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Found this lurking around th nether regions of evilbay. Couldn't find masses about these on line but it was made in 1989 in France, American Walnut Body, Maple neck and rather nice 24 fret Rosewood board. Bartolini p/ups and passive V/V/T electronics. Altogether a very nice 24 fret J bass,

If somebody was joining a function band of mine, I would be more impressed with a show reel of I dunno, 40 clips of function fodder, than some epic display of fire that may have taken months/years to learn. I would need to know that somebody can be told about a first dance the day before a gig and turn up and I've got enough confidence for them to nail it first time through. The best function players aren't necessarily the ones with the chops - it's the ones that are reliable and have repertoire under their belts.

Purchased this from our forum stalwart @TheGreek, I'm kind of at a loss what to say about it really, it’s actually jaw-dropping in every respect. I'm trying to piece together it's history, @skelf tells me the build was completed in Jan 2009 and according to @TheGreek it was built for @GreeneKing I am unsure who had it next? It would be lovely to have its family tree, if anyone can help me piece this together then great! In the meantime, check this mother out, f****** hell...

The 4mm allen key that comes with a lot of non-US basses including Epiphones & Squiers is OK, but easily lost. I've found an alternative which works much better and costs less than £2 from various ebay sellers in China. Seach for 'T handle allen hex key wrench spanner 4mm'

Two options: * Put the guitarist and his rig in the car park. Set the stage up like normal people do. * Sack off the tech-nerd guitarist and get in an old skool playa with a Peavey Bandit No need to thank me

As with all these things, quality is the (Allen) key. Cheap Allen keys lose there shape after relatively little use, and are often not quite the right dimensions. Considering a lot of truss rod nuts are also not very well made, can be made of quite soft material and access can be restricted experience has taught me that the best tools for the job are the best tools you can afford. Unbrako are great Allen keys (I've been using them for 30 years) and are reasonably cheap. The other issue with ball ended Allen keys is that while they are great for access, the contact area with the fastener is vastly reduced plus they have an inherent weakness due to the undercut to achieve the ball-end. They can round out a stiff fastener quite easily, or snap off. They are really only any good for low-torque applications: as long as the nut is not stuck they're fine, but......... I had to have the access hole in the headstock opened out on my G&L L2000 as there was no straight access to the nut and it was stuck. I could feel the ball end getting "uncomfortable" even with a top quality tool. Once I had a straight line access an Unbrako Allen key worked like a charm. Broken truss rods and rounded out truss rod nuts in L2000's often means a new neck. Best avoided. YMMV.

Damnation, I seem to have just bought one despite having a Boss unit. Bloody Basschat.

No Thanks to Jazz basses? My dear sir, have you taken leave of your senses?

Well, here we are, pretty much done. She's a bit noisy, so I might have another look at the shielding but otherwise all is well. It's all trial and error for me anyway. Short scale, flat wounds and a thumb rest are all new to me, so frankly it feels bloody weird, but I'm already getting used to it after playing for half an hour or so. The headstock has worked out a treat though - the ramp was just deep enough. Forgive the inconsistency in the colours - the camera on my phone is crap and I was trying to get a good representation of the actual colour, to no avail. It's a lot more ribena-ish than it looks here. It's really nice, you'll just have to trust me 🤣 As always, thanks for joining me along the way. I think I need a break from building so I can actually play the things, but I'm sure I'll be back before long. I mean, I even have a spare pickup lying around so...

just came across this on the FB Wal Lovers group

He won't be able to respond, he's spending another year dead for tax reasons.

While Chienmortbb was here this afternoon repairing my coil winder, we alpha tested the BCcab 112 with a "sub" (same cab but with a lowpassed 12" bass driver). It was impressive. I had been concerned that the bass might sound excessive, but it wasn't in the slightest. It didn't sound like there was any more bass, but the overall sound was bigger (no surprise) and the bass was tighter (which was a surprise). I guess this will be a project for the New Year.

