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This arrived a couple of days ago direct from Modern Vintage (Rob Elrick & John Files), but I wanted the La Bella Black Nylons on and the bass setup before I posted it. So far I love it, fantastically built bass, sounds great and a neck finish, feel and shape to die for! Loving the finish too, really nice vintage Shell Pink colour with matching headstock! Si

Very Tower Of Power-ish groove, nice. I massively prefer Vic's tone on the Sire. It actually has some low end! I've always loved his playing, but hated his tone. His Foderas are works of art, but they've always sounded way too thin and snappy for my taste. Maybe his mate Marcus could put in a good word for him with the Sire people.

Looks like the Behringer is the way to go. I'm an amateur singer/songwriter/guitarist/(n00b)bassist and I own a Behringer mic to record my vocals. It's a great mic. Thanks for the replies, folks

When a chance came to get hold of one of my old basses back in a trade I of course had to say yes. This arrived today: a 2014 Fender AV 64 Reissue Jazz in a FSR Daphne Blue with matching headstock. It's bloody lovely so goodness knows why I got rid of it in the first place. I have a love/hate thing with Jazzes but hopefully it will hang around for a while. We'll see...

Part of the Studio Jam's series. Its Curtis Harmon on drums, James Loyd on keys. For me this is Victor Wooten at his fingerstyle best. The detail in his playing is insane and so very musical.. Get past the double thumbing and he lays down the groove... His finger style solo at 5.40 is just.. !

But came out lovely, thankfully...

Huge difference when there's people in the room.

Definitely stew , I’ve never been asked to turn mine down 😁

I got mine for my 14th birthday from Chappells of bond street in Milton Keynes. I couldn't play and never played before. I saw the Encore E83b ltd edition amoungst all the other basses and just loved the look of it and asked the salesman to play it for me. A few minutes of Mark King style slap later I asked my mum and dad for it. Plus a small Marshall amp. Joined my first band at 17 (when I had hair) and proceeded to put a Jamiroquai picture and paw prints on (the band was called The Fat Cat Experience and I was very into Zender back then). I gave it to my niece in my 20s when I got my TRB6. Many years later near the start of the Pandemic I asked and it turns out they still had it in storage so gave it back. 20ish years later. Still one of the nicest P style necks I've played and now I can teach my children on it. Now just debate to leave all original or upgrade electronics?

Body taken to 600 grit, cavity painted with conductive shielding paint, first layer of tru oil applied. Have read many different accounts on how many coats of tru oil people use. I'll try and be patient and see how far I get. Latest plans looking like chrome hardware, hopefully a roasted maple neck and then pickguard dilemma's!!!

Well there's your problem right there son! If you had read the fine manual you would know that is how not to set the EQ. Push that red slider down to the bottom and leave it there. The 40 can go down to -6dB for good measure. Your 15 doesn't do much with 40hz except flap about. Now obviously you like a big old scoop in your mids but indulge me and move the rest of the sliders up so between 60hz and 5kHz they average 0dB. You can safely leave the last two on the floor. You could have 60hz on +3dB but I wouldn't go any more.

4 coats…

I'd like some deodorant, please. Yes sir, Ball or aerosol ? Oh, isn't there one that can do both ?

I've recently came into possession one of the oldest and rarest bass I've ever played. Yamaha SB-75. This was a precursor to the Super Bass Range and was made between 1973-75 Back in the 1970s this was the most expensive bass Yamaha made, and cost 75,000 Yen, which at the time was around $700. The styling, build quality and materials are incredible, and it sounds like a dark blend of a jazz and p bass, very good for harmonics, deep lows, mids and very clear treble tones. Any love for this old Japanese girl?

From Musicfestnews.com on Facebook

It does look lovely when on the bass, I just hope to god it works out ok!

So I've done quite a bit since my last update so I'll hopefully remember it all! First up cavities have been painted with shielding paint, I love the look but it was a bit of a hassle to get nice and the bloody graphite gets everywhere, so next time maybe just copper shielding tape. The exciting news is I've lacquered the bass, I've been wanting to do this for ages, the weather has been absolutely perfect for it so perfect chance to get this done. The white spots all over the shielding paint is resin polish, it'll wipe off later. Love the look of the bass with this lacquer, grain has come alive. This bit could have gone either way, instead of a transfer or sticker I decided to spray paint my surname on the bass... could have been awful...

@marleaux62 get that pickguard off!! Here's my Bravewood

Transcriptions of a couple of the tunes mentioned above. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/refuge-of-the-road-joni-mitchell/ https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/a-remark-you-made-weather-report/

I'd second the recommendation for a BDI21. It really punches above its weight. I don't really use mine anymore but it is handy to keep around for emergencies to use as a DI box.

Nerd away to your heart's content. Thank you for your wholly correct answer to my somewhat rhetorical question. The answer, of course, is that Birmingham is definitely the home of metal and the reason for that is because it's the city I was born and raised in, and I'm so metal I am on the periodic table 😉

I think I need to realise that a Jazz isn't a P Bass, so stop trying to use it as one and don't be disappointed when it doesn't sound like one too. I've restrung it with DR Sunbeams and the round wounds make all the difference for me and it fills that gap sonically that I didn't have with my other basses. So I now have a P Bass with flats, a P Bass with rounds, a Fretless and a Jazz. I think that should do me for a while at least.

My turmeric "tea" is turmeric, black pepper and some chipotle chilli flakes. Three mugs a day. Last month I stopped taking it for 3 days and my neck and shoulder arthritis pain started to come back. I also have twinges in my thumb, which the turmeric seems to be keeping at bay.

