bassbloke

The only bass I've played with Piezo and magnetic pickups was an Ibanez EDA900. ThePiezo makes the bass sound very 'zingy' but I don't remember it making the harmonics stand out that much more. I don't know of any aftermarket piezo bridgesthat are a standard retro fit on a Fender. You'd also need to do some routing to the body for the preamp required by the piezo pickups. So,with all the mods required, A jazz pickup by the bridge would be an easier and more standard option.

[quote name='ARGH' post='89194' date='Nov 16 2007, 12:14 AM']Any of you guys into Coroner?[/quote] Masked Jackal. Quality Tune. Any of you guys heard Martyr - Feeding the Abcess. Liege of Inveracity is one of the best album openers of all time.

Very good clip by the way. I thick playing a fretless suits his sounds. I remember reading an old intervew where he said he sets the EQ on his Hartke to an unhappy face - you can hear how wellit cuts through! I've never played a Warwick Thumb. Is it just me or are the necks THAT thick?

The only ropey bit of his playing was the dodgy intonation on the high chorus part at the end. My problem with the performance is that it suffered from the usual Later with Jools Holland blight of being overblown and over-embellished. The original was performed by one of 'the' power trios, so the army of backing singers of percussionsts kind of ruins the feel.

Depends on what cab(s) you are going to be using. If I had a pair of 4 Ohm cabs (which I do as it happes) then any heads that couldn't drive a 2 Ohm load would be a waste of time.

If you have an ebay account, then a good way to ascertain market value is to do a search for completed listings of whatever item it is you wish to sell. Items tend to go for around the same amount, give or take a few quid.

I may have to get a ticket when my wife gets paid next week. Jimmy Johnson's work on the new Planet X album, Quantum, is amazing. I've been learning/trying to learn Matrix Gate the last couple of evenings.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='89334' date='Nov 16 2007, 12:34 PM']That hole on the edge looks very much like it's been for a jack socket - I can't think of a reason why a P would have that done, other than using the original jack hole in the plate for an additional pot - perhaps because of an extra pickup. Makes me very worried what kind of nightmare excavation might be hidden under the scratchplate. Jon.[/quote] If he lets it go for under £500 then it would be a good project bass. Stick a jazz pickup in it and either go for vol/vol/tone with a side mounted jack, or go the whole hog and bung a nice Audere 3Z preamp in it.

[quote name='ste_m3' post='89190' date='Nov 15 2007, 11:46 PM']just had this on in the background kinda thing, and i saw the intros, and one of the bands has a row of hartke cabs in front of the drummer, no joke, like 5 in a row... could be interesting?[/quote] One of the bands? One of the bands? That's Jack Bruce you're talking about. Actually, I caught the last few bars of Sunshine of your love and thought it was pants.

I simply couldn't justify it when I regularly tell everyone that I have the best bass for me, etc.... I told so many friends in the hope they'd buy it and give it a good home and give the seller something more reasonable than the paltry £159 that the tossers at X Electrical ended up giving him.

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I've owned and sold two. Much as I wanted to get on with it, it was just too wacky to be that useable. Many will disagree with me though.

Not asmuch of a steal as the £225 one contributor to this forum was asking for a ATK405.

You can happily run a transistor amp without a speaker load.

[quote name='machinehead' post='85816' date='Nov 9 2007, 10:25 AM']Looks like it's a 1998 DN 8*****. Needs new strings, new jack (haven't looked yet, might be only a loose wire which I can easily solder) and a littel TLC. Bottom pot (mid?) is noisy so might replace one or all pots. I also have an Aguilar OBM 1 somewhere which could be interesting to try. All in all, a very nice bass. Thanks for all your advice. Frank[/quote] So it has the large single slug pole pieces? I've found the stock preamp really doesn't do that bass justice. The OBP(?)-1 or an Audere or J-Retro will make a huge difference.

My old Carvin bass had a similar problem, which is why I like the old fashioned battery clip on my Jazz. See if you can get your hands on some adhesive foam to stick to the back of the battery compartment and push the battery against the contacts when the lid is clicked shut. Might be a cheap and easy solution and you won't run the risk of snapping of the contacts with a pair of pliers, which would be a real p*sser.