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Just got new bass into family and needed to share it with dear basschaters

Picked this up for 25 quid from Facebook, needs a saddle (if anyone has one) and needs a bloody good clean

Been putting things together..... just the wiring to do and then we are pretty much sorted. Expect to post pics of the finished bass tonight, I got lucky and pretty much have perfect action everywhere, just need to raise the E string a little and we should be golden. It is looking mega!

I've recently come to the conclusion that white basses are my favourite looking. How many white basses have I owned? One, my old '63 P. The Wilcock Mullarkey in white has royally fired up my GAS.

My contribution

Today I'm listening through the covers setlist ahead of our band's first rehearsal on Friday night after a year of COVID lockdown WOOP https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lPBVRfYKgkIraq6shhce9?si=9ebad735b3e748e7

I'm having a bit of a cull of my basses at the moment due to moving flat (and accepting that I don't 'NEEED' all I have), and within that I decided to set about essentially 'swapping' my Elrick Standard Evolution 5 for one of their NJS5 basses. The former was a wonderful bass, but I do definitely gravitate towards more 'trad' aesthetics. As such, my Evol 5 sold on here, and around the same time, the following arrived. It's a wonderfully stealthy looking NJS5 (New Jazz Standard 5). All Bartolini electronics (of course). Weighs in at about 9.2lbs, so a little heavier than my previous Elrick, but still fantastic for a 35" active Jazz 5: Lovely If you're after a 'super jazz', then these really should be on your radar!! Si

Wow, that took much more time than expected 😂. Lots and lots of wires to solder.... anyway, all done now. Clearly I will shoot some daylight pics soon and so a quick recording. The thing sounds monstrous through my headphone amp, so bodes well! Will tidy up strings when fully intonated.

Which can, in turn, be illustrated by a graph, which shows the Modulus of Impedance; the way in which Impedance varies by frequency. *Please note I have no affiliation with Modulus, nor am I on their payroll etc. etc. ** Other manufacturers of graphite necks are available. 😉

Wondered if this was going to be about this...

As we seem to be settled on 4th September, can @jebroad update the title of the thread? Or is that tempting fate...?

I've got the EMG GZR p pickup and tried it a few places - it's got a tight defined sound - it feels quite 70's to me, not a huge amount of bottom end but a very useable sound partly becasue of that.

Dear Friends, My new EVO5 Bass Bridge is finally ready

You can’t join a Jam tribute band.

Nice BB 415 for £200 in bass direct. https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Yamaha_BB_415.html

Eat too much and you'll get all sorts of health problems but that's not a reason to stop eating altogether.

All maple fingerboards I’ve had have been a gloss or satin finish, so they should not be oiled, but a rosewood board that’s not been looked after ,or has dried out ,I would oil 🙂

I'd prefer rosewood, but I wouldn't kick that out of bed. The one I tried at The Gallery (it had a fancy figured top) was absolutely top notch, which is why I'd love one. They have that Wal/Hayman/Shergold vibe going on, which just ticks my boxes visually, then there's the build quality and tone. Damn you, Viv! 😂

My BB1024, I’m collecting white basses at the moment, I think a stingray could be next 🙂

