Low End Bee

Maybe a lot of the time your filter goes when nobody says no and you're not worried about the gas bill?

The 'chrome' photo filter I believe.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1442929224' post='2870628'] I've never owned or played through a rig with a "sub button". [/quote] I have an unsettling picture of a roadie in a gimp mask being summoned. It should be labelled the 'rumbly indistinctivator' button from whenever I've come across an amp with one of these buttons fitted.

Inspired by Bilbo's Steve Hacket thread. I find the fine line between genius and disaster interesting. I put forward Lawrence from Felt/Denim/Go Kart Mozart. Is he a wry commentator and skilled songsmith or just the loony next door who doesn't know what an email is? Mark E Smith likewise. Ritchie Blackmore from Highway Star to the Hey Nonny Nonny stuff on lutes while wearing Carry On Medieval get up. More will come to me. I'm not sure why I'm quite so intrigued by the no filter brigade. Maybe it's that they are true punk rock!

[quote name='bassjim' timestamp='1442847122' post='2869951'] very fair enough points all round then. im guessing it comes down to personal experience. personally it all went from super stressy "please god of bass. please please please dont make me look like a complete dick by sounding completley usless and nothing like a bass player on my 3 grand coffee table faced work of art that I have to spend the whole time twiddling and fiddling till it sounds almost like its usable" to " where would you like me to set up? over here? ok. ready when you are". fellow band and audience: "bass sounds really good".ect ect = can now get on with it. i think there could be a small but better quality on the fender deluxe that helps this along...............or maybe its just that me + the fender = what works for me? [/quote] That's it. Pretty much my reason for using a Precision. One less thing to worry about so I can enjoy playing the songs.

Aren't Young Chang the ones who did 'Dance Hall Days'?

Comedy gold.

I've got a few like that. Lawrence from Felt/Denim/Go Kart Mozart being the prime example. Update That's it WoT. No taste filter. Nail on the head. That's what the musicians I was thinking of all have in common,

They just work. Probably because electrified music has evolved around the Fender bass sound as a component part. A good Precision is like a comfy pair of jeans for me. Other basses are probably better for fiddly stuff.

Oooh...

They're tremendous value. Really nice to play and gig worthy straight from the box. As has been said the only downside is the weight. Mine is having a re-spray as I type. Metallic purply blue with a matching headstock. Gold pearloid pickguard and white pickup covers sourced too. Total outlay with shipping will still be under £50!

Stop posting. I really miss mine (apart from the hot DI) and I'm skint.

'Hell is other people. Especially if they're drummers' J P Sartre.

Curly leads.I like the old telephone look and they don't tangle up.

I'm getting along just fine with my £38 Jazz bass. It sounds good and plays well. Fret ends could do with a lille filing but it's hardly noticeable while playing. I do hate natural wood finishes though. I feel like I'm playing an Ikea chopping board. Luckily I work in the motor trade. The bodyshop will spray the body and headstock for me for nothing. I've just got to decide which colour now. I'm thinking Honda 'twilight' blue might be good? A sort of purply grey blue with some flake in it. I might do a headstock logo in gold pen and sharpie. Ex art school. What could go wrong?

Depends on the individual bass if it's not just for hanging on a wall to me. My 2007 P Bass walks all over the 1968 I had in every department. I had a go on two 1977 P Basses recently that could have been from different planets too. One was as good as my 2007 but it felt nicer because of the wear and the placebo of vibe. The other was just a badly lashed together boat anchor that sounded like an elastic band on a shoe box, I've had a go on a few pre CBS ones and they've admittedly all been really very nice. I guess the wrong 'uns got to be firewood. Things cost what people are prepared to pay for them.

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1441957220' post='2863186'] I tried GarageBand on the iPhone and iPad and found it impossibly fiddly with the swiping, resizing and all that. You need a desk, a big screen, a mouse and a bass on your lap. [/quote] That's what I've found too. I've had a go on the ipad but it's much too fiddly when you feel expansive. Guitar to work out structure, reporters notepad for lyrics and then bash everything out in garageband on the Mac for a demo. I've got Logic as well but you can spend all day getting it to sound right when that's not the point.

Whenever I hear the word chops in a musical context I reach for my gun.

I went to 100s of gigs at that time. Lots of posturing but as has been said not too much actually fighting. There were a few exceptions. Specials, Angelic Upstarts, Sham 69 and bizarrely pre double drummer Adam and the Ants gigs I went to got very nasty. 95% of the time it was skinheads kicking off. They were the real problem. The only time I got a real pasting at that time though was by a mod who pulled a truncheon out of his parka in Ladbroke Grove in 1980 and beat the crap out of me. Things could kick off at house parties, skins again usually, but gigs were pretty safe and in general just had good boisterous atmospheres.

A band A Guild M-85 reissue would do while I'm waiting.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1441714098' post='2861077'] My JB75-NA has turned up at work. £37.62 including delivery. A quick visual inspection and I can't see anything amiss. Intrigued to see what's supposed to be wrong with it when I get it home. [/quote] Got it home and had a proper look. What's wrong? The neck plate is a bit squiffy. The neck end bass side screw is a little closer to the edge than you'd probably like. I've given it a good hard wiggle and its rock solid. Apart from that it all works. Plugged in it's very nice. Set up is superb. I could gig with it right now.I might need a padded strap though it's 70s bad Fender heavy. Insane amount of bass for the money. £15 worth of strings on it too.

My JB75-NA has turned up at work. £37.62 including delivery. A quick visual inspection and I can't see anything amiss. Intrigued to see what's supposed to be wrong with it when I get it home.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1441639515' post='2860480'] Quite. And even when you click on 'Tech Specs', there is no mention of frequency response. [/quote] There is mention of 26kg though. I'm not lugging one of them up the apples.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1441639334' post='2860476'] Looks great, but TC seem to be under the impression that driver size has something to do with frequency response. You'd think a top pro bass gear company like this would know that isn't the case, wouldn't you? [/quote] You mean perception is not reality It looks like it sounds beefy therefore it does.