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[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1346312109' post='1787673'] I changed them after I broke a string at a gig...I looked in our calendar and that was back in April 2011! [/quote] ah, I've had older

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1332498748' post='1589076'] good times - chic, as per thread in Theory and technique! Absoloute nightmare to get right! [/quote] It seems extremely simple when you first listen to it... but it does take a while to get the timing and the various nuances just right. Great fun song to play 'though!

So, Fender USA pickups in the Vintage... a very marked difference! Before it had a nice enough sound, even if not very "Jazzy". Now it's clearly a Jazz. I was surprised it made so much difference. It sounds a bit "woody". It reminds me of a roadworn Jazz a friend of mine has. Do they have the same type of oickups? The strings are pretty old, over a year I'm told, but it still sounded pretty good tonight at rehearsal. I will play with this on the gig on Friday

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1346240260' post='1786822'] I may have said how a year or so ago I had 3 jazz basses bought and sold.... a FSR Fender 70's reissue, cost a grand secondhand, a good price; a Valenti jazz, was cheap secondhand at 700 and a cimar jazz that cost me 70. I only regret selling one of them. guess which one! [/quote] That Cimar bass of yours also looked amazing...

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1346139824' post='1785602'] haha, me too. I used to quite regularly get complements from sound guys when using that bass live---I'm led to believe thats quite rare!! [/quote] Indeed. Most times all the attention they give you is "ok, bass guitar... yep, ok, now give me the guitar on teh right" or about 20 seconds.

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1346104265' post='1785441'] Not too sure about the cream, great story though. The blacks look " right" [/quote] I like the cream ones... but at the same time I find them a bit... like "racing stripes" on a Seat Ibiza, or something like that Black & chrome is classy/classic. So I'm going with that first: those CIJ Fender pickups will be in place maybe tonight, or tomorrow night.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1346080582' post='1784980'] Glad you're a happy man, Jose. Was really cool to catch up with you and return your baby I love the look of the cream covers. Go for it! Blatant plug alert: If anyone wants to hear what the bass sounds like (albeit compressed and amp sim'd...) in its current incarnation I used it to record my band's "On The Fly" EP. You can hear it here: [url="http://www.supermarionation.co.uk/releases/on-the-fly"]http://www.supermari...ases/on-the-fly[/url] [/quote] I love this bass. It's weird. It's only a bass... I have "better" Jazz basses... but it's like meeting an old friend: it may have been a few years since you last met, but after 10 minutes it feels you were never apart. Really at home with it. I plan to play my Friday gig with it. I hope I see someone looking at the headstock name and turning up their noses because it's not a Fender or something. I love my reverse snobbery, me. I'll try the Fender pickups first, as I really am not a huge fan of the original Wilkinsons.

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1346067240' post='1784704'] Cant you swap the cream covers over for black ones? The J retro may be a bit of a 'waste' in such a thing! Although the black cover does go well with the scratch plate. But then you would have to swap the bridge and machine heads for black to just to complete the look Oh and one thing Ive noticed............ Its got a rosewood finger board!!!! Im suprised you let it through the door A [/quote] No, the J-Retro will go on my CIJ Jazz. It was just for "ilustration purposes here". I can't decide whether I hate or love teh cream covers. I can't remove them. I could get another set if I really really wanted to, in black. But I'm thinking of trying the Fender pickups first anyway. Yes, rosewood, who would have thought that! but it's a rather pale example, 'though

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1346061338' post='1784561'] Nice story! If I ever see my first bass again, I,ll pour petrol over it and light a match!! [/quote] Make sure it's filmed!!!