I've been having a bit of a bass clear-out and something of a change recently. It's now 4 out, two in.... and I have another bass currently for sale - so no more new basses after that...... he says, fingers crossed behind back Just got myself a MIJ Fender Lyte Precision from BC's very own blues business - a thoroughly decent sort of guy indeed - thanks mate I had never tried a Fender Lyte before. What with increasing age, and wear & tear on joints / shoulders / back etc. After having bought my sub 4kg five string Ibanez recently, - I thought I might like to try out a nice sub 4kg Precision. I was pleasantly surprised at just how light & comfortable this bass is. Plus, the neck is a comfortable Jazz profile. The construction quality feels great, and so far, I'm liking the sound. I like a P/J configuration anyway - but this is going to be different, as it's not the usual VVT controls. It has a "Blend" control for the pickups. I'm sure I'll get used to it though. Plus, I'm not normally a huge fan of active pickups - but through my amp headphones, and through my home practice amp, I really like the sound, and I like it a lot. I've got a garden-room / semi open-air acoustic trio jam coming up - so I'm going to take the Lyte along to that, and I must say, I'm really as excited as a kid with a new toy about it The bass came with La Bella Flats on it, and was in need of a set-up. I tried the LaBellas for a day, and decided they were a bit too high-tension for my liking. So I put some new TI flats on it, and obviously had to tweak the truss rod again - but it's playing like a dream now. It's a lovely colour IMHO, but the only (slght) downside, is that it's Foto-flame finish. There's some slight crazing to the finish, on the front of the body. I can live with that though..... There was some cracking & lifting of the finish at the back, where you normally get "Buckle rash". I sealed this area, running PVA glue underneath the lifting finish, and when that had dried, I filled any gaps and secured the lifting areas with a combination of modellers filler and some super-glue powder. I've roughly painted the area with some acrylic paint for now - I can lightly sand it back and re-paint when I find a tin of suitably coloured modelling paint. That's enough waffling on from me

The new one from @donstrumental

Good point - if the sensitivity is wildly different between them, the apparent sound volume out of them will also be different.

Still keeping pretty busy, this week I revisited my variable resonance low pass filter design and worked out the glitches: I've now ported the design to all SMD format and plan to add it to my open source onboard preamp collection, so anyone who wants to and can deal with SMDs can build their own.

Impedance It's called Impedance instead of Resistance, because it changes due to frequency changes. Two 8-Ohm cabinets will receive a roughly equal amount of Power from the amp, but how they each respond to that Power will be different.

A (major or minor) third higher is common, e.g. Everly Brothers. Personally, I never got much beyond shouting in unison while playing the root note or walking fours. Good luck.

Ahem... Handbox R-400.

This is a decent album if you want something on in the background

Nice....just what I needed right now

poor old Rod's getting a bit of a panning, not entirely justified, I'm sure if he'd been assassinated in 1973 he'd be looked on a lot more favourable 😁

@KiOgon did me exactly what you're after, a rotary switch that goes through single coil, dual coil, series and parallel and a standard chrome knob fitting. My bitsa Stingray has a three knob plate with volume, tone and the rotary knob, it just looks like three chrome knobs.

Toneriders, def worth the money, very similar to the Fender Custom Shop 62 (well the Precision ones are, not sure re the Jazz).

No acoustical engineer would say that. Maybe an EE, but they tend not to be familiar with speakers. They are, and that's not a good thing. There's only one reason to use a 1st order highpass with no low pass, that being it's the least expensive option. You cannot use a rheostat, as it does not present a constant impedance load. One must use an LPad.

Rhythm & Sound are great for relatively modern dubby stuff (or their stuff as Basic Channel is more Dub Techno). This is a mix of all the vocal versions of their 'see me yah' riddim.....hypnotic stuff.

Great balls of fire - J L Lewis

This has a toggle switch but the wiring is pretty much the same. Ignore the Jazzier aspects of the picture series-parallel-single.pdf

I think you'll need a break-before-make type to avoid funny goings on. Something like this would probably suffice, they might look cheap but I've used them in a number of applications and they've always done the job. https://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=116_139&products_id=923

Last week... Missed it by deliberating too long... But I'm not too sad... I have something else French coming! (@walshy I was quite sad for a few days though!!!)

Ibby GSR200... £50 Gumtree...

Here she is with another Sister Noir

I did a drastic make-over on a bass to make it part of the black bass family Used to look like this:

I should’ve bought this. It was around for a couple of weeks and I should’ve found a way.

If you have the means, just get a cheap shortscale and see if you have the same issues. If you do, perhaps it’s warm-up regime or perhaps it’s something else about playing position/general health. Si