mcnach

Indeed, my Vulcan V had a "made in Korea" sticker on the back of the headstock.

boing-de-bump

[quote name='waldemar' post='1000460' date='Oct 25 2010, 08:44 PM']Hi all.

Spotted this yesterday (pic below) and having always wanted a 'burst body (a cheap one over ply will do for now...) and at £80 I thought I'd take a punt.

Should be with me tomorrow. I've put a couple of bitsa-P's together over the past year and I'm reasonably confident that I'll be able to get something that's playable set up - even if it means swapping out the neck at some point (hmm... maybe for a jazz) and dropping in a spare set of p/ups I have lying around, so I'm not too fussed that I may have bought a lemon. What is weird, though, is I can't find any other Vulcan P's out there... Is this a homebuild d'ya think?[/quote]


I used to own a Flying V style Vulcan guitar:



It was actually very nice.
The body was plywood too. The pickups were a little microphonic, but they had a nice sound. I liked that guitar.

I was able to buy an SR400 for £150 including a hard case not a less than 2 years ago... so checking second hand could be a good thing... But if you really like that bass and don't see any s/h that you want, and have the money... why not? I would go for it.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='998175' date='Oct 23 2010, 03:44 PM']Unless you're giving it away for nought what figure are u looking at?[/quote]


Nice one! I wrote my price but as I edited the post I must have deleted it!

anyway, I was asking for £55 +£2.50 postage

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='998523' date='Oct 23 2010, 10:50 PM']A chap from Edinburgh will be along shortly to tell you how great they are and that you should buy it.


He won't be wrong. [/quote]




what he said

[quote name='daz' post='998344' date='Oct 23 2010, 06:45 PM']I can only tell you what everyone else is gonna say. You have to try them out side by side. Are you aware of any good guitar shops anywhere near your town?

Its a shame you couldn't have got down to the bass day in Manchester, you could have tried them to your hearts content. Really thats the nub of it, you need to try them out. I have both, and both are different guitars, with the Jazz physically different only with a slightly thinner neck for smaller hands. I bought a new cheap Westfield P bass and it turned out to be a pretty decent bass for the price. But after trying out a Jazz a few weeks later i realized that the thinner neck might help my smaller hands get around the fretboard. So i thought that id take a look around this time and learn what was the best for the price. After good month of asking questions on this forum I plumped for a Squier Classic Vibe Jazz, and am still happy about how good it is.

You can get a reasonable emulation of a P bass with a Jazz by using the bridge pickup and playing nearer to the bridge, but at the end of the day a realm P sounds a little, well more P bass like, beefier or punchier or something. So if you cant afford both then your gonna have to choose, which means if at all possible you need to sit down and play both side by side through the same amp. So you gonna have to find a shop to do that in. Shouldn't be too much trouble really. But if theres anyone could help you out with a go of theres that'd be a good prelude to sitting in a shop and choosing. You really need an hour or two to decide.[/quote]


I hear the "smaller hands" argument a lot, but I am not sure there is a good correlation there. I love Jazz basses, but it's mostly for the sound. I prefer bigger necks. My hands are not big my any means. And yes, I did find it a bit easier when I started out to play J-type basses, especially coming from playing guitar for years... but give me a bigger neck if possible. Same thing with string spacing, I can't stand 15-16mm spacings. 20-21mm is where it's at for me.

My ideal neck is the Stingray. It's wide, but it's shallower than a P-bass and feels great. Next one is P-bass. Then my clubby Warwick. Then thin necks like Jazz. Still, I'm happy to play any so I don't make a fuss about my Jazz.

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' post='998124' date='Oct 23 2010, 03:06 PM']Thank you

But a P still appeals to me strangely, i want both!!!! [/quote]


that's why a P/J is so cool

It will depend on what style you want to play etc...

But I'd say that I love the sound of the Rotosound Nexus, the black coated ones, on my SR400. They feel great, sound very snappy but not ultra bright. I get a great slap tone out them, but also great fingerstyle. I love those.

Before I had favoured Rotosound SM77 flatwounds on that bass. Very thumpy, yet bright enough.

Two very different tones.

I have one of these 5-string MM type pickups that I don't need...
I have removed it from a MusicMan SUB5, as I prefer the original pickup. So it's used but good condition, no problems etc etc.

[quote name='silddx' post='997420' date='Oct 22 2010, 06:49 PM']What a load of absolute crap. Especially the bit about people with injuries or back strain acquiring some relief.

It's all bullshit and he's waffling, trying desperately to justify his monstrosity. That instrument is the John Merrick of the bass world, but without dear John's personality.

The fact he thinks it's a "cool look but a functional design" demonstrates he shouldn't be allowed even to design his own f***ing breakfast. It's a disgusting piece of "design" and god help his investors, if he has any.

Poor sod.

[i]Edited for needless profanity.[/i][/quote]



But did you like the bass or not???
I'm not quite clear after reading your post.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='997370' date='Oct 22 2010, 06:14 PM']What he said ^ especially the Stingray.[/quote]

yep and YEP!!! Stingrays, yum.

b-b-bump!

Indeed!

Part of me feels it's a shame to sell it. It'd be the ideal bass to take back to Madrid with me one day so that I can have something to play with when I go visit. I'm sure my brother wouldn't mind
(he's a pro guitarist, but no basses in his arsenal!)

badabump!

