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  1. Beedster
    Last point, do NOT buy from anyone who also sells antiques, an old instrument is not always a good instrument and can cost you a small fortune to make playable
  2. Beedster
    Advice above is good. My tuppence…… Either buy from a respected dealer, or take the bass on approval and have it checked/valued, or buy from a long standing member here. Or as I have done, if you really like the bass, buy for it’s value to you as an instrument and hope you never have to recoup your investment 🤔
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    Nice, assume that's 3/4?
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    Beautiful instrument 👍
  5. Beedster
    Sort of thread that makes me want to leave Basschat
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    I prefer my gear to be over-engineered to under-engineered, OK there may be a price premium but the functional reliability and structural integrity that comes with it is worth that premium. Ever tried breaking a Mesa cab, we dropped a 1516 during the load out a few years back, and I still laugh recalling the singer's "Oh shit mate, I think it broke your car"
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    Understood John, I’ll happily buy the neck now but am equally happy to wait for a buyer for the body or for the whole thing so you can get it all gone at once 👍
  8. Beedster
    What sort of trades are you looking for John, I've got quite a lot of studio gear I'm about to list, mics, interfaces, some rack gear.....
  9. Beedster
    Very well put @Kiwi 👍
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    It's been that way a long time across so many retail sectors, cars, clothing, furniture, it was only a matter of time before it hit music, and in fact has been there a while with some music brands e.g., the Yamaha store in the West End. But why is a brand store selling to the wealthy while Thomann are not? You can spend some serious cash in Thomann et al? Music is, and always has been an expensive game And that's part of the problem, like you we all miss the local music store, but they went under for a reason, we all wanted more choice and lower prices.......
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    Given the price of some pretty average Fender and EBMMs these days that doesn't seem too bad
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    Likewise Dave
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    The neck on this is stunning, I've been lucky enough to play some amazing fretless instruments from a very Jaco '69 Jazz to 70's Precisions to 80's Wals to 90's Ray's , even an 00's Rickenbacker, all of which had glorious necks, and I still own a 'keeper' Warmoth fretless Precision neck that for me is my ideal neck in terms of profile, radius, materials and feel, but one thing that my ownership of this Status neck taught me was just how much easier it is to pitch a note on a well-engineered graphite fretless neck than on other necks, and just how harmonically full the note sounds (OK, that's two things I know). If I were playing fretless on stage or in the studio (as opposed to for pleasure) I would have absolutely no problem buying this bass just to get the neck back (nothing wrong with the bass it's on I'd just prefer it on a PJ). If you play fretless seriously, haven't tried a Status, and have the budget, seriously, do yourself a favour, you won't be sorry 👍
  14. Beedster
    Why disappointment, Mesa are relatively no more expensive now than they’ve ever been? Perhaps you’re disappointed that they’ve not - like other brands - outsourced a significant percentage of their production to poorer facilities using poorer components to keep prices low? But that’s why Mesa will retain their market status while others fall behind
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    +100 For those of you who appear to be poking at @agedhorse about pricing of Mesa gear CHECK OUT THE PRICES OF EVERYTHING AT THE MOMENT, basses especially, the prices of which are becoming farcical. I paid £1200 USED for my first M-Pulse 600 head in 2010 and IIRC around £800 for my first used (300w) Walkabout head a couple of years earlier. New prices were significantly higher at the time. And they were worth every penny in terms of tone, functionality, and reliability, as are the latest range. When you buy Mesa, and in the context of the price of competing gear at the time, you get what you're paying for 👍
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    Mmm, the more I watch Chris Wood play the more I'm convinced I need a German bow 🤔
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    Now that is how all basses should look 👍
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    MM boards always look so, well, nice 👍
  19. Beedster
    if Tonerider were more expensive everyone would be using them.... 🤔
  20. Beedster
    Thanks mate, I'm sure there'll be a workaround for the levels, is it just recording levels or do you have the same issue live? BTW, re clipping, that's what I thought! I recorded a 40-min vocal track about 6-months ago and was horrified when I went to process that it was clipping about 80% of the time and was very noticeable (a commercial voiceover). I searched through the various audio forums and came across Izotope RX 10 which not only fixed it but opened up a huge new World of options for troubleshooting dodgy audio, most of which I had never dreamed of (I was trained in the 80's and still see audio through an analogue lens)! OK, it took around twice as long to clean up the track as it did to record it, but given the embarrassment of having to ask him to repeat the recording, it was a huge win, and if it left any artefacts, I can't hear them.
  21. Beedster
    That's what I wanted to hear, although why are the stems low level?
  22. Beedster
    A fave of our gig reviews was 'Nothing like as bad as I expected them to be....."
  23. Beedster
    The only thing worse than being talked about..............
  24. Beedster
    All I can say is 'great minds.....' Jack! Looks like the Ui16 and the Ui24 are pretty different beasts, one review suggested the only similarity are the handles Do you use your in the studio also?
  25. Beedster
    We're a small acoustic band so a little late to the digital mixer party, but having realised that we need better monitoring and want to record multiple tracks, and having read a lot of threads on here and elsewhere, it seems not only that a digital mixer is going to make life a whole lot easier on stage, but that in many cases it will be equally useful for recording in the studio possibly making traditional studio interfaces redundant? Where on this journey is this tech at present and which mixers represent the best option for stage and studio use?
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