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Hey all. I sent the photo onto Fender Consumer Relations who have responded swiftly and advised (in writing) that it has been a "mis-build" - a rare occurrence but the second time they've seen it on a 70's spec Jazz. GuitarGuitar Edinburgh have also been fab (as usual) and offered me a straight swap to a replacement - they currently have these in stock and have spot checked a couple to confirm correct spec. With this written confirmation from Fender, I'm comfortable keeping this f*ckup. In fact we're becoming quite inseparable. Here it is with all the bling removed (much as I love the look, it does get in the way)...4 points
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They’re great strings, I’ve used them for years. I’m really surprised you’ve got a dead one, but that’s more likely to be because the bass was strung months ago and has been sitting in a shipping container at sea between Indonesia and here, suffering all sorts of extremes of temperature and humidity. One of the main reasons I’ve stuck with the EXLs for over 15 years is their consistency - all that time I’ve never had a dud. In 40 years of playing I’ve been through most brands, and some major makes (naming no names) have truly appalling quality control.2 points
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I've played a two set gig with no drummer when he fell ill and the replacement was my right foot on the wooden stage floor. I reckon I could do a gig as a bass player on anything with at least one string. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would be better than cancelling. The less you've got, the simpler the music, but I reckon that at least 90% of the audience won't notice.2 points
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@Ashdown Engineering you might want to follow this thread2 points
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Thanks. Something went wrong with an update. We’re on it!2 points
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OK OK. I finish work in a couple of hours and will take a couple of piccies then2 points
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It’s ok I got a Sharpie 😆2 points
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Better start going through all my Pink Floyd albums too and binning anything with imposter David Gilmour playing.2 points
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I play bass guitar alongside (usually) six other guitarists known collectively as "The Glissando Guitar Orchestra". We all bow our instruments with metal objects using a lot of compression and delay, creating fabulously rich textured drones. It sounds like this:2 points
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I’d better throw away my copies of Yessongs, Going For The One and 90125 then... I never realised they didn’t count as they’re just by some tribute band.2 points
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I attended a 'Zappa plays Zappa' concert a few years ago, with Terry Bozzio as guest. Just as he was starting his 'routine', his bass drum batter head split. After a couple of minutes 'kerfuffle', he moved over to the 'house' kit whilst a drum tech changed the head, after which he came back down to his own kit. Apart from extensive use of a whole raft of china crashes around his kit, there was no difference whatever in his playing. I reckon the bloke could have finished his spot with cardboard boxes (or even a Squier bass..! ) if he had to. He's good, is that there Terry Bozzio; very good indeed.2 points
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@BigRedX - I designed and printed the feet myself. They fit onto the helix using the same screws as the rubber feet and then some wood screws into the board. The board is only just big enough for the LT and some space behind it for cables etc so not much good if you use external pedals. I know @dood had a board that was big enough for quite a few pedals and the LT - he may be able to point you in the right direction. the LT was sitting way too high as standard so I dropped the height of the main board in the case by removing the wood support underneath it so the LT will sit lower and have a bit more clearance inside the lid - works well for me and drops the height by about 45mm. Edit : I’ve still got some screen protectors available from the next production run for sale and I can print some fixing feet if anyone wants some2 points
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I can only imagine the level of depression if one of those broke during installation2 points
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The UV light on my Trace Elliott gives me a ridiculous amount of pleasure and more than makes up for it weighing the same as a small military vehicle.2 points
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Through neck, J pickups (instead of single P pickup)2 points -
Not a chance. Why..? ... I play drums.2 points
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It's just a change of key, so E would be Eb. I wouldn't down-tune I'd find it weird playing a B and hearing a Bb. I'd rather just transpose and know that I'm playing a Bb instead of a B, if you see what I mean .2 points
