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Up for sale is my trusty Boss AW2 Auto Wah. This is a nice easy to use filter that will make your bass or guitar quack and wobble like a funky chicken! Here's a link to some reviews that will give you a good balance of views on this pedal: [url="http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/product/Boss/AW-2+Auto+Wah/10/1"]http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews...2+Auto+Wah/10/1[/url] I'm looking for £35 posted in UK for this box of fun [b] ITEM IS NOW SOLD PENDING THE USUAL[/b] -
Best Jazz basses on the market at the moment
Bassnut62 replied to Musicman20's topic in Bass Guitars
I love the vintage Fender tones too; but I tried a Sandberg JM4 15 months ago and it blew me away - it was better than any Fender I've ever played. Awesome quality. You can tell they've got Fender DNA in their somewhere and they can do traditional sweet & round Fender tones in single coil passive mode; but they are definitely modern basses. That's actually why I ended up buying it. It wasn't as predictable as the USA Std Jazz I had been considering. It offers so much more than the obvious. Nice bass and worth the cost too IMO -
[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='950056' date='Sep 8 2010, 11:01 PM']So you mean the SFT already comes with a stated option to use 18v instead of 9v? I thought you just tried 18v coz you felt like it and it sounded better...[/quote] Yes the SFT is designed to run on anything from 9v to 18v thru the same standard Boss power input and it sounds really good at 18v - bigger somehow.
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OK here's another Bump! In reply to fenderhead..... I don't know about comparison with the TRex, but yes I guess there are a lot of Drive/Boost pedals anyone could use to drive a valve head. I've tried quite a few OD pedals, but not the Trex. What I found was that the SFT is very amp-like and seems to work well for me. I like that vintage amp vibe. Also I found the SFT worked better than any others at low gain hair settings. The tone paramaters are very well set up and tweakable too, with a bunch of nice sounds with both treble and bass tone pots set quite low. Just my opinion, but I think the Catalinbread pedals are especially well tought out and put together. The 18v option is a good extra as not all drives have that kind of headroom. The SFT seemed to respond to picking dynamics better than most for me too. Good luck with the sale - someone will get a very nice pedal IMO and at a very fair price.
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2002 G&L Asat special (USA)
Bassnut62 replied to dub_junkie's topic in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale
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reckon you'll want that Bassman 135 head that's for sale right here now for less than £400 the back pain will be worth it. and a 1x15 cab as per what you see to the left now. goes amazing with a P Bass.
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and another free Bump this bump is for running this pedal at 18v I just got round to doing this on my SFT and it makes this pedal even better than i expected.
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Have another free Bump on another Bassman fan Great great great amp that will brighten anyone's day to play through it. So what if it's heavy, we're all bass players here, so we'll be down the chyropractors before 45 yrs old anyway. Good luck with the sale................and yes, you are of course completely mad to sell this beauty, but you know that already and what's it got to do with me anyway. No doubt you must have a very good and hopefully musically exciting reason to sell it. -
Have a bump on me, just because we share great taste and I feel for you with not being able to play your P enough. I have a 63 Lake Placid Blue P, which looks exactly the same as yours of course and does have a lovely warm mellow tone too; but I daren't play it out, so it lives in its case too much too. -
you can pick up original Asats a lot cheaper than that, if you look on TalkBass or ebay in States. also they can be active or passive and they have a lot more sound options than a Jazz. they really are high quality instruments too, built like a panzer and unbelievably punchy pups. also while the Tributes are very good indeed, in fact better than most cheaper versions, they do not play as well as an original IME. the sounds is hard to distinguish, but there is a difference, mostly in punchiness of Tribute pups being less than USA G&Ls
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[quote name='TransistorBassMan' post='937273' date='Aug 26 2010, 03:54 PM']I'm started life as a pianist/keyboard player. I borrowed a Thunder 1A for my first gig on bass. Not the greatest pic, but fond memories [/quote] snap! i used a Thunder 1A for my first ever gig.....happy memories, it was a Central London Polytechnic in about 1983 in a band called Illicit Kiss!
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that pickguard looks far too white to me too; but that might just be the photo. the guards on these early Ps were made of celulose and with age the chemicals turn the white guards a greenish colour - see pic of my own genuine 63P attached. i reckon the pictures are too small and too distant to give enough detail to safely identify this bass as genuine; that doesn't mean to say it isn't genuine of course.
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+1 re Sandberg California JM4 i was looking for a Jazz and tried a Sandberg and was completely won over - they are better quallity basses than anything Fender ever made IMO and I am dedicated Fender nut too.
