Being very lucky on the birthday front i have enough cash for an entry level bass. Ive had a look around this evening on the great world wide web and could anybody give me some help on whether any of these would be worth my while. The first is from Ebay, the second is mail order the third i can goto my local store and pick up tomorrow! Any feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks all.:thumb:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-Bass-Guitar-BBN4-Tuner-YT-150_W0QQitemZ190197903583QQihZ009QQcategoryZ4713QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosti ng

http://www.richtonemusic.co.uk/guitars-1/bass-guitars-4/washburn-t14-bass-guitar-natural-satin-83.html


www.soundcontrol.co.uk/mod_1/pages/mod_1.12/pages/mod_1.12.1/pages/mod_1.12.1.1/pages/index.php?sku=1.1.2.1.1-30-2872

I'd go for the 2nd hand Yamaha if you can pick it up in Sleaford? I think the newer ones aren't as well made. Also check out Peavey basses...they is good! Happy birthday BTW mate. :thumb:

Get a Precision mate! A 50 year old design that hasn't needed changing cos they got it right first time. You can't fall off! :thumb:

I'd go for the 2nd hand Yamaha if you can pick it up in Sleaford? I think the newer ones aren't as well made. Also check out Peavey basses...they is good! Happy birthday BTW mate. :thumb:

Thanks mate!! Yeah Sleaford is about 40 mins away from me, so not far. Just realised there's only about an hour left on the bidding tho, so ill check what happens with it. Im very tempted at this one as long as theres no frenzy at the end. Thanks for the advice Chris.:yourock:

Get a Precision mate! A 50 year old design that hasn't needed changing cos they got it right first time. You can't fall off! :thumb:

Hi mate! I know nothing about basses, are Precisions just Fender? or are there cheaper alternatives? I only have about 130 quid to spend on said bass and ill only be using it for recording. Thanks mate.:thumb:

Hi mate! I know nothing about basses, are Precisions just Fender? or are there cheaper alternatives? I only have about 130 quid to spend on said bass and ill only be using it for recording. Thanks mate.:thumb:
I have a Squier Precision Special and it's absolutely fine. It's my 3rd Squier! They retail new from anywhere between £149 to £189. As long as you keep away from the Squier Affinity range you'll be ok.

How about this?

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hot_rod_bass.htm

There is a cheaper version too, but without the jazz pickup and an unspecified body material, I would guess plywood? No idea as to the quality, but Uke's bass is the same make and he seems happy. I have been looking at their Strat copies, but she wont let me buy one :(

How about this?

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hot_rod_bass.htm

There is a cheaper version too, but without the jazz pickup and an unspecified body material, I would guess plywood? No idea as to the quality, but Uke's bass is the same make and he seems happy. I have been looking at their Strat copies, but she wont let me buy one :(

That one is a Basswood body, so it should be fine (its not plywood which the main thing to avoid with anything), im probably gonna buy this one in the next week or two:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbb400tbk_ebass.htm

Its basically the Righthand version of Tonys, which sounded great to my ears, so might be worth a look too.

i got one of these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALBA-electric-bass-bass-set-with-gigbag-belt-cable_W0QQitemZ150217484918QQihZ005QQcategoryZ4713 QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

fender copy...solid wood..weighs a tonne...only £43 though, does my needs.


regards,
jim.

Thanks Steve, Av and Jim for your recommendations. :thumb:

Well Ive just come back from Sound Contol where i played on the Yamaha. It was really nice, it was lighter than my guitar! the neck was quite slim, really easy to play and it sounded good.

Not sure whether it being so light is a good thing or a bad thing. Any thoughts guys??? The way im looking at it is that im never gonna gig with it and itl'l probably never even leave the house.

How about this mate!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Bass-Guitar_W0QQitemZ130200033744QQihZ003QQcategoryZ471 3QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I think pete might approve!!! It's a bolt on neck but they don't sound to shoddy at all!!

How about this mate!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Bass-Guitar_W0QQitemZ130200033744QQihZ003QQcategoryZ471 3QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I think pete might approve!!! It's a bolt on neck but they don't sound to shoddy at all!!


