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Thanks for all the info people, but I’ve just spoken with Status and I’m taking it up there on Friday. I know it’s going to cost about half of the original cost of the bass again, but I think it’s going to be an easy fix with what should be outstanding results. I have two Status basses already, plus a NAMM Stingray which has a Status neck, and in my experience they sound fantastic and are almost bombproof. It won’t be ready for the weekend, but it will be worth the wait.

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Decided on an absolute whim to re-skin my lil' combo today, I think it went OK for a first attempt. Here it is in the glamorous surroundings of my filthy boot...

Let this be a safe haven for sharing your love of all things jazz-tastic 😎 Just to get it out of the way nice and early, here's the impossible Giant Steps:

Nate Smith, Joe Dart, Cory Wong, Mark Lettieri.

The kit is here! Cant start it till the body is routed, holes filled and painted but it seems quite good, neck joint is tight, neck isn`t a baseball bat which is a bonus. Turns out my pickups are Kent Armstrongs passive Alembic pup and theyv`e supplied me with a wiring diagram for coil tapping etc, may look into that but i`m definitely no electrical genius.

Nowt wrong with that action. A proper "man's" bass right there.

Big fan. Used to have lots of the magazines under my bed.

Sweet Jesus Mary & Joseph, that there is the bass I didn’t know I needed until now 😮😜😜

Here is my Fodera Brazilian Hickory Emperor 6 Elite. I know and acknowledge that they're not for everyone but I'm so excited about collecting this instrument. https://fodera.smugmug.com/Newborn-Gallery-Vol-V/Newborn-1810/

Ska rehearsal tonight. What bass to take instead of ‘Skamite 1’? Think it’s gonna have to be the 1996 Sienna Sunburst....

I had a plex for about a year, it was on a board with a wireless and a B3. The board was wireless>B3>plex and then it went into one or two Barefaced FR800 cabs. I had an 'A03' unit, which was one of the ones that didn't need the recalls but A01 and A02 units had to go back to GK for something. I found the output too low. I had a balanced cable that went from the TRS out into and XLR for the cabs made by our own OBBM but I had to really crank the volume to get anything decent out of it. Part of the problem was that the input was very easy to clip (yes, even without anything in front of it, coming straight from a passive bass) and so that I had to run the input trim very low, which kind of made the in-built comp, drive and eq a little ineffectual. The only way I could run it was to have the compressor (set to a light compressor) with the volume set to nearly full, that way there was enough make up gain to be able to run the output volume properly. It worked ok, but I meant I couldn't turn the compressor off ever.... As a separate issue, the thing required it's own wall wart as it won't play nice with lots of power supplies including my Strymon Ojai. I have to say, the pedal sounds GREAT. And the feature set is perfect. It's such a shame, I'm a huge GK fan and the thought of a GK rig in a box was so tempting but the gain staging just didn't work. If you look online actually a lot of people find the same thing: it's a great effects pedal into a proper amp but a lot of people are unhappy with it as a preamp and amp replacement. I replaced the board with a Helix as my main rig. FWIW, I still use the board (kind of) as a backup/small board. The B3 does a good GK impression (although sadly not as good as the plex) and a superb Behringer mic pre drives the cabinets and then some. I did think about adding the Behringer as a gain stage after the Plex, but it needs AC power and it was getting a little silly under the board with a power strip, a Strymon that was only powering two things and two massive wall warts.

Polaris White, '60s Gibson custom color: pure white nitro lacquer plus yellow and burnt sienna pigment. One coat Polaris White and two double coats Mohawk Piano Lacquer clear. Polaris White '64 Thunderbird, refinned about 8 years ago in the background.

That is some serious neck movement, if that`s happened without any adjustments I`d be taking it to a luthier who knows what they`re doing, I`d expect some kind of movement with the weather changes in autumn/spring but not that much.

