LukeFRC

[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.

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!