In the 30 odd years I've been playing I don't think there's a single finish, feature or fixture on a bass that I've initially hated the look of that I haven't ended up with GAS for at some point down the line. These days when I see something I don't particularly like my first thought is 'I'll probably want one of those in a couple of years'.

I would play what i considered the hardest song on their set list.

I use a Stomp now exclusively for all my gigs. My board is a Metro16, one of the smallest I've ever had, and it sounds great. I'm in London N4 if you want to come over to see how I use my set up & have a try out before you buy.

Nope. They are horrible

Thanks! Thread closed then. Sorted 😁

4) You're welcome!

It was collected by Peter on 7th January 2009. I know that as I was at ACG HQ picking the woods and spec for my Recurve and it was the day after my Birthday. Peter and Dave Perry turned up to collect the bass and helped me with my choice of woods for the Recurve. On opening the case it truly was astonishing.

Stew, I have played all those songs. Many times. I like them all. They are well crafted pieces of music, and better still they are songs that audiences like. I played some Jessie J, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars for the very first time awhile back. Never thought I'd be asked to play anything like that. What great songs and a blast to play. IMO you've got the right approach. Songs are only as good as we play them. So if they are crap, we're not playing them well enough.

Grapevine, nope. Mustang Sally, nope. Superstition, nope. Play that funky music, nope. Mr. Brightside, nope. Brown Eyed Girl, nope. I've always been in bands that will choose a setlist from the other few thousand big hits that are popular rather than the fifty that 90% of other bands play. The Slits did a good version of Grapevine.

I am happy with my smooth hound for gigging, its receiver is on the pedalboard. However, when I am practicing I don't always bring that and certainly in the house I don't. So I had looked at the boss unit but no-one seems to know if it would work with a Ibanez SR bass, so not really an option at that price. A friend mentioned getting a cheap wireless on amazon for £35, as as a non amazon user, I looked on ebay and found something that looked the same for £24.95. Worth a try I thought: Turned up today, just these and a double headed USB cable (for charging both at the same time). They weigh approximately nothing at all, certainly a lot lighter than the smooth hound, which is because they weight less than the batteries in it. The joint is just plastic friction, which works fine as there is no weight and they don't flap around for the same reason. They are a little bigger than the looked in the advertising (that green thing has centimetres on the bottom (but strangely, half inches on the squares) on it so you can see the size. Trying them in my music room they work fine, better than fine in fact. I know this isn't a challenging environment and the only reason I would use wireless in my room is that there leads everywhere and when my wife wants to sing as well, it gets a little crowded. These are certainly good enough for practice though, and TBH, I don't see why they wouldn't also be ok for a gig. but I will leave that until I have had a practice evening with them, just to see what the battery lifespan is - the battery power must be small with the weight. Anyway, main take away, £25, they work.

Hi all, some progress this evening on the new EVO-FX5... stay tuned 😎🎸😉

Evil 9 Sorry, couldn't resist. Coat is on. Door is open; will close it behind me.

Sorted out that minor mistake for you Mr Bee.

Very true...

But: What usually happens in Basschat is that we start picking at threads and wheedling about heft and P basses and whether Wankel driven heads are the way forward etc. We finally get a fresh set of ideas and you shoot it down? For the sake of perishing pfff man, this is exactly why we need fresh blood. Oh, and I was looking forward to using my pitchfork for the first time since I left home down on the farm anyway. Heeheehee

Always wondered how to describe those basses I've never liked, now I know. Thanks. Perfect.

Welcome Az. Exiting times ahead then...

Bit more progress on the cab build.... Rough cut for the baffle holes Making the port hole the right size... ...yup, it fits One baffle done... ...which is then used as the template for finishing the second. ...and there we go I am still intending to run the second one without tweeter, but since I have two horns I thought I might as well have the baffle cut for them, and then seal the horn instead of fitting the compression driver. If I then want to run them as separate cabs or for keys or something, it will "simply" be a matter of another driver and crossover. I bought the horns ages ago (as well as the two drivers) - I suspect if I'd held fire and read the comments from people who have them up and running, I might have just gone for one cab, but hey ho!

