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So after several years i've looking and just missing out, this is exactly what has happened. I was browsing eBay new listings Friday PM, scroll scroll boring boring.... scroll..... OMG 🥴 Contacted the seller and we made a good deal, i'm very happy with the price. The irony is that not a a couple of hours earlier i'd broke my challenge accidentally winning a local Vintage VJ74 on eBay, which I had no intention of winning but put in such a low price I wasn't worried, yet it's here now. It's actually pretty decent, not sure what i'm going to do with it yet, though. The Myung is expected Tue/Wed.

Like most here I've had many Fenders and Fender like basses but failed to some degree to get on with them. I like a wide nut so Jazz necks fail to inspire me but I do like a J pickup sound especially when an active pre is involved. P basses are my favourite, simple, passive and with a good size nut. Unfortunately again I've never quite found the 'perfect' bass. I usually get bored and sell them on. Over the past 3 years I have been using a pimped Jack Casady with Mama pickup and simplified wiring, just a tone and volume. Strung with Rotosound Flats. This has been my only bass for playing chilled laid back cover stuff. Over the past 3 months I've been on the look out for a second bass looking at P, J and everything in-between. Last week I took the plunge on an Ashdown Arc thinking if I don't like it I can send it back. Well... I was not expecting the bass that came. Build quality is up there with the best. Ive searched all over the bass for imperfections or quality control issues. There are none. It's light weight body is perfectly shaped with a neck that plays wonderful for me. It's the perfect dimension for my playing style. Pickups sound as there should... Like a P bass and I have no inclination to swap them out. Tone and volume controls have some resistance and provide a positive response when turned. I hate loose knobs. I've put on Rotosound 45s which really suit this bass. Action is 1.5mm at the 17th fret. Nice and low for my soft playing style. As you can tell I'm impressed...👍

And wired… just waiting in a 2 way cable and it’s done. I’d like to give a special thanks to @pedand @lee650 for helping me spend my money. 😂

I prefer a lighter pickguard on a darker bass as well, the Ultra I have comes with a vintage white (or some other stupid name for light cream) and it works well I think.

Honestly the best Mustang I've ever played.

This is only going to cost me £149 because I was looking to spend £250 on a used JHS Color Box v1 - WIN!

Well I'm going to add another bass to my very short never sell list (along with my old P Bass). It's my 4003S, which I've not had too long but the circumstances in which I purchased it are very special to me and having spent the weekend playing it learning some new songs it's sublime. I changed the original white plastic for black and I've strung it with TI Roundwounds, so it's not quite stock. It plays beautifully and has that gorgeous "fizzy" Ric sound. I've got nine basses in total and this is one of only two I'll never part with, alongside my Martin D-18

It almost felt like things were back to normal last night with a fully packed WMC less than 10 minutes from home (much better than the trip across the Pennines in less than ideal conditions last weekend). The last time we played this venue was during restrictions, limited numbers, no dancing, table service etc so it was awesome to have people dancing from the first choon and lots of noise. The new songs were well received too so a cracking night all round.

They are absolutely fab and I've played...four JMJs so far and this one is the best, probably. Ordered it as a B-stock from Thomann and haven't been let down by it. Funny story: I asked Thomann about what B-stock meant in this case; is it technically ok, no wood damage or anything. So Thomann said: "it might have a scratch here and there". Well, it's supposed to have that, so...

I'm planning on entering but probably with a guitar. Looking at design options this morning.

Well...since I posted this over at that other bass forum, I figured might as well do the same here.... https://soundcloud.com/jimfist/sets/zoom-b6-demo?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

If you do leave, make sure that before you leave you get back any equipment of yours that the band use, or that you may have lent to other band members. I speak from experience...

