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[quote name='untune' post='1263981' date='Jun 10 2011, 02:47 PM']Hi all All the parts have arrrived (aside from a few) for my project and I want to put it together desperately - the body/neck have been sat here since Wednesday and I was still waiting on a few fixings. I already had a neckplate but no screws, so I grabbed a set of 42mm from axesrus. The heads seem a bit too small to me, they don't seem sit in the countersink of the plate correctly and since i've never fitted any before I don't want to balls it up on the first attempt. Will I be ok using these or should I get different ones? I thought these may be for guitars but then I thought it was all standard? Pics attached (sorry if they're a bit big)[/quote] They're definitely a bit small - or the holes in the plate are a bit big...? I have a set of screws I could send you to try. If they turn out to be too small, the plate is non-standard.

[quote name='Muzz' post='1263909' date='Jun 10 2011, 01:40 PM']That version of I Shot The Sherriff sums up everything I can't stand about Jaco. 8 minutes(! ) of some of the most pointlessly self-indulgent wibbery* I've ever heard - fine for the rehearsal room where everyone can nod approvingly at each other**, but if they were playing in my garden, I'd close the curtains. * And I don't use that word lightly. Whatever it means... ** A bit like when the chickens used to come off stage in the Muppets...[/quote] The original was a model of grace and understatement from the man who might be my favourite ever player.

[quote name='Beedster' post='1263760' date='Jun 10 2011, 11:32 AM']the Ric is currently sitting next to a late 70's maple board Precision fretless, and by comparison, on all counts, the Precision - which I love - seems so crude and limited[/quote] That's why I got rid of it ;-) EDIT: kidding!

[quote name='LeftyBiskit' post='1263460' date='Jun 9 2011, 11:56 PM']I have just spent a couple of hours scrolling through touring Band's riders on a certain website www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage,It's probably been mentioned on here before,but it's worth another look. Unbelievable the stuff people ask for,I found the Foo Fighters rider particularly funny,the Van Halen rider was another one that made me laugh. Trev.[/quote] The Stooges one is legendary (though for some reason I can't read it using Opera)

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1263439' date='Jun 9 2011, 11:26 PM']Which Macca bass would fetch the most at an auction? Strangely the Hofner fiddle is one I like playing even less than a Ric. Funny old world.[/quote] You might have hit on the secret of the Beatles' success: The bass must have a diving neck. That's the common factor!

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='1261479' date='Jun 8 2011, 05:22 PM']I was listening to Hejira today and Refuge of the Roads is a great illustration of Jaco's less is more playing.[/quote] Just found that on Youtube and it lifted the hairs on the back of my neck.

[quote name='Monckyman' post='1262479' date='Jun 9 2011, 11:40 AM']Lo all. Having now bought an Eden210t, I`m looking at finding a 15" driver to complement it and provide low end thump. I`m mainly playing R&B, Electro dance/pop and increasingly, a few reggae tunes. The Eden is plenty sharp and has loads of punch even loaded with Celestions but I reckon I do need something bigger for that bottom end especially when I push the volume. So, I have an old(ish) EV ported cab that I bought in a deal. I haven`t used it at rehearsals or gig yet, and it has my old eminence em200 in it, which sounds quite nice at average levels. When they are both plugged in to my Ashdown ABM500 the difference in volume and tone is enormous, with the Eden hogging the limelight. What I`d like to know, is whether this cab can be useful, with the right driver in, with ideally, a more even match in volume at least. I`ll be driving both cabs from an LM II. The 15" wouldn`t have to be full range, I`m looking for a sub after all, but I suppose it wouldn`t hurt to have a full(ish) range 15" I could use on it`s own. Or, should I save my cash and wait till an Eden115 xl comes along? Dimensions of the Cab are:w450 h680 d410 It has two x 50mm wide by 50mm deep ports at the bottom. MM[/quote] I use an Eminence Kappa Pro 3015LF in a cab slightly smaller than that and it's pretty deep Your cab, being bigger, should be even better. You might need to extend the ports, or block one off. PM me if you want me to calculate the ideal port size (can't do it at work).

