Sean
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"I noticed that you've got a Yamaha bass guitar. I bet you dream of having a Fender one day." - random punter at a summer festival gig some years back when we were packing up my BB2024x. It wasn't the only time I heard that.
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Someone once suggested to me that, "we should do a Dead Boys tribute band, it'll be awesome. " That's a true story.
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I went to a jam night and it was brilliant. I played my Zebra Spector through the house Peavey Nitrobass head and 410. The soundguy told me it sounded epic - HAZ clone and EMGs on a neck-thru? Come on. I played 4 songs with people I'd not met before and very quickly felt like I'd been adopted. I ended up chatting with the regulars until nearly midnight. I really enjoyed myself and it taught me that it's possible to leave Gloucestershire and have a good time.
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I was chatting to a guitarist last night about his "new" guitar and he said it was bought specifically for jam nights for this very reason
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It was in Swindon.
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I went to a jam night tonight for the first time and it was fantastic. I was made to feel very welcome indeed, chatted to so many people. I did some songs with one of the Spectors and had a cracking night out. The sound was great, everyone was chilled, the music was good. I'm going back.
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I shall probably regret selling this but I'm operating on a "one in, one out" basis. It's an extremely good Jazz bass, full stop. The neck is slim and fast. Nicely finished and an absolute pleasure to play. I had flats on it for a while and it punches so far above its price point. It's got new (Sun 6th Apr) Legacy (Rotosound) Nickel 45-105 strings. It's been set up to Fender J specs (Sun 6th Apr). It's had the fingerboard done with Montypresso. It's got a high mass bridge (original BBOT bridge included). The cavities have been copper lined. 4.2kg I've got all the proper packaging so can ship at cost. If you want to try it, it's in Gloucester.- 3 replies
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Go and try, that's a big bonus. Make sure you play it standing up with a strap if that's how you'd ever gig it, this is where some folks get issues. The geometry of strap button position, strap hang etc puts some people off. It's not like a Tbird. Those strings are gimmicky rubbish. I bought some sets years ago, they last about 2 gigs. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. That looks like a peach and worth investigating.
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That's a white neck-thru Euro 4 LX, maple board, black blocks, black hardware? There's people on this forum that would sell someone else's granny for that. You'll see a unicorn Euro with a maple board next week 😉 but that one is right up my strasse. What are the black inlays? I'd make an offer but it's not really overpriced at £1.6k.
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I ordered some stuff, I asked in the special instructions that the pen and sticker wasn't included, so that I didn't get any stick at home, and it happened. Can't argue with that.
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I had some comms with the vendor. Looks like you got the deal around where I told him he should expect. Great buy, that one.
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I've read that post 3 times, Chris. My answer might be a bit skewed. When Leo was designing what would become the Stingray, he had a P pickup pushed back toward the bridge. Logically it would be more 'Ray-like. The placement of the Spector reverse P is somewhere in the ground between a 'Ray and a classic P placement. To my mind, moving it forward toward the neck (if that's what you're talking about) would make it more like those basses that have what I call "true" neck pickups (as opposed to middle and bridge pups), like the Yamaha Attitude or Gibson-style basses. More bass frequencies, less treble. -
"Questions..." as Roy Batty said. 1. What colour is that called? 2. Who did it? 3. In normal person terminology, what's the difference with X models?
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Does anyone remember the Wizard Area 51 P pickup with neodymium magnets? They had their own very distinctive sounds. I had one and it went in at least 3 basses and it had an unmistakable sound of its own.
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A used E4LX wins every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I'm all about value for money. Euros are great bang for buck new when compared to equivalent instruments. Used at the right price/spec ratio, they're unbeatable. If Spector basses suit you; they're Marmite X.O. it's like marmite but much more so and at £5.50 a jar you'd better like it. @cetera has a lot of good to say about the Pulse II and the only reason I'm down on it, is because it's new and will depreciate but that's personal choice. Also, it's not £400 of difference, it's £1200 of difference at new prices. The E4LX is double the price of a Pulse II and made by a small team of craftsmen in Czech to near-USA spec. If the E4LX doesn't work out, you can sell it on without a loss.
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What was it like before the refin? I put an East preamp in the NS5-XL I used to have. I got mixed black and gold knobs from John to make it look a bit different. Someone refinished that in the end.
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Agreed. It's still an 7oz bridge, it's It's not like putting a BBOT in there.
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If anyone needs saddles filing, I can help with that. What you're looking at above its the use of masking tape to protect the lovely shiny featherweight jewellery from any file slips. The slit in the tape is where the groove being worked on is. It's 4th string in the photo. I marked the lines, scored them and then filed them gently. I used the original as a reference and a tyre tread depth gauge to measure the depth.
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It's quite a bit different due to the pickups and LHZ obviously. The DCs are atomic but the PJ config that’s in there now is what I wanted, it breathes better and has more articulation rather than what you get from two hot double coils with a old-style dimed TonePump. The balance and feel of the bass has changed with it losing nearly a pound in weight. It’s gone from body-heavy to neutral. It’s dropped from 4.45 to 4.05 kg give or take a few grams. I managed to get the action and intonation 95% there when I roughed it so that was a bonus and I’ve set it up so that it’s very low, quite a bit lower than before. The new bridge is dream to adjust. Would I recommend swapping to a new-style bridge? Only if you’ve got an older Spector that could do with losing a pound. This one didn’t need it doing but it’s a nice mod and I learned a lot. Would I recommend DCs to PJ? It’s very subjective but it is a big difference, it makes it a very different instrument. For a start there’s about half the amount of pickup in there.
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That was my Bengal. The great thing is that restyled everything in the house to match! -
It's still going to sound like a 35" Spector and better than pretty much anything out there 😉. The bridge will take it down to 4.05kg. That's light even compared to a modern one.
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400g saving.
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If you've never played a modern Japanese BB and are interested, try it. It's a steal at this price. -
Stuart bought a bass from me. Super smooth transaction. Top Basschatter. Great bloke to chat to about all things bass and makes me realise how important it is that we stick together, get together and support bass bashes etc. We're a rare breed. Anyway, thanks to Stuart for his patience waiting for me to navigate the horrific Gloucester traffic carnage after a burst water main on A40.
