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I wish Fender would do a 1951 reissue Precision again. I've owned 3 and it's the only bass I regret selling. Don't know how well they sell but it's long overdue a reissue.

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Hi all, the business is technically still ‘active’ but the web site needed a complete overhaul and I simply haven’t had time to complete it. Unfortunately/fortunately my private marketing consultancy business has really taken off and I can earn more from this in 2-3 days than bass retail can generate in a month! I’ve been mostly working in movie marketing for about 18 months with a good friend who’s a producer and we have 10 films out this year. Current project is working on one with a Biffy Clyro soundtrack so that’s been a lot of fun. I have maybe 25-30 basses stashed away to relaunch with including Ritter, Fodera, Alleva Coppolo, Atelier Z, Suhr and a string of vintage Fenders and some JVs as well. Just need to find some time to get them all photographed and the site finished. . .

I would probably go with 45-105, because I've played everything from heavy Rock to pop and soul on them. It's important that the instrument is set up properly and also that you know how to get the best out of your amp/cab.

Herebe our latest offering, from our 4th album which will be released on 01 Aug 2019:

I’m a huge fan of this series, but I only just came across this episode and it blew me away. Such a lovely groove.

Do Fender make a P with Jazz neck? If not, that.

I had over 100 new kitchen tiles " go missing " from Ebay. I paid for the goods via PP. I was told by PP that they had proof of delivery from the courier. Trackable doesnt always mean a signature is required. The courier hits a few buttons on his courier pad to say the item has been delivered. Thats all PP / Ebay need. After a few weeks of messing around with messaging ( had to do it on Facebook with My hermes ) who denied everything. They dont have a customer line anymore ( no surprise ) so FB is the only way. In the end, i found out the courier had delivered the tiles to the Chinese Takeaway 30 yards away, who in fact never received the goods. I got so hacked off with the courier ( who probably stole them ) and the seller, who didnt give a hoot. and Ebay and PP who didnt a give a hoot either, so after about 7 weeks or so, i contacted my bank and got them to reverse the payment. Suddenly, PP took notice ... i paid twice because he only sold in bundles, and i needed 2 bundles to complete the job, but for some reason, PP only reversed one of the payments, and that caused more mayhem. But the bank of HSBC helped and i got all the money back, but only because i got my teeth sunk in like a Jack Russell with a rat. Bar stewards, the lot of 'em.

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In all honesty, for me, one great tone that mixes perfectly with the drums is much better all round than changing patches all the time. Give the sound guy a good chance of getting the rhythm section mixed perfectly by giving him a consistent sound and let him worry about vocals, guitars and keys the rest of the gig.

A few more little jobs done today. I'm just finishing anything that may cause scratches etc. before I get round to the final sanding on the neck. Drilled the holes for the neck and cut the neck screws down in length as they were long enough to go all the way through the fretboard. No idea why but one of the screws decided to snap! I was quite lucky as there was enough showing in the neck that I could remove it carefully with pliers. Any less showing and it would have been a nightmare of having to drill it out..... The screw came out without too much fuss and, most importantly, without causing any damage or scratches. I had another screw which I trimmed then fitted the neck. I've also made the cavity cover template a little tighter fitting so there is a little less gap around it (wasn't masses around the original, I'm just being picky!!) so I'll make the new cover tomorrow.

I was looking for a good Music Man for a while, that needed to have a lacquered neck. I don't like the oiled ones as much.. Today I went for a drive to pick up this 30th anniversary model! Its such a beautiful bass... Tommorow I'll be done with the set up and give it a spin. I haven't heard it with proper fresh strings yet, but it sounded great already with dead rounds. So I guess flats would sound great too. First I'll mount a set of fat beams for full Stingray aggression

Alan’s almost finished, and he’s done a stupendous job as always. Stunning

Oh wow! It's no consolation, but it is VERY rare for that to happen just with tensioning up. On the positive side, that is a very clean break. If you want to post the neck to me, more than happy to see if I can fix it...

One thing I should have mentioned about the NE is that it delivers thunderous, bone rattling LOWS!! Very probably the deepest, meatiest low end of any bass I've come across. Great review, Dan...and don't worry about forgetting to mention the B string - I think I've covered that off in my comment immediately above! 😂

I did exactly the same thing. Pay Pal didn't want to know until my bank reversed payment. Suddenly I started getting phone calls from them at 0800 everyday asking for their money. Now they were calling me, I got my point across. I got my money back from a vendor who I'd returned goods too (not as described). Pay Pal are tu7ds of the first order.

