GreeneKing

Now £1250

Just when you think life is agreeably predictable it can throw you a curved ball. I'm faced with having to move and downsize considerably. 7 basses is several too many. 

This lovely instrument from Mike Walsh in Essex is rather special. Tonally it is much modelled on the Aria SB1000. 

I traded it from Mark, the original owner, with another Zoot that he had built and sold on to me. Incestuous.

32" scale with a 7/8 sized Zoot body. English spalted beech on a light weight American swamp ash body. Spalted beech facing on the headstock.

The neck is roasted Canadian flamed maple with purple heart stringers and ebony veneers.

Hipshot hardware.

And now for the electronic components that were used to replicate the SB1000 tone:

A Rautia MB-1E pickup. These are no longer available.

Prostheta’s BB Noisekiller preamp.

A 6 way Varitone circuit built to purpose by Mike.

The bass has added tonal variety courtesy of a series/parallel switch, an active/passive switch and a passive tone.

It isn't a one trick pony by any means but some of the settings produce distinctly 80's sonics unlike I've heard from a bass before.

The bass is very light, 7 1/4 lbs on bathroom scales.

Nut width is 40mm and string spring at the bridge 16mm.

Complete with a hard case as shown.

Can be tried and collected from Kendal.

Will include an unused set of Newtone strings.

I will courier to UK addresses at cost.

Mark's build thread is here:

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Peter

Tony bought a book from me. Top man as per usual.

Thank you.

Peter

3 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Hi Peter, could I have the Janek Gwizdala one please 

I’m pm’d you. 
 

Peter 

Remaining books all £3 each.

I seem to have acquired an embarrassing number of bass books over the years.

Life circumstances are changing and I need to clear out from a life of accumulation.

All are £4 plus the cost of postage which I think is a very reasonable price. All are in good condition, some (very few) may have annotations in them.

I'm giving it a couple of weeks before Oxfam gets a visit.

Peter

In no particular order.

Famous Blues Bass Lines - Larry McCabe with CD

Metallica Black cover (Enter Sandman) - Authorised Guitar Edition

Foundation Course for Bass Guitar - Clive Gregory

Play Bass with Muse arranged for 4 and 5 string with CD

5 String Bass Fundamentals - Brian Emmel with CD

Bass Heroes - Tom Mulhern

5 String Bass Method (low B) - Brian Emmel with CD

Beginning Bass Scales - Peter Pickow

Complete Learn To Play Bass - Stephen Richter with CDs

Best of Bass Jam Trax - Ralph Agresta with CD

Hal Leonard Bass 2 Songbook with CD

6 String Bass - David Gross with CD

Bass Guitar Scale Manual - Harvey Vinson

Beginning Bass Guitar - Peter Pickow

Power Bass - Bunny Brunel with CD

Electric Bass Guitar Complete Guide - Laurence Canty

Improvising Bass Guitar Intermediate - RGT

And a new find:

The Bass Handbook - Adrian Ashton

Reduces to £65 before eBay beckons.

In excellent condition, velcro to the rear

Peter

The H24 is a steep high-pass filter pedal by Sine Effect Electronics. This filter pedal has an adjustable frequency of 30-400Hz, and a slope of 24dB/octave (4th-order). Certain components are matched by hand to ensure a steep curve.

This pedal is ideal for electric bassists and guitarists who wish to tighten up their low-end. The pedal outputs unity gain and is designed to be low-noise. 

Features:

24dB/octave high-pass filtering

True bypass

Hand-matched components

Specifications:

Operating Voltage: 9-18V DC, centre-negative

Current Draw: ~14mA

Input/Output Impedance: 1 Megaohm/680 ohm

Noise: <-100dB

Dimensions: ~48x100x50mm (including sockets and knobs)

Recovery gain: +3dB

Reduced to £75 before eBay beckons.

In very good condition, boxed and fully functional. Can be powered with a 9volt battery or a power supply.  A PSU is also included in the sale as well as a Midi lead and a printed A4 manual.

Please note photo shows 2 Midi leads in error, only one with the pedal - the longer one.

