40hz

Just use the Trace. The differences in sound between amps, imo, are fairly minimal. Don't be guilty of imagining these chasm-esque differences in sound. They're really not there amongst amp brands! (In the past 40 years, anyway).

Thanks for the link - a thoroughly interesting interview!

I note that they all seemed to skirt around the topic of headless basses. I mean, clearly, headless, imo, don't sound that different at all - (looking at you Status), but it was interesting all the same to note how tentative they were, as if they all knew something, but didn't want to be the one to definitively say it.

Also, the way they all seem to really buy into tone wood as a concept in a solid-body, electric instrument (except Carey Nordstrand, who implied it doesn't matter).

Sold my Jazz Bass to Matt today. Good Comms, came to pick it up. Zero issues whatsoever. A lovely bloke - it was great to meet him and chat bass for a bit.

A great BC'er! Deal with confidence!

Enjoy the bass, Matt!

I, personally, don't see that as a mistake, but a definite rhythmic choice. 🤷‍♂️

3 hours ago, ReeV0 said:

Are any of the 5-string basses mentioned with 19mm spacing under 4kg/9lbs?

 

Any thoughts on the Yamaha TRBX series?

Most of the KZ5 MTDs are mid 8lbs.

Sold my Barefaced to Mark. Painless, straightforward and prompt. Deal with confidence!

8 minutes ago, MungoBass said:

This used to be mine, it is a great bass….

It really is, I'm a little bit on the fence with this as it's so good, but I swore I wouldn't 'collect' basses again. If I buy another bass, I'll have a stable. Dangerously close terminology!

17 minutes ago, Poodlefaker said:

Hi, does it come with a gig bag or case?

 

Hi. Sorry, I should have mentioned it does not come with a case.

I'll keep it brief. As a 16 year old getting into bass, I hated any form of 'pop' or electronic music, believing it to be somehow lesser than music played on 'real' instruments by 'real' musicians.

Now, I pretty much have stopped listening to Guitar based music, as I find it very samey and listen to 95% electronic/EDM!

Hi all,

Here we have my Barefaced Big Baby 3 bought new and delivered in May of this year, in as new condition (bar a surface mark on the rear).

1x12 with HF horn. 12kgs in weight. Steel grille.

This was one of the first of the newer design ones that has the new supercooler tech (in short, means the speaker doesn't heat up as much under higher load and can keep up the lows with little fade).

The newer type crossover/tweeter, which can go higher in freq than the BB2 if that's your thing.

It is scarcely believable how loud and low this thing will go. Crushes every other cab I've used, with ease. This is a total one cab solution for all but the largest outdoor gigs, IMO of course.

I'm moving to going through the PA directly, and planning on buying smaller cab as a monitor - this is total overkill for that. Plus, I want to release some funds for a Birthday Stingray.

These sell at £1050 now with a waiting list of 2-3 months minimum (I waited nearly 4 months!)

Pickup from Moreton in Marsh on the Gloucestershire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border.

I can't post this - I don't have the materials to do so. I also don't like/trust sending things of this ilk through the post system. However, as I say on all my adverts, I will deliver if you're relatively local, or I'm happy to meet up within a large radius for handover. 

Any questions, let me know!

£800 - it represents a £250 saving over new and no waiting!

Here we have my Fender Deluxe Active Jazz Bass (made in Mexico in 2016). Aside from some swirling on the pickguard, it's basically mint. 9.5/10 condition wise.

Selling as I'm pulling the funds together for a Birthday Stingray having got the bug for a 5'er after having recently acquired an OLP Tony Levin.

This is about as good as it gets as far as Jazz Basses go. Loaded to the gills with some seriously cool features, which are as follows ;

Ash body.

Maple Neck with Block inlays (featuring some lovely grain on the fretboard and neck).

18v Active Preamp (Bass, treble and mids)

Active/Passive switch - potential lifesaver on gigs.

Contoured neck heel.

Hi-mass bridge (essentially a rebranded Leo Quan Badass)

Noiseless Ceramic pickups.

