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You would not like my Aerodyne then. Now I wonder whether I should put a preamp in.🤣

We must be soulmates.

I had a Squire as my first bass and apart from that was like you until I got my Aerodyne. I think the painted headstock did it for me. However, the price of F is massive when you consider the ease of production. I paid about £600 including import and shipping costs. However I doubt I would pay that much for an F again.

It bugs me that: any bass is not offered in Black. a headstock on a 4 string has a 3 + 1 machinehead pattern. someone says they can only use one brand or type of bass, What are your prejudices?

The power amp is the ICEPower 700AS1, as used by MESA,ASHDOWN, and others that quote an 800W class D amp. The noise issue on the Veyron is a bit overblown. I have had mine several years and yes I have heard it but occasionally, and it is not deafening. I also have not heard it for some time. However, I have decided to investigate this. Watch out for a new thread eventually.

I have a bass (Fender Japan Aerodyne) I love it, and it would cost £1000 new if you could buy a 2003 spec one now. However, I have a Peavey Milestone P Bass (£50 S/H) and a Marcus Miller M2 that have both done countless gigs. Why would I buy a 60s bass that cost £30k plus.

As long as you do not go for any of the horrid Fender headstocks and there is not enough timber to do a G & L.🤣

Ampeg took about 8 iterations of the PF500 before the problems were resolved. The PF350 and PF800 did not seem to suffer in the same way.

Oh yes, especially if they are all powered from the same power supply. The cheaper Chinese ones are NOT isolated although they say they are. This means that noise, especially from digital pedals, can feed around the power rails, entering the signal chain via a high gain analogue pedal. So the likely culprit is the lead guitarist.

I am not so sure if it is "in the mind". I have an Aerodyne Jazz, P/J but with a jazz neck and while that was being refurbished (flood unfortunately), I bought a Peavey P Bass copy to play. It has a lovely neck, and it was only later that I realised that the Jazz and Precision did not share the same nut width. So I measured the Peavey, and it is 38mm, the standard Jazz neck width. I have played various Precision's, and it was not difficult, but it did seem to require more work, more concentration. Now that could also be down to the neck profile, I have not looked at that.

Shielding material is usually conducting rather than insulating.

Native North American wood, using sensible production methods, honed to perfection over several years making Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars. Hardware is adequate, finish, automotive paint. Not rocket science but then again neither is Rocket Science,

I must be blind but I can't see that.

I still have the originals, but I suspect they may have changed over 20 years of production. Next time I see them (chaos as usual here) I will measure them.

I cannot find that mic ceiling fitment on the K&M website. Ah, it seems you can only buy it with the mic stand.

Where did you get it?

As the original J pickup was the usual antenna, I bought a set of DiMarzios from @Dood. It is called a Jazz as the body shape is like a Jazz. However, the real ones, always had a P pickup at the neck. I would never have bought it with two single coils. Mine came directly from Japan, before Fender got heavy and stopped the Japanese music companies selling overseas. Even with shipping, vat and duty it cost about half the cost of a new one in the UK.

What. My black one or the OP's? When I first saw a Black Aerodyne Jazz in my local shop, I thought "Ooh nice, I bet it does not play or sound as good as it looks". So I played it and loved it. It has a 7.5" neck radius, so will not be to everyone's taste, but the new ones have a flatter neck, removing one of the almost unique features. Mine has survived a flood that consigned its hard case to the great musical skip, but with a little TLC the one shown above survived. I also bought it with some of the money left to me by my Mum, so "don't dis de Aero". Gad to see you got home safe from Outer Mongolia Somerset last month.

The front pickup is wrong, the rosewood is too pale, and it does not have an output jack! Of course, I am the proud owner of a 2003 AJB65, the original Aerodyne Jazz, or actually a PJ.

What part of Darzet?

I am about nine foot tall (well 6ft2) The biggest problem is bending down to tweak a knob.

No, the Government Front bench Active several knobs, with a couple stacked upon each other.

I stood behind my cab at a recent gig and heard it quite well. Of course, dispersion is as much about the audience as ourselves. We bassists are not so cavalier with our fans as the guitards.

What is a tube? I would say a 15-30 watt valve amp would do the trick😀

If you have to point is at yours ears, the dispersion is wrong, stinky poo, not very good. That means, as you tilt it, you hear better and everyone else hears worse. To get the mid-dispersion you need a cab with a high quality horn coupled to a high quality compression driver similar to those @stevie uses in his LFSys cabs.