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Suitable to use as a travel bass or for practicing at home, at work, in the car either with headphones or through an amp. Right-handed, 4-string, fretted. Light & easy/comfortable to play. Bass is in excellent condition. Price reduced to £150. New, the AS-691B is currently for sale for £479 so grab yourself a bargain. No trades, thanks. It was previously sold but the buyer returned it to me due to it making a humming noise. When tested again at home, it does not hum. I would, therefore, prefer the buyer to come and test it out first to satisfy themselves it is OK. I am based in the West Midlands near Coventry/Leamington/Warwick. Happy to arrange mutually convenient place to meet/exchange. Alternatively, I can ship it at an additional cost of £16. Spec Body: Mahogany Neck: Maple Fretboard: Rosewood Scale Length: 860mm (34 inches) Number of Frets: 24 Total Length: 104 cm (41 inches) w/o strap button. Width of body: 13 cm Width @ nut / 12 Fret: 39mm / 54mm String spacing: 17mm (at bridge) Weight: 2.0kg Frame: Aluminum covered in soft rubber tubing. Detachable for travelling/storage. Pickups: Stereo condenser microphone / piezo pickup with active electronics. Controls: Volume, Tone x 2 (treble, bass) Bridge: Original SoloEtte round type, Rosewood Hardware: Black Accessories: Soft, padded carry bag (small split 14 cm where material has come away from zip, caused by me using too much bubble wrap as extra padding). Headphones (fold down, not great but do the job). Any questions, please ask.1 point -
I've just ordered a Harley Benton PB50 which I'm going to repaint straight away as a bit of a project. I've never painted a guitar before but have worked for donkeys years as a car painter so no problems there. I'd like any suggestions on what type of paint I should use in case anyone has experience. I'm thinking 2K solid colour could work but would also be happy to try 2K basecoat and clear. I'm assuming the factory finish is stable enough to paint over without re-priming. Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated. Also have just read through kodiakblair's PB50 thread and have all the info I need for a headstock reshape. Great stuff.1 point
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Hello Bass community UK PRICE DROP £3800 - ON HOLD FOR ONE OF OUR FINE BASS PLAYING COUSINS IN ITALY FREE SHIPPING UK. DUE TO LARGE QUOTES TO EU WHICH ARE DRIVEN UP BY SHIPPING INSURANCE I CAN NO LONGER OFFER FREE SHIPPING TO EUROPE. I WILL ENDEAVOUR TO FIND THE CHEAPEST CARRIER POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. Recently moved from Australia to the North East for a minor career change to the wind industry. Looking to offload my all original 66/67 J Bass to help finance the course fees. It's in a word, killer. 8 lbs alder body, A code neck, all nitro factory finish, original paddle tuners, block inlays, original neck shim in neck pocket, still got original chrome pickup covers, not one single solder joint has been touched, still with all original pots from the mid 66 fender bulk-buy from CTS and Stackpole (tone pot is Stackpole, original 0.02 ceramic capacitor with yellow sleeve on one leg, vol pots CTS) pickups hand dated to 10-1-67 and 19-1-67 respectively, original pickguard and thumbrest. It sounds, well you know, stunning. Original mid-late 60's no tail fender logo case, all latches intact and functioning, lining perfect. Must have been an Australian delivery - it has a winner's medallion from the 1970 NSW Battle of the bands competition set into the back of the body just below the neckplate. I'll hand deliver it anywhere between Newcastle and London - any further and it'll probably be around £50 give or take...1 point -
So as you know, I'm in a Police tribute and I have collected basses like Sting used in The Police. I'm currently a bit bored with gigging and decided to use one of my Police basses with my normal pub band. We're called Live 'n' Kickin' and have been around just shy of 31 years. I normally play a Fender 'Flea' jazz in this band but last night decided to do the whole gig on my Fretless 'bitsa' What a great sound and work out for my playing. Songs that were a struggle, By the way by TRHCP as it starts with chords and the middle bit of Allright Now. But I had fun and nobody else really noticed. Now I need to think up something for the next gig.1 point
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@D'Addario UK's customer service is reliably consistent and very, very good just like the products they produce.1 point
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I find it difficult to come down after a gig, however small (and most of mine are very small!). So yes, sleeping is usually difficult. I used to get this when I did a lot of amateur theatre - but that would be for a week at a time 2-3 times a year. So I would try to take the week off work and then sleep in late. Now with the music, it's just like a series of little 'highs'. And sometimes I can't concentrate too well the next day, as I keep thinking back to it. Anyway, I have found the solution - I'm retiring from work at the end of June! Hurrah!1 point
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I'd say the limitations between a Chinese motorbike and a Ducati are far greater than between a Squier bass and whatever coffee table bedroom bass you want to compare it to. Put Valentino Rossi on the Zongshen and me on the Ducati and Rossi would still beat me.1 point
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Or.... you have a genuine Fender custom one off. I prefer the glass half full point of view!1 point