It’s mostly going back to my roots Dave - I worked in big studio movie promotion for several years and really enjoyed it. Now working with some of the same people but on purely independently produced and financed films. Way smaller budgets but also without all the politics of big Hollywood studio productions. The biggest bonus is that I can work almost exclusively from home and only have to travel into London about once every 2-3 months instead of every day. We have a very experienced team of people working together and we can short-cut all the time-wasting meetings and ridiculously long conference calls. All our materials sit in a central cloud based storage system and we chat via Skype and WhatsApp Makes it much more relaxing but still fun and, mostly, rewarding as we all deal direct with producers, writers, cast etc - I was most impressed to get Suki Waterhouse asking for my WhatsApp details last week and sending me little messages and requests for help in stuff, lol.

A quick Google search implies that a gift can be disputed. It looks like some forms of funding e.g. credit cards, then the rules change and PayPal have to abide by credit card regulations which are different! Some folking twits must lie awake at night thinking of how to scam others. Grrrrr.

All I’m going to say is everything affects the tone. Try some lighter strings and see how you get on. Your playing will have the biggest influence on your sound (ruling out effects and extreme eq settings)

I know this sounds whack but I used to have really light gauge strings (don’t know the exact sizes but they were the lightest they had in stock at The Bass Centre when I bought the bass) on a Jaydee Supernatural. I used this inappropriate bass with it’s inappropriately light gauge strings to play in a heavy goth band and subsequently a really heavy and fast thrash metal band. It sounded great though, drop D in the thrash band, real clarity but still plenty of depth. I find the lighter gauges easier to play (small fingers here). Latterly I was convinced to use a different bass with heavier strings but I was never really happy, that initial setup was ideal for me. No doubt my experience is a freaky outlier but there you go.

I won't be able to do one until Monday anyway, I have a summer fair gig this afternoon so I'll not have time to record anything beforehand.

30th anni.....one of the best rays ever made.

Great weather, grreat crowd. It was a good gig. It's so nice when you only have to play an hour. I had a blast! Blue

If you didn’t type that on an electronic device made in an Asian sweat shop where worker’s rights are essentially non-existant, well done you!

Some of you might find this useful/interesting..... When i opened up my future impact pedal out of curiosity to see what was inside, i was shocked to find mostly (continental brand) fresh air! Here you can see that the lower half of the pedal is almost exactly, approximately an MXR BEF worth of space!! So i formulated a plan to Design and 3D print an enclosure, into which i can re-house the innards of the Future impact, to make a much more pedalboard friendly footprint. I began by removing the knobs from the outside and the circuit boards from the inside of the case I then laser scanned the inside of the case to generate an STL that can be used to replicate the Mounting features/holes in the new design. I copied all of the internal/external features from the STL, but moved the foot switches as close to the circuit board as i could on the inside. I didn't put in any small holes for the screws, as i thought these would be better aligned using the actual circuit boards as a template. I printed the 1st Prototype ove night last night and assembled it this morning. Everything went together great and still functioned perfectly. I was able to reduce the length of the enclosure from 155mm to 101mm, and i think there's room for further improvement on that. The finished prototype unit. And here it is re-installed on the board. I plan to tweak the design and print another next week if i get a chance. Some of the changes will include reducing the length of the housing even further, moving the on/off switch more central to get it away from the encoder, adding a feature to recess display protector of some kind, branding/lettering. I'm open to suggestions for additional improvements. For now, its printed in PLA, but once the design is finalises, ill be printing it it Black Nylon which will stand up to pedalboard life a bit better. Once the design is complete, im happy to share the STL so you can print it yourselves, or £ven print a few and ship them out to those interested. *Any FI owners that's capable of cool graphic designs can have one for free if they develop the artwork (2 colors)

I had to revert to claiming money back via my bank a few years ago. I bought something off eBay which never arrived. The guy originally had perfect feedback, after my item didn’t arrive, it seemed that many other people’s didn't. Neither PayPal or eBay wanted to know, NatWest refunded me in a few days. I just had to send copies of the transaction, and screenshots of his now less than perfect feedback.

