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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30270368
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    [quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1417355896' post='2619456'] I think Beedster's looking for one of these. [/quote] Cheers walbassist, although I need one without frets! Having said this, I have a fretted TRB6 and in many respects they are the ultimate bass, so as has been said above, the buyer won't be disappointed C
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    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1971-Fender-Precision-Fretless-3-tone-Sunburst-Electric-Bass-/350874260201?pt=Guitar&hash=item51b1bc52e9
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    [quote name='ratman' timestamp='1417183940' post='2617911'] That's just brilliant, turning a real Ric into a Faker. I love it [/quote] It'll only add to its value [quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1417187201' post='2617979'] ... as my hands like the spacing of a J but not the dimensions of a J neck, a fiver feels just right. [/quote] Exactly my experience.
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    Climate change scientists assert that some of the most compelling evidence yet provided for global warming is that of the apparently coincidental demise of rappers Ice-T and Vanilla Ice in the mid-1990s. This theory is currently extended by a team from Thames Valley University who aim to identify whether the same global conditions were responsible for the failure of Liverpool-based Alt-Indie groovers The Icicle Works at around the same time. A counter argument is however proposed by the anti-global warming lobby which cites the fact that Aussie rockers Icehouse continue to tour and record as categorical evidence of the need for an alternative theory. They argue that their data suggest that crapness - and not rising sea levels - were the legitimate causal mechanism of the rappers' disappearance. Seal, Fish, The Eels, and Noah and the Whale are said to be anxious for issues around rising sea levels to be resolved at the earliest opportunity, as understandably was Sandy Shaw, whilst a spokesman for A Flock of Seagulls indicated that the band are keeping a keen eye on events. Bono has launched a charity appeal whilst Prince wasn't available for comment but has instructed several legal teams to investigate whether nature or God has infringed his intellectual property rights in any way.
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    After playing 5ers quite a lot back in the day I went through a phase of only playing certain vintage brands (Ric/MM/Fender) that didn't do 5ers in the models I wanted to be seen on stage with. Now that I've regained some common sense again I find 4ers really restrictive. I've still got two, both Rics, but both would be better with the extra string. I'm tempted to try and covert one of the Rics, which has both a lovely wide neck and fortuitously one of the long headstocks, to a 5er. Look at for that thread!
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    Taking the stage together at Glasto next year will be a 70's beatnick piano playing jazzer, 50% of 80's synth pop duo Tubeway Army, and 80% of 90's boy band Five, Tom Waits Four Numan
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    Fats Domino blamed what was in retrospect a poorly judged week long course with Weightwatchers for his latter career loss of identity.
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    Hamfist, you are the Mr Kipling of bass
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    [quote name='Stealth' timestamp='1413825534' post='2582437'] Or you can buy my very nearly new rig foe loads less. AND I can but food lol [/quote] Your rig is a bargain Stealth, even I can't justify two of them though
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    [quote name='lovetheblues' timestamp='1416985038' post='2615682'] The V4B is bliss!! It's like the best tone you can get with an Ampeg P500 and then make it 3D. It's amazing - the tone I was searching for :-) Mine is a 1994 model and it rocks! [/quote] +1
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    [quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1416951744' post='2615517'] Another option is to contact Andy Baxter www.andybaxterbass.com and ask him to find you an original 70's example. He's super-hooked up with guitar traders globally and he could probably find what you're after (year, finish, condition, etc..) I think you might be surprised how much less this option will cost compared to a special order Custom shop build. Better investment longterm too I imagine. Edit: I have no affiliation with him at all. I just drool at his website every once in a while! I personally would love a Y.O.B. '72 fretless P myself. [/quote] Spot on, and a wanted ad on Basschat ain't a bad idea either
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    Small PJB boxes, low output levels and hiss are in my opinion a fact of life. I had a Markbass 1x8 box that was about half the size of the cub but twice as loud and sounded much better with bass to my ear. The only PJB stuff that has worked for me in gig terms has been the larger boxes, but they tend to be both prohibitively heavy and expensive. In fact, I got rid of all my PJB on the basis of weight alone - if I'm going to lug that much weight to a gig it's going to need to be justified by several large tubes and the ability to wobble lower limbs. PJB gear is very very high quality in so many respects. But....
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    [quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1416834339' post='2613995'] ... as they satisfied my "light and loud" criteria, and although I'm not in love with them, I like them enough to not need to get rid off them any time soon. I have my criticisms about them too. I don't think they're the best sounding. But they do a decent job. I can't think of many bits of equipment that I love 100%. There's always something that could be better. [/quote] That sums up my thoughts exactly. I can walk my whole rig to a local pub with bass on back, do a set with sufficient volume and tone to keep up with the drums through a rig that to my mind fits the aesthetic and which is large enough to have the visual presence I like for a bass amp, have a couple of pints and walk home. In short, for me the cab does the job I need it to. I've had far 'better' cabs that didn't do the job in one or more respects. If Boogie made a 1516EV that I could similarly carry to a pub in one hand I'd be using that. If the larger PJB cabs weren't so ludicrously heavy I'd use one of those but they are!
