LukeFRC

i would pay no more than warmoth could make me a new one to my configurations and be assured it is well built

[quote name='Soliloquy' post='983860' date='Oct 10 2010, 10:13 PM']Like I tell my students.

Playing a musical instrument is a bit like playing football.

We can all kick a ball about, but that doesn't make us footballers. It's about control of what you're doing, and execution of what you do.

Technique can kind of be broken down in to a couple of different elements..............

1) Basic playing, eg. clean picking only playing the string you want to play, muting so that unwanted strings don't ring. Ergonomics, efficiency of movement so you use the minimum of effort to play, you don't want to get cramp while playing. This comes from good left/right hand technique. Playing close to the bridge for a 'tighter' sound, moving closer to the neck more a more rounded sound. Bending strings, hammer ons, slurs, harmonics, playing chords etc, etc.

2) Technique for 'the gig'. What genre of music are you going to be playing ? Does it require slapping ? Is a fretless bass suited to the track, and all that entails..vibrato etc. Does the track/gig require detuning or a 5 string to get notes lower than an 'E'.[/quote]

so on that metaphor wimbledon beating liverpool to win the 1989 FA cup is punk?
a team playing the simplest football with passion can beat the most pure football sides with the best technique. As a spurs fan ill ask when arsenal last won something....

i think your ability to listen is more important than your level of technique.
I've been asked to play on things because people know my level of hearing is such i can play stuff that is 'right' for the track.
Over the years the stuff that is 'right' has become more learned as i improve my technique, but that is like a tool for the job

i don't really know much about what they sound like but the silver sparkly finish would be a selling point for me!

Used to be status hotwires, the round core ones,

I stuck some DR hi-beams on the warwick and am very impressed,

now the two fenders have DR fat-beams that are even better.
Not too dear on stringstar either.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='981776' date='Oct 8 2010, 05:06 PM']Thanks guys! I've just been to the Bass Gallery in Camdem to put a deposit down on a new Dingwall and the waiting time is..... 4 - 5 months![/quote]

i was about to ask what you were replacing all your basses with..

that is amazin trav, good move.
you have a p bass, if james jamerson could get by with one electric bass his whole career... well it will save money!

encouraging past tense there luke!

[quote name='matski' post='979189' date='Oct 6 2010, 10:48 AM']I have an '82 'big Fender logo' JV Precision - I like it. I can't give you much info on how it compares to other P-basses cos I've only ever owned one other and that's a '78 model.

However the JV is a bit lighter in weight and has a 'flatter' rear neck profile than the '78 (not baseball bat-like at all - more pre-EB Stingray). Oh, and it sounds more 'vintage' than the '78, obv.

Mine's been modded quite a bit - replaced the hardware and PUP, and had it refinished in transparent black - so I can't claim to have an original-spec JV, but the mods were necessary as it was out of my hands for over 15 years and not so well looked after in it's absence. It still needs a proper refret job to get it back to it's original glory too...

Here's a pic or two:
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and a new truss rod fitted? thats a wierd mod to do, why?

and odd structuring of sentances

if you look in he effects forum there was a discussion on it.

I bought a LIne 6 floor pod xt thingy,
great except i found myself using 3 things
the tuner
the SVT model
and the chorus sometimes.

After looking at very expensive pedals on the net i found a schematic for something and thought 'i could make that'
so i was after some kinda overdrive, or svt, fender front end build.
looked round and liked the sound of what the sft could do, found a schematic and veroboard layout from a backwardly engineered one.
It's not a million miles away from the 'flipster' project and close to a svt with transistors instead of vaulves.

It shares a enclosure with a small clone clone and a sovtek big muff clone, its pretty good, except i think i put a liner pot on the gain instead of the log pot... oops.
PM me if you want and ill find the link to the schematic/vero layout

[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