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Just watching Chappell Roan at Reading, don’t know any of the material but very enjoyable, great to see such a good artist/band.

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Ah get what you mean, well I’d say all were of similar - pardon the pun - standard. My ultimate faves are the 12 - 15, playability wise I just gel with the necks the best which are chunkers, but no standout points on build, with playability being down to the individual. Given you’ve a 2015 Jazz I’d say look at this series for Precisions too as I find the Jazz necks on this series quite chunky. Again if pushed I’d say 08 - 12 my least fave on playability as necks quite flat/shallow, which isn’t my thing.

Having had several US Standard Precisions I wouldn’t avoid any, but my findings would be: Late 90s - all over good bass, decent neck depth and good chunky sounding pickup Mid 2000s - good basses, S1 Switching which to me didn’t add anything at all, good depth neck, fairly neutral pickup with no real frequency bias so ideal to fit in most genres very easily Late 2000s (08 - 12) - decent basses, flatter neck which makes it feel wider, pickup sounded quite scooped 2012 - 15 - my fave, nice chunky deep neck, Custom Shop 62 pickups give a good depth to the sound, lightweight tuners I’d happily have any of them, if pushed I’d say stock the 08 - 12s are my least fave as I prefer to have mids and scoop them myself, but a pickup change is easy enough and solves that.

So first we have me in The Shout, prob 88/89 Secondly we have me in The Spacewasters 2022 (I do have later pics but they’re pony, so this one gets the outing)

Looks great, a classic look

Easily, one of the problems I find with most drive/gain demos is it always seems to be drive on full. The Spark with the gain set lower is excellent at that “ touch of hair” on the sound to warm it up and take away the harder sound of the clean notes.

Best not get a job as a fortune teller…..

I`ve stayed on friendly terms with everyone I`ve been in bands with, might not see them for years but when bump into them still get on fine. A couple of times individuals have really annoyed me to the point of wanting to leave but I`ve stayed, more out of loyalty to the rest who weren`t being donkeybacksides, and it`s always been the right decision, act with haste, repent at leisure not really being my thing. Similarly I`ve never been in a band where someone has left and had the raging hump with any of the rest of the band.

Mouldy Old Dough & Crazy Horses, loved them as a kid, and still do now. Used to do Crazy Horses in an old band, complete with the cross-legged dance thing they used to do.

Might be worth a call/message to Dave Green at Ashdown, see if he can recommend something.

Fender Precisions for me. In my first probably 20 years of playing bass I was always chasing a sound that I couldn`t get, pretty much all of my fave players played Precisions - dur, should have been a clue but there was me trying to get their sounds from different types of bass. Anyway, finally got one and there was what I`d been looking for all that time. I play other basses, for weight reasons, but it will always be the Precision for me.

Nice sounds

Ampeg Scrambler and TC Electronic Spark Booster are both worth checking out.

Agree, I bought one but returned it, nothing wrong with it, very nice bass actually, but although I bought it to be a Mustang that sounded like a Precision ultimately that was why I returned it, I found that I just prefer my Mustangs to sound like Mustangs. But for anyone wanting Precision sounds from a short scale bass with Jazz width neck then these are hard to beat, the one I had played beautifully with the factory set up & stock strings.

The changes suggested will all improve the bass in terms of quality, but as above a good fret level & change of nut will make it be able to be set up to play at its best. That coupled with the pickup change will get you a bass that plays great and sounds it too. One thing to consider though, quite often Squier put 500k pots in the electrics, resulting in a quite toppy sound, sometimes just swapping those to 250k can bring a real change to the existing pickups. Might be worth a try.

First memory of bass is hearing it in Seasons in The Sun by Terry Jacks - though I didn’t know it was bass at that time, just knew I liked the sound so from then on kept an ear open for it. Fast forward to punk and all the coolest looking members in the bands, such as Vicious, Simenon & Burnell played bass, so now I both liked it visually and audibly. I also liked that the bassist often seemed “mysterious”. Also, bass in the late 70s & early 80s was quite prominent in the mix, which increased my love of it. Still love bass, still love punk (currently in 2 punk bands tho am giving them up due to back issues). First bass was a Kay EB-0 copy, bought in 1980 at the age of 15, not great but I learned to play on it so it did its job. The bass I always loved & wanted was a Fender Precision, pretty much still the case though weight means I can’t play them in a band setting much now. Last bass I bought was a Sandberg Superlight TT, and have a Sandberg Superlight Lionel on order.

Most definitely, my preference at present is .73, I have 3 different types: Fender Medium - nice warm, even/vintage sound Dunlop Tortex - more upper mids and highs to the sound Dunlop Ultex - modern, scooped sound At home I prefer the Fender, but for the band the Tortex

In my old band where I need a harder attack I use .88, in my classic rock band I`m on .73, and looking at .60 as want to reduce wear & tear on my poor paws. I find with the Precision being quite middy a thicker pick encourages lows & highs better, whereas with my Sandberg Jazz being less middy the thinner pick helps bring mids back in.

£146 for a US Fender, must be genuine

So it’s really a 41 🤣

The RM is def an unsung hero imo.