thebassist

Colour/fingerboard combo? Looking forward to seeing the pictures!

I'd agree with a 1 in 3 hit rate on the American Standard Fenders - maybe even 1 in 4 or 5. When you do find a good one though, they're really, really great. For your budget you could wait and get a US Standard from someone on here. While pretty rare, they do occasionally come up and sell at your kind of budget. Plus if you go second hand and you got bored with whatever you bought and wanted to sell it, you'd more or less get your money back.

So would you go for a Superlux E205 over a Shure SM57 for home recording?

Find a good playing jazz bass, install a good pre-amp, a decent set of pick-ups and you're there really. So much of the sound is in people's fingers anyway.

I currently record direct into my Scarlet 2i2 but I want to incorporate my cab too. Any of you folks got some strong recommendations when it comes to choosing a microphone?

Lovely Precision. Original guard?

Not associated with the seller but this will set you back about £100ish more than a new Mexican. Looks awesome - perfect colour combo as well in my opinion. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/274283-2010-fender-american-standard-p-bass-olympic-white-l675/page__pid__2935757#entry2935757

I'm not associated with the seller but this seems to be a bargain at £[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]575[/font][/color]. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/272196-fender-usa-standard-precision/

I'd have one if given to me But I've owned two myself and wouldn't bother again. They look awesome though - I wish I could get along with them.

Go try a few dude and don't worry about what anyone else says or thinks. If you find one you like, go for it!

I have the hum cancelling ones in my 2013 US Standard Jazz Bass and like them a lot myself. There are a lot of pretty good reviews online about them. I'm not all that aware of many negative things people might have said about them.

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1447763958' post='2910075'] The Focusrite 2i2 is less than £100 from Thomann, has 2 inputs and comes with Ableton Live 9 basic. There's very little latency and the mic pre-amps are of excellent quality... [/quote] I've got one of these. Plug and play largely. You could download Audacity free for recording too - it's pretty easy to use in my opinion and there are loads of tutorials on YouTube available.

Wow - this is nice!! http://www.public-peace.de/index.php/bass-guitars/maruszczyk/elwood-europe/6-string

I know you said must be brand new but there are always Americant Standard Fender Jazz Basses on here in as new condition available.

Please post photos if you do get it. I'm thinking about maybe getting an olympic white American Standard 5 with rosewood fingerboard.

Yes, as a few have said I wonder what is happening to the necks. Is it temperature/storage related perhaps?

Is it an American Standard or American Deluxe? In my opinion: 400 for either is a steal (assuming it's not actually damaged/broken, etc.) 600-900 for an American Standard is a fair scale and very competitive price for an American Deluxe. Depends on a few variables of course - and colour too - sunburst tends to be a little more expensive from what I've seen myself.

...mmmmm a 60s P-bass... How about a pre-CBS?

I agree totally. You pretty much cut out variances of the basses by buying high-end. My current 2013 US Standard Jazz Bass is superb but the store I bought it from had 4 of the same model in stock - they just had different fingeboard/finish combinations - the difference in playability was crazy though - unacceptable actually - 3 were very average or rubbish and only 1 was good.

Yes, I've pretty much arrived at the same conclusion. Been through a lot of basses over the last 20 years and always end up back with passive jazz basses. I don't fight it anymore