JohnFitzgerald

Facebook has its detractors, but I've snagged one or two gems on the selling groups. This requires a little work to tidy it up, but it seems a fine thing indeed and has a lovely range of great tones. It's a bit minging, but well worth cleaning up, I'd say. [attachment=224596:Foundation 2.jpg] [attachment=224597:Foundation 1.jpg] [attachment=224598:20160731_161234.jpg]

It seems I must just keep looking then

I ended up hiring. £55 for a Jazz Bass Plus V. Well worth it.

I was £55 from Bauder Audio in Pennsylvania. That was delivered to the gig and I had it available to me for the three days of the festival. I took it out of the case on the first day, it played lovely, and I left it alone after that. I then grabbed it again at load in to warm it up in my hands, played the gig, then handed it back. I'll maybe contact Bauder and ask for a price to buy the thing.

Anyone have / had one ? I had the use of a hired one last weekend. (flying my own bass there and back would have cost £130, this was £55 and was beautifully set up with fresh strings). I now want one and it seems they're quite rare. This had lace sensor pickups and Kubicki electronics. Made around 1990-92 I think, in the USA. Looked sort of like this. [attachment=219206:FenderStanBody01W.jpg] [attachment=219207:StanTB.jpg]

Did a gig with this last night. It was fabulous. This band, we do Sledgehammer, so a fretless J is a handy thing to have. It's coming on a trip across the pond with me next week for a gig. I think we'l have fun together.

I love the careless alignment of the body join, the way it completely fails to run parallel to the general alignment of the bass. Just like my Harley Benton.

I'd have had it in a moment, but if I'm picking up a 4 string fretted bass, it's my very un Status like Status energy. Wooden, with a headstock and the most magnificently playable neck. Ever since I saw the video of your man playing one on youtube, I need no convincing of how good they are. I'd just never use it. [url="http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3yUniSTH1w"]http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3yUniSTH1w[/url]

Have you seen the black Foundation on the FB group. Central Scotland Glasgow / Edinburgh one ? £140

I know, and I'd love it. I'm officially maxed out in basses right now and there's nothing I'd like to get rid of to make space for it. How you guys with multiple basses do it is beyond me.

Someone local selling a Foundation, and has been for a while. He's trying to get £140 and had no takers. This is a US built bass.

Session 100w combo thing. graphic EQ and a 12" speaker. Sounded lovely at home. The minute you took it anywhere else, it was pointless. Thin, weedy, useless. I thought that 100w meant that was enough. I was yet to realise the importance of the speakers at that point. Ashdown ABM300 into matching 8x10" cab. Mud. You shouldn't have to do that much to the EQ to stop it sounding terrible, and the sheer logic of the EQ section defies all sense. Good or bad.

If the neck is anything like my Energy, it's the finest I've ever played.

I can't play a P bass to save my life. I hear someone else playing one and it sounds fantastic. Then I pick it up and it's just rubbish. Or rather, I am. Probably defines me as a failure if I can't get a decent noise out of a P bass.

I've never been at all taken with the idea of a gig bag. They may stop a bass from scratching, but I reckon that's about all. Mechanical damage is still a distinct possibility and you certainly wouldn't load one into a van anything other than very very carefully. I've always used a hard case, but those annoy me too. The bass isn't always held securely, can rattle about inside, and they take up so much space. I think I'm happy with the compromise I've now settled on. These poly foam cases - or similar. [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Bass-Guitar-Foam-Case-by-Gear4music/C87?origin=product-ads&campaign=PLA+Shop+-+GENERIC&adgroup=GENERIC&medium=vertical_search&network=google&merchant_id=1279443&product_id=15847d1&product_country=GB&product_partition_id=144462915199&gclid=CjwKEAiApOq2BRDoo8SVjZHV7TkSJABLe2iDe2YkxrqAeYqQrek4Y0TbIoIEQu-5nema7IDbY291cxoCS_vw_wcB"]http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Bass-Guitar-Foam-Case-by-Gear4music/C87?origin=product-ads&campaign=PLA+Shop+-+GENERIC&adgroup=GENERIC&medium=vertical_search&network=google&merchant_id=1279443&product_id=15847d1&product_country=GB&product_partition_id=144462915199&gclid=CjwKEAiApOq2BRDoo8SVjZHV7TkSJABLe2iDe2YkxrqAeYqQrek4Y0TbIoIEQu-5nema7IDbY291cxoCS_vw_wcB[/url] The bass can't rattle around, won't get scratched, and if the case takes a whack, the case is highly likely to absorb it. More so than a badly padded hard case which might just pass all of the impact to the bass, undiminished. I won't be stacking bass bins on top, but I reckon these work well.

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[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1456923974' post='2993552'] Really? I've always thought cheap = heavyweight.... My old Kay from 79/80 weighed a ton [/quote] Fair point. I had a strat copy a few years back, and the neck dive was phenomenal because the neck weighed more than the body which seemed light enough to be balsa.

I'd never really thought about bass weight much before. It's never caused me a huge issue, but now I have two or three here, it's become quite apparent the difference in them. Status Energy 4 string headed. 3.49kg or 7.7 lbs Squier Pro-Tone 5 string 4.32kg or 9.5 lbs Harley Benton jb40 fl 5.01 kg or 11.04 lbs I'm most surprised at the weight of the Harley Benton as I've been most used to cheapies being built from wood which was a bit flyweight. I'm glad the fretless will be played mostly sitting down. Have two longer sets coming up soon and the Five will be getting the vote for that, I reckon.

This plays and sounds every bit as well as my now sold mex Jazz Fretless. Sold the Mex for £350, bought this for £60. There will be no scratchplate. Tort or other. If J*** didn't need one, etc.. ;-)

Well, this is a rather obvious choice. I'm a sucker for this sort of thing and as if they aren't inexpensive enough, ( £116.66 new, plus delivery ) I bought this one second hand locally. Barely touched far less played. Looks like it should, plays like it should. Quite taken with it. [attachment=213610:20160229_215543-1.jpg]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1456595885' post='2990637'] I dont really regret selling anything. They are all just tools to enable me to do my job. Apart from a 1974 Jazz which I sold for peanuts in 1995 before the internet told me what they are now worth! [/quote] Aye. see my similar post for details...

I have this interview on Thursday. Not hugely looking forward to it.

[quote name='iamtheelvy' timestamp='1456523534' post='2990109'] Well, just finished our set and one song used very heavily accentuated mwahs with chorus... most people`s reaction was positive... [/quote] Aye, that's generally the case. In my acoustic band, (Piano, some guitars, a thing called an Emerald Amicus 12, and me on bass) I use fretless. It lets me do the lyrical sort of 'motifs'. It generally goes down very well indeed. "Do more of that sort of thing" generally encourages you onwards. I'll be honest though, everything I do is a very poor man's pastiche of what I imagine J*** might have done had he but 1% of his talent. I'll no excuse this at all.

I'm sure this isn't anyone in here. Sure added value. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CUSTOM-5-STRING-BASS-GUITAR-VINTAGE-RETRO-HARLEY-BENTON-PJ-5-HTR-DELUXE-SERIES-/291690211532?hash=item43ea1768cc:g:jbQAAOSwuYVWolID

Shouldn't have sold my... 1969 Fender Jazz Bass - Daphne Blue. Jaydee Supernatural, yes, a Mark King. Bought new, around 1985 or so. Wal Pro Bass. Status S2 Status S1 Yamaha TRB5 Steinberger JV Squier Jazz - bought new in 1982.