Mr Rabble

I can check my Fender Bass Book this evening, stay tuned

IMHO you're getting too paranoid.
Have you ever tried a Jazz Bass?
Every decent, plain simple, traditional Jazz Bass can either cuts through the mix or sit within, and can be full and deep but also growly and defined.

[quote name='HMX' post='1035748' date='Nov 25 2010, 12:09 AM']and I don't like favouring the neck pickup.[/quote]

Do it.
You just need to cut a bit back the bridge pickup, from 100% to 95% output or even less cut.
Of course a powerful tube amp would be great

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1032880' date='Nov 22 2010, 05:57 PM']Your could hear your bass, and it wasn't just the dull, farty P sound.[/quote]


One can prefer either a P or a J, but as a matter of fact the P-sound isn't dull by itself.

[quote name='Bassman Sam' post='1025786' date='Nov 16 2010, 01:54 PM']I was wondering if a refinish would be worth it?[/quote]


No, if you want to sell it anyway

I wouldn't do it.
Moreover I'm afraid that a neck joint pickup + actual neck pickup would sound horribly together

What was the original finish?
Is the pickguard made ot plastic or metal?

[quote name='keeponehandloose' post='1011306' date='Nov 3 2010, 09:22 PM']A single 15 pushes more air than 2x10s ,as it has more surface area,so 2x10 + 1x15 should seem louder[/quote]

2x10" have more surface area than a single 15"

rehearsal room rig: circa 1973 Ampeg SVT + Bergantino NV610
home rig: old GK 800RB + old (200 watts) Ampeg 410HE
mountain's home rig: 1992 SWR Baby Blue

[quote name='paul h' post='1017648' date='Nov 9 2010, 04:11 PM']This is complete guesswork but a lot of Japanese instruments come with ceramic pickups and US ones with Alnico.[/quote]

I didn't know, but I'm more than confident that this doesn't apply to Japanese vintage reissues too

Warwick basses, had been a very important part in my life as a bass player.
I'm actually Warwick-less, and I don't have (yet?) the plan to go back.
I still think however that the 1989 Thumb NT I used to have is the best bass I ever had/played

I think is just an important aesthetic factor

Alder 99%
Fender used almost exclusively Alder during the sixties

Stack knobs = 62RI (MIA only)
Block inlays = 75RI model (both MIJ-CIJ and MIA)

I simply compensate with the volume control on my amp

[quote name='davebass66' post='949248' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:03 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Bass-Fullerton-1984-62-Reissue-USA-/300461521150?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item45f4e6f8fe"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Bas...=item45f4e6f8fe[/url][/quote]


As many of those 82-83 reissues body wood's are horribly matched together
As almost every american reissue it should sound very good, and better and better as years pass by

One of the best transistor heads ever made
And that 2 x 15 is awesome too

Ampeg SVT (or Marshall VBA) owners need a 4 ohm cab, because it's not safe to run their head at 8 ohm.

IMHO zing and growl are different things
Zing = top end brightness, with some fret buzz
Growl = midrange presence.
Many kind of differenty growl: J-bass single coil growl, P-bass with a pick growl, Warwick low-mid growl.....

I own and love a Bergantino 6x10, but don't like the Ampeg 610HLF at all (too much on the boomy side)
I'd keep the Peavey

- Having the money, a pre CBS
- With less money, but still more than I want to spend for a bass, a Custom Shop '64
- As a real deal, a used American Vintage '62

I think they are good basses, both P and J basses, but prics have risen too high in the last years.

It is common to see them for sale at prices comparable to used American Vintage Series which, IMHO, are usually superior basses than JV's

[quote name='Starless' post='843802' date='May 21 2010, 08:18 AM']Anyone happy to pay hundreds more for a 'Made in USA' decal on the headstock (that's the only difference) needs their head examined[/quote]

Being the owner of both a Japanese and an American Precision I need my head to be seriously examinated, because I hear and feel a huge difference

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='843756' date='May 21 2010, 12:20 AM']That route is to acomodate the screws of a thumbrest, in my opinion. Probably back then the thumbrests screwed to the pickguard and not to the body or had some kind of reinforcement plaque under the pickguard. Don't realy know, just trying to guess what it is but it seems in the right place [/quote]

No, for two reasons
The thumbrest was repositioned over the E string years before 1979
There had never been a route for the thumbrest which is screwed directly into the body (just like the pickguard)

[quote name='Jigster' post='840095' date='May 17 2010, 07:50 PM']... gaining in value maybe as the years tick on?....[/quote]


From a strictly economic point of view, eighties Fenders are the way to go now to make some profit out of your money