[quote name='gareth' post='1260328' date='Jun 7 2011, 09:34 PM']This is a very clever scam The scammer has sent me many emails and he's even got a shipping company - [url="http://italtrans.t35.com/about.html"]http://italtrans.t35.com/about.html[/url] - to send me shipping documentation on an escrow basis:[/quote] how does the scam work then? Is the courier company legit? Someone else is asking about Italtrans here on Asshat: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=139998&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=139998&hl=[/url] should they be warned?

[quote name='chris_b' post='1259854' date='Jun 7 2011, 04:06 PM']That may be true and I don't know either way, but as these guys are far more successful in their business than the whole of BC put together I'm not going to slag them off either.[/quote] I can say without fear of contradiction [ALL: OH NO YOU CAN'T!] that Dave Gilmour would have been just as successful had he used cryo cable, ordinary cable or rusty barbed wire.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1259803' date='Jun 7 2011, 03:26 PM']Its only libel if it is untrue - look it up[/quote] Whether or not the neck is kosher, the bass can't be described as a MM therefore JLP's defence against a libel charge is watertight. The seller is risking breaking a fair few laws though, from the Sale of Goods act up. Probably the best thing he could do would be to pull the listing until he's confirmed that the neck is for real then re-list with a more accurate description. Maybe it is a nice instrument, but it's not as described. Just my £50-an-hoursworth of legal advice ;-)

[quote name='lanark' post='1258765' date='Jun 6 2011, 06:57 PM']The man who produced THAT Strangler's bass sound on their first three albums, plus early Buzzcocks, Don't You Want Me, Fade to Grey, 999 and loads of other stuff.[/quote] Full page obit in the Times today.

[quote name='KK Jale' post='1259692' date='Jun 7 2011, 01:59 PM']His tech Phil Taylor told me they don't just freeze the instrument leads - they freeze everything in the chain, right back to the mains cables [/quote] Why stop there - why not also rewire and freeze the consumer unit, electricity meter, cables back to the substation, substation transformers, Grid cables, generator armature windings! If you really want to go all the way for sonic purity you should also filter any water used for hydro-electric generation, and load the coal into the furnaces by hand so you don't get noise from the shovels. You do of course get faster bass and more authority and slam from electricity that's nuclear-generated.

[quote name='chris_b' post='1259654' date='Jun 7 2011, 01:33 PM']I know that at Dave Gilmore's studio they use high end cables AND cryogenically freeze them to “improve” the sound! I don't know whether it makes any difference but they think it does!![/quote] I wonder if this is maybe a sponsorship thing, in that Snakeoil Cables PLC have gone to the owners of a high-profile studio that's about to be renovated and said -we'll provide all the cable for free if we can quote you in our advertising?

[quote name='BottomE' post='1259151' date='Jun 6 2011, 11:50 PM'][/quote] Looks like the Warmoth 'Dinky P' body. Pretty!

[quote name='Doctor J' post='1259345' date='Jun 7 2011, 09:28 AM'][url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul10/articles/classictracks_0710.htm"]http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul10/arti...tracks_0710.htm[/url][/quote] Cheers doc! Bit disappointed by the story though - basically what happened was one of the singers moaned about the drums taking too long so he flounced off in a cream puff.

[quote name='hairyhaw' post='1259059' date='Jun 6 2011, 10:22 PM']Ah, that sucks. Remember reading an interview with him in Sound on Sound and his reaction when one of the backing singers in the Human League got a bit of ego on. Priceless. [url="http://<a%20href="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul10/articles/classictracks_0710.htm"%20target="_blank">http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul10/arti...tracks_0710.htm</a>"]Interview here if you're interested.[/url][/quote] I'd like to see that, but the link doesn't work.