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So back in March I joined an established function/club band as their new singer. Band has been going 30 years, original singer has decided to retire. 60 to 80 songs to learn, weekly rehearsals. Having learned most of it, keyboard player retires. Get my mate in, learn it all again. Last rehearsal last night No guitar player. Someone he works with has tested positive for covid. Self isolation for 10 days, which means he can't do the gig. It's not been easy this one. I have a week to learn the guitar solos. (I already play rhythm guitar on most of it) wish me luck😂

I saw Bauhaus for the first time in 1980 (around the time when Terror Couple Kill Colonel came out) when they played the Ad-Lib Club in Nottingham (later to be The Garage). A properly mad gig. The "stage" was only about 1 foot higher than the rest of the venue and to get to it from the "dressing room" the band had to get through the audience first. Peter Murphy spent most of the performance inflicting violence upon anyone in the front row of the audience. They opened with a fantastic version of Bela Lugosi's Dead (the only time I saw them perform it live) and closed with Dark Entries, then band literally leaping into the audience at the end and were gone before anyone realised it was over. No encore. I saw them on every other occasion that they played in Nottingham or Derby over the next 3 years, but none of the other gigs matched that level of intensity.

Lynx Africa, the scent of virginity

I'll be using the JMJ going forward. Sound wise, yes very similar, as someone else has said, the shorter string length makes it a bit more fundamental. Less harmonic overtones. I likey a lot

You know how some forums keep religiously to the topic in hand? Basschat isn't one of them....

Trust me you don't want to be here!

I rang the shop back this morning and basically told them I wanted a refund. I explained my disappointment with the sequence of events and the salesman had the temerity to suggest that I had only paid a deposit for the piano - a 90% deposit... He got a bit stroppy when I said I just wanted to draw a line under things and re-took my payment details in that clipped, disgusted way that only employees of the most prestigious establishments can muster. It was all a bit Mitchell and Webb. Anyway, Forsyth's of Manchester, I realize that my custom might pale next to that of some of your clientele but I've still got a lot of strings, instruments and amps to buy over the next 30 or so years- and they'll be being bought elsewhere.

I kept expecting He-man to pop up in the video.

Very very favourably! I haven’t had them side-by-side yet, tomorrow evening….maybe I’ll do a little video, and they do have very different strings fitted (flats on Moollon, tapes on the MVP4). Build wise there’s not really much between them at all, the MV has the roasted maple vs the vintage tint maple of the Moollon, so depends what aesthetic you prefer, and the Moollon is a very thin Nitro finish compared to the poly finish of the MV, but other than those differences, the fundamental quality is essentially the same I’d say. Si

The tone control on the JMJ is marvellous, plenty of variation all through its travel, very like my old ‘63 P.

This is pretty much exactly how I set up to get the best tone from them. 👍

@dodge_bass - anything you can help with?

The RSPCA will have you for that !..

This just arrived after a six month wait and after a little adjustment seems rather nice. Anderton’s website indicates they got 2 in, so if yer quick 😉

Turmeric 'latte', especially if made with coconut milk, with a bit of black pepper, yum...

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Need to high pass those bad boys at about 150Hz...

That EQ curve, along with the pre shape being set “on”, is emphasising the low end an awful lot. Increasing the gain will be causing your speakers grief and I expect, as @Downunderwonder said, it’s probably the 15” which is struggling.

Definitely not, custom colous always look better with mint/white guards to me. Tort for Olympic White and Sunburst only please! 😊 Si

Yes and all the better for it I say 👍

Probably why Basschat is the only forum on any subject I still visit regularly.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jon-vinton Late last year my amazing Mum was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of the coronavirus pandemic she had to face much of the treatment alone especially when undergoing chemotherapy as the risk of any kind of infection was a serious issue. She has been incredibly brave. After 9 months of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy we are all hoping she is going to make a full recovery, thanks to our amazing National Health Service and its wonderful staff who even during the pandemic gave Mum the best treatment possible, something I will never be able to thank them enough for. Much to my loving Wife’s disgust I am planning to have a pink Mohican for a few months, as a 56 year old bloke I think you can all agree it will look stunning to say the least. At least my Grandaughters will like it 🤣🤣🤣 Those of you who know me know my useless body doesn’t allow me to do anything even remotely physical, I barely leave the house if I am honest, so this is the best idea I could come up with I am trying to raise money for cancer research so that hopefully one day all of us will be safe from cancer, a disease that is becoming more survivable by the year in no small part due to the work carried out due to donations to Cancer Research UK Any donations are appreciated big or small. I will be growing the Mohican for a while as I have pretty short hair and I’m hoping to dye it around the 15th of November Thanks Noj

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Like many of my age (I'm 58) I started playing bass at about the time Jaco was becoming very high profile. I remember reading his interview in International Musician (I think) where he claimed he 'invented the f**king fretless bass' or words to that effect. I bought his three solo albums and a good few Weather Report ones too. I ended up with a fretless Aria SB900 as my main bass for about 15 years. Slowly but surely though, I came to realise there was an awful lot of the music that I just didn't really - how can one put this? - like very much. I admired his playing but it never really made my heart sing. And then I heard his playing with Joni Mitchell - specifically Shadows and Light. And that's the Jaco I love, and still love. There's nothing I can say about him that's going to be original or relevant or more insightful than anything that's already been said and written about him by many much more qualified then I. But to the naysayers I would simply point you in the direction of 'Refuge of the Roads' on Joni's Hejira album. I've never heard anyone play like that before or since. Stunningly melodic, beautiful and touching. The feel, the note choice; in fact, the absolute rightness of every musical choice he makes on that track still leave me gob-smacked. 'Slang' - so what? 'Refuge of the Roads' (and there's others of course) - unsurpassable. And yes, he was funky as f**k too.