BB3000S

Greeeeat!!

The answer is clearly "No". (It doesn't get any better than this.) That bass is pure sex.

Call me shallow, but I don't really like the distance between the pickup and the pickguard. I'm sure it's a right good P-bass though, and the blonde finish looks sweet!

[quote name='harvey1-8' post='1244795' date='May 25 2011, 10:10 PM']That's a good spot.[/quote] +1 BC to the rescue!

[quote name='molan' post='1242349' date='May 23 2011, 11:04 PM']The older NYC's aren't chambered but are still as light - apparently it was easier to get quality lighter weight tonewoods but they struggle to obtain these now. I must admit that I do prefer the NYC's but, as others have said, I think it's mostly in the fancy woods & some of the birdseye necks that you can really see any difference. Guitar Guitar seem to be about the only place with a decent actual stock of Metros.[/quote] Thanks! Guitar x2 seems to have a really nice selection. Approximately how old is old in terms of routing? [size=1](GAS attack finally settling down a bit.)[/size]

Oh man, I feel a bit of Metro GAS setting in - would love a B&B Metro... What about the NYC chambering and the Metro lack thereof? Played an amazing Metro at a friends' the other week, would an NYC have been as nice? My friend thinks No Way. Me, I absolutely love everything about my supposedly routed NYC. Anyway, where's the best place to look for Metros in UK?

Cool stuff, congratulations! Expecting a fair bit of Shuker GAS once my postman gets around to delivering my copy.

Plenty of Sadowsky love here.

One high end bass now, and two more eventually. Half seriously though, I've very rarely been happy with stuff I got for the main reason that it was "cost effective". That's not at all to say higher price equals better (rather quite the opposite sometimes), but I try to factor out the price part as much as possible in decisions like these. I's just not a good long-term indicator of satisfaction to me. Short term yes, long term nope. Hop this makes a little bit of sense.

I've quit the nicotine and all but laid off alcohol, so I don't feel so bad suffering from the odd GAS attack. Frankly, I enjoy GAS a whole lot more!

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1235459' date='May 18 2011, 12:33 PM']You asked for it: Sei Flamboyant Offset 5-string[/quote] Sweet mother of all that is fretless, this one is just amazing - wow!! Really, really nice!

[b]Windmill Jazz - the iPod Bass[/b] Long gone, was a really nice bass though. [b]Yamaha BB5000[/b] Love Yamaha BB's, and this one did not dissappoint. Had to let it go to fund my for-life Jazz-75. Mixed feelings about that. [b]Yamaha BB300[/b] My third ever bass, bought used and defretted it myself in 1987. Oh happy days!

Bought a Lakland 55-01 with Nordstrands and a Glockenklang pre from Pete a while back (Nov 2009 actually) and the whole experience including the actual bass was reeeeally Yummy!

Wow!

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OMG this was one of the worst.

[quote name='73Jazz' post='1234437' date='May 17 2011, 04:29 PM']- Cause if only 45 delivered to that shop in Japan it would be rather impossible to see one over here..but i have seen 3 times an OLY FSR in Europe. Now we can discuss about probability - My FSR definitely has ash as bodywood. I do not think that they swap body woods by color. but maybe i am wrong;) Maybe the point under comments means that from the whole amount 45 pieces are specially delivered to Yamano, but this doesn´t automatically lead to that only 45 pieces in OLY have been produced. @BB3000S Do you remember the body wood of your FSR basses?[/quote] I'd definitely say my LPB had an ash body, and not a light swamp ash, both in terms of sonic character but also because of it weighing a solid 4.6-4.7kg (what's that, 9-10lbs?). In addition, I've played another LPB just like mine plus a CAR and an OW with the exact samt specs, and they were all between 4.5-5kg. They were all wonderful basses and played really really well - IMO some of Fenders finest work and very true to a mid-late 70's vibe. My guess would be that more than one shop or dealer network globally ordered sets of basses from these FSR series, and perhaps the Japanese guys chose alder to lower the weight. 45 in total for OW, and to boot delivered only to Japan sounds unrealistic - I even think the earlier quoted numbers of around 200 in each colour sounds a bit low.

Very nice indeed, congratulations!! The Audere sounds interesting, I'm thinking of replacing an Aguilar OBP-3 with something else and the Audere is high on the list - never tried one out though. Would be interesting to hear some more reflections on it once you have played it some more. Definitely agree that magic stuff can happen with the right pre in a jazz.