LukeFRC

[quote name='funkyspuke' post='981073' date='Oct 7 2010, 11:22 PM']what I can't understand is how so many people have have let this valenti go! I have just been looking back at the history and it's had about 5 owners!!

madness[/quote]

one of them was the same guy selling and buying it back again (and he made a trade offer on it to me too) possibly selling too.


It is strange though, i guess on basschat once it has gone down to a cheaper price than it's possibly worth, noone is going to try sell at profit and its cheap enough to try for a while. I'm unsure.
I bought it v. quickly because if i liked it it was an awesome bass for a silly price.
As it is i realised within a day that something about the sound with the preamp meant it wasnt the bass for me. It just didn't feel like 'my' bass (as compared to the 75 which has been sitting about getting played evey 10 min.) and the active sound wasn't what i wanted. so so playable though, if i had any way on earth justifying 4 basses, i would keep it.


BTW it's an 18v preamp nino got running (at 18v) off a single 9v battery. it's pretty powerful even passive...

Used interparcel to pick up a bass i had bought and get it delivered, they used TNT. £30 nextday with £1000 insurance.

I got home to find the bass there (my flatmate had been in) and 2 emails from them as it looked like the driver had donesomething wrong with the pick up and they wanted the paperwork to chase it. I told them I had it beside me, but still, impressive!

uurghhh jazz necks are a wierd shape for your hand compared to p bass/warwick.... it's so much bigger front to back!

as the pound has got weaker the price of jap fender has gone up, this has reflected the relative prices.

I would say that the current 'standard' jap fender and the mex standard fender i would go for the mexican- purely because the 'standard' CIJ jazz has a basswood body over the MiM's alder.
I would save up and get a vintage 'us' model reissue.

MIJ fender i've no idea, some ive played have been great.

as for JV squier.... i prefer my '57ri to the american vintage '57ri....

[quote name='stevie' post='980254' date='Oct 7 2010, 09:52 AM']It's just the perfect P-Bass sound. But it didn't sound as wonderfully fat and growly when I owned it [/quote]


DR fat beams 45 - 105 , high action and hitting the strings hard.....

[quote name='blackmn90' post='980121' date='Oct 7 2010, 01:09 AM']My favourite was the squier[/quote]


yeah, it probably is easily my favourite to play too, it sounds imense.
Unlike thodrik i find i can take it anywhere and plug it in, with or without amp and it sounds great. two controls, wide open...
you gotta love a good JV squier

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='980101' date='Oct 7 2010, 12:26 AM']What are you using to record Luke?

Audacity seems to compress the sh*te out of anything i'm throwing at it...[/quote]

garageband. it's not as awful as you think it would be. it liked the pod i used to have and got some pretty good recordings, this is just through the line in.


in fact, apart from the '75 pics of all the basses i've used here, plus a few more. [url="http://s1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/"]http://s1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/[/url]
honestly- have you seen a prettier squier?

[quote name='bubinga5' post='980079' date='Oct 7 2010, 12:01 AM']Thodrik, do you prefer the P bass to the higher priced basses you own...im always fascinated to hear..

got any pics of the Valenti Luke?[/quote]

sure do.






very pretty, sounds an plays great, and i mean great. It's in another leauge compared to the red sadowsky metro in guitar guitar in glasgow, but it's not for me. I don't like the active sound which is why i started looking at jazzes. This was at a amazing price so i got it knowing i could sell it on if i didn't like it. It's lovely and confirmed that a jazz was the way forward but an active one wasn't really.
Actually having said that if Andytravis hadn't put a particular bass i was already excited about up for salei would have probably just learned to love this, as it is I doubt i'll ever own a more 'high end' bass.

it will be now, it's protected with the clear coat.
I think if you had had any of the old finish left it would have lifted, you did a good job!

learning to set up basses is fun, and strobetuner for mac is a pretty good bit of software

[quote name='thodrik' post='980059' date='Oct 6 2010, 11:39 PM']I know that feeling. I know that my Vigier and my Sadowsky are much 'better' basses than my Precision, the Precision will always be 'my' bass, whereas the other ones are really nice basses that I just happen to own.[/quote]

strange isn't it?
hopefully i won't own the valenti much longer, or the warwick though im less hopefull on that!