Shit me thats a mean looker! I saw one in the shop i was in today must have been best part of 300 or more i can't quite remember cos it was out of my price range, i just glanced at it. 120 is a good price, not sure id be able to handle it tho. :lol:

Cheers Lippy! :thumb:

Shit me thats a mean looker! I saw one in the shop i was in today must have been best part of 300 or more i can't quite remember cos it was out of my price range, i just glanced at it. 120 is a good price, not sure id be able to handle it tho. :lol:

Cheers Lippy! :thumb:


Bro! I use a Fender P bass. I really like Peavey though. They sound really good,..even their cheaper models sound great. I'm getting a 5 string Peavey as soon as I can get my ass back to the music store to pick it up. I've had it on lay away for 2 weeks now. It was $349.00 US. Just get something you're happy with man. If ya like the way it sounds and plays get it! It's not like you'll be giggin with it. You're just layin down tracks with it,..right?. You can MAKE it sound good....ya know what I mean!
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Johnny

Bro! I use a Fender P bass. I really like Peavey though. They sound really good,..even their cheaper models sound great. I'm getting a 5 string Peavey as soon as I can get my ass back to the music store to pick it up. I've had it on lay away for 2 weeks now. It was $349.00 US. Just get something you're happy with man. If ya like the way it sounds and plays get it! It's not like you'll be giggin with it. You're just layin down tracks with it,..right?. You can MAKE it sound good....ya know what I mean!
:yourock:
Johnny

Heya Johnny!

Exactly right mate! I just need it to fill out those bottom bits when im recording. All the recommendations have been fantastic, people seem to find things right out of the woodwork! Anywho, I just stumbled on this 3/4 size which may be right up my street i think. My mate has one without the logo, ive played on that one and it sounded good to me. I can get the plain one for 95.
http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Squier---Badtz-Maru---Bronco-Bass~ID~4710.asp

Hope your well bro! Oh BTW check your email!

How about this mate!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Bass-Guitar_W0QQitemZ130200033744QQihZ003QQcategoryZ471 3QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I think pete might approve!!! It's a bolt on neck but they don't sound to shoddy at all!!
I won't ever knock the T-bird Dave! Though I don't think it's the bass for this lad, (I can't remember your name mate, sorry) he dosen't need to battling with neck dive. (Note how Algy is having to hold his in the pic below)

Heya Johnny!

Exactly right mate! I just need it to fill out those bottom bits when im recording. All the recommendations have been fantastic, people seem to find things right out of the woodwork! Anywho, I just stumbled on this 3/4 size which may be right up my street i think. My mate has one without the logo, ive played on that one and it sounded good to me. I can get the plain one for 95.
http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Squier---Badtz-Maru---Bronco-Bass~ID~4710.asp

Hope your well bro! Oh BTW check your email!


Yeah man! go for it! Sounds good!

Johnny

I won't ever knock the T-bird Dave! Though I don't think it's the bass for this lad, (I can't remember your name mate, sorry) he dosen't need to battling with neck dive. (Note how Algy is having to his in the pic below)

Hey Unraveled, your not wrong there mate! The thing looked like a beast! Should come with a 'bass player only' warning! :lol: Still its cool everyone takes there time out to check things out for me! So thanks all.

Yeah man! go for it! Sounds good!

Johnny

Yep! This'll do for me i think. Lets see how quick i can get it delivered. Dude, send me one of those patience pills!!!

Sorry I'm late to the thread ... I played a friend's 3/4 Fender, which was good from a guitar-player-learning-to-play-bass perspective, but I didn't really like the sound of it for recording. This was almost 20 years ago, so maybe these are better today, but I think you get a little fuller, deeper sound from a full-size bass. It's harder to play, especially when you have small hands like me, but it's worth it soundwise IMO. Hope it works out for you!

My brother got his boy a short scale bass, I was not too impressed to be honest. Cant remember what make it was but they are not short of a few bob so it will not have been a plywood plank. Easier to get to grips with tho. Anywhere you can go to play one first?