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    Seems a very expensive way of getting a pretty bog standard bass tone (have a listen to Jamerson solo'd).
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    I doubt Martin Simms does anything that isn't absolutely outstanding. Might not be to your tastes (as per JTUK's post), but it will be of extremely high quality if it is. He and his team do very very high quality work
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    Not that Jas needs any more feedback but just wanted to say thanks for the rather lovely blonde that he parted with yesterday, as well as for his patience and helpfulness in doing so. As has generally been the case with me and blondes, I'm a very happy man this morning, and I suspect that this particular model might last a little longer than the brunette it replaced.
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    Oldest rule in the book is that the bass tone you prefer soloed rarely sounds right in the mix, both live and recorded. This is unless of course you're sufficiently experienced to have acquired a taste for the tone that does work in the mix
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    [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]I have experienced endless problems running various interfaces with both my iMac and my Macbook. All I can recommend is that you adopt the same approach that worked for me, that is - in your case anyway - entering 'problem [color=#282828]MacBook Pro plugged into an Audio Box USB by Presonus' and searching through all of the crap threads from various forums until you find one that has the solution. I'm confident that you won't be the first person to experience this particular problem, and one way or another every instance of it will find its way online. One thing I have found to my annoyance is that the support pages for the devices in question a rarely have the solution. [/color][/font][/size] [color=#282828][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]I've also decided on the basis of many trials and tribulations that I will not be changing interfaces anytime soon unless I really have to![/font][/color]
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    [quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1416425467' post='2610129'] Yes, you can connect up to another cab with one of them if your amp has only one input. [/quote] Or output? Great deal for a great cab and I am SO tempted Lozz. If it's still there tomorrow - which it shouldn't be - I'm on it
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    [quote name='Shaggy' timestamp='1416170634' post='2607624'] ........so an even more fab package than I'd first thought! Kev knows I've been sorely tempted by this, and if I wasn't about to spend an arm and a leg to restore your old "Wazz" to orig spec, Chris (I'm going over to Electric Wood next week) I'd have had this a while ago. That 4003FL was something special, mind [/quote] The 4003FL is still with me and ain't ever going anywhere again Greg. When are you going to EW, I'm gigging over that way next weekend (I think), would be great to catch up. And back on topic, the Fretless Precision would make a nice foil to the Wazz
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    I'm very surprised this hasn't sold so I thought I'd link to a few posts from a while back [quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1357688008' post='1926954'] I have to say that I had to think long and hard before selling that bass, and would probably still have it back if I only had a band! It is an outstanding example of one of the most iconic instruments Fender have ever made, with a very playable neck (with an incredible and sympathetic refin of the board by Martin Simms meaning that the playing surface is probably far better than when it left Fullerton), no doubt an equally good body refin by Howard, and a rather rare mix of good old PBass thump when you need it with some more interesting and less predictable tones (for example, I used it for a cover of 'Song from under the floorboards' by Magazine and it nailed the menacing and sinuous fretless tone to perfection). The buyer won't be disappointed [/quote] Still very true [quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1378302070' post='2198352'] Stick a BBOT bridge and both bridge and PUP ashtrays on that and it would look even better. Lovely lovely bass, really surprised it's still here especially given the rarity of the maple board [/quote] And I stand by that Kev, ashtrays on that bass would add to what is already a stunning aesthetic [quote name='Shaggy' timestamp='1397408674' post='2423645'] I used to own this neck - as is the way of BC; Chris traded it to me, and I later traded it back to him attached to a '79 ash body (not the one in the OP I think), and have to say it's quite phenomenally nice. Would be so tempted if had the moolah..... [/quote] Same body Greg, Kev had it refinished by the Bass Doc. You'll remember that the neck and body worked really quite nicely. I had this bass and the 4001FL at the same time and the only reason this went was because the 400FL really is that good a bass (in 20 years I've yet to find a bass to which I have such an affinity), but I do wish I could afford to keep both! All the best with the sale Kev C
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    Sold pending the usual
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    [quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1416079041' post='2606704'] I didn't notice the weight on mine as they are so well balanced and just 'fit' right. I wouldn't let 5kg put anyone off. Sounds heavy but doesn't feel heavy. [/quote] Thanks for that mr zed. To be honest, when I put it on the scales I was really surprised it was over 4.5kgs, even more so when the TRB-6 weighed in at over half a kilo lighter (I'd have put what little money I have on the TRB-6 being the heavier of the two for sure). Even now I know the difference, when they're on a strap they both feel pretty much the same. Whilst I'm on weight, I weighed the TRB-5 on a different set of scales today and it came it at 10.5lbs. Certainly in the over 10lbs region either way. Played it today also, I'm starting to wonder if I should keep it and defret it, it is such a stunning bass and would no doubt make an amazing fretless
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