Woodinblack

Never used a G&L? Conversely I haven't ever really used a tone knob on a bass

DV247 have them in stock in the blue, or a return in the sunburst, if you mean the traditional JB look one.

My L2500 has a 3 way Quad switch, so it has Parallel, Single coils and series both. Probably a bad mistake, it is too versatile and I can never remember what the settings are! Its a shame they don't do their Vs as a tribute, Would love to try an SB2 to see what the neck is like though.

Maybe. My ideal neck width is about 16mm. So I am happy to play a 15mm or a 17mm bass just fine. Can I play a 20mm spacing bass, or a deep neck, yes of course I can, but I can't play it anywhere near as well, and thus don't find it as nice to play on. There is more than the spacing obviously, there is the spacing at the top of the neck, and the depth of the neck. The dingwalls are wider than that, but I found it ok to play because the necks are much thinner. Something like a P is not pleasant for me as it has a chunky neck and wide spacing. I have gigged them, many times but I can't play them as well as I could play an Ibanez for instance - I can't play it as fast and I make more mistakes. Literally I can play hit me with your rhythm stick on a jazz, but I can't on a P. So yes, I could probably get used to anything but if I am buying something, why would I buy something that I don't find comfortable when there are plenty of things that I do find comfortable, that would surely be crazy?

Amesbury? As I have had bad meals in both the George and the Bell, as long as you don't have to eat!

We have just started the commitments version of take me to the river, which I like as there are no correct tabs to it so I really had to listen And that, also started that one last week I am enjoying all these sort of tracks as I never did them before.

The tone controls on an active bass are only there as a byproduct. The main point is the buffering to stop the loss in the leads, enable you to present the same sound regardless of amplifier and lead combination and to prevent mains hum induction. I would have an active in any bass even if it had no tone controls (which I never really use anyway)

One of my wifes favourite. In fact his whole first album. Not as keen on the second

That is the reason for 90% of the 'news' stories on facebook! I would normally say that, but in this case, the fact it is currently broken is the problem to be fixed. Oh, another things, the pots in there at the moment (although they look a bit knackered), won't necessarily work well running it in passive.

Almost never the case. The only time you get that is the other way round, Leo Fender did a lot of experimentation with low output pickups for sound benefit which needed a preamp, but generally the preamp is not used for boosting at all, they are just for impedance matching. If you have a properly set preamp the output level should be exactly the same passive as active, as long as your amplifier impedance is good. With my ibanezs, the only way I know that it is active or passive is to change the bass control - doesn't work with the G&L, as the bass and treble are active anyway. The whole point of the buffering is that the tone is shaped by either the controls on the bass, or the controls on your amp, not the cable you are using, and also to prevent noise from in the system by providing a low impedance source.

It really depends on the system. Most active basses can be passive as well with no real problems. Obviously if they have active passive switches then they can be left passive. The only things that would be a problem would be actual active pickups, where the preamp is in the pickup itself, there aren't many of those around (and they are normally EMGs), and a few others that are lower impedence, which would be quiet, although you can always turn it up. I would personally try it and see (actually, that is not true, I would just put another preamp on it, I wouldn't be interested in having a passive bass).

Well, I used their contact form to tell them that I didn't think it was a great idea. It may be that they are not interested, which is fine, but there is no point moaning about something if you don't make the effort to contact the people responsible, so I did.

Also like the album (and UFO was the first proper gig I went to), but can't listen to it at home as it brings back bad memories for my wife so I don't listen to it much. Like you though, I was not really that much of a fan of their studio albums.

We do does your mother know - generally towards the end as it goes down so well.

That would work. Or maybe even put prices on them, there’s an idea!

My sr1000 barts which will be the same as the 1006 are different from the standard range, but also different from the later 5005 range, no idea what they are unfortunately. I assume the east preamp had a flat flat mode which let you know what they sounded like

In general yes, for the standard barts, but the barts in the 5005 are a completely different type, and although I bought some nords to replace them, I never did because they are in a completely different league to the barts in the normal range.

Which will still be worth orders of magnitude more than ours after march!

I can't be bothered to ask the first time, rather than keep asking. If it doesn't have a price I obviously can't afford it.

Well, thats what you get for not listening to the instructions. Was it, "go and listen to some guy isolated on youtube"? No, it was "go and listen to spotify". If you had done that you wouldn't have been able to hear the bass properly and you could convince yourself you were doing the right thing The only time I have had to relearn is when I have either hashed a version together as I had to learn 20 songs in a week for a gig, and it got ingrained (like moondance), or if I join another group who are doing the same song, and it has turned out that over the years of doing it in another band you have drifted so far from the original it doesn't fit, which is the situations I find myself in. I think both are a bit tricky really, once you have learned a song, changing it is really really hard. After all, I have no idea how I play those songs, I just tell my brain we are playing that song, it tells my fingers and then we get on with it

It is - price is the only thing that really identifies them. I go in thinking, well, I am sort of interested in a player series jazz bass. I don't know much about fenders, they all look similar. I have a budget of around £600 ish, so what is in that bracket. <looks> oh.. so nothing then.

Were you expecting it to recover?

Because some people want it, some people don't. Why does anyone buy a P bass? I have no idea but people seem to want to so it should be offered.

That is pretty bad on a new bass.

So I went into PMT which was the first time in a month, I was in bristol on my own as my wife was off looking round some show thing. I wandered around lookng at stuff, when I wandered into the bass section as people mentioned, there were no prices on anything, and it occured to me how little it makes me want to look at stuff. Looking briefly at the wall with the fenders, because I had a sort of interest in one of those player jazzes, I didn't know what they were, they were all there, the all looked the same. Without prices I couldn't see if anything looked interesting. So I left and went and looked round the keyboards (that mostly did have prices).