Peter

The Midi Moose is battery operable and provides a minimum of 200 hours usage. A cutting edge battery feature turns off the numerical display after 5 seconds in oder to conserve power. In the event that you forget which preset you were on, you can step on the individual patch LED that is still it, waking up the display to your previous display without making any changes. 

Specificiations

MIDI I/O: Out

Height: 1.5"

Width: 17"

Depth: 3.6"

Reduced to £165 before eBay beckons.

In mint condition, velcro on the rear. Boxed with power supply, USB lead and an A4 printed manual.

Peter

250+ Effects taken from the HX family processors.

Intuitive controls make selecting and editing effects easy.

Flux Controller for automating parameter changes

Adjustable input impedance to match your instrument.

Connect an optional expression pedal or 2 external footswitches.

MIDI In, Out/Thru connectors (receives PC and CC messages).

Stereo I/O with choice of True Bypass or buffered DSP Bypass.

128 Preset slots.

USB-C port for firmware updates and use with HX One Librarian.

9V Power supply included.

These are brilliant wireless system. Sadly I can't justify mine. It's in the for sale section with a right angled lead. As new. 16+.

I love this wireless setup. I think it's the best you can buy, reassuringly expensive and worth every penny.

Sadly I can't justify having it. My opportunities for using it are few and far between and sadly consist of the odd rehearsal and an even rarer gig.

It is in as new condition except for the addition of a right angled transmitter lead, drawstring bag for the transmitter, velcro on the rear of the receiver, a stomp button on same and I'll include an A4 printed manual.

The original power supply, leads and transmitter lead are bagged and they have never been used.

Save £100 on new.

Wireless System

Dual band: 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz

With GLXD1+ pocket transmitter, GLXD6+ pedalboard receiver and Wa 305 guitar cable

Up to 8 systems simultaneously (16 with Frequency Manager)

Automatic frequency setup

Built-in guitar tuner

Output: 6.3 mm jack

Up to 12 hours of battery life

Up to 60 metres range

Transmitter made of metal

Receiver dimensions (W x D x H): 95 x 48 x 138 mm

Transmitter dimensions (W x D x H): 67 x 29 x 115 mm

Total weight: 1.2 kg

Includes Shure lithium-ion battery and battery charger

Peter

I sold Ted a cab. A pleasure, lovely chap.

Peter

Thank you Ted. Lovely to meet up.

Peter

Black Country Custom The 85 Octave £75

RC Booster in photo is sold.

Flattley Poison Ivy Fuzz in photo is sold.

Grizzly now sold.

TC Electronics Chorus is withdrawn.

The 85 is like new. 

Peter

Now £430!
 

Here's my Markbass cab up for sale. It is in near new condition and includes a Roqsolid cover.

The top carpet has a couple of indents where the amp was placed on it. Other than that minor sign of normal use it's as new.

It has been used several times at rehearsal at very low volume levels and at one gig where it was only used as a monitor as I was going through the PA.

It is a great cab. A real one cab solution weighing approximately 18Kg or 40lbs. I'm 70, under 11 stone, have osteoporosis and have suffered a spinal fracture and I'm happy to lug it around.

Specs briefly are 

2 x 12" ceramic speakers

600 watts

Piezo switchable tweeter with 2 levels of attenuation

57.8 x 60 x 47 cm

https://www.markbass.it/product/mb58r-122-p-4/

Tone is very Markbass, i.e. effective.

Collection or meet up only. I'm in Kendal, Lake District, NW England.

A tale to help explain how good I think these cabs are.

I've been through a bit of chopping and changing with my rig. I was using one Accugroove Tri112L for band rehearsal and very occasionally both when needed. I decided to get a one cab solution so I had more headroom available with one cab. I bought a MarkBass MB58R P-4. A 600W 4ohm 17.5Kg 2 x 12 with ceramic speakers. I normally use a 'backup' Peavey MiniMax 600W head with it.

With the Accugrooves I've was using my GK800 Legacy. I took both rigs along to our last rehearsal. The Accugrooves and the GK won hands down. I haven't tried swapping the heads around but the experience shows just how good these Accugrooves are.

I bought a Yamaha TRBX605FB from Andy. 
 

Everything was great and exactly as described. Great value, communication and fast delivery. 
 

I really couldn’t have asked for more. 
 

