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  1. shoulderpet
    I will have to have a look and see if mine has designed in Germany on the headstock but looking at the pictures in your other thread it all looks spot on, right shape,control panel,truss rod cover, has the zero fret, the striped nut, binding,tuners look correct, even the strings look correct (the cheapo stock strings on Hofner hct basses have that same dark green silk so I don't think for a second that there is any question that this bass is an authentic Hofner contemporary bass and certainly not an ignition as they don't have the binding.
  2. shoulderpet
    Also, it is worth swapping out the tuners on the contemporary Hofners, projectguitarparts sells various Hofner tuners, I replaced mine with a set of the rugby ball shaped tuners
  3. shoulderpet
    Yep, there is something special about a Hofner with flats and once you get used to them they play effortlessly, you made the right decision with the lighter gauge as Labellas always feel a bit heavier than the numbers the gauge provides. The German Hofners are pricey but they are lovely basses, if you can afford it then it is totally worth it imo, tonally they go slightly deeper than the contemporary models (but that might just be down to the Pyramid flats that they ship with)
  4. shoulderpet
    Dimarzio Ultra jazz neck pickup for sale, £45 posted to UK address, not sure if I still have the original box but this has never been used and I believe these are around £80 for a single unit so I think £45 posted is fair, 4 wires means you can wire the 2 coils in series with each other for a beefy tone or in parallel for a brighter tone
  5. shoulderpet
    These are great strings, be careful fitting them though as they get very skinny at the tuner end so there is potential to stab yourself accidentally with them or to snap them if you are overzealous fitting them. Daddario tapewounds also work well Another thing to note is that you will need medium scale strings due to the tailpiece.
  6. shoulderpet
    Wow, wtf, how long before Fender renames the American basses as the premium range or similar and prices them at 3k and prices the MIMs at 2k ? I wouldn't be surprised if it happened
  7. shoulderpet
    Wow, that is pretty bad for that kind of money, glad he told it how it is on this. The thing is in the bass community we often tolerate and excuse sloppy QC,I know it is not the case in this instance but people even make excuses for it based on price(oh it's only a Mexican Fender/only a Squier etc you have to expect some QC issues)or based on things that they can fix that they shouldn't have to (it plays well so I will fix the other flaws) and I would bet that Fender knowingly crank out some lemons knowing that probably only half of them will be returned to them.
  8. shoulderpet
    If you cannot stretch to buy the German Hofner then the contemporary is the next best thing imo, that being said the tuners on the contemporary are awful so I swapped the tuners on mine for some nicer ones I brought from projectguitarparts. The Hofner ignition gets closer to the sound of the real deal than the contemporary but feels much less nice imo. The German made blows them all out of the water imo, I don't own one because they are way out of my price range but they feel like a work of art and the tone is just gorgeous.
  9. shoulderpet
    Now £390 , collection from Croydon or can meet up if you are in the London area
  10. shoulderpet
    And a picture of the bass before I added the bridge pickup so you can see what it looks like with the anodised gold pickguard. Not sure if I still have the bridge cover or the thumbrest
  11. shoulderpet
    I can agree with this, he has done some work for me and it has always been top notch
  12. shoulderpet
    I liked the Rotosound tapes but hated the Labellas but glad they are working for you, they (the Labellas) are certainly low tension and when I autopsied a set it looked like 80-20 or similar under the tape.
  13. shoulderpet
    For sale/trade is my Fender 50s P bass, collection from Croydon or if in the London area can arrange to meet. I swapped out the pickguard for a cheapy cream pickguard, I will include the original anodised gold pickguard also. This bass has some cosmetic flaws hence the low price, I have seen the Fender Vintera which is the model that replaced this one but is basically the same thing going for close to a grand so I think this is a very fair price, also will trade for an Ibanez SR bass I like this bass a lot and has served me well for many gigs but I really have gas for an Ibanez sr bass at the moment so this has to go I have added a Dimarzio Ultra jazz bridge pickup, the P pickup has been replaced with a Warman p pickup and the person who owned the bass before me swapped the bridge for a Wilkinson bridge. The controls are volume, volume and it is wired up with a solderless wiring harness. In terms of the cosmetic flaws I mentioned earlier there is a finish crack from the neck pocket that extends to the bass horn, the guy who fitted the bridge pickup said he thought it was because the neck pocket was such a tight fit. Action is slightly higher than I would like it but strangely enough when I had TI Jazz flats on this bass a while ago I was able to get the action quite low. The bass sounds really good, the Warman pickup has a nice clarity to it and the Dimarzio Ultra jazz bridge pickup adds some high end snap.
