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    Dood's veritable bass banquet!

    in Feedback

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    There's clearly a trend here and a good reason why there is so much positive feedback for Dan. It's because Dan is a...

    [size=8]Top banana![/size]

    Just acquired a Fender P bass from Dan and everything was tickety boo, so thanks very much for the perfect transaction.

    Fender American Series being discontinued.

    in Bass Guitars

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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1474311811' post='3137065']
    A lot of buyers have one eye on resale (not me actually) and anything other than one with the big F on it just doesn't hold it's value the same, we have pages of basses in the for sale section that cost £2500-3500 to have built for sale often for months for £1000-1500.

    Also the buyers are often 50+ guys that are treating themselves to a bass/guitar they lusted after when younger, the people researching xotic, sei, Roscoe, GB etc etc are in the minority compared to buyers of instruments with an F on purchased and never gigged.
    [/quote]

    I think much of this is true. However in defence of older citizens with custom-made basses, I would just add that the average new price of my ACGs is c£1,150 all of which are gigged regularly; a couple of hundred less than a new American Std bass give or take.

    Wot no Later without bass thread?

    in General Discussion

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    [quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1474226373' post='3136386']
    Stings tune(s) sounded like he ran out of ideas and sat & listened through the entire Police back catalogue for inspiration. Zzzzzzzzzzz................
    [/quote]

    I think so too. I started wondering if he wasn't Sting and hadn't fronted The Police would those songs have had airplay?

    jazz debate

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by ead

    Well, I have 3 atm. A Squier Silver Series, a Sandberg California II with EMG X pickups added and a custom ACG with the basic SEQ filter preamp. All slightly different but good in their own way (successfully avoided answering the question there).

    [attachment=226959:SSSJ 01.jpg] [attachment=226960:LR Sandberg California II TT 01.jpg] [attachment=226961:ACG Standard J Type 03 lo res.jpg]

    If you made me pick one then I'd say ACG closely followed by the Cali II. Sorry, no idea why two pics are rotated?

    The golden age of bass?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    It's an interesting question. The electric bass has only been around for maybe 70 years or so and is therefore a pretty new kid on the block compared to some others. With my rose tinted shades on I'd probably agree with the OP but I think the variety of instruments available today and the leaps and bounds in amplification makes today a pretty tasty time. Whether musicians exploit this is a different argument I think,

    NBD a nice brace of ACGs

    in Bass Guitars

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    Both basses now safely in my possession. Absolutely delighted with both of them, Alan has absolutely nailed the sounds I wanted (despite my medioce efforts trying to describe what I was after).

    Graham, not sure about the multicoil pickups, there's a lot of info on the ACG website but I did see anything specific about magnets although I was skimming the text pretty quickly. In case you haven't seen it, here's the link: http://www.acguitars.co.uk/acg_admin/wordpress/basses/pickups/ just go down the page a bit.

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