ribbetingfrog

You need something to power the cab.

the output from the headrush is line level and will not do this.

 

You need an amp head, power amp or an active speaker that powers itself.

I have for sale my OLP stingray.

its a great looking bass with a lot of character.

 

so I’ve revamped it thoroughly, Warman pickup and all new electrics.

 

new hardware throughout.

 

sanded and waxed neck, feels very nice to play and sounds great.

 

relic on body where it had some knocks 

 

the back is of blue sparkle, on the front time has yellowed it to make it more of a green sparkle.

they blend well!

 

only bad point is the neck has a slight kink (twist)

action is 3mm at 12th fret, wouldn’t go lower due to slight neck kink.

Selling it for what the parts cost me to do it up as it was ver unloved when I got it.
 

pickup in Stalybridge near Manchester, sk15.

Not posting.

 

Im on two, plus one I found dumped on the street and rescued, so three really.

 

I have many more watches than I do basses!

Superb bass, looks amazing, plays superbly.

light and comfy to play.

 

sounds great.

Dimarzio model p pickup into Spector tone pump.

 

walnut wings and 3 piece maple through neck.

Excellent condition, well looked after.

 

truly a wonderful bass but I need some pennies towards a car so moving it on.

 

Comes in a Spector hard case.

10 minutes ago, ped said:

Will that mean my friend can play into the interface with headphones without needing to fire up software unless he wants to record? Like I do on my Mac, I just select it from the audio output menu and can play along with Spotify etc.

I use the scarlett 2i2.

you can switch on monitoring to hear yourself and play along but it will be a dry signal with no amp or effects.

 

I use a cuvave cube baby to play along,  with headphones. only £40 ish and it can load IR, and has amps and effect and also bluetooths music.

a positive grid spark would be a great all in one solution.

Usb interface and speaker all in one and comes with press us studio one software.

 

 

 

You’re making me want to keep it now 😀

Keeping hold till I decide if I want to keep it or not!

Wonderful bass in excellent condition.

Comes with spector hard case.

 

really comfy to play as it has well designed curvy body with a curved back.

 

sound wise its a

Dimarzio model P into a Spector tone pump, i have the tone pump tamed somewhat to give cleaner tones but can be easily turned up to get beefy.

Sounds great.

 

Walnut wings and a 5 piece maple through neck.

 

it looks stunning , plays stunning and sounds amazing.

 

 

only thing of note is the strap lock has been repositioned by a previous owner as pictured, but this is covered when strap is on.

otherwise its pretty much perfect.

 

only reason im moving it on is ive ended ip playing my bass i leave at the studio so much its my main bass now, this deserves more play time.

Will consider trades, im loving p basses at the moment but open to consider anything.

 

Pickup sk15 near manchester , happy to meet up at a reasonable distance.

will not post.

Suits me fine, I get it online already.

cheaper ,more convenient and more environmentally friendly.

Gorgeous sire, hardly played.

Excellent condition, as new other than the pickup cover is fitted.

 

deserves more use as I’m not using it anywhere near enough.

 

plays superbly.

sounds great with the sire preamp and pickups.

Weighs 9lbs 4 oz

 

pickup in Stalybridge near Manchester, sk15.

Ibanez SR305EB 5 string bass guitar in weathered black finish, manufactured at the Cortek factory in Indonesia in January 2019.

I really like playing sr basses, they are  comfortable to play.

the EQ and 3 way power tap switch gives plenty of tonal possibilities.

The body shows some signs of use but overall is in good condition. Collection only or can deliver locally.

I use the Cuvave Cube Baby.

 

£40 ish, preamp, reverb, you can put IR on it,

rechargeable and has Bluetooth for backing tracks.

 

perfect headphone practice tool.

My band play through our nice PA system so i've not used an amp in anger for ages.

i used a pedal board for ages with a variety of pedals and a preamp and was really happy.

 

Both guitards in my band have used line 6 Helix's for ages and they sound great but i steadfastly stuck to my analogue pedalboard.

 

I don't remember what changed, but i think I was having a mess in the studio one sunday and tried a Helix and everything changed!

I got really addicted to being able to create pedalboards with any effect i wanted at my disposal.

 

So i took the plunge and got a Hotone Ampero One.

Which i liked so much!

I made loads of virtual pedal chains and had a lot of fun creating until I narrowed it down to what I liked best.

The more i tried things out, the more I liked the sounds and the useful options but the more I became aware of the limitations of the Ampero One , with limited options for how to lay out the signal chain.

 

So in came the Ampero II. Cheaper than a line 6 helix and with moe processing power.

More great sounds but more importantly, much more processing power and complete freedom as to how to lay out the signal path.

 

The Ampero II Stomp can have up to 10 effects in the chain in any order.

You can have:

All 10 in series with mono or stereo outputs

Parralel chains to run one or two inputs into one or two outputs

Input split at any point in the chain to become parralel going to two outputs or even joined again to run one output

Effects loop at any point in the effects chain, even out at one point and back at another.

 

These are all easy to set up with factory templates for all options.

 

The unit comes with sevceral cab sims, for guitar, bass and acoustic. It also includes 20 Celestion IR's nut these are all for guitar cabs, V30s, greenbacks et al.

