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4 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

What is the strings spacing and is it brass or aluminium ?

String spacing seems to be adjustable, here's a pic with a ruler. It's not aluminium, I guess chromed something? 

20 minutes ago, mybass said:

Are you selling a bridge or a neck….the link goes to a neck.

gaaaahhhh! I've not done much of this. I'm actually selling both. Hang on though, I'll amend the images. Bear with...

Taken from Bernie Goodfellow bass, surplus to requirements. Happy to post by Royal Mail - will get a quote buyer pays. Happy to answer questions, just ask

https://imgur.com/a/yaAgPkM 

(soz, hope this works now...)

Edit, completely mis-spelled Squier. Flipping autoo-correct... 

I replaced the neck on my Squier affinity and this is the one that came off it - have to say it surprised me by how nice it was. It's pretty new, as far as I know, no problems that I can see. Lovely satin finish. Happy to post as I have the box from the replacement fender, just contact me and we can sort a quote from a courier.

Here's some pics

https://imgur.com/a6ORIZ5

On 22/12/2021 at 06:59, Waddycall said:

I really like Rick Beatos videos. They’re fun, interesting, informative and he’s not constantly trying to sell you something  or promoting his own content all the time. The WMTSG on Rocketman was my favourite.

He’s hit and miss, but that’s fine- I’d rather someone go for it and take a few risks. I don’t buy into some of his clic-bait videos but he is an exceptionally good musician and producer and well worth listening to. 

FYI just plugged in the bass that's been given one of the smoke detector batteries and IT'S LIKE A NEW INSTRUMENT!

I've replaced all the backup batteries in the smoke alarms in the house. The system runs off the mains to the 9v batteries are just there in case of a power cut and they're good for a couple of years yet and I've used as many as I can in my active basses. If you want a pack of 2 PM me and I'll give the first two to get in touch my address, just post me a stamped addressed envelope and I'll post them off to you. 

I've found the more I play, the more practise I put in the more I like my tone. I'd say I play 80% of the time with fingers and every now and again I just go off the leash and whack on a bit of distortion and attack the bass with a pick. One of my favourite tones is playing with a pick or the thumb and muting with the right hand at the same time to get a really bass-heavy big attack - dub with thumb, retro clack with pick. I've just now started to get into the Rocco technique of slightly muting with the left hand so I can play fingers on the right and still have that thuddy tone, fewer resonant frequencies. Really fun stuff!

Buy with confidence btw… I’m a happy owner of the Microbass 2 from up there.

2 hours ago, lownote said:

Early on you said you bought a cheap set of Gear4Music strings. Like most bits of a bass I find a good or bad string can make a big difference.  Rather than buy cheap new I go for decent strings second hand via here. As others have  said its not a bad bass (£600 ish new doesn't equal cheap starter instrument in my book) so issues must be in the setup not the manufacture I'd have thought. Nothing in the setup routine should scare you even truss rods if you're careful and follow instructions. Mainly it's be certain you know which way to turn the nut for tighty/loosy, then turn only 1/8-1/4 turn at a time, have patience to let the neck adjust and measure the relief FREQUENTLY.  Unless it knack'd it's not going to go twang on you, and if it is knacked well, then, time to go anyway. If as you say you don't mind the cost of upgrading you can't really go wrong with a Sire.    

You know what? The gear4music strings aren’t bad, they definitely sounded better after a few hours of playing. The truss rod on the Bass works okay it’s just my other basses are much more free turning so it gives me the fear when I have to twist harder. 

2 hours ago, bassman7755 said:

The  SR505 is a pretty decent instrument, solid build quality, good hardware, 3 band active EQ, split coil pickups etc etc you've probably already reached the point of diminishing returns in terms of overall bass tone, versatility and playability, not sure why your dead set on treating it as a disposable starter instrument.

Because I’ve tried a Dingwall. I mean, the SR is fine and all but I really liked the sound of the multi scale I tried. The Ibanez is fine but it’s not inspiring, and I’d like to try different basses- scale lengths, pickups, why not a neck through? The new Rickenbacker 5 string sounds amazing and looks fantastic. I bought the Ibanez, I didn’t marry the thing and have kids with it…

1 hour ago, Bassfinger said:

Thing is, even if you buy a new bass that is still liable to require some fine tuning of the nut and a proper set up in order to give its best, so these are liable to be in your future regardless of the option you go with.

Yep, I know but I don’t mind investing in a long-term instrument. This SR505 was only ever meant to try out a 5 string so I’d rather not put more money into this bass. 

19 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Don't forget, the answer is always "new bass". You don't have to get rid of the old one though.

Well if it was to get something different then maybe but I’m really looking to upgrade so I’ll be happy to move this on when the time comes. 

9 hours ago, Geek99 said:

Just get a straight edge or fret rocker. I spent £11 on a fret dressing kit and solved my own problem that was similar to yours

a truss rod tweak plus two high frets 

Well I think I’ve got it sorted so thanks but I think that may be a bit advanced for me. I’m fine setting intonation and at a push il tweak a truss rod but I’d not trust myself to do fret dressing. I admire your skills!

1 hour ago, Grahambythesea said:

Is this the first winter you’ve had this bass? Given that Ibanez have pretty thin necks, you may need to tweak the truss with the season. 

It’s the first winter since it had a setup, yes. 

Update: actually got a bit of time to mess around and dug out my hex key set. It took the truss rod 3/4 of a turn loosening off but the buzz is sorted. Thanks for the advice folks! I think I’ll upgrade at some point but not in a hurry. 

Have a bump…

So, I've let some tension out of the neck and I've raised the action and that's sort of gotten rid of the buzzing a bit so it sounds better but now but I think it could sound better.

I think the bass needs a proper set up from someone who knows what they're doing or has the time to put into trying it out.

While I like the bass I'm just not going to invest any money in it. I'd rather sell it on to someone, but it's done its job - I now know:

I really like playing 5 string bass

For 5 string I want a modern, HiFi sound and a 24 frets

I like narrow string spacing and a thin neck

So, I'm going to keep an eye out and maybe trade up in the next year or so but until then this is a superb bass and I'm quite happy with it.

Thanks for all the advice, folks!

UPDATE - got a helpful email from Mats at EBS who suggested running it from an external PSU instead of the 48v phantom from my desk and VOILLA. Issue completely fixed. Turns out that the speaker emulator saturates too easily without a proper external power supply. Thank goodness for tech support!

14 hours ago, lee650 said:

The speaker simulator is a kind of slight harmonic boost (like a drive) have you tried switching in the 10db pad? Without that engaged it's quite hot 😁

I'm pretty sure I'd tried everything but I'll double check. Cheers!

2 minutes ago, funkydoug said:

This sounds like a daft question but are you sure you’re turning the speaker sim on, not off?? 
That sounds a lot like dirt hitting a tweeter, which the speaker sim should be preventing.

 

 

 

 

Sorry if I wasn't being clear. It sounds fine without the speaker simulator, then when I activate it that weird digital-style distortion comes in. Hope that clarifies.

The person I bought it off suggested I contact EBS so I've messaged them via their Facebook page.

I just bought an EBS Microbass 2 from a fellow basschat member and it arrived in perfect condition. I've had it a few days and plugged into the desk via DI and found something really odd. The speaker emulator works fine unless there's any gain/breakup in the bass and then you get this really nasty digital type distortion. Any idea what's going on here? It's the same on headphones. Both me and the guy I bought it from are completely stumped. Apologies for the crappy bass playing, I'm just trying to demo the sound issue.