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i use a bad monkey overdrive pedal, £25 and it sounds pretty good and grindy, boost your mids and treble a bit on your amp and you should get fairly close to that sound.

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Bought a micro pog off Will. The pedal is perfect and arrived quickly. Great communication as well. Buy from Will with confidence!

So I shimmed the fretless neck I put on my ryder and put some ddarrio halfwounds on. Its now a nice playing bass! I must admit that I dont think I could have gigged it stock but now after changing a fair few parts ( things I already had that were collecting dust) i would now gig this! I have a giggable nice sounding bass for £60 + the price of the strings and a few hours locked in my room ! Pictures coming this weekend.. it looks pretty with the tort!

I received my navy Ryder on tuesday and changed the strings pretty much immediately to some old rotosounds, plugged in and it had a nice sound but a fair bit of buzzing from the pickups. I also found the neck fairly uncomfortable and heavy so I decided to mod this bass. So this weekend I set to work on making my Ryder bass more playable for me. Heres what I did : -I first put a MIM defretted jazz bass neck on. This seemed to fit fine but I am going to shim the neck as the action is too high even with the bridge set up low and the the truss rod tweaked. I used the tuners from the Ryder, they seem fine, a bit stiff but thats ok. -Shielded the control cavity and sorted out the grounding wire. - Changed the scratchplate to a tort one that i had from an old bass. I had to do a fair bit of work round the neck to make it fit and redrill all the screw holes but it fits ok now and looks better than the stock scratchplate imo. -Put some old MIM p bass pickups in and some nice pots with solderless connections. Main reason I changed the pickups is that the stock ones didnt fit the scratchplate! Nothing wrong with them really but I like these MIM pickups anyway. Think thats it! Plugged the Ryder/mim p bass in and im pleased with the sound. The buzzing has completely gone and Im a lot happier with this neck. I really like the body finish and the bridge. I know i changed a lot of parts but I didnt buy any of the replacement bits as they were all old unused bits I had lying around. As far as Im concerned its still a £60 bass! I will post pictures tomorrow after the neck shim hopefully.

Just got a call from my housemate and mine has arrived! Will change the strings and mess about with it after band practice later.

Ordered a dark blue one last night! Looking forward to getter it and seeing what £60 (plus donation) can get you. Ive got a tort scratchplate with nice pots that im going to put on it if it doesnt need too much modding to make it fit and ive also got some MIM p bass pickups that i can put on if I dont like the stock ones ... Oh and a defretted Jazz bass neck that I will try and fit but Im not too bothered if it wont fit. Just have to dig out some strings for it by what everyone is saying!

According to the Squier website the Mars Volta bassist is using a CV P bass or something similar. He says it plays really well and sounds great.. Ive seen him use laklands and old fenders when im seen him live in the past.

Bought another p bass wiring harness from John. The Quality is of the same very high standard that the last one I bought was. Having the solderless pickup terminals is brilliant! Great communication throughout the transaction and quick delivery! Thanks again John!

No worries! Johns soldering work puts mine to shame and the solderless pickup terminals that John uses make pickup experimenting effortless!

Ive bought 2 P bass wiring harnesses off a basschatter, they are great quality and i also had them wired with solderless terminals for the pickups so I can change the pickups very easily, I will send you a PM with his details.

Bought a p bass wiring kit with screw terminals off John. Really good quality and neatness on the soldering and wiring and the screw terminals make changing pickups so simple. Great guy to deal with, great communication and product is just what i needed. buy from John with confidence.

A 32inch scale jazz neck for my P bass would be brilliant!

Just bought a boss OC-3 octave pedal from Gary. Great communication and delivered very fast! Gary seems like a top guy as well! A pleasure doing business and highly reccomended. Thanks mate!

[quote name='TomKent' post='852020' date='May 30 2010, 07:10 PM']I used a blues-breaker on my bass once, the bottom end suddenly disappeared. Guess the frequencies aren't made for bass.[/quote] i use a bluesbreaker in a loop with a EQ pedal boosting the bass and it sounds brilliant! i do agree that you can lose low end if your clean sound is fairly bassy, im using a rickenbacker and quite a trebly tone so i get away with using the bluesbreaker even without the bass boost pedal.

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