jazzyvee

Can someone enlighten me. Is one of the attributes that defines a P bass having a split pickup in the neck position or can it be a standard straight pickup in the same place? I ask that because I saw a bass above similar to what Sting used and that has a straight pickup so I'm curious to know if that is still classed as a P bass?

This one has just been sold.

I too have hard cases for my basses though i use a good quality gig bag mostly and stand the bass up in the front or back foot well with the seatbelt on it to keep it in position. I tend not to put instruments in the boot as that part of modern cars are designed as crumple zones to absorb impact. To the OP wouldnt recommend leaving a bass unattended in a car whether it is in the boot or back seat.

There is no doubt that fender jazz basses are great for reggae if that is the sound you want. if the Jazz bass doesn't do it for you then you will just have to try a number of other brands/models till you find the one that gets you the sound you want. I play reggae in my main band and have never owned a fender bass even though my primary influence "Aston Barrett" is well known for doing so. He also uses non fender basses as well including yamaha's and an Alembic 5 string Elan. I love the bass to be deep but I want to hear the notes not just the wolly heft. Happy hunting. 🙂

I've kept mine.

I've never had problems with volume using mine whether I'm using it in addition to monitors on a big stage with FOH PA or when it's been used in a smaller venue and not using the PA. My only gripe with it is that it is not particularly clean in terms of hiss if you turn either the input gain or the master up. Other than that it's been a good workhorse for me and though I have it serviced fairly regularly it still has the original tubes. ( Don't know if that's a good or bad thing though). I don't ever play with loud guitarists though sometimes the drum monitor speakers are way way too loud but even when I had my mesa boogie 4x10 8 ohm cab I could still hear my bass clearly. Now I use a 4 ohm bt2 and that works great.

A snippet from a set we did a couple of years back covering music by Ernest Ranglin, Monty Alexander and Bob Marley.

I noticed them because I had been trawling ebay and other on-line sites regularly looking for my dream alembic. 🤫🤓🤓 I've found it so don't do it a much now.

Yes that bass may be new in the sense that it has not been sold by the dealer but it is not a recent build and has been on sale since at least 2016.

There have been a number of alembic J style basses come up on ebay over the years and yes those two have been listed for sale for a heck of a lot of years. In face bass direct had one not too long ago ok yes i just checked and its still here. That is a beauty. http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Alembic_Custom_4.html

It was. :-)

Musical Youth at the Frog & Fiddle Cheltenham I'm