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[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1420331336' post='2648258'] The colour combo may be one not produced outside of Japan. I've been looking at Fender mij basses for a while and there are many more colour options. The knobs are definitely wrong. Should be flat-top knurled chrome ones. [/quote] not true on both parts. These knobs were also used. Colours don't look wrong to me, only thing is the scratch plate, should be single ply, can't see if is or not. [quote name='CH161' timestamp='1420477438' post='2649771'] My understanding is that the Fender JV was for the domestic market and Squire JV was for export. Same specs as I understand it. Lots of US parts too including CTS pots and some hardware. [/quote] Partially right on the first bit, wrong on the rest. Big Fender small Squier logo - export small numbers... Big Squier logo... - export Big Fender JV - domestic *at different price points* Squier SQ - export, not more 70's influenced Squier E series - also made similar time.... All different specs! *SOME* of the earlier strata may have supposedly had Fender USA pickups in. But the rest was japanese. Willing to bet if you bought this bass and took one of the screws out it would have a metric thread the CTS pots I'm not sure about.

can I just interject here and say sorry. I'm a fussy designer - and I made a comment about a logo that isn't great in my opinion - but it's also not awful and far worse design horrors have been unleashed on us bass players... warwick up to a few years ago used comic sans as the main typeface on their amps and so on. Please don't turn this thread into a barefaced slagging one - we've had enough of them. I'm interested in Jenny's new cab, and the new designs generally - I think I've played through about 5 or 6 different barefaced models - 1 I didn't like, 1 was very impressive, 2 were brilliant but not my taste and 1 was one of the best bass cabs I've ever played through. I'ld buy one tomorrow if I had the money. Please don't start the slagging again. (I was actually thinking - what other UK based, UK build amplification/cab companies do we have? Barefaced, Purple Chilli, Matamp and [i]some [/i]ashdown stuff are all I could think of, does anyone make speakers in the UK still Celestion I guess... and volt which Glockenklang use?)

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1420390849' post='2648728'] The F is surely the same set of lines as the B and D with a little bit missing? Aesthetically it works for me, and I work in design too. My one and only gripe (incl. logo, handles, finish, sound, weight etc) is that when I stick my Midget on top of my Compact I have logos that go at right angles to each other. I'd quite like to put the one on my Midget the other way around. It doesn't really matter which way it faces when used on its own. [/quote] Meh I'm not the biggest fan.... but again I wouldn't stop me one second of owning one. Bank balance would.

there you go... and Bill actually understood the question being asked!

also its a very late one....

I think it's probably genuine, and I also think I've seen it before somewhere?

there may be 101 reasons why this wouldn't work.... what would happen if you fed the signal after the drive pedal into a passive low pass filter (i.e. a tone knob: cap and var. resistor) to roll the top end off?

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1420314452' post='2648038'] well, I like it! [/quote] I'm just a stuck up snob of a graphic designer! To be fair theres nothing about it that would stop me buying a Barefaced if/when funds allowed.

my ACME 2x10 is 3 way... so I just turn the midrange driver up on the back..... maybe not what you were asking

[quote name='tonyquipment' timestamp='1420306989' post='2647899'] What if you were to combine all of these amps in parallel for the ultimate tone? AMP MARK ELLIOT PEG [/quote] as long as you didn't put it through an ashdown cab it would sound amazing

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1420272708' post='2647323'] Haha what happens when an Engineer designs stuff that's should look pretty. [/quote] I just went back and looked at that logo - it's an odd sci-fi influenced thing, the "designed and built" bit works quite well - but the rest of it... the b and d echo quite nicely - but that f is the most disgusting thing I've seen for a while, and also oddly seems upper case... it just kinda works against the whole "very well engineered technology products" by having such an odd logo.... all IMO IME of course... .

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1420272708' post='2647323'] Haha what happens when an Engineer designs stuff that's should look pretty. Tbh, the old painted finish and the logo do not deter me one bit. I don't have to look at it at gigs. But I'm not half tempted by a TKS cab though in red. [/quote] lol

so I guess going for a clean sound? class D stuff tends to run cooler than older stuff so might be worth looking that way? A lot of it is going to have a fan built in as an insurance though, I guess as we expect smaller and smaller amps suddenly cooling becomes an issue again. - But how much power do you actually need? AER stuff for acoustic based stuff might be good (costly though)

[quote name='Brother Jones' timestamp='1420151575' post='2646237'] There's been something of a move against active OBP basses from purists like Paul Weller (who banned Yolanda from using them). Personally I like them for live work, as they help Jazzes cut through more, but prefer passive, or active pups for recording. [/quote] one man's purist is another's luddite.... I guess you've also got someone like Jonas Hellborg sticking a 27v transformer driving preamp in his.... so it's a question of how well engineered is the thing, some are a lot better than others.

[quote name='DanEly' timestamp='1420126383' post='2645844'] So where have all the 75 RI's gone, or am I being ignorant? they're not on the Fender website any more are they... Discontinued right? What made you prefer the 75? [/quote] yeah - they replaced all the American Vintage series at the same time with different models. I can't put my finger on what I preferred. the '74... just felt a bit cheap, thick varnish on the neck, and.... and I instantly disliked it - obviously thats all my highly personal opinion. I've tried a few '75 and they've just struck me as very very nice basses that stacked up well against the sadowsky stuff the shop had in in terms of fitting and feel and I preferred the tone of the '75.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1420073637' post='2645420'] [b]In and Out:[/b] Various. No-one reads these lists anyway. [/quote] i do.

Ok lets confuse it even more.... Fender American Vintage 75ri - generally...natural with maple or rosewood, blocks binding, 3 bold neck 70's position. Brilliant Fender American Vintage 74ri - the newer version released last year. I tried both in shops and preferred the '75. Fender FSR USA 70's jazz bass.... special limited run in 2002 of a few thousand basses in custom colours and with some differences, for example I used to have a lake placid blue one, and it had an alder body. Very very good instruments and a bit different to the normal american vintage range.

how does the new one compare to the 100w one?

[quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1419952012' post='2644259'] I get the idea that the 12 Ohm version is intended as a modular thing. I obviously didn't order it, so didn't make that choice. [/quote] Quote alex from the barefaced website.... [i][size=3]"[color=#333333] If you wish to add more Two10s and need your 4 ohm cab to run at 12 ohms then it be converted from one impedance to the other by replacing the wiring loom, crossover and rear panel - a simple job as it's a complete modular assembly with no soldering required." [/color][/size][/i]would you think of taking it to 4 ohms? [quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1419952012' post='2644259'] I'm not sure what to make of all of the mumbo jumbo about watts. Here's my thinking. [/quote] [url="http://service.tcgroup.tc/media/tc-electronic-power-rating-and-active-power-management.pdf"]link here to TC's own explanation.... [/url] it's actually really interesting stuff, they've looked at how a bass uses power and tailored the power section to supply the power where it's needed more useful and combined that with some clever limiting and compression. Very very clever stuff going on.