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[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1476966880' post='3158868'] Good speech Mac Worth a shot. Apart from that , who can sort the pickup if i cant ? Any recommendations chaps ? [/quote] What pickup brand is it? Mine was a Nordstrand. I was actually posting about it on TalkBass and someone from Nordstrand contacted me directly. They asked me to send them the pickup and they rewound it to original specs free of charge. So in some cases contacting the manufacturer could give good results: even if they charge something, it'll be restored to the original specs for sure.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1476960497' post='3158793'] Ok ! Neck pup = 7.88 on the 20k ohm setting Bridge pup = 1. which is the default for when the MM connectors are not connected to anything but MM is switched on So i guess the BPU is foobarred. Bo**ocks ! [/quote] Something like that happened in a jazz I used to have, but by itself. Upon close examination I found the wire had broken halfway somehow... there was still output but a lot weaker. Sometimes what happens is not that it breaks but that the little blobs of solder where teh wire goes, on the pickup, is damaged. It may look fine but it can have a fracture... just touch the solder briefly with the tip of a solder iron: if it's a solder issue it'll fix it. It happens rarely but it's easy to try...

[quote name='machinehead' timestamp='1476918857' post='3158575'] That looks good mcnash. The Squiers I've tried in the last few years have been excellent basses. I sometimes wonder why I spend more on Fenders. Frank. [/quote] I wouldn't say that Squiers are better than Fenders... but many Squiers are simply great instruments. My '94 Korean Squier Jazz has been my favourite Jazz for years ahead of various Fenders that came and went, despite its plywood body and all. It has a great neck. I put a set of Area J pickups on it and it is just lovely. It's only fallen to second place recently to my Roadworn Fender Jazz because it has a Precision neck which I prefer and... the roadworn Jazz is just pretty sweet in so many ways. If I were looking for a P/J, I'd check these Squiers. The fact they come in that beautiful red finish already puts bad thought in my head

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1476621916' post='3155671'] I've taken all the visible screws from the wooden case on my Behringer BX4500 head and the thing won't come out. It's solid. I even looked under the corners in case there were hidden screws there. Come someone tell me what I am missing? I haven't played this at loud volumes yet, but the fan on the back panel doesn't come on at low volumes. Is this normal? [/quote] I had one years ago, the fan was on at all times. It used to annoy me a little bit when I used it at home at low volume... so it most definitely was on at low volume. It doesn't sound bad at all, that amp... I cannot help with how to opening it, I never tried and I no longer have that head, sorry.

I haven't tried these but Squier is putting out really decent instruments these days, and now they have a P/J that looks as good as this? Even I am tempted to try it! [url="https://giggear.co.uk/buy/squier-affinity-p-bass-pj-racing-red-rosewood"]https://giggear.co.uk/buy/squier-affinity-p-bass-pj-racing-red-rosewood[/url]

Chris bought my Entwistle PBX-N pickup... nice and friendly communication, easy going, fast payment. Thank you, I hope you like the pickup!

I like the EBS Multicomp a lot. I have two of them, one for the tiny board, another for the bigger one. But recently I got an MXR bass compressor (M87) because the Multicomp sounds great but it does have a certain 'colour', and the MXR is more transparent. I like the visual indicator that tells you how much compression has been applied which is very useful to dial soft mild compression... I like both.

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1476878236' post='3157984'] Bit off topic, but I got my hands on a 36", 6 stringer my Luthier was building for someone. Was way too much of a bass for me [/quote] I'd look like a pixie playing one of those

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1476872525' post='3157908'] You're agreeing with your own post ? :-) [/quote] well, someone had to

[quote name='NickD' timestamp='1476879243' post='3158000'] Yup, 19m to match my Elwood. If this plays as expected I hope to get down to just these 2, covering everything I do... well maybe a fretless down the line... y'know... just because... [/quote] I already sorted my Jazz with precision body/neck requirements... but a 5-string Stingray type of bass with 19mm spacing is still an attractive proposition. A Jake 5 as a base sounds too damn attractive. Hmmm.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1476857516' post='3157761'] Why would a P need a blend? I thought the stacked knobs on the P Retro did the following: 1: Top - volume (pull for active mode) Bottom - passive tone 2: Top - mid boost one way,bass&treble boost the other way Bottom - variable frequency [/quote] and this is correct

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1476864068' post='3157798'] Although, there's a lot of truth in what Happy Jack says about how the neck sits on the body. [/quote] in my experience this is the one thing that really mattered... I've played 34" basses that were remarkably uncomfortable (some Warwick, and a Tanglewood I once had that sounded amazing but copied a Warwick design, like a Corvette with a shorter long horn, much shorter... and the 1st fret felt like it was in another postcode). Since then, any 'new' shape I look at, the position of the top horn is the first thing I look at. A 35" Lakland 55-02 did not feel any different from my Stingray, scalewise.

[quote name='NickD' timestamp='1476810085' post='3157487'] Exactly how I Imagined... my first ever P type! [/quote] That is really appealing. It looks like 19mm spacing at the bridge or so as well? You're giving me GAS...

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1476868940' post='3157864'] What I discern, even from the more technically minded on here, is that there is no answer as to why bassists now need 1000 watts when back in the day, when gigs and indeed rehearsals were loud enough to make me temporarily deaf, 100 was fine.. So as one wag just said, watts are obviously not what they used to be. [/quote] I think it was hinted at in a couple of posts as a combination of: 1) An increase of 100 to 1000W is definitely noticeable, but nowhere near as dramatic as the numbers suggest to us mere mortals. 2) We tend to use much smaller rigs these days than then. Fewer speakers in smaller cabs. 3) The speakers may be more able, mechanically, to survive higher power, but not all are more efficient... but because power is relatively cheap you still get a similar effect by pumping more power into them. Something along those lines. Personally, as bass player who can't afford a roadie, I am very happy to live in these days

[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1476795180' post='3157277'] Plus I like the inset handle a lot more [/quote] ha! I'm with you on that one!

[quote name='vmaxblues' timestamp='1476703456' post='3156382'] So, having made the move to 5 strings and now owning 2 no.35" scale 5 stringers, and loving the change, however I have just come down with a really painful elbow, just like tennis elbow. Only just made the connection, I think it is me practising a lot with my new 5 stringers, what do you guys reckon? And, what can I do about it? Cheers Stuart [/quote] Not sure that the 35" scale has anything to do with it, it's such a small change. When I got my Lakland 55-02 I didn't even notice it was a 35" scale bass. It was the most comfy 5-string bass I ever played. Have you checked your position when playing? Has anything changed compared to what you were doing before?

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1476723764' post='3156670'] The change in tone you can get with varying where you set your volume, is more apparent when recording than playing live,I feel. [/quote] Not if you also use overdrive. The volume and also the tone control can affect the overdrive sound a lot. On my Stingray, when playing in the RATM covers band, I often control the 'apparent drive' simply using the mids control: I turn mids up for more drive, turn them down a bit for a less aggressively driven tone.

[quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1476701744' post='3156352'] The volume knob on my bass... and every bass I have ever owned/gigged... is always set on max. I have a mute pedal on my ore-amp for muting between sets or tuning. If I want to plug or unplug cables I turn down the volume at the amp. Is there actually any use for a volume control on a bass? Am I missing something? I know guitarists can do fancy things with volume controls, but I tend to think the bass might even sound minutely better with a less cluttered signal path. [/quote] I generally turn down between songs. In a song or two I do swells with it. When using a Jazz bass, I like both volume knobs down a fraction: it sounds different from both on full. I want my volume control on the bass too.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1476647058' post='3155986'] Bollocks. [/quote] you're so eloquent...