Yeah that black thing is Squier's version of the Fender Mustang.
http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop_image/product/6e03d5433e4126fa2f965b50fc1c6535.jpg Their was one of these lying around in a rehearsal studio we used to use and to be honest mate it sounded dull and weak when I put it through me Marshall.

OK thanks ksdb, Steve and Unraveled. Thats enough people in the know warning me off the 3/4. Ill not be getting that. Ill continue on my ebay quest!:yourock:

I've just ordered the Harley Benton: http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbb400tbk_ebass.htm
I'll probably see that next week with any luck, if you've not found one by then, i'll let you know how it sounds :)

I'd buy this! http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_bass_set_b5.htm
Look at that price! It's a Fender Jazz replica, so the bass will no doubt be well balanced
and the neck nice and slim. You can't fall off for that price!

I'd buy this! http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_bass_set_b5.htm
Look at that price! It's a Fender Jazz replica, so the bass will no doubt be well balanced
and the neck nice and slim. You can't fall off for that price!

The bass on its own is £70 so nice price, but why this one over the Hotrod, which tho £10 more has precision p/ups and a jazz p/up at the bridge, and specifies a basswood body, whereas the Jazz copy does not, which probably means it is ply? I would be very tempted to take a couple of Johnny's patience pills and wait for Jamie to get his, get a better idea on the quality of these things, then decide which one to go for.

Wot the fuck is Basswood?

Wot the fuck is Basswood?

:lol; Gawd knows ... but its gonna be a solid (if in several joined pieces) body...

http://www.hardwoodinfo.com/species_guide/display_species.asp?species=basswood

Reading this makes the Basswood sound not so suitable for a bass :dunno: What the hell, Jamie will tell us in a week :D

http://www.jemsite.com/jem/wood.htm

Well guys, thanks for all the info and especially for helping me avoid the 3/4.

I have just bought myself a bass!! :woot:

As i said i played on a YamahaRBX170 at the local music store and thought it was excellent, so i just bought the model up a mint condition RBX270 from Ebay for 95. The RBX170 was 150quid and these retail at between 170 and 200quid so I think ive done quite well there.

Thanks for all your help again everyone!:yourock:

This is the one http://www.gigajam.co.uk/uk/RBX270Bundle.aspx

Just typed it into Google and this is the pic that came up.

Wot the fuck is Basswood?

Basswood seems good stuff, its an American wood, used in alot of guitars because its widely available and cheap, any kinda wood is far better then ply too, ply is just nasty, most of the Ibanez RG range uses Basswood, aswell as all the JS sig models, and plenty of other manufactures use it too, so i would say its quite a good wood.
The link you posted looks a decent buy i must say, but the deal is done now, plus with the Pod X3L, it has alot of Bass amps too, so i don't need anything else with it as such.
Once it arrives my my setup it pretty much complete (aslong as it sounds good :) ), it will be nice being able to play proper bass on songs too :)

Hope the Yamaha sounds great too Stereo, congrats on the purchase, look forward to hering it in action :thumb:

So change your sig man :lol: Looks like you did well there, looking forward to hearing it.

So change your sig man :lol: Looks like you did well there, looking forward to hearing it.

:lol: Oh yeah, i forgot about that. Ill post a little take as soon as it arrives. Won't be anywhere near as good as Ukeleles tho!!

Sorry mate ... been out of the loop for a while.

Nice lookin' bass there Andy (notice Pete's keepin' quiet at the mo' tho').

Hope it plays and sounds as good as (if not better than) it looks.

Good price too.

My (... ok ok ... the wife's) new-built 6-string fretless should be despatched next week from Deutschland :boobies:

Jeez ... there won't be many guitarists left round 'ere at this rate!

:thumb:

Sorry mate ... been out of the loop for a while.

Nice lookin' bass there Andy (notice Pete's keepin' quiet at the mo' tho').

Hope it plays and sounds as good as (if not better than) it looks.

Good price too.