[quote name='Musicman20' post='995689' date='Oct 21 2010, 10:59 AM']Just curious....they seem very rare![/quote]


someone local was selling last year a beautiful natural stingray with piezo for £500.

And I didn't even call him to try it!

(kicking myself...)

All of them will do what you want. They'll just sound different and it's up to you to judge which one you prefer, really.

Personally. I'd leave the Precision out of the list. Any of the other 3 make me happier. And again, personally, I'd choose a Stingray. Single pickup version and probably 2EQ. It just does it all and does it well and feels great... *to me*.

Basically, questions like these are a bit pointless... even 'though we all ask them at some point or another. Because the sound, feel, etc is so personal, that nobody else can really choose for us. And we don't really know the sound you're after. You only said you like to slap... and well, you can slap all four models you mention, they'll just sound different.

They're all good basses... it's time for you to go around teh shops and try several of each of those 4 models so that you can get a good idea about what they do and how they sound and feel... then report back because we're curious like that

I use D'Addario EXL170 (45, 65, 80, 100) in my OLPs and my Stingray. That's light, but sounds great to me.

£900 to buy a bass?

Fantastic situation to be in.

Go try every bass possible to narrow down the models/brands you might want... then check all the second hand stuff until you find one that "talks" to you. You should be able to get a pretty decent bass with that money, especially second hand.

Or... just skip all that and get a Stingray

I try to start with amp controls as neutral as practically possible, and bass controls similarly set.
With almost any amp, it's already very good.
Then I adjust as required.

I often add a bit more bass for some songs, and remove for others.. but this is on the John East preamp, so it may not work the same way in the original 3EQ. I may add a bit of treble too. Mids are variable... soemtimes I don't touch them at all... others I boost a fair bit... it really depends on the room and the rest of the band (3 guitarists!) how much and what freq I need to boost to help me cut through better.

My point is that I find that with the flat preamp (or bypassed entirely) it already sounds great, whilst I had to do more knob twiddling with other basses.

Ha! I know just what you're talking about...

I had a very similar experience when I got my 2EQ Stingray.
Still in the honeymoon... I think I found real love.

Crazy thread... but fun read waiting for the washing machine!

[quote name='Kev' post='986076' date='Oct 12 2010, 07:06 PM']What a pedal

Recently took delivery of one on here and i love it, synth tones are superb and synth modes 5-9 actually track better than anything iv had before, deep impact included. Awesome! Insane that boss have not resused these sounds in other pedals (GT6B synths are truly terrible)

Internal sound source synth modes are, as usual, awful and completely unusable (no idea why Boss persist with these?) I am not finding the t-wah as good as other people seem to, seem a little harsh to me...

Compressor seems pretty good, can be quite noisy but i am sure it wouldn't be a problem in a live band situation.

Can only find one overdrive setting i like, the fuzz and distortion are pretty rubbish tbf. Octaver is perfectly good, like the flanger and chorus, delay is very good imo. Reverb is quite digital but i wont be bothering with that anyway. Looking to buy an expression pedal to complete the package at some point.

However this pedal is all about the synth, really, really good

Anyone got any settings they would particularly like to share?[/quote]


synthy sound clips, please???

[quote name='Delberthot' post='988698' date='Oct 15 2010, 12:39 AM']I'll always argue that if the action can be properly adjusted then any bass can be used to learn and gig with.

I've gigged with one of these £40 basses before, albeit not in pink:

[url="http://cgi.ebay.com/PINK-Metallic-Electric-BASS-JAZZ-style-gigbag-Strap-NEW-/270646834263?pt=Guitar&hash=item3f03cef457"]http://cgi.ebay.com/PINK-Metallic-Electric...=item3f03cef457[/url]

I've laid the gauntlet down many times but no one has ever tried to call my bluff


23 years playing and I'm using a bass that cost me £95 to gig with every weekend.[/quote]


I love it. But you didn't get the pink one...

I agree with what you say above. It may not be the best bass with the best sound or feel, but a cheap bass can be perfectly adequate. I bought a s/h Westfield B4000 (Jazz bass copy) in some ugly translucent green for £40 on eBay, plus £10 delivery. Just because it was so cheap that I figured it was worth a shot (Westfield does have some pretty decent stuff, in my experience).
It turned out to be a great bass. I had to adjust the action and intonation, and it would benefit from some mild fret levelling which I haven't done yet, but it only affects the very high registers and I rarely venture there. The pickups were surprisingly nice too. I've gigged this bass a couple of times and if it were my only bass I would not feel that that I was at a disadvantage.

I wish my first guitar/bass had been this good. And it mostly came down to my now knowing what to do with an instrument. When I was a newbie I'd try an instrument and find it hard to play and decide that model/brand wasn't for me, when it was simply that the particular instrument I had tried was not set up nicely. In most cases.

Having said that... I still prefer my Stingray, of course.

[quote name='Stacker' post='991408' date='Oct 17 2010, 06:28 PM']I remember seeing this bass player a band in Edinburgh when I was a teenager who had an old Rick 4001 and he'd put a Strat pup in where the foam mute used to be. He said, as I recall, that it "brought out the highs"! What utter bullshit! I think he just had it in there as a conversation piece!![/quote]


sometimes you just have to nod politely and let them be...