I was going to say Fender/Squier unlined fretless too, they all seem to be lined these days. Maybe its something to do with the availability of suitable woods? Having said that, there is something about playing a lined fretless and nobody noticing its a fretless for about 6 songs - THEN putting a few extroverted slides or similar in, which illustrate its definitely a fretless!

It appears you are correct - I stand corrected. This from a Talkbass poster, who sounds like they know what they're talking about - no guarantee I know! Also an earlier thread from BC too. Bunny Brunel might have had a hand in testing the Yamaha BB series, along with the likes of Abe Laboriel, Nathan East, Lee Sklar, and a bunch of other session guys, but as I've understood it, John Carruthers developed the "Big Body" series basses for Yamaha, with input from all those early testers. It was not Bunny's design, or named for Bunny Brunel.

With you on that brother. When first introduced, they were passive but soon morphed into the active model for some reason. Still see the odd one come up s/h occasionally, looks like I may be racing you for one when they do. 😄

Isn't the SC finished in 'tuffcab'? If it is you'll be ok. I owned a Compact and two BB2, and from time to time they'd acquire a ding here and there, which was very very easy to retouch (I bought a small retouching kit from BF, but you can buy the stuff elsewhere). With regards to TKS, I only have praise: the sound, the service, options, look and the built quality. I personally don't imagine using a single 112 except as a stage monitor. It's true that I've played gigs without PA support with a single 112 or 115, but I play more gigs where that would not be enough. The Barefaced BB2 was probably the closest to being ok from the ones I tried. If I absolutely had to use only one, that would be the one. But I do prefer two in general. I think stacking two vertically gives me the best chance to get the right sound out front while still being ok onstage. The TKS S112 is my favourite sounding of theirs. It also happens to be the cheaper one, and it's very compact and superlight. I've used a single one as a stage monitor and for rehearsals. For rehearsals, choosing the right spot close to a wall helps a lot getting the right depth, as the S112 is not very big on the low end. Using two it's a lot easier to get the right amount of 'girth'. I think they're beautifully sounding cabs with tight low end and there's something in the midrange that just works for me. They just sound good whatever I do The only drawback is that they're a bit limited with regards to power handling, so you need to be sure that you're not going to put hundreds and hundreds of watts through them. Normally I would not need to, and I used a pair for all of my gigs for quite some time. Small bars without PA support? No problem... but I'd be a bit nervous about others using my gear and bumping up the lows higher than I go for. I play mostly ska/funk with prominent bass lines, so I'm not shy with volume or depth, but I realise there's other bands who like to be louder than we go for. The 1126 is bigger, but still easy to carry, and is a lot bigger sounding with better power handling. I'd be ok with a pair of those. I used two, in fact, for a while. But I prefer the sound of the S112 so I stuck with them despite not being as powerful. If you think a single 112 by some super-duper company might be enough for you, volume wise, then I'd really recommend you try a S212 or two S112 by TKS. Yes, it's two speakers... but they're compact and light. I'm actually more comfortable carrying a pair of S112 than a single Two10. They won't be supermegaloud... but no single 112 will be, really, and they sound great.

Likely it's the standard unit - lots of early 80s MIJ stuff (including Westone) had DiM copies with hex poles. Easy way to check is whether the poles are metric or imperial. There were Schaller hex-pole pickups too - had a dud one in a used bass a few years back.

Great to see you there Paul. Yes, funny old room that one. Didn’t think the sound was going to be great. It was pretty much what we all said as soon as we walked in there, but the crowd seemed to enjoy it. Next stop Witney ⚡️

I played a gig last night and didn't "need" to bring my rig (F112/GBMB800/HXStomp) Using their Ampeg SVT PR4/HLF410, it was instant regret not having my setup. The Ampeg was so mucky and booming sounding on stage, with no end of twiddling, and I couldn't hear myself all night until I asked the sound man to put some bass in my monitor...lol. If I had my rig it would have been full, clear bass all night.

It really is an excellent cab, I agree, Chris. Right up there for me in terms of the cabs I've played through. As mentioned above it surpassed my former VK 210LNT in terms of fullness of tone / clarity and articulation. The only other cab that has gone toe to toe with it in terms of sheer sound quality was my Mesa PH 212, but that really was simply too heavy for my back to ever contemplate lugging. However ... ...

