Beedster

That, for me, is the difference 👍

Hope so 🙏

Looking forward to this

Now THAT is a bass collection 🙏

Post of the year

Looks like you just broke that rule, gotta let the bass go now or you go straight to Bass Jail 🤣

...and bassists 🤣

That's a shame, although having owned a few MIJ Precisions, the PUP was often the weakest link

I saw one in the flesh IIRC in Denmark St and it really was a very very nicely put together bass. It had a bound body with a trans finish and the grain on the body was stunning, almost good enough to suspect it was a veneer, stunning. Being MIJ I imagine it was also a very good instrument in its own right 👍

I would LOVE to arrive at a jam night with that

It was a nice piece and no doubt accurate and useful. Will it make me think twice about using tube amps? Hell no! And I'm pretty sure the word 'heft' wasn't even mentioned 🤣

He’ll be telling us that all basses sound the same next. Great vid 👍

Thanks for the balance Micky, he might do better if you did his copy 👍

The promo material for the gig put me off Steve, hence my quoting the Wales comment 🤔

'He’s regarded as a force of nature in his native Wales'. Great quote

You're very kind Jack, you'll be pleased to hear I'm currently building an uber-lightweight active aluminium 5-string fretless Fodera copy. I'll be in touch

Nerves are about audiences and this audience is going to be 120% behind you. It’ll be an amazing experience 👍

At 3-4k luck should not come into it though. I know that if I buy a mid-top range Warmoth neck and body, a Lindy Fralin PUP, a @KiOgon circuit, Gotoh hardware and spend some time on setup - £1000 in total including import duty - I'll get a great Precision bass 95% of the time. Frankly I find it f***ing amazing that with Fender costing 3-4x more it's still a 50% chance at best....

I've never played a Lull so can't comment, but point taken Dan 👍

A guy in a band I used to play in - he was singer AND guitarist - had a rather 'het everyone, look at me' car. We were outside a venue waiting for him a year or so back and had got into conversation with some rather nice locals who'd come to see the gig. Anyway, said singtarist arrives in said motor and one of the guys watches him pull up and said "You'd have to be a right f***ing c*** to drive that" to which I said "That's our frontman" to which he said "Ha ha, nice one, you almost had me going". He didn;t stop apologising. Point being, Nissan Juke or any car in that general space is NOT OK

There you go over explaining things again.....

I've owned several Fender Custom Shop basses that weren't very good but were in the same price range Dan. They looked great for sure, but they just didn't have that combination of playability, responsiveness, and core tone that says 'great bass'

Could be so many things from loose screws at bridge or tuners through to poor neck relief through to worn/uneven board. Assuming you've checked loose screws etc I'd suggest starting by taking up the action by raising the bridge saddles and checking whether that changes anything. If so, come back here and we can more precisely diagnose from there 👍