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  1. SumOne
    Trade options added: I'll consider any 5 string, 35", 19mm string spacing, not too heavy. I'm basically looking for a Bass of similar quality to the TM5 SL but slightly longer scale and wider string spacing to suit my 6'3" size and Orangutan arms and hands. Perhaps worth noting the going-rate for these new: £2,389 from Guitar Guitar (that's a slightly fancier version with matching headstock and a Pau Ferro fingerboard) £1,540 from DV247 or £1,490 from Thomann (but that one isn't available for 10-13 weeks and I wouldn't be suprised if the price goes up once it's actually available), as I've already been offered £1k part-ex from a shop I will probably visit them (or other shops) when I get the spare time so if you're keen or have a potential trade then contact me fairly sharpish.
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    This looks like a good Black Friday deal from Guitar Guitar. If my Sandberg sells in time I'll be going for it: https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/13022212363316--lakland-skyline-darryl-jones-5-string-white-pearl-maple-fingerbo .....in fact, I might just get it wheter my Sandberg sells in time or not, then I can compare them both - if the Sandberg wins then I can return the DJ5 to Guitar Guitar up until 31st January (they are running an extended returns window), if the DJ5 wins then I'd expect that the Sandberg will sell for that sort of price eventually (and if it doesn't and I get stuck for money I could just return the DJ5). Flawless plan!
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    How have people's experiences with the App been? If the Apple and Play reviews and star ratings are anything to go by then it's not great. I'll have very high expectations of excellent sound and connectivity and functionality if paying £350+ vs the £55 Nux (which works perfectly well). It's all app based so if the app doesn't function well I think I'd be returning for a refund pretty quickly.
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    Waza Air Bass prices are starting to go down a bit, £359 from PMT using the Black Friday BF10 code at checkout, £379 from GAK , still a few chancers trying to get £421 for them though. I'm still a bit put out that the guitar version can be got for significantly cheaper though (£299) for what seems to be exactly the same hardware, I'm hoping the prices will eventually match.
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    Speaking of King Jammy, I just got this today with him on the mix (he was just a Prince at the time!) and Gregory on writing and production - it turns out the cool ruler was a good producer as well as singer and songwriter.
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    Yeah I agree with that. I get that playing in a Blues band isn't going to require an envelope filter but I can't help but feel that players that don't use any pedals ever (home practice etc) are missing out on a lot of fun and it's a good way to gain understanding about sound - there's the fun of mucking about making lots of different sounds but also the challenge of learning how to play to make different pedals react in the best way, and it's a quite a straightforward way of learning about how sound works once you start looking a bit into things like what's happening to the sound to create distortion and what compression is doing and how the order of doing these things affects the sound.
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    I think in that context it's fine in principle but isn't written in a professional way which is ironic seeing as they are basically saying 'we're very professional - you must be too', other workplace adverts would just say 'please apply via email' or 'we only accept applications via email'. If they really want to weed out the people that don't read the instructions then they shouldn't make a big deal about it, just put 'reply via email' and ignore responses sent by Facebook etc.
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    Seeing as it's King Jammy dubbing I'm fairly sure it'll be good, but honestly - it's the cover that's really sold it to me!