How would you like to win a free set of NYXL for your bass? We are offering five members of Basschat a set each. All you need to do is comment below and tell us: - What strings you are currently using - Why you think NYXL might be the string for you Winners will be drawn on Wednesday 26th September and announced here. Bonus points for creativity Prizes will be posted once all addresses have been collected. WINNERS madshadows Moog atsampson Bleat Bigwan

Interesting how Mingus polarises opinion- I was hooked from the first listen! What I hear in his work is absolute artistic conviction and an beautiful, organic melding of African-American musical traditions. Check out the composition/form again- it's not a regular blues (definitely not 12 bars!) Cool melding of blues and jazz harmony, irregular phrase lengths, modulation to an unrelated key... more than meets the eye/ear. Great bass playing as well, he rocks a 6/8 metre.

Temporarily back from grandparenting so thought I should try and crack on. The swift logo is easier done before I cut out the headstock shape: Also popped a swift onto the heel cap. Here the heel cap is being glued at the same time as a couple of wing blocks for the headstock: The heel cap looks like this: And a quick mock up with the cut out headstock plate: I've never tried it before, but I'm going to see if I can bend some purfling all the way round the headstock to just add a finishing touch. I'll try that tomorrow...

Hi @ikay, What you have are 2 pickups with on/off switches. Then the 2 tone controls. The signal then goes through coupling capacitors. These are invisible to an alternating current , but will stop any dc voltage. Then it goes through the 2 volume controls. The reason for the coupling capacitor is because, although we humans think of these as 2 separate circuits feeding a jack socket, electric current doesn't see it this way. If one volume is turned up and the other turned down, current from 1 pickup can feed back through the volume of the other pup and interfere with the signal from the other pickup.

FrantaBit behaves pretty well with an adjustable LPF after it. Gives more freedom to tweak Franta. Here in the picture is my active bass rig. The high band has a fuzz, chorus/flanger and an envelope filter. I put the Franta to the low band and with the LPF some "unusable" sounds can be tamed. (Reverb and comp are after the Tyler.) I would love to see a x-over in front of every bass effect chain and an LPF after it to adjust whatever needed. My passive bass rig can be found from my profile (thinking to move the active rig to the same place).

En-Nanyo-ed again...

I like good Jazz but I don't like bad Jazz. The best thing is, I get to choose.

Crikey what a bummer. Sorry to hear about that but you appear to have sorted out a solution. It sounds like the change in humidity/temperature has highlighted a fault in the bass. Whilst you'll be sorted with the bass I would definitely be taking Fender to task on this. Nothing to lose and you may get a replacement neck from them - you'll also be in a position to send the part back to them. However I guess there's one saving grace - at least it isn't an original stack knob shell pink Jazz bass - that really would bring tears to the eyes 😬 PS I use a Stingray HH for the ska band I play in 😉

My ACG EQ01 was in the prototype when it first came out a few years back.

Good strategy. Turn a problem into an opportunity to upgrade. Nice.

Dawn did mention the tuners when I spoke with her on the phone. Definitely worthy of discussion, but I decided I wanted to retain the vintage tuners it came with. Part of the reason I’ve decided to go with a replacement neck is that the issue with the old neck is not obvious i.e. you can’t see what the problem is without taking it irreparably to bits. I did look at the replacement kit, but that just looked like grief to me. Initially, it looked like a three week wait for Rob to make the one I wanted, however, Dawn said they had one that had been made for a named artist that had not got back to them. A quick enquiry was made to find out if they still wanted it and I’ve bagged it. The best bit is, it has no fretboard markers (other than side dots) which I’m quite taken with after getting my Starry Night Stingray. Each to their own of course, but I’ve been a bit mystified as to why everyone has been selling their Flea Sig’s because mine was a great sounding bass. I’m hoping this might make it sound even better 🤞.

That is going to be an awesome bass! Just an idea though - Status necks can be a little heavier than wooden ones so if you have the cash ask Rob to drill for smaller tuners and get a set of Hipshot Ultralites on it. The difference between old school big plate fender tuners and the Ultralites can be as much as half a pound!

I like some music, I don't like other music. Jazz, same as everything else, falls into both categories depending on the piece of in question. That said, there's plenty to be gained from listening to music you don't 'like', you'll always learn something, even if it's what NOT to do. Si

I wish.......certainly not with a 9lb plus Stingray!

Well those were work in progress pics. I think it turned out a little better in the end. But considering the break was not just one clean snap and had multiple places that needed attention I was pleased. Especially as the break was right over where the truss rod acts! If it was a painted or heavily lacquered finish the repair would be completely invisible. Anyhow glad I could help. And get a very good action to boot.