Which is fair enough - I don't want a gig in a function band thank you very much BUT the OP asked what our bass showcase songs were " & also a song that shows what you can play on bass."

The JB police are on their way to re-educate you... 😁

Congratulations you are lucky enough to work with a technically competent guitarist. He is moving in the right direction and you should all follow him if you possibly can. Old fashioned backline does work in the sense that the audience can actually hear the band and it is so technically simple it is (usually) set up properly. That's about it, the mix is only usually good in one spot in the room. Because the backline is producing all the sound for the audience it is loudest on stage making it way harder for the band to hear properly with knock on effects on how they play. It damages their hearing and the high sound levels are picked up by the vocal mics so a muddy delayed sound goes through the PA and degrades the audience experience. If you are happy to work towards it then the next step is to sort out FRFR monitors (just monitors really) for each band member and feed everything the audience hears to the PA. Our band use RCF ART310's as monitors, they are relatively small, just over £200 when we bought them and can even handle modest amounts of bass. That's cheaper than most bass combo's and if the whole point is to get the on stage levels down it should be enough. Bass spills back from the PA anyway so you only need the mids through your monitors. Putting bass and kick through the monitors does mean knowing they can handle it. Subs will help but they are over the top for a lot of pub gigs. You can get away with a single sub and most decent PA speakers now will handle enough bass (Think QSC/RCF/Yamaha/EV/dB etc) Obviously this might mean rethinking but you too could go Pre into FRFR and use that as a conventional bass amp if you have to for other bands. There is a long and informative thread on FRFR here on basschat. If funds are tight then you could move your bass amp forward in front of the mic line for a while. Times have changed, PA is much cheaper and more competent than 20 years ago, it makes no sense to be carrying huge backline. All we need now is quieter drums

This bass... I have looked at every sale post lovingly.... came really close to pulling the trigger a few times. I still think it is the most beautiful ACG I’ve seen. in the end I stuck the same ACG preamp in my streamer to unleash all the good tones!

To answer the OP's actual question (and not offer loads of undoubtedly 'good' advice), Mine would be Dune Tune.

We have same setup as you - guitarist and vocalist/guitarist, drummer and bass. G and V/G go thru pa (micing their combos), drummer sometimes goes thru too if playing a larger room but I just play thru my combo with ext cab behind me Eden Metro and everyone says we sound fine - old school but fine.

To expand upon my pervious answer - #4)... If it were me, I'd use my amp as a backline, but DI out of the amp (post EQ) into the PA (leaving the PA EQ flat), and pan your PA signal to wherever the band want it.

Seems to me that the issue will be that, as you don't have subs, there won't (unless you have very capable top boxes in your PA) be anything to give weight to the low end out front. I guess you could use your Bergs for the purpose and have a single BF as a personal monitor, but that would necessitate taking almost all your kit to gigs and achieving balance between the Bergs and the PA might not be easy. Does the band have a spare power amp (you would need a crossover, too), so you could employ the Bergs as straightforward subs, or would you rather they were not used in that way? There would also be the problem of the limited space for the band in the average pub to contend with. The simplest way I can see would be for the guitarist to use a backline and do it the old fashioned way.

I don't know much about 6 stringed instruments, but I believe that style of guitar was called a Teletubby or something like that.

I have never played a cover 😕

You can send amp/cab sims to the pa while fx only to your amp etc Tbe I/O wtht eh Stomp is fab but you'll need to sit with the unit, the manual ir a tutorila video and work through it. You Tube is a the resource for this one. My advice is go hire a few hours in a rehearsal space which has a bass amp and a pA and set it up to suit. You can A/B amp v PA etc and you'll do so much more in this way then trying to grab an 20 min here and there. It worked for me having all the options/possibilities for how i might use it to try in one place. Download the manual and if you can bring a laptop/tablet and work along with you tube setting up patches, I/O options etc. It'll be time well spend!

Mmmmm ....... Pasty.

This builder did this idea much better...