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I know I'm a late developer, but I've just accidentally discovered playing funk with flats on a J bass. All 3 knobs turned up full, and straight in to my cheapass Behringer 802 USB mixer, using channel #1 for some boost from the mic' pre, and half a turn on the compressor. Playing along to this through a high pass filter. It's so down and dirty, playing it in my Larry Graham (modified) style, I feels like a wild animal, and it sounds... it sounds exactly like the smell of sex. Many thanks to the BCer who recently put me on to Betty Davis. I have the album now on Spotify. 👍

My 414 had been gigged for 3 years weekly in grimey pubs with a classic rock band, now retired for a couple of years from live playing I decided to clean and restring last weekend, wow, what a marvellous bass!!! And what a lot of filth I got off of it. Purchased from a guy called Mojo on here as I remember, I love this bass and it’s the last one I have now....it’s going nowhere....!!

All Jazz has flats, it’s what makes it a Jazz. Something to do with the odd tuning of brass instruments. 🎷

Not my story, but a mate of mine was selling a Boss DD3 pedal and got a trade offer of a broken DD3 plus a bit of cash. 😅

To save putting it in every ad, I'm N. London, 6' 0", and ~160lbs. However, I'm not dating, so not sure why you want to know this when buying an item off me... 😜

I've used my Dremel to route the headstock for the logo - always a time consuming process!! I've glued the logo in and sanded it flat. I've also completed rounding the area on the front between the nut and the headstock. I'm also doing the neck shaping at the moment using my Shinto saw rasp - lovely bit of kit.

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Certainly will help in your quest to have owned all the effects pedals Mind you, as Mooers way of designing effects pedals appears to be stealing them from other people, unless someone else has cracked the problem you want solved, chances are they haven't.

From the Jam were playing last night at a Festival close to mac towers Had the pleasure of listening from my garden. His playing and tone sounded so good. Sounded like a Ric, although I think these days he plays a P bass. Anyway, it was a great sound, every note could be heard perfectly and I could enjoy a cuppa sat in a comfy chair, just the way music should be enjoyed

😂. The D’Addario tapes I’ve got have quite a deep warm sound but still clear, definitely not zingy, absolutely perfect for reggae 🙂

Eeeeewww.

Playing covers I mostly just used the P pickup because that gave a big open but punchy tone with two loud guitars it sat nicely underneath them in the mix, but for some songs I went with both pups and you could really get an awesome Duff McKagan tone which I loved. With some creative eq on the amp you could even get a Geddy Lee-ish tone. 👍

I like a bit of bite from my Jazz so I went for the Ernie Ball Cobalts - perfect mix of thump and bite when I dig in.

Chris Squire wasn't really the caring type

Sounds and spelt like a Kraftwerk tribute band without access to a soldering iron.... I'd go see them

Malfunktion.

Ladies Night!

Or , Happy Hour 😀

That's as confounding as "Free Beer" and my personal fave "All You Can Eat For £3.50".

We were going to call our pub playing, covers band, Quiz Night...

You need to learn your hat etiquette. It is customary for a man to remove his hat when indoors as it is worn as an item of utility. A woman wears a hat as part of her outfit, so may keep it on indoors. However, once performing the hat is part of the stage outfit and may be worn indoors.

Indeed so. Anecdote: One time, me and a pal had a sort-of guitar amp shoot-out evening. A couple of beers, a Les Paul, a Strat, an Orange Tiny Terror, a Marshall JMP Mk2, a 1966 Fender Bassman, a Rivera R55, an SF Princeton, an 80's Pro Reverb and a Mk1 Peavey Bandit. Of course, you can see what's coming a mile off. The Bandit won.

Official Trace Elliot procedure is to turn volume to low, play a loud passage and raise input gain until the overload light comes on, then back off one click. Adjust EQ and repeat. The idea is to get the maximum signal to noise ratio. Unlike the vast majority of amps, it really is a gain control, not a volume control:

It's funny you put that particular vid up because it's the very one where Weller is stood in front of a Marshall half stack but is actually playing through a little Peavey Backstage 30 stood on a flight case off to one side.

If somebody asked me for a video of a bass I was selling I'd have to say no. My phone doesn't take videos. On a general level, if a buyer requires the level of information the OP seems to be demanding then the buyer needs to decide if this kind of sale is right for him. Seems like he needs to see the bass and play it before he hands over his cash. I understand that once bitten twice shy is a valid view point and bad experiences make people wary, but if the OP is so particular or worried then he needs to see that bass. As a seller, I have dealt with a very picky buyer and in the end I decided it wasn't worth the hassle because after I had sent him the bass he was probably going to find a fault and try to back out of the deal. To the OP, there will be another bass along later. Wait until you can try the bass.

Totally agree about not previously noticing it until it was pointed out. Who invited @ped to poop on our party anyway?! 😁😂

So would you sell for £275?