I have now created the customary PDF with the day's timetable. This is a test - will I be able to upload it here so that people can download it directly from my reply? We shall see. South East Bass Bash 2018.pdf Yay! It worked! I'll also post it on FB and Twitter.

I hadn't noticed those. Thanks

Well my neck has been fixed! and good. Setup with a low action, plays perfectly. I would just like to thanks Twincam for all his hard work in saving this neck, I'm blown away with his expertise, highly recommend him. Thanks Aidan.

Not really... a lot of Jazz falls into the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" category for me.

What..? Not a polyglot..? Oh dear... Maybe best appreciated 'live', in any case. As with much opera, the lyrics pass over my head, but the overall poesy, musicality, feeling comes across just the same. I imagine that much of the planet are foxed by the actual words sung in much modern music (and would maybe not be so keen on a lot of it if all was plain..!). The power of purely instrumental stuff is its universal appeal, but if one treats the human voice as an instrument, independently from the words themselves, there's a lot to be garnered, often enough, whatever the language. (That being said, it doesn't work for me with Kylie Minogue..! )

His early solo albums are astonishingly good. Criminally overlooked. Songs for a tailor Harmony Row Out of the storm

It’s mainly down to the ratio. I like how my bass sounds when pushed to the ‘limit’ - the threshold set to limit when I dig in. With a very low action and a light touch it gives me full dynamics but a shelf where my digging in creates a smoother sound, a bit of clank and burp. If I turn it off I don’t hear much difference except some volume spikes when playing hard fingerstyle. I think it makes the bass easier to settle in the mix and helps me cut through live. Finally I’m after some of that graphite consistency and velvety smoothness. Kiwi once compared my Vigier passion sound to a ‘velvet covered brick’ (played by a mongoloid) I also like how modulation effects behave when using a limiter. They tend to react more readily to a limited signal than a compressed one. Every bass behaves differently so each has its own setting with a careful balance between threshold and ratio to get it just right. Some wooden necked basses need a bit more fiddling but as I say I find graphite remarkably even and consistent anyway. I’ll see if I can scrape together some recordings later.

I like jazz... But especially when it gets weird and atonal with unusual note choices and rhythms. Don't really get on with dinner jazz and smoooooth stuff - that's just a vague hint of jazz for people who don't really like music but can't cope with silence.

Exactly but it doesn’t make it any cheaper whoever does it. A recent order from StewMac was about £80 add £23 shipping and £37 charges at this side and that £80 of goods became £140. What we been is more people making their own guitars/basses on this side to make it worthwhile British suppliers stocking what we need

Yes, 18 piece dance bands were becoming uneconomical and smaller aggregations, with amplification, we’re becoming the norm and just as effective. There was the JB7 and at that time The Eric Delaney Band followed the same route. We used to play on the same bill from time to time. They were still using upright bass with an amp and they had Tony Fisher, today one of the very best trumpet session men and Alan Skidmore on Sax. There was also a shy teenager with her first job on vocals; Elaine Mansfield who later became Elkie Brooks.

This whole thread has been a complete waste of time. Apparently the flavour of the month this week is Revelation. Job done.

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Fair point we’ll made 😉 You can achieve pro-level finish with rattle cans, it just takes time. I did this telecaster for a friend and whilst the materials only cost £30, there was about 100 hours of prepping, painting, flatting, painting, buffing & polishing to get to this.

Well actually, that was the change to the pedal. The B3K now has the tone knob used on the amp amongst other things, which for me is a huge improvement It still very much has its place in the line up , for space and simplicity I have considered swapping out my B7KU for a new B3K as I use the AOU as a master preamp so technically its overkill, although certainly has its uses.

got to your room, go directly to your room,do NOT pass go, do NOT collect $200

You could use some coloured wax to hide the crack

To answer one of your questions, is a US Precision really any better than a MiM one, I'd have to say yes, the US has better tuners, better bridge, better pick up and probably better wood. The fact that I have a US Precision for sale here at the moment has no bearing on my opinion!

Where did all the funk go? Juan Nelson stole it all.