My (... ok ok ... the wife's) new-built 6-string fretless should be despatched next week from Deutschland :boobies:

Jeez ... there won't be many guitarists left round 'ere at this rate!

:thumb:


Hey John, thanks for looking in! Yeah i played the one at the store and to me it played awesome. Now i don't know much about basses but it felt good and sounded good to me. If i were a bass player ( which reminds me that im gonna have to learn to play the thing!) then im sure that i would have gone for something the size of Japan and with more guts. When/if the time comes then thats what ill do.

Pete if you read this, thanks for all your input and the time you spent looking at stuff!!!!!:yourock: :yourock:

Fuck yeah man! Nice bass bro...I want it!... You suck man!...:lol: :lol: J/K. It's real nice man,..can't wait to hear that baby do some boom! Keep us posted!

Johnny

Fuck yeah man! Nice bass bro...I want it!... You suck man!...:lol: :lol: J/K. It's real nice man,..can't wait to hear that baby do some boom! Keep us posted!

Johnny

:D Ha ha, cheers Johnny. Lets see if it can't hit you in the guts, ill try my best!! :thumb:

Like a kid at Christmas in my house today! My bass has arrived:woot: :woot:

Fair play to the guy from Ebay he packaged it that well it took me 1/2 hour to get into it!....... Anybody want any bubble wrap??

Like a kid at Christmas in my house today! My bass has arrived:woot: :woot:

Fair play to the guy from Ebay he packaged it that well it took me 1/2 hour to get into it!....... Anybody want any bubble wrap??

Great mate, lets hear it!! Oh, and that typo on your new sig' is bordering on obscene :lol:

Great mate, lets hear it!! Oh, and that typo on your new sig' is bordering on obscene :lol:

Yeah, Ill get something done as soon as possible! and....bollox!!!!!!!!:rant:

Won't be anywhere near as good as Ukeleles tho!!
Bullshit! LOL! (j/k) But post whatever thang with it man! Congrats on your purchase Andrew! :)

OK, im dreading this! here is a very small soundbyte from the bass. I tuned it, plugged it in to a clean amp setting on my RP50, looped the first drum loop in my folder and just tried to play something that wasn't too out of time.

Please pay no attention to the playing, i've no idea what i'm doing with it yet.

Sounds very cool mate, lovely tone to it, i be you're gonna have some great fun with that :rock:
My HB400 has just turned up too, and souding nice, more on that later :)

Whoa! Bass guitar fest LOL! Sounds really cool Andy! Through an RP50 huh? I got a RP200, it was the first modeller I grabbed, GREAT lil gadget for sure. It sure makes you think why the need of any ´bass pack´on whatever modeller, I think you don´t need one at all.
Your turn Jamie, I wanna listen! LOL! Congrats as well!

Nice sound Andy.

Have fun with it mate :thumb:

Avalon, Uke and Cap, thanks for having a listen. I think it sounds pretty decent but im glad to get some more accomplished ears in on it. Cheers guys! :yourock:

OK, im dreading this! here is a very small soundbyte from the bass. I tuned it, plugged it in to a clean amp setting on my RP50, looped the first drum loop in my folder and just tried to play something that wasn't too out of time.

Please pay no attention to the playing, i've no idea what i'm doing with it yet.

First chance I have had to listen properly, sounds good mate! Trouble is now finding time to practice bass and guitar and record and keep up with the forum and work and spend time with the family and and and... :lol:

First chance I have had to listen properly, sounds good mate! Trouble is now finding time to practice bass and guitar and record and keep up with the forum and work and spend time with the family and and and... :lol:

Thanks Steve! This is true mate, I already push it quite a bit! However it was her idea for everyone to put something towards the bass fund. (Don't tell her i said that!) :notme:

First chance I have had to listen properly, sounds good mate! Trouble is now finding time to practice bass and guitar and record and keep up with the forum and work and spend time with the family and and and... :lol:

Tell me about it!!!

... and getting home from work ... to feed two teenage lads ... then going out to pick the wife up from work at 9pm ... and band rehearsals ... and ... and ... :tard: :lol: