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[quote name='bassjim' timestamp='1467810997' post='3086431'] yes i must be more specific about what was not good. 1. the necks. all of em felt, by comparison to mine, really thick. I tried a pre CBS 60s bass prior to this down at Bernie Goodfellows place. Lovley guy there called Jim has a collection of pre CBS basses and let me check out all of em. The 60s jazz was fantasic. Played well, had a lowish action but the neck.....so playable. absolute ease. so musical sounding. inspiring. but........... thousands of pounds. well past the 10 grand mark so obviously im not going there. He has a few from the same stable and they all feel as nice to play. Now Fender claim they have made several "reissue" basses based on this model. well so far, based on what i have recently tried in the shops,either the model they have based the reissue on is a donkey or they are using the wrong bass to copy. 2. weight. again by comparison not really close. a lot heavier than the original to the point I can see a shoulder/back problem on its way with a friday night function followed by a saturday night function followed by a sunday afternoon pub gig. this is most weekends for me by the way so I'm going to pick up on this factor quickly. 3. sound. who would use these pickups on their basses as a prefrence? (shop ones) . No punch. kinda dead? remember thats three different shops through three different amps and nothing inspirational at all. remember this is compared to what I have at home. I paid £1250.00 for it btw so this is not a you pay for what you get thing. to be fair there may have been one bass but the guy didnt want to remove the bell plates so i couldnt really play it like that. but even so the neck was still chunky. bit like when you pick up any beginners instrument and the neck is chunky and deep. ok if you have hands like a gorilla but your average hand not so enjoyable [/quote] Neck width is a matter of personal preference, and how a bass sounds in a shop though an amp has more to do with the amp and room acoustics than anything else. Not great reasons for calling them a load of crap. Fair enough re. the weight though, I can see that being an issue, but you'd have to be deeply unlucky to come across that many unplayably heavy basses.

The SPB3 also sounds weird to a lot of people (including me) but it sits very nicely in a mix, try both pickups in a band setting or with drum loops and make your decision that way, it can be difficult to figure out precision pickups by themselves.

This happens to me at my house because of light switch dimmers elsewhere in the house. When I turn the lights off, the hum stops. If you get hum everywhere and not just in certain rooms, check the ground wire in the bass.

This is ending in a couple of hours, very low price at the moment, if i didn't already have one I'd nab it in a second, absolutely love mine. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131856729893?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l4878&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1467471161' post='3083949'] I can see why you don`t like Adele then. A singer to a DJ mixing other peoples work is just poles apart. [/quote] It's not singing I don't like. I play in a jazz band with a singer, I like her vocals a lot. In fact there are endless vocalists I love. It's Adele's music I find boring. Especially in the context of a festival.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1467398259' post='3083480'] Fixed. [/quote] Don't think anyone criticised her success. Some people find her music boring and depressingly middle-of-the-road. To be fair I can't stand that kind of music but I was there in person and watched 3 songs to see if it would change my mind, but my god I couldn't wait to get out of there fast enough. Went to Arcadia to see ShyFX instead, much better idea.

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1467189968' post='3081712'] I checked in and out to have a butchers at what Adele, ELO, Coldplay, Muse, Madness, Squeeze, Wolf Alice, PJ Harvey, New Order, Last Shadow Puppets and Tame Impala were up to. Gave each around 5 to 10 minutes and then turned over to see the footie which was way more interesting. I don't get why Adele is so successful other than she's better than the likes of Ellie Goulding and Pixie Lott. [/quote] Adele = Amy Winehouse for Daily Mail readers

Yeah it's nice, I'm liking the colours for that whole range. The bass is nice too, apparently they'll be pretty cheap so I'm guessing MIM.

Looks good! [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEsfufSGZ-I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEsfufSGZ-I[/url]

We have facilities for this at the university I teach at, but the workshops are shut until September. If you've found nothing by then, give me a shout.

I have lowered the tone of this entire thread.* But it's difficult to discuss festivals without this subject rearing it's ugly head (as it were). It's a difficult and potentially nightmarish aspect of every festival. Poo stories are the best, we should have a whole poo story thread. (*again. Sorry.)

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1467055583' post='3080883'] Why, why, why is it that the ones who supply festival portaloos can't ask for them to be designed better? I mean , they block after the first half day. Surely a larger drain hole/ piping system would be in order. These toilets are going to get much more industrial treatment than the average household bog, which has a larger drain. It's surely in these event suppliers own interests, as it must be horrendous to have to clean them ! I know it certainly puts me off going to these things and I'm a guy. It must be worse for girls. Last one I went to , I was walking towards the line of bogs and I watched a girl going along the line tentatively opening each door and quickly shutting them again , which at least gave me an insight into which ones not to enter! [/quote] To be fair they had 'compost' loos at the campsites which were a lot better. By 'better' I mean you did not want to vomit immediately from smelling them 20 metres away. I swear the best thing to do at festivals is eat food that makes you constipated so you can hold it in. But by day 3 that's pretty impossible. The only way is to listen out for the cleaning trucks first thing in the morning, and get in there straight away after they're done.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1467031516' post='3080593'] Had a similar experience in the toilets of a motorway service station - most of the stalls were occupied and I was desperate, so when I spotted a vacant trap I scampered in, only to find a truly enormous turd on the seat - with a union jack stuck in it at a jaunty angle. Just about summed up my feelings about the United Kingdom at the time. Which haven't changed, by the way. [/quote] It's all a matter of perspective. One man's turd is another man's treasure. I may have been unnerved by what I saw, but the cockroach on the other hand, he was about to have the feast of a lifetime. And it was probably laced with MD and lager, so he pribably got a good day's worth of fun out of it as a bonus.

