Anyone like bass guitars?
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I decided I really need a 5 string and just bought this https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listin ... 1672929929
Has anyone had any experience with LTD basses? The reviews seem pretty positive.
Has anyone had any experience with LTD basses? The reviews seem pretty positive.
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viewtopic.php?f=49&t=34984Frey wrote:https://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrum ... 0adbd3095b
bet this is nice AS. total late phase peter hook vibes.
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I had one, was a bloody nice instrument, just got no use!Basket Case wrote:I decided I really need a 5 string and just bought this https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listin ... 1672929929
Has anyone had any experience with LTD basses? The reviews seem pretty positive.
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I’m actually fuckin loving the bass cricket bat
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I quite like Yamaha basses. If I hadn't lost all interest in electrics, I'd get one. I used to own a BBG4 with active pups and the quilt top.Frey wrote:https://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrum ... 0adbd3095b
bet this is nice AS. total late phase peter hook vibes.
I had been tyre kicking it for a few weeks at a music shop and one day I went in and there was this Cool Kid with his rich dad and the Cool Kid was having a bit of a go and shaking his head in a "no" motion. Wimpy fucking player. He put it down with a bit of a sneer and he and his rich dad moved on to look at another bass. That dismissiveness gave me the shits in no uncertain manner. After all, that was the bass I was always too afraid to buy. It was a love that dared not pull out its credit card.
Anyway, while they were faffing around, I asked the sales guy if I could have a go at the BBG4 and played something like Leo Kottke doing Vaseline Machine Gun. I finished and Cool Kid and parent were looking quite stunned. I channeled Ray Charles in The Blues Brothers and said to the sales guy "I don't think there's anything wrong with this bass, I'll take it!"
I still feel like a bit of a bully for having behaved that way, after all, it's none of my business what people think of gear. But it was a fucking nice bass and I got many years of enjoyment out of it. If I was still into electrics, I would haunt eBay until I found one. Yamaha makes very nice things.
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34" scale V. Be aware of preamp battery drainBasket Case wrote:I decided I really need a 5 string and just bought this https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listin ... 1672929929
Has anyone had any experience with LTD basses? The reviews seem pretty positive.
Otherwise by all accounts well put together instruments. Nice one!
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Just went full Seymour Duncan in my Warwick Streamer LX - Quarter Pounder SPB-3 + SJB-3 (PJ) along with the STC-3p preamp. Growls like a mofo – an really excellent combination that doesn't smother the Warwick growl or impart its own thing but sounds waaay more girthy and open.
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Where the pix at!!foal30 wrote:Steinberger day today
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Speaking of bass guitar, this is from a spot I did last night. Not sure about the slapback echo the sound guy threw in, just because he could.
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Can't upload without teenager assistanceSingle coil wrote:Where the pix at!!foal30 wrote:Steinberger day today
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To McDonald’s with you, bound to be an adolescent there!
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First practice with the Helix tonight - been using a preamp/poweramp setup anyway, but lets pray for a lack of noise and weirdness lol
(will be going no speaker sim into a real cab anyway, so can't be that bad)
(will be going no speaker sim into a real cab anyway, so can't be that bad)