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[quote name='bassix' post='963540' date='Sep 21 2010, 04:58 PM']After realising that Precision necks really are a bit too much for liking I'm on the lookout for basses that fufill this criteria. I'm aware of the Lakland's and fender deluxe. I'm am looking at passive basses and something under £400.. Cheers![/quote] Ya know, I typed all that and totally missed the obvious! ha! - You might be able to pick up a Fender Jazz Bass Special or the active option, Power Jazz Bass Special off ebay for not a lot of money. BRILLIANT basses and I expect lots of pics of 'em on this thread. As used by Duff McKagan, the fellow from Simple Minds (err sorry - was it Derek Forbes??) and Mike Inez in Ozzy Ozbourne's 'No More Tears' video. Simple Minds: Sadly you have to wait till 4:27 onward to get a good look at.

Forgive me if I am incorrect - but I believe the 'A' profile neck on a Fender is a slim one? - I have a 70's CIJ American Vintage (non-export) P-Bass and the neck on it is nearly as slim as my'89 Power Jazz Bass Special which has a '62 Jazz neck profile. I believe my P bass has such an 'A' style neck. Would I be correct in assuming that Fenders around the late 60's and early 70's were made with 'A' profiles more than say 'C's?

[quote name='keeponehandloose' post='962475' date='Sep 20 2010, 05:47 PM']The jack socket. Can you imagine if every make had its own socket design to take a cable,rather like mobile chargers.[/quote] Good call!

D and H Class amplifier technology - undeniable progress in the performance Vs weight debate. I can see even more improvements made in performance too - there is a lot to be said about the technology even now, compared to 'D Class version1'. I support it with open arms (and a healthier back!!)

[quote name='Phaedrus' post='960174' date='Sep 18 2010, 09:25 AM']Glad to hear someone achieving this split signal idea. I've been looking into something similar for a few months, though in my case, I want to supply a clean, unaffected signal to one channel of a power amp [i]and[/i] to one channel of our PA, and another, effected, signal to the other channel of the power amp [i]and[/i] a second PA channel. Do you guys reckon the power amp you use is crucial? Would you get away with a cheapie, or might that be negating any gain from splitting the signal?[/quote] I think any power amp will be fine - but I personally would (like with any gear) try to steer clear of the real cheap and nasty stuff. To make your life easier - you could look for a power amp that has 'link' XLR outs - so you could just daisey chain the power amp inputs straight out to the PA without the need for a seperate DI box. - You'd set your signal TO the power amp and elave constant then control your on stage volume with the volume on th epower amp it self - thus, the PA / engineer wil always get a constant signal should you need to adjust your onstage volume mid gig.

[quote name='J.R.Bass' post='959971' date='Sep 17 2010, 10:13 PM'] + Total = £22 [/quote] I reckon something like that would do nicely - I'll have to look if they do 'shallow rack' sized shelves as well. _ i'd also consider drilling four holes in and mounting the amp via rubber washers direct to the shelf. Just to be safe. [quote name='stevebasshead' post='959985' date='Sep 17 2010, 10:33 PM']Ages ago I took my old Trace out of it's wooden sleeve and rackmounted it with a handful of bits of meccano. Perfect [/quote] Genius!!

[quote name='ahpook' post='959621' date='Sep 17 2010, 04:22 PM']aaah, get him so stoned he can't play... i liiike it [/quote] A good friend of mine actually played better when he was baked. I think it made him calm down and lock to the click better. Infact, I watched him record several songs, start to finish just to a click, no band and they were 'pro level single takes'. What a git!

[quote name='Mikeg' post='958840' date='Sep 16 2010, 09:32 PM']im in a small band with two guitarists myself a singer and a drummer, all i can hear is the drummer and my hearing going Anyone else had this?[/quote] Hand him some sheet music. Works for guitarists too. Silence is golden

[quote name='Stingray5' post='958994' date='Sep 17 2010, 12:08 AM']Nothing new here, but I was doing a bit of Kate Bush tonight ( ) and just wanted to post a couple of her tracks featuring John Giblin's tastefully understated fretless playing - (imho, of course ) At times, if I'm playing fretless, someone will inevitably ask, "oh, d'you know [i]that song[/i] by Paul Young...?" All due respect to Pino but I'll tell them I'd far rather be playing either of these two. Babooshka Breathing [/quote] Wow! I'd never *really* listened to these songs before - I LOVE the slid harmonics in Babooshka - perfect. Love it! Brilliant bass line - I'm off to listen again!

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='959983' date='Sep 17 2010, 10:27 PM'] [size=7] [b]=[/b] [/size] [/quote] ROTFLMAO and lots of other internet abbreviations.

and here's a chap doing a bass cover!

Anyone else think the price of the rack shelves are extortionate - and has anyone come up with a cheaper way of rack mounting the head?

Agreed, totally different circuit design and distortion characteristics. There's a guy on You Tube who has done demos of both pedals - [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/Burgerman666"]http://www.youtube.com/user/Burgerman666[/url] - Will give you and idea what some of the Sansamp products can do.