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    Edit: Sold Steinberger Spirit XT-2DB with drop D tuner. £150. This is a decent sounding full scale (34") Bass that packs into a small gig bag. It also has drop D tuner but the end of the lever has snapped - the lever still works though (see photos) or can just be left pressed down for standard tuning. A couple of paint chips on corners. Everything else works well and it plays well. It's roughly 3.3kg. Pickup from Twickenham preferred or postage for £20. Text from Andertons (who are selling it for £349 new) Revolutionary versatile design The Steinberger is widely perceived as one of best travel guitar solutions on the market. Don’t be deceived by its sci-fi looks; this bass is designed to provide a crystal-clear sound that’s versatile enough for any application. A Basswood body and Maple neck provides a light playability and balanced, neutral tone. The tonewood combo is the perfect platform for the XT-2’s humbuckers. The HB-1 bridge pickup gives you clarity and bite, while the HB-2 neck pickup adds warmth and weight in equal measure. DB-Drop Tuner The headline feature of the XT-2DB is, as the name suggests, the DB-drop tuning system. This revolutionary design allows you to instantly tune the lower string from E to D, so you're in drop-D. This tuning is popular for everything from folk to thrash metal, so being able to change from that to standard and back again is immensely handy. Here’s what Steinberger say: Steinberger presents the XT-2DB Standard 4-string Electric Bass Outfit, the Ultimate Travel Bass featuring the revolutionary Steinberger body design, the DB-Tuner system for instant drop tuning (low E-string to D), 40:1 Direct Pull tuners, patented DoubleBall Bass Bridge, powerful Steinberger HB pickups, plus a deluxe gigbag. The XT-2DB Standard 4-string Bass Outfit is part of Steinberger’s new Spirit Collection and is available in a Black Gloss Finish. Specifications Finish: Gloss Neck Material: 3-pc Hard Maple Body Material: Basswood Neck Shape: 1960's SlimTaper; D profile Fingerboard Material: Engineered Hardwood Fingerboard: Radius 14" Frets: 24; Medium-Jumbo Scale Length: 34" Zero Nut Width: 1.50" 12th Fret Width: 2.156" Tuning System: DB-Tuner Drop Tuning System with Patented 40:1 Direct Pull Bridge: Patented DoubleBall Bass Bridge Saddle Material: Steel Bridge String Spacing: 0.70" Neck Pickup: Steinberger Bass HB-2 Bridge Pickup: Steinberger Bass HB-1 Hardware: Black Output Jack: Premium 1/4" Barrel-Style Controls Neck Pickup Volume Bridge Pickup Volume Master Tone
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    They must need the cash, the website seems to be stuck in the 90s.
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    If I was into spiritual and into mystical stuff (I'm not) I'd possibly equate playing a diseased/dead tree's fungal growth as bad karma/mojo/vibes etc.
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    Something that gets me is that burled wood is a discected warty sort of growth caused by fungus or stress....however nice it looks that thought puts me off it a bit!
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    I stand corrected on the Dingwalls - I've never actually played anything other than the Combustion and NG and D-Roc so I'm clearly talking out of my a*se! I'd like to play one of the >£3k range as I couldn't really fault the ones that cost half that, it'd need to be a big improvement for me to spend another >£1,500 and not feel like a big chunk of the cost was paying for scarcity and Canadian vs Chinese wages. Even if I was a millionaire I'd have ridiculously high expectations of this £10,500 Prima for me to feel that's good value for money, but I guess the 'value' of things isn't the same for everyone as some will pay that and be happy about it.
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    It looks good, and is a bit cheaper than expected: £422 from Thomann or £429 from guitar guitar. There's nothing about it that's making me think I should sell my Stomp XL to get (just down to liking the extra footswitches though) it but it's good to be giving Helix some healthy competition. Also the mod devices dwarf to consider. I like individual pedals but multi-fx are really coming on lately. I imagine individual analogue pedals will be a bit of a relatively expensive niche in a few years.
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    Yeah whatever
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    It's a fairly unusual situation in the world of consumerism as old Basses don't really go out of fashion, and they don't really wear out (beyond fairly simple fixes like re-fretting) in fact some wear can add to the appeal, and new technology doesn't leave them obsolete. So when I want to get a Bass I convince myself that if I buy it second hand it's basically a refundable deposit.
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    The strings not lining up across the middle of their individual round pickup circles would annoy me more.
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    I've got a 5 string Passive P Bass itch that needs scratching! If my Sandberg TM5 SL sells while this is still available I'll contact you (or I know you said no trades, but give a shout if that trade for that changes your mind).
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    SumOne replied to Supernaut's topic in Bass Guitars

    I've never owned a P Bass and read too many threads like this so it feels like an itch that needs to be scratched! Also, I think it might be an age thing but I'm feeling the pull of Passive vs Active....but I really dislike noise, a P seems to deal with that better J setup. My hestitations are: I've definitely become a 5 string player and that doesn't really fit the traditional look of a P Bass, any particular P that works well as a 5 string? And I generally play dubby Reggae (using more of the neck pickup and playing in front of it), and occasional slap: Passive P's don't seem popular for either of them so perhaps they're not for me....woth a try though!