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[quote name='GazWills' post='936214' date='Aug 25 2010, 06:13 PM']i'm alway anxious about these 'pull up pots' for selecting modes, is it pretty sturdy once in passive, not likely to be knocked back down into active when playing (just thinking about live - i currently switch between a P and a ray, if i can use one bass it'll be much easier!!) cheers[/quote] yeah they're reliable enough, i've not yet knocked mine into active by mistake. i got mine precisely because i didn't want to keep switching basses - i find this one covers all requirements with ease.
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on the JM4 the coil tap switch turns the back pick up from single coil (i.e. Jazz pup) to humbucking dual coil (i.e. MM pup) I agree that these don't quite nail the MM 'Ray sound; but they are close enough to do the job. these basses are very flexible for sound and always sound great in any setting. I actually run mine passive most of the time and just go active if slapping or palm muting the strings. the JM4 does cop very good Jazz sounds in all the different configurations single coil you might like. i agree with you too they play unbelievably well. I couldn't resist the GAS inducing quality of these instruments. you may still be able to get an interest-free 10mth Arts Council loan, which is how I paid for mine from Electro Music in Doncaster. Also the tone controls only boost above the detent in active mode. in passive mode there is no change above the detent, i.e. cut only below the detent.
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+1 re the Bassman...eyes left all! also +1 re the bi-amp link...gives lovely bit of grit and extras punch when you need it. I've stopped doing that recently, since gettinga Catalinbread SFT to drive the amp......wonder what the SFT and the bi-amp link would be like......better go and juice up those valves!
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reckon an old EHX White Finger might do the trick too and i think there's one for sale here under Effects For Sale or on TalkBass in US oops..it is a White Finger and it is here on BC in classifieds, but it's not an old one. I did try the big old one a few years back and I think I remember it being dirty as well as squishy. I remember getting a nice squishy grunt for Rappers Delight finger funk
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unless you're going to be doing some very loud gigs purely off the backline you probably wouldn't even need the 500w head. Hartke made a great 350w (LH3500), which is what I use and it is so loud I never run the amp at more than 3 on the master volume, even through a 2x15 4ohm cab. you could save some money that way too and help get that better cab
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[quote name='tino' post='935089' date='Aug 24 2010, 06:14 PM']The customer my Dear BP is always right...even when I'm WRONG [/quote] too right and from what i've read in this thread so far I recon BP must stand for B#tt Plug. that BP has traded on Leo Fender's glory for too long anyway.....
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interesting how different everyone in this thread is so far. I go for OTT muff fuzz - compression - synth - mammoth fuzz - overdrive - octave - filters - modulations but even then i mix it up quite often; e.g. i like putting tremolo in front of filter, as square wave trem is great into filter. +1 re compression in front of synth/octave to help with tracking
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true enough comments above from the roaring rabbit if an instrument doesn't give you the feeling you want, it ain't gonna work for you. I guess I've been fortunate enough that all four of the preCBS Fenders I've played have felt absolutely incredible to me. I've tried 3 Precisions - a 61, 63 and a crossover 65 and I've tried a 63 Jazz. I now own the 63 P. Having said all that, on a technical level, the Sandberg California JM4 Supreme I bought last year is probably a much better bass than anything Leo Fender ever made. But it would be the 63 P I would take to a desert island, if i was going to be stranded there for the rest of my life.
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this thread must've kicked off so much guilt around the BC community. I'm sitting on the following spends: '79 MM 'Ray £550 '63 P Bass £1250 '89 G&L Asat £550 '08 Sandberg Cali JM4 Supreme £1100 makes £3450 total; but I reckon that apart from the Sandberg they are worth a lot more.....so I can live with it. it's got to be better than letting the bank use my hard earned cash.
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+ another 1 re the Hartke HA500 head
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+1 re the Hartke a ten year old HA3500 head is a trusty piece of very affordable kit that will cover almost any situation. it is also very loud if you need big volume. You can pick up the Hartke cab combinations that suit you on here quite easily. For a good wide sound that will cover most situations I would suggest a 1 x 15 cab with a 2 x 10 cab. I think the Hartke 2 x 10 has a horn in it too, which could be useful. You could probably pick up that rig for less than £450 without much difficulty and you would probably always get your money back on it if you chose to sell it too.
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[quote name='bubinga5' post='931887' date='Aug 21 2010, 01:41 PM']check out a Mike Lull p basses..there awsome[/quote] never heard of those - what do you like about them?
