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First up is my metallic Blue JB-20. I have fitted a set of Tonerider pickups, Sixstring Supplies Solderless wiring loom with CTS pots etc, Licenced Hipshot Ultralites and D'addario Chromes (45,60,80,110)

I more recently have started using a different bass for the first half and another for the second half. This is my first half bass more suited to the set list.

I've used regular flatwound strings on an acoustic before. I don't like the screetchy squeaky noise that the bronze ones make when you move your left hand

I was in a Beatles tribute band and used an Epiphone Gothic Thunderbird. I did later get myself a Rickenbacker.

I've also used a 12 string bass in a wedding band and a Riverhead Jupiter (Spector/Warwick clone) with stainless steel rounds in a big band & Dixieland Jazz band. I also played a Yamaha TRBII fretless in a classic rock band

I built a '57 using Warmoth parts and a Lollar pickup when it was still feasible to do so. The exchange rate means that you're into brand new US Fender money for the cost of neck and body alone

Here you go 

I had only just packed it away when I realised that I am bound to be asked the weight. I have weighed it using the "holding onto it while standing on a set of scales and then again without" method.

Comes in at 9.8lbs or 4.45kgs

I normally attach the pots to the scratchplate first then the cable going from the volume to the tone control. then connect the pickup and in your case, finally the bridge earth cable

On 21/06/2020 at 12:19, thebrig said:

I purchased an brand new American Precision from PMT a couple of year's ago, it arrived in perfect condition but I noticed that the case candy (Fender tags etc) was missing, I called them and they refunded £50 to my bank account without any hassle. 🙂

 

I ordered a brand new Fender American Professional Jazz bass last year from PMT. When I got it I could see it had clearly been the display demo model so after a quick email they ordered a brand new one from Fender for me and took the other one back

I don't know enough about this so hopefully someone will be along to explain it but I can't understand how the preamp can get 18v and the pickups 9v using the same two batteries.

That's why I thought it was 18v for both and either 9v with one battery or nothing

I feel the same most of the time but I have to admit that if my numbers came up on the euromillions and Sting decided to sell his '57 single coil Precision.  I'd be all over it 

I would completely agree with that. I do have a  cheap bass on a stand in the sitting room but my gigging basses live in their gig bags in the hall beside my other gear. 

My reasoning being that they're protected from most temperature changes, the strings last longer and they don't get dusty meaning that I don't have to clean them as often

Would I be right in thinking that the basses that are suffering changes due to the change in temperature are out on stands near a window or door?

I'm just thinking that a bass in a hard case or even a gig bag shouldn't shift unless you leave it out in the sun or cold for a long period of time. I've left basses in a car in the middle of summer and when I unzipped one of the bags to check, the bass still felt cool to touch

But if the bass is only getting 9v from the two batteries and you remove one then it will still be getting 9v so it shouldn't affect the output level - I would have thought that would only be the case if running at 18v, although I could be talking complete cobblers

Or would it be 4.5v from a single battery which would be too low for the preamp to use? Would it work with only 1 battery or would that be break in the circuit if there was one missing?

1 hour ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

🤢🤮 - stale cigarette smoke smelling items. One of my least favourite things ever.

I sold everything I owned and binned my cable bag when the smoking law came in. I used to hate driving home from gigs with the car stinking of fags

I always use UPS through Interparcel and the longest dimension is usually around 135-140cm

I personally think that older MIM Fenders aren't very good but anything from the past 8 or 9 years has been really good. I used to hate the pickups especially.

The current production of MIM Fender instruments is top banana, for Fender

I'd be concerned about any bass that has a neck that moves without changing gauge of strings or subjecting it to extreme temperatures or humidity. I've never had a bass where the neck has moved without something obvious causing it like the above.

6 minutes ago, prowla said:

Air guitars have been on ebay for at least a decade 0/10.

Can't say I've ever seen one before

The Musicman Sterling I used to own had been used in a demo video for GAK before I got it, I used it to recorded a demo at Graeme Duffin's studio. Graeme is the guitarist with Wet Wet Wet, such a nice guy and an incredible ear. It was amazing watching him work. He put us so much at ease that the guide track we recorded ended up being the one we used for the demo.

I then sold it on to James Glennie who is the founding member of the band James

I once had a Hartke HA5500 that I wanted to rack mount but I couldn't find rack ears to attach to the amp. I emailed the UK distributor at the time and they sent me a pair of rack ears that had been attached to one of the amps that Jack Bruce used for the Cream reunion concert.

I know it's not in the same league as paying £40k for a bass that someone famous had sweated all over but it's still good, free and not been sweated over enough to have to caulk it

I think that this has been the subject of a few other threads as well - This is one of the new "ash" bodied Jazz basses, in fact ash everything

They did do a limited edition Sledge bass a few years ago. I can't remember if it was Flea being a Richard or whatever but that was the reason there was no graphite neck Flea signature and instead he went to Modulus

I need to go and have a shower after looking at that bass. That's dreadful

D'addario do EXL160BT which are 50, 67, 90, 120. I used them in standard tuning and got on fine with them so they should be ok in D tuning.

They also do a super heavy gauge with the EXL230 strings - 55, 75, 95, 110. Amazon are currently doing these for £18.20

https://www.amazon.co.uk/DAddario-EXL230-050-110-Electric-Strings/dp/B000OR8BP0

I don't endorse D'addario strings, although that would be nice, but they are all that I use. I gave up trying anything else years ago as I found exactly what I wanted. I normally get 8 or 9 wedding length gigs from them before they begin to go dull - so about 36-40 playing hours