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    There's definitely a Fender characteristic sound and feel. I've had four USA Fenders over the last few years, only one of which I still own as I sold the others to finance another bass. Enter a Lull PJ4. Very fine bass indeed, but sounds very different from the Fenders, despite being essentially the same construction, the same sort of pickups in same location, passive electronics etc. On the other hand, i've borrowed my mate's mid 2000s MIJ precision to set up properly, and it sounds much like my other Fender P, far more so than the Lull. Weird.
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    [quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1475189181' post='3143969'] You should buy my book "101 Creative ways to accidentally injure punters with a speaker cabinet" [/quote] I tend to say "excuse me" the first once or twice, and then just carry on bumping into them after that until the penny finally (usually) drops.
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    That's pretty weird even by Leicester standards! I think I know broadly where this incident was, and there are a fair few odd bods in that part of town, tho not usually on a Wednesday night! Glad it ended peacefully.
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    Jim Gregory and Harvey Vinson books! Wow I haven't thought about them in years! Yep as everyone else has said really. Listening to stuff you like, and learning it by playing along. Back in those days I had a record player with a pitch control, so you could adjust it to the bass if the recording speed wasn't quite A440, as well as picking up the needle and going back over the same bit over and over again. Worked tho. Just listening and playing as much as you can is the key to it - eventually you can hear thru stuff and work out what's going on quite easily. Books and stuff will teach you the rudiments but the rest is just from doing it lots. Good fun tho!
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    Now just [b]£325[/b] collected or[b] £345[/b] delivered in the UK Hello, I'm selling my PRS SE Bernie Marsden Signature guitar. It's from 2015, made in Korea like all the SE line, and is based on Bernie's 1959 Les Paul, tho with a few differences (a wrapover bridge, three controls instead of four) presumably linked to copyright! Construction wise it's like a Les Paul, with mahogany body, maple cap and a set mahogany neck, with two humbuckers, vintage style tuners etc. It weighs 3.6kg, and balances really well on a strap. It's in fantastic condition, as I haven't done much guitar playing since buying it in late 2015, so it's surplus to my needs. It's been beautifully set up, and comes with the PRS padded gig bag, tools etc as supplied. I'm asking[s] £375[/s][b] £325 collected or [/b][b]£345 inc postage in the UK[/b] (These were £595 new but are now being replaced with a USA version costing a heck of a lot more!) It's genuinely a really good guitar, in great condition, and with a genuine reason to sell it. I'm not really looking for trades as I have plenty of instruments and could use the money. Some helpful reviews and links added below: [url="http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/prs-se-bernie-marsden-534659"]http://www.musicrada...-marsden-534659[/url] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c97SP3pYK8w"]https://www.youtube....h?v=c97SP3pYK8w[/url] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Vig46sOLI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=V0Vig46sOLI[/url] NOW SOLD THANKS
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    He was a bit of a legend, and on Cliff Em All comes across as a right good lad too. RIP fella
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    It was 1985 and I was just getting into rock music, via stuff like The Scorpions, Iron Maiden and Kiss. I didn't get a bass till i was 12 but did pay violin (pretty basically, and pretty badly) so i started holding that like a guitar and plucking it. Luckily playing bass took over the following year.
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    My Mike Lull PJ4 from Bass Direct, which was £2,250 last month. Pricewise it was by a country mile the most i've ever spent on anything other than my car and my house. I had no intention of spending so much, but it ticked all the boxes i needed from a bass.
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    I bashed my shoulder in quite badly earlier this year, and tho it's slowly getting better, the osteopath i've been seeing reckons there's also cumulative problems from 30 years of having heavy basses resting on it. So I few buys and sells later, I find myself with a Lull PJ4 (3.6kg and nicely balanced) an Epi Jack Casady (also 3.6kg, but with a tendency to neck dive) and my long-serving old precision bass, (3.8kg). The the shoulder will get better, i don't want to go back to the old days of heavy basses. I remember i had a Tokai Thunderbird briefly which looked incredible, but i honestly couldn't play it for an entire gig.
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    I've pushed a drunken clown offstage before now cos he wasn't taking the hint and I was getting fed up of him. It wasn't a high stage - perhaps one foot high - so he didn't get hurt. He clattered back onto the dance floor, looked round in a mixture of surprise/annoyance so i gave him a wink and a thumbs up, which confused him even more, and then he carried on dancing, presumably pleased that he'd got his 10 seconds of attention. Div.
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    [quote name='basskit_case' timestamp='1463636758' post='3052923'] Sounds like a useful home practice solution, did you take it to the bash? Are you experiencing the background noise that others have spoken of? [/quote] Hi basskit case - sorry man I only just spotted this reply on the thread. I did take it along to the bash. I've not had any problems with background noise at all - what's the issue people have raised? On guitar I tend not to use mega gain - more just classic rock levels, so haven't had any problem with noise from uber distortion (if that's what people have found). Picking up this thread four months later, I can safely say I've been using it happily since spring and all good.
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    [quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1474714870' post='3140016'] Folks, thanks for all the sound advice, and just to reiterate, I definitely won't be getting it refinished, and as for buying another bass? I already have seven others (all precisions), and they are all really nice instruments, so I have plenty of choice. My goto bass is my new [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Maruszczyk Jake which I had made to my own specs, it's medium scale, jazz nut width, and very lightweight, which I need due to severe back and neck problems.[/font][/color] [/quote] Good lad for keeping it as it is. It looks like a great bass. I've turned to using a Lull PJ4 as some shoulder problems mean playing anything heavier a PITA at present. But my 70 P is staying exactly where it is, cos when I need it, I'm very glad I've got such a cool old instrument. Enjoy it bud, and good luck with the back problems too.
