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[quote name='Beedster' post='460233' date='Apr 11 2009, 11:52 PM']Thinking of making a pretty substantial purchase. Anyone dealt with these guys? Cheers Chris[/quote] No Chris - but I have a good friend in the US who's a serious vintage bass collector... He's bound to have dealt with them I can ask him what he thinks if you like?

Scott Walker = Genius.

[quote name='vmaxblues' post='457978' date='Apr 8 2009, 11:47 PM']I hear you, but although it is a bit of an investment I also want to gig it, it has sufficient mojo and I don't believe on having instruments and not using them. But that's just me.[/quote] I've used this on my very precious pre-CBS vintage Fenders - it just helps to bring the colour & finish 'back to life' in a very subtle way... IMHO It can only enhance their value - keeping a dirty/grimy finish has nothing to do with preserving the value/originality of a vintage instrument.

This is the stuff you want - [url="http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0990512000"]Fender Color Restorer[/url] I've had great results with it...perfect for restoring the finish on vintage guitars.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='455650' date='Apr 6 2009, 04:32 PM']Way too much IMO! If the body didn't have the extra pickup (and hideous surround) then it wouldn't seem too bad. Wonder what the odds are on there being a massive, sloppily routed hole under that surround?[/quote] Very good chance of a huge messy load of routed holes! "As far as i am aware everything electrical and bodywise is original apart from..." ...all the stuff that isn't. What a mess.

[quote name='OldGit' post='446076' date='Mar 26 2009, 03:19 PM']ho ho well you would, wouldn't you ...[/quote] I know a guy who had the unfortunate job of engineering a studio session with Van Morrison - 'a total c**t' was about the best thing he could say about him...

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='439891' date='Mar 19 2009, 11:36 PM']Fair play to Vintage Ben for sticking his head above the parapet.[/quote] Fair play indeed - but that doesn't change the fact that their prices are comically high - let's just take one example from their bass selection: [url="http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/web/our-catalogue/Fender/Electric-Basses/item/3821"]this 'interesting' example of a Fender P bass[/url] - £1,295.00 for a 1977 battered P bass that some muppet had made an atrocious hack job of sticking a repro jazz pickup in + a badass bridge. "A lot of bass for the money". They are joking right? Apparently not, as some poor fool was convinced by the 'experts' at V&R that this chopped up bass was a great investment & really was worth £1,295.00 of his hard earned money. Their whole business model is based on supplying the 'good stuff' i.e. really nice top end vintage instruments to serious collectors & celeb players with big budgets - then knocking out junk like that P bass to the gullible. They know full well that anyone who knows their stuff about vintage guitars will never buy from them. And fair play to them for that as well - it's a greedy cynical business that they're in - so good luck to them & their 100% mark-up... But don't then expect to come & post on here acting like you only have our best interests at heart - sorry sunshine that ain't gonna wash. [quote name='vintage_ben' post='439856' date='Mar 19 2009, 10:57 PM']Pop in and Say hi - you never know I might be playing the Entwistle stack knob[/quote] By the way - did you tell John Ludlow you & your mates would be having fun playing around in the showroom with his £30K Entwistle Jazz that you have on consignment? No - I bet you didn't. Shall I tell him for you?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='437914' date='Mar 17 2009, 11:51 PM']Check sig for link, on Myspace. CHeck out how you can actually hear my bass! Pretty pleased, although all the dirt got mixed out of my sound, I ran one cab absolutely filthy.[/quote] Love that video - when the door gets opened it's like he's opened the doors of Hell! Very cool... We did something similar when we recorded our LP - had an amp room that we shoved the guitarist in & shut the door - he had developed a splendid '1000 yard stare' when finally crawled out... :brow:

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='434028' date='Mar 13 2009, 06:43 PM']Tape head saturation is prob my favorite. Try it on a bass thats a little to lumpy to pop out of a mix.[/quote] Just had to buy that one as well - instant monster bass sound...!

[quote name='OldGit' post='435614' date='Mar 15 2009, 10:23 PM']What does "The bass backlights" mean?[/quote] He'll be talking about a technique that's used to test for areas of paint being re-touched/re-finished/over-sprayed - it involves using a UV light (in a dark room) where the non-original paint areas will show up darker. But he meant to say '[b]Blacklights[/b]'...

