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I used to have a bass that I put a Seymour Duncan pickup in. I sold the bass but kept the Seymour Duncan. Can anyone identify the bass from a picture of the SD pickup? I don't have a picture of the pickup BTW.

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...👍

Well the champagne in the fridge at our secret mountain-top BCHQ doesn't buy itself, y'know.

Well, he does shepherd a lot of new people into the arms of BC. It's quite evident by now that @Kiwi and @ped must be paying him large sums for keeping up the good work. My guess: £30 per head. 😁

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!

Hello my name is Richard I own two Kramer bases one is a Duke travel bass the other is a 1979 450B possibly the only one ever; as I made it such years ago it plays more like a piano

Two months gone and I'm still in. I'm bracing myself for failure at a moments notice though 😂

Just found this thread after a long time off the site so I thought I'd share my pair of Ibanez basses, my long serving SR600 and my much more recent EHB1505ms. Having never played a multi-scale before I was a bit apprehensive about the EHB but I adjusted almost instantly and its slight shorter scale of 35"-33" suited me perfectly!

Someone posted this on p7 of the TB thread. Matches Brother Bubba's description perfectly, even down to the uncontoured slab body. Neck construction & trc shape tell me this is a mid/late 70s Korean cheapo. These 8-pole pickups turn up on some MIK basses, they're either licensed Maxons or copies - most likely licensed, based on the close links between the Japanese & Korean industries at the time. The main difference between these & the MIJ units is that they are very hot, typically 11-12k, as opposed to the 6 or 7 the branded Maxons read. So no, I don't think it's a wind-up, Bubba's just a bit, erm, confused and needy.

Look what Mr. Courier delivered 1 hour ago...

No, it's at my cousin's house. I'll see if I can get a photo of it,

Dear me, this bloke isn't some poor deranged soul who got swept up in the odd dodgy deal. He's patently an organised, systematic criminal... IMHO.

Musik-Produktiv have been having an Ashdown clearance for a couple of months I think. My mate got a really good deal on a Rootmaster head (sold out now) and I was looking at a 300 watt OriginAL head for under £200! Enjoy your new cab - you definitely got a bargain 😃

Thanks for the suggestions 🙂 I went with a used Barefaced Two10 in the end - should be with me Weds! Got a good deal from a gentleman on here!

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

Storky, you're an upright bass player. They need you more than you need them. Even if they don't realise it, someone else will.

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.

https://schalltechnik04.de/en/instructions/vong-filterung available in EU.

Edit: 25/09/2024 For anyone visiting this thread now, I just want to inform you that Laurence passed away on 17th December 2023. I made a post on this thread at that time which can be found here: End Edit Hello everyone, My name is Matt and my dad is Laurence Canty. I have so many beautiful memories from the little pubs of Lancaster (UK) where he played with the local trad' jazz bands. Eventually he started his own band here in Lancaster called Quay Change. They peddled "modern?" jazz to the local area - weddings, university balls, and such like etc. He is perhaps best-known for his book Electric Bass Guitar, The Complete Guide which has had various titles and versions since it's inception around 1974. There was also a significant stint as lecturer(?) of bass guitar at Goldsmiths. He took over this post from Mo Foster! He taught me how to play bass guitar from about 12 years old. I remember long lessons spent on the correct pressure to apply to the strings. Unfortunately, he has mid-to-late Dementia. He still remembers significant amounts of his life however he suffers delusions and logic completely escapes him. He is in an a sad situation but the fact he can remember his life makes it all the more important that I gather stories sooner rather than later. I am looking for anyone who may know anything about him. You may have been his private pupil. You may have found his book and found it to be advantageous? You may have played gigs with him in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s or 10s and have something you remember about him? I am ultimately looking for the bass communities' experience of my dad. I'd love to see stories, photographs, videos or simply a memory of the way he was way back when. I'll be seeing him tomorrow. We'll probably talk about coffee and music, as we always do.

I stand corrected. There was one for sale that I toyed with buying but they didn't mention the DI or photograph that side! Plenty of sounds in it. Are the knobs on pots or the electronic memory position adjusters like BDDI Deluxe?

If this bass had appeared even on day 364 of the challenge, I was going to fail. Just glad I can finally stop bloody looking.

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…

I love my EHX hot wax, it’s a combination of two others in one package. Each can be used individually or they can be combined for more fun. It gives a very flexible combination of options.

I don't know if one PJB C4 will be sufficient for your purposes, even if your bandmates are subtle players. I know because I use a couple in soul/blues/R&B bands. Tonally, I love 'em, but they are quite inefficient (around 92db) and do soak up some amplifier power (I use an AG700 with mine). They are also not that light for their size. The MB would be my choice of the ones you list and the Super Compact suggested above is a good shout.

Yep. I can’t get my ears to like that blended sound no matter how high or low I set the pups let alone the horrid bridge on it’s own. Recently loaded up with a Tonerider P bass pup, disco’d the bridge pup and wound it right down out of the way and wired her up the generic P bass way and it sounds fab. It’s probably all in the mind, who knows. Love my Jazz bass sound either configuration though. Strange but the sound sits well in my ears. A PJ just should never have been born.

Just bought this Squier last month or I'd be considering one of the new Squier Anniversary basses. Even at the current price, I'd buy one instead of a Fender MIM.

Rather that than a big hall of tippy tappy heros that you can't get away from.

Yep. Discovering hpfs and first, second, third etc order harmonics was the lightbulb moment for me. I had really struggled with amp eq in the past, and odd frequency choices (I really couldn't get on with my old markbass' 40hz bass and 360hz low mid). Realising that I didn't need to reproduce the lowest note fundamentals and that removing the lowest frequencies could improve my overall tone was game changing. I've been known to push it up as far as 80-90hz in some rooms without losing the low end "punch" to cut through the mix. It certainly makes for a nicer sounding room too! IMO, hpf should come as standard on every bass amp head.