Chris2112

I find the best Fender jazz basses are the new ones, built in the old style! Take my Fender Jaco Pastorius fretless. Superb construction, excellent playability and awesome tone, all from a 'new' Fender built to the old design. The thing with newer Fenders (at least the high end ones) is that they have a consistency lacking in the older ones. Take some 70's jazz basses, for example. Some sound fantastic and are a reasonable weight, but some sound cack and some of the ash bodied ones can weigh a tonne.

Plus, when you go to New York you'll inevitably try something else that you really enjoy and end up wanting one of those too!

Sounds like a cool idea. I love a bit of 'home innovation'!

Yes, it's dreadful. Now, Albert Niland's cover...

They are fairly rare things, they seem even more rare than their fretless Buzz brothers! So you may struggle to find a shop stocking one outside of a shop round London picking one up used. Wasn't there a Basschatter trying to sell a lurid green one with EMG's here recently for quite some time? He may take an offer.

It didn't really strike me as anything wild, though the 'grating' quality of it did start to irritate me quite quickly. Enjoy it though, you'll probably keep it for a week or two and change your mind, subsequently changing your gear and then deciding a couple of years later you want that tone after all!

I am thinking about picking up a cheaper synth, just something to mess around with when I can't be bothered to get my bass out.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1344190828' post='1760989'] hmmm I don't see any Jeff Berlin just as well cos he so brill nobody else would probs be able to handle it anyways [/quote] He is indeed great. Some of his stuff is mind-bendingly tough. [i]Dixie [/i]and [i]Tears I[/i][i]n Heaven[/i] to start with! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpq7nkq3uTQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpq7nkq3uTQ[/url]

Could be that 'ole Ampeg, they can often sound pretty flat.

Ah, the joy of playing seated gigs! I still loop the cable under my strap though, to provide a safety barrier!

I still don't see the attraction. Something for blokes of a certain age...?

All depends on the type of gigs. The seated gigs I've done are far less dangerous for an instrument than a bunch of clapped out, wannabe-punk hacks jumping around a small stage at the Dog and Bollock with the bass amp resting on a bar stool and a beer crate for a footrest. That said, I wouldn't own a bass I wouldn't gig but some have passed through my hands at times when I haven't been gigging so have never left the house save for the recording studio!

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1343847458' post='1756342'] Oh god... that's all I need - do you reckon it's 'better' than a 5 string NT thumb? [/quote] Better? No, just different. The difference in weight/balance is minimal despite the shorter body on the NT. Maybe the NT weighs slightly more. The main difference is in the tone, with the NT sounding a little more mellow to my ears and the BO having a little more 'honk' in the upper mids, and a bit more of a noticeable bark in the tone overall. The biggest difference is - or was - the price. BO Thumbs used to be a great bargain but some of them have some pretty optimistic price tags attached, even used!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1343846399' post='1756317'] I saw a thread on warwick jack sockets... and was shocked to find not one reference to chocolate! [/quote] I was going to say, the issue with Warwick jacks is generally that they are sh*te! My Thumb and Streamer never had issues, but they lead pampered lives. Some of my friends who have had Warwicks have had jacks replaced time and time again!

What a piece of tat.

Some of the old Wal basses had quite a pronounced V shaped neck, some slightly less so - they generally all feel a bit different! Not my favourite neck profile but definitely something I could live with without issue.

Sold Ale my Warwick Streamer Ltd Edition 1990. Great to do business with, and I'm very happy to sell the bass to him as he made it clear early on he really wanted it. He even shipped me a case as I didn't have one for the bass. I would happily do business with Ale again. Enjoy your new Warwick!

Never cut them, sometimes give them a little boost depending on the overall mix and sound.

I love playing around with a pedal point during solos. It's such an interesting device but one I think that is often overlooked by guitarists and bassists during solos, who can tend to think about 'box shapes' quite a lot. Key players seem to love pedal points, so take a leaf out of their books and refer back to that common chord tone when soloing. Not only can it be an interesting melodic/harmonic device, it can bridge the gap between notes that you're using to form the main body of a solo, creating a real impact. Steve Bailey is particularly good at this when he mixes it with his three finger technique.

Nate who?

To be glib, OP, yes that would constitute an offence. Likely assault by penetration, SOA 2003.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1343739564' post='1754396'] What happened to your ACG?!?! [/quote] Traded, off in Hungary now! On top, this sounds amazing when you use a fretless to play the main melody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQoYeMAS5qo

Would love to (but no). Sold my Warwick this week. No doubt I'll be back with one again someday...