[quote name='BigAlonBass' post='980046' date='Oct 6 2010, 11:27 PM']Yes-I'd be wary of using Plastikote after my experience last week! I'd stripped my old Squier Jazz to the bare wood, then built up coats of Plastikote paint to make it a lovely, glossy white finish. I was so pleased with the result, that I decided to use Plastikote clear lacquer to protect and enhance it. After one light coat of the lacquer, every single square millimetre of the white paint crazed, bubbled and lifted! I spent the better part of a day stripping off the gooey, glue-like goop that was left behind, and ended up going to my local Car Discount store for some rattlecans. No more problems.[/quote]

yeah, it melts stuff beneath it, the OP got away with it by putting it directly on the wood.

honestly track down graphiti paint, a fraction of the cost of car paint bigger range of colours... and its the same stuff!
I kinda would like to try nitro finishing something...

I've not even read the thread but be very carefull (ie don't use Plasti-Kote on anything unless you know how its going to work.
The solvents in it melt plastics, this is a good thing if you want it to stick to something, bad if you want to do something to a guitar.

Graphiti paint is half the price and safer to use on surfaces in my experience, you may have to ask round to find out where to get it as it will prob be a behind the counter thing....

[quote name='funkyspuke' post='980017' date='Oct 6 2010, 10:56 PM']every bass had it's own unique tone .. but I must admit that (not being biased haha) the Valenti sounded really nice [/quote]

to be honest, i think apart from the warwick somehow overdriving, the valenti was the most surprising.
it has a fairly high output even passive so that was me playing at half volume and boosting later.
also the fenders both have new fat beams, the warwick oldish high beams and the valenti the thinner ones it came with, played a wee bit harder, and with the preamp just tweeking the bass up a wee bit, it sounds amazing.

The difference is, even though i've a feeling the valenti is the better bass, the fender jazz feels like 'my bass' also the 70's pickup spacing means it compliments the 50's style p bass well once ive sold the valenti and warwick and only have the two

caitlinbread sft is based on an ampeg preamp isn't it? it's pretty good, well my homemade version is

there's a wee recording of the valenti (passive) in the last topic i started.....

[quote name='bubinga5' post='979983' date='Oct 6 2010, 10:26 PM']if it feelin good..its playing good...[/quote]
oh wow, it's gone from being slightly strange and new to fitting my hand like a, well a glove, a bass guitar glove

[quote name='bubinga5' post='979965' date='Oct 6 2010, 10:09 PM']i would forget about the micro tilt for now buddy..thats for...well......micro tilting......adjust the truss rod first and see what that does...i always go for the bridge or the truss rod first....if that doest give you the feel you want..then go for micro tilt or shimming on a non 75 fender...[/quote]


there was quite a bit of tilt in it already, thats why i couldn't get it feeling right, taken it out now and it's getting better.... intonate!

got it... it's getting there, it feels more like the valenti now....

worked it out.... yes my technique tends to hit the strings had with the left hand needing a fairly high action. the jazz i was having problems setting up because i forgot the microtilt thing on the neck plate..... playing with it now....

hmmm on the squier i seen to have lot of relief in the neck, i prefer the feel of the fender too as i've just added more relief.... i seem to hit the strings pretty hard, is lots of relief ok? my first bass had a reasonbly curvy neck too (it didn't seem to want to go any straighter) so is it this is just what i'm used too?
Conversely the valenti is a lot more normal and set up great... is it just my bad set up?

i would guess it's just short of 1mm on the squier...

thanks trav... im still trying to set up the jazz which is why it sounds odd.... also the warwick has a neck as flat as a p bass and as narrow as a jazz, not clubby at all!

3000 dollars ten years ago would have been 1500 pounds, not that daft for a status

While I have all these basses here I thought I would do a wee recording and share...


Recorded onto garageband through a cable designed for plugging a digital camera or camcorder into the tv and getting sound, it sounds a bit wierd, had a tendancy to over drive on the warwick and not work at all on the valenti without the preamp in.

I appolagise for my playing too, along with a drummer or with a band my timing is fine, without well.... on one of the basses my hand is still not quite used to the neck.

So all tones set flat or open, both pickups on if that is an option....shoddy playing ....

1- Fender FSR 75ri jazz
2- Warwick streamer 91
3- JV Squier 57ri precision ,
4- Valenti number 42 jazz

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='978009' date='Oct 5 2010, 09:36 AM']SQs are very good basses. A lot of crap is talked about the JV series being so much better, the price difference is mainly down to the Big fender logo on the JV headstock if you ask me. I have a 90s japanese squier neck on my strat, it is truly the nicest (guitar) neck I've ever had my hands on. I think if it's a jap squier (or fender) then it's good. Very good normally.
Plus they'll get the same magic attributes as the JVs have soon, and you'll be able to sell it off for a small fortune. [/quote]

only a handfull have the big fender logo, most JV would have the same headstock as a SQ.