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Yes rather than Rush hopefully? Seriously though in my experience, the right music tracks tell as much about a speaker as anything else. Mind you it should be music produced before everything was compressed to funk. I find Sade classics reveal a lot and I know @stevie puts various sources through his cabs before finalising a design of his LFsys bass cabs.

This thread has gone wild and I should reign myself in but… Jazz basses. I keep thinking I should have one and every time I put one in my trolley/basket, I chicken out. So why do people like them? They are a Basscaster, the 4 string, long Strat with two single coils. The control plate looks like an afterthought. Block inlays? Not for me especially on a maple neck. With all the experience of the Precision, why keep the Elephant ears? Actually I know why, stock control and economies of scale. The Precision was named because, unlike a double bass, it had frets and Precise note intonation was ( almost ) assured. Why the name Jazz? Marketing ploy to open a new market? So why do I have a Aerodyne Jazz Bass? Well it has a P pickup in the neck position. I do like the 38mm nut neck width, the body contour is unique and the overall package moved me like no other bass has. What about the J bridge pickup you ask. Hardly ever used although it is now a DiMarzio humbucker. If I ever succumb and buy a Jazz, it will have both pickups replaced with DiMarzio Jazz humbuckers. However I suspect putting a Jazz in my basket trolley will be as far as it gets.

Get off the fence, you must have some opinions?😀

Just out of interest, I have Wharfedale Titan 12 Actives as my active cabs.

Well I am the OP on that thread and I love black, so there!

It's the twin single coils I do not like. No, you cannot make it sound like a Precision Bass. They also encourage slapping and self-indulgent playing.

Good info. Thanks.

You made my point for me. Mechanised tuning pegs is better than tuners. In the old days before electronic devices to check that stringed instruments were in tune, we called them machine heads. Why has this changed? Laziness? What would have this classic album be called if we all called them tuners, back in the day? Tuners is hardly Rock n roll.

Before I start, I am not talking about flown line arrays here, I was once involved in pro audio at a Manufacturer however, even with a good understanding of Electronics and an enthusiastic amateur's knowledge of speakers, active speakers are puzzling. A good name 12 could cost you upwards of £1000 (RCF, QSC etc) yet you can get some equipped with DSP for £150. The stick on a sub are quite popular and seem good value, BUT the sound of most lacks a lot in the mids and many are Bose sorry Bass heavy. There are some good sounding cheap ones, but reliability lets them down. Take the Music Group offerings, the higher end Behringers seem fairly good but seem to have poor reliability. From the sma group you have the mid-priced Turbosound Milan series, but has this name been compromised since Herr Uli gained control? Has Samsung's acquisition of Harman affected JBL? Two other brands, Engineered in the UK, HH and Wharfedale Pro seem to get little attention both the Titans and the HH Tensors have given a good account of themselves when I have heard them but are not available everywhere. The uprated Typhon from Wharfedale are hard to find. So no rules here, but just tell us what you have and why you like them, or not.

You could have had my Soundcraft UI16 for that price. That is definitely genuine. At least Dim Sung Audio said it was (no, it really is genuine).

I have just realised another, if I am allowed: Elephant Ear or Clover Leaf machine heads. As an addendum, people calling machine heads, tuners. Tuning pegs possibly, but not tuners.

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.