Peter

I’ve now a back up 5er incoming. At 18mm it isn’t particularly narrow spacing but it’s quite narrow at the nut and I’ll cope. 
 

My US G&L produces a monstrous tone right where our style of music demands it. The Plek’d neck also makes it so very playable. 
 

It has a full +/- 3EQ with passive tone courtesy of an EMG BTS System which takes nothing away and adds much. 
 

It’ll be interesting to see how the East/Aguilar TRBX 605FM compares. 

I saw that to. It looks like new. Very nice. 

Thank you for that Matt. I find the MFD pickups are really just right. That blue L1550 is a good price though. Tributes can be that much 2nd hand. 

My US L2500CLF is quickly becoming like a 2nd skin. I'm getting around to thinking that any backup bass should also have 5 strings in number and have the narrow string spacing that I'm both used to and like.

Does the Tribute have the same narrow string spacing?

Any thoughts on it vs the US model?

Any other suggestions on narrow string spacing 5ers would be appreciated too.

Peter

I recently bought a Tech 21 MIDI Footswitch from Mike. He sent the unit well packaged and with 24 hour delivery. He forgot the psu but ordered one next day delivery from Amazon. Very helpful, great communication and he went above and beyond.

Thank you Mike.

Peter

What a great day. Thank you Rob and all who came along. 
 

Some lovely basses too. 

On 01/05/2025 at 16:42, Sean said:

I put an East MMSR 3 knob in one. Then used the switches to do pickup selection between Series/Parallel/ Single, Active/Passive and Neck/Both/Bridge. It was wired so that the inner coils were the ones activated when in "single" mode. I did this to make it not like a Jazz but it can be configured to mimic a Jazz if you wire it for the North coils. It's all very different from original but it gives a lot of tonal options. For someone who plays mainly PJs with everything on 10 it was overkill for gigging but endless fun noodling at home.

 

 

I spoke to John about using the MMSR as it is the obvious choice. He didn't recommend it.

I've since lowered the treble response frequency using the internal switches and I've fitted some high quality Gotoh knobs to the EMG controls.

The bass is now simply awesome especially in a band setting. It's difficult to imagine anything better (given that I've owned well over 100 basses that's saying something significant  ).

Peter

4 hours ago, Killerfridge said:

Madness

Probably to have as a 4ohm pair. When I’ve used mine together they are much more than the sum of their parts 🙂

At the risk of being accused of sacrilege I decided to look at ways of altering my lovely US L2500 CLF's electronics. I found that the treble cut did nothing to my ears. My ears aren't great but I've read that others have had similar issues. I had checked everything through a couple of times and it was all that it should be.

I didn't want to do anything that wasn't reversible. This is an expensive instrument. It sounds really great given that I can't significantly roll off the treble with onboard controls. I love it!

I spoke to John East. A Uni Pre 3 knob would have done the job well but it would need to be modified to accept a single input (I want to use the existing 3 position pickup selector) and the 3 knob version has no passive tone control.

The EMG BQC Control seemed to be suitable. It is a 3 EQ +/- preamp with sweepable mids.

I sourced a 250K/250k concentric pot (Allparts) and set it up as volume over tone, no treble bleed circuit and a 0.047uf tone capacitor. I replaced the 3 way active/passive switch with a 2 way. The passive volume and tone output switches either to the jack socket or via the BQC. I put a 10M resistor across it to mitigate any 'pop' on switching. It works to a large extent. 

There was a lot of wiring and soldering involved. I had to turn the series/parallel switch through 90 degrees to get everything to fit. I checked connections as I went along but I suspected it would need some fault finding when complete. It worked straight off the bat! Given that the volume was back to front, easily sorted.

I'm really pleased. The passive tone works subtly but as I expect. It's always in circuit. The active treble control is again subtle but useable. The bass and sweepable mids are stronger but nothing silly. 

The active pre gives hardly any noticeable boost. The ability to roll off the treble is what I want and I have it. Adding a variety of mids is also very useful.

The EMG knobs are awful. I'm sure that they used to be a nice moulded rubber. These are a horrible plastic and the top catches on the bottom.

So a success. Everything added and nothing taken away - except for those knobs.

Vegetarian is me  Thank you.