Tonally this is a serious funky machine. Lots of pop and punch, with absolutely bags and bags of growl. *Cliche alert* - it really does that Marcus Miller thing, better than my actual Japanese Marcus Miller did. I've owned 4 jazz basses and this is legitimately the best sounding of them by a mile. I'm just a Stingray/Warwick guy in my bones!

Weight is 4.2kg

Based in Moreton in Marsh, which is on the Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire border.

I can't post as I don't have the packing materials and to be honest, I've never felt comfortable doing so, due to the potential for things to go wrong. However, as I say with all my adverts, I will happily deliver if you are relatively local, or happy to travel a large distance for a meet up for handover. It doesn't bother me (unless you're in the Outer Hebrides!)

£650. 

Any questions, fire away!

Thanks for looking!

3 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

Lovely bass. The neck looks to me to be all wenge as even the lighter outer sections have figuring that looks like wenge grain. 

I thought this too. The outer sections on the neck, at least, are definitely wenge. None of my Streamers 00's onwards had this - they were all Ovangkol. 

Lovely bass!

They never did a shorter scale version of one of these as far as I know!

Also states it's a 2004 model too - not sure how that lines up with the dual humbuckers - I didn't think they were an option till recently? 

As I've recently got an OLP Tony Levin, which I'm very impressed by and really gelling with, I've got one beady eye on an SR5 special for my Birthday in March. Saw this and had to do a triple take at the price. Usually, a non special, would be about £1100-1300. 

£2500 and a description a mute would be proud of! 😂

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266052396434?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=n-y-mlNuRNW&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=sl4fEbVkThu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

This has been my quietest year for inbound in probably a decade.

In ;

Fender Jazz Bass Active Deluxe - Needed a flexible bass for functions band and always wanted a 'super jazz' and this one fit that criteria to a T. 18v preamp and Noiseless pickups an excellent combination.

OLP Tony Levin  - Recently picked.up. Great ergonomics and playability with a pretty funky sound. The preamp, however, is total pants. Got an inkling with some inbound EMG parts, this will become my #1.

Fretless Status Neck

MTD KZ5

Warwick Corvette Standard

Out ;

Modulus Flea Bass - too bright and angry/direct for my new band.

Fender Classic 50's P - In the good tradition of Basschat of selling something inexplicably, this is mine. The best P-Bass I've ever played. Sounded phenomenal. I'm a silly billy for selling.

USA Musicman SUB - Finally it left the stable after 7 years. Wasn't getting used anymore (Status neck with it).

MTD KZ5 - Brilliant, just couldn't gel with this 5'er. This one had a particularly long neck being 35" scale, which is partially why the B-string was god-like. I'm not a particularly big bloke, so sometimes struggled with it after 2 hour long sets. 

Warwick Corvette 4 Standard - Bought from Bass Direct. Had a crack in the neck they didn't seemed to have picked up on - so went back instantly. Hope it wasn't sold to somebody else after this was discovered.

2023 should be quieter, barring placing an order for a Wal mk1, I finally feel after 20 years of playing, that I've sampled everything and realised that most basses really are very similar, and there aren't these chasm-esque differences we say there are. It's quite liberating!

net in and out = 0!

Fender all the way. As much as I respect Ibanez quality, tonally, they're too Vanilla for me.

This is disappointing to see. Basschat was always above crap like this. Let's not let this descend into being like the 'other' site.

Try to be respectful at all times. It's what makes this forum so good.

I used to find selling a bass, a difficult experience in my younger days, now, any bass, is as easy to sell as breathing.

The realisation came with suddenly almost caring less what I played through, and that, myself as the player, is the most important part, and that they are just tools / a vehicle for that. This was definitely helped by joining an extremely busy functions band, it was a reality check for the internal deification of basses/brands and models. Basically now the criteria is ;

Is it reliable?

Is it comfortable?

Can I get a bright and a dark sound?

Anything beyond that is superfluous to me.

Plus I generally think on the whole, that a bass pretty much sounds like a bass, and these giant differences we speak of between brands etc, really, when you take a step back, are not. I still like certain brands and looks, and a nice bass can be inspiring, but tbh, nothing is sacred anymore!

51 minutes ago, joe_geezer said:

How much is a new Wal these days? I'm actually down on the waiting list for one. Paul emailed me back a few months ago stating he would let me know what time frame i would be looking at. I'm going to sell a few basses to at take a 3rd off the price and then i have plenty of time to save up for the final payment ... 