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    Yep - i'd agree with (almost) everyone on here. The more original the better. My 70 P has had a refret and new nut because it had become unplayable, so to continue using it I had to take that decision. But the finish isn't affecting the playability, so i'd leave it alone, or as others have said, sell it for something newer looking if that's what you'd prefer. Lovely looking bass by the way - mine's got a slim B neck, so I bet an A neck is interesting!
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    Man that's pretty bad. Poor chap. Hope he's on the mend soon, but yeah it sounds from that like he mightn't be playing with them again. Get well soon fella.
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    PM'd
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    The neck is lovely - its got a beautiful smooth satin finish that's almost too smooth to feel, if you know what I mean! The fretboard is pretty flat - might be 12" radius or thereabouts - and the frets feel slightly smaller than medium jumbos, but larger than vintage frets. The rosewood board is a slab rather than a veneer, with an overhanging fretboard to accommodate the last few frets. Its a very very comfortable neck in hand - i did two gigs with the Lull on the weekend, and I didn't have to fight for any notes or fluff them with my left hand - everything felt very easy to play on it. In fairness the really good balance of the whole instrument contributed too, as I'm not having to hold up the neck while playing it. Really good bass. I was going to put my old precision bass tort scratch plate on it (the holes line up perfectly, apart from needing a longer truss rod access rout) to make it look a bit more vintage, but i'm really warming to its original looks now. Looks quite 50s onstage under lights etc.
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    Nice one Happy Jack. I'm loving La Bellas on my other P bass, so i reckon i might go down that route. The TIs on my Jack Casady are good tho, but a bit lightweight than i'd choose. Both good flats tho!
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    I've got a GruvGear duo and it does distribute the weight very evenly over both shoulders. It does hold the bass fairly high, but I guess that's part of the 'correct' posture that I've been resolutely ignoring for the last few decades! But yeah it certainly does the job. It seems to also counter neck dive a bit as well - I wonder if the extra surface contact of having straps over both shoulders does something to stop it slipping in that sense. They are quite expensive (I got mine secondhand on here) but they do seem well made, and as far as I can tell it's possible to unscrew the second part of the strap and use it as a single, thick padded strap if you so wished. I haven't gigged with it yet as I've been using a very lightweight and balanced Lull with a comfort strap lately, which seems to hold things comfortably already, but with my old precision it should work a treat. If you're near Leicester you're more than welcome to pop in and try it.
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    Does anyone on here use a GruvGear Neo Duo Strap? Im thinking of buying the optional tension strap which stretches across the back of the guitar between the two strap pins, but I can't figure out whether you need to have strap locks or whether it fits over normal Fender-esque strap pins. Anyone tried it? Cheers Chris
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    Got round to finally gigging the Lull this weekend, in two very different gigs. First was a loud, sweaty pub rock covers gig, the second a gentler, stripped back alt trio in a Victorian former church hall cum music venue. Both using a Littlemark head into a Schroeder 1210. Pleasantly surprised by how lively and touch sensitive it was - no fighting for notes, and very even response across the whole neck. Tone control actually very usable too; set to half for a good standard fingerstyle sound, turned up full gave a really sparkling aggressive tone and the clearest slap sound I've ever had. The lows are tight and punchy rather than the really huge thud I'm used to from precisions, but with a bit of EQing and the LM3's VLE and VPF dials on about 9 o clock smoothed it and filled things out beautifully. I must say it such a pleasure to play a gig with a bass weighing so little. I was sweating from the effort, rather than from the ordeal of singing and playing for two hours with a dead heavy bass round my neck. It's got rounds at the moment which it had when I bought it, but I may well venture towards flats as both my other basses already have on, and I really love that sound and feel.
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    Yeah I had a 1996 USA P until recently. Only sold it cos it was getting a bit too heavy for me and I needed the money to put towards another bass. Great bass tho - probably best all rounder I've ever had. Had a big chunky neck - in terms of depth rather than width tho, and a thick paint job that would probably deflect bullets. Strangely in the ten years I owned it I don't think I ever sat down and noodled on it at home. Just wasn't that sort of bass, as it was big, chunky and heavy. But plugged in and cranked up live it was a joy to behold! I've got a USA strat of the same sort of age (well 2001 in fact) and same story - quite heavy, but really loud, resonant, chunky neck, sounds incredible. Interestingly both those Fenders, plus a 1999 Jazz I briefly owned, all had a million hairline lacquer cracks along the back of the neck finish. In the case of my strat, some of the lacquer has even flaked off. Dodgy batch I think in the 90s at some point! Great guitars tho.
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    Just played at a cool little event called The Rafters are Ringing, in a place called Fearon Hall in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Beautiful old Victorian building which the organisers of this three/four times yearly event are trying to bring back into use as an arts/music venue. Three bands on the bill, covering some quite experimental stuff, and good turnout, and home made cookies and cakes! Result. Hope the organisers succeed in making it a regular established event.
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    I think the neck thickness has an impact on the tone - basses i've had with big thick necks sound really loud, bassy and fuller than the ones with slimmer necks. Not better or worse, just different. I know comparing a handful of basses without looking at all the other variables such as pickups etc is hardly conclusive of a wider trend, but it makes sense that more wood would affect the sound tho, yeah?
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    beautiful! do you know the weight please?
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    Just sold a bass bridge to Tom - all good, no fuss, paid straightaway. As good as you could hope for really!
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