MoonBassAlpha

4 minutes ago, MoonBassAlpha said:

If Status still do them their half rounds are brighter than flats, and  not expensive at all!

Just  checked, they do still sell them. £18.32 + p&p

17 hours ago, Bernardo said:

I have started playing short scales recently - starting with a little Gretsch expanding since then into a U5, JMJ Mustang and an Acinonyx. Shallow I know but I Googled short scale red bass because for showbiz reasons I needed a red bass to match some stage outfits! What came top of the list was a refurbished Vox Starstream Artist 2S on the Vox website. Including gig bag it was £350. Given they were well north of a grand when they came out - and some people had paid that - I went for it. I took it to a gig and our sound engineer raved about it compared with my other basses. Ironically I don't enjoy playing it as much as the Mustang and the Acinonyx basically because they have flats on them which feel better to me - so my next quest is to find flats that sound brighter than a normal flat.

It's a weird looking thing and not everybody's cup of tea but it's nicely balanced and very light and with the right strings could be my go to bass - something I never would have predicted when I Googled red short scale. 

If Status still do them their half rounds are brighter than flats, and  not expensive at all!

Would it be possible to string these E-e as a bass V1? Wondering if strings would fit through that bridge?

16 hours ago, ead said:

The fret dots in the "wrong" place would not work for me, as @Stub Mandrel said, and would probably stop me from buying any kind of de-fret.

To be fair,  it's quite easy to put dots in the right place and remove and fill in the wrong ones. Definitely worth doing if the bass is otherwise great!

Is this 34 or 30" scale?

29 minutes ago, pete.young said:

 

Coo, a Westminster. My dad had one of those when I was about 7. You could talk to Paul Glazebrook, he looked at my son's Burman a couple of months ago.

I loved my Wem Westminster,  wish I'd never sold. It is about as simple as a valve amp can be so anyone should be able to sort that 

On 03/05/2025 at 15:21, Dad3353 said:

 

Vintage ones : yes. Reissue ones : no. 

Aww!

I thought the black and white on the keys were reversed on the Vox?

Bump for price reduction!

How does £120 sound? LOUD, that's how!

Nice colour! Reminds me of a Cornford.

Glwts!

@AlexDelores have you considered just tuning a 4-string B-D?

Cool! You'll be glad to know that I did sell the cab and had a perfect, seamless transaction with @essexbasscat who is  a proper gent!

Thanks Chester!

**Sold**

Just had a very good straightforward transition, my Ditto Looper pedal winging it's way to sunny Kent. 

Quick comms and payment, deal with confidence folks!

bump for a price drop to £50!

15 hours ago, essexbasscat said:

Popped over to Jules today to pick up a cab, he has some interesting basses to play while having a very welcoming cuppa, well met Jules,

 

All the best

 

Tom  

Thanks Tom, it was a pleasure to meet you!

***Cab now  SOLD***

Tom just bought my Barefaced Midget cab, very sound fellow, no faffing about! Deal with confidence!

Is this what happened on my Barefaced Midget cab fs thread?

4 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Exciting image sent!

😁

Oh, good! My Mrs said my tune for this month was a bit slow and  lumpen, so exciting will be good!

Oh dear.  This never occurred to me, but I never had a private message from @xav_paris . I  do hope he hasn't been scammed. 

A former colleague of mine won at least 3 guitars including a very decent Les Paul in the couple of years I worked with him, and had won some prior to that. I  suspect he bought a fair few tickets...

3 hours ago, bassbiscuits said:

I think Weather Report “Heavy Weather” defeated me about 25 years ago when I bought it.
 

I managed to learn Birdland pretty accurately but Teen Town utterly lost me.

 

In the days before YouTube and other online resources, it was beyond the scope of listening and working out by ear or stop/starting my CD player. 
 

Haven’t tried since. 

Me too, even with the help of online tutorials/ YouTube etc. My fingers don't move fast enough to even do the first 2 bars 

BassChat composition challenge March 2025
There's a very non-benign alien secured in the lab. We found an annoying frequency that it doesn't like either.
It's dark sticky mass squirms in discomfort until it expires. Or does it...
And, yes, I did watch Venom recently!

12 string guitar (GS-1) and fretless bass through NuX Mighty Plug Pro, Gretsch drums, Vintage UK Rogers snare