Just got home from this, first time there, even though I've been going to festivals for about 20 years. The music and camping was fun. I mainly go for electronic music at festivals because I used to be a raver in the early 90s and I like to pretend I'm 23 again, so I can't comment on the live acts, because I spent all my time in various dance tents, except I did see Madness who were excellent of course. The mud on the other hand - oh my god. It was like a medieval catastrophe. This festival is so badly organised it's insane. They like to pretend it's going to be sunny, but just like the UK government, they have no contingency plan in case things turn out different to their expectations. The car parks were a sludge-fest, cars literally sliding around and sinking in mud, towed by tractors if they were lucky. It was genuinely terrifying. The entire site - which is enormous beyond belief - was swimming in mud. Almost nothing was even barely passable, so most people had to walk in narrow lines through the tiny tracks they put down, and even those were only in the main arenas. When the mud dried out a bit, it turned to glue, and people literally got stuck in it, by the hundreds. Loads of lost wellies wedged into mud with panicked people who felt like they were sinking into quicksand. It was absolute mayhem. Funny for 5 minutes, awful for the rest of the weekend. Also I know it's a cliche to moan about festival toilets, but I'm a festival veteran and even for me, these were the most disgusting toilets I've ever seen. Yesterday, I saw a toilet with a turd on the seat, with an apprehensive cockroach sat next to it. It was quite unnerving.

Without a doubt there's a difference, but your playing style, and how you listen to your bass will determine whether that actually matters to you or not. To me it makes a bigger difference than pickups, but I play straight into an audio interface with no amp or fx. I took part in a long and very idiotic thread over on talkbass all about this, it's amazing how many people think this is some mythical mumbo jumbo..

[quote name='Shockwave' timestamp='1466629624' post='3077468'] More likely that the weather affects your ears rather then the bass sound. [/quote] This. & your mood too.

sorry double post

I have a decent strap but I actually find the journey to and from public transport a big issue with a heavy bass, the more rehearsals I go to in various parts of London the more I notice it on my 83 p. I keep wondering if I should swap out the body with a lighter one. Would certainly give some insight into the 'how much does body wood affect tone' question.

very nice, I would buy one too if it had a maple neck. Did I notice you mention elsewhere that this is more expensive than a normal p in the USA? Seems to be cheaper here for some reason.

[quote name='zawinul' timestamp='1466334490' post='3074979'] Because i want to practise because i want to hear my bass, because I want an AMP AND CAB , did you even READ MY POST!!! [/quote] Calm down princess. People are offering you pretty good advice here, there's no need to act like a stroppy teenager.

[quote name='zawinul' timestamp='1466330434' post='3074924'] I want as clean and uncoloured bass amp and cab as is humanely possible so I then **** about with the sound with effects, or miking up the cab, or with effects in the computer, its really very simple and you are making it complicated!! [/quote] Sorry but he's right, you're making this complicated not him. Why bother with a cab at all? Either DI and use plugins, or DI once you've gone through your pedals. People mic cabs because they like the colour they add to an otherwise potentially sterile recording, but if that's not your intention, the TV / camcorder analogy is correct.

All the new demos on the Ernie Ball channel sound very good. I have no doubt this will be an excellent bass, as will the Cutlass, although it's hard to tell what they will actually sound like in these demos, the sound you're hearing is a mix of a recorded amp and a direct signal compression and EQ at the very least, and it's studio-massaged into perfection. But in terms making you want to own every bass on there, they've done a real good job

[quote name='DANIEL EDRI' timestamp='1466277691' post='3074655'] ok i, new here ? [/quote] sale forum this way: http://basschat.co.uk/forum/19-basses-for-sale/

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1466245361' post='3074368'] On my mobile at least, it just redirects to the UK site which does not feature the mod shop. If I use a free VPN like hidemyass.com I can browse it fine. Is it just me or you no longer able to select a P with a J neck like you used to be able to in the ADE? That was one of the best things about it. [/quote] Nope, no longer a possibility. I had a chat with a sales rep, they took away most options that could be considered 'interesting' or 'useful' in order to speed up order times. So now you can pick from stuff that makes zero difference to anything, and have it made it in a month, wohoo. It's basically a body color shop, not a mod shop. Colour - as far as I know - is the least interesting part of the whole 'design your own' thing. Don't get the thinking behind this at all. You can buy this thing a bit faster than before, but you would actually have to be a mug of monumental proportions to pay this much extra extra for a totally standard bass with a slightly different color. I totally got the design experience, I was ready to throw money at it but this is just pointless. Ah well. Back to eBay for parts..