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Roland R8  plus  Solton MD 1600 digital echo  for 140eur?

R8 and an echo for 140? immediately (for the r8, would not be much interested in the echo)

what make is it.

I have for my entire bass playing life, about ten years since I was a nipper, ALWAYS wanted a fretless bass. The sound of them are are just amazing. My old bass teacher had a fender fretless that cost him loads and he always let me play it.

there shuold be no secret in wanting one

@freek: nice! my friend has the same rickenbacker in red.. from '76. too bad it was stolen..

@meschi: it's a dimavery mm501. sure its cheap chinese junk compared to real quality fretless basses, but as you mention those are expensive. i have a chinese model flying v copy though thats actually quite a nice guitar.. even some guitar playing friends that normall only swear by fenders and stuff were surprised.

my problem is though that i'm lefthanded.. so to get a ;efthanded fretless, i either have to convert strings and stuff, or get a normal left handed bass and defret it..

I miss playing fretless. Mick Karn has been a massive influence throughout my 22 years of playing...
Back between 1990-1995, I played a Steinberger XM2A bass as I couldn't afford a Wal. But I got pissed off by the clammy feeling the graphite neck gave my fingers.

Someday I'd like to go back to a walnut-bodied Fender Jazz Bass fretless with Lindy Fralin pickups wound to '62 standard, whenever that day comes!

Soundcraft 200sr? 

I've always liked the look of the 200b, but a 200sr has come up for sale locally.  Is there a big difference between the two?

@ rude 66:
I suppose I admit to that from experience. Since I haven't played fretless frequently since I sold that bass, I find that my vibrato/glissando techniques have evaporated off my left (neck) hand, which is the one that needs all that discipline and precision.

I spent my last 16 years playing bass, first a fretted, cheap 4 strings, then I had a fretless 5 strings, which I quickly exchanged for a fretted
Yamaha TRB5P (still 5 strings).

I love the fretless sound, but In the two years that I have tried to learn it I was never comfortable with the lack of frets.

Now, after many years, I finally own this:

(this is a picture I found around, mine is an old polycarbonate 10 strings, bought used here in Switzerland)

I am waiting anyways till march 09 that I will get a brand new graphite extended 12 strings.... and overall $5000 less in my bank account

alex

If you're looking for a nice bass for a good price, it's really worth checking out the "lawsuit era" ones that were made in japan in the early eighties. Brands like Tokai, Greco, Burny, Fernandes, Aria and stuff like that are the shit. There's a lot of hype around the MIJ thing, but they are actually really really good instruments, lightyears away from the chinese copies they sell these days. I have a greco strat that is very nice, and that was one of their lower end models i think...

Fantastic synth, nice that your looking for my Christmas pressie early!

hehehe... wrapped up your mono/poly yet?

seems safe, the seller gives full detailed description of functionality and crackling pots where applicable, there's also this site full of tips on how to improve signal to noise ratio and apply some interesting mods... http://www.cykong.com/Synths/Transcende … nt2000.htm

it's bound to look and feel cheap, but I am sure it won't be worst than my Moog Prodigy, with which it definitely shares the looks

The philicordas are great. Really warm 'woody' sound, and they are so cute and compact. Don't think the later dual manual ones are any good though, aim for the early small models (GM751/GM752 they're called if I remember correctly) My band used to have couple of 752's  that served us well, but they got replaced by a Vox Continental, and I've been wanting to get another one ever since. They were both the transistorized models with the built in speakers, but the earlier model the gm751or whatever had a separate speaker mounted between the legs, under the main chassi, and that model was tube powered. I'm guessing that sounds even better than the transistor ones. They also have nice connectability as you can patch external  sounds through the speakers and built in spring reverb. This is just off the top of my head, I'm sure theres tons of info on them on the net! But for the right price definitely worth seeking out!

btw last I heard, our organ that we bought for 6 euro was at Noel Gallaghers house (!).