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Hi Adrian - I posted this on Saturday: don't know if you missed it? Pasted below.

hey all. this is still here.

weight is around 3.8kg on my kitchen scales.

balance is good sat down and standing - like all Soundgear basses its very comfortable to play as long as the thinnish neck is to your liking. this one's only for sale as i've two of them! it punches well above its price in my opinion.

let me know if you need any further info.

Just checked, no tone control in passive mode. Thanks!

100% correct about the bass in active mode. Bass/mid/treble is now bass/low mid/hi mid.

Since its a modern sounding bass anyway there is plenty of high end available without having the treble knob, and the hi mid control is lot more useful to me. I find the same with my dingwall, which has the same preamp installed.

I will double check about the tone control in passive mode.

hey all. this is still here.

weight is around 3.8kg on my kitchen scales.

balance is good sat down and standing - like all Soundgear basses its very comfortable to play as long as the thinnish neck is to your liking. this one's only for sale as i've two of them! it punches well above its price in my opinion.

let me know if you need any further info.

I am considering a pickup swap on a guitar, but the ones I have my eye on are a fair bit smaller than the current ones.

It'd be lovely to get some custom surrounds made up to eliminate any gaps - wooden potentially might be nice, but a plastic one might also work. Can anyone recommend someone who would be able to do a good job of this?

For standard B tuned stuff, whatever guitar you like will work within reason. I've a 31.5 inch scale ACG fiver that's currently my main gigging bass with a pretty heavy metal band in this tuning. It works extremely well. The shorter neck makes it easier for me to move around the fretboard, which I really like.

EQ is such a powerful tool on our guitars, boards and amps these days that any weaker low end that a short scale instrument might have compared with longer scales (and this isn't always the case!) can be easily overcome.

If I was downtuning though I'd reach for a Dingwall. String tension on the ACG is a bit low - but equally, it is manageable.

No experience with the Overwater's - great rep for quality though and will no doubt be fine instruments.

Other multiscales are worth considering, especially second hand Ibby's which can sometimes be had for a bargain price if you keep an eye out. I've no experience with the Spector's but given their rep for quality instruments, I'm sure they'll be very good. The Dingwall will play great, quality is excellent and is likely to hold value well. I love mine.

Clearly I am a bit biased as an owner of one, but its hard to look past the NG2 for this application in my opinion. If your budget needs to also stretch to include a suitably Djent preamp , go with a cheaper Ibby and one of the Darkglass AO Photon or Microtubes Infinity pedals too - will get you some awesome tones for that genre (and many others).

bargain, id have this if i didn't already have one! capable of an awful lot more than just metal.

good luck with the sale.

Paddy is a top seller - just traded a bass with him and his communication was great, bass exactly as described, well packaged and posted promptly. deal with confidence.

I bought a bass from David recently - great to deal with, clear comms, item well packaged and exactly as described.

Price drop - now £400

Darkglass Alpha Omega, very good condition.

Excellent distortion pedal with a range of tones on offer.

The level pot is a bit scratchy but in full working order otherwise. Price includes postage.

Here's my Ibanez SR655 in Antique Brown Stain. I've had it a couple of years as a backup, seen a few practices and home use. There's a bit of wear under the strings that I've pointed out in one of the pictures, but its in great condition otherwise. Everything works as it should.

This link contains a load of details on it https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/SR655.

I had a Darkglass Tone Capsule installed instead of the usual Ibanez electronics - a very good preamp. That, combined with the PJ pickup configuration makes it a versatile bass. I'll include the original Ibanez one in the sale.

Its wearing a Dimarzio Cliplock strap currently, which will be included in the sale. I am currently hunting around for the original strap buttons and will include in the sale if I turn them up in time!

Happy to post at buyers expense.

Get in touch if any further info needed, thanks for looking!

Beast of an amp at a great price. Already have one otherwise I'd take it! Glws

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Price drop. Now 625 collected, 650 posted.

Definitely. The DG marketing vids all make it seem as though you plug in your bass and instantly sound like Jon Stockman, Jacob Umansky or whoever else is in the video. Not the case in my experience!

The pre's on your basses will help, but they're usually quite broad cuts and boosts. The Source EQ2 pedal (which I don't touch once set up) allows much more surgical cuts, which is what I've ended up with to get to where I wanted. You can also save a preset for each bass on that pedal, so all your instruments can go into the amp at roughly the same level - meaning that your comp/drive settings can be pretty much left alone.

Good luck, its worth it in the end!

I've got an AO900 and love it. Have also had all flavours of Darkglass distortion (X, MT and AO) in various pedal formats. 

My take is that the reality of Darkglass stuff is that there is a very large overlap between the different flavours of distortion. My preference is AO because its got an organic quality to me that's missing from the others, and a less extreme "baked in" EQ (though I do my own EQ in addition to what Darkglass provides - see below). AO sits better in a band situation for me. I found the MT to have less presence in a band situation without really pushing the mids (which gives this "honky" quality to me), and the X (whilst the solution I thought I wanted on paper) I could never get to sound very "natural". That said it is an extremely powerful tool, and I love the Neural DSP plugin that emulates it (Parallax). That's my go-to for recording bass.

In terms of clank - on paper the X should do that the best. I found though that the AO is more pleasing for my application. A bit of light drive in the Alpha voicing should do this too - though obviously it will not leave the low end alone. To be honest though I used to think this was important, but now believe it is not as important for me as I thought.

I have found that to "unlock" the sound I'm after, whichever flavour of Darkglass product I'm using, is usually a case of appropriate gain staging/EQ before and/or after the drive circuit, rather than endlessly cycling through the Darkglass product library. So for instance, one of the reasons that Dingwall's sound great through them is that they're hot - about 9dB hotter than my Ibanez. Dingwall's also have some mid information that other basses do not have.

I'd recommend that rather than chopping in your amp, buy a Source Audio EQ pedal first and experiment with it. I have one before my signal goes into the amp, and it makes a huge difference to my ears.

All that said the X900 looks cool. But I have no plans to get rid of the AO900.

Happy to brain dump further on my experiences if it helps

Scott sold me Source EQ2 pedal. Item was in great condition as described, fairly priced, and posted quickly.

Scott is a friendly and helpful guy and would happily buy/sell with him again.

Love these. Would have it if I didn't already have two 😆

thanks very much, that's really kind and helpful of you to share. much appreciated.

what i will do is forward that onto the custom pickguard producer and see if that is enough for them to produce something.

cheers!

If anyone with one of these would be able to remove their pickguard and create a template for me to order one for myself, I would probably love you forever.

I've got an NG2 5/2 that I'd like to run in bridge/neck pickup configuration, but the NG2 pickguard won't fit as that instrument runs a bridge/middle pickup configuration.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Cheers!

Price drop. Now 700 collected, 725 posted.

Here we have a Sandberg Basic Ken Taylor 5, bought around a year ago from Grezza1 of this parish.

Its from 2004. Absolutely rock solid build. Bits of player wear on the body under the strings, but I'd say its in great condition for a 20 year old instrument. 

Ash body, maple neck with ebony fretboard (I think)

34" scale

Adjustable string spacing, goes about as narrow as 18mm or thereabouts, out to 19.5mm ish

3 band active EQ, 1 x 9V battery

Active or passive operation

Split coil switch

Weight - 4.7kg according to bathroom scales method

Does not include the attached strap. Will remove that and replace original strap hardware for sale.

Reason for sale is I'm on a one in, one out policy currently. Sadly.

Price includes postage, which will be in a decent cardboard box with a crappy guitar bag.

Knock £25 off if you can collect!

Cheers

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Bass straight in, all processing in Reaper.

I generally use Neural DSP's stuff for my tone, I'm a metal/rock player primarily and use Darkglass stuff live, so this works very well for me. I produce music for my main band and much prefer having flexibility to make decisions later about tone. This suits the way we like to write and record.

Many of the compressors and EQs I use after this are Reaper's stock plugins, they're excellent. Especially the compressors.