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    Similarly, I see no grand reason to move from the 1/2 size I'm learning on. The actual difference is negligible. In fact, the only downside so far is the lesser availability of strings...
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    It's also important to remember that a Precision has a humbucking pickup. I've found that quite often, either the pickup output wiring is wrong, on one pickup segment is back to front. Correcting that alone can sonetimes eliminate all noise, even with no cavity shielding.
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    Welcome, Cordelia!
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    We're more excited than you are!
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    In very good condition. Has a few small marks around the upper headstock edge, consistent with a couple of hundred well-looked-after gigs. Fret wear minimal, only used with flats. Precision logo is on top of the clear coat, so easy to polish out if required. Tuners are Wilkinson HWJB200, very good hardware they are too. String tree is Fender. Profile is 70s, so not too slim front-to-back, but not massively chunky either. This will be available as soon as its replacement arrives from the USA and I've crow-barred it out of HMRC's grasping mitts. Black Precision body not included! [attachment=178875:DSC00055.JPG] [attachment=178876:DSC00056.JPG] [attachment=178877:DSC00057.JPG]
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    Listen to it while ironing. ..
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    Exactly. So hard to find people who want to gig more than once a week. Ive advertised, and get people answering the ad still saying they don't want to gig more than once or twice a week (or sometimes a month!). To which the answer was, "why are you talking to me, then?" D'oh...
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    Bad year. The Rock n Roll Outlaws are finishing on 20th December. When that was announced early in 2014, the bandleader also stopped accepting gigs, so my band income (which is a fair slice of my total income normally) took an immediate nosedive from which it has yet to recover. However, we were booked up well in advance to some extent, so it worked out that we lost around 30% of gigs compared to normal, ie 42 gigs instead or around 65. Three of those gigs were with other bands. So, I really need to find other musicians around here that want to play for more than the thrill of just being a weekend warrior!
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    And however good they are individually, it's no guarantee that such an ensemble will be musical. I found it decidedly unmusical. But then I don't rate any bass instrument as solo-worthy, so I was never going to like 4 entwined solos, which is more or less what this is. Horses for courses...
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    My oft - repeated mantra: always take two basses to a gig. Ok, one breaks. You STILL need to take two basses to a gig. So you MUST own three. My story, and I'm sticking to it...
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    Workin' on it...
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    I want me one o' they pork pies...
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    Contact established with Jim! Many thanks, everyone.
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    Cousin Jake doesn't look like he's suffered from an "incorrect" left hand technique! Nice slappin'! Nice Kay, too!
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    Jim getting the vote at the moment!
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    It's a MIJ BB. Unlikely it will be other than pretty good, and BBs are great PJ basses. Frankly, I'd be all over it so long as they're not wanting silly money. If they ask for offers, then start wherever you like, but a ton wouldn't be amiss.
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    Bump/offers?
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    Welcome, Kate!
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    Welcome, Andre!
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    As has been said, if you're playing a paid gig, it's entirely right to be properly prepared. Always carry a spare, and have needed it, twice. Actual bass failure - never broken a string.
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    The Rock n Roll Outlaws played their final pub gig tonight at the Courthouse Bar in Lifton, Devon. Ticketed, so reasonable pay, plus we were given a whip-round! Very enjoyable, and a bit sad too. Final gig at the Wharf in Tavistock in two weeks!
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    Bump...
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    Thanks, will be going to one of these guys as soon as I've got the setup done. Much appreciated!
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    [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1417340556' post='2619200'] The classic poor B manifests itself as a poor flubby D note on the B string ...and poor sustain.... more double bass than electric bass. [/quote] Well, my £246 Squier P5 with standard gauge Chromes has a great B by that definition!
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    I am doing a NYE gig with a pop/party band this year, and the fiver is the bass for it. Hard work, learning a (sort of) new instrument, and learning to play Le Freak on it!
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