Beedster

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1503608466' post='3359714'] If it works as you want, there is absolutely no reason to update any computer software. If the applications you are using don't run under the next version of the operating system then [b]DON'T UPDATE IT[/b]. I still run Logic 9 under El Capitan. Both do everything In need, and therefore I see no reason to muck about with updates to either. [/quote] This. I still run Pro Tools 8 on Snow Leopard, and neither goes anywhere near the internet, and I still have this forum to thank for that extremely useful piece of advice when I was setting up the studio in 2010. All the hardware works just fine, and I like it that way (specifically my Mackie 1640i desk). I simply don't use any equipment that would require updating my software. OK, I guess one day something's going to go wrong with either the computer or the desk, but frankly I find navigating the constant issues around compatibility, bugs etc with software in other areas of my life to be sufficiently tiresome to ensure that I prefer the risk of major hardware failure than the almost daily hassle of software issues (when I bought the gear in question I was on the phone constantly to Avid in an attempt to iron out issues between the three core components, the desk, Pro Tools, and the iMac. Even given I had bought all three on the basis of 'compatibility', it took almost two weeks to get them to talk to each other, a process that involved my deleting various files, loading (and on several occasions subsequently deleting) custom versions of the software etc. But back to the OP's observation, Apple are no different to any other business, and perhaps far more customer-centred than many. They are always being bashed for the simple reason that they are a massive and successful business, but one that has to update its products at a frantic pace to keep pace. Perhaps it's a sign of my age, but I've always been an Apple fan, simply because of what they were trying to do in the 80's and 90's. Today they are in a different market - one which to an extent they themselves created and defined - and so are a different proposition I'll admit. They're a little like Nike, innovating thinkers and engineers for a niche market of passionate devotees in the 1970's turned mass-market fashion leader 20 years later. Both companies changed the world to an extent, but both face huge problems of their own design.

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1503590634' post='3359491'] Chris the bass arrived with a full complement of screws. I just saw fit to change them, new pick guard new screws sort of thing. I am very happy. [/quote] Excellent news Kev

And yes, that bass does not need a J-PUP

Hi Kev Really glad it got to you in one piece and on time (it's a sad reflection of the courier industry that constant hope and eternal gratitude are required of customers!). Now, the pickguard screws! I took off the pickguard yesterday to check the solder joints - not pretty, but functional - before I sent, and about 20 minutes after it was picked up I had that worrying "sh*t, did I put the screws back in" moment! If I didn't, please accept my sincere apologies and I'll get a set to you ASAP. If I did, just another sign of old age creeping in I guess! Enjoy the bass, it's the type of Precision I used to love, loud, bright, zingy and responsive. I've become more docile over time and now have an old '62 RI with very heavy flats and a rather muted, if not rather toneful, output Pleasure doing business with you mate Chris

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1503417204' post='3358069'] It may work; it may become a prison sentence. Customs bods are not daft. [/quote] That's the bottom line here. I had a lengthy chat with a Denmark St dealer about customs and it was an eye opener. He described how it cost him a fortune and hit his bottom line badly, but that there was no way he'd try to blag it. And he didn't strike me as the delicate type...... Either way, 23% saving on a 7-year old instrument plus risk of approx 30% duties/taxes, and the possibility that if you try to blag it things could get messy (bass impounded and a prosecution). As our US friends say "You do the math...." And imagine if you then had to return it because it isn't what you expected

[quote name='Burrito' timestamp='1503041910' post='3355205'] Thanks SICbass - I found some more pics here [url="https://www.talkbass.com/threads/nice-little-orange-rig.1120617/"]https://www.talkbass...ge-rig.1120617/[/url] It seem to be a fairly old story. [/quote] Bloody hell, those guys at TB take things seriously

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1503050450' post='3355306'] Thanks for your thoughts there Beedster Yes, I recall seeing a few early Ibanez PJ's. Just wondering whether Norman Watt-Roy's PJ was like that when he bought it in the early 70's, Or whether he added the J pickup, as he liked the tones on his other bass - that distinctive Gold Jazz I always thought he'd used the Jazz on the Blockheads records, but he says that he mostly used the PJ [/quote] I'd imagine NWR's P/J was simply a modded Presision unless it's a very rare Fender indeed

Lots of folks who played the 70's Telebass added J-PUPs out of necessity. It was around the time that active onboard electronics and better bass amplification were emerging, and bass players were becoming more creative, but neither of these could do much about the mudbucker on the Telebass Whilst I remember some awful DIY mods at the time, quite a few luthiers routinely did the J-PUP mod on various basses, some fresh from the factory, so many of the early example appear to be factory but in fact aren't. Earliest P/Js I remember were Ibanez and Yamaha. Fender only caught up a while later.