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  1. Frank Blank
    As an offshoot from this post, can anyone explain to me why a bass player would desire their bass, or perhaps more accurately the material their bass is made from, to have ‘sustain’? In my many years of bass playing it is not a quality I have sought from a bass nor heard in music to my knowledge. Again, am I missing out on something or am I simply a philistine with no nuance to my hearing? Could someone point out a bass line or piece of music where the bass is employing sustain? I discussed this briefly on Saturday with the chap who works on my guitars and he was as baffled by the concept as me.
  2. Frank Blank
    *NOW SOLD* Price drop - Fender Aerodyne, mint condition, unplayed £500 Here are the circumstances. This bass was bought on 17th November 2017. It went straight from the Fender carton into a gig bag and on the 18th Nov. it was taken to Guitar Technical Services for a Pro Set Up. As GTS had a backlog the work was not finished until just prior to Xmas when I was unable to pick it up (full documentation of set up with pics). I picked it up today. The reason for the sale is that just a week after the purchase, on the 25th November to be precise, I had my short scale bass revelation and realised that short scale is the way to go, I haven't played any of my standard scale basses since. So yes, I am taking a huge hit on this one but such is the search for our ideal instruments!
  3. Frank Blank
    I am selling a lot of my gear to completely change to short scale. Chowny make beautiful ss basses, I’m going for a fretted SWB Pro and a fretless SWB-1.
  4. Frank Blank
    I’m not far behind at 36 years playing. After years of attempting to have my basses set up by inexperienced bass techs who talked the talk without the requisite walk or staff in music shops who weren’t much better, I finally found Guitar Technical Services and after my first bass was set up there I realised not only that I had never had a guitar or bass set up correctly by anyone before but also that I had never even played a correctly set up bass. Eye opener indeed.
  5. Frank Blank
    I agree. I suppose the modern construction techniques even the basses out into a plateau of quality whereas the hand assembly, as you say, turns out dogs, middle ground and gems. Do you really think that the lesser or middling ones really get destroyed or do they make it through history in the hands of less discering players until they are past the line and become vintage and valuable regardless of tone and playability?
  6. Frank Blank
    I wondered why I could only find the one story about it online. Excellent, thanks for letting us know. Whether or not that info was a relief or not to him remains a mystery I suppose.
  7. Frank Blank
    Ha ha, that's so cool. Oddly I've just bought an Aerodyne, just a week before I realised I should be playing short scale, that will be the quickest I've ever bought and then sold on a bass. They are beautiful basses though.
  8. Frank Blank
    Me too, I think the vast majority of players would agree (even some who wouldn't admit it) that aesthetics come first. I would also be very conscious of the fact that I was playing a bass I disliked the look of.
  9. Frank Blank
    I totally agree.
  10. Frank Blank
    I am heading up to Warwick on Saturday to take up a new bass for set up and pick up one that's just been done. I was thinking of dropping in there to do just that. Oddly there is something about those Jaguars that leaves me cold, purely a look thing.
  11. Frank Blank
    Man, I'm pretty sold on the Chowny SWB Pro, the looks alone slay me.
  12. Frank Blank
    That's a lovely offer, thank you. *faith in Internet restored*
  13. Frank Blank
    In that case we are, you were offering me short scale bass recommendations.
  14. Frank Blank
    Brilliant, thank you, just in case I ever drag myself away from modern, somewhere near 1k basses that I now usually go for.
  15. Frank Blank
    That makes perfect sense. Are we also discussing things on Fretboard..?
  16. Frank Blank
    You live, you learn. Do such people lurk on Basschat?
  17. Frank Blank
    I think that feel that you mention is a very natural symbiosis that occurs once you find an instrument you truly like. Do you think part of that symbiosis may be because the instrument is vintage rather than the instrument itself having any inherent superior properties over something modern?
  18. Frank Blank
    You can do such a thing? Sorry, not 'you', 'one'.
  19. Frank Blank
    This is true. I think I would seek advice on here if I were to make such a purchase.
  20. Frank Blank
    So are we to assume that hand assembly makes the instrument better if, in the final analysis they mostly sound the same? It is an interesting thought about the quality instruments surviving and the older ones not making it.
  21. Frank Blank
    Yes, I think this is the perfect summation of the thread really.
  22. Frank Blank
    I think this is an important differentiation. I buy instruments to play, as I am sure everyone contributing to this thread does too but is there something in the vintage instruments (other than future investment potential) that makes it worth having over a modern instrument? I think, if I found a very expensive vintage bass that I loved, before I bought it I would seek out a very similar modern version and see if there was any difference.
  23. Frank Blank
    An excellent point. See, your last line is what niggles me, I don't think I have the knowledge or experience (and I am not, for a moment, suggesting you do not btw) to know if vintage instruments are worth the price or not. Common sense tells me not but am I missing out on something revelatory?
  24. Frank Blank
    Man that's a beautiful bass. I've just bought an Aerodyne that is currently being set up, I purchased it about a week before I had the short-scale revelation so I expect it will be on sale here within the month. I am interested in your choice of words comfortable and genuine. Comfortable I understand within the context of your post but genuine? Genuine in what sense that a modern instrument isn't?
  25. Frank Blank
    I am losing money in reselling too at the moment but I think that's par for the course when you are seeking exactly the right instrument, at least they go to people who are possibly on a similar search, if not at least they may get played by someone else and that's better than them sitting in a rack gathering dust.
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