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.... let me leave also a short Comment about GreeneKing, who is an absolut reliable, responsible and kind Partner to deal with. It was Fun and a Pleasure to me Peter. All the Best.

Man, lots of nice Rigs in here... This is mine. Not so big, but in my Band we´re always using In Ear Monitoring, but as my personal Monitor (if needed) or in the Case that I play a Job as a Sub in another Band this Rig does its Job and sounds good to my Ears...

Here is my new 7ender P-Bass. It´s a PB 57 US (Japan) - Alder Body - One Piece Maple Neck - Spiral Vintage Bridge - US Vintage Pickups Sounds and plays awesome and I got Flatwounds on it. Hope you like it.

Go for a Set of Strings with a taperwound B-String (maybe also B & E String). This will improve the Sound (Tightness & Definition) of your "Low-B"

My Main Axe is a Maruszczyk Elwood 4p got to take some good Pics from the Others...

Basstown 212 Custom Light 2x12" + adjustable Horn can handle 600W@4Ohm 32 - 18.000 Hz 100db @1W/1m Onken Port 48 lbs.

Okay, here it goes... Short Soundexamples.... Please keep in Mind, that there are 20Year old Black Nylon Strings on this Bass... 1. Run = Normal, Both Pickups Tone ca. 50% 2. Run = With Phaser, Ratio about 50% 3. Run = With Distortion, The Full Hell :D:D [url="http://xlupload.de/Download/yh3mj1vbo08us9m5b2ze/"]http://xlupload.de/Download/yh3mj1vbo08us9m5b2ze/[/url] ...you have to wait 10 Seconds, than you can download or open the File...

[quote name='Bassassin' post='421618' date='Feb 28 2009, 01:21 PM']Asama is Japanese for "Big Bottom". Area - if you consider selling, let me know. BTW I take it the pics aren't actually your bass, since they're from the www.guitarmaniacs.de site? I'll go & do a bit of digging, see what I can find out... Jon.[/quote] Yes, this is exactly my Bass, because on "Guitarmaniacs" I´m registered as "Rumms".

..... This Bass was given to me Yesterday as a Present. Must be about 30-35 Years old. All Functions are working. Just needed a little Set-Up, Cleaning, some Contact-Spray and a fresh Battery for the Onboard Effects --> Distortion and Phaser... Has been standing in a Living Room for the last 20 Years and was only getting older. HaHaHa...what a crazy Bass, but with these Black Nylons on it you can reproduce some really nice 70s Motown Sounds.... Great... Ah yes...It´s "Made in Japan"

I have the t.c. electronic Vintage Compressor and I have to say that this is an absolute amazing Piece of Gear also for Bass. If you like a decent and not "pumping" Compression, this little Thing is absolute fantastic and delivers useable Sounds in every and also extreme Settings. In my Case it´s something like "Set and forget" Compression. Further it´s intresting that this Thing is absolute equal to the T-Rex Comp Nova. We did a Compressor Comparsion on Bassic.ch another European Bassboard and the t.c. electronic won this Comparsion. As far as I know, this Pedal is discontinued, so if you can grab one...DO IT!

If I had to choose between MIM or MIJ, i think I would go for MIJ. All Japanese Fenders I´ve seen or played until now, had a very good Quality. If you also consider a used MIJ Fender look for a Shop called "Tokyowaxhead" on eBay. The Seller is very reliable and fast. He offers also used MIJ Fender Basses. Not as much as some Shops like Ishibashi, but there are 2-5 Basses any Time. If you´re looking for something special, you have to call/mail him or wait and look in from Time to Time.

Just let me say, dealing with Icepick was real Fun and a Pleasure to me. He is very kind, responsible, reliable and everything was absolutely fine. I bought his Yamaha TRB 1005. A real nice Bass and once again, it was realy Fun and a Pleasure to get in Contact with Mr. Lord Icepick (Hey that´s an Insider) HaHaHa Cheerio Vern. Nice to know you.