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One of my pet hates is having to thread and feed strings through the bridge. It's a PITA and risks the string scratching the finish behind the bridge. So although the BBOT bridge on my Squier VM P5 works fine I'm thinking of changing it for something quick release but preferably as straight a swap over as possible (6 screws in a line just in front of the back-plate) and that won't look out of place on a precision. Any suggestions that won't cost a fortune given it was a sub £300 bass new?

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To me heft means the deep lows you feel in your chest cavity not the kind that muds up the sound and blurs your vision in an unpleasant way. Love the tone of my Aguilar AG500 and it does have shed loads of low end available but turning up the bass too far tends to induce the latter type of low end unfortunately. I tend to keep the bass flat on the amp and add any extra lows I might need from the Big Bottom on my Aphex Aural Xciter which adds more of the desirably hefty type of low end.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1464542801' post='3060216'] Parallel then! [/quote] Doh!!! Sorry parallel yes. Running at 2 ohms in any case.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1464540456' post='3060203'] That'll shift a bit of air! The tops - you are running the amp the tops in series I presume? [/quote] Certainly does! They are indeed in series. Fortunately the amp will happily run down to 2ohms.

Very loud rock covers band playing mainly pubs and clubs but with quite a few outdoor/marquee type gigs at beer festivals, biker do's etc. All Peavey apart from the desk which is Yamaha. A pair of 4ohm UL215S bass bins on the bottom powered by a Peavey 2600 and then 2 pairs of 4ohm UL15 cabs for the tops powered by another 2600. Used mainly for vocals and fully mic'd kit bit with the option to put bass and guitars through it when needed.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1464473822' post='3059759'] This is not necessarily true. Those buying copies (marked Fender or not...) may well not be able to afford the 'real thing', or have any number of reasons for preferring another source (Lighter..? Different colour..? 'Better' sounding..?). The sale of a copy is not, every time, a lost sale of a Fender. [/quote] The only 'genuine' Fender equivalent of my Squier (being a 5 string precision) currently available is the USA standard which costs more than 5 times the amount new and does not come in sunburst/maple which is my preferred combination. I also prefer the more golden sunburst color of my Squier to the more tobacco colored sunburst on the USA P5. Incidentally my Squier actually came with a small Fender logo on the back of the headstock where it states "Designed and backed by Fender". I just enlarged it and moved it to the other side so it's now 'fronted by Fender' too

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1464469537' post='3059723'] I have a split coil Precision pickup on one shoulder. Only fair to point out that it's a Seymour Duncan. [/quote] Is it a proper Seymour Duncan though our just 'Duncan Designed'?

How does the Trigger's broom scenario fit here? Various bits of a bass get replaced over time until no original parts are left. How far through that process is it okay to continue to call the bass a Fender and how do you decide where to set that boundary? Is it the body and neck that define the bass as a fender? Just the neck? Just the body? Does one original Fender Pickguard screw make it a Fender (clearly not but you get my point)? To use the car analogy I'll bet anyone on here who ever bought a second hand car will quite possibly have bought it with at least one replacement pattern part on there somewhere. How many would it take for you to feel you hadn't bought a genuine Ford/Vauxhall/Perodua or whatever?

[quote name='Kex' timestamp='1464297236' post='3058325'] A squire is a nice guitar made to a lower budget and hence it says squire not fender. Changing the logo due to aesthetic preference is possibly the most original 'justification' I have ever heard. Anyhow, have to go, have to put a Bentley badge on my [url="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chrysler+with+bentley+badge&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1468&bih=996&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixtbeb1PjMAhVRFMAKHU8RBdQQ_AUIBygB"]chrysler with bentley badge[/url] [/quote] I'm not trying to justify it as such just explaining the reason I chose to do it. Most murderers have a reason for committing murder but very few could actually justify it after all. I don't actually have to justify it to anyone - it's my bass. I was really trying to raise a point of discussion around the point that even Fender themselves put their logo on products that they haven't actually produced themselves.

My two gigging basses are a Squier VM precision 5 string and a Fender modern player Jazz 5 string. I have chosen to add a 70s style Fender logo to the Squier because I personally like the aesthetic of that particular version of the logo. I'm not trying to pass it off as a Fender (especially seeing as Fender have only made a five string precision for a few years anyway so not available in the 70s) and I'd be quite quick to point out it was a Squier if anyone were to ask about it at a gig. Anyway. Neither of these two basses was actually made by fender themselves (the Jazz is Chinese built). The precision is actually more faithful to Fender's original design than the jazz with its twin humbuckers and of the two probably has the marginally better build quality. Does the fact that the company has opted to market the jazz as Fender and the precision as a Squier licensed by fender actually make one more authentic than the other or is it actually a case of it being okay to issue a fake if it's the company itself doing it? Incidentally though they're both brilliant basses and I have no intention of selling either of them to anybody !