There are also 20 slots to put in your own IR's so I've uploaded a good few bass IRs I own from Celestion and other places.

 

There are tons of amp sims on offer, including 6 bass amps.

I usually use the Ampeg SVT sim, it's very much my go to and my favorite of the bass amps included but there are Ampeg flip, Mesa and Vox amps included as well as a bass Di sim.

The Mesa model on the Ampero 1 and 2 sounds awful to me. absolutely no low end which makes them unuseable. Shame as i like the gainy nature of the model.

 

Some of the guitar amps sound really good on bass. I love the Roland Jazz Chorus model. On the Ampero one the guitar amps had a lot of hiss when used with bass but the Ampero 2 seems to have sorted this.

You can have an amp as one effects slot, or you can split it into preamp and power amp. This allows more tone sculpting and a choice of tube types but does take up an extra slot and processor power.

 

Once the amp and cab are sorted, theres loads more to play with.

I like to set up a noise gate, and i really like the Gated Boost which really cleans up my low end to get rid of any boominess and muddiness. It's something of a magic bullet that really makes the bass tone far better.

 

There are loads of boosts, drives, modulations, choruses, delays and reverbs. Theres four detunes, ring mods, and pretty much anything you'll need. many are dedicated bass effects too with most types having at least one bass option.

 

Theres even a Darkglass B3K model in the drives, which sounds fantastic but is a little more processor intensive than the other drives.

 

 

My current set up is a bi-amped tone:

one input split into two parralel chains, each start with an eq and noise gate.

the first chain the eq is set to keep the low end, which i keep clean. gated boost, into Ampeg svt into Ampeg 810 IR.

second chain eq loses low end but keeps higher, into a Dumble sim into a Celestion v30 410 IR. This has a switchable quad detune for more atmospheric intros or outros.

It sounds sooo good, clean low end and hairy top end and i tweak it to have the darkglass mod instead of the detune for dirtier patches.

 

So no problem running dual chains , sims and IR's although this set up does pretty much max the processor.

 

Hardware wise there are balanced stereo outs (balanced jacks only but i sue xlr adaptor to connect to the mixer) and a stereo effects chain.

Aux in and headphone out. midi connections and usb to connect to computer.

 

You can do anything easily on the touchscreen but its also a little easier to do on computer and you can add IR's. 

 

There are three footpedals and each bank of patches gets three patches. I have clean dirty and really dirty set up for each of my basses.

 

I also connect an Ampero two button footswitch which you can assign functionality.

You can also assign the quick access knobs on the front to adjust whatever you want or connect an expression pedal instead.

 

 

The Ampero II is wonderful. and will my rig for ages.

It gives me the option to do whatever i want to my pedal chain and it sounds superb.

 

Bonus, I can even set up anything i want for electric or acoustic guitar too. It even functions as  a recording interface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mines a carefully aimed sledgehammer 

I’m in Stalybridge, east Manchester if you need a last leg.

 

Daniel O’Donnell is the greatest example of the charisma free performer.

the old dears love him but I’ve never seen anyone else do soulless like he does.

Hold the pick loosely, it gives a much softer attack more like fingers.

Roll the to be off some and you're in the ball park.

 

Thatll teach me not to look before posting 😂

Someone must want to snap this up 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Harley-Benton-BZ-7000-NT-7-string-bass-guitar-/265498603167?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

 

 

or his other at a cheap £750

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Harley-Benton-Deluxe-Series-Bass-/265493570917?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

 

16 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

It's all down to the tonewood used in the building...

I hear tone is all in the fingers

Guitarist in my band modded a bass like this, works really well!

18 hours ago, MoonBassAlpha said:

Plectrum holder

For those heathens among us that use picks 😉

I had one not long after I started playing.

nice bass and the pickups were good.

The price is excellent.

 

 

I picked this up with a scratch plate that was wonderfully yellowed with sunlight!

I decided to make a fun relic.

 

ive put Wilkinson tuners on it and a Lindy Fralin 51 p pickup.

swopped the tone knob for a kill switch, and added the bridge cover for giggles more than anything!

 

it’s a half decent short scale with smile character!

 

Collection only, sk15 Stalybridge near Manchester.

 

any trial welcome.

57 minutes ago, Thunderbird said:

For some reason I always thought these were short scale 

Cool bass glwts

It is actually a bit short overall due to the small headstock but it’s 34” scale.

I bought this a couple of years ago from a guy who’d had it from new and barely played it.

it’s in excellent condition as a result.

stunning for a 20 year old bass.

 

the flame Green colour was a limited edition only made for one year so it’s a rare colour of a rare bass.

looks stunningly good.

 

These we’re designed by an ex fender master builder.

The build quality is superb.

Feels on a par with a Squier classic vibe.

 

Glossy and really playable neck.

 

Has a preamp that can be turned on or off with the push/pull volume knob.

 

The preamp is actually really nice, makes a great tone but does add a tiny bit of hiss, hardly noticeable.

lovely tone from the preamp though.

 

The pickups are ok but nothing special.

I put a bare knuckle p bass pup in and it was wonderful.

used it with this pickup for the time I e had it.

takes upgrades very well.

 

I don’t want to post, pickup in Stalybridge SK15.