BrunoBass

Just came across this brand whilst browsing the Bax website. I’m a big fan of my £100 J&D Jazz from DV247, I wonder if these come out of the same factory?

We did a photoshoot the other day too...

Having spent three years hanging around Basschat and never having seen this thread until pointed out to me recently, I though I’d add a few live shots of me and the boys. We’re a three piece rock / indie covers band from Banbury, North Oxfordshire by the way...

Absolutely the same experience for me. You’re not our guitarist are you?!

Our drummer should. He has a tendency to speed up during fills sometimes; it’s barely perceptible but I notice, it would help him.

I really fancy an Aerodyne, that’s a beaut!

Thanks, that looks pretty much perfect.

Can anyone recommend a half decent plug in mic for recording rough demos and song sketches to an iPhone 7 (or iPad Mini?) I have a nice USB mic that used to be compatible with my iPad Mini; it drew power from the iPad and was perfect for recording. Up then in Apple’s perpetual quest to make their devices obsolete they changed the voltage in an IOS update. And the mic wouldn’t work anymore. Ideally the mic should work with an IPhone 7 with IOS11. Any recommendations please?

I used to use a TC combo: bass in one hand, combo in the other, bag of leads on my back. One trip from car to venue, nice.

Bass straight into the amp, with only a tuner in between. I did use an overdrive pedal for a while, but I can get the crunch I need with the gain control.

Thanks. In the short term I fancy doing something along the lines of a 51 Precision, but longer term I’ve got a weird idea for a semi acoustic that I’ve been sketching up, and also something based on a Jaguar type body shape. I managed to get hold of a good Jag body plan drawing recently so something may come from that...

It was that photo that did it! 👍🏻

Cheers matey, I’m quite pleased with it. Got the bug now, thinking about the next build...

Finished!! Well not quite, I haven’t installed the electrics or wired it up yet, but everything is together now and it’s looking awesome! I’ll replace the temporary strap buttons with Schaller strap locks, put on the string retainer and the tug bar once it’s strung. It’s the lightest Precision bass (or any bass for that matter) I’ve ever played. At just 6.5 lb it’s 3 whole lb lighter than my Fender Jazz, my shoulder says ‘yay!’ Looking forward to getting some flatwounds on it and seeing how it sounds!! Very pleased 🍊

No surface issues particularly, the 1000/1500/2000 process was recommended by a mate who refinishes guitars. As you say I think maybe even 1000 grit was possibly overly abrasive. It’s been a learning curve, this project!

I put everything together today (minus the pots and wiring loom, mainly because I haven’t got one yet) to see how it all lined up, drill the screw holes for the scratchplate and the pickups etc. Looking good, I then disassembled it in order to sand and buff the body. I left the tuners on though, no point removing those! Wet sanding the body was an interesting experience, mainly because things didn’t really go to plan. I built up many layers of primer, many layers of colour and many layers of clear coat during the finishing process and yet I had colour residue appearing on my 1000 grit w&d paper, used wet with light pressure. It’s as if I hadn’t applied any clear coat at all! I can only say that perhaps I didn’t prepare the porous paulownia body sufficiently; I remember it swallowed a lot of primer, I wonder if it was absorbing colour and clear too? (If I use a paulownia body again I’ll completely seal it before I grain fill). I ended up wet sanding with 2000 grit only, as I was worried about degrading the finish, before polishing with car polish. Anyway... it looks ok, not quite what I had in mind, but a nice finish nonetheless; kind of a worn, aged look which I’m cool with. Next job is to shield the cavities, wire it all up and it’ll be done.

That’s going to look awesome. With my orange bass, I thought a rosewood neck would look better with a white scratchplate, or (what I went for) a black scratchplate with maple board. Nice colour contrast.

Nice one! I enjoyed watching it come together, well done!

Only buy black basses so your missus doesn’t realise when you’ve bought a new one...

That song also meant they’ll probably never have to work again 🙂

Haha yes, they came back later for that didn’t they? I think I’d gone to the pub by then!

Yamaha have a shop in Soho too, and for many years one in Milton Keynes.

All the talk of Mouradian basses over at Build Diaries got me thinking about Extreme, and Pat Badger specifically. I remembered seeing their set at the Freddie gig in 1992, and looked it up on YouTube to reacquaint myself with it. I’m glad I did; Extreme were on fire that day, they absolutely nailed it. It’s too good not to share...

Go for it! BS557 Light Orange is a very close match if you need to get it mixed.