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[quote name='Musicman20' post='851373' date='May 29 2010, 07:30 PM']Where can you pick up a Roadworn for £699?! Id be quite tempted by the Fiesta Red Jazz! PM me if you prefer. I was after another Jazz or Stingray to replace the place the Classic Ray was supposed to take. £699 seems fine to me and I can use the other Fender cases.[/quote] Modern Music in Truro, Cornwall sold it to me for that price. It was in the shop for a few months at £899, beautifully set up by the owner of the shop. He also had a sunburst one in previously. At first I didn't want the Road Worn- I played it, loved it, and he offered it to me for £799. It was still a bit too much, so I started looking at the Classic 50's series. He got a couple of those in for me to try, I didn't love them as much as I loved the Road Worn, which is when he went away to look at his books and came back to offer it to me for £699. This place has RW Precisions for £699- by far the cheapest I can find. [url="http://www.guitar.co.uk/guitars/bass/2419-road_worn_50s_precision_bass_while_stocks_last"]RW[/url] But you're after a Jazz, and these seem to be a touch more expensive. Can't find them for under £800 Wonder why that is? Aren't Jazzes and Precisions from the same range usually roughly the same price? Maybe it's all the great reviews the Jazz has been getting pushing up the price.

I got my local music shop to drop my Road Worn P down from £899 to £699, so if the hardcase is a huge issue get your best haggling boots on! It is a bit of a cheek to sell an instument for up around the £800 mark and only chuck in a £15 gigbag.

cheers, I'll hang on for a couple of gigs before I change anything. It was an awkward shaped room with a boomy stage. Otherwise I'll maybe tweak the truss rod just a pinch.

I gigged my recently aquired Classic Vibe 50's Precision last night. Really good, really impressed, although I did change the pickup and rewire it already However, what I discovered was an amazing drop in volume ONLY on the D, 5th fret A string. The A string itself was loud enough on all other notes, and all the other strings seemed to be fairly consistent across frets, but this was really noticible! Considering a lot of our songs are in D, this became a bit of an issue! Is this what's known as a 'dead spot'? If so, what can I do to try and fix it? It's still wearing the Stainless strings it had on it when I got it, haven't had time to change over to my preferred nickels yet, but I will do this.

The Road Worn's are very, very good. Like the guys have said though, it depends what you want. If you want a bass that feels like you've owned it forever, feels comfy, and just feels right in your hands, go for the road worn. I ended up getting a road worn precision, after being determined NOT to get one. I hated the fake relicing, I hated they were asking so much for a MIM bass, hated the salmon pink......then I played it. Knocked the socks off everything I played in the shop and everything I had played that year. But it does feel like an old bass, in a good way. Like an old comfy pair of jeans. You just have to try them all and see what you prefer- although I've heard the RW Jazzes are even better than the Precisions.

[quote name='stevie' post='848913' date='May 26 2010, 08:58 PM']It was a budget brand. I knew their PA speakers but I didn't even know they made a bass amp. They were well built though, with decent parts, but they were aimed at the lower end of the market. Your best bet might be to keep your eyes peeled for a secondhand unit. The current budget speaker best buys in the UK come from Fane and Celestion, both designed in the UK and built in China. I believe Phil has some recent experience of these.[/quote] Cool man thanks a lot. I'll weigh my options up. I've seen a Trace Elliott GP7 SM 150w combo for sale locally for £180 that I might go take a look at. I posted another thread to find a bit more about them, hopefully it'll be up to the job, but who knows? £100 for a decent driver in a budget amp doesn't sound as appealing as a trace combo! I'm hoping a Trace 150w will keep up with an AC Euro 200w. I had plenty of headroom left on the AC though. I'm gassing a bit for Trace at the moment I think.

[quote name='stevie' post='848880' date='May 26 2010, 08:31 PM']You might like to consider using a 12" driver for your cab. 52 litres is too small for a 15" unless you want it to sound like a floor monitor, but it's an ideal size for many 12s. Apart from giving you a much wider choice of potential drivers, a 12" chassis will: a) be cheaper provide a better balanced sound c) have superior midrange (all things being equal) d) have better dispersion. You'd need to cut a spacer ring from 1/2 inch MDF or ply to fit the 12. Quite easy with a jigsaw. AC Euro was a Yorkshire-based company from Doncaster.[/quote] Hmm that's good info, cheers! Do you know anything about the amps? I really can't tell how good an amp this thing is. Some gigs it sounds OK, some gigs it sounds horrendous. It has a few funny turns now and again, but it's fairly loud. Was it a budget type brand or more mid-range? Reason I ask is I don't want to spend a ton of money on something to find it still doesn't do what I want it to do, then have to sell it for next to nothing because AC Euro were the Yorkshire equivelent of Behringer. I'm fairly handy with a jigsaw, so the challenge appeals to me, although I have started looking about for a replacement combo. Any ideas on the perfect (cheapish) 12" if I was to take this direction?

