Beedster

Crazy isn't it mate, they could have done something so iconic given those three legacy connections, and they produce something that looks like a B- school project

£16 for a loaded red PBass body…..? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156509129406?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=4zJtbUY4RxO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=155UlNbXQGW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Very nice 👌

Nice one, every day’s a school day 👍🙂

On a Precision I'd record with flats, but gig with rounds. I love the nuanced tone of flats but live that can get lost and sometimes you just need that top-end energy that sounds bring.

Not sure, I suspect it was just a chancer scam, if I'd not replied it would no doubt have been the last i'd hear. To be honest, I was f***ing naive; I listed it on eBay and within a couple of hours got this long message about how her kid had seen my bass and had decided it was the one for her because of the colour and the shape and how she would love to be able to buy it for her but couldn't possibly afford to so please do let her know if at any point I'd sell it for a lower price etc. I don't think anyone would even try such a blatant scam these days as we're wise to it, but I expect that if they did the same to a sufficient number of items - perhaps just send a standard message to a load of items - they probably did rather well out of the naivety of people like me.

Always hard to know what processing the bass signal has undergone in the studio, but I'm not hearing anything I'd not expect to get from any decent Precision there? But listening perhaps too deeply, the grindy bit is easy, the hollow bit perhaps less so (although I'm not hearing. alot of what I'd call hollow, the only bass that's ever really given me what i think you're referring to is a Ric with neck PUP soloed), and there is the risk that you're about to head down one of these....

Ha, I has EXACTLY the same albeit a mother buying for an alleged SEN daughter. Sold a lovely white EBMM SUB to 'the mother' only to see it go straight on eBay with a 50% mark up the next day. The eBay account I'd sold to was clearly domestic, but the account selling was high value music and hi-fi gear. A little digging around and it was clear both accounts were owned by the same person. What annoyed me most wasn't the financial loss so much as the fact that I really thought I was helping this kid and her hard-up mum out

Where it's disappointing and potentially unethical is when a member buys the item with an emotional story - "been after one for ages" or haggles the price down "bit short of cash" etc - and then it goes on sale with a similarly emotional story 'Reluctant sale due to...... my old ..... bass' but at a higher/much higher price. Doesn't happen often for sure, but has happened to me three or four times, including this year

It happens mate, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it 👍

Rotos or Slinkys then

Yes, different basses respond differently, it would be odd to have the same strings on all instruments (DB players of course take it to extremes by mixing sets on the same instrument)

It had to happen sometime Pete

I'm pretty much the opposite, I love to solo the Jazz snarl bringing in just a little bit of Precision grunt to taste, or vice versa. This seems to me to be the whole point of a P/J! Horses and courses eh 👍

I don't get the switch thing though, it doesn't allow any balancing between PUPs which is pretty important on a PJ after all (unless you do away with tone control), or am I missing something?

One or two stacked pots would have been so much better. I doubt that was done by NWG, it's very poor, I assume the seller simply bough the parts from them and did a DIY mod/install. If it landed chez Beedster I would rewire with stacks and fill the hole, it would bug me otherwise 🤔

This ^

Something almost scary about the pic in a nuclear/dalek kinda way 🤔 Wonder who won them?

Yep, but if O/P's guitarist is using 150w, none of the figures above matter? I think the problem is that plenty of combos will go loud - i.e., could go even louder - but in my experience most will not sound great doing so. Even the best bass combo ever made - Mesa Walkabout 12 - can struggle when things get messy. OK, it can compete in most situations, but it may not compete in the optimal way (and as far as I'm concerned I don't want my amp to compete I want it to win!). So, I moved from the Walkabout combo which was struggling at times, to the Walkabout head with two Bag End 12 and voila, still an easy load in/out, but both the volume and the tone I was after 👍