Paolo85

Lightweight, medium scale, soundgear shape, thin Ibanez neck, good balance on a strap, sounds great.

I am selling because I am not playing bass anymore. I have clinged to it for a while but I have now figured I can buy a new bass if I get back into playing. I went through more than dozen basses in the past few years but I have sold them all. This was the last one standing, a perfect balance of great comfort, great sound, versatility and budget.

A previous owner had done a lot of work on the bass, which is now fully shielded and has a Wilkinson pickup at the bridge.

However, the installation of the Wilkinson pickup (which was part of a wider upgrade with different preamp and pickups, although the bass has largely been brought back to the original state) was a bit rough and has left marks (please have a good look at the pictures if you are OK with it)

That being said, the bass is great, no issues whatsoever beyond the aesthetics.

It's pickup from Bromley or I could meet in central London. I do not have a suitable box but if you are up for it I could post with the neck off

Thanks

Paolo

49 minutes ago, PJC said:

All the best …

do you still have the HB-60 and want to sell?

if you’re Bromley then pretty local 

Thanks!

That's sold,  sorry

I never did an introduction post, but I'll do a farwell post. I am not playing the bass anymore, and it turns out this spoils my enjoyment here unfortunately. I posted here an average of around 18 times per month between March 2022 and this September. I have since only made posts to sell my gear. Slowly, and with no rush, I am going to sell everything apart from my Ibanez Mezzo and the practice amp for the occasional noodling.

It has been nice chatting with you these past two years.

A physiotheraphist this summer said that I should stop playing the bass while we were working on my back pain. That was quite sad as I was in the process of looking for a band.

She also prescribed exercises, and the whole thing pushed me to become more physically active, putting in the hours to get fit.

It turned out that, as I am glued to my laptop all day for work, not spending the rest of the time glued to a big wooden object with strings, even if it makes the coolest sound ever created and is amazing to play, is good for my body, my mental health, my family.

So that's it. No more time and money spent on gear, no more long hours practicing, no time for a band for the forseable future. I am not the sort of person that can juggle too many things at once unfortunately.

I'll be around to sell stuff. Best wishes to you all. Farwell

Price £9 plus postage. Nice loud pickup for the price

Thanks

They were in a bass I bought a while ago. £9 plus postage. I don't have much details about them, but they sound amazing

Thanks

Paolo

Price 35+ postage

Amazing pickup from a Fender Classic 50s precision

I bought it here

and I assume it came from this bass

Though @Woody1957 may correct me.

Thanks

Tonerider TRP1 Precision plus alnico P pickup and TRJ1 alnico J bridge pickup.

I bought them separately, not as a PJ set, but I used them as such and I sell them as such

Price

Both: £35 + postage

J only: 12 + postage

P  only: not possible at the moment

Thanks

Beringer BDI 21, price 10+postage

Best,

Paolo

I bought it for a project and never got round to doing it. Price is 35 +postage

Unfortunately I cannot post at the moment

Hi Tom. Sorry I cannot post this at the moment

PJ bitsa with

Squier Affinity body

Fender Modern Player J neck

Electronic replaced with a Kiogon Loom (admittedly the tone pot is a bit scratchy)

Tonerider TRP1 P pickup

Orginal J pickup (which I like as it's very loud and competes with the P, but I have a Tonerifer J I could give you for £10 if you want)

Hipshot licensed ultralight tuners

Wilkinson bridge

It's fairly light for a P, it has great balance, plays with nice low action. A few scratches here and there (I tried to photograph) but an amazing bass.

Posting the parts would be more profitable but I'll try for a bit to sell here and see if somebody wants it as a unit.

Pickup from Bromley (20 min train from London Victoria). Or I could meet in central London but I won't be able to go there much in the next few days

[REDUCED, £100] An amazing bass for the money. I bought it a while ago from another basschatter.

Here's a "review" I made at the time

I have put Thomastick flats on. The previous owner had moved the strap pin to the horn. It did not feel sturdy to me so I put a plate from another bass back at the back on and a pin back there

It's pickup from Bromley (which is 20 min train from London Victoria). I could meet in central London though I won't be able to go there much in the next few days

I had a VM J the neck was incredibly good

I was looking at the classfields this morning. There were no basses marked as "sold" before page 5 (where my ad had ended up two days after the last bump). There were two "on hold" page 3.

Is August a slow month for bass sales? 

3 hours ago, ezbass said:

Nothing wrong with using a pick but, if you’d rather not, try 3 finger trills, I go: ring, middle, index, repeat.

This. Just a single movement of closing the hand, but with fingers falling on the string staggered. It does not require a lot more stamina than playing eight notes

REDUCED 155 pounds

Lightweight (3.5kg according to a previous owner, feels correct to me), medium scale, soundgear shape, thin Ibanez neck, good balance on a strap, sounds great.