Cheers! Some encouraging words there. I think they'll be ok towards us.... they better be, we outnumber them 5 to 3! I'll report back after the gig.

Has anyone got any experience with the above? One is advertised locally, and I've been toying with the idea of replacing the speaker on my current small combo, an AC EURO 200B. I have a Hartke vx3500 combo I use for the bigger stuff, but it's a pain to lug about, so a smaller combo is ideal for most of the pubs we play at. The AC is fine, but it's not great. It's easily loud enough, I only usually have to go about half way to cut through a five piece band. The Trace is up for £180. I don't really know much about them so before I go have a look and have to awkwardly explain it's not what I'm after, can anyone shed some light? I've always fancied some Trace gear as well!

Cheers guys for all the recommendations, great stuff!

My band will be playing alongside 3 Daft Monkeys at this years Fal River Festival in Falmouth, Cornwall. It's being billed as a Celtic Night, almost double headliner type-thing, but we're definitely a support act. This is a bit of a step-up for us, to be honest. We've done the odd beer festival but we're really a pub band that doesn't take itself too seriously. Anyway, any words of advice for playing alongside actual musicians would be gratefully received- and hopefully see you there!

That's probably something I should have mentioned I play almost entirely with fingers. Ideally the note clarity has to be good

Awesome leads, prompt postage, well packaged, good communication, all round top guy! Can't go wrong here!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='847483' date='May 25 2010, 01:38 PM']The by all accounts very good Eminence Kappalite 3015 looks to be ok in this box, not gonna go really low, but it is the first thing I modeled, and it looks happy, I am supposing the port is a round one? If you can get another driver much cheaper, might be better with one of those, you'd be wasting a bunch of the potential of the kappalite.[/quote] Cheers, Yes the port is round and front mounted. Price is a bit of an issue, so sure, if I can find a driver that can do 90% of the function for 50% of the price I'd edge towards that.

[quote name='Phil Starr' post='847454' date='May 25 2010, 01:17 PM']Just to save anyone else needing to do the calculation the cab is 52litres. this is fairly modest for a 15" speaker so you are probably looking for something with a fairly decent magnet if you want a tight non boomy bass. Try reading this as a start [url="http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/gear_maintenance/choosing_speakers_to_drive_your_cabs.html"]http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/gea..._your_cabs.html[/url] You sound as if you quite like the tone of the speaker you have so why don't you stick with it whilst it is reliable the only speakers I can find quickly that would be happy in a cab this size would be the Celestion BN15-400S or one of the Peavey Black Widows though I am sure that there are others. Of course it is not unusual for manufacturers to compromise the cabinet volume for convenience and for people to be happy with the sound. It would be interesting to see a pic of the current speaker to see if the magnet looks adequate for the cab it is operating in.[/quote] Mines OK but it is a touch boomy for me, I have to EQ very carefully. Plus I think there may now be an actual problem with the driver, as it's been sounding farty at recent gigs. Nothing has changed in my set up, but it does sound like maybe the cone has torn. It's a paper cone, and it does look a bit knackered. Cheers for the recommendations.

Been hoping to sort a decent driver for this soon! So here are the dimensions: Inside cab- 17" tall 17" wide 11.5" deep Port measurements- internal diameter 3" 4.5" deep Hopefully someone can recommend something armed with this info.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='845127' date='May 22 2010, 03:04 PM']If you are making a noise which is a nuisance to other other people, turn it down or use headphones. Its not difficult.[/quote] Ah but you have to remember some people have the capacity to make a complaint if they can even hear it, no matter how quiet it is. We used to get the neighbours complaining when we rehearsed in a semi-soundproofed studio. Their house was about 100ft away from the studio and there was a stone wall in between. I got the rest of the band to make a big racket once whilst I went outside the studio. It wasn't at all loud. I was suprised if they could even hear it at all, but my theory was at the time that it probably annoyed them in the same way someone else's headphones annoy you. It's not loud, it's just some people are intolerant.

My Hartke combo did this with it's 3A fuses. I put a 5A in and haven't had any problems since. Weird

Just bought a '51 RI Pickup from Tim for a steal after he had picked up a bargain Seymour Duncan. Nice to see people pass on good fortune instead of trying to rip everyone else off for a change. I know too many people like that unfortunately. The best thing being, I hadn't even advertised that I wanted this pickup, and he hadn't advertised it for sale. He popped up in a thread about pickup recommendations and like some kind of bass chat superhero offered me the '51 reissue which had already been recommended to me, for a bargain price. What a legend. It even arrived in a lovely Seymour Duncan box with the pickup nicely tucked away in a cloth bag! Miles better than the usual stuffed-in-a-jiffy-bag ebay transaction. Can't recommended this guy enough. Oh, and if all that wasn't good enough, I paid for the item on Thursday afternoon- it arrived Friday morning. Top bloke!!