Most of the preamps mentioned above are 'rack units' though. So I wouldn't necessarily call them little. The VF-1 is a lovely little half rack, so I think that's a good example. How about the EBS MicroBass II and the Sansamp ParaDriver. Both are pedal sized preamps and are both brilliant! - Infact I like the fact that they are 'dual purpose' - sling them in your pedal board - or use as a full preamp!

Hi BramleyApple, There was a recent thread in this very forum about making money / earning a living from playing Bass that will no doubt be useful - I just can't find it at the moment!

[quote name='Pris-' post='957255' date='Sep 15 2010, 02:53 PM']Cool!! So Travis, that was YOU by the bar last year!! We met and you didnt even realise.. hehehe Dood, coolness! Now I'll be able to put a vibe to the name too! Tug my sleeve on the day, alright? I'm the one who's NOT Gary and NOT Stevie Gazunt, you're gonna LOVE it!! It seems to get bigger and better each year, y'kno. Is true!! Anyone, help Panther out? Please? I'll even throw in a Bass=Boss badge! [/quote] Hey Pris! Hell yeah! - it will be great to finally chat face to face too Okie dokie, I'll be sure to single you out of the crowd!

[quote name='tauzero' post='957083' date='Sep 15 2010, 12:13 PM']I remain completely unconvinced about the headroom explanation. The signal coming from a bass is of the order of 100-200mV p-p, which is considerably smaller than the supply voltage. It's like saying that you run less risk of banging your head if you jump up and down in the Vertical Assembly Building than if you jump up and down in St Paul's Cathedral.[/quote] I'm 6ft 3! If I jump in my front room I will bang my head!

Yeah, I'm popping along too

[quote name='far0n' post='953980' date='Sep 12 2010, 08:30 PM']So basically you can add more than one effect but have them not influence each other ?[/quote] Yes, kinda. Two seperate chains - so for example if you had a distortion and a chorus in one and a clean bass, octave and delay in the other, when you played you'd here both - but if you stopped - all of the echos would just be clean octaved bass, not distorted chorus. Or another way to describe it - you could have a chain with mono clean bass and another with some wide stereo distortion on it. The resultant tone would be pretty huge as there would be nothing eating away your bottom end - and across a recorded stereo mix, it would sound pretty lush (if you spent the time to make it sound realisitic of course) - great for playing in a three piece when the guitarist goes off to do a solo! There are limitations to how many effects you can have in each of the two signal paths. It's certainly not as flexible as my TC GForce was - but I don't think that 90% of guitarists make use of the infinite chaining options anyway!

[quote name='bubinga5' post='956353' date='Sep 14 2010, 06:39 PM']i would say your talking to the right man to advise you if you want J Shuker to build you a bass, he will know what pickups you need to achieve the sound you want.... why not just ask him, thats what your paying him for....the guy knows his sh*t like the best in the world... IMO there are too many options to choose from unless you have tried them all in lots of basses like a luthier has..[/quote] I have to type "+1 Million" to reply to this post. Jon has an incredible attention to detail and if you were to give him examples of the tones you like - he'll nail them! JJ Burnell was very happy with his bass ) - oh - and if the pickup doesn't exist that you want, he'll know where to go to get it made!

Hi guys, to add to the discussion, I have a CIJ PB70US-BLK (Which I believe like your xxUS Jazz will have the same larger keys than the PB-70). I upgraded from the standard chrome keys to gold and bought a really nice set of Wilkinsons off ebay. Now, personally I prefer these over the likes of the Schaller fender replacements because the Wilkinson tuner 'key' is longer and makes the key stand higher away from the headstock - I like. Oh, interestingly the Wilkinsons look exactly the same as the stock key that came off my bass - I mean - exactly the same, Wilkinson could have done OEM's for Fender! Anyway - quick ebay search found them for you - here's a few links: (The first has the dimensions on) [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-Line-Gold-Wilkinson-Open-Frame-Bass-Tuners-/150490895005?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2309f4d29d"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-Line-Gold-Wilkinso...=item2309f4d29d[/url] [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilkinson-black-bass-guitar-tuners-No-12-13-/140325330591?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item20ac0a9e9f"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilkinson-black-bass...=item20ac0a9e9f[/url] [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilkinson-BLACK-Open-Frame-Fender-Style-Bass-Tuners-/370413982335?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item563e64d27f"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilkinson-BLACK-Open...=item563e64d27f[/url] Finally, if you would like to compare the shape of your keys, I have a thread about my upgrades that shows both new and old keys in situ: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87360"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87360[/url]

It'd be great up until the point that someone approached you car and asked what tackle and bait you favoured. *smacks forehead*.

If you're in any doubt, I recommend sending a mail to EMG support. I think the guy I usually end up chatting to, Rick is always very helpful and knows his stuff. - I have seen EMG harmesses and components come up on eBay - so hopefully armed with the necessary component information, you might be able to pick up a bargain.

No problem at all! Pleasure!