  14. shoulderpet
    The Cure are quite diverse, Disintegration and before is generally quite downbeat and morose, the albums after Disintegration are more upbeat and poppy, personally I like there earlier,gloomier stuff.
  15. shoulderpet
    You would be surprised how much tension a bass string can take, when I was younger and more prone to abusing my body and my instruments I played a Fender musicmaster bass with a 130-65 set of Rotosounds tuned to standard EADG tuning, I wouldn't dare to use such heavy strings nowadays
  16. shoulderpet
    Rotosound swingbass 90-35 set
  17. shoulderpet
    The only issue I have with Hofners is that the short scale and super narrow string spacing means that if you play one as your main bass of you switch to a Fender or anything else with standard 19mm spacing (pretty much 99% of current production basses) it will feel huge by comparison, this is the main reason I don't play mine more often.
  18. shoulderpet
    They are Ceramic, I think that and that they are wound to around 8k rather than the standard 10-11k probably does it
  19. shoulderpet
    And have received the Warman p pickup and fitted it, it was between that, a Dimarzio model p and a Dimarzio split p but I chose the Warman over the Dimarzio because the Dimarzio p pickups are known to be a little shy in the treble frequencies. Anyway, fitted it and I like it a lot so far, this is not a dull,thumpy SPB1 type of pickup(I detest the SPB1 btw) this seems to have a very full range sound, almost like a single coil in a split p format (still not quite as bright as a single coil but the highs don't rapidly drop off like most p pickups), works well with the Ultra jazz in the bridge position too.
  20. shoulderpet
    Just an update on this, I have ordered a Warman p pickup, I recently had my p bass routed for a bridge pickup and wanted something that would give that scoopy typical pj tone so I went with an ultra jazz (which sounds great btw), I was looking at p pickups and wanted something modern sounding as a lot of p pickups have a tonne of bass and low mids and not much top end, the Warman being described as full range, clean and modern sounding and being inexpensive seems like a good choice .
  21. shoulderpet
    Hi Anyone here used EMG Phz p pickups? I am after a p pickup that is less low mid and low end focused and a bit more on the higher treble frequencies EMG active pickups are known for this kind of tone but there seems to be a shortage of info on there passive Phz line of pickups, wondering how these sound. , Thanks
  22. shoulderpet
    That's fair enough, if you don't feel you need to then obviously don't ...... That being said I think that most people with jazz bass pickups if they measured the distance between the underside of each set of pole pieces and the corresponding strings would be surprised to see how much different the A and D pole pieces are compared to the E and G. I have noticed this on a number of basses with jazz bass pickups and it is due to the fingerboard radius, with P pickups you don't get this issue as you can tilt each half of the P pickup.
  23. shoulderpet
    Ok so I ended up taking out the bridge pickup (pj bass) and pushing up the pole pieces. Is a cheap jazz bass pickup (Wilkinson) so I figured if I ruin the pickup it is cheap to replace, pushed the A and D pole pieces up and then wired up the bridge pickup only, all good, sound from each string so I didn't damage the coil, checked distance between the strings and the pole pieces and much, much better. I could have just brought a model j pickup with the adjustable pole pieces but then you lose that single coil brightness and the slight mid scoop of both pickups on full, the Wilkinson seems to be a nice sounding pickup anyway.
  24. shoulderpet
    The only way to find out is to contact the seller and arrange to go and play it, if it really does play as well and with as low action as he claims then I would say it's worth it(a fret dress is around £120 in my neck of the woods)
  25. shoulderpet
    I'm seriously considering (very, very carefully) removing the pole pieces of a ceramic pickup and replacing them with these https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/3011374009 I have many times pushed pole pieces up on a pickup to get them closer to the strings so I know it can be done if you are very careful with it
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