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Hi all, Just a quick one for any techies out there! I'm currently working my own 62 precision project. When I say project, I mean I'm buying all the parts and just assembling a reissue of sorts really. This probably isn't the most cost effective way to do things, but I want something that's my own and that's a keeper! Anyway the first question is in relation to the tone capacitor. I've purchased a set of "vintage style" Fender pots that have a .022uf cap. I've been trawling through the net and it seem that 62 p basses used a .1uf capacitor. Would anybody out there be able to confirm which I should use? I'm useless with this side of things, and although I'm sure I wouldn't hear the difference, I'm being anal about this "project". I plan to get it wired as per the AVRI 62 schematic on the Fender site. Now that I mention wiring....as I said above I'm useless at all things technical, so I rang my local guitar shop. The guy said it's a very complicated job and would have to be done by a specialist and that it would be pretty costly. To me, the wiring for the P bass looks fairly basic. It looks like access to a soldering iron and half an idea about what to do with it would get the job done. Am I underestimating this? Any help / suggestions welcome! Thanks, Paddy

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1334253374' post='1613354'] Hey Paddy, Welcome to BC. Have been on Anglesey a _lot_ and been looking at your house from there, so I'm an expert on Ireland (obl. Sarah Palin ref.). best, bert [/quote] I like it!! You just can't beat her for stupidity. Thanks for the welcome too!

Hi Calum and thanks for the welcome. Ah Tipperary, my ancestral home! Great place. Bring a camera! I live about an hour and half away right in the middle, but who know's, I might get to check ye out. Paddy

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1334151188' post='1611640'] [/quote] Thanks for the welcome discreet!

Hi, how are things? Yeah wasn't quite sure how much we'd have infiltrated the site, but imagined (as with everything) there'd be a few of us knockin' about! I'd hazard a guess that the O'Brien genes are pretty poor from a bass playing perspective, at least from this O'Brien clan!

Hi Alan. Thanks for the welcome! Not too far from Galway myself...it's a lovely part of the world.

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1333719134' post='1605695'] I had a great holiday in Ireland. Started at Belfast from ferry port up the coast to Port Stewart then down to Donegal and onto Sligo to Galway then Limerick and onto Killarney for the Harley Davidson bike rally where Whitesnake, Roy Wood and Bonnie Tyler played over long weekend at Gleeagles Hotel. Weather was a bit wet on the first journey to Port Stewart but from there it just got warmer and sunnier. Last 4 days at Killarney were glorious. Couldn't have asked for more. People were friendly and helpful everywhere we went. Ireland doesn't sell itself well enough by any means. Dave [/quote] That sounds like a pretty epic trip. The bikers always tend to like Ireland. You're dead right, we could do a lot more on the self-promotion front! The one thing we do lack though is good live music, be that original or cover bands. the whole doom and gloom of the recession has knocked that on the head a bit for now!

Thanks for the welcome Dave! I've a place in my heart for Scotland too...got married there and studied there part-time for a year! Lovely place, but I thought Ireland was wet and cold!!!

Hi from Ireland! New to bass chat, but have been playing bass on and off for about 14 years. Recently took the decision to get out of the cover band scene (classic rock mainly), and now just enjoying playing again (soul mainly)! Currently using a recently acquired 1989 Fender AVRI 57 P Bass through a Trace Twin Valve Combo. Also in the process of buying a 1989 Jap 62 P Bass. I've no real affinity to 1989, just a happy coincidence! Have owned lots of basses over the years, but am only a recent convert to P basses after stumbling on an early 80's Ibanez Roadstar (which I've since traded). Musical tastes range from rock to soul, and I'm actually really into the whole Motown and Stax stuff at the moment...Jamerson, Dunn, Babbitt, Felder etc. Looking forward to being enlightened!!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1333557558' post='1603558'] The muting foam on a P bass was glued under the bridge cover, so above the strings. The muting system on the J bass was below the strings, as it was on Gibsons and Rickenbackers. All those basses had factory flatwounds in the days when they had mutes. I don't think it makes any difference. Or, at least, what makes more difference is what material you use for the mute and how close to the bridge it is. [/quote] Ok that blow's the above/below the strings out of the water. I might have imagined that one up myself!

[indent=1]Hi all, this is my first post. Did I read somewhere before that a mute should be placed below round wound strings and above flats? Would appreciate your thoughts on this. I recently acquired a 57 AV P bass with flats and a bridge cover and am interested to know where the foam mute should be placed in this configuration. Great to see a thread on Babbit, who I feel sometimes is very underated. Just love his lines on signed, sealed, delivered and midnight train to georgia.[/indent]