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No doubt there's some great luthiers in Italy we don't know about in a similar way that most bass players outside the UK won't have heard of Shuker etc. I think at one time they made some half decent violins............
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Where are they made? If they're EU built then the prices are in line with everybody else.
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Overall volume is lower to my ears but generally they sound deeper with a fuller low end. If you're playing with guitars they might actually be more audible (obviously a lot of variables there but still) as they will sit underneath the guitar rather than competing with it. YMMV, I never liked those clanky bronze strings and struggled with them for years - trying to ape a steel strung acoustic guitar sound whereas nylons are their own thing and much more suited to what I need an acoustic bass to do. My cheapo battered Ozark acoustic with nylons and a defret sounds way better than I thought it ever could when I bought it. Also as I said above you change nylons when you break one, I bought mine used and they've been on there for over 10 years so in the long run they're the cheapest strings to use!
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Looks like he's emptied his parts drawer on a body blank to me!
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Well after squinting at the website for a couple of minutes they certainly haven't convinced me. Hard to believe the designer of those classy understated Arias is the same guy who produced those gaudy munters on there. The muddy stick drawing and hidden bass photos are a blessing in disguise really!
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Got to admire the confidence in the product though. "Are we going to do the photoshoot for the website to showcase our expensive instruments?" "Nah why bother m8, these bad boys will sell themselves! Lets just spend 3 minutes on a Wix site and call it a day. Besides I've got my nephew to do a sketch on the back of a beer mat with a muddy stick so everybody will know what they look like."
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Tell me TWO things you like about this...
lemmywinks replied to TheGreek's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
Anyway here's my two things I like about it: 1) It has some ok looking woods, especially the matching battery box etc. 2) It has a decent enough preamp so should sound good. -
Tell me TWO things you like about this...
lemmywinks replied to TheGreek's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
There was 0 bids on it, the neck also looks like it's wonky. Maybe half a dozen more neck screws bolts would sort it out? -
Looks like the late 70s was when he had that website designed never mind the basses.
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They do the same bass in stained finishes, still made in Japan and looks like the same spec. The modern IGB shape makes for a tiny featherweight bass, I had one of the Chinese IGB55 versions and it weighed practically nothing. Just really light and compact but really comfortable to play.
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Just noticed he's stuck Trebor Extra Strong Mints in the string through holes for no other reason than being completely mental. Could this be the work of everybody's favourite guitar converter?
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You could put one of those high powered laser pens in for conveniently blinding @rsehole punters.
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Looks like standard Fender factory routing to me....
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Why would you buy this new for £116.70 ...
lemmywinks replied to Happy Jack's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
Looks like someone created an eBay account just to do that and alert people to threads on various forums, not on really. -
Why would you buy this new for £116.70 ...
lemmywinks replied to Happy Jack's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
In every YT video his instruments sound awful and have fret buzz all over the place, he seems to promote these as perfect for beginners, easy to play and far better than a factory setup but ignores that he's hacked the nuts and bottomed out the bridges so much the end product is sonically offensive. I don't think he's all there really, his listings are deliberately deceptive though so I'm not sure where I stand on this. Just feel a bit sorry for any beginner who spends money they will never get back on his creations and will then have to spend more down the line to put it right when they realise what a decent guitar is supposed to play like. MDP himself is a learner player so I'm not sure where this supposed expertise is coming from. -
They don't build them like this anymore....
lemmywinks replied to TheGreek's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
Yeah definitely a Westfield, didn't know the model number. Some of the Vesters (Clipper?) have really nice woods, there's one near me for £150 but it's in red so looks a bit cheap. -
They don't build them like this anymore....
lemmywinks replied to TheGreek's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
I was going to say there's nothing that can't be fixed with a few hand tools and a cheap preamp until I saw this: Think it's a Westfield isn't it? Should be a solid enough project if anybody is feeling brave. Maybe we should start pooling money to buy these and just have them shipped directly to Andy's house for fun?* *Fun for us, not Andy....... -
A poster here fitted Wilkinson saddles to a V2 P7, I know the V3 has a different bridge but maybe that would be a solution? The bridge really is something they should have redesigned on the Gen 2, the tuners are easily swappable and adequate but the bridge needs replacing IMO. If you want to keep through body stringing then it's a PITA - on my Gen1 V7 it worked but the break angle of the string got on my nerves.
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Depends what value you put on your time really. Taking strings off a bass, going to the shops to buy meths, soaking strings overnight, drying them off, restringing, washing the meths off your pots and pans, being moaned at by your significant other for using the kitchen as your own personal bass laboratory, doing it all again when your strings sound dead after a couple of hours............. There's being on a tight budget and then there's just being tight! A pack of Warwick Red labels is £9.68...........
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Instead of boiling your dead strings or soaking them in meths like some mad scientist simply stop being a tightwad and order some new ones from a guitar shop or online store, the end result will be the sound of a new set of strings which lasts longer than one gig and is much less time consuming than faffing about with metre long glass tubes or pans.
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I started listening to these guys a while ago as they cover 80s and 90s theme tunes along with songs from the Transformers movie soundtrack (obviously). They started off doing small conventions etc, they're a fun band and I wouldn't read too much into the Zep cover. check out their Doom/Power Rangers medley and rendition of the Pokemon theme. And yes I would join them in a second, they do some fun gigs and I've always had a weird thing for Arcee.
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Relax, chances are you're playing too heavily - usually either a demanding bass part which is on the edge of your ability causing you to tense up or you're struggling for volume and subconsciously compensating. Always the chance it's an underlying condition so get it checked out either way, our guitarist gets this every now and then due to an old injury from a motorbike accident and had to stop playing for a few years but even working at a computer all day can cause strain injuries. Might be worth going to a tutor and getting any technique issues identified and sorted out, can't hurt really and we can all develop bad habits. Whenever I have any semi-demanding part which involves my fretting hand being in a set position and my picking fingers repeating the same pattern constantly (think the ad nauseum root & 1/16th octaves on Hot Stuff or something) I just make sure I relax.
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I don't think the preamp is particularly expensive, just well designed. It's still surprising how many active basses have cheap sounding preamps which have boom, honk and fizz controls instead of bass/mid/treble. The weird thing is the Sire preamp apparently has a stupidly low bass control which boosts at 20hz yet it never gets too boomy unless you're silly with it, can wind it up a decent amount and it just fattens everything up without being overbearing.
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As said nylon coated is the way forward for acoustic basses, I think if a lot of opinions about the instrument would change if people heard them strung with nylons. I've had Roto Trubass on mine (not my first choice but they were cheap and barely used) for about a decade and they still sound great so not that expensive in the grand scheme of things! My favourite nylon coated strings were Galli many moons ago but not tried them in a while.