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[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1349365769' post='1825373'] Yep, and yep. If you are super confident of your shielding, the string ground should now go to the cavity, not the pot. You'll soon hear if you got it right. [/quote] Excuse my ignorance but...what's the string ground?

If it all goes 'arse about' Dave I'll be 'round yours

I need to shield my P bass. I'm just a little unsure as to the exact wiring re. the grounds after. The pickup and control cavity are seperate, the wires from the pickup to control cavity go through a hole. Do I solder a wire to the shielding of both cavities so they are 'connected'? Also I assume you remove the ground wire from pot to pot and just have one to the bridge from the volume pot? None of this probably makes sense

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1349107202' post='1821895'] Whats wrong with listening to the record and figuring it out for yourself? I don't think I've ever used tabs to learn a song and as a dep for function bands I've often had to learn 20 or more in a week! Improves your listening skills no end if you can listen to a tune once or twice and figure it out... One of the guitards I know used to send me tabs for songs all the time, usually I can tell they are wrong within one listen - who writes these things!? [/quote] Time, mainly. I used tab loads last year when in a covers band. I don't have the time to work it out by ear, I have the trappings of a full time job, kids etc. Although I can't see how lecturing someone on 'learn yourself by ear' is pertinent to the thread. And surely it's obvious who writes tabs, people who learn songs by ear. Given that most of it's wrong then, learning by ear can't be as accurate as it's cracked up to be.

The guitarist in my band bought one of these for £25 for another project he was doing. I've borrowed it a few times. I wasn't overly impressed with the pickup and electrics, but that could easily be replaced, and given the original price What I was impressed with was the general feel of it. The neck in particular I found very easy to play. I'd have one.

A ridiculous heavy handed approach to something that really isn't causing the music industry a problem regards lost revenue. If you try looking for official transcripts for bass your choice is severely limited. I personally take a dim view of bands who would support blocking unofficial tab.

Theory just describes what your ears are telling you play. Who honestly, when they are playing, thinks "I'm going to play an 11th or 6th now". It just flows on what you know sounds right falling off that fretboard. It should be intuitive because music is an expression of yourself, an art, not numbers, dots and squiggles.

I bought an early 90's Korean Squier P bass a couple of weeks ago and I absolutely love it. Don't know how well regarded these Korean made P's are but...it certainly does the business.

[quote name='Benplaysbass' timestamp='1347903837' post='1806464'] I do like Cornwall, but didn't like the narrow roads with high hedges too much. [/quote] Always considered the A30 a quite decent road tbh

I've just bought a Squier P bass and it buzzes if I roll the tone up, it's not noticeable, I think, if you roll the tone off. There's no shielding so I'm assuming some copper tape and grounding wires?

[quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1347225997' post='1798329'] Welcome to the world of a P bass ! I'm glad you like your bass [/quote] Thanks

After much procrastination I finally took the plunge and decided to buy a P bass to see what they're all about. It's an early 90's Squier and it's +++++++AWESOME+++++++++

Cheers guys, I think I'll give Howard a PM if I really want it done Probably will, I've just had a go on that design you bass website thing on another thread and it'll look with a tort pg.

I've bought a 90's Korean S series Squier P bass, should get it on Friday. It's black with a white PG. I dislike white on black and would like to put a black or tort one on it. Question then, does anyone know if the ones from say [url="http://www.axesrus.com/AxePlatesBass.html"]Axerus[/url] would fit ie. without drilling any new holes or would I need to look at having one made (which given the fact it's a cheap bass may seem a little ostentatious )? Or is there anywhere which supplies a direct fit? Cheers

For 200 notes [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/181942-ibanez-sr300-iron-pewter-maple-board-fsft-l200/page__p__1773532__hl__ibanez__fromsearch__1#entry1773532"]this[/url]. Awesome piece of kit. Or search around for a Warwick Rockbass Corvette, you can get one for £150 and less 2nd hand. New, I'd go for Ibanez, or Yamaha considering you're not too keen on Fender styling. A Yamaha RBX374 has a very good rep and are only about £250 new.

[quote name='TomWIC' timestamp='1345207991' post='1774991'] A while ago, a friend of mine gave me her Encore E4 Blaster due to her not playing it anymore. I took it off her hands with the intention of having it as a project bass, and as I've been hankering for a good precision for a while now, and after seeing some of the wonderful custom P-bass builds you fine folk have done, I think it's time I looked into starting on it. As a complete newbie to this, I'm thinking of the following mods: replacing the neck (a good, preferably unbranded one with the intention of spraying my band's logo on the headstock), putting some nice looking tuners on it as I'm not keen on the butterfly style ones, new pickups (going to stick with passive electronics for the time being) so hopefully I can keep the wiring inside the same (or possibly changing the pots too), and maybe a custom scratchplate, or no scratchplate at all, while keeping the body the same, save for a possible spray. Hopefully, it isn't a completely stupid idea, and I will actually be able to turn a cheap starter bass into something brilliant, so any tips, recommendations, must-buys, stuff to avoid, etc, advice for me? [/quote] Did you have to pay anything for the Encore or did your friend literally let you have the bass for nowt. If you got it for nothing or peanuts I'd say go for it. Like some others have said you can learn bucket loads. Keep us all updated if you do, I'd be very interested in the suggestions as regards a replacement neck for a blaster. I was going to pick up a cheap 2nd hand blaster and do the same myself.

Is it an Aga?

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1344362595' post='1763424'] Looks like Kempy to me [/quote] As in Martin Kemp? You want to pop yourself along to Specsavers my man

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1344362452' post='1763415'] Is it Bilbo? [/quote] Unlikely, wouldn't he have still had the carrots back then?

[quote name='BigAlonBass' timestamp='1344361493' post='1763387'] Yet another wonderfully famous Bass Player that I don't recognise...... This is becoming a habit on here. [/quote] You're not alone

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1344278562' post='1762211'] Aw, now I've got amp GAS. Again. [/quote] No you haven't, stop it. Looks a bargain though. It's a shame Carvin aren't more readily available in the UK, wouldn't mind hearing one of their cabs tbh.

My brother calls my bass a banjo. But then he is prone to bouts of twatism.

Working and sorting out the house? I'm not even playing bass atm. The band has decided to rehearse during the day, which is convenient for them as none of them work, but not for me as I do.

Some call it muffled, others may call it warm and wooly and sometimes there is a place in every bass players heart, neigh ears, for warm and wooly I only say this as I heard an Ashdown (one of those EB combo's with a 15inch speaker) at a gig the other day and thought it sounded rather lovely.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1338219623' post='1670995'] If there are other bands I put my bass back in its case and out of the way of others. If we're the only band I put it on a mini Hercules stand, out of the way of others. [/quote] This. The Hercules mini stands are a great little piece of kit, I take mine everywhere my bass goes.