I can't seem to find it on the website at the moment, likely due to the hold on orders, but it was £6000 at the last check.

I'm on the list for a mk1 when they open up again, and much like you, will likely sell a couple to go towards it. It's always been my dream bass, and although the pricing is absolutely mental, there isn't anything that gets in that ball park in terms of tone/sound. It will be a forever bass though, so I can justify it. . .  Maybe 😄😄

With the massive rises in prices in recent years on basses across the board, I don't buy new anymore - it's not financially viable. I'd do it for a new Wal, but that's a one-off, very special instrument.

I guess, at a push, maybe £1000-1200 at the absolute max, if something came along that I *had* to have new, but I'd probably just still wait to find one used.

I think pricing within the industry is rising at an completely unsustainable rate (in line with the average wage and what people can afford). A Musicman Stingray is a shade off £3000 now. Boggo Warwick GPS series (that are nothing like the OG ones) are £2000+. An American Jazz bass is knocking on for £2000. People just don't have this kind of money to spare in today's climate. 

I know there's the argument to be had for import lines, but even then, for example, Sterling by Musicman are over £1000, Mexican Fenders are now going for over £1000.

Conversely, though, budget instruments nowadays, are phenomenal in quality, playability and sound, so I guess there's still a lot of value to be had in that sense - but if you want 'the real deal' going forward, the prices will be laughably astronomic within 5 years, and closed to all but the most wealthy of us.

We did 'Merry Christmas Everyone' by Shakey, 'Last Christmas' by Wham and 'Driving Home For Christmas' By Chris Rea, last night at a corporate gig. They were the 3 best received songs of the night! People went mental for them!

About as fake as it's possible to be!

I'd leave it as is - not all mojo has to look like an abused, nitro fender. Your bass has stories to tell, that are all yours! It looks great!

9 minutes ago, FinnDave said:

I consider Moreton in Marsh a busy small town. I often ride through it on my motorcycle and am invariably frustrated by the amount of traffic there. Pretty, though.

The physical town centre itself is. Outside of it, it's rural as anything - as my car journeys back from rehearsal in Bristol, in this cold snap, have attested. Squeaky bum time!

With regards to the traffic - it's a bloody nightmare. Four, busy A-roads intersecting onto two mini roundabouts will cause that!

12 hours ago, Aidan63 said:

As someone else in the relative sticks who doesn't want to waste time and fuel driving about the country unnecessarily (and contributing to the traffic) I do wonder why people use Ebay as a marketplace if they are dead set against providing a delivery option, surely that's what the local marketplaces like Facebook and Gumtree are all about. I get that if you live somewhere populous and you have something that is so sought after it will fly out the door you might use Ebay (though only when you have a deal on the max fees, right 🙂) but it's the biggest international shop window and people from all over use it to find stuff they can't find locally, or they may be housebound, or for other reasons might expect delivery to be an option. I use it all the time to buy stuff that I can't get in town here (1500 peeps, good food provision, inc a butcher and a chemist and 2 takeways and a garage and builders merchant) though I could drive to Welshpool or Oswestry and buy it in a shop, but that means 20+ mile round trip, which if all I need is say a pack of water filters say doesn't make sense to me. We get generally great service from the post and couriers and the music stores mostly provide a delivery service.

I have to disagree with this. I've sold lots of stuff through eBay as collection only.

eBay has a filter that can sort by distance, it's a platform that has all types of sales on it, from delivery to collection. It's the sellers own prerogative. If you don't like collection only, then, as you have, find someone who does deliver. The platform caters for all.

I also live in the relative sticks, and be it through eBay or Basschat (or god forbid, FB marketplace *shudders*) if it's an item I really want, then I absolutely don't mind going to collect it. In fact, I prefer it, as I get to see the item and there can be very little room for surprises. I know I'm likely in the minority, but the thought of buying, for example, a high value bass, from abroad, on eBay, is anathema. I want to see the bass first when that type of money is involved. And, especially so, given eBay is populated by, in my experience, a fair few melts and chancers, (although not to the degree Gumtree and FB marketplace are).