I understand black Ibanez mezzo are now a bit hard to come by, which I hope should make this attractive.

A previous owner had done a lot of work on the bass, which is now fully shielded and has a Wilkinson pickup at the bridge.

However, the installation of the Wilkinson pickup (which was part of a wider upgrade with different preamp and pickups, although the bass has largely been brought back to the original state) was a bit rough and has left marks (please have a good look at the pictures if you are OK with it)

That being said, the bass is great, no issues whatsoever beyond the aesthetics.

It's pickup from Bromley or I could meet in central London

Thanks

Paolo

Never used one but I always assumed that when you put it on you cannot play open strings

I think there is a difference between haggling for fun or in the hope to get a deal, or just because why not, which I do not like, and very simply making an offer if the price tag is too high for you. The latter is helpful for for the seller, who may have reasons to sell quickly

Normally, if I analyse the bass line (which I do not always do), I rely on external sources to learn the chords - unless they are absolutely obvious. Then just check what the bass line is doing in relation to chord tones.

Among the benefits of doing that are the fact that it makes it much easier to remember songs, and that it makes it much easier to wing it if I forget some bits of the bass line.

I had to learn Crossroads, Cream version, a few months ago. For me, it would have been a nightmare to learn. Almost impossible to learn note for note without reference to chords. I resolved to just do it the other way around and just follow the chords, incorporating Jack Bruce parts when feasible, and wing it to a very large extent. It would not work in a Cream tribute for sure, but I suppose it would be ok in a generic rock-blues context. After all, even Bruce did not always play the same lines note for note.

A few months ago, as I was playing guitar quite a bit, I went through a couple of simple songs learning both rythmic guitar and bass line, looking at how the two instruments together outlined chords, instead of relying in external sources. If I had the time, energy and skills, I would learn every song that way because it is fascinating and I am sure would pay huge dividends over time. I suppose the guitar parts could be figured out on bass but I find it more difficult

I am a huge fan of talkingbass, but I must say I find the lessons extremely dense and, possibly because of it, a bit dry despite some humor. There is a lot to take in from each 10min lesson so ome may feel a bit stuck. For me, it is not a problem. Mark from Talkingbass is the best teacher I have ever encountered, online or in person. But, if I think of myself at 15, maybe it would have not worked. Maybe Bassbuzz would have been better, for what I can see from the youtube videos

There are however two caveats to that

-I never tried Talkingbass courses for beginners. Maybe they are less intense

-I started playing at 14 and I could read very little. Your son may find Bassbuzz too simple

1 hour ago, NickA said:

Sounds awful, like an overdamped thuddy p bass.

 

Some strange idea of how a double bass sounds.

 

Where is the lovely change in timbre you get during the decay of a double bass note.

 

 

Well, let me say that I aegree with you that the DB's sound is more complex than this. But, as you said in a previous post, not all DBs sound the same. You also mentioned that you like some mwah in your DB, suggesting you maybe have a certain idea of what is the kind of sound you like.

In my opinion, from a functional standpoint, the DB traditionally was not there for the listener to enjoy the timbre as it developed through times. If we look at classic recordings, especially as players were using gut strings, the DB sound was there to appear quickly with a boom, and go away very quickly, providing that swinging feeling like an elefant stomping it's way through.

Granted, my ears are not very good, but if I look at these two classic examples in the mix

Or even at this better-recorded example

I don't hear anything particularly extraordinary that leaves me in awe about how the tone changes as the note dies. What is extraordinary to me as an electric bass player (on top of the basically tone per se) is the massive thump and the swinging feel coming from the strong attack and fast decay.

After all, there must be  reason if Leo Fender, as he first conceived the P bass as a portable DB, installed a mute under the bridge.

And it is no coincidence that if you look at Anthony Jackson live with Petrucciani, he is pretty much palm muting all the time in mid tempos.

By the way, one of the best examples IMO in terms of getting a "swinging" sound from an electric bass I found it at the beginning of this video

For what I understand, there's not much playing with effects, just chunky tapewounds, fretted bass, neck pickup, plucking on the neck and above all a mute, as @jd56hawk does

10 hours ago, bremen said:

 

Closest I got was from holding the bass vertical so the side of my index finger pulled -"plucked" isn't the right word - the string, over the 12th fret. Still didn't have that blossom that Paolo describes though.

Tried that. Combined with a high action it really gets you very close! But it is from my point of view not very practicable

@pete.young I think it makes a very credibile tone. Very good. But I agree with JPJ, the attack/sustain combination is very different from that of a DB so it gives a different vibe. You can hear quite a bit of fretless mwah on the high register, with the notes blossoming instead of decaying.