Grand Wazoo

[quote name='Alfie' post='771119' date='Mar 10 2010, 11:43 PM']What else are you going to do to it? You might get to the stage where you would have been better off just getting the Fender classic series fiesta red precision.[/quote] A new humbucking Seymour Duncan pickup and new pots / caps and proper wirings. thats all. The whole thing will cost below £60 all included

[quote name='Sibob' post='771109' date='Mar 10 2010, 11:35 PM']The stock pickup isn't a humbucker, just a standard split single coil, so I'm not surprised it's noisy!? Si[/quote] Ahh, bingo, that explains the racket from it! Cheers

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='771095' date='Mar 10 2010, 11:23 PM']Looks very nice though.[/quote] Thanks mate, I am very pleased too, when I finished with it, it will be lovely.

Right..... it's indeed a lovely bass and now that I have spent the last hour adjusting the action and the correct neck curve it plays like butter however, sadly playing it through the amp confirmed my suspicions, there is a lot of static when touching the strings on and off, this is meant to be an humbucker but it bucks f*** all hum! There seems to be hardly any earth or screening and I will have to have it done, for sure. This pickup sounds ok'ish but you need to warm it up with the amp eq controls otherwise it's brittle and thin, I didn't expect it to sound great, I hoped it would, but it doesn't and after my experience with the other two Classic Vibe, the Jazz and the 51 reissue, both needed new guts so I knew this one would have been no different. On the plus side, considering that the rest of the instrument is well constructed and the neck is lovely, the neck pocket is the best out of the 3, sorting out the pots and wirings and fitting a new pickup is not going to cost me an eye and as I said in my previous posts I had planned for this even before I bought it. all part of the fun.... oh and on looks, having seen that Hank Marvin Salmon Pink beauty (hehehe) I have decided that a white p/guard is more at home than this cheap looking tort which looks like someone puked a whole kebab on it

[quote name='Musicman20' post='771037' date='Mar 10 2010, 10:40 PM']Nice colour. I might look at one of these. Are they officially being released?[/quote] Not yet but they will be soon, hell they are not even advertised on the official Squier website!

ok the seller was bad, but don't worry fella ANY wood can be repaired, I have seen headstock snapped off and glued back stronger than before. Of course is going to cost you cash but take it to a reputable luthier and he will work magic on it. Oh and if the seller is local go kick his ass!

here we go lads! Enjoy Click on the links below [url="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CaptMoto/SquierP?feat=email#slideshow"]http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CaptMoto/Squ...email#slideshow[/url] [url="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CaptMoto/SquierP?feat=directlink"]http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CaptMoto/Squ...feat=directlink[/url] small taster.... Right I've had no joy in trying this through an amp as I've had to rush back to work to take a ship in as my colleague has fallen sick, and now that the crisis is over, I have taken it to work with me and taken loads of pic and from playing it unplugged I can tell it needs a little set up as the neck is too straight and need a bit of a relief, and the saddles need to be raised slightly as the action is a bit too low, apart from that, thanks to the basswood body it is light and yet resonant, the neck is the right shape, not too chunky not too thin, just perfect. I'll be at home in a couple of hours and then I'll plug it in, meantime all the silly stickers have gone and it looks quite the part but, I do declare this is not Fiesta Red, this is Salmon Pink or Pino Palladino Pink whichever you wanna call it but if this is Fiesta Red then my name is Susan.

I got a text from "'er indoors" says fed-ex delvered a great big box. Guess I am leaving work now, had enough for the day. Pics to follow shortly.

[quote name='matski' post='769011' date='Mar 9 2010, 11:18 AM']Sounds like crap. No wonder he bungs so much fuzz on...[/quote] agreed on the sound, but could funk with a plank, and that is what matters!

[quote name='Sibob' post='769788' date='Mar 9 2010, 09:41 PM']Thanks for saying that, it's a proper pet hate of mine when people say they want to change the pickup before they've heard (or even received) the bass lol Si[/quote] Well perhaps seing as I own both of the other 2 Classic Vibe basses which they do, the 51 reissue P and the Jazz, I already have sufficient experience with my finding in regards to their "electrics", they did come with very cheapo sounding pickups, and I've had to fit duncans to put them right, I have no doubt this new Precision will also be in the same ball park. Squier have done a great job on the woods, the necks and even the bridges are pukka, but evidently they've had to cut corners somewhere and obviously the wiring, the pots and definately the pickups suffered as a result. So much so that they even claim to have used Alnico magnets but my luthier told me its a load of old blx, because he checked them out and told me they are ferrite or magnetite which are actually as common as most magnets found in fridge magnets, speaker magnets etc etc nothing as fancy as alnico I hate to say. But I am willing to give this P bass a fair chance before I swap p/ups Meantime this is how my 51' reissue P was delivered. It took me 2 days to work out why it was buzzing like hell until I lifted the pickup and found this horror Cold soldering and already showing "rust" in places this type of soldering is simply below acceptable and won't do no good to your sound, hence I have had to have both the Jazz and the '51 P rewired and fitted with the correct "period" pots / waxed cloth wires, now they are quite and noiseless and the Jazz is a killa! I tell thee!

