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No, even on full it’s nowhere near a full-on drive. The way I’d describe it is you know when you hear isolated bass tracks from people such as John Deacon, those which sound clean & full in the mix, but isolated there’s that gritty/gainy sound to them, well that’s how the Spark works. Nothing like Lemmy or anything, just a hair on the sound to stop it being completely clean.

Dave bought a Precision from me. Given the slightly iffy situation with couriers we did a meet halfway, with the predictable chat about basses etc. Great comms throughout the transaction.

Bought a compressor from Will, good comms and fast delivery.

Bought a Sansamp from Rory. Great comms and arrived swiftly.

TC Electronic Spark Booster. Not just saying that because I’m selling one, it’s cos it hits the nail exactly on the head of what you describe - do a search on T***bass for opinions on it.

Another thing to think about on the three piece thing is that the bass wasn’t today’s deep down bass, with the bass frequencies being higher. Coupling this with the natural valve drive and the same busy playing as in verses there was less separation of sounds. Whilst I love the scooped Sansamp sound it certainly noticed when a solo starts if there’s only one guitar, suddenly there’s nothing in the middle.

I find the first bass sounds slightly brighter. Given that I’d say that was the Squier, but this based upon my own basses where the Squiers have been toppier than their US cousins.

We had to submit a set list occasionally here, and at every gig overseas. But never any money.

I forgot to mention on my original post, as well as setting the pickups the way I did I also used nickel rounds rather than steels, gave a warmer/fatter tone.

Your other basses are a bit more “muscular” in tone Tim, so that could be why your wife is of the opinion that the Jazz is lacking in comparison.

This question is something I repeatedly encounter in my own never ending bass buying then moving on circle. I buy a Jazz or a Stingray, then think it’s a waste of money as I won’t play it in a band so feel guilty for having them. I’ve finally come to the realisation that the sound of Stingrays just isn’t for me, so can put them to rest once & for all, but I do like Jazzes. I can afford one and playing bass is my hobby so why do I feel so guilty about wanting to buy them?

Yep, those Black Widow speakers were great, I had a Peavey 115 with one in and it was a great cab, if slightly impractical for a second floor flat.

I’ve just joined a new band, 1st gig last night. I stick with the drummer and have had a good few comments about how I hold the band together. I’ve tinkered with adding a few runs in, but for me it’s understanding the space where to do it. I don’t want to get in the way of the singer, who has a great voice, no point in doing it where the lead guitar is playing a riff/melody associated with the song, and not when the drummer does a roll. There is still the space fit me to add stuff and I do, but I think it is self confidence/awareness to play where I can, not what I can.

First gig with my new band, The Spacewasters last night. At a charity fund raiser for cancer in The Fiddlers Elbow in Camden. Seeing as our drummer has had two brain tumours, and had a kidney removed, and still had cancer of the renal gland it was close to the bands heart. Got there 5ish as had to work, fortunately there was a backstage room to store the gear whilst we waited til our slot at 6:30. Went on, provided amp stack of Genz Benz Streamliner with matching 410/115, so all I had to use was trusty Precision & Sansamp. Went really well, didn’t feel nervous at all, was just so happy to be back gigging. Lots of compliments afterwards about how my playing held the band together which was nice. I had a blast, I’m back!

I could only get 4 out of those Eurythmics Kate Bush Duran Duran New York Dolls Edit - Reading further posts I obviously missed seeing Dolly Parton on there, so would add her in too.

This might seem like a strange solution to hearing things, but what about a good set of ACS ear plugs? Mind bring the volume of the whole (very loud) band down to a really comfortable level where I can hear every note from every instrument.

Agree, get a great feeling/playing instrument keep it. I’d be tempted to see if the retailer would offer anything back tho, and if they did put it towards a KiOgon loom to properly sort the issue.

I’m not a particular fan of them, but about 15/20 years ago the drummer of a band I was in really loved them, so got to hear By The Way a lot over that period. Quite liked it, really should get myself a copy. I’ve got BSSM & Californication, both ok but prefer By The Way.

I found that using neck pickup on full and bringing in the bridge pickup to about a quarter gave me a Precisiony type tone, but focused a little lower maybe, not so many mids. I also changed the eq on my amps, being a Precision player I generally scoop mids and boost highs, with the Jazz I didn’t really need to do this.

Agree, in my current band we have a song where the verses are in E and I play a bit of a walking type line but for the guitar solo I drop to a solid E so that the solo stands out more. We tried it at rehearsal last week and all agreed that it worked better, so maybe the players who seemed to be held back were, or maybe they were promoting the other strengths within the band by keeping it simple & steady.

Is that because they have a bit of a "scoopy" sound to them maybe? I found them to sound pretty decent on my Precisions, and felt very comfortable to play too, only downside was they lost a lot of zing very quickly and really didn`t like the sound after that.

In my classic rock band - which doesn`t gig btw, no singer - we try to play as exact to the originals as possible, and purposely pick difficult songs. The theory is we know we`re not going to gig, so we choose harder to play material in an effort to hopefully better ourselves musically. After all as much fun as it would be to belt out the easy songs after a while that would be a tad tedious, this method holds the interest, especially when with each time we go through the songs we can hear the improvement. I`ve really progressed on bass in the 2 years I`ve been with this band, I can now play stuff that 3 or 4 years ago I would have thought was way beyond me.

Thanks, I`ll sort one of those as have loved the vids you`ve put up, great sounding band