badboy1984

My part build P/J bass. Why? because it feel and sound better when playing live ....... is a bass i'm comfortable playing live.

As far as I know (I maybe wrong) is same as the Little Mark 250 but not build in Italy thats all ........

Does the sound just cut out on the speaker but still provide signal to the mixing desk?

They look good on photo shoot but i take them all off for playing purpose.

I'm thinking about buying one purely for tuner, decent compression, amp modelling and the DI for live use.

Make the PM style bass as a project. It is pretty fun to pick the parts you want to assemble, and once is done you will be impress.

My reason to buy back another MM bass is because the MM sound, even a MM bass on passive it still sound like a MM.

[quote name='bh2' timestamp='1387442982' post='2311906'] A lot of Stingray players can't get on with them because they don't know how to eq... [/quote] Shouldn't need too much EQ to behonest. I pretty much use my Bongo flat out and adjust abit of bass and mid when needed. Thats another reason i sold my J-Retro and convert my jazz bass back to passive. I only really do two things now on my passive bass, full volume and full tone .......

Is ampeg cab any good to pair with the LB30? I'm struggling to find the Ashdown VS cabs. It seems the VS cabs is discontinue ........

Remember, adding a MM pickup near the bridge position on a P or J won't make the bass sound like Musicman ....... it sound different in a good way but it doesn't sound like a musicman in my ear. Only way to get musicman sound is from a musicman bass ....... thats why i end up getting another musicman bass when i sold my 3EQ Stingray.

I personally just quit the band and join/form a different band where everyone is very professional and willing to take advice. No communication in the band itself is the worse thing ever and the audience can probably see the unprofessional sign onstage as well ......

Guitarist is always the hard one to deal with. I've play with many guitarist before and even some of my good mates and they all the same when the guitar is strapped and plug into a valve amp. They are bloody loud that my 500w + amp can't even coped in a small rehearsal room. Apart from the volume thing most guitarist have, they also like to boost tons of bass on their EQ which also drowns my bass tone as well, which forces me to have crappy, clanky and distorted tone in order to hear myself.

Keep the Ray and make your P/M bass as a project. I had a cheap MIM std fender P bass, i swapped out the stock P pickup for the Seymour Duncan's Quater Pounder, then swapped out the neck with a glossy slim maple jazz neck and then routed the the body to install a Seymour Duncan's JP3. Now the bass is a beast and play better then all of my bass.

Don't do it man, you will regret. I did when i sold my stingray for a ACG 5 string. Not that the ACG is bad but i prefer the stingray ray after all. I now have a bongo and thats similar but different, can still get my MM sound. My ultimate bass right now is a PJ, J bass and musicman bongo. It covers 99% of the tone i need.

Electronic do make a huge difference in terms of output. I recently had a J-Retro taken out on my fender jazz and fitted a passive control unit V/B/T setup. I have no output lose when go back to full passive system. The J-Retro do sound different compare to a traditional passive setup but i don't miss the J-Retro at all ..... my bass sound more natural now to my ears and i prefer that.

[quote name='Dennis1971' timestamp='1387198145' post='2309186'] Thanks all, waiting to meet up with the seller of a Fender Precision Highway one on this forum (£375). [/quote] Good call, the highway is a good bass. Made in USA too plus you can't go wrong with a precision.

Thats an option, the Super 12 is even lighter then the BC212 but 1-2kg. I heard many great things about the BF cabs with the LB30.

I still in search for a better cab to go with my LB30 instead of the TC BC212 i'm using atm.

Problem solve, it was the amp and the headphone that causes the problem. Is more like the amp actually. It plays perfectly and sounded perfect when I try I it on my main rig through the speakers. It only sound weird through the headphone on the little BA108. The buzz also cause by the BA108 as well ........

Venue i play usually require DI bass and mic the guitar amps. As long as the amp and the cab i'm using (TC BC 212) can pure out the volume i need for monitoring purpose then I'm all good to gig. I don't know how to explain this properly but the DI on the amp is after the output section, so DI from the amp will sound different then DI from my MXR M80 box. I take that as a plus for my preference.

I use to have the BH500, i think i will buy again if a good used one pops up. Reason i got rid of it is to fund for the LB30 all valve amp.

[quote name='Stroopy121' timestamp='1386847603' post='2305234'] Out of curiosity, was the cab 4 or 8 ohms? xx [/quote] For the LB30 this shouldn't be a problem running a 4ohm cab or a 8ohm cab? The amp will pure out the same amount of power whether you use 4ohm or 8ohm cab ......

I will take a look on the string and pickup height. I know is not the bridge and the intonation and I haven't checked the nut to behonest. Is not obvious when unplug but when plug in ......... but it does sound a bit different when i plug the E string unplug. The hum thing i'm not too sure is it because the treble is abit too much or what but is not something I'm too bother about. I really love this jazz bass but when my part build P/J bass play much more nicer then my Fender ...... I'm not sure does pickup change will make a different or not. I'm still not too keen on these dmarzio dp123 set.

I've got my jazz bass for ages now and I only just start to realise this problem. The E string sounds abit weird compare to my other bass. Don't know how to describe it but It sounds abit like a wah filter kinda effect when I turn the tone knob full on and hit the open string or fretted note. It does this on the A string as well. The bass is passive with volume, blend and tone knob, but it does the same when I had the J-Retro installed on the bass. The bass does hum when I convert it back to passive but I'm not too bother about the hum. The pickup on the bass is Dmarzio DP123 set. The bass had been setup perfectly and correct intonation as well.

I prefer Marshall