Hi Guys!! So sorry to take... like 2 years to reply??!! What the hell happened to the world??!! Well... We kind of know... and its not looking much better after the latest little adventure in Ukraine!! Anyway!!! Thanks so much for the info my bass (which I still have!) I have finally got round to doing a little more digging on the origins of my bass... and aside from the info here, all I found was a post by TrevorR on talk bass saying: "Since Clear Air Turbulence was recorded in the summer of 1976 it’s debatable whether JG would have had his W1112 bass in time - it may have been recorded on the customised P Bass that Ian Waller built him with a pickup that Ian hand wound himself (which is also responsible for one of my all time fave bass lines - Roxy Music’s Love Is The Drug). But Scarabus and Live at the Budokhan certainly were his JGs." here: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/ive-decided-to-buy-a-wal.1463856/page-12#post-24397517 So whether this bass originally belonged to Johnny Gus I have no idea... But there won't be any other Wals with the same serial No.(unless there are!!) SO I am guessing it may be. I never got to the FB forum... But I will check it out now. BTW It came with the Brown outer / gold inner lining classic Wal case which I still have. Thanks so much for your replies - and apologies for my insanely late reply - its been a bit of a mad time for us the last 2 years - as for many I am sure. Gavin.

Fifteen feet of pure white snow. Nick Cave and the bad seeds

It begins... started thicknessing the cherry for the body. Unfortunately it's too wide to go through my planer thicknesser - scrub plane and elbow grease it is!

A lot of early 70s Precision & Jazz copies used these 8-pole Maxons - at the time they started being used (71-ish) there were no accurate P or J copy pickups being made, and they would have been hidden under chrome ashtray cover anyway. I've never seen a 70s P copy with a Tele headstock, and conversely I don't think I can remember any of the Tele bass types using the Maxon 8-pole unit, these tended to have little chrome Telecaster pickups. That said, the UK market during the 70s copy era was a bit more conservative than the States - US brands such as Univox, Sigma & Ampeg produced some fairly bizarre hybrid takes on popular designs in the early 70s. I'm inclined to think the OP's bass was something like that, but since pics seem to be a problem, I guess we may never know... I should think so too! 😎

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As you’re looking at doing bigger stages I’d look at one of the 212 models, Super Twin or if you want a tweeter Big Twin 2. If a Super12 or Super12T comes up on here I’d grab that.

It got a 44mm nut with a flat radius, I would say slightly flatter than a Fender. Depth back to front would be medium? Not a bass ball bat chunky profile or an ultra modern thin skinny thing. Just feels right to me.

I play a GK MB 800 through mine, it handles the power fine. I think that, as with any cab, if it starts farting, either turn the power down or turn the low end down.

Not only wouldn't I sell either one, but I wouldn't trade them for similar Fenders.

Love mine, in fact the Mustang brothers got an outing at a packed out to the rafters gig last night

Man, you really must love this bass. Because, why would you otherwise buy the exact same model with the exact same finish five times? 😉

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What about a power amp and cab? This is my latest arrangement although I haven’t tried it in anger yet.. If you have the tone you like from a board mounted preamp you just need to make it louder.

I think my current cheapest bass is worth about £250 vs my most expensive being around the £7,000 mark. They are all playing instruments and I don’t particularly care how much they cost if they do whatever job I want from them. If I’m playing at home then I guess I’d normally grab one of the more expensive ones simply because they tend to be nicer to play. For rehearsals I like to grab whatever takes my fancy from week to week. Whilst gigging basses tend to sit in the mid-range somewhere. Mind you, I currently have way too many basses 🤦‍♂️

So went 2400. Quality is great, needs new strings but sounds good so far.

