uk_lefty

If you're ever down near Hertfordshire you're more than welcome to. It's a lovely bass but my US Stingray is irreplaceable. I've also got a headless Washburn for the 80s nostalgia band so it's surplus to requirement, sad though considering how much time, stress and money that bass has cost me. Rehearsed with it last week and it's a belter.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a dog. It was just OK. OK in the mix. It just didn't do what I expect a jazz to do. It felt lovely on the neck but I'm honestly thinking a Sire V7 blows away most Fenders I've owned or played.

Nice collection. I don't think I've ever sold a bass through our forum, though I've bought two there over the years. It's really hard to find the lefty looking for exactly what you're selling and able to pay the going rate all at one special moment. I've got an Aria Pro II SB ELITE 1 that has had painstaking work done to make it a solid gigging instrument true to its original form and I can't shift it for almost 30% less than its worth on here, ebay, Reverb, etc. It's just hard to catch the moment I think, but with so little new stock I shops you'd think the second hand market would be going nuts right now. As it is I'm just waiting for the opportune time to drive down to the Gallery and put two basses in for commission sale.

Sounded poor in a band context and through an amp at volume. Regularly on the lookout for a second hand SY1 from now on!

Long story below, but my point is, what do you get for the extra money on a custom shop Fender? Seeing them at £4,400 up to over £10,000 now. I played one last night and have to say it was.... Alright. Last night I had the opportunity to play a lefty fender custom shop jazz. Journeyman relic, lollipop tuners, rosewood board with white binding... It was OK. I recently saw the Andertons video on the new Fender custom shop basses they have at over £4k each and thought they looked good and had good reviews. Luckily my friend paid about half that when he ordered his some years ago. I'm going to get my MIJ 75 Jazz reissue out later today to compare properly, but I just didn't see where the money went with this particular bass. The relic work was a lot more authentic than most I've seen, the neck felt lovely, but it just sounded OK. It seems the extra cash went in to relicing, matching headstock, a non standard colour, but I couldn't hear where any extra cash had gone. The bridge pup didn't honk like other jazzes I've played and the tone control had less range than others too. If I had been wearing socks I'm confident they would not have been blown off. I gave the bass a good tickle as everyone else was setting up, played the first two songs through a familiar amp, then put it down and got out my Stingray. The Stingray is a very different beast entirely but the feel and sound of quality was just a cut above the custom shop jazz I felt. From how this had been described to me I was expecting to going home, selling everything and getting a custom shop jazz on order. That will not be happening. I'd rather have a brand new US Jazz and Precision and enough change for a second hand car.

Ken Livingstone looks like a tortoise that's lost its shell.

I think he's got it dead right. Be in one of the biggest bands of all time, make shed loads of cash, live anonymously ever after. A plan I'm following, I just missed parts 1 and 2 off.

I'm tempted to add something like a Boss SY1 for synth sounds. I've come up with a couple of good sounds that I'll experiment with tonight at rehearsal (synth sounds, one v close to the start of Kids in America, one not like the original but doable for Sweet Dreams are..) but I've found what sounds good through good quality headphones or an amp at low volume does not always translate to the rehearsal room. I'm not taking my laptop to rehearsal to pee around with adjusting effects.

The drummer around the 2mim mark 😂

Are you in Hertfordshire? In which case I'd propose some kind of wacky races type escapade....

Sadly the closest I've got is when I used to have 2 separate Rootmaster 1x15s hooked up together. I'd love to swap my RM 2x10 with someone for a 1x15

Will they be allowed on day release for gigs?

Best approach and a good use of your consumer rights. I can sort of understand the shop policy though. Imagine if I had them bring up all their lefty basses to my nearest shop for me to walk out going "nah" after brief tickle of 10k worth of basses that could have been on display for a serious buyer somewhere else. 20pc is a bit steep to stop Tom foolery though, 5pc would be adequate to sift out any time wasters, and what if you try the MB but prefer something else that is in stock, would they transfer the deposit over?

Oooofffff I do love 2x 15s. There's something about sticking two of them in a single huge cabinet that just makes it somehow better.

This thread has revived at an opportune time... My 80s band wants to start to audition keys players.... Wish me luck! Every keys player I've ever met has had a distinct serial killer vibe.

I'd be very happy if Marshall brought out their own bass amps again. I used to list over the DBS amps and I check ebay for a local one at the right place every now and then. There's no reason they can't do well at it if they make a solid product.

Love it. Being a music theory idiot I find these fascinating, as well as Rick's sheer enthusiasm. I also love the song too, now I love it more.

Lovely jazz. Enjoying the ashtrays, stack knobs and colour combo.

Agreed. There's some really trivial B. S on YouTube. Reaction videos, unboxing videos... Years ago over in the US my nephews were watching videos of adults playing with toys, it was some weird marketing type stuff to demonstrate toys but I felt a little sad that they were watching this rather than just playing themselves. Probably like me watching bass videos instead of playing bass myself!

Super. I really struggled to find a good bass chorus. I went through the Behringer bass chorus, Boss bass chorus, Eden i90 or whatever it was called, Hartke, and then the chorus function on various multi fx. The Hartke was the only one I found reasonable for bass, the others were just... Meh. Quite enjoying using the guitar chorus effects on my Helix for the bass at the moment.

Nice! Is it a guitar chorus that you've commandeered for bass?

I started off with a Tanglewood P copy. Years later had a Hohner PJ which was no better than firewood. Then a Warwick Steamer LX with the PJ arrangement. I had an MIJ P bass, 1970 reissue with a Steve Harris pup and Steve Harris massive thick strings, I loved the size and clarity of sound from that but eventually moved it on to fund a jazz... Now I've made a PJ bitsa and it was OK, until I put a DiMarzio PJ set of pups in. This is now a proper P bass sound!!

"30% off"

Ash.

I don't think you'd need the extra knobs from what you say in your post. You can have two effects assigned as on/ off on the same button too, so I made one yesterday where pressing the footswitch engages both chorus and Reverb, so it's quite flexible. The only things it really doesn't have is wah and bass synth.