The last set of EXL220s I bought for my 5-string Bass Collection, were supplied by Strings Direct as a 4-string set of EXL220 plus a single 0.125 B string, so I think it's definitely possible to match a 4-string set of EXL170s with a lighter B. The code for the B is XLB125.

Great gig, Warren. The sound wasn't very clear but the performance was spot on! Adam impresses me more each time I hear him!

I think it’s one, on hindsight I should’ve kept, but fortunately the Starry Night is pretty close H

They could use a hacked PayPal account. My advice is whenever selling via Gumtree, only ever use cash on collection. They come, they try it, inspect it, pay cash and leave. Always have someone else in the house with you too.

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One of my very first reviews back in 2010 time was the BB NE2. I still remember to this day how nice it was. So its a thumbs up from me! EDIT: I've found the review! I thought it had been lost. Having just had a quick look, I'm embarrassed to say I seem to have forgotten about the B STRING in the video! https://www.guitarinteractivemagazine.com/issues/issue-7/reviews/yamaha-nathan-east-bass-bb-ne2/

I anticipate that the guitar community might take notice of BF now, considering Rob has SO many devoted followers. If Andertons take interest, we might see more of these.

It was a whole tenner dearer than the SH, which I'd only have spent on chocolate raisins and vimto. I never had any drop-outs or latency problems with the SH and was happy with the sound of it, the only things I ever had a gripe with it were; The receiver unit being lighter than the average moth meant I had to wedge it under my amp handle to stop the 1/4" jack cable throwing it round all over the place. Yeah - I'm actually complaining it's too light! The power supply being the correct way round for everything but music use, (as some joker decided that the polarity had to be bass-ackwards on FX pedals) so it always needed it's own plug. What with no two wall-warts being the same way round or shape to fit in extension leads together, it took a fair bit of electrical tetris to run it with the setup I had, (SH, tuner pedal, drive pedal, DI box to PA/combo amp) the pedals were on their own 9v wart, the SH on one and the DI box on another (12v!!) transformer, and a plug for the combo all added up to taking forever to find an extension lead that they'd all fit in. The SH is also not what you'd call 'road ready'. I rather embarrassingly proved it, too! All of which is actually pretty minor and the simple thing to do is to stop moaning and use a great-performing lil unit. Certainly couldn't moan about the battery life on the Hound, the only annoyance on that front was the dead battery warning on mine was never any more than 30 seconds til it expired. The G75 base unit weighs about the same as a full pint in one of those old faceted glasses with a handle on. It's going nowhere, even with a bunch of cables in it, and it can have a lot - it works as a DI box with XLR out (with ground lift), 2 seperate 1/4" outputs and a dedicated tuner out, even with a built-in tuner. It even has a 1/4" aux input that I haven't used yet. So that's the DI box, tuner and 2 warts left in the case, leaving me with a signal chain of a G75 and a drive pedal. The screen counts down in hours and minutes the remaining battery life, and I got 43 minutes of use while deliberately ignoring the flashing dead battery lightshow. The fuel gauge starts at 8 hours on alkalines, and after 2 pairs used I've no reason to doubt it. It won't even switch on with NiMHs in, though. I've no intention of finding out, but I genuinely believe the transmitter would have a good chance of surviving a small car driving over it. She's got some gravity on her! It can take any 1/4" guitar lead, but the supplied one even screws in to the top of the unit. That leads me to the only fault with the whole show, the tranny clip! Seriously, it looks like some one cobbled one up from some bent fusewire. Stuck a fingertip under it to get it over a strap end and it pinged off into the corner of the room. Then straight back in the box. I'll have to invest in one of those holster thingies, but until then it can live in a pocket. I'm still a fan of the Smooth Hound, if I ever feel the need for a home-use-only wireless I'll probably get another one. You know that feeling of owning a perfectly capable 1.4 hatchback that'll serve you well? That's the Smooth Hound. The G75 is like being handed the keys to a dirty big V6 that someone else filled up. TLDR - try a G75.

I think the jmj is a killer wee bass and although more expensive is a fine shorty. I think as mentioned above the supro is the only other short scale I’d be into. Glad I have the jmj at my disposal and it’s gonna be my main gigging bass for the foreseeable.