BassAgent

You can kind of see my amp and my Celinder on these pics:

Had a gig with my rock band last Friday: The sound sucked, but the gig itself was great! My Celinder through my Aguilar = heaven!!! And I had a gig with my jazz band last night, in a small restaurant in Amsterdam. Great gig as well Fretless Jazz Bass, easy jazz music. Lovely

Hi, my name is Hidde, I'm a GAS addict. I've owned 17 basses in 10 years, most of which I bought and traded in the last 4 years. I now have 8 basses, 2 amps and lots of other stuff. I'm still GASsing for a lot.

I think he had an argument with Lakland. They will probably have sacked him but they won't discontinue the DJ model, it's their most popular model. Maybe they'll keep building it with another name on it.

[quote name='iamapirate' post='593390' date='Sep 8 2009, 11:37 PM']You ought to be more worried about the drummer's face in that one [/quote] With this drummer? Nah, I've played with him for 10 years now, and he has worse expressions

But that isn't a bass face...

I found my Blade at a small music store for €400, roughly £350.

I think we all know them: bass faces. Let me see 'em! I seem to have a thing for it: And some oldies:

[quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='591963' date='Sep 7 2009, 11:09 AM']Thats one serious bass face Think we should get a bass face thread started!! lol[/quote] A friend of mine once said: when you play something difficult (or something in general), you look like you smell your own farts and, secretly, like it. EDIT: Bass Face thread started!

And I like that Performer bass! Anyway, the Big Al may look a bit weird, but the sound is just Music Man.

Yes!

How did you know?

New pic, now with added funky stuff:

Soundchecking is cool:

Ah, I didn't see that. Anyway, the Henzelli looked weirder as a design than as the finished bass, indeed. Still, I have played it and it's such a wonderful bass to play! It's ergonomics are just superb.

First bass built for me buy the guys of Cobelens & de Bruyne, of whom I am an endorser: Maple body, merbau top, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, Seymour Duncan Basslines soapbars, Aguilar OBP-3, Wilkinson tuners, ABM bridge. Because I'm not 100% satisfied, so they're building a new bass for me that's smaller, lighter and has nicer wood: Same pickups, preamp and hardware, but it has a downsized body made out of ash with wengé laminates, spalted birch top, maple/wengé/greenheart neck, ebony fretboard.

I would buy about 20 Celinders before I would buy a Ritter like that.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='591204' date='Sep 6 2009, 10:11 AM']Nice looking bass - I've read ads about these in BGM & they seem really good. What's your opinion?[/quote] I like to compare them to the Fender American Deluxe and Sadowsky Metro series, they're only way cheaper (about £1400). The only thing I didn't really like was the fact that my bass had a bit too much treble in the sound, which I solved with replacing the preamp. The thing I'm still amazed about is the playability. It plays so smooth! @RhysP: Odd colour, but it fits the instrument! @Rayman: Yes, she seems to play a B4 with added pickguard.

I haven't seen many of these so far, so I was wondering who on this forum has a Blade bass! I have a B2 Tetra. It has been modified with an Aguilar OBP-1 preamp. It's a power jazz as well as my Celinder but still is a quite different instrument from the Danish baby.

Wouldn't it be Vantage?

[quote name='Prosebass' post='590844' date='Sep 5 2009, 07:17 PM']Hi Hidde and welkom aan boord, I'm sure you will stay longer than anticipated !!! My older brother lives in Utrecht and works for Rabobank, although most of his time is spent in the piano practice rooms at the University. I am hoping to visit soon to see the Railway Museum. ....Paul[/quote] Thanks! I live very close to the railway museum.

Since Thursday, I own a J Update 4 that was originally owned by Danish bass player Thomas Skarbee, who sold it to CrazyKiwi, who then sold it to a Belgian bass player called Geert Maesschalck. I bought the bass from Geert. I absolutely love this bass. It plays like a dream, sounds like an animal and looks like a Bentley. I can't imagine anyone ever thought of selling this

Thanks! It's an awesome instrument. Why did you sell it, actually?

I think my Cobelens & de Bruyne can be considered "weird": But the Henzelli by the same guys is even weirder: Both absolutely wonderful basses!