Doctor J

Lovely. I've had three Rays over the years and never even touched a Sterling. They're a very rare bird over here. I'd love to own one. The slimmer neck is right up my street.

Do you have an EMG blend pot as part of the system? There's a part on it specifically designed for you to solder older pickups onto.

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It may be the value of your capacitor, rather than the pickup. That might be a substantially cheaper solution.

Can you elaborate on the difference? How far away is each pickup from the strings?

More than once. I started on bass, it was always the instrument I was drawn to the most, but none of my guitar-playing friends were any use at writing songs. Widdling? No problem. Riffs? No, sir. After a couple of years, during which I was bassist in the school band, I bought a cheap Aria Cat from one of them and started to learn guitar. In my first real band out of school, I was the guitarist, much to my displeasure. A few years and a few bands later, where I was bassing again, a friend and I were trying to get a band together playing what is now known as stoner, I suppose, but wasn't well established at all, back then. We were on a serious Sabbath buzz and wanted sound like Master of Reality slowed down. We tried for ages to find a drummer who would play slowly but everyone we tried either couldn't play slow or didn't want to play slow. I'm talking sub-50bpm type of slow. Zero interest, but it was the music we wanted to make at that time. Eventually, I decided to give it a go myself. I started to learn to drum and we got a bass player instead. The band folded before we really got it together but it was great fun while it lasted and I still love the music we made together. In my next two bands, I was the drummer, before getting a bass gig again. In both cases, it was the music which drove me towards learning different instruments. If you're in a similar position, I'd say go for it. Why not? You'll learn a new instrument and you'll learn more about music, be exposed to band and musical situations you wouldn't be under current circumstances. Since those times, I been in more bands on guitar and drums than I have on bass, but I'm a better bassist because of my understanding of what the guitars and drums contribute and how they do it. These days, I live in the countryside and have room in the house set up a studio, with a fully mic'd kit, some amps, some basses and guitars and basses and I record songs from start to finish where I play everything. I'm even dabbling in keyboards. I will always see myself as a bassist first, but it makes my life a lot more interesting being not just a bassist. Always go where the music leads you.

Used to have one of these in blue, fantastic bass. Congratulations.

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I saw the guy from Super Furry Animals use them at several gigs. Brilliant concept.

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Of course not, as Leo had sold out many years before. Such decisions were the realm of the mighty CBS corporation who thought "Screw quality, shift more units! SHIFT THEM NOW!!!"

I'm quite partial to SRs in general, but especially the old SR800LE, something I lusted after as a young lad, particularly the Jewel Blue one. The Regulated Lo-Z pickups, the Omni-Adjust bridge, the lesser-sculpted body, the chunkier neck (like a svelte Jazz neck, not the super skinny SR neck they made after this), they just make for an instrument of which the sound and the feel are very pleasing to me. Blue ones in this spec were only made in early 1990 and almost impossible to find. That year, they changed to the SR800 with AFR pickups and Accucast bridge and, well, it just wasn't the same bass. There was a shop over here which had a blue SR800 in the early 90's and I really loved with the colour, but always preferred the LE spec. Over the years, I've had a few SRs, starting with the SR1300PM, a great bass but not quite right for me. I managed to pick up an 89 SR1000, which was lovely but, again, not quite right. I even found an 89 SR800LE in good condition but in black. Loved it, but it wasn't the blue I craved. I couldn't justify having two, so eventually sold it on the basis that if I ever found the correct spec in blue, I would have no excuse not to. I did find myself regretting that sale from time to time. Last week, I finally saw what I was looking for in sunny Italy and, since the Doctress is Italian, took it to mean all lights were green. It arrived yesterday and finally ends a very long search. It's a lot of trouble to go to for a different colour of paint 🤣

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