I think it's the way he makes something so complex and requiring such a high level of dexterity look so effortless. My favorite player by miles. I was lucky enough to see him play live with The Who at Hyde Park in 1996 for their first ever live performance of Quadrophenia. It was a pretty spectacular show with some amazing guest performances but I remember spending the whole time staring at JE with my chin on the floor. I'd been playing less than a year at that point and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Not bad for my first ever gig!

[quote name='The-Ox' timestamp='1464042161' post='3056117'] Speaking of P basses, I'll be having a very very special one made in the near future hopefully, will show you all if/when its done! [/quote] Wouldn't happen to have a slab body by any chance would it?

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1463949152' post='3055288'] You don't need to, I'll let you know. I've asked for it to resemble stings p51 for batteredness and dull paint [/quote] That's good of you, thanks. I do like the heavy relic look personally and I can see how Sting's precision would be a good template for that.

I use a Snark pedal tuner. Clearest display I've seen on a tuner. Sturdy metal casing, actually detects a low B accurately and easily (unlike our guitarists' much more expensive Korg Pitch-blacks) and inexpensive too. Couldn't recommend it more highly!

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1463935558' post='3055115'] You can if it turns out well [/quote] I'll keep an eye on this thread then

Oh I don't know. At least they won't have to put up with 2 drunk blokes stood chatting to each other in the doorway, oblivious to the fact you're trying to get past carrying a 4x10 with a gigbag over your shoulder and a mic stand in your teeth!

Could I ask who it is doing it? Norwich is only about 20 miles from me and there's a bit of relic work I may be considering in future.

Having changed around basically all my gear over the last year or so and having struggled to get a sound I was happy with, I've spent quite a bit of time working on getting a good tone over the last few weeks. Well last night I got to enjoy the fruits of my labour. Probably the best bass sound I've ever had! A (slightly drunk admittedly) muso friend kept coming up to me to say how much better my bass sounded than when he came to see us a few weeks ago. Even better we had an enthusiastic crowd up, dancing and singing along from the first song and the band was tight as a duck's bum. Couldn't stop grinning all night !

I love both but not a fan of PJ basses myself (I do have a PJ at home for practicing but tend to just use the P pickup solo'd). I actually think my Modern Player jazz with its coil tapable humbuckers covers both sounds better than a PJ. The neck pickup solo as a humbucker actually does a pretty passable precision and with both pickups as single coils it just sounds like a jazz. It also gives you the options of all the other combinations if you want them so really versatile. Despite all that though I had my precision and the jazz at my gig last night and the jazz only came off it's stand to get tuned up so for me (at the moment at any rate) I guess it's precisions.

I'm using a Palmer Deepressor and loving it for this kind of effect. With the sustain control kept low at about 8 o'clock and the attack control wound up to about 3 o'clock I'm getting some serious punch and some nice thickening but keeping full control of my dynamics. Currently under £55 on Thomann.

I had an A6 for a bit. Fantastic bass in looks, Playability and sound. Unfortunately after about a year of gigging it I suddenly became old and decided I needed a precision and a jazz instead. Anyway, I'm off to buy some dark green corduroy trousers and beige Argyll print socks!

Over the years I've owned and used Laney, Marshall, Trace, Ashdown, Hartke, Line6 and Ampeg. All have been old fashioned heavyweight amps and cabs and some have been monstrous rigs by pub band standards which have towered over me on stage (okay I'm only 5'8" but still). My current Aguilar rig (AG500, 2 X DB112) is more middle weight than light weight really but compared to my last Ampeg rig which included a 96lb combo plus extension cab, it practically floats into the venue on its own. None of that would matter if it sounded like someone else's iPod on a bus but I'm currently enjoying the best sound I've ever had from this little rig and it's at least as loud as the loudest of my old amps too. Basses though I genuinely prefer to have a bit of weight. Had a Korean made Spector once which weighed about 7lb and I hated how flimsy it felt like it was made of balsa wood.

[quote name='Joebethell' timestamp='1463031239' post='3047887'] . love this but it's out my price range but if I had the money! [/quote] You only need enough money to buy a sawn off shotgun and a balaclava..... and for that rig I'd almost seriously consider a bank job!

Isn't it the Stirling SUB that's infamous for its excessively hot output? Pretty sure the standard solution is to swap out the pre-amp for a replacement Stinger pre-amp.