Westenra
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1 hour ago, TheGreek said:
Nice bass...IMO better looking than the competitor it was brought out to compete with.
Which was that?
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Looks like they're using my favourite CAD software too - Rhino3D ?
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Liked these when they first came out, shame there isn't more of them! If you could post some clips that would be worth checking out.
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Looks weird with the silver grill.
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9 hours ago, Al Krow said:
I've got a top-of-the-range Markbass AC 121 Lite combo which has never lacked headroom for any gig I've used it on over the last three years (500W standalone, separate bi amp to a tweeter and still just 37lbs). This uses a variation of the LM3 head but has the addition of very useful aux in and headphone out sockets which make it ideal for 'stealth mode practising'! These don't come up very often second hand but there's an almost brand new one in the FS at the moment.
Good luck with your search!
I never understood why MB didn't include headphones/aux in on any their combos, yet put it on one of their most powerful!
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15 hours ago, TrevorR said:
This is what I use, also not cheap but bom proof and really great quality...
I really like the look of that, had the little dual for a while to experiment with stereo ping pong delay. How do you match the inputs though?
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36 minutes ago, lemmywinks said:
So you tried to sabotage someone else's eBay purchase to snag it for yourself?
Wow.
I would've used the bass for its main intention, not as a item to get richer from.
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45 minutes ago, Roger2611 said:
however, using someone elses images without their permission is unacceptable and, I believe is against Ebay policy
Using the original description is the bit that hit a nerve with me, the original seller did mods to it and the new seller claimed them as his own. Working in a bulding profession I'm all too familiar with people taking credit for my work and it rubs me the wrong way.
I've got nothing against people that buy stuff cheap, work on it and then sell it on for profit (done this myself), but when someone takes credit for someone else's it hits that nerve.
Anyways, the ad has now gone!
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3 hours ago, Paul S said:
I would say, with complete lack of sympathy, that your main concern is missing out. If you had been that bothered, you would have remembered and the bass would have been yours. Lesson learnt, move on.
Not loosing sleep over it, just had to get on my hands and knees and look for my eyes after they rolled out of my head after seeing the second listing. I'm all for making a profit, but things like this grind my gears as it sets precedent. If someone was to list the same thing they would look at similar listings and set a price reflecting of that, now if the prices they see are hugely inflated theirs will be too. Then if a buyer decides to sell the item on they wouldn't want to loose any money on it so they'd ask the same price if not more. It just makes the whole second hand business infuriating for buyers when prices fluctuate more than bitcoin.
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1 hour ago, Muppet said:
Can't work out what's wrong here? The guy bought the bass at the lower price, legitimately and is now trying to sell it at a higher price, again, legitimately. It remains to be seen if anyone will buy it at the higher price. Why's he a crook?
Well first of all it isn't worth £780 and it just comes across as greedy beyond belief. Secondly he uses all the original sellers photos and descriptions, posting the ad several hours after picking it up. It's just all in very bad taste to me. It's people like him that cause the price hikes on other second hand items, I've seen it happen with strymon pedals and now Korg minilogues. He's also taken the opportunity for an actual interested buyer who wanted to actually own the bass away at a reasonable price.
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So last weekend I was scooping out eBay and came across a lovely Yamaha BB1024 in caramel with upgraded tuners, real bargain at £350! Unfortunatly my phone didn't remind me and I missed out; it finished with a single bid at £350.
Cursing my luck I searched eBay and gumtree the day after and low and behold the exact same bass was listed again, same photos, same description, the only thing that was different was the price which was now over double - £780!!
I messaged the guy saying I'd buy it for £350, he replied "for you £790", to which I replied "Well that's what you bought it off eBay for" and surprisingly I didn't get a response.
I tracked down the original eBay listing and sent the seller a message asking if he knew the buyer was already flipping the bass for over double. He promptly replied thanking me for bringing this to his attention, said the buyer asked for a big favor, called the price rubbish and said he would contact eBay regarding the same photos and description being used without his consent.
On the off chance he hadn't actually posted the bass yet I replied back asking that I'd actually buy it off him and pick it up this weekend, sadly the buyer had already picked it up and replied with this;
"Yes, he's a crook. Too bad he's already got the bass. Please don't buy it off him"
The crooks ad - https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-BB1024-Bass-Guitar-P-J-pickups-in-Caramel-Brown/282740010684?_trksid=p2504926.m5232.l9681
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Bought and safely received one of his bass books, easy transaction, would recommend.
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On 24/11/2017 at 01:00, Chuckasaurus said:
Did you ever sell these?
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5 hours ago, Osiris said:
I've spent a lot of time playing in rock bands over the years where driving 8ths are often what's needed from the bass. As such I hadn't put too much time in over the years working on counting, but that is something that I have been working on the past few years. A great, simple to understand book and CD set that has really helped me to get to grips with counting over the years is Bass Grooves by Ed Friedland. The book explains the theory and the CD contains some examples so you can listen and play along to really understand what's going on. It has certainly been a massive help to me so might be worth a look, perhaps?
I haven't got that specific book but I've got the complete Bass methods by him and that's how I've started learning to read! It's a well thought out book and would be interested in more by him, I enjoy his YouTube videos too.
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16 hours ago, The Jaywalker said:
Yeah, that's totally natural frustration - "I can play this...why the jeez cant I read and count it..?!?"
16th rests can be dealt with by counting and feeling the pulse as 16ths. Don't use 1-e-an-a as a lot of textbooks will suggest. The syllables are too long. Ta-ka-di-me is much more rhythmic and percussive, being derived from Konokol, the rhythmic language of Indian classical music. You can vocalise this with accents corresponding to written notes etc and then practise playing the line. Using the konokol syllables almost gives each 16th in the beat its own identity, which I certainly find useful when the page has a bit too much ink on it for comfort....
I've seen quite a few people go against the grain of what books say and say 16ths as simply syllables and when I get to that stage I'm going to try using "ta-ka-di-me" as I have previously used "1-e-and-a-2" but that becomes a mouthful at high tempos.
7 hours ago, TKenrick said:As another person who grew up on TAB and didn't learn to read until 10 years into playing, I definitely know how frustrating the 'back to square one' feeling of learning to read is; the only consolation is that if you stick at it then your musical abilities will begin to advance way beyond the level that they were when you were reliant on TAB. Improved fretboard knowledge, sense of time, articulation, dynamics and the ability to access music written for any instrument are just some of the areas that reading opens up.
As far as 16ths and associated rests go, I found it helpful to isolate all the different possible 'fragments' of 8ths,16ths and associated rests that can occupy 1 beat and then learn them individually as you would do with new words.
This may sound like a rather OCD way of looking at things, but much of sight reading is pattern recognition and you need to develop the ability to 'pre-hear' a rhythm before you play it - rhythm reading books like Louis Bellson's 'Modern Reading in 4/4 Time' are great for getting this stuff together (if a little dull!).
I'm already picking up on pattern recognition, will be interesting when I get to different key signatures to say the least.
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