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  1. Beedster
    His username would have stopped me going anywhere near him, glad all worked out 👍
  2. Beedster
    That's a result Nick 👍
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    Thanks, it’s a beauty 👍
  4. Beedster
    Sorry meant to ask re the nut not the bridge
  5. Beedster
    Where’s the bridge from @Hellzero ?
  6. Beedster
    There are no higher quality wood bass parts than Warmoth 👍
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    BTW this booth is larger than the standard 1.2x1.2m vocal booth the builders offered because I wanted it to comfortably accommodate two people talking podcast style (informally seated on a couple of stools), or a small drum kit. It does both well. It would be a great way of kicking off a podcasting or voiceover business 👍
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    So, we moved house about 3-months back and it's unlikely that this booth is going to be rebuilt, at least not in the near future. I was aiming to have a 6x4m wooden cabin built as a small/informal studio but it now looks like there will be a more ambitious approach and hopefully I will start to convert a large outbuilding next year, part of which will be sound insulation and a built in vocal booth. Further, while I'm tempted to keep it, this sound-booth is now somewhat in the way, so I need it gone really. If this is something you'd be interested in, I'm very happy to entertain discussions around price, or about trades/PX, it's a very high quality unit for the price and allowed me to keep an income stream during lockdown. Full disclosure, it is VERY heavy, it took four strong removal guys to get the ceiling off so you'd need to plan for this, as well as a minimum of two strong folks to move each piece also. I could arrange some folks to do this at my end but it would be up to you at yours
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    Mesa Walkabout, there’s one FS on here at present?
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    It’s a great little rig, I used to gig it with 2 x cabs but a guy I know gigs it with one and gets great tone and pretty decent volume, perfect for living room and small gigs 👍
  11. Beedster
    Thanks @wateroftyne, nice to see Howsrd (and everyone else of course) 👍
  12. Beedster
    That takes me back, really fun piece of kit at a great price 👍
  13. Beedster
    That is no joke, had an awful gig on fretted before Xmas with a guitarist constantly going out of tune and so wished I’d picked up the fretless 🤔
  14. Beedster
    Lovely, I wanna put names to faces @wateroftyne
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    I've got four fretless basses two of which wear flats. No better or no worse than rounds, just different. Both types of string are good for finger style and slap on fretless, but I much prefer flats if I'm using a pick. If there's one advantage flats have over rounds on fretless is that the bass is less likely to have that characteristic fretless envelope, so if I'm playing a gig on fretless but don't want to sound like Jaco/Pino (tongue in cheek there BTW, perhaps I should say 'even less like Jaco/Pino'), I'll use flats 👍
  16. Beedster
    Your best bet starting is a board that will be resilient such as ebony, especially if your playing roundwounds. Maple boards are glorious but they chew up quickly if you're not careful
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    Fretted and fretless: same instrument, you can play either like Jamerson or like Jaco. OK there's a few things you can do on fretless you would struggle to do on fretted, but the differences are nothing like as significant as it seems and you only have to listen to Jaco playing the same lines on both instruments to realise that the the frets or the lack of them were not the defining feature. For me, playing a gigo n fretless without anyone, even the band, realising and assuming I'm playing fretted, is something I will always love doing 👍
  18. Beedster
    As we both know Jack, there is no feedback-free solutions, simply less risk of feedback solutions 👍
  19. Beedster
    I never use a stand, even the best stand can be pushed over, so bass is always on its side, and following knocking of my bridge leaving a venue a few years back I always have an escort in and out of gigs, asking punters to make way for the bass player Having said this, at a festival 10 years ago we soundchecked and I asked the soundguy where was the safest place to leave the bass. He showed me a spot behind the backline that he said no-one would go near. Five minutes later there was an ominous crash and swearing as the very same soundguy fell onto my DB., literally lying on top of it. No damage to the bass at all, he limped for several days apparently. I used to take an SLB to every gig not just for damage back up but for those occasions where feedback is too much of a problem. Fell out of love with the sound of the SLB however so now just take a fretless bass as backup 👍
  20. Beedster
    Add to that list 4. You are prepared to suck up all incoming courier costs, tax and duty plus return courier costs if the bass is faulty and you need to return it 5. You are aware of the local (state) law of the seller which may mean you are screwed even if they are 100% at fault 6. You accept that even if the bass is 100% as described, if you don’t like it you will probably make a big loss if you sell it within a few years of buying it I fell foul of 4 and 5 in 2008 and 6 in 2009 and will never buy a bass from the USA again
  21. Beedster
    You know you want to.......
  22. Beedster
    Too many projects and this is one that probably won't get finished. Lovely and authentic looking and feeling wear by @d_g of this parish, original listing here Dan's pictures do it more justice than do mine but here's a few more..... I've also added a bridge, which is one of these and is very nice https://reverb.com/uk/item/15763833-retrovibe-fully-compensatable-bass-bridge-for-51-precision-string-thru-brass-saddle-19mm-spacing Other parts are..... - 51P Slab Alder Body finished in ocean turquoise metallic with heavy relic - Bareknuckle 51P pickup - Bareknuckle jazz bridge pickup - Reverse wound and reverse polarity to the neck pickup so that they hum cancel and sound like a jazz bass when both on - Gold anodised style pickguard (not actually anodised but looks the same) - Fully working P Bass Tone circuit with three way switch for neck/both/bridge pickup - Relic screws - String trough ferrules (very difficult to buy!) - Relic output jack cup Bridge was close to £60, body cost me £295 so how about £325?
  23. Beedster
    https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Phil_Jones_Bass_Preamps.html Bought from Bass Direct in late 2022 but I've recently bought a pre-amp for live/doubling work that does everything this can do (although it has to be said the PJB still has the edge on tone). Probably had 5-hours use max, all cables,case and original packing included, will post photos of the whole shebang tomorrow 👍
  24. Beedster
    Yes, VVT, have tried tracking back but not quite as clear to me as I'd expect, just want to make sure there are no surprises before I get the soldering iron out PS I think you're spot on re an active tone circuit. When I first bought the bass, and as per a previous thread on here, I was a little underwhelmed. It took playing pretty loud and fiddling around a lot with both the balance and tone of the PUPs plus EQ on the amp to really bring out the magic. Most of that would be captured and made far easier in an onboard EQ 👍
  25. Beedster
    Doesn't appear to be no, I suspect the previous owner has done some messing about with the circuit as the soldering in the front cavity isn't quite the level I'd expect from Sims
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