go from there. Just curious to see who else is out there?

Ah, what a great question. 😎

So, when I went to learn this kind of stuff, I found that it takes a different mindset and approach to it. The bass isn't going to be the only thing quantized to the track. The drums/percussion and even other bits within the track will be quantized. Essentially, the tracks are divided.  (for the techie geeks, engineers and nerds amongst us - I wonder if how we refer to subdivisions of bars in sheet music perfectly correlates to binary, hexidecimal etc? 1-2-4-8-16-32 being the denominator to a note subdivision?). 

In your mind, how do you think a digitally expressed music motif would be played? Under the constraints of the technology of the time, I'd think of these;

- Dynamics. They usually stay relatively the same throughout.

- Do they drag, push or play dead on in the pocket? Dead on. 

- If you can read music, look at the sheet as if it's a grid divided into 16th notes (32nds if you're playing the likes of Michael Jackson's 'Speed Demon' 🤣). Whilst it's also a great groove exercise, it's also helpful to see where the bass synchronises with the other instruments on the track. If a track is all digitally composed, they will be exactly on. I can't imagine the tolerance (or 'humanising' as Logic Pro would tell you) to be very much, if at all, in terms of 'pocket'.

- On the topic of eliminating 'humanising' in your basslines, I'd recommend some exercises that'll not only help your playing in this realm but they will make your playing so much cleaner in general. If you set your metronome to below 15bpm, leave it running and see if you can hit your notes as accurately as possible to that click. Don't be tempted to embellish or go astray from it. The signs of agitation and frustration are symptomatic of significant improvement. Notice how different your playing is afterwards and be prepared to grin like Cheshire Cat, my low end friend. I call this 'Anti-microflamming'. 

- If the bass line goes below a standard low 'E', can your 5 string handle it without going 'floppy'? Your ye olde Casios and Yamaha DX-7s never have/had this issue. 

- A bass mute (I know, Motown, right?) is surprisingly helpful. Pop some foam under the strings and right by the bridge for an experiment. Play along with the tracks you so wish to and see if it helps your playing.

I do hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions. If not, my apologies for over indulging here.

How about a discretionary test on the distance away from a cabinet and how that cabinet sounds at distance? See if the end results matches our hypothesis? 

(Ignore if it's a silly idea, a bit sleep deprived here)

1 hour ago, Jabba_the_gut said:

I bought a couple of slabs of sycamore from a local place in 2016. It was relatively fresh cut hence why I have been storing it to let it air dry. I weighed both pieces when I bought them so I decided to weigh them again today to see how much moisture has been lost. This one slab started at 24kg and now weighs 16.8kg. 

I've scraped the surface of it to get through the saw marks and there is a really nice tight ripple. You have no idea what the wood will be like until this point. Now I just want to turn it into something!! The other slab is still very nice but no signs of rippling - will still make something nice though.

Just got to figure out how to get this wood processed....

 

Any idea what you fancy building? Fancy doing anything different at all?

Though the bargains are few and far between, a quick look on t'web yielded this;

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/fender-jazz-bass-62-ri-mij-made-in-japan-93-94/1335587598

I mean, not bad for £500, right? MIJ Fender stuff certainly has gone up in price since I last checked.

5 minutes ago, Tulou5445 said:

It's a '93 Japanese Fender Jazz fretless and to my surprise also, it is selling (reduced from £500) to £380. It sounds too good to be true but it can't not be legit. Not returning it would be no issue 

28 minutes ago, Tulou5445 said:

I have found a beautiful Fender Jazz but it is shipping from Mexico from what seems to be an independent guitar shop, found on Reverb, the postage cost being £160 to the UK.

 It makes me wonder about the shipping and the reduced cost by ration to one another. Then there's import taxes and all sorts of fun. I'd be a bit weary and honestly, I reckon you could easily find the same bass around our neck of the woods for around the same price or even lower by comparison to the cost of the bass, shipping, imports and the nervousness of dodgy shipping. Mind you, if you're really that keen, go for it!

How I love this thread. I'm going to use all of the transcriptions as sight-reading practice