[quote name='bh2' post='769711' date='Mar 9 2010, 08:54 PM']Are you going to keep it stock or mod it someways?[/quote] Not a lot really, just the pickup, I need to hear it first, if it sounds thin, or unbalanced, its going to get this pickup: [url="http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/basslines/vintage-1/spb1_vintage_fo/"]http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/bass...pb1_vintage_fo/[/url] But as I've said I'll have to give it a go first and see. (hear)

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='769597' date='Mar 9 2010, 07:23 PM']My thought exactly. I guess Bass5 will be able to tell us soon.[/quote] Well that is an easy one, I did ask the gentleman on the phone when I was ordering mine, what does it say on the back of the headstock and he confirmed that it's the same as the other 3 Classic Vibe's i.e. [i]"Crafted in China"[/i]. in fact except for the colour there are no differences in quality and parts. It's exactly the same as the Sonic Blue Precision.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='769251' date='Mar 9 2010, 02:03 PM']Slick work by a sly dog. We are prostrated with envy and admiration in equal part.[/quote] Why thank you Sir, Things like that you've just got to snap them quick, aintcha?

[quote name='Balcro' post='769115' date='Mar 9 2010, 12:38 PM']Bah! Beaten too it by "bass5". It's not even on Squier's web-site. It's about as "red in'yer face" as the Ibanez SRX470 (UK frame). Balcro.[/quote] The name is Fran and I am a [i][b]"Bassoholic"[/b][/i] Pics to follows soon as it comes!

I am sad to inform you all that... presently that one is the only one in the country in that colour!!!, as they have not yet been introduced widely to all distributors, it just so happened that particular dealer received "the one" as a sampler in that colour. Yes of course, there'll be more of the same to come but not for a while, in the meantime, I've phoned him up and snapped that off him. So now it's on its way to moi! as you can see he removed it from ebay as we did a "phone deal" (better than the price advertised) saves him ebay mafia fees and me delivery charges. Everyone's a winner! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330411926087&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...ME:B:SS:GB:1123[/url]

There is a great line that Frank Zappa says at the end of the song "Watermelon in Easter Hay" in Joe's Garage, goes something like this.... [quote name='Frank Zappa']" ...and... ultimately, who gives a f*** anyway?"[/quote]

Sorry but isn't that salmon pink? Don't look like fiesta red to me. This from the original Fender Vitage colour chart [size=3][b]SALMON PINK[/b][/size] [size=3][b]FIESTA RED[/b][/size]

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[quote name='WonderHorse' post='767796' date='Mar 8 2010, 12:18 PM']Still none the wiser after reading that article since the article was written for people who already have a knowledge of this sort of thing. Would I be able to get this shielding done at a shop or when I get my bass set up soon?[/quote] In simple words you need to isolate the pickup cavities with some copper foil. Also the article suggests applying the same copper coating to the inside of the pickup covers., if this is still "distant" to you then your best bet is to get a luthier to do it for you. You can do without all this if you get specially designed noiseless pickups, usually stacked humbucker in a single coil shape.

[quote name='Buzz' post='767262' date='Mar 7 2010, 08:20 PM']18 years old...could be a number of things, might be the capacitors, they've got a finite lifespan, could also be a dry joint somewhere etc.... Give it to a tech if you're not electrically minded.[/quote] Give this man a prize! I have had the same problem with my 18 years old Trace last summer and it was a series of dead capacitors in conjunction with a crack in the circuit board where it connects to the GP12 graphic eq, a good technician can repair it and mine was fixed and now it's as good as new.

[quote name='DHA' post='767169' date='Mar 7 2010, 06:53 PM']if you just plug into the return then most likely you will cut off the bass signal unless there is a blend control.[/quote] Ah thanks! Looks like it can't be done then. The amp does have another input on the front panel, a balanced xlr one, sadly the drum machine has a standard 1/4 inc jack so that looks like a no no either.

[quote name='OldGit' post='741600' date='Feb 10 2010, 11:30 PM']I'll get one for just outside my house. Just drop them in..[/quote] What like this?

My Mark Bass amp only has a send / return for effects, now I don't use any except for a compressor which I plug in line, I would like to feed a drum machine through the amp can I use the return input? Thanks