[quote name='mcnach' post='1257221' date='Jun 5 2011, 11:44 AM']I hate you. (I saw that Jazz on the for-sale section a little too late )[/quote] I'd just like to say I think Radge Against the Machine is a great name. And that I love my Precision, too.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' post='1255258' date='Jun 3 2011, 11:50 AM']Blimey, you get pulled up easy on here don't ya!! Jeeeez [/quote] You mean 'easily'.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' post='1255209' date='Jun 3 2011, 11:18 AM']I have a 1957 Fender Catalogue & Price list. A Fender Precision in 1957 cost $225. After a little research (So don't shoot me), the average house price in California in 1957 was $4600, which works out at around 5% of the average house price. Todays market, with the average UK house price at £164k, would make a new fender P Bass at £8,000. Not sure what this tells you though?? This is not really comparable though, because at the time, in '57, there were no other basses available, so there is no comparism, as to whether Fenders were expensive, or cheap. They certainly didnt cheap out on quality parts in the 50's, and everything was hand finsihed. It wasnt until the mid 60's when they got cheap alternatives of almost all components, and started the 'production line' system of mass production.[/quote] I don't know that house prices are a good yardstick, how about wages? Average Yearly Wage in 1967: $4.550.00 Average Yearly Wage in 2010: $39,856 relative cost of a Precision in 2010= $1970 Not sure what this tells us either! and yes: Adam's bass looks like a nine year old girl has designed it based on what's available in her nail polish drawer.

[quote name='ras52' post='1233226' date='May 16 2011, 04:18 PM']So if I'm not mistaken, back in the days of "vintage" instruments, bass players wore clothes made of sandpaper and squeezed their instruments into cases lined with sandpaper, etc. etc...[/quote] ...and used the thin end to poke the fire...

[quote name='fatboyslimfast' post='1233083' date='May 16 2011, 02:26 PM']Sore fret fingers. Sorta hoping they are going to go away soon... The soreness, not the fingers. The latter could make playing even more difficult. Q - got standard out-of-the-box roundwounds on the VMJ. Would Flats make things more comfortable? Or should I just man-up?[/quote] D'Addario Chromes are definitely more comfortable. But yes, you should suffer for your art.

[quote name='silddx' post='1233032' date='May 16 2011, 01:56 PM']2009[/quote] So that very clean 1952 P is an £18000 fake?

[quote name='Rayman' post='1232515' date='May 15 2011, 10:19 PM']If I was in the market for a Fender now, I wouldn't waste my time and hard earned on some long shot from 30 years ago, I'd just buy a new one, and by new I mean 2010 to present, because Fender are producing some really great basses right now that out play a lot of the driftwood from the 70s.[/quote] [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-1952-PRECISION-BASS-UNBELIEVABLE-VINTAGE-FENDER-/390314169520?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item5ae08994b0"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-1952-PRECISIO...=item5ae08994b0[/url] 'Unbelievable' is about right. For that price you could buy over 20 new ones, and at least one of them would be a gem. When, incidentally, did they start through-body stringing?

[quote name='Chris Horton' post='1232473' date='May 15 2011, 09:35 PM']Yes, when i play the bass through the amp i get perfect bass notes but at the same time i get a small/quiet electric shock which can be heard through the amp/speaker. It feels like a very small static shock through my fingertips when i touch the strings[/quote] Check that there's a connection between the bridge and the internal grounding (ie the pots, ground contact on pickups and jack socket). If you don't have a multimeter, try connection one end of a piece of wire to the bridge and the other end to the body of the jack. If the problem goes away, this connection is missing internally and should be redone. Do you get the same problem wherever you are, or is it at a particular venue (one where the lights run off teh same ringmain as the amp, for example)? You may need to screen the control cavity with copper tape. None of these jobs is particularly difficult with a Precision, beautifully simple electronics.

[quote name='Geddys nose' post='1230077' date='May 13 2011, 04:00 PM']This is a cheap and easy way to insulate and soundproof- [url="http://www.planetinsulation.co.uk/ZGA3050.php"]http://www.planetinsulation.co.uk/ZGA3050.php[/url] We use it at work quite a lot for lofts/Studding ect.[/quote] For sound insulation? Really?