LukeFRC

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.

I have a JV P bass, it's very very good.

The SQ are less vintage accurate than the JV, they were made for a cheaper price bracket using japanese parts (depending how early it is the JV reportedly had USA parts).

The one on ebay if you can get it cheap go for it. If not andttravis' one looks nice. (and an extra pup and badass).

I can only compare my JV with things, I've played a few old tokai and while being ok they weren't that special, and fender at this time had just been bought out i think... theres a late 70's fender jazz in a shop near me for 2k which you could store your beer money in the gap between the neck and the body... it will be better than that!

is he saying warwick funny or is he right and ive just been talking about a town near coventry?


I know someone with a nice early neck through streamer for sale......

I've just spent the last few hours setting up my new bass, its amazing!


Bump for the SQ Squier P bass, these were made alongside the JV squiers mainly for the US market (JV mainly ended up in europe) at a less vintage copy price mark. If the neck on it is anything like my JV, then it is possibly usurps the guy selling the Trace elliot/status T bass as the bargin of the forum at the moment

by the way if you are looking at this and wondering, wow that bass is awesome, i wouldn't be sure about buying off a fella who wears yellow and black stripy ties, or something similar, be reasured andy is a true gentleman and could put up with my faffing with internet banks not behaving.
he could pack boxes of basses for england at the common wealth games, and my surprise, the gig bag he sent it was a top knotch quality one.
thanks forthe wonderful bass andy!

[quote name='4 candles' post='977501' date='Oct 4 2010, 07:09 PM']Thow that gorgous JV into the deal

and you wont have to save as much!!!!!

Regards

Mark[/quote]



i meant for trav to save up for! This JV is going NO-WHERE )except maybe on the gear porn pages.... and I've just got a very nice jazz!

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='977472' date='Oct 4 2010, 06:34 PM']Holy sh*te.

Can you not waft things like this under my nose when i'm selling up!!!?

The Celinder i played last week was ridiculous, i'm sure this is exactly the same.[/quote]
something to save up for!

As the first of a string of thank yous, Andy in his great and slightly sad sell-off sold me his blue '75. It is a magic bass.

Andy was brilliant to deal with and great at communications even as i was fluffing up bank transfers.

The man knows how to package stuff too!

[quote name='martthebass' post='942589' date='Sep 1 2010, 08:15 PM']I'm with you on that one. Had a 57 P bass JV - first issue, it was a lovely bass but I wouldn't have one over say a new US one.

I've been half thinking about a beat up 70's Fender but I'd be just as happy with a relic'd Sandberg.[/quote]


they do seem to go for silly money. Given how depressed the for sale bit of the forum is at the mo i was surpriesed to see a '57 JV squier with the fender logo go for £1100 the other week.
I have an identical one and I wouldn't pay that much for it.
But then it is an amazing bass, and better than any recent fenders I've tried, the AV '52 ri came close in feel but didn't sound as good.

but then horses for courses.....

have a look on GAK, Thomann and the like, or even the fender website
anything made in japan there is made for export.

now look at guitar emporium and ishibashi.jp (not the english one, the second or third one on the menu bar is bass and from then fender japan is easy to see)
thoes basses, they are the not for export ones.


jap fenders are normally excellent. but be aware they do make a range, so try to check that what you are buying is worth what the price.

for instance a J62OCR model is a 62 reissue jazz bass in old candy apple red, Basswood body with jap pups, the J62OCR-US has an alder body and USA pups.
Obviously at various points they have made different combinations!

As to which is better, export or non-export, they are different, i day say the jap standard jazz isn't as good as an export geddy lee jazz but a noexport 75ri-us would be nicer. who knows? But from what i've read the export ones aren't supposed to be so good.

(except the JV basses where the exported squier range was better than all but the top model domestic fender.)

much much better

would we even bother posting these "what guitar is this" threads if bassassasin wasn't on the board?

no, i hear all the really really cool bass players play candy apple red

nice silver sparkles. all the cool bassists have silver sparkle basses

i tried one of these in a shop, they are very nice. if i had my JV squier stolen and couldn't find another the insurance money would buy one of these. they are nice

[quote name='KevB' post='972965' date='Sep 30 2010, 05:32 PM']So any time you need to look at the jack socket or pots you'd need to take the whole scratch plate off?[/quote]

works for a P bass doesnt it?


some 1980's jazzes had this set up, moon guitars in glasgow have one in second hand at the mo like it

there's one in the forsale section. looks lovely

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='968997' date='Sep 26 2010, 11:27 PM']Just hoping they stumble across it. If they still have it.

I've just finally got round to tweaking the 75, and it's going nowhere.[/quote]

i played a 75ri in guitarguitar yesterday. bloomin lovely!

[quote name='Kev' post='968837' date='Sep 26 2010, 09:17 PM']For the moment, as i am very interested in the Streamer Stage 1 thats for sale at the moment, i may accept the cash for this until that has gone [/quote]

you may want to say how much!

thats no that bad warwickhunt, compare that to a guitar balanced ontop of an amp on the front of a stage with the curtains pulled, (the band are set up below the stage on the floor, its a school hall hired for church) fine, then someone opens the curtains on the stage so the pa gear can be stashed.
curtain catches bass.... 2m drop to a hard floor.

the sick feeling is the fact you see the thing fall in slow motion

im on a horse

there are a number of things annoying me
one- once my warwick goes (if it goes) this would be within the realms of affordability
two- you keep bumping it to tempt me!

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='968973' date='Sep 26 2010, 11:05 PM']That's the one. Thought it had sold.

Wonder if they'd straight swap it out? It's been there a while.

HINT HINT.[/quote]

who you hinting too? do they read this, if it's to me, i've only got my warwick to swap, and i wouldn't want your ricky, maybe your '75ri....

hehehe.. anyway

i found the page on google, they may have sold and just not taken the page down, just not linked to it.

this ricky for a p bass that will make you look like sting?
[url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/FenderCS55P.html"]http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_sp...enderCS55P.html[/url]

i think you're mad but given you a wee bump in the process