Hellzero

1 hour ago, totorbass said:

There are some exceptions.

Or this beauty, as I already owned 2 Delta Metal fretless Vigier, the LeFay Remington Steele, but with 6 strings :

12 hours ago, TrevorR said:

Way back in about 2001 I saw the late Randy Coven playing in a prog metal band, Ark. They were supporting the UK band Threshold at a little rock club in Belgium called Biebob. Wonder if @Hellzero knows it? Not so far from his neck of the woods! For the whole gig he was playing his Zimmer Silly fretless Bass. What an amazing player! Was doing some amazing stuff on the bass. Nice guy too. Ended up chatting to him in the bar later on in the evening.

Yes @TrevorR, I know the place in Vosselaar, it's the Belgian metal church. I've seen one or two or maybe three concerts there in the late 90's early 2000's. I know the owner is called Bob, but I have no idea what the Bie means...

That said it's because of Randy Coven and loop listening of "Funk me tender" that I had a beautiful Kramer DMZ 4001 slaughtered to receive a Kahler bass tremolo... In fact it wasn't slaughtered at all as the job had been wonderfully done by the greatest French luthier Christophe LEDUC.

28 minutes ago, arthurhenry said:

A (hopefully) humorous observation  that on a fretless, much of the metal has been removed.

Well done.

Thinning down the herd, so selling the items I don't use... 

FOR SALE OR (PARTIAL) TRADE BASED ON THE NEW RETAIL PRICE (around €1500 Euros) : £499 GBP DELIVERED TO THE COUNTRIES LISTED !!!

EPIFANI UL3-310, 600 Watts, 5.3 Ohms : a tone monster !

Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £499 GBP or €565 Euros !!!

In fully working condition, with the usual marks, a small bump in the wood just above the front Epifani logo (see photo) and an impossible to picture small bump on the front grill.

Here are the specifications from Epifani website :

Configuration : 3 x 10" 200 Watts Epifani ceramic drivers + 1" compression tweeter with adjustable control

Impedance : 5.3 Ohms

Power rating : 600 Watts RMS, 1000 Watts peak

Specs : Response 40Hz - 16kHz,  Sensitivity 99dB (1W@1m)

Hardware : 1x Speakon + 1x Jack connectors, Lite Ply poplar plywood, with dado joint construction and hard spray finish steel recessed handles and an 18 gauge steel grill

Dimensions : 23.25" H x 21.75" W x 17.875" D / 59cm H x 55cm W x 45cm D

Weight : 57 lbs / 26 kilos

Non-smoking environment as usual.

Link to the documentation : https://www.epifani.com/s/UL3-Series-User-Manual.pdf

What you see is what you get !

Look at the pictures to see the real condition.

Don't hesitate to ask for more pictures.

Dust is offered. 

The B-Quad and the MidiBase are real rarities too. Brian Bromberg and Alain caron wouldn't say the opposite. 😉

Thanks for the compliment, but there is no opposition in the terms I used in my sentence, nor anything inconceivable. Or maybe, is it just the thread title itself that you consider an oxymoron.

Traded some light items for a heavy bulky one from Armando. Every aspect of this trade was a pleasure, Armando being a very kind man. I almost received that big heavy box before he shipped it from deep South of Italy to deep South of Belgium. The Monster Cookie was very well packed and as described. Another credit to BassChat. Don't over abuse of the sound of the bells, Armando (private joke 🤣 )

GLWYS.

To me, yes. But that's up to the OP. 

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

There are not other full time fretless bass player in metal, except Tony FRANKLIN who has been playing in some hard rock bands...

Loop the loop.

I read my sentence again and think it's been misinterpreted. I should have added : "than the one you mentioned" to "player".

I'm basically a fretless only player and have been for at least 2 decades a fretless only player, so I'm interested in fretless whatever style it is. And I'm no fretted bass player, I even can say that I'm not liking playing fretted instruments.

I listen to any kind of music as long as it's music, and metal is music.

It's not an odd position at all, but to me, the only fretless player in metal is Steve Di Giorgio who is almost unknown outside the metal nor fretless world. His playing is, to me, hallucinating, but burried in the mix, very strange for the guy who almost invented the death metal genre !?!

Playing fretless on a tune or two doesn't make you a fretless player as, most of the time, you are playing just what you played on a fretted bass on a fretless.

In your list, you can add Svante HENRYSON who is basically a fretless player, but played fretted bass because of the music he was in. He is also a terrific double bass player.

And what about Jack BRUCE who has been playing fretless metal bass even before the genre was ever named...

That's way I wrote hard rock and not metal, Harry.

There are not other full time fretless bass player in metal, except Tony FRANKLIN who has been playing in some hard rock bands...

Loop the loop.

I think that you loop the loop. 😕

Like this BassLab for sale in France for years :

3 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

@Bassassin

This one should pique your MIJ interest 🙂 Around 83/84 (?) Guitarist magazine had aTune Bass Maniac review and I was smitten. The black fretted model looked great but the piezo fretless blew me away 😍 The Bass Centre had them for £899 and I had a YTS paying £16.40 weekly,couldn't feed myself on that wage nevermind save for a bass.

