MarkG3

Looking good! Ou7shined has some serious skills!

Update - Trace have been really helpful on the emails and respond quickly and they have organised for it to be picked up tomorrow to go back for repair!

Sounds good mate, never heard of Matamp before you got any pics?

Very nice!, what are the tone differences between the two Rich? I would of thought the maple neck would make it a bit snappier?

Yea I know haha thanks mate!

Sold!

Yea that's a shame but I always find you get a feeling for a bass if its right or not. I think the only thing I would change is possibly the pickups but I find the stocks are still good.

Pretty much what's been said but try,

Different bass
Different leads - including speaker leads
Press the active/passive button to see if that helps
Different cab or amp incase its the cab

Have you changed the battery in your bass if its active?

Great the issue is still there thanks TE.....I worked out the problem after 2 minutes of playing, basically if the second led is lit on the gain it distorts and crackles and this snycs exactly in time with the second led going out. As it crackles the led flickers on and off then as soon as either the led below or above it comes on it stops.

So 3 weeks my amps been away and it takes me all of 2 minutes to find the probable answer. Makes me wonder how long TE looked at it for.....

Update - amp recieved back today and the repair note says they looked over everything and replaced a pre-amp valve so looks like that was the cause! Still yet to test it and will post later once I have!

I used to play this a fair bit and is nice to play, my only problem was remembering it all as I would be ok until roughly just after the drums come in.

Amp wise I'm sorted.

Bass wise I'm gassing bad for a 2band eq Stingray with a maple neck especially after playing on one the other day that played and sounded beautifully, unfortunately there's that small issue of having the £££

Nice! TheGreek what colour is your Jazz? What about it don't you like?

Just shows how ignorant people are towards music - Peoples brains just get filled with the sh*t from X factor and Britains got talent and just think the people who 'sing' on the shows are everything and filled with talent. I think it's pretty disgusting that Macca isn't known considering what he has accomplished as a musician. Ok you may not like him but at least know who the f*** he is!

Any highways about?

Good luck with the sale mate! I can add that this cab is excellent especially for the price!

I'm listening to a few now, good find!

Muse - Resistance - What a bass line

Very nice good job mate!

Yea basically, as the finish gets hot it starts to bubble and crack then the scraper takes it off

What I had to be careful about was not to burn the wood!

Nice

I like watching how this is being put back piece by piece!

Yea they do get bloody hot I would of thought so, basically with the heatgun I've got it had a scraper thing for the end so as It was heating the plastic up I could just lift the finish off. Then once I had gone all round doing that I set to work on the sanding

Thanks to you both, Chris it took me 5 days to get it pretty much done then about 10 or so days just to wait on some parts I had got to put on. It is hard work but it's good to look back and think yea I did that I got a heatgun from screwfix really cheap which made removing the finish pretty easy - that and the sanding took the longest

Hi mate,

No idea about the strings as I haven't used them however go into the build diaries and look for my first build squire/fender - that's something I have just completed that may give you some ideas in pictures.

Taking the bass apart is easy, but just remember which screws go in where so they fit back in when you put it together again!

Any interest in a trade for a Fender Mike Dirnt sig?