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I have a Euro LE '79 and the means to record, although please note I would describe my playing as absolutely average. What is it that you want to hear?

Limelight made me a great copy (imho, ymmv etc.) of Geddy's famous Jazz bass.

I use Jack's Instrument Services for all my pickguard needs. Not the cheapest, but very good quality.

Andy clearly resides in the sunny and warm southwest part of town. Up here in Lancs it's more like 2.7 days/year

Thanks for taking the time to respond. Whilst I would always buy from a local independent where possible (and indeed bought a bass from one a month or so back) I don't feel that you have been "hung, drawn and quartered" as the various points are all reasonable in respect of the bass itself. Your advert still makes no mention of the fretboard / trussrod issue and describing it an original neck might possibly be misconstrued by some folks. I bought my '66 P from the USA with some valuable support from a site member. I received a pack of 84 pictures with close-up detail down to component level. Whilst you would be considerably closer I doubt I could walk into your shop and ask you to dismantle the bass so I could see all the bits. You would appear to have satisfied customers on here which is of course reassuring to forum members. Commentary on the bass is just our opinion which you might consider or reject, but there are a lot of knowledgeable people on here who I would certainly turn too when my knowledge is lacking.

Fantastic work @Bilbo having just about got the hang of the first half of Starship Trooper I look on this with some trepidation Does this comply with the Salieri note limit per piece of music?

So pleased to be thought of as middle-aged

Everything in moderation. Whilst the music I regularly play is mostly not suited to the technique I would love to be able to incorporate it in moderation were I better at it.

Lack of info or lack of knowledge. They may well be good guys, but this is/was potentially a high value instrument so it does seem to me to be a bit negligent to not have done some homework.

I had some Cobalt flats on a bass for a bit but didn't really get on with them tbh. Put my 4-yr old TIs back on. That having been said I'm going to give the Markbass Vintage set that I got with the BC offer a spin too.

Here's my '66 for comparison. Definitely not the same construction.

Probably going to be something like a Yamaha, Squier or maybe a Bass Collection I guess. I'm sure Sire will get a mention too although I only had a very brief noodle one. Not tried a Vintage bass but the reviews have been pretty good.

New or pre-loved?

Isn't this one of those solutions to a problem that nobody really has?

I've met a lot of generous and knowledgable folks on here, some in person, some online, for which i am most grateful.

My HW One is pretty much as Fender made it with the honourable exception of the pickguard which is cheap replacement item sprayed matt black for added stealth (apart from band sticker). I recorded some samples of it to compare with my '66 P and it did very nicely so Greasebucket is fine too.

I couldn't watch this for more than about 5 minutes due to the unbelievably high levels of smugness and self-righteousness on display. Yes they cocked up but sounds like they will remedy in full.

I owned a Bacchus P bass for a while. Great bass, dimensionally slightly smaller that a Fender and much lighter. Very well made indeed and is one of the MIJ Woodline Series. (this was

The Rebel Bass

My Vintage strings arrived yesterday. Will get them on a bass asap.

We are not big time enough to play anything other than pubs, occasionally a club or a private function for mates of the band. To date no real hassles above the set up and take down when it's very busy. Mostly it's been a good laugh.

OK here goes, samples below. I spec'ed the bass with Alan at ACG to be essentially a passive 32" scale precision with the pickup in the P bass sweat spot. The bass has an Alder body with a flame maple top, a 3-piece Ash neck and a Maple board so possible a tad brighter than your average precision. Here's the link to the spec.: https://www.acguitars.co.uk/project/0339finn4/ I recorded the same riff in each of the four switch settings with both volume and tone controls fully 'on' to make it as straight a comparison as possible. The strings are a new set of D'Addario EXL170BT nickel round wounds, that seem to find their way onto all my fretted basses. Finn Ceramic Single Coil bridge V100 T100.wav Finn Alnico Single Coil neck V100 T100.wav Finn both parallel V100 T100.wav Finn both series V100 T100.wav

It's actually a 4-position coil switch for the new pickup. This is one of the brand spanking new ACG BZ1 Hybrid Humbuckers. It's a great little device that is, to quote from @skelf recent post in the ACG thread, " ...a hybrid humbucker in that it uses two different magnets for the coils. This allows for an Alnico single coil and a ceramic single coil in the same case. Combined with a rotary switch or 3 way mini toggle you have access to the separate coils and the coils combined. Think vintage single coil and modern single coil then both combined as a humbucker." I rashly promised to record some sound samples but I should issue a public health warning that these will not be to same high standard as the excellent Colin Cunningham ACG demos. I'm going to blame COVID-19 but I have a feeling that a marginal difference in talent might be responsible. I'll post them as soon as possible.

Funnily enough I was going to drop you a note too. Speak soon bud.