I could put my J-Retro preamp, which I moved to a black plate, into this... although I decided to use it on my CIJ Jazz instead. But then it'd look like: or

You are absolutely right, apa... Here is the beast: One thing this bass has is... not very exciting pickups. I was not terribly fond of them when I let it go... and now that I know a bit better, I like them even less. I have two pickup sets already that I can use: 1) the original pickups from my CIJ Fender Jazz (apparently USA pickups, as the previous owner verified, and should be rather decent). These will preserve the looks, as they have black covers. 2) I also have a set of new cream-covers DiMarzio Model J, which are less traditional but quite good pickups too, and humbucking. With those, the bass will look a bit like this:

In 2005 I ended up with a bass in my hands, by accident, onstage at a hotel where we were having one of these "work bonding exercises". I decided that bass was actually rather cool. A month or so later I went and bought myself a Jazz bass by Vintage. I really liked that bass. I had owned two other basses before, as I liked recording stuff at home with my guitars and a drum machine. The first one was a P-bass type, Lyon by Washburn. I also had a Squier P-bass. But I barely played with them more than a few hours just to add some "dum dum dum dum" under some rock guitar... nothing exciting, since bass did not excite me. But the Vintage brand Jazz changed that, together with the experience of playing a bass with a band and have people dancing to the music. For I had not gigged before either (just a couple of small things on guitar). I loved the sound of teh Jazz, how it felt... now this was a bass I really enjoyed playing. That Jazz bass was... "the bass that started it all". In 2006 my interest went down... until May 2007, when I decided I should really just join a band, since it seemed the best way to enjoy bass... either that, or to sell the bass and forget about it, stick to guitar. In June 2007 I joined my first band on bass. With the Jazz. By 2008, I had a couple of Warwicks and I was moving house, needed to reduce clutter... I sold the bass to someone locally, here in Edinburgh. By 2009 I was gigging regularly and loving it, and my guitars received less and less attention (currently I own three, while in 2007 I had probably 10-12). I missed my Jazz. Yeah, it was not the best bass in the world, but it was pretty nice for what it was. And, it was my first. It was the one that opened up a new world for me, really. I used to think all basses sounded the same (please, don't hurt me!). But with the Jazz I learnt there was a lot more to bass than I thought (or didn't think, rather). I wished I had not sold it. After all, it wasn't really worth much... but it was gone. In the second half of 2010, my band Sea Bass Kid played a gig with another two bands from Glasgow. As we were local and playing last, we agreed to provide drum kit, my bass rig etc. A band called Supermarionation was playing, and I remember showing their bassist the workings of my RH450 head "yeah, I have saved this preset for me, so change anything you want, and this is the mute..." blah blah... He seemed vaguely familiar. I assumed I had seen this band before somewhere else. I went out to get something to eat, and came back to catch the end of the first band. Supermarionation was next. They started... I thought the bass sounded very good. It's always interesting to hear your own rig being played by somebody else. I left for a while again. This was a downstairs bar, and I was trying to get the bar upstairs to play some of our recordings, hoping to entice more people to come down to the gig. I sent the prettiest girl among us but the DJ had none of it. Some half-arsed excuse as "oh, I don't have a CD drive... oh no, my USB does not work either" (Just say "no!", idiot, instead of giving lame excuses). So I come downstairs again to finish seeing this band properly. That's when I noticed the bass. A black Jazz bass. With a black pickguard. But not just any black pickguard. I had replaced the original tortoise-shell type pickguard with a brushed metal one, black, which was great for shielding incidentally. This looked just like it... and yes, that headstock... hey, this looked a LOT like my old bass. And the player... THAT'S WHY HE SEEMED FAMILIAR!!! I talked to him afterwards, and yup... it was the guy I sold the bass to. His name was Sam, only I insisted in calling him Steven for a while for some reason (sorry! ) I told him I missed the bass. He was not looking to sell it. We parted. I posted the story about my reencounter here, on BassChat... and what do you know? Ste... erm, I mean Sam was here too, under the nick 'uncle psychosis'!!! That gave me the opportunity to stalk him a bit and insist on how much I'd like that bass back, if he was ever to sell it. He firmly said he had no intention in the near future to sell it, but if he did, he'd remember me. He did. On Sunday 26th August 2012, I reunited with the Vintage EJM96BK Jazz that started it all for me. Happy days!!!

I put a set on my Stingray. I'm liking them a lot. A bit higher tension than my usual D'Addario EXL170, but they feel nice. Quite bright, higher output, and noticeably midrange rich. I think they suit the Stingray very well. So far so good!

