30 years old and mint as a mint thing Fender....

[Happy Jack]

And now ... with photos!


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The rest are at http://s1128.beta.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses%20CURRENT/Fender%20Precision%201984%20CURRENT

[thumbo]

Flippin' eck... the difference a nice pic and a white pick guard can make [size=4] Good work sir, I imagine that pickup combo sounds really good. [/size]

[Happy Jack]

Intriguingly, everything sounds great until I plug through a wireless system. At that point, the controls suddenly go from being noiseless and trouble-free to being remarkably crackly and buzzy, with one of the volume knobs being virtually microphonic ... if you tap the knob you get a sound like a spring reverb going through a flanger.

The solution is laughably easy, of course. Don't go wireless. But I'd like to know what the problem is.

[tauzero]

Is that every wireless system, or just one? And have you tried the wireless system with any other passive basses? Just thinking that if there's a coupling capacitor on the input of the wireless transmitter and it's gone short-circuit, a passive bass's volume and tone control won't be isolated whereas an active bass will probably have a coupling capacitor on the output, hence preventing any varying DC bias being applied.

[Happy Jack]

It's a brand-new Sennheiser XD, and I've used it with several basses (both passive and active) - this is the only one where there seems to be an issue.

[discreet]

Gah! I missed all this... great purchase by the look (and I'm sure the sound) of it, Jack!