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What I find baffling here is Ashdown think £25.13 + shipping and VAT is worth more to them than their reputation. The £30 of goods-will from sending one FOC to the OP would be worth far more than they'd get from £30 of marketing budget1 point
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I decided to buy the driver for the extension from Ashdown. Contacted them on the 9th of March and today I got a reply - Hi8 Duncan, I have looked into this for you. Unfortunately we can only supply from stock a Celestion pulse 10 bass speaker this is a 200w unit. Since you are going to use it in the extension cabinet together with the combo it should be fine Price is 25.13 + shipping @ 5.30 and VAT . call me if you wish to order it I can appreciate that a 200w will do the job but after the initial cause of the problem, I suppose I expected a bit better from Ashdown. Surely they could at least supply a larger wattage driver for the original price considering the circumstances? I even mentioned if they had any covers knocking about could I get one 'preferably' free (I can't see why not after all the problem was their fault and I'm having to pay to rectify it) but as you can see by the reply, there's no mention. A bit of me wants to ditch all my Ashdown gear and go with a firm with a decent customer service. I've had a lot of new gear from them over the years but that's now definitely come to an end.1 point
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Does that include double bass or EUB, then..? I just found the 'talking poop' comment to be just a touch emphatic. I suppose that a bassoon player could play his/her lines on a Squier bass, and even a triangle percussionist could get a 'Ting..!' from one, somehow, but that wasn't really the spirit of the OP, I think. Never mind; it's only hypothetical anyway.1 point
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completely second this. Insurance companies are very well known for pointing at the small print when telling you why they are refusing to pay out, and very much not known for paying out when you did something different because that's what you assumed would be fine.1 point
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Are you sure about the overspray? I only say that because the colouring of the body/headstock is fairly typical for basses of this era. One of mine looks as though it's had cigarette smoke blown at it continually for all its life! We tend to be fixated on weight too, so an idea of that would probably help. GLWTS1 point -
asking to downtune instruments, never so far, but asking to do songs in other keys it's pretty normal. Up to you whether you need/want to downtune or whether it works better in standard tuning.1 point
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It is tempting but having two the would be madness. This is the bass that stuck with me and stopped me flipping basses. Very versitile with loads of sounds. Ibanez's answer to the G&L L2500. What I particulary like is that switch. I use the EQ flat and just flip that switch to get a more agressive sound when I want with no volume increase whatsoever. It can do a great P bass sound, Stringray whatever, is well built. You should keep it buddy. My band love mine so I'm under instructions to keep it.1 point -
Play your set, play it hard and get off. Energy levels up to 10, ‘bantz’ down to 0. An ethos my new band live with. Can’t stand a local band who think they’ve got something funny or interesting to say. 10 hours till pub time, can’t wait!1 point
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I concur. Make me an offer - I might say yes!1 point
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I know people who do nothing but play bass, but I probably know as many people who have a diverse skill set and do bits and pieces of different things to keep themselves busy/earning. I definitely fall in to the latter. I do plenty of work as a bassist (and occasionally a guitarist), and fix a few function bands from time to time, but I also tour manage bands, sound engineer and backline tech for various artists, operate a splitter van, run a small production/hire company providing sound, lighting etc for events, and do some freelance work for other production companies too. I often wonder if I'd have been better off specialising more, but I enjoy all of what I do, and if one thing has a quiet patch I've got other things to fall back on. I actually feel like it frees me up more too, because a couple of weeks touring work takes the financial pressure off for the rest of the month so I can spend some of my weekends at home with the kids, and sending stuff out through the production company means I've got the option of sending another tech on the gig instead of being obligated to constantly be out all hours. Nice to have choices. Make no mistake, I'm still doing the majority of it myself, but if I was focused solely on bass I'd likely be gigging every single Friday and Saturday with a few midweeks thrown in, and probably be divorced by now! Cultivating some sort of income that doesn't strictly depend on me physically being on every gig means I can do what I love but try and keep some work/life balance, and have one eye on how I wind down as I get older.1 point
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I'm happy if your vote was no, but I'm not sure your man has been listening to the right basses. . . or the right players. Any inaudible, unclear, thin or dull bass sound is just a bad sound and has everything to do with poor EQ and/or playing and very little to do with the instrument.1 point
