Baxlin

Many years ago I overheard a comment about me, it went ‘I can’t understand it, he’s got a catalogue bass playing through a keyboard amp, but it sounds great’. I no longer have the Hondo P-bass, but the OHM Tramp amp still comes out occasionally at tehearsals

Well fielded with that extra comment. Indeed, time for a boycott. So, back to your original thread subject, was it something to do with Warwickshire?

It’s allrounder good thread, I could crease myself laughing, must take a guard against it.

I’ll bail you out by suggesting this bit of the thread should be hit for six, in other words it’s over.

I rather like it, but I don’t have 2000 reasons to like it enough to buy it......

We are back to playing live again, smaller band, and the drummer using a drum box rather than the kit, although in a few weeks we are moving back to our bigger venue, so we may use an electronic kit. Last week’s band was keys, bass and drum, plus one vocalist. But a question - the service is live streamed on YouTube, but unless the wick is turned up very high, the bass doesn’t come through, even though it’s fine in the venue through the stage setup. (I have listened through the TV sound box, and my bass amp). Has anyone else found this? I finally got the sound man to dip into the YouTube stream while it was going out, which persuaded him that the bass players weren’t just wanting their few minutes of fame!

There’s a ‘Fender Precision Bass PJ - Black - Made in Japan MIJ’ currently on eBay, but it doesn’t have the usual Fender ‘elephant ears’ machine heads/tuners. The current bid is £11.50, so I’m wondering if something is amiss..... The eBay item number is 254755345954, hope this link works https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1989-Fender-Precision-Bass-PJ-Black-Made-In-Japan-MIJ/254755345954?hash=item3b509a1622:g:zt4AAOSwFWRfkDzw

Thanks, both. I was hoping for something like that, but tbh daren’t touch the screw heads!

Would that explain the access panel on the back?

Could I have some help/advice please with my Epiphone EB3? I tend to use the neck pickup, with the tone knob wound back, then straight to the amp. I've always found the second and third strings to be fine (it’s strung with black tape-wounds), but the first string sounds a tad ‘thin’, and the E booms a bit. I’ve lived with this, but recently I’ve been doing some remote recording, using Audacity, and the inconsistency between the strings is so pronounced that I’m almost restricted to only using the two middle strings! My old Marlin Sidewinder fares much better: there is still some disparity between the strings, but it’s nothing like on the EB3. I’m a novice when it comes to setting up instruments, so apart from “use the Marlin” is there anything I can do to improve it, or can anyone recommend a guitar technician in the Aylesbury/Hemel/Watford area who could set it up properly? Many thanks in advance Malcolm

Ouch! Have you tried straightening? The reason I ask is that if bending it didn’t crack the chrome...... Alternatively could it be dismantled, straightened, and rechromed? (Possibly not, though, as it seems to be riveted together.)

I bought a Westfield bass via eBay for less than £30, with the express intention of removing the frets. I’ve always been happy using hand tools, I just used a small bradawl as a ‘drift’ to tap the end of each fret, then carefully eased them out of their slots. If I was to do it again, I would definitely heat the frets to soften the glue, as I did have one wood flake. Not being confident enough in my playing, I didn’t try to remove all traces of the fret lines, but filled them with plastic wood, and sanding down carefully. I didn’t worry about the marker dots on the face, as the bass also had side markers. To finish it off, I masked it up well, and sprayed the face with primer and then two coats of satin black from a rattle can. Sorry I don’t have a better pic - I didn’t really get on with having no frets, so I sold it, again on eBay, for more than twice what I’d paid.......

Forgive my ignorance of basses from that era, but does the absence of a truss rod cover at the headstock mean there wasn’t one? Unfortunately I didn’t see the bridge end of the neck. Either way, how would the action be adjusted? By shims? As I said, forgive my ignorance!

Not seen it yet, but from this ^^^^^ do I want to?

Apparently tonight's episode is as they say ‘a second opportunity to see’ the repair of a bass guitar owned by Hot Chocolate’s original bassist.

Take these chains (Ray Charles)

Take a chance on me (ABBA) just for the member who wanted none of theirs........

Too slow? never mind Black is Black (Los Bravos)

Little things (Dave Berry)

If only because there are, to my mind at least, too many unfathomable ‘links’. And the number of repeats. Otherwise, no, I’m enjoying it. next one Who’s sorry now? (Connie Francis)

Down down (Quo)

^^^^ looks good, thanks for the link. I just searched on YouTube for bass backing tracks, and it came up with some I enjoyed, eg Fly me to the moon, Georgia on my Mind, Sunny, plus quite a few unnamed progressions in various keys and styles.

My guy (Mary Wells)

Walkin’ the dog (Stones covered it)

Captain of your ship (Reparata and the Delrons)