[quote name='Green Alsatian' timestamp='1345846557' post='1782500'] Here's a good demo of one: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yy7urpG81U[/media] [/quote] very impressed! really nice sound, it definitely has the Stingray vibe, whatever pickup and preamp it has.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1345478059' post='1777934'] Opinions [i]aren't[/i] cool on most off-topic sections of basschat, it's for that reason that most of the 'bass folk' don't touch it, or are leaving alltogether (See various other threads). [/quote] of course

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1345459239' post='1777630'] You're obviously right. Actually, I've banned myself from most sections of this forum, certainly anything remotely off-topic, as opinions aren't allowed. Also, many people have opinions that they believe to be fact. Some people are over-sensitive, and get too easily offended, and many people are just dumb. The 'Site Issues' topic is now also in that category for me. Consider me out, as you say, I've already wasted far too much of my life talking about this particular tosh. [/quote] No my friend, opinions are cool. Attitude, however... Please, let me hold the door for you.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1345452621' post='1777541'] [size=3][font=Verdana][color=#000000]Well, it’s hardly a ‘new’ concept is it? The whole ‘For Sale section/Wanted section’ thingy. It doesn’t really need a ‘user guide’[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Verdana][color=#000000]If there’s something you’re looking for, have a look in the For Sale section, if you don’t see anything, post in the Wanted section. If you have something for sale, have a look in the Wanted section, if there’s nothing there, post in the For Sale section.[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Verdana][color=#000000]This is obviously up to the individual though, as they can do as they please, and there may be numerous reasons why someone doesn’t want to do that. [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Verdana][color=#000000]As for adapting programmes and software to recognise common words, and send flag messages etc, Christ, do we really need to waste time doing something I assumed, wrongly, could be done by the human brain, by the individual.[/color][/font][/size] [/quote] Now that you actually put your thoughts into words, yes, I see what you mean now. We seem to think pretty much the same, if you read the thread. We disagree about the automatic search thingy. I guess you've never used those. I use automatic alerts constantly, to let me know when there's new papers published on certain areas etc. I use them on gumtree and on eBay. It means I can use my brain for something more interesting than typing the same keywords again and again in a box. But hey, do whatever makes you happy!

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1345406751' post='1777226'] Losing the will to live reading this thread? Am I missing something here? [/quote] I don't know, you tell me!

[quote name='Jellyfish' timestamp='1345383293' post='1776885'] Metal-munching ones? Now that sounds rather scary... [/quote] genetically engineered, no less

probably mice at the warehouse...

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1345309823' post='1776183'] I wonder if it would be possible to introduce a system where users could sign up to receive email notifications when a thread with certain keywords in the title is posted in the For Sale section? If the forum software could allow for this, it would acheive more or less what the OP is talking about without anyone having to follow arbitrary rules. [/quote] That would be a great idea. When I was after my white MM SUB, I was regularly checking the ads... then I go away for two weeks and... surely enough, I missed out on one!

no worries

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1345295221' post='1775982'] never had to retro fit a JE and always been very happy with the passive tone. I use the pre and just embellish the natural sound and I am not into massive tone shaping the bass 99% of the time... I also soundcheck passive first as sometimes this works really well,,and the pre is just that extra little help onboard. If you want a pre to change the inherrent sound then you are approaching it the wrong way, IMO. [/quote] No, I don't want to change it much, I just want extra tonal options. But from my past experience with the JRetro, I remember it alters the original sound quite a lot. Since I like my original sound... that's why I'm dragging my feet a bit. I'd like a preamp that does what the J-Retro does... but with a more "transparent" "flat" sound, if you know what I mean. Still, the colour it adds is not a bad one, as I recall... Too many words, let's just try it already!

[quote name='Darkstrike' timestamp='1345289918' post='1775899'] Funnily enough I prefer my J's not to have classic J knobs. I can't imagine the J Retro not taking even the Japanese Fender over the top. I could see missing the passive tone, but the treble cuts at a low enough freq. to do as a pseudo tone control, IMO. [/quote] To be honest, talking about missing the passive tone, and classic Jazz tone... this is the ideal bass to try it on since the Nordstrand NJ4SE pickups are not exactly "traditional" sounding either, but they do sound very good, so yes, I'm leaning towards this option now. Despite the looks. I loved what the J-Retro did to my Westfield Jazz, many moons ago... hmm.

I'll do that when I install mine in the OLP