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='434028' date='Mar 13 2009, 06:43 PM']Yeap. Tape head saturation is prob my favorite. Try it on a bass thats a little to lumpy to pop out of a mix. Garry[/quote] Yeah - the tape head is very sweet. And I've actually ending up buying the compressor (VERY nice on vocals), eq & de-esser - & the free bonus drum > midi plugin (yep - it really does turns an acoustic drum track into MIDI notes) he gives you is very cool.

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='431678' date='Mar 11 2009, 05:06 PM']I have the L2007 limiter and have dabbled with all the rest. But, any review I will give is redundant in that they are all available for FREE usable download. Some little features are disabled but they function fully. Try them, for what they cost no one in their right mind could possibly be dissapointed. The L2007 is a cracking limiter with lots of nice features but and sound very transparant for mastering applications. Go, you owe it to yourself. G[/quote] Ooooh - just had a good play with all the free Massey plugings - they're b****y great!

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='431678' date='Mar 11 2009, 05:06 PM']I have the L2007 limiter and have dabbled with all the rest. But, any review I will give is redundant in that they are all available for FREE usable download. Some little features are disabled but they function fully. Try them, for what they cost no one in their right mind could possibly be dissapointed. The L2007 is a cracking limiter with lots of nice features but and sound very transparant for mastering applications. Go, you owe it to yourself. G[/quote] Great - thanks for that....! I'll go fill my boots! I don't do any mastering myself (booked in at Metropolis for a session with Frank Arkwright at the end of the month) - but I'll have a good tinker with them anyway - especially the de-esser (working with a very troubles-s-s-s-s-s-s-ome singer at the moment!).

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='428481' date='Mar 8 2009, 11:38 AM']I use the mono-stereo all the time and the mid/side encoder is a pretty nifty little plug in for surgical alterations. Great plugs. Also, check out some of the pay for plugs. They are pretty cheap and stand up against lots of the big boys (waves etc). G[/quote] Have you got any of his commercial RTAS plugs? Would be very interested in a review! Thanks.

Just came across this - [url="http://www.smassey.com/plugin.html"]Free Massey RTAS plugins[/url] - the 'talkback' plugin is very useful if you work entirely 'in the box' (i.e. don't have a big desk with an talkback button!)...

You can get this whole video on DVD - [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marvin-Gaye-Thing-Performance-1964-1981/dp/B000EMSJ6G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1236425409&sr=1-1"]on this great collection of Marvin Gaye performances[/url] - worth it just for the Jamerson part...

Came across this link on the FDP forum - a fantastic [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Two-Edwin-Starr-Blinky/dp/B000BQ4MY8/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1236423460&sr=8-11"]Motown album by Edwin Starr & Blinky[/url]...(a limited edition run of only 5000 CDs). With Jamerson [b]VERY[/b] prominent in the mix & laying down some huge fat soul grooves. Fabulous stuff. "I'm Glad You Belong To Me" has some jaw dropping playing...

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='422668' date='Mar 1 2009, 09:07 PM']Yes but the odd thing about that is 70s necks would have a 'cambered' fingerboard as opposed to slab. Also the shot of the back of the headstock proves it's never been fitted with anything other than reverse Klusons - the later 'fan shaped' heads only line up with 3 out of the 4 holes so it would show a fifth hole for each head. I'm begining to think it's a repro neck with a fake (oooh sorry Erik) pencilled date.[/quote] Yes - it's a very odd 'Frankenstein' neck! And one thing is for sure - it's not an original pre-CBS Fender neck.

[quote name='YouMa' post='422678' date='Mar 1 2009, 09:16 PM']...there really cant be that many 1960 Fender Jazz basses about! Surely?[/quote] 1960 Fender Jazz basses? Very few. Fender sales records show that the very first Jazzes were ordered around March 1960, but there's very little evidence of actual basses dated/delivered before August 1960. The generally accepted figure for numbers made in 1960 is less than 250. My own 1960 Jazz with a neck date of July '60 (and a 4XXXX serial number) has to be one of the very first made...

[quote name='wmsheep' post='422531' date='Mar 1 2009, 06:32 PM']Doesnt the "Webright" stamp on the neck pertain to early/mid 70`s necks?[/quote] Yes - I'm pretty sure you're right about that.

[quote name='bassaussie' post='422005' date='Feb 28 2009, 09:44 PM']I think you're talking about the "ratio" of the machineheads - too many windings. And yes, you're 100% correct.[/quote] Spot-on. Here's a pic of a real set of 1960 Jazz bass tuners as a comparison... [attachment=21258:60_jazz_tuners.jpg]