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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1442833971' post='2869773'] That's just what the Precision Bass is not. Leo designed the Precision to be an alternative to the huge bulk of 'the dog house' that was portable, and what's more could be heard (as it could be amplified to any level) as acoustic double bass players were getting lost volume-wise against the proliferation of drum kits, big brass sections and electric guitars that were becoming prevalent at that time. The reason it was called 'Precision' is that it had frets, where the DB did not, and so could be played more accurately - and in tune. [/quote] To some degree, the Precision is a copy of the double bass. Like the Jazz is a copy of the Precision with one more pickup, the Precision is a copy of the double bass with one more pickup. The fretted bass is a copy of the double bass with added frets, and the fretless bass is, of course, a straight copy. How would the 1935 Audiovox Bass Fiddle be a copy of the 1951 Fender Precision? Did Mr Tutmarc have a time machine as well as a design for a solid-bodied 4-string fretted electric bass?

[quote name='SimonEdward' timestamp='1442761384' post='2869269'] Nope. Don't like the sound of my Alembic, but love my JD's sound (which it 'emulates'?? B** S***). My MM Sterling sounds different to both of these. [/quote] At your next gig, play all three (not at the same time, obviously), then survey the audience afterwards to see if any of them noticed any difference in the sound.

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1442746974' post='2869135'] One thing I've always thought though, is that EVERY other electric bass is, to some degree, a copy of the precision. [/quote] Which itself, of course, is a copy of the double bass.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1442605284' post='2868243'] The more I look at it, the more I think the neck & body aren't related. Black hardware on the neck but not the body is a bit odd, as is the black headstock. [/quote] Forgot to mention - isn't the black hardware actually only black courtesy of some black paint? Check the edges of the elephant ears and the centre lobe of the G string tuner (elephant's skull-cap?).

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1442733309' post='2868986'] So many club venues moving over to "karaoke" solo acts because they can no longer find bands that can cut it! Scary. [/quote] That's not the reason. It's because the karaoke is a lot cheaper.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1442616711' post='2868323'] You might be right - board does look bound though. Other differences aside, the headstock shape's a dead ringer for a Pervy Furry: [/quote] And also for a Hohner Rockwood: It could actually be what it says it is.

No offers, either. £1k and that's it.

I'm disenchanted with them, to say the least. We're registered with three local agencies who almost never get us gigs - the ones that they do are emergency last-minute ones. It's not as if we're crap either, or don't appeal to the audiences in the places we play. Sadly, those agencies lock out a lot of pubs so there's at least 25 pubs we can't get into because they're with one of the useless agencies.

What's the taxation situation?

We've had two Saturday gigs (26th Sept and 3rd Oct) postponed due to the rugby.

I was being idle so I used ready-made reasonable quality cables.

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1442404941' post='2866671'] Now have any of you been to Johnson's of Leeds military surplus shop? That place is crazy. It used to have a white UN tank or something parked outside. For sale. [/quote] That would probably be good for metal.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1442406710' post='2866708'] Yes, although that would tend to make the whole snake slightly less flexible if the braid is too tight. [/quote] I was thinking more of reducing the wizard's sleeviness of it than making it really tight. Hmm, about £3-50 for 5m of 8mm braiding, about the same for 5m of 13mm heatshrink, and I have two cables, one 2m long and one 3m long. It may be time for an experiment.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1442401532' post='2866622'] I used this stuff (pic). Search for "braided cable sleeving". It's dead easy to use, just one cable tie holding it all together at each end of the sleeve. [/quote] Aha, that's more like it. Presumably you can pull it lengthways to reduce the diameter when you put the cable ties on?

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1442398132' post='2866589'] Edit: Search for "cable lacing" [/quote] Blimey, it's not cheap is it? I think I'll measure everything up and see whether heatshrink would do the job.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1442330001' post='2866089'] Imagine a space going full width of the stage between the mic stands and the backline. I'd aim to have nothing in that space except humans if at all possible. [/quote] Drummers? In common with others who've mentioned it, I use a cable snake for pedalboard (or effects) to amp. I'll either have a Zoom MS-60B or a Zoom B3 and a Line 6 G50 receiver on the floor, so the cable snake is actually a jack-to-jack with two DC power extension leads cable-tied to it, and I have a choice of two lengths. Out of curiosity, has anyone else made up this sort of thing, and if so, have you used cable-ties or some other means of consolidating it? I have to take care with cable ties round the lead, they're a little hard on my delicate little hands if I'm not careful. I do have a few colour-coded leads - two green XLR to balanced jack (one longer than the other) for the PA speakers, one 2m XLR in yellow to run between the active monitors, and a red jack-to-jack which is theoretically my backup lead if anything goes wrong with the wireless.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1442327498' post='2866059'] With the advent of all the online outlets for moving on used gear it's actually not that common to see much used gear in recognised music shops any more. I miss the 'rummage factor' a bit and old basses smelling of woodbines after they'd done years on the WMC circuit. Did I mention this all used to be fields once? [/quote] Yes, I used to go into Musical Exchanges in Brum back when it was in Broad Street (little Gary who went to PMT used to work there back then) and then Snow Hill, and the second-hand side of it just disappeared. Now there's just Stirchley Musical Exchange which is a tiny OMAAD place with some decent instruments but not very many of them, and you have to go somewhat further afield - Warwick is reasonably close for bass gear albeit not so much at the budget end of the scale, but other than that it's probably a trip to That London.

A Zoom MS-60B could do tuner and compressor duty... Have you tried the "Taste" control on the Puma?

I've just indulged myself and bought a wireless mic, so the mics and instruments are now all wireless. We have mains leads and input leads to both PA speakers and both active monitors, sometimes mic up the bass drum, and other than that there's just the leads from pedalboards to amps. Oh, and the lighting. The only leads now that go across the stage (rather than round the back) are the bass drum mic lead (which we put under the stands so there's as short an exposed run as possible) and the lead connecting the two monitors. Reasonably tidy, there may be a bit of room for improvement in the mains area.

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He may have overlooked the minor issues that could arise from having giant furrows all over a fretless fingerboard.

Another vote for Pro Audio Services - he's done a couple of repairs on Mackie SRM450s for me.

Sennheiser HD419 for me. But Bluetooth does appeal to me too. Edit: Those August Bluetooth headphones would appeal to me if there was a transmitter too.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1442096619' post='2864451'] The brown plastics on the back are quite interesting, as these are consistent with earlier '50s Les Pauls. Not sure about the rest of it, but it doesn't look too promising. Not sure about the mis-matched flame/plain top, the bare wood in the truss rod cavity or the clunky chrome tuners, which look like Klusons with different heads. [/quote] The top's a bit odd - in the fifth photo it seems to be bookmatched, in the fourth the two halves look very different.

One I want to do but the drummer vehemently refuses: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQgICDxGEQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQgICDxGEQ[/url]