 

Never saw one for sale anywhere ☹️ When I discovered bass forums online I'd follow every Tune thread looking for the fretless of my dreams,with no luck. Danny,who runs Bass Japan, told me even in Japan they were like hen's teeth. On the various Tune Bass owners clubs and FB pages I only found 3 people who owned 1. 1 fella is in Italy,another in Japan and 1 fella in Australia had one briefly (his fingerboard went wonky and the replacement was the  2 octave version)

After 32 years wait 1 came up for sale,in Japan 😱

So, is it yours now ? I must admit that I was also blown away by that fretless at the time. 😉

2 hours ago, Bassassin said:

Some may be aware that I have a vague interest in Japanese instruments - some of which don't turn up on Ebay (or anywhere else) much, like this Tokai Talbo B135. This is the 2000-ish reissue, but still spectacularly uncommon. Had this since 2003 after being consumed by a fit of GAS whilst stumbling around Denmark St. The only one I've ever seen in real life, and not seen another come up for sale since.



 

Those Tokai Talbo are gorgeous, being original or reissue. 👍

4 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

Nexus did too, back when Jacek was located in Belgium and worked together with Noel Coquet. Jacek stopped working with Noel in 2004 because of financial differences. Here's a little bit about it on the old Nexus website, which Jacek still keeps online for some reason:

http://www.nexus-guitars.com/old/news.html#3

You are right, I should have remembered this. 🧞‍♂️ 

4 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

@Hellzero was that Overwater at Bass Direct recently? Looks a good 'un!

I don't think so, it's in Spain nowadays, but let me check at Bass Direct.

Checked and found a 5 strings version in 36" scale : http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/OW_Progress_5.html

Is it the one you are talking about ?

25 minutes ago, The59Sound said:

I prefer non tweeter cabinets... no idea what front ported and rear ported means! 

This is the opening you can see in a cab, which is mostly circular, but can have any shape and can be anywhere or even everywhere. The Promethean just above is a front loaded bass reflex construction, as you can see below the speaker a rectangular opening. This opening permits to lower the size while still having the same amount of bass (theoretically as you will notice a difference in the sound reproduction).

1 hour ago, LeftyJ said:

Is that one of their models with a polished granite fingerboard? I've always been intrigued by those.

Looks beautifully made, and all the veneers between that top and the back really look lush!

No, this Nexus has an epoxied burl imbuia fretboard and a 19 pieces neck !!! It's Stradi, another Polish luthier who is making polished stone fingerboard. But I tried a bass in Volterra (Italy) entirely made of alabaster, it was very heavy, but sounding very good.

Check this : http://www.alabastrosonoro.com/elbass.html

2 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

Why does it not surprise me that you've owned such an astonishing selection? 

And I'm loving the idea of a bass called Gom Jabbar ...

 

So did I, but don't come to close : you know what will happen to you. 😁

Yes, and I do prefer the standard one without the coaxial speaker as it suits more my taste. They can handle a lot of power and respond fast with a very good low end (don't expect them to go as low as an 18" 😉 ). The weight is what is announced. Some prefer front ported bass reflex, but with a rear ported one, it's easier to place.

I also own the very tiny GSS 06B400 combo which is coupled now to an EA Wizzy-112 M Line (the GSS single 12 was planned, but I got this in a trade) for the right amount of power. 

Below are some photos of the rarest basses I owned or I am still owning.

Aries Senes VS 6 Tomek (they don't build anymore for themselves) :

Berne Harpobasse (the craziest 34" double bass with a harp top, it's a production instrument) :

Capelli DM Signature Pro 1 (the best ergonomics ever and not a one off even if it bears number 1) :

Celinder Custom 6 Michael Andersen (36 inches and even rarer GreenGrove original preamp) :

De Gier Elevation 6 Custom Number 4 (Sander De Gier favourite bass) :

Jerzy Drozd Obsession Basic 7 (the old one with the Aguilar OBP-3 and 7 strings) :

JP Basses Plume Redwood 5 (very few ever made and he stopped crafting basses) :

Ken Lawrence Associate 5 #76 ( with an XLR DI 5 pins, Nordstrand pickups and HazLabs preamp) :

Leduc MP 628 SF (grade AAAAAAAA woods and 150 years old Brazilian rosewood fretboard) :

Leduc U-MM6 (my companion for more than a decade and quite hard to find)  :

Leduc PAD 6 (only 20 ever made) :

LowDown Custom 6F Special (only one ever made with this very thick body and 33" scale) :

Neuser Courage 6 (Robert Neuser original Czech model) :

Nexus Gom Jabbar Magellan Fretless 6 (Polish fantastic craftsmanship):

Overwater Progress First Generation (Zebrano top with the rare original preamp à la Wal) :

Sandberg Thinline Fretless 6 (the only known set neck with standard strings spacing) :

Status Electro II 6 Jonas Hellborg (only 2 known models made both for Jonas Hellborg) :

Stradi Symphony Bass Fretless 5 #6 (2110 years old swamp oak top) :

Warrior DM4 Custom NT Marcus Miller (nothing to add) :

Yes, I'm a lucky man or ... not. 

Check these two :

https://www.guitarsoundsystems.com/gss-single12-12-bass-cabinet-c2x20335127

https://www.guitarsoundsystems.com/gss-single12coax-coaxial-12-bass-cabinet-c2x25882857