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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.

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1343839718' post='1756160'] I've followed this thread and I have to say as a totally impartial bystander that I certainly don't interpret Alex's attitude in any of this to be 'offensive'! You may well not like Alex's cabs or Alex for all I know but IMHO Alex has stepped forward and taken his time to explain the science behind his views and opinions. [/quote] I agree entirely. I'll even go further and say that there almost appears to be an agenda behind the thread.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1343837781' post='1756110'] Music you play through RealPlayer, duh! [/quote] Oh, RealPlayer you say! [quote name='ras52' timestamp='1343837781' post='1756110'] You might be out of luck there... [/quote] Well, one can live in hope. Hope is a good thing and maybe the best of things* *pinched from the Shawshank Redemption

What is REAL music anyway? I'd rather watch the Voice on the beeb to be honest. Great show. Well...it's probably as much to do with the fact I've got a crush on Jessie J

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1343813616' post='1755486'] The funny thing is, 99.9 % of the people on here wouldn't have thought anything about various speakers, designs, layouts whatever unless somebody else had planted that idea in their head. Seriously, how many people on here have gone to a gig and gone, yup, that bass players sound is really letting him down due to his use of XYZ speaker cab? [/quote] I suppose in much the same way people tend to take an analgesia, for example paracetamol, instead of drilling holes in their heads to relieve a headache. Because someone with more knowledge put that idea in their head. [quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1343823376' post='1755742'] I'd love to know what venues you guys are playing. Drumkit and available space normally dictates where you are going. Yes, place your amp in the ideal space but that will probably fck up the stage plan for everybody else. OK, soundcheck. Sounds great. Now the previously empty room fills with people. What happens? Yes, your sound completely changes. Do you guys actually leave your bedrooms? [/quote] You may have missed this in one of AC's earlier posts. Consistency I think is the key word. [quote]Good polar response means your cab sounds more consistent from venue to venue. Poor polar response means that in acoustically dead rooms your cab will sound more dull than in an acoustically live room. So if you soundcheck and get the perfect tone without the audience present, once the room fills up your tone will be too dull and boomy. A cab with good polar response will sound much more consistent in different room acoustics because the direct sound is much more similar to the reflected sound.[/quote]

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1343815376' post='1755533'] What happened to MySpace? [/quote] It died. [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1343816076' post='1755549'] What will the winning band get? "The band that claims top spot will be signed up to our record label. We will then record their track, film their music video and release their single into the UK charts. We have our sights firmly set on getting one of these bands to the 2012 Christmas number 1 spot." [url="http://www.wtamusic.com/"]http://www.wtamusic.com/[/url] [/quote] Hmmm. Sounds a bit like X-Factor, just on a much smaller scale.

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1343761183' post='1754877'] That was a Gas bill... [/quote] I definitely need my eyes tested then

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343760376' post='1754852'] Oh yes, I'm well-known for being reassuring and putting people at their ease. What I meant was, I doubt anything is wrong with it - as you well know! [/quote] Do apologise, for some reason, only known to the hidden recesses of my brain, I read "nothing amiss" as something amiss. I am an arse. I'll freely admit I must make an appointment with the opticians, a reminder letter turned up the other day.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1343759708' post='1754834'] Personally I would get someone in the know to have a quick look just in case there's a manufacturing fault or some other problem with the truss rod. But then I'm a worrier, anyway.[b] I wouldn't be surprised if there was nothing amiss[/b]. [/quote] Excellently put, that'll poor the OP at ease

I've read this entire thread and have yet to work out why I've done so. I've not the faintest idea about the world of endorsements and the likelihood of me being endorsed is sooooooooooooo small