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[quote name='GreeneKing' date='Mar 9 2009, 07:41 AM' post='429021']
This is unusual and totally mint as well. It's a US made RKS 5 string with a 3 piece maple neck, ebony fingerboard and passive tone controls. It has a huge tone and a great B string (34" scale).

All the hardware is top spec US and it has an aluminium tone block on the headstock too. It balances fine.

Everyone who has tried it has been very impressed.

I'm asking £550


That's unusual, though the body shape brings to mind the Travis Bean 2000s: [url="http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.geetarbay.com/images/auctions/66_1-4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.geetarbay.com/index.php/entry/10_2006/fuseaction/blog.archive.htm&usg=__8At9xjO3mZperftP3toVbN5JgqQ=&h=284&w=156&sz=13&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=7LhsgRux19hNUM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=63&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtravis%2Bbean%2Bbass%2Bguitar%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff"]like this one[/url]

[quote name='sk8' post='429062' date='Mar 9 2009, 08:54 AM']Got the 3.0 in 10" combo form. Its great![/quote]
I really like the look of those. Can you elaborate on how it sounds? Can a little cab like that sound BIG?
cheers
Jules

[quote name='Clockworkwar' post='429594' date='Mar 9 2009, 05:58 PM']I was almost ready to believe you until the coin reads '2001' and the cab is from way before then [/quote]
That'll be the 2001 upgrade he's had fitted. I hope you paid extra for that. I was thinking of getting that done on mine but couldn't justify the expense. Some people insist you can't hear the difference.

they definitely did make a lined fretless. I clearly remember trying a new one out in a Music shop in Leeds in about '79. Lush!

If it's pick up only, it might be useful to know where from....

and welcome to Basschat!

Did you just buy that Sei here a week or two ago?
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No, it wasn't advertized here. I got it at the weekend, in Tewkesbury.
It's a wider neck than I'm used to but super slim. It is hard to convey how smooth and fast it is to play. I can hardly put it down!

If you were to state your location, you might find someone nearby will let you have a go on theirs.
I've just scored a Sei Flamboyant headless. I'm near Oxford, if that's any good to you.

Jules

Thanks for your comments gents.
I suspect he would be happy to take £300 for it and convert the cash into something he will actually use (and lift!)

Hi All!
I've a friend who has no internet connectivity and is too weedy to move this.
It is the 12 band with compressor etc. and is all in working order. 250W, 500 peak. It is far too loud for his flat,
and hasn't really been played in several years. I doubt it has been out of the flat since he got it! (I DID say he is a weed!)

[size=2][size=3]Price now reduced to £250 pending approval of seller [/size][/size]for it which is very fair for what is a pro rig.
(the previous owner gigged it at the Astoria)
Poss px for a small valve guitar amp.
Oxford/ Abingdon area.
Cheers
Jules
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Be careful!! I had one that was an absolute donkey, the whole neck was a dead spot especially round 5th "fret" d and g strings. They are "deep" basses (mine was all mahogany iirc), and I thought the pickup on the 301F was in the wrong place, neither growly nor properly deep bassy.
I did play a 302 which I thought was much better, but what I'm really saying is I would NEVER buy one without trying it first. If you got my old one you would be really disappointed!
I paid £140 originally s/h, got £100 px for it and felt well rid!
Cheers
Jules

[quote name='henry norton' post='405235' date='Feb 10 2009, 12:06 PM']. Does anyone remember that weird bass from the late 70s/early 80s that had a knob to wind the frets down into the fingerboard, thus giving you a fretless/fretted option? I think I saw it on Tomorrows World....[/quote]

I remember that!! Whatever became of that? It was demo'd by a german or scandi player whose name I missed at the time.
Can anyone better informed shed any light on it?
Cheers
Jules

There's something about the lead guitar sound that doesn't sound right to me. It sounds like guitar->fuzzbox->phaser straight into the desk. It doesn't seem to have any ambience, and sitting (too?) high in the mix, sticks out.

Allan Holdsworth

Due to the weather apparently. Pathetic.

PM'd for local pickup!!

Is the body on these curved, it looks it in some of the photos?
Any idea what the body woods are (assuming it is a flamey cap)?
Cheers
Jules

Hi folks
The New Moon, fretless bass, acoustic guitar, djembe, play vaguely psyche/pop, and are supporting Anton Barbeau, an interesting songwriter from Sacremento Ca.
There may be others on too, but we're on at the unfashionably early hour of 8.15.
Always happy to chat bass if you introduce yourself!
cheers
Jules

Bother! missed this one. 2nd dibs please?
Cheers
Jules

U.S Masters basses are quite flat at the back, espcially towards the dusty end... Still don't seem to be many around over here though.

[quote name='henry norton' post='393882' date='Jan 28 2009, 05:59 PM']Does anyone know where I can get replacement pickups for a Gibson EB-3? I know DiMarzio do a neck replacement (unfortunately in black rather than a bright metal) but I'm completely stuck on the mini humbucker. Any ideas?[/quote]
Have you considered getting the pickup re-wound?
'm sure you could get what you want sound-wise, AND get to keep the shiny cover!
Speak to someone like Wizard Pickups for example.
Cheers
Jules

The sponge stuff really works. Another thing I found helps is to use a reverb with the smallest room setting (it was an Alesis Microverb) mixed about 50-50, which to an extent emulates the body resonance of an acoustic bass.
It may sound daft, but even holding the bass more uprightly than normal helps you to play more like an acoustic bass.
I did use a fretless with roundwound strings, but flats do sound more "acoustic" and thumpy.

Is it a new range? Anyone tried one yet?

[quote name='Buzz' post='373754' date='Jan 8 2009, 01:47 AM']Kudos for Fender, isn't that their first 6 string bass (not counting the baritone guitar) ?[/quote]
Never heard of a Fender VI then? It's shorter than a usual Fender, but I don't think it counts as a Baritone guit. Roy Babbington of Soft Machine played one for years....

sounds about the same, but without the video games. Music in the front by the bar, townies in the back.
Probably the same old hippies there as 25 years ago too, I'm a newcomer, so I couldn't possibly comment!

I think our next outing in Oxford is the 5th of February at The Jerico Tavern supporting Anton Barbeau, from Sacremento, Ca.
Both of these are not a million miles removed from the 'Teeth, especially Anton's more psych stuff (Village of the Apple Sun album)

www.myspace.com/thenewmoonnews

www.myspace.com/antonbarbeau

Nice bass BTW! it's a ...... ?