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Another recommendation for Original Scratchplates. Take your existing scratchplate off the bass, draw round it & mark all the holes. Scan it & send to them.

Certainly my Rockinbetter Fakers were great in a band setting. I've only been able to use my Custom Walnut Faker (with Gemini Waverider pickups) with the band once because of the Covid restrictions, but it too sounded great (need to suss out the pot values on that). This one sounds similar to my old, pre-Vintage Circuit 4003, so all good there.

Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson

Bloody typical eh? Spotted an advert on FB for a 2011, Jetglo 4003 for a very good price, not too far away either. Got in touch with the seller, only for him to say he'd just taken a deposit on it. Bum. Yesterday, the seller gets in touch to say the deposit guy had backed out of the deal, and asked whether I was still interested. At the asking price, I wasn't going to turn it down, deposit paid. Arranged to meet up at around the halfway point, deal done. First impressions when I got it home, is it must have been kept in a garage or something, the paint's cracked in a few places and there's a few dings. It also looked like it'd not been cleaned since it was came away from the shop it was bought from. The case had seen a bit of wear as well, with one of the feet missing, and an indentation on the underside. Spent a bit of time cleaning it up, and put a fresh set of strings on, sounds great though. Toyed with the Vintage circuit, it's a bit trebly-er than the standard sound, I didn't hear the "classic" 4001 "clank", but it did sound good. No pics yet, I'll get some later.

Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue

Yup, we're still looking for a new singer, but with the rising R rates, the rehearsal rooms have closed again. Can really audition singers if we can't get into the rehearsal rooms.

Born Again - Black Sabbath

Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

What's the Frequency Kenneth? - R.E.M.

If you have the original, then you could get a custom one made up by Gig Ink. Or you could have a replacement "no name" one made. However, it sounds as though the original TRC is missing (assuming it's been "replaced" by another TRC). Other than the "obvious" other TRC, I would assume that original / NOS 2388B TRC's are as rare as a rare thing during a rare occurrence.

Redemption Song - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Get Your Freak On - Missy Elliott

California Dreamin' - Mama's and Papa's

Ibanez https://www.ibanez.com/eu/support/catalogs/19810101000008.html https://www.ibanez.com/eu/support/catalogs/19810101000009.html

What I Am - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

Edie (Ciao Baby) - The Cult

Things change. Tastes change, requirements change, situations change, times change.

I'd love to get my hands on a 4 string Long Scale Star Bass.

Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis

Ibanez are Japanese, and therefore use metric measurements. When I went through my "Vintage Ibanez Guitar Collecting" phase, I managed to find a few sets of NOS Ibanez knobs from the US & Canada, it is worth trawling eBay, but I'd expect them to be be pretty expensive these days. The Ibanez Collectors World site used to be really good, especially for the guitars, but there was a lot of bass info on there as well. IIRC, Ibanez did a good run of "Vintage Reissues" from their 70's & 80's catalogue, and they also reissued the "speed knobs" with the rubber rings. You may be able to find some of the reissue knobs.

Have a look at the Yamaha, definitely worth considering. However, whether you get another bass or not, I would really get the Spector in to someone for a damn good look over / service / setup, as it's still looking decent after all this time in the garage.

Stone Free - Jimi Hendrix Experience

I definitely think that the move to a single piece button/screw for the S Locks was a really daft decision, when the button and separate screw combination was simple, and it just worked. If you do a bit of searching, you can still get the old style strap locks.

The pointy bits will catch on something.

I went through the very same process a few years ago, ended up going around in circles for ages. I bought a Zoom B3, and although it was Good, I found it a bit limited if I was using the amp sim, add a compressor or a reverb, that left only 1 slot left for effects. I'd had a PODxt bean for years, so I bought an XT Live, and the bass expansion pack. Decided to try it against the Zoom to see which one stayed, which one got moved on. IMO, the XT Live had slightly better amp sims than the Zoom, and the fact that you could assign more than 3 effects to a patch meant that the XT won. The XT wasn't perfect, but it was very good. The POD X3 uses the same amp / cab / effects model sets as the XT series, except it's 'fully loaded', as in it came with all the model packs from the XT series. After a few months using the XT Live, I was finding that the effects were 'getting lost' in the mix. So the search began again. Again, After a long search, I kept coming back to the Line6 POD, but the HD500x. Again, you had to buy the bass pack, as the standard model set only has two or three amp sims that would be alright for bass. Compared to the XT (and the Zoom B3), it had very few amp sims. Anyway, managed to pick one up relatively inexpensively second hand, added the bass pack, then compared it against the XT Live. After a few minutes, and without too much tweaking either, the quality of the models on the HD simply blew the XT Live out of the water in every aspect. The effects are better quality as well. Yes, it takes a bit of time to tweak, but even the standard settings sound great. Four years later, I'm still using the HD500x as the basis of my rig. You can get them for around £200-250 on eBay. The Bass pack is around £20, but money worth spending IMO. Loads of connectivity as well, and if you play guitar, even better. Plug it into the Effects Return of your amp, bypass the preamp. Result. Well, works for me. If you just want effects, maybe look at the Line6 M series.