It’s brand new. Paint chip missing on the back. Flipper got it on a good deal and is looking to make a small profit.
I don’t need one, but I’m curious. There is some stuff I’d like to play with that would need a 5-string, but not much.
I’m curious about 5-string. I suspect it ultimately won’t be my jam, but this is would be an opportunity to experiment and figure out how I actually feel about 5-string. At this price, I’m pretty confident I can sell it on at little to no loss if I don’t like it.
Follow up question: how are you using it? Specifically:
Thanks
Yeah I mean if you’re interested in a 5 string it’s a pretty low buy in for a high quality bass
And I checked my account, and had $517 in cash-back rewards on my credit card.
Personal: It’s running into a Rodecaster Pro 2 mixer to headphones that also runs my PC audio so I can hear both and play along (Analogue also has Bluetooth so I don’t NEED to run it this way if I didn’t want to)
Live: DI
Much appreciated. As you might surmise, I’m pondering…!
Thanks. Forgot about that thread.
Exactly. A bass, any bass, should ideally be designed to accommodate whichever genre(s) a player actually plays.
A fiver absolutely has its sweet spot applications. On the other hand, a 4-string is capable of playing essentially anything, the extra five low notes of a fiver notwithstanding.
But 400 bucks is a low barrier to entry for an exploratory trek into the Five Zone. And being able to recoup the purchase price in a subsequent sale is pretty much a slam dunk. So, why not take the plunge? No really good reason not to.
I love Ray35. If you are a slapped the HH will be in the way. So be aware. I usually move around when I slap but on the HH I pick a spot and park it.
Gonna repeat my mantra here: the five extra notes are cool, but not really the only thing you get from a fiver. It’s often much more the ability to stay in position with your fretting hand, and not having to move your hand quite a bit for certain lines, especially also faster stuff.
You’re absolutely correct about the fifth string allowing you to play across the neck in a given fretting position. Shifting frets on a 4-string is the only way to play the same set of notes.
Still, that ability doesn’t attract me to a fiver. The generally tighter string spacing, extra weight and additional muting requirements aren’t worth the squeeze to me. Of course, fivers have good and real value to others, and I respect that.
When I looked it was listed for €1200, but it seems the price already went up. It’s a good buy since it has the exact same power, but in a smaller form factor.
Totally true. However, the timbre of the B string on every fiver I have ever played has not been great above the 5th-7th fret. Some have sounded pretty bad.
Actually there’s quite a fun interview with DJ Bobo on “Bounce”, which is a format focussing on hiphop / rap from our national tv/radio provider. In his own words he’s a mediocre rapper, dancer and dj and lucky to work with very good professionals. He started out DJing as a teen at youth centres, where the then existing hip hop records weren’t received well by the audience. So he started to mix popular music with music he liked (hip hop/rap), to make his friends dance. And that recipe seemed to work well 
. Also Chihuaua was an accident, it started out as a demo for an advertisement jingle for a spanish beverage 
So the song that went “viral” was an unfinished demo 
I wished that all “artists” were that honest!
Truth to be told: a friend of mine organized his tours, and I was like “hahaha - oh no!”, but she told me that he is actually a very very nice and humble guy.
Does not make me wanna listen to his stuff, but I do see him differently now.
Yes, I really like the separation from “being a good musician/good music” and “producing music that is liked by a broad audience/popular music”, which are two completely different things a person can be good at. It’s very honest and doesn’t take away from either skill sets.
I often argue with my boyfriend who’s a “David Guetta is the Best DJ ever” person , I would agree much more if he’d be like “David Guetta is a very good producer for popular electronic music”.
WTF? Get rid of him! 
Sven Väth is (was) the best DJ ever, everybody knows that (though he can be an @sshole)
I have partied to quite a few of his 8 hour sets, and he is so good that I don’t even mind that he was more succesful with a girl I fancied a lot, cause of all the good times he gave me on the dance floor
Luckily he listens to other stuff than EDM that I like aswell, but I have had relationships with bigger overlaps in music taste He’s currently learning to play the trumpet, I’m hoping that will shape his taste in music a little more to my favors 
Have you ever seen C2C live? I’m probably not a fair judge with everthing EDM-like because I HATE artificial woman’s voices and everything sounds like the same shit to me 
I’m starting to have fun when either the texts are ironic (Bum Bag - To Fix Herpes Do Burpees is a masterpiece 
) or everything leans to dnb or dancehall and uses more organic samples generally 
C2C is good, but not really my taste anymore. The thing with calling someone “best” is super subjective. A lot of people call Tiesto, Martin Garrix or Armin van Buuren the best DJ in the world (all Dutch by the way) based on popularity. I can only say that Armin probably has the best light shows.
Personally I stay the hell away from anything that started as trance 
My condolences 