You mean there are people who put rounds on a jazz? Perverts. Mine has worn the same pair of d'addario chromes for the last six years and just sounds better and better.

Not so much a band name as something that dull suburban dads do about once a year. Ahhh. Early PF reference. Nice. Is that a quote from Tubular Bells? The one I like however is:

All my jazzes have flats or tapes, out of 13 basses only 1 has rounds and that’s my P 🙂

TC Classic 450 Barefaced Retro Two10 Musicman Stingray

I'll try and record an example later today and do a non-noisy one for comparison

It’s great isn’t it? I love flats on a Jazz.

I’m not sure if you can get build-gas? You can get gas build up 😂 Maybe you can! After drooling over many of your builds I’ve decided to give it a shot! Luckily enough I make furniture/kitchen and shepherd huts (self taught so no real training and still very much learning) so access to wood and machinery isn’t hard so guess I’m lucky there. So I have some black walnut in stock so I’m going to use that for the first 60’s P bass build. I have a allparts 60’s neck already so I’ll use that but I will have a go at making a neck and stuff too. So, I’m after any help or pointers from you guys, you’ve far more experience than I do! Fingers crossed for a probably long learning journey 😂 Couple of pics of glued up blanks, enough for two just in case😬

He does have a point. Every decade within rock music, there has been a new genre that just blows everything out of the water and rips up the rule book - the 50s was rock 'n' roll, the 60s was the Beatles and Stones, the 70s was Sabbath, Zepp, Pistols, the 80s was New Wave , the 90s was Brit-pop, 00s and beyond have been a steady decline in originality IMO. There have been the odd exceptions with various stand outs but it's really been like digging for diamonds in a steaming pile of dogshit. Radio hasn't helped one bit. The usual crap being pumped out on repeat has tempered people's musical tastes to the point where they'll accept any old nonsense and call it genius. I have a theory why. There isn't the widespread hard times as there have been in previous decades coupled with too many distractions such as TV, internet and gaming. Hard times produce great music. I can't really explain why, but look at the times (I'm talking about the UK here) when recession, unemployment and general hardships have been rife. People have produced the best music and also some great musicians have come to the fore. In turn, you had DJs who would support this. Personally I think the period from 77 - 83 was probably the best years for rock music. You only have to look at the charts to see that. I've chosen a date in 1979 (it was my 9th birthday) and come up with this ... https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19791007/7501/ What a list of great rock acts in the national singles chart ! You'd never see anything like that now, there simply isn't the will or the way to produce great rock music. Don't get me wrong though, it's not all doom and gloom. There's still some great bands, some great gigs and some great musicians, all I'm saying, it's getting harder to find them.

They look the same as my fender flats 🙂

I haven't weighed either of them @Al Krow, but I can tell you my 415 was a hell of a lot lighter than my 1025X! At least 1lb less, probably more like 2!

I've done Skype conversations with potential buyers, and I have to say they were all extremely pleasant and life affirming (in part because on a couple of occasions I was complimented on my technique, which is something my bands rarely if ever did). I think there's a fine line however between a buyer's reasonable expectations of a seller and a serious red flag; there've been a couple of people who've contacted me over the years whose comms have suggested to me that, should I sell the bass to them, they're going to be a nightmare buyer. That instinct was honed by a couple of very uncomfortable transactions on here in which the seller's expectations were simply unreasonable. For example, the guy who wanted to return a bass, and threatened legal action if I didn't agree (this in his first email), because he claimed the action was unplayable. I assumed something catastrophic must have happened to the bass in transit for the neck to bow to the degree that it was unplayable, until he sent me photos indicating that in his opinion the action was too low to be playable

I thought the same with this one 🙂

I'd like to enter this one please

A proper crossover will send more treble to the tweeter, but depending on the choice of drivers this might make the system sound too bright. Main thing is that the woofer impedance is what matters in terms of system impedance. The energy in the HF part of the signal is relatively small.

Nice little wall.

Rather than look for a good sounding reverb I’d be looking for some with specific features, namely the ability to bypass certain frequency bands (so for example you can add some reverb to the high mids but bypass the bass end). That sounds great on bass.

The trouble with the people who align themselves (and I include myself in this) with music rock music is if they were there when it happened, they are now way too old to be the target audience for grime, drill, L Devine, or anything else of the moment. None of what's current now can be the soundtrack to growing up, because we're all grown up. I've never been a particular fan of The Smiths, but I think Morrissey got it right when he sang "It says nothing to me about my life." But then I'm old, I'll be dead soon enough, and the wheels will keep on turning... Have a great weekend folks! 🙂

I currently use an MB800 for exactly that reason, into a BF Compact. A good combination and compromise between output and portability for me. I'd like to try the head with either another cab added on, or a BF 2x12 - Twin/Supertwin etc, but to be honest for me it would probably be overkill for most of my requirements. The benefit of having two small-ish cabs is great though - one for small gigs/rehearsals etc and then use two for bigger stuff.

The Amps and cabs for sale section earlier today.