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I threatened you with this warned you politely about this above. I've kept it short for mercy's sake: ExtractAnotherBrickInTheWall.mp4 Played with Vol and Tone open through my Laney RB3. Tone is flat on the combo and the gain set to trigger the compressor (such as it is) most of the time. Recording is via an LG 'phone camera. 30mb for a few seconds of video is a bit more storage than I wanted to use so make the most of it.

Thanks! Here’s a picture which probably gives a better idea of the colour of the bass. When the light hits it it’s really golden in colour and the grain jumps out. I don’t think there’s any ‘colour’ applied, just a clear finish, so I guess it’s the Ash that just looks so nice. I was playing it until well after midnight, enjoying every fizzy growly note that jumped off the fingerboard. We watched a scary film last night and normally I’d be a bit scared of going down to the office in the dark to play with my back turned but on this occasion I thought evil spirits be damned, maybe we can jam?

It is something bass players seem to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...

This came in the post today!! I posted a wanted advert here a few weeks ago asking for a Jazz Bass with 70s spacing. I had lots of messages and offers of all sorts of basses from vintage Fenders to modern super jazzes. I ended up going for this one for a few reasons, mostly from good experiences with Atelier-Z in the past, and the fact the bass exhibits none of the weight associated with 70s examples (certainly those that I tried). The body is chambered and a sandwich of alder and ash. It sounds superb; full of that 'breathy' quality of the best jazz basses I have tried. Slap is pure Marcus Miller territory when you want it to be, but I especially like the way it sounds with finger style and the occasional pop accent. The pickups feel great - very powerful and a muscular gritty detail when you dig in. Here's a pic of the chambering ...and here are some pics of the bass in my garden shortly before I walk Sybil and no doubt cause a rainstorm I'll do some sound samples once I have played with it. Cheers ped

That's how I fee about a lot of neo-prog (including latter-day Rush), but with the likes of Yes, Genesis etc. it's actually songs - even if the arrangements are complicated, there's a decent tune behind it.

WOW.. 40 years of playing and its a 2 piece body and your shocked and never even plugged the bass in. I would be amazed if its that bad. Got any pics.? Lakland are usually awesome on their build quality. Hey guess what some fenders are 4 piece bodies.

Is that seriously all that was wrong - that the body was made of two pieces of wood? That’s hardly unusual. What about the rest of it, the stuff that matters - the fit of the neck pocket, the nut, the fretwork, the electronics, the general build quality, and how it sounded?

No, but the guitarist might be. I don't see this as good reason to down-tune. Down-tuning should be done for musical reasons, not to work around gear issues.

I had a long overdue listen to this today. IMO it's a rock masterpiece. Every track is excellent. The title track is sublime. That gorgeous flanged bass. What a band. Phil at his peak. Superb.

Probably the opposite. Sympathetic vibration of the timber is going to sap energy and reduce sustain. Imagine a string fitted to a rigid iron frame (piano) or a wooden fame (harp). Which one has long sustain and which one has a plinky plonky sound?

2019 Vintera

My newest setup 😁

Boys calm down - she's got a steady boyfriend now (it's not the guitarist) 😂

ZZ Top can be so entertaining...

Probably because it wasn't. Book matching, in luthiery, is usually only done with decorative tops and veneers - which are split along the length, and then folded open like a book so the two pieces exactly mirror eachother. Two-piece bodies are the norm in solid body bass and guitar building (and often more pieces, Fender has already been mentioned). I can imagine it being disappointing if the wood selection doesn't match up to the price point, and maybe the body on yours was better suited for a solid colour. But then again these new Skylines are Indonesian factory-made, and not built by a skilled luthier who loves his job and takes great pride in his product. I think you can hardly blame that on quality control, that has much more to do with fit, finish and playability.

It's been 9 months since Alain M. posted anything on YouTube, until yesterday that is: Brilliant reggae bass tone as always from him.

A well built instrument can transfer string vibration into body/pickups more effectively and with less loss, hence giving more sustain. I would argue sustain indicates effective and efficient transfer by a good neck/body joint, nut, bridge and quality wood. And therefore sustain = quality (to a point). But do you “need” sustain? Often no.

