LukeFRC

this whole thing is utterly confused on the idea of what pop is. All the time, every decade you'll have good and interesting stuff being made. And you'll also have the popular mainstream stuff made to make money for the industry. Most bands will have nods to both and every so often you'll get something that either mixes to two to be great music and pop. Radiohead would be a modern example of that maybe - very successful, sell a lot - but still can go and record OK computer and then random should have been unsucessful stuff like Kid A. Every so often maybe you'll get a band who are pop and good and manage to hit a resonant frequency on society and culture... like the beatles did. To pull examples of good stuff from pre beatles and then someone say "oh but that's not pop" misses point or two I think.

to be honest- I just read that thread in the OP - they both come across as right idiots- I'm not sure I blame Mr Hall that much for all that in there. Like the fella's been gigging with a guitar for several months and loses two bits of it.... even our nice EU warranties wouldn't cover that. Easiest thing would just been to look up the part in the american version of maplin (mouser??) and buy some rather than get into a bitching fight with the company who made it.

woo well done on the win!

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I've seen plenty of sandbergs in the shops... and Sadowsky. never a Lull. Looking at them though - I've always seen the sandbergs as equivalent in price to Fender and Musicman and the more mass produced basses- you get maybe better quality but without the "brand" that the americans have. Sadowsky pitch their metro line above the fender while the NYC line and Lull are obviously even more boutique. So American boutique manufacturers vs European small batch production in Germany... (you could stick german Warwicks in this question too) are american basses overpriced? are sandberg equivalent to sadowsky? based on price... is the pound stronger against the dollar or the euro? But at the moment... you could get a custom built bass by a small british manufacturer (ACG, ALPHER, OVERWATER, LETTS come to mind) with a starting price about that of a US built mass produced american standard fender..... I'ld suggest that that is where the value is at the moment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HanKNe502i4 i like this. The beatles are odd - great music but much like the stone roses first album - nowdays something about the production and mastering makes it sound a little flatter than other stuff to my ears (yes I know that this is very possibly cos it's actually better quality etc) you have to stick with it to enjoy it.

over even!

this is one of the best threads on basschat. almost 6 years old now!

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1370152617' post='2096938'] Yes they are, or my Alembic at £1k would have gone in seconds [/quote] you know I have been sat there, and every time I go by the sale forum wonder why your bass hasn't sold yet. It looks good! [quote name='martthebass' timestamp='1370169335' post='2097111'] Recently Ive pretty much gone for trades on here to accommodate the fact that basses in the >£1000 bracket seem to be slow movers. [/quote] Trades seem to be the way forward - my last deal on here was a trade of an acoustic I wasn't playing - the fella didn't have money but he did have a couple of old basses and a Pod thing - well sold the pod and one of the basses- stripped down the other bass, stuck a new body on it and built the jazz bass in my profile - which was gigged for the first time on sunday. Better deall for us all that money changing hands. [quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1370174558' post='2097185'] I picked up a gem recently on ebay where it was collection only and the auction ended at 9.00 a.m. ........... Result!!! [/quote] I had a bike - he had it in parts... but had the parts of two bikes, photo just showed a frame, collection only ending at 4:45 on a friday... and he had spelt every single keyword incorectly.

ooh that is a nice nail

http://www.edfriedland.com/equipment/1/62 1974 fender

i'ld spotted that on the website and thought it looked like one of the nicest things I had seen!

would the angle on something like this... be too off centre and funky for you? I don't know why folk don't just stick one or two photos up and then a link to an album - like this one I made before I gave up trying to sell it... http://s1230.photobucket.com/user/LukeFRC/library/JV but then agian maybe the above photo is too funky.... ach you'll all enjoy photos of a lovely P bass

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1369782981' post='2092805'] I think this is probably the most common 'problem' with playing the bass. No-one really notices, until it's too late. At an extreme, I physically assaulted a guitarist when after playing a song with my volume rolled to 0, he [i]still[/i] claimed the bass was too loud. I'm still ashamed of my reaction to this day. [/quote] i've done that- turned the bass off... thumbs up from the sound desk, band happy. i start pretending to play like flea in the 80's.... still don't notice...

