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9 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

Oh dear. My finger slipped and I accident my ordered the G4M…,

 

I did not want SWMBO to know so I did click and collect from a local post office.

 

I will do a review/NBD with pictures in a day or two but i ritual thoughts. 
 

It looks almost ad  good as it does in the pictures. The finish is good on the body with just a couple of tiny blemishes that measure less than 1mm across. 
 

The neck joint is a good fit, no gaps although the lower part of the body at the neck joint is not perfect. 
 

The neck is a lighter shade than I expected but hey. lt looks like there is no finish on the neck but it is a colourless silk finish and is much nicer than a traditional gloss lacquer. There are no sharp feet ends although they look like they could do with a polish. A quick look seems to suggest there are no really high frets. 
 

It is a precision, so the neck is 42mm wide, I am used to 38mm on my Fender Aerodyne, Sire M2 and Peavey Milestone 4. At first look I think the string spacing is the same as my other basses , the extra width allows more margin at the edge, so that the strings will not go off the edge of the fingerboard when playing enthusiastically. 
 

There is very little relief on the neck, I will sort that out tomorrow. To be fair both the Fender and the Sire need the relief adjusting. String height is too high but all my basses were like that when I got them. The pickups are way below the strings and I hope that it’s why the volume is so low. Sorting out the relief and then the string height should take care of that. 
 

One of the areas I hate in most basses are the machine heads. The Grnder ones on My Aerodyne were far from ideal and were replaced with Goto Res-O-Lites. The Sire had awful machine heads, they  did keep in tune but  there was som much backlash, that it was hard to tune initially. They were replaced with Hipshots. The initial impression on the G4M is quite good. Little backlash although the tension on the four is not consistent. That can usually be adjusted. The Low E is slightly wonky but it can be rectified easily, It is quite flat, stated as 15” radius. My Aerodyne is 7.5” but it seemed OK. 

 

The nut is not plastic but it works so I won’t touch that. As with most budget basses, the strings are not to my liking. They are extremely light gauge strings, maybe because it is described as rock/metal bass. There seemed to be a lacking in low end but the E string is only 90 thou so I am not surprised. If the pickup is lacking once all those things are rectified, A Warman or Tonerider will not cost the earth. I will do an NBD/Review based on these notes but I will expand.

Pardon my ignorance please, what do you mean by 'backlash' on the tuners?

4 hours ago, Maude said:

What is it about 42mm you don't like? 

That sounds like a stupid question and I prefer a narrower neck too, but it turns out for me it's the narrower string spacing I like and the actual neck isn't a big deal. I've made new nuts with narrower string spacing for a few of my basses that had wider spacing than I'd ideally like. I works really well and doesn't leave a big empty space at the sides like you'd first think. Going from 42mm to 38mm* only leaves an extra 2mm of fretboard either side of the E and G strings and you don't notice it but you really notice the tighter spacing. 

 

* The nut obviously stays at 42mm but the slots are closer together. 

Well well, thats an interesting idea. As a big fan of slim necks maybe I should try an experiment or two.....

How do you date the Aerodyne Jazzes? I have one but have no clue as to when it was made

As said above he's put in the hours and knows about music, can play piano, has busked, studied, and put himself into all sorts of band/musical situations in order to learn. 

If he was to put an album out I doubt it'd be an hours worth of the sort of blistering material that he crams into his 3 minute videos, I for one would buy it.

He's achieved what I believe the majority of us on here would probably like to achieve and most likely would try if given a different life/universe, and joined the ranks of the most well rounded players on the planet at this point. 

Kind of a Guthrie Govan for bass. I buy his stuff too.

A memory prompted from a post up there, flew back from Ireland and on our plane was Dean Friedman.  When we landed he used the urinal next to me. And didn't wash his hands

8 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

 

Is anyone?

I think he is.

16 minutes ago, Maude said:

The guitarist and singer of one of the bands I'm in have been in bands together previously. One of their previous bands were doing quite well locally and another band on the scene that had supported them before got hold of them and asked to play support at their upcoming Tavistock Wharf gig. 

They said they had some record company types that wanted to see them ASAP and the Wharf would be the perfect venue. 

My bandmates band thought some record company exposure could be good so jumped at the idea. 

Roll on plenty of years and that guitarist and singer are in a band with me and their support band did alright out of the deal as well I think. I don't know where they are now. 

They were called Muse. 

 

 

 

Would that band have been named Goodstaff?

His skill levels are through the roof, but when you see how much work he's put in to get to where he is today its deservedly so.

3 hours ago, Pow_22 said:

When living at a pub on Anglesey, what was left of Lieutenant Pigeon played our pub and let me join in on bass for Mouldy Old Dough.  Can say I've played a number one song with a number one band.....technically 

How awesome! I also have a story about LP, possibly trumping yours, my father was in Lieutenant Pigeon

Who here still understands Roman Numerals? 

I for one

I call BS. This is a fake instrument, the knobs are the same colour

Have I overpriced this? What dya think?

Did he play on 'Poison Arrow'? Absolutely love the bass tone on that track

"....it's lipstick pickups are........" " .....it's lipstick pickups are.........." Are? Are what? WHAT?? I have to know fgs
 

I have one exactly the same. Bogging how it weighs as much as crisp packet

21 hours ago, Jason Karloff said:

Sometimes when I'm led in bed at night, I think about this. 

 

I've been playing for 38 years now and have reached a certain level on the instrument.

I think to myself if i had practiced ruthlessly, every single day, putting in 6 plus hours, not just doing what i fancy, but laser focused, structured learning, only stopping for eating and sleeping, how much quicker could i have got to the same level? 

I come up with something around 6 to 9 months.

Feel depressed that i could of reclaimed 37 years of my life, and go back to counting sheep instead. 

 

I suppose the opposite is true as well, if you'd started playing ten years later than you did you'd still have ten years to go to get to your current standard. Or 6 weeks using the model you used up there. 

So here's a deal, I have a scheme that can** add ten years playing experience to your style. Yours for the bargain price of £50, I'll pm the details after payment

** possibly.

May we see the other ones too?

I bet the way the strap hangs from that rear strap button buggers about with the tuning

I like how they all have matching scratches...... 

Verrrry nice

Hmm...this appears to have been forgotten about

Listened twice, not getting this one at all tbh

Found this to an utter snoozefest. I understand it's place in the 'heirarchy' of music so to speak, but for me it has very little appeal. As a bit of background music to a romantic candlelit dinner or something yes, but I think I'm simply not sophisticated enough to enjoy its presence

4 hours ago, sprocketflup said:

Normally fairly enjoy stuff like this, but couldn't warm to the first half of the album, found it got easier as it went on though, so maybe a second spin will yield different results .

Must confess to not having found time to play last weeks AOTW yet, will also get round to that

Listened to Bjorks Medulla at last (a week late) - masterpiece. Why I didn't already have this in my collection I don't know. 

Normally fairly enjoy stuff like this, but couldn't warm to the first half of the album, found it got easier as it went on though, so maybe a second spin will yield different results .

Must confess to not having found time to play last weeks AOTW yet, will also get round to that