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    The Dingwall range demonstrate the limits to Bass diminishing returns for me: The £1,700 Combustion is a very well made instrument that I think would be good enough for pretty much any discerning high-level professional player. It is a Dingwall design built to a high spec and high-level of quality control but via an efficient mass-produced process in China. That seems to be about the limit for high-end but mass-produced and efficiently made Basses, beyond that the diminishing returns graph of cost vs how 'good' the instrument starts to go almost flat because the increased cost seems to be largely for inefficient production. The Dingwall Z3 costs £6k + and is made by hand in Canada. I've heard nothing but praise for the Canadian made Dingwalls and I'm sure they are better but I find it hard to believe it's really worth £4,300 more, surely a big chunk of that is down to paying for an inefficient build process - paying people's wages for many hours of work in Canada vs an efficient mass-produced process in China paying lower wages for fewer hours, and it's partly paying for scarcity rather than actually the value of how good the instrument is. (Similar to Wal and Foderas and others).
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    My pedalboard (not sure it can actually be called that) is very boring looking at the moment: It's convenient for putting in the Bass gig bag and travelling on the tube, and for covering different music genres reasonably well and always having an alright version of an effect available, but it doesn't have the mojo of individual pedals. On the right are pedals I'm not using but haven't been able to bring myself to sell.....probably only a matter of time before they combine and start to become a pedalboard though!
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    Take my money! Perhaps it's just a sign of my finances but I haven't gone for anything more than high end mass produced Basses. As the cost goes from £1,500 from them to >£3,000 for custom things made by some bloke in a garage (with suitable artistic photos of him working on it) that's the point where the diminishing returns thing stops being worthwhile for me, if I had the spare cash though I'd go for the pirate ship wood hand carved by a beardy bloke over several months.
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    A £400 Bass will do fine and there are diminishing returns but global competition between brands is quite fierce and I've generally found that more expensive Basses are more enjoyable to play and easier to make sound good. And higher end basses hold their value well as they get older and rarer. I'd recommend people spend as much as they can afford rather than being tight - it's something you might play for 1000s of hours for many years, and if you get a good one you might eventually sell for similar (or more) than you bought it for.
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    SOLD (Traded) Sandberg TM5 SL. Reduced to £1,000 (or trade options below) I got this from Bass Direct earlier this year for about £1,500 and it's still on their website so that's where to look for the most flattering photos: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Sandberg_TM5_Superlight_Redburst.html . Bass Direct offered me £1,000 part-exchange for it a couple of weeks ago but after a few hours trying Basses in the shop I couldn't find anything I preferred. I've added some photos below to highlight small scrapes & dents I've added in the last year (you have to look quite hard under the right lighting to see them - you can't usually notice them). Neck - Bolted x 6 / Maple Fretboard - Maple 22 Frets, instrument fully Plek'd Body - Lightweight Pauwolina Finish - Satin Redburst Scale - 34” scale Hardware - Sandberg including lightweight tuners, bell plate. Pickup - 2 x Black Label, single coil and humbucker Preamp - Sandberg 2 band: Volume (pull for passive), Pan, Treble (becomes passive tone in passive mode), Bass, single/series switch for MM pickup Weight: 3.3kg/7lb 8oz Includes Padded Sandberg Gig bag Nut width: 45mm String spacing: Adjustable from about 17.5mm-19mm Strings: Sandberg Stainless Steel 40-128 which haven't been used much as I put on Diaddario Tapewounds (as seen in photos below) that I'd prefer to keep. At 3.3kg the whole Bass is very lightweight - not just the body (it has things like lightweight tuners so no neck dive), to help reduce weight the body wood is relatively low density and doesn't have glossy varnish or paint so it picks up scrapes/dents more easily, there are a few small ones I have tried to show in the pictures, there's nothing that affects playability and they're not easy to see..... 'lightly roadworn' costs more usually anyway! A second strap button has been added as I prefer the playing position it puts the Bass into (it's the same position as they put the button for Spector and Dingwall Basses, I'd previously owned a Dingwall and must have got used to it - it now feels like all Basses should have the button there). Postage: I've only got the soft gigbag it came with so I'd prefer collection (Twickenham) or I could drive to meet half-way within reason. Trades: I'm looking for something similar but just slightly bigger - Ideally 5 string with 35" scale, 19mm spacing, >46mm nut, Lightweight, 3 band EQ if it's active, front mounted jack if it's passive. Things that most closely fit the bill are MTD Kingston, Ibanez BTB, Lakland DJ5 or 55-02 (if reasonably lightweight).
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