JapanAxe

Bought an amp head form Martin, who was up-front about a minor issue with it. Martin kept in touch throughout the transaction. The amp arrived very well packaged and in good working order. Thanks Martin! Graeme

Welcome to the '73 P club!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1397503620' post='2424625'] Coupled with the fact that bass guitar strings appear to have a lot more inertia when it comes to making them vibrate using magnetic fields. [/quote] Yep, loads more metal to get wobbling!

[quote name='Jack' timestamp='1397502332' post='2424593'] Is that what they're worth these days? I have a natural with an uprated preamp that I was thinking of moving on to a more loving home, but if they're only worth £180 or so I may keep it! [/quote] Sold my natural (with J-type pickups) for £150 to my son. He is just about to start gigging it around Madrid in a blues trio! It's a very comfy bass to play. I sometimes wonder what the HB model would sound like.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1397499072' post='2424542'] I've never been able to get my Ebow to work reliably on a bass. [/quote] Me neither, partly because the grooves don't line up with the strings on a bass. Compressor it is then (cough) ↓↓↓

They all sound crap when I play them, so I stick to big fat basses [see list below]. I'm not knocking Jazz basses, in fact I'd love to find one that worked for me, but we just don't get on

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1397394005' post='2423450'] [b] [i]"I'm skint and in debt, a perfect time to buy a Fender jazz right?"[/i][/b] Wrong. If you are skint and in debt it is the worst possible time to buy a Fender jazz ...or any other bass. Play the bass that you already have, concentrate on the art of mastering the bass and become a better player instead - it's free. [/quote] This ^^ It is far more satisfying to buy kit from funds that you have than on the never-never. Credit cards balances typically attract some of the highest APRs outside of Wonga-land, so you will end up paying massively more for your bass. If you have a student loan, that will be bled from you over many years, but I would say make it a priority to pay off other existing debts. Believe me, it's a great feeling to be debt-free. If you really want the sound of a new bass, stay in one weekend and use the beer money saved to buy a new set of decent strings. [/sensible advice]

[quote name='Bassnut62' timestamp='1396971175' post='2419277'] That does look sweet! How *(if at all) do the metal covers affect the classic plastic-covers P90 sound? [/quote] [quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1396975886' post='2419374'] Almost impossible to say really! My other P90-loaded guitar sounds completely different, but it is a PRS McCarty with Seymour Duncans (original fitment). Apples and oranges really, as the guitar pictured above is a CS336, carved-out semi-hollow, and shorter scale length. [/quote] Having thought about this again, even allowing for the differences in the guitars themselves, I would say - Seymour Duncan soapbars - plastic covers, P90 size - bright and stinging, but with plenty of fatness remaining when rolling off a lot of the treble, get nasty with distortion. Bareknuckles Mississippi Queens - metal covers, HB size - mellow and sweet, more compressed sounding, classic rock sounds available with overdrive/distortion. You mentioned coil tapping on HBs - to me this rarely produces anything better than a compromise tone that will 'sort of do the job'. One notable exception was the bridge HB in the Yamaha Pacifica 604 that I owned, but that was constructed more like 2 SCs anyway. Hope that helps!

I had the USA-made Bullet Deluxe guitar. It was like a slimmed-down Tele with Strat-ish pickups. The body was a laminate (i.e. plywood!) - don't know whether the same applied to the basses.

Martin bought a MIDI switcher from me - prompt payment and great communication.

Tom bought my phaser pedal, perfect transaction all round.

Excellent! That's an easy song to play badly, so it's great to see and hear Jack Bruce's musical mannerisms accurately represented.

[quote name='JamesXP' timestamp='1397184418' post='2421587'] A leisure/marine battery is much better for his purpose than a car battery as they are much better at being full depleted and recharged over and over again.. whereas car batteries don't like this one bit! [/quote] This. You need one that can 'deep cycle'.