spacecowboy

Thanks everyone for having a listen and a vote! Bass 1 has the USA pickups and Ki0gon loom and like a few of you I might actually prefer the original Squier stuff! 😆

I do? I just want to know which bass you think has the upgrades...? So either Bass 1 is it, or Bass 2 is it, or they just sound the same?

So today I received some USA p bass pickups and a Ki0gon loom, I quickly recorded some sound files of the Squier stock pickups and loom before swapping them out and then installed the new pickups and loom and then recorded the same sound files again to A / B the results... My challenge to you fine folk is, can you tell which bass has the stock pups and loom, and which has the "upgraded USA and Ki0gon" let me know in the poll. The run down of the audio track is - Bass 1 then Bass 2 with tone open Bass 1 then Bass 2 with tone half Bass 1 then Bass 2 with tone off and then the same again with open strings and harmonics. I know which I prefer, but which do you like? P Bass Pickups Loom Swap - 07:02:2022, 15.43.mp3

Did a slightly ropey cover of Meshell Ndegeocellos Evolution on the bass this afternoon (one with flats) in case anyone still wants to hear it! https://youtu.be/DErbRehBfvM

Woah woah woah I'm far too persuadable at the moment! Don't remind me of all the options! 😉

Oh FFS really?... One with Flats... one with rounds... I'm hooked!

Fantastic outcome! Great work!

That's lovely! Forgot about this thread let me pop a couple of finished pics here!

Any excuse to post these again!! The two tone sunburst finish and gold pickguard look absolutely tremendous together!

I have one of these but in the two tone sunburst, it's made me realise that after so many years of playing and never trying one, a P Bass might be the only bass I need. As you mentioned the quality is fantastic, it plays brilliantly, and sounds superb. It's made me fall in love with playing bass all over again.

Beautiful!!

Beautiful work!

That's when it's time to haggle hard!

Yeah somewhat tongue in cheek and somewhat genuine thought. I'm lucky enough to be in the position that I want to move some saving capital in to something other than the bank, however, no one is willing to give me value (subjective) on this capital. A savings account which shouldn't be called that anymore as it's a disgrace has an interest rate below 1%, so in simple queens english its f**king useless. For around 2% I can have my money locked away for a set number of years, if I want to access to the money I lose the accrued interest and in some cases pay a fee. If this investment was 10k I'd get a grand if I'm lucky over 10 years. I might as well bust my donkey on a second job for a short period and it will result in more money over a shorter period. Stocks and shares, require management and are long term investment without a guarantee of fixed % returns or even a ROI. There really isn't a concrete way of making your money "work hard" for you today, unless of course you buy a 60 year old bass and keep it locked away for the foreseeable.

, no no no, I don't mind that responsibility, I'll take one for the team

Hmmm, share buy, lock it away, equal dividend split on sale at agreed 10 years in the future sales date...