uk_lefty

Loving the fretless PJ

Hi, I chickened out of buying a sandberg P+MM (can't remember the model number) at the London guitar show last year but it was a long and painful decision. I did buy a fender instead but down solely to price. IMO you are getting more from a sandberg: active electronics, more choice for lefties, you can customise through their online spec builder. There really is loads more you can get out of it if you don't want an off the shelf fender. You can feel the quality in them straight away, really playable neck, the one I tickled was four string with ebony fingerboard, sounded perfect. The pickups are really clear and the electronics are intuitive, I.e. it doesn't take ages of tweaking to work out what they do. I could even give it a passable slap off the big mm pickup, and I'm not a competent slap player. Set up nicely it was great, I could easily have one as my only fretted bass. I think they're excellent value on thomann, not so good value from UK shops.

I quite like it to be fair. No idea who the bassist is, maybe squire will even do a Sig bass for me soon... Bet they won't do it lefty though so no point

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HAYMAN-4040-VINTAGE-BASS-GUITAR-SHERGOLD-BURNS/111892931763?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140221143856%26meid%3D0a63ae9c42b64b989a4108086915e6b2%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D28%26sd%3D161956444747 This looks interesting and in good condition, but is it a franken-bass? Both Hayman and Shergold names on it... Just saw in the "recommended items" in eBay. If I were right handed i'd be tempted to make a punt but know absolutely nothing about these.

A bit off piste here, but have you considered a DI with eq? I picked up a second hand Hartke VXL for around fifty quid. It does more than just a standard eq job and acts as a DI should it be needed to. There's budget brands like behringer and red sub and Harley Benton making DIs with eq in your price range.

Ok so I think I solved it... Turned off the Amp eq and tinkered with the hartke vxl to get the tone right. Put the limiter enhancer on to a decent enhance setting, worked a treat. Still not bringing out as much mwah as I would like but this bass doesn't so much ime over 14 years with it! Got a good set up for that bass now, turning the limiter enhancer off for other basses

Looks tasty!!! Have been toying with putting an MM or jazz in my white 70s reissue P bass... You, and sandberg, May have tipped me to the edge

My fretless is much lower output. I'm keen to use it with my band but it's such a contrast to my main bass (MIJ P with Steve Harris pickups and strings) I don't want unnecessary messing about. I also have a jazz that I use occasionally but unlikely with the band at the moment. My current thinking is to keep it on the board on an "enhance" setting and use only with the fretless. I think also going from my trace rig at home to the rehearsal spaces SVT isn't helping me find the right consistency... Trace will be coming to more rehearsals from now on. And I will be world's strongest man 2017.

Hi everyone. I'm finding my formerly trusty boss limiter enhancer now a bit inedictable. It used to be easy, it was in my signal chain to get rid of the loud clunk from engaging my ehx pedals and also to help me even out the dynamics when changing from one bass to another. This worked successfully for some time but I'm now experiencing a weird effect, particularly with my fretless, which really needs the enhance function. Basically I get almost a delay from playing the note to then hearing a highly compressed sound out the amp with lots of the character gone. My amp has a variable compressor and I now have a Hartke VXL in my chain. Do I still need the limiter enhancer or do I just need to be more patient with finding the settings (and writing them down!!)

I have an MIJ 70s reissue P with Steve Harris signature pups and the matching signature flatwounds. It is truly a monster and I love it dearly.

Just picked up a Boss bass flanger, the old Brown version... Can't wait to get it on the board and through the trace rig!!

Hohner PJ Bass. Bought on a whim from eBay because it came with a hard case I sold for fifty quid... Think I paid eighty for the bass and case together. It was just nothing. No character in the tone, rubbish neck, low output pickups, just a complete nothing.

A P Bass special, the 80s one with the two sets of P pups.

Delicious bass! Though not my style I'm afraid. I fell in love with a Sandberg at the bass show last year, you'll be getting great quality with that instrument!

Fudge me!!! If I'd spent that much on a bass and it has any defect ever I'd want a first class plane ticket to Germany to watch them repair it and being put up in one of those special hotels where there are lots of jacuzzis and scantily clad women walking about and.... You get the drift.

As long as everyone has a similar level of commitment its all fine with me... I make it clear to people: I'm not a pro quality player, I don't want to give up my job to try to "make it big", and if I am having a busy week at work and home that prevents me learning new songs properly then I say pretty quick

top advice, thanks - its opening me up to a few different ideas. Not wanting to play lots of notes, just to sound more authentic. thank you!