chris_b

Stax rearranged my brain cells. Never the same again.

I'd do this in stages. My feelings towards modding is coloured by my experience. I replaced the P pickups in my Fender and liked the sound so much I jumped right in, adding a J and going active at the same time. Of course this was going to make a great sound even better? Wrong!! Neither of those mods made the difference I was hoping for. And I preferred the previous sound when P was upgraded. I could have saved myself a couple of hundred pounds by stopping there!

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1489975146' post='3261218'] yeah, SHOULD being the key word. . . I find guitarists are the worst at keeping time. [/quote] Yep. . . . [i]should[/i]. . . . because we all play with guys who need to try harder to be better. How can guys play out of time? It's like finger nails down a blackboard! There's a simple difference between amateurs and pro's, it's how well they can play in time. If you're playing with people who find it difficult to keep in time you'll be doing everyone a favour by telling them. You have to be exceptional to make bad timing work. The only person I can think of who got away with it was Keith Moon. John Entwistle said that playing with Kenny Jones was the first time he'd played with a drummer who came out of a fill at the same tempo as he went in. Kenny Jones sat in with our band and he was great to play with. I would hate to play with Keith Moon, but for all his problems he's still the legend!

Let us know how this goes.

+1 I'd look at the passive option. Also a good P bass pickup would improve the tone without having the hassle of trying to route a J pickup, which IMO will give you less than a top of the range Nordy or Lindy Fralin, Bart, SD etc. The uprated P pickup will cost a lot less than all the other work.

No Particular Place To Go. . . . played today as the encore. I loved every second. Also this week sees the 50th anniversary of Purple Haze. So we played Fire. Close enough!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1489893602' post='3260631'] Probably Clarkys Pino Sig Precision, it was just effortless to play. [/quote] It was a good one, wasn't it.

Chuck Berry was one of the most influential songwriters and performers of the 20th Century. He's up there with Lennon McCartney, Dylan, Lou Reed and the rest. Those who think they haven't been influenced by him had better check out their heroes. The 6 Degrees of Separation theory certainly applies here.

Always a genius. RIP Chuck. Treated very badly in the beginning and, sadly, spent the rest of his life trying to get even. There will be a lot of Chuck Berry songs being added to set lists around the world over the next few weeks.

The Harvest full leather gig bags are currently £259 on their web site.With the Mono M80 gig bags being listed at £200-ish, the difference is not as great as it was.

In a band everyone should be playing in time. There should be no [i]timekeeper[/i]. As has been said, embrace the spaces. Enjoy the clean uncluttered and fluid sound.

[quote name='ThePapabull' timestamp='1489834677' post='3260169']That might sound daft but I think sometimes that kind of thing can affect how you play! [/quote] Not daft at all. If you are confident in your sound then you'll be happy. A happy bass player is [i]always[/i] a better bass player.

Send it back or take it to a qualified repair man and send Maruszczyk the bill.

Louis Johnson used flats on his Musicman to start with. If that can work then flats on a Jazz will sound fine.

Doesn't the amp come out of that combo? If so I'd use it and see if the tone you have liked for all these years is still there. I use an Aguilar TH500 with my SC's. And I play Motown, Blues, Soul, Rock and half a dozen other genres.

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1488989404' post='3253550'] I've had a Compact in the past and I didn't really enjoy it- I was using it with the Orange and I think it may have been a bit of a mismatch perhaps, but I could never get a sound I was happy with from it. It was also a touch too transparent sounding for me. [/quote] Seems to me that if someone don't like the sound of a transparent cab then they're actually saying they don't like the sound of their amp. IMO a great amp would sound just that through a transparent cab. This is the trouble with neutral sounding gear, it puts the spotlight on the other parts of the signal chain. The stuff we might never have clearly heard because it was masked by other more coloured sounding gear. Moving to amps and cabs that sound very clean, with a well defined sound often bring out the comment, "I can now hear all my mistakes". It doesn't always mean that we don't sound good. But we do sound different and probably uncomfortable because we feel our playing is more exposed.

They're not being fair to you, at all. I'd want mp3's of what they wanted me to play at the audition so I can give it my best shot. "Just turn up and give it a go" doesn't sound like a very polished or professional outfit.

I have a Harvest leather gig bag. It's the best I've found. I know they're not leather, but if I was looking at a British company I'd check out Hiscox cases. I'm also using a Harvest strap. I'd recommend those as well.

With your requirements, after a low action I'd be looking at very light strings.

GHS Precision flats are great and won't break the bank. I have a set of TI flats on my PJ at the moment. I was interested to find out what all these tension comments were about, but IMO the TI strings don't seem to be very different from my GHS set. On the gig, both bands loved the GHS strings but I've also had good comments about the sound of the TI's.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1489682871' post='3258977'] Indeed it was Pan and on March 11 the [i]actual [/i]Vox Foundation you bought is in the ad at £95. Presumably you screwed them down a fiver which is £83 in today's money. Nice work, Sir.[color=#faebd7].[/color] [/quote] Wow, what a coincidence. My Dad was handing the money that day. Took me over a year to pay him back.

Was that Pan? I used to see lots of good gear in there, most of it hadn't been looked after too well. On March 12th 1967 I bought my Vox Foundation there for £90 and the transformer caught fire 2 weeks later!!

Ah yes. I saw the title before it was changed. But I'll throw in Da Doo Ron Ron, Ron.

I'll help you out. . . . . [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAR4Bb2QHI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAR4Bb2QHI[/url]

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1489575319' post='3258014'] Twice the price for twice the features [/quote] At the risk of ruining a perfectly good witch hunt. . . . Not twice the price. If my maths is right, the TH500 at approx £819 is slightly over 30% more expensive than the TH350 at approx £600.