I asked a question on the repair section and among my friends about replacing the truss rod in a Fender neck (previous owner had snapped the nut off), too much hassle was the cry, especially as it`s a bound neck.....bugger! So here I am with a Fender Vintera 70`s Jazz bass in Inca Silver, the body is truly immaculate, anyway I tried several reputable websites including Fenders own and no new Fender neck of the same spec are available. I turned my attention to Northwest Guitars, they did a very similar bound and block neck but with rosewood rather than pau ferro and a bone nut rather than synthetic, get in my basket! These necks are now also out of stock as it happens so i bought mine just in time. I contacted a mate of mine who does refinishes and set ups and got him to refinish the neck in the correct tint and also apply the decals (yes I know its not a genuine Fender neck but the rest of the bass is so thats my argument) anyway I picked the bass up from him yesterday and oh my what a pretty thing she is, I think it`s a keeper despite the relatively low output of the pickups (im used to either humbuckers or active or both) the neck feels every bit as nice as the original in the hand and it just looks lovely, all this for a swap for a cheapy bitsa, definitely my score of 2020!

Awaken is, for me, the greatest piece of music I’ve ever heard.

This looks really nice, big and... complicated... Has the signal found its way out, yet?

I changed out the BBOT on a Jazz bass for a Babicz. Much as I like the Babicz for it's engineering, functionality and complete lack of sharp edges, I have to say I didn't notice any glaring differences or improvements in the tone, sustian or overall playability of the bass after I fitted it. YMMV.

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Ritchie Blackmore's tendency to always eat the last jaffa cake. Does that count?

Certainly was a bargain! If I hadn’t already got one I’d have been after it myself 🙂 I paid a couple of hundred more for mine back when the peavey warehouse got cleared out and everything was being auctioned off. Think that possibly makes it either a return or a repair but it’s been fine for the last few years so I can only imagine that if it did once have a problem it was sorted. I don’t get to play it as often as I might, but every time I do it’s good fun. If I was to offer any small piece of advice, I’d say don’t run it for 3 hours and then immediately pick it up and carry it to the car with the back pressed tight to your body. Those power valves are close to the grille and damn near melted the elastane in my comfy stretch jeans!

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Has anyone told you that you look just like that @SpondonBassed off of Basschat? His beard is a bit longer though I think.

Rickenbacker.

Sounds like a bass. Mission accomplished.

Real nice, I like real natural, a rear route gives ya more of the wood, and the clear plate gives a modern take but keeps the classic and expected lines and shapes, (A bit like those eyeing for the clear plate on the black paisley P.) without appearing too modern, and like something is missing or forgotton... i may of gone for a more modern and smoother looking bridge - more to reflect eveloution... Real nice...

There is a thing with certain modern prog groups where there will be key or time changes for no apparent reason and it feels like they are just "trying to be prog". You never get that with the earlier groups as they weren't trying to be anything

When I returned to playing after, a very lengthy gap, the first gig I did the guitarist used one of those. It worked fine...until the derrière forgot to switch it back to standard tuning for the next song.

https://youtu.be/lrhJv4KplU4 I can’t help but think of this when people mention sustain. Apologies, other than that, I have nothing of any use to contribute to this discussion about the why.

So you’ve been in some where they didn’t 😃?!

The way I have always interpreted the comments about sustain is that it sets certain basses apart from those that very little sustain i.e. the ones that just sound dead and lifeless. A muted sound has its place, but not a bass without foam under the strings.

I'm a carpenter and think routers are wonderful tools 🙂 They are also the tool I'm the most careful with when using 👍

Well just to update re this, have managed to score a 1987 2eq in my favoured black/maple colour scheme on the ‘bay.

I used to have an obsession about swapping any BBOT to something more substantial. I then realised that my basses work for a lving (at least they used to) so in the context of a band I could never hear a difference so I stopped doing it.

+1 to all the advice here. As a guitarist by training I'd say there's definitely a problem with the guitar. In truth I'm struggling to see how detuning a semitone would cure it. Might be worth mentioning that in most styles the B string (along with the G) generally sees most of the string bends. As @Dad3353 suggests, the bridge saddle would be the first place I'd be looking.

Basses with a top horn shaped like a sex toy. Warwick Thumb I'm looking at you...