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I've said before a couple of times, I get the idea that 'something is only worth what someone is willing to pay' and I do agree with that to a point, but, truthfully, I think we can all give most basses a ball park figure, and more often than not, a lot of basses I've been interested in, are way over this. And, so, they sit around not being sold.

Again, I've said before, the new market for these once ubiquitous, meat and potatoes basses, is 5 years away from becoming outright unaffordable to all. At this rate of constant price rises, within 5 years, you'll be looking at 4k+ USA fenders and 5k+ Stingrays. At that point, I would suspect, the demand will drop heavily, they will then be sold and marketed as boutique instruments (a la Wal/Fodera/Alembic) and the current budget/import lines, are then, themselves, rebranded into the 'real thing'.

There's also been a huge shift in the industry towards more budget orientated models - brands like Sire are knocking out Basses of unbelievable quality for a low price, and absolutely cleaning up with it.

Alex bought my Reverend Bass. Great Comms, absolutely no fuss, and a friendly, nice bloke to boot! Good meeting you! Enjoy the Rev!

Hi all,

Here we have my Ibanez EHB 1005sms.

This is the short scale (but still multi-scale) version, so phenomenally fast and easy to play. 32inch on the B string and 30 on the G. B-String is absolutely superb for a short scale 

Fanned frets. Birdseye Maple neck. Stainless Steels frets. Bartolini humbuckers. 3 band Active EQ, with variable midrange. Active/Passive switching. Fluorescent side dots.

Weighs a supremely comfortable 3.4 kg, in conjunction with the short scale, makes this bass about as easy as it gets with regards to playability.

More or less as new condition. Complete with Ibanez gig bag, manual and hex keys.

Located in Moreton in Marsh, near the Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire border. Very often in the SW Bristol, Bath Taunton, Swindon area if it helps.

Do not have the materials to pack and post, so pickup ideally, or I'm happy to meet within a large radius, as my feedback attests to, for handover (or delivery if you're really close).

Thanks for looking!

The audience don't owe you anything. If they're not responsive, get your head down, play your derrière off and get out of dodge. Entitled whining is never a good look - especially for a band as mediocre as Royal Blood.

I've never understood people's problems with signature models. They more often than not, tend to offer something quite different from the norm. I couldn't give a monkeys if it's a Flea Bass or a Geddy Lee/Marcus Miller, Ibanez K5, et al.

People in the crowd struggle to identify what a bass is, let alone knowing the name on the headstock (another thing - how many signature models have the name on the headstock? Not many I'd wager).

I judge an instrument purely on it's individual merits. A great bass is a great bass and I'm not going to deprive myself of it on the basis there might be a Bass player in the audience, and they might know it's a sig model!

Devastating news. Starting bass back in 2003, Andy Rourke was someone who really caught my ear with his phenomenal, moving, melodic parts. Nobody has any business playing bass that well in an 'indie' type band. Also, such a unique voice on the instrument - you could tell it was him within a couple of bars, which again is quite something in the indie/pop scene.

The double whammy of this, is that we really, now, won't ever see them reunite - not that it was ever likely, but I hoped deep down, like The Police and Pink Floyd with Rog, that the impossible might happen just once.

RIP Andy - thanks for the inspiring a young me to pick up the bass and keep at it.

Individual members to stop picking new songs based on how fun they are to play, solely for them, disregarding absolutely everything else. 

Gladys Knight - License to Kill, the best, by a long way.

Worst is the Jack White and Alicia Keys one. It's diabolically bad.

Joel bought my pedal train Jr.

A thoroughly nice bloke, hassle free and great comms. Meet up for handover was like 2/3rds of the Italian Job, we were just missing the Blue Mini.

Deal with complete confidence. Thanks Joel!

Just picked up an EHB1005sms in Emerald.

Needed something lightweight with a shorter scale, to ease shoulder pain that's started to become a bit more prevalent of late.

When I first saw these I thought they were absolutely *horrendous* looking, but slowly over time, they've grown on me, and now I love the Cyberpunk aesthetic. It's striking if nothing else!

I was super dubious about the B-String being 32 inch, as we're conditioned to believe scale length is everything when it comes to a good B. However, bar the MTD KZ5 I had, this has the best B I've used! No flubby-ness and it speaks clearly.

The general hardware/finishing is of extremely high quality and it's nice to have a bass, like my old Modulus, that you trust to take a beating and deliver.

And finally, I don't get the whole thing of 'the Bartolinis are dark and crap, you must switch to Aguilars or Nordstrands' - I have never been the biggest Bart fan, but in this instance, the standard pickups are genuinely very good - some real depth and punch to them, and decent treble. If anything, sound-wise I'd say it's the preamp that's the issue. The treble frequency and highs are more 'hi-mids' to my ears and don't quite cut in the way I like.

