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My (soon for sale) Modulus Graphite Quantum 6 EMG from 1990 :

1. It's bolt-on without screws. 2. The non screws placement is a superb anti-lutherie concept.

Buy a Leduc or an MTD : you'll hear the fundamental of each and every note. LeFay, Aries, Capelli, F-Bass and some others are very good too, but not to the point of hearing the fundamental of your low B. The type and gauge of string helps a bit, but if your bass has a dire low B unplugged, don't expect much when plugged. An electric bass is before all an acoustic instrument, so when it comes to acoustics, better listen to what a luthier has to say, and certainly not a manufacturer. But, you can check everything that has been mentioned before, it will improve a tiny bit your low B as well as other strings. Sometimes, you can get lucky and have a real good low B on a cheap Chinese bass, sometimes.

And here are the top ten of heaviest ones, which is not the same : https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/top-ten-heaviest-woods/

Using the Janka hardness system, here is the top ten of hardest woods : https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/top-ten-hardest-woods/ I had a fretless De Gier with a Dalbergia Melanoxylon fingerboard and it was indeed so hard that round wound strings didn't mark it, and it's not the hardest one, but the darkest one. And I don't trust Monkeypedia about any scientific subject or ... not.

Ammonia is aging woods (with just a wet passing) and it's been used for centuries in this purpose. Never heard of vinegar doing this, but you learn everyday.

The good old D'Addario EXL170 or EXL165 as I hate stainless steel strings, harsh to the ears and fingers, especially the Warwick Red which are just graters and certainly not greater. Best strings to my ears are the Fodera nickel, very close to the D'Addario EXL with a finer and softer winding, soft touch, flexible string, homogeneous sound. Okay, they are expensive but they last longer than the D'Addario EXL. Never liked the Elixir or coated strings, except the DR Black Beauties as they have a way more classic tone and feeling (but still that slight plastic touch).

Never seen this one before, but the one I was mentioning is the the sunburst one. This one looks to have an ebony fingrboard and looks like a luthier bass. Biréli Lagrène will sound exactly the same even with the worst bass on earth. Seen him a lot and he's always impressive being it on guitar or (fretless) bass.

Right, but as the OP is mentioning a 1964~65, then there is a pencilled date on, at least, one of the grey bobin. The stamp appeared around 1968.

Last year, for the 30th year death anniversary of Jaco Pastorius, Biréli Lagrène played a concert in Paris with the Multiquarium Big Band as an hommage. He played the major tunes of Jaco on the fretless bass as a he is also a (fretless) bass virtuoso and is well known for that over here in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy where he toured with Jaco in 1986. His relic Jazz Bass is a 1971~72 defretted à la Jaco, but it has dark fills, and has been his main bass for years. The other one is "newer" one. Check the announcement of last year concert : https://m.facebook.com/events/162103677813785?refid=52&__tn__=*s-R

The worst way to date a Fender is to use the serial number. First, this one has been refinished, the pickscratchguardplate is an aged one, as it has not shrinked and the thumbrest should be brownish. Ask for the neck date, the neck pocket inscriptions, the pickup pencilled date, the pots serial with the date to decode, the capacitor value, the bridge type, disassembled pictures of everyting to check the discolouration, uprising of the neck in the pocket, nickel or chrome hardware, close up of the logo on the headstock, tuners, screws, smell of the paint, colour of the solders, colour and type of wire, shielding, ... And then, you can start to rebuild the puzzle and date these old Fender's as it's really an historian work. 80% of the vintage Fender's sold today are fake and this one is 100% fake !

I posted this video a long time ago, and nobody even cared; Is this the Brexit effect ? Biréli Lagrène played lots of concerts in Germany and Italy in the 80's with a guy named Jaco Pastorius and they used to exchanged their instruments... Yes he is a great fretless bass player and he played fretless bass on some records too, like the first French Kiss album.

It's the other brand type of Peavey speakers. They had the Black Widow line and the Scorpion line. I've always preferred the Black Widow over the Scorpion, but the Scorpion wears its name correctly as it's more aggressive without being harsh. Make up your mind after the gig. 😉

The Sumo 1000 is really good, almost transparent, silent, no hiss except when everything is up to the max. Strangely it as a very progressive power response, so very usable all the way up... Even if I don't go that high, only 1/3 for "normal" use and it's pretty loud with a lot of headroom still available. I prefer to put the preamp to the max and use the input gain of the Sumo than doing the opposite because of the hissing you'll get this way. Of course, I gave it a run at full power and it's louder than my Hartke LH 1000 which is a class AB power amp rated at 1100 Watts. So yes, their proprietary power module delivers a lot of power. I'm waiting a Bugera BTX 36000 Nuke really measured at 1500 Watts RMS in class AB, so I could compare the raw power of both power amps. Eartquake forecast. 🤣

Yes, you can :

Wow, haven't listen to it for a while : what a mistake !

Isn't it the new Stu Hamm Custom Shop prototype made by the No Arms Blind Men Company from No decent Tools State ?

As promised, a picture of my dead silent rig (no fan at all) :

Just removed the one I had on my Capelli Custom 6 and threw it in the fire : ugly and useless to me, especially on this bass.

There is this one on eBay, the TNT 160 at a ridiculous price : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peavey-TNT-160-Bass-Combo-1x15/183684037023?hash=item2ac46bf99f:g:SFUAAOSwqhtcZAyI&redirect=mobile If you can collect it, it will follow him for years or even decades. It's heavy, but he is young. 😉

Those old Peavey TNT 115 with Black Widow are outstanding combos. You may not know him but Michel Hatzigeorgiou, the bass player who transcribed all Jaco Pastorius work (and who replaced him during masterclasses when he was too stoned) is still playing his faithful peavey TNT 150 of the 80's... And he's got a terrific sound.

And here, the real power measured. "Using a 1 Khz signal in, and a maximum of 2% distortion here's the results: 2 Ohm operation with only 1 channel = 930 WRMS 4 Ohm operation both sides at the same time = 625 WRMS per ch. 4 Ohm bridged = 1500 WRMS While in bridged mode I ran it up to 10% distortion and hit 1700 WRMS for quite a while before the 18 A on board breaker tripped." This will be the perfect companion for my Hathor 18134, rated at 1580 Watts AES under 4 Ohms. Earthquakes announced next week in the south of Belgium.

Yek, yek : bought it.

I mean its real measured power, not the lunatic one.