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The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, 1968. Double headline acts: The Doors and Jefferson Airplane. 8 in the evening until 8 the next morning, two nights in a row. The Doors, then JA, then JA, followed by The Doors. Reverse order the second evening. Interludes from Terry Reid and Blossom Toes. I spent most of the evening with a French girl on my lap, but didn't even think to get her name. I walked home from there to Bedfont (twenty-odd miles or so...). My feet didn't touch the ground. Brilliant show; lights 'n all. Happy Daze.1 point
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Yep, no problem at all.. When I think back to the quality of basses I had when I first started playing in the late 70s, a modern day Squier would be 'luxury' (to quote Monty Python) in comparison.1 point
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This HAS to be worth looking at: OK, you could be wanting a brand new axe, but this is a good deal. I know he says pick up from East London, but I can oblige with packing materials and a courier can be sorted. If it comes to it, I'll pick it up and pack it and send it if you were to sort the money out.1 point
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Recorded another quick demo of it tonight. All bass sounds used in the track are the Squier. The bass lines are have no effects on them, the melody bits have some stock effects from Guitar Rig, the overall track has some light compression on it. I've just restrung it with Warwick Reds so it sounds very zingy so I have the tone rolled off for quite a lot of this recording. Enjoy! squier demo.mp31 point -
Yes, no problem. I enjoy using my Fenders, they aren't preventing us from keeping a roof over our head or depriving my children of food ( at nearly 30 years old, they can afford their own food!), but if things changed, I could play what I play on a Squier just as easily.1 point
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Yes easily and do with my Dirnt P bass my go to rough pub bass.1 point
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Hi Luka, good luck with the sale. I bought a bass from Luka, sent the money via bank transfer, bass was on the way next day. Buy with confidence.1 point -
Great slap bass.1 point
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Another Wal1 point
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Interesting. In which case, any considering the comments above, the so-called classic Yes line-up of Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Squire/White must also be no more than a classy tribute to the original band?1 point
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I hope this is allowed outside of the buy/sell forums (if not, please let me know) but following a bit of interest I'm putting an order together for a batch of Helix floor/LT protector screen assemblies. If anyone wants one, they are £20 incl. UK postage - either PM me or email : [email protected]1 point
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If you can play those tupe of bands then youre more than capable of joining a band. Youll never feel ready to join a band, but as soon as you do join one, your playing will improve 10 times quicker than having lessons. Youll naturally push yourself harder, have to play songs you wouldnt neccessarily pick and learn to gel with other band members and what they play - all stuff that you cant get from having a lesson - and far more valuable.1 point
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Two little gigs this weekend, Sat and Sun night. Snow and ice on the roads. I was surprised they weren't cancelled and even more surprised that both of them were really well attended. Nothing stops Brummie music lovers from getting out it seems :-) Saturday gig - a little spot at a Country and Americana evening. This is with my number 2 band, who are a lovely bunch of chaps but anashamed hobbyists. Banjo player who is usually very reliable had been celebrating Paddy's Day all afternoon and was feeling quite mellow, shall we say. He was playing all the same songs as the rest of us, but not quite at the same time. Nevertheless it all seemed to go down quite well. A friend of mine in the audience said to me afterwards 'Well done for keeping that all together Shell. I don't know how you knew where they were going to go next, you must be telepathic!' I took that as a compliment, as he is an excellent musician himself. Sunday gig with my number 1 band. A much more professional outfit who do mainly 50's and 60's covers. The challenge this time was to rise to the top of my game, as they are all really good musicians. We do some quite fast and furious songs like 'The Letter', 'Claudette' and 'Rip it Up'. My fingers are a blur, haha! Then I can relax on the trippier bass lines like 'Days' and 'Itchy Coo Park'. Had a load of fun and it went really well. The thing with both these bands is that they were originally acoustic trios who asked me to just guest on a couple of numbers that would benefit from a bit of bass. Before long I was a permanent member of both bands and playing the full set. The moral of this story being, keep your eye out for any opportunity, you never know how these things will develop1 point