All in all though, an absolutely stellar machine- can't wait to get it out on the road this weekend.

1 minute ago, stingray_stinger72 said:

Hi - has this got a satin neck finish? Thanks

Hi, yes it does. No gloss here!

35 minutes ago, prowla said:

The carpenter sexperience?

Well, our Mick is the right man for the job, given his extensive experience in shafting people.

Since D'addario stopped making Flexsteels (which were the lowest tension steelies, I've ever used) I'd say the most flexible strings, imo, would be anything round core and in a light gauge like 35-95. Basically rubber bands!

Nothing more fun to play than Ska songs, IMO. 2 weeks to learn 35 tracks though?! You're a braver soul than I!

Tom bought my TC 3rd dimension from me. Aside from having great taste in Chorus pedals, he was Zero fuss and friendly! Deal with complete confidence!

Here I am posting on Jon's wall again. Some patch cables this time, nothing too fancy, but a pleasure to deal with as always! He wins the award for most my dealt with Basschatter (so far), so he can't be all bad 😉

Sold Stuart my OLP Tony Levin. Thoroughly top drawer bloke & we had a nice chat in the pouring rain! Deal with complete confidence! 

On 02/05/2023 at 18:01, Open E said:

I'm experiencing signal break up on my TC Electronic RH750.

I've checked the gain setting isn't too high and have no effects selected on the amp.

I switch to another amp and it goes away so can't be the cab or the bass.

It sounds like a distortion that not part of the bass signal ie, not like a regular dialled in distortion.

Any ideas out there?

I've weirdly had this same thing happen recently with my BH550. (Random bouts of heavily distorted tone that clear up after a few seconds, on multiple different basses). My feeling is, being a class D amp, whatever it ends up being, it's likely not going to be cost effective to fix, so just bring my back up to gigs and when it dies, it dies!

Hi all!

Here we have my Pedaltrain JR in the Tourcase. Bought new for £170, 12 months ago. 9.5/10 condition wise - no dings, rust or marks (stickers will come off with acetate). Still smells new inside. Not smoked around.

I've got the board with the hooks on it, although this will peel off easily if you want to do it the other way. Comes with cables ties and a roll of extra backing tape.

£90 delivered. Or £80 collected from Moreton in Marsh on the Gloucestershire/Warwickshire/Oxfordshire border. Happy to meet up within a distance that makes sense financially!

Thanks for looking!

I'd argue the best slap tone I've ever heard was on an Epi Thunderbird. It was, well . . .  thunderous.

Hi all,

Here we have 6 of my Ernie Ball patch cables.

Top 3 were on my pedal board (unstressed angles) Bottom 3 are brand new and haven't been used at all. Made to a very high standard and of superb quality.

These sell for £18 new for a set of 3.

£20 delivered.

Hi all,

Here we have my TC Electronic 3rd Dimension. As new condition, in box with all box bumf.

A phenomenal pedal - genuinely the best sounding chorus I've used/heard, irrespective of the price. Gives that chorus sound without the *swirl* and weird bass response you get from others. Absolutely bang on for 80s style chorus tones - think 'Too Shy' by Kajagoogoo!

£28 delivered.

Hi all,

Here we have my TruTone 1-spot CS6 Pro.

Here's the bumf from TruTone - they can word it better than I! ;

Truetone 1 Spot Pro CS6 Highlights

Low-profile, 6-output Power Brick with Truetone 1 Spot "Switching Power" technology

Handles up to 1600mA current output

All outputs are fully isolated, to eliminated unwanted noise

Two of the 9Vdc Outputs switchable to 12Vdc, two of them switchable to 18Vdc

Profile low enough to mount underneath smaller, flat pedalboards (such as the Pedaltrain Mini).

All boxed with box bumf/cables/power cables/mounting blank.

Still PAT test clear for another 5-6 months

£80 delivered.

Hi,

Here we have my Peterson StroboStomp HD tuner. As new condition (the marks on the photo are on the plastic screen protector). Less than 12 months old.

Boxed with all box bumf.

This is the *king* of tuners. Will tune anything and everything, including Buzz feiten and sweetened tunings. Tracks instantly and incredibly accurately. Can change the colour of the screen too!

£90 delivered.

Hi,

Here we have my Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor. Selling as moving over to Multi-Fx unit.

Less than 12 months old, so condition is as new. Box and all box bumf included.

Awesome sounding unit that can be ran in either 9v, or, as I did, 18v for tremendous headroom and punch. Useful blend feature that allows you to blend dry signal into the compressed, giving you the ability to add body back into your sound. Also has a 3 way position switch to emphasise frequencies in the compressed signal, which adds a lot more flexibility.

£110 posted.

Thanks for looking.