Friday night saw the 3rd gig with the new band, and a return to the village hall we played at in December. Once again our frontman and guitarists were down on the dancefloor, while myself and Mr Drums were up on the stage (thankfully with slightly more room than last time as there's now no Christmas tree to get in the way!). After an annoyingly prolonged set-up trying to get the singer's guitars, mandolin and effects to all play nicely together, we finally got the sound we were after with five minutes to spare,and kicked off. Five songs in, and a horrible boominess erupted which I presumed it was down to me - cue much fiddling with amp and EQ settings, all to no avail. We got through to the end of the set, and then spent most of the break attempting to track down both an annoying buzz and the source of the aforementioned booming - after a degree of, erm, "percussive maintenance" on the singer's crappy old amp and equally crappy pedal board, both irritants disappeared. Mr Lead Guitar could now hear himself properly, I was back to my preferred settings, and the second set went superbly, possibly the best we've played over the course of our three gigs so far. According to various members of the audience, the sound out front was excellent despite the on-stage issues, so all's well that ends well. We'll now be spending part of our next rehearsal trying to sort out Mr Singer's gear once and for all, prior to our next gig (a charity event) in a couple of weeks' time - one suggestion involved a Viking Burial on the river behind our rehearsal shed, but I suspect that's not going to happen...

Played my first Bandeoke last night. Horrible name, but great fun. Better audience reaction than most gigs I've played, genuine sense of togetherness between the muggles and the musicians. Drummer I'd not met before was just great, guitarist has years of function stuff under his belt, which I don't. 300+ songs on the list for Joe public to choose from, no I didn't know them all but had the chords loaded onto a tablet so no problem there. Used my Behringer head and Harley Benton musicman style bass, a bunch of effects which I stomped on pretty randomly. Just great fun start to finish.

A bit of a reshuffle and a simpler layout thanks to new purchase from @Old Horse Murphy Dave Hall VT1 std Bass, I’m a sucker for tubes. Run through a Crown XLS 2502 amp. Then the Bag End 210/410 stack,it sounds juicy. GAS subsiding…

Dear Bass lovers, some pictures of the the progress on the new EVO -X5 Bass … EVO5 Bass Bridge installed 😎

Wenge makes a great neck, not necessarily in the spirit of a classic P bass though! But that's not the point and would definitely make for something interesting. I was looking at the Warmoth site and there's certainly some interesting options but... I was in a similar position recently as there was something very specific I wanted neck wise, but fortunately I have a local luthier who is very good. Advantage to that over Warmoth is you can talk over every bit of what you want. See if there's someone local-ish who can give you that personal service.

How do I get the pdf ? Couldn’t see an actual link

Fancy a unique, very gigable top spec PJ..? 😉 Yep. I've had a Hohner PJ (awful) Warwick Streamer LX (looked amazing but sounded... Is this it?) Now this one. The pickups are fantastic individually but I was just wanting something more when blending them. I think my expectations are just not realistic, rather than there being anything wrong with it. In hindsight I should have never done a self assembly because I don't have the tools, skill or patience, I should have bought a Sire P7, realised I still don't like PJs then bought a Sire V7.

Came across these guys by chance, never heard them before but I think this sounds really good , what do you think

Having made the same difficult decision myself recently I'd say the fact you're even contemplating it means it doesn't look like there's much of a future. You could have a band meeting to give it the rallying cry of getting a better idea of what you are: a guitar/ fiddle and vocals trio who sometimes add a rhythm section or a full band that sometimes does stripped down sets, or a full band take it or leave it? What are you as a band, what type of gigs do you want, what do the punters respond best to (it's not always the songs the singer insists on doing because they're his or her favourite), what do you want to be known for? I was in a band for five and half years and became great friends with my bandmates, but I'd still struggle to describe what that band was: it wasn't "rock n soul" but so hard to describe when trying to get gigs in new places. We had no drive or direction and just played the same handful of gigs year on year with anything new treated with suspicion if certain members hadn't brought it up. That was already creating a divide. Incidentally, it was them booking a gig knowing I wasn't available that sealed it for me. And now almost six months down the line they've agreed to do a gig but they still don't have a bass player. I've been asked to dep, four weeks in advance, but I have other commitments so can't do it. Seems the person behind all that just hasn't learned. Bad habits don't just disappear.