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DylanB

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[color="#FF0000"]ALL SOLD.[/color]


I am having shameful GAS attacks. I have little money to speak of, so these two are on the block.

[size=3]YAMAHA BB2005: £420 [color="#FF0000"]SOLD[/color][/size]

I've had this on the block before. I know it sounds salesy, but I took it off when I realised it wasn't financially worth £800-£1000. It plays like it is. It was my first 5 string and has survived years of buying and selling because frankly it's brilliant.

This is more modest version of Yamaha's BBNE2 Nathan East signature. Thru-neck, 2 Jazz style pickups into an active preamp. Controls are volume, PU pan, bass, treble, mid frequency select & mid cut toggle switch (like a slap contour). Very tight B-string and remarkably even sound across all strings.

I bought this used in 2006 (from someone on here I think?). It's in great condition, considering it was my No.1 bass for years. There are a couple of dings on the underside of the bass, a light scuff on the headstock. The strings are fairly old, but I will throw some brand new Sadowsky Nickel rounds (40-125) in the case if you if you want. It will come with a fairly-knackered-but-still-very-sturdy SKB semi-hard case.

Nick Fyffe used one of these during his time in Jamiroquai, it's all over the Montreaux DVD: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhAgBgkT8-M"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhAgBgkT8-M[/url]

Here's me playing it on some recordings of a previous iteration of my current band. I prefer the sound on 'Recipe' and think it reflects the sound of the blended pickups better... For 'Messin' Around' I may have favored the bridge a tad.
[url="http://soundcloud.com/dylan-behagg/02-recipe"]Recipe[/url]
[url="http://soundcloud.com/dylan-behagg/01-messin-around"]Messin' Around[/url]





Here's a couple of pics of some dings on the underside:






[size=3][color="#FF0000"]SOLD[/color] 2008 FENDER AMERICAN PRECISION STANDARD V: £850 [color="#FF0000"]SOLD[/color][/size]

I ordered this almost as soon as they were available and wasn't disappointed. Fender did a great job with these. I had Martin at the Bass Gallery put a DiMarzio jazz pickup in the bridge (extremely cleanly installed, as you would expect), which gives the whole thing a nice P/J tone and smooths out the beefy P pickup. The controls are V/V/T, and Martin tidily routed a jack input on the side. The body is alder.

The B string on this is great. Apart from the extra pickup, the controls and the jack, everything is stock ([url="http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0190560700"]specs here[/url]). This will come in the original hard-shell case. I have it strung with some pretty worn in La Bella flats, which sound thumpy. Hawk-eyed viewers will note that the B string has a different colour wrap. This is because I started with a set that I found too heavy, which had blue wraps. I ordered a lighter set (red wraps), but the B string was dead, so I put the old one back on. It's the same thing, because all the La Bella flatwound 5 string sets have the same gauge B.

If you've not seen Ed Friedland's video review of these basses, check it out here: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THITANX322E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THITANX322E[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVhLZ65yGPQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVhLZ65yGPQ[/url] Busking on a cold winters eve in London. Me, the vocal, the guitar and the stompbox are all going through the same (keyboard) amp. As you will see, annoyingly people only seem to start filming us when our guitarist breaks a string... the tune kicks in a couple of mins in.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP4KX28zapE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP4KX28zapE[/url] Filmed on an iPhone... still sounds surprisingly good. B string action at about 2.17. I think I would have strung this with rounds at this point.

I've had this from new and it's been gigged (as you can see). There are a fair few dings/scratches which I will attempt to document in photographs. I started in the photos below, but my camera battery ran out before I could get them all. I will try and get some more pictures up tomorrow. The one in the photo below is the biggest one, on the bottom edge near the jack input. There are a few more scratches along the bottom, and a few dings elsewhere.






Please feel free to ask any questions about these basses, either on here or by phone (07840504461), or email at [email protected].
You can run trades past me, but the only ones I'm likely to consider are if you have one of the NEW model Fender American Precision Deluxe 4-strings.
I am based in Kingston-upon-Thames. I have no car and would prefer a local/pickup sale, however I am very happy to ship at the buyers cost if necessary (inc internationally). Paypal is fine.

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