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1369770549' post='2092635'] [sup]Same thing happened to me on here, sold a Bass and he put it straight onto eBay at a pretty big mark up and used my photos, without the courtesy of a quick email. Does it sound like sour grapes....?[/sup] [/quote] I would be right pissed off at that if it were me. Worst I've seen was someone who bought a bass very cheap off ebay (i know as I was watching it) then listed it on here at twice the price a few hours later.... of course no photos and he stalled for a day or two untill he actually got it posted to him.

[quote name='EMG456' timestamp='1369735087' post='2092025'] No bother Luke. I suspect your ACG pre is a bit more sophisticated than mine - I only have one low pass filter stack so whatever blend of pickups is set goes through that one filter. I was always a big fan of the Wal circuit and the ACG really takes that to another level versatility- wise by offering continuously variable boost around the filter cutoff frequencies and a variable frequency and boost for the high- pass which in the Wal is the switchable "pick attack" at a fixed frequency but with the amount pre-set by an internal trim pot. With the flexibility comes added complexity of course, so if using that bass live, I tend to set up the pre carefully to suit the room/ stage and then not really vary it that much during the gig - that way I can just use the techniques I would use on any bass to vary the tone on a gig - pickup selection/ blend and right (picking) hand position. The trouble with going to town and fully using something like the ACG pre live is that it is so variable. For example, I may think I need just a little bit more bass, so I reach for the bass stack gain but depending on where I have left the frequency control set on that stack, it could be acting effectively as a treble control... or a high mid or a low mid or a subsonic bass! It's not always easy to hear these things in the middle of a gig so I go very canny on these adjustments. For live work the other possible difficulty with using eq at source - ie in the bass or in the amp if you're taking a DI post eq- is the potentially radically different frequency response curves of the amplification chains involved. My big rig cabs are Acme LowB2s which have a very similar response curve to good big PA rig -ie basically flat from 20Hz to 20KHz. So if I'm over egging the bottom end at source, I can hear that and fix it. On small gigs though, I often just take my little Phil Jones Bass Briefcase which has nothing like the low bottom end of the Acmes so it's quite possible for me to be setting up a nice, chunky sound on stage which is far too bass rich for the PA. The sound guy has to then try and compensate for that using eq which is almost certainly operating at different frequency centres from the ones I am using and well, you know what the results can be! So, for me using eq at source live with a feed to the PA - nothing too extreme and set it and forget it for the night! Cheers Ed [/quote] cheers Ed! good reading there Oh and after playing with my amp EQ, and the ACG preamp for hours, I could kinda hear what the PA folk were asking, and compared it to my jazz and I still couldn't dial in the kinda tone I wanted.... so back to basics.... i had changed the strings to ones with less tension.... lower the pickups slightly... and boom there's the top and bottom agian!

[quote name='ash' timestamp='1369759173' post='2092417'] If you look at Google images for a particular piece of gear often you'll come up with pictures of items seen or that you have sold on here or on eBay. For example today I was looking at JV Squier basses and I found pics of several I have owned and sold on here - it was especially poignant since there was one I really miss! I guess that once published on a site they are in the public domain for all to see so they could be used anyway, unless you add a 'watermark' ID or copyright. [/quote] see my one? that normally comes up too

took the jazz to practice yesterday - sounded great straight into DI (different venue) might take that this week.... as my wife says - the other one sounds better but the tomato soup (my jazz) one has more low end.

having had a brief facination with old japanese basses ply wood was something you avoided - it's interesting that your luthier goes for it.

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1369648834' post='2091128'] Could you explain your comment about the action and neck-curve, please? [/quote] so this isn't some expert here, just a loon who's messed around with basses a bit.... I've found my P basses sound a bit more full with the action up a bit and a bit more curve in the neck - that might just be down to how it's played.... but truss rod tightness (and how tight the neck is bolted on if the truss rod access means you take the neck off...) I think does affect the tone.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1369646162' post='2091091'] Sorry Luke, when I first read your 'new cable' suggestion I thought you were joking! Good call - I tend to take cables a bit for granted, though IME it's guitarists who seem perfectly happy to stand/walk on cables. I can't bear standing on mine. [/quote] oh I'm pretty sure in the OP's case it's about the action and curve in the neck - but cables can have an odd effect on tone - esp (obviously) on passive basses.