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ACS, just got a new pair as my others were 6 years old and looking the worse for wear.

Awful news.

Fantastic, loved the clip. At the same now massively underwhelmed by my own ability :-(

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1482268448' post='3199157'] Interesting that the Stones have [i]finally[/i] managed to release a decent blues album. It just took them fifty-odd years and then three days in the studio. It's a dark, messy take on the 50's Chicago electric blues tone: dirty, dark and reverb-drenched it sounds like it was laid down in minutes and mixed on the fly. Even though it's the Stones at work it's the least Stonesy album one might have expected: there's a lot of on-the-beat discipline and an almost complete absence of Richard's trademark 'roll' and loose swagger. Tight rhythms and smeary guitars: as an homage to golden-age Michigan Avenue and Hastings Street the album totally delivers, IMO. [/quote] That's what I would have liked to have been able to say. Edited for grammar

So quite a marmite recording then.

Well I rather like it. I didn;t find it over produced and to be fair most CDs nowadays are overcompressed. For me it didn't feel like it had been overdubbed to achieve perfection and there was a certain rawness about it. A good tribute to the bands early references. Each to their own I guess.

Don't know whether it's urban legend or not, but I have heard suggestions that speakers should be stored & transported on the backs so the sagging effect is minimised.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1481823251' post='3195490'] Ok, well yeah I doubt "Love Me Do" would chart at all. Neither would "Satisfaction". Not that it makes any difference ,but we haven't had Top 40 AM radio in decades. Blue [/quote] Brown Sugar would probably be banned (so could easily make it to no.1)

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1481823251' post='3195490'] Ok, well yeah I doubt "Love Me Do" would chart at all. Neither would "Satisfaction". Not that it makes any difference ,but we haven't had Top 40 AM radio in decades. Blue [/quote] Bloody tragic, isn't it.

Mostly the ones people have tried for a couple of hours and 'not liked'.

[quote name='Downdown' timestamp='1481820300' post='3195457'] It might do if the charts could be as easily influenced as they were in the 60s [/quote] I remember it well

[quote name='cetera' timestamp='1481795147' post='3195146'] Add to the above the BEST and most personal customer service I've ever had from an instrument company and I'd say you're onto a winner... [/quote] Definitely this! PJ is a legend and no question is too small. I bet the Legend series were named for him.

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1481787101' post='3195072'] bloody Nora where did the years go? [/quote] This

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1481768891' post='3195030'] I think The Beatles catalog still sells reasonable well. I'm sure there are a few other iconish bands from the 60s & 70 that still sell and have stood the test of time at certain levels. Blue [/quote] Don't think that was quite what the OP was asking. If Love Me Do was released today (with no knowledge of former glories) would it still reach no.17 in the charts? I'm not sure it would. Maybe Love Me Do feat. Rhianna and DJ Skanky Dick might though.

I like them. That's one of the original Legends in my avatar with the P/J pickup and 3-band EQ. Currently loving my second SSD NS-94. Never played the Euro or the US ones but I hear nothing but good things about them. Currently GASing for an NS-2 Forte...

[quote name='GCYPbass' timestamp='1481754266' post='3194957'] Humbuckers with 3 way -parallel/single/series- switch are very versatile. My Maruszczyk has couple of them with switches and I am very happy with it. [/quote] Something like this I'd say (like the Warwick $$). That having been said the Jazz bass I think is one of the most recorded instruments so it can't be all bad!

After some contemplation I have decided to go with a 35P4/35J (reversed) combo. Will report back.

Interesting advice thanks boys. I have the JVXs in my Sandberg TT and they are very smooth sounding, so I think I'll go non-X for the extra zip.

Cheers Dan, that's what EMG suggested too. Think I might go for either the P4X/CSX or P4X/JX combo, but still a shade undecided. The DC pickups don't seem to get a lot of love on here. Have you been able to compare X and non-X EMGs as yet?

Which of course begs the question which would work best for a 4-string bass? I thought the 35 size was the 4-string and the 40 being for 5ers.

...and the winner is........sorry wrong speech. From EMG: [i]The 35px is Has magnets for a 5 string, the 35P4x has 4 string magnets. Cheers! Derek B. EMG[/i]