Doctor J

Brutal. What a gifted player.

You could use a slap-back echo. Pan the guitar one side, the echo to the other. Listen to Live at Leeds for a great example. Van Halen used to just pan Eddie to the left and let reverb fill the space. Edit -> As BigRedX says, keep the bass in the middle, along with the kick drum, snare and lead vocals.

That all sounds very promising, nice one.

If you're asking about Fender then generally yes. It's cheaper to CNC one shape and the cases for Jazz basses are universal, they fit both 4s and 5s the same.

Many decapited-then-repaired Gibsons would suggest so.

The Kubicki neck had lots of laminates, too

Just bought a preamp from Martyn, a flawless transaction as always. I'm a repeat customer and he's a great man to deal with.

I never really appreciated Lizzy until I subbed for a while in a mate's band who covered several of their songs. Then it all clicked. Yeah, the Black Rose album is something special, but the title track is utterly sublime, on a different level.

I have never had a bass which didn't sustain long enough for my needs, regardless of bridge or other unquantifiable magic items.

Have a look at some old Fenders for shonky neck pockets, yet nobody blinks an eye over paying ludicrous sums for them, regardless.

It's an Orion with the crown headstock and oval fretboard inlays.

Thanks Andy, I much prefer it, too. It's such as nice player, they really make very nice instruments.

I thought I had posted in this thread but it looks like I didn't. Here goes, then.

Orange body, maple fretboard, black hardware. Delicious.

What are you saying? Is there a better way?

So the neck stopped going... down, down? i'm so sorry.

They used to be a foooking machine, not the shambolic, disinterested, out-of-touch bunch of goons portrayed in that documentary. It's compulsive viewing. How did a band so, so good become so very, very bad? It beggars belief. I was a fan of theirs in the 80's when everything they did was immense and drifted away from them as the 90's dragged on. Even the band in the "Year and a half... documentaries are a unit. What they dissolve into over the following years is just staggering.

Gatalliga?

All downstrokes. Nice 😎

Yeah, don't go messing around, there. That's bang on 🙂

Leave it be. It’s your bass as it is. “Restoring” it would be like erasing part of your story with it and it just becomes another old Fender. Right now there is no other bass quite like it on this planet. It’s entirely unique. Why would you sacrifice that to regress to factory-level anonymity?

If anything it should illustrate how a bass cab is coloured to focus on a particular range of frequencies, wheres a PA speaker needs to be able to cover the entire spectrum.

Using the wrong tool for the job rarely ends well.

I love the first couple of Primus albums but, after that, the wackyness becomes more and more forced to the point of being unlistenable. Great player, all the same.

Nice to see Cliff getting some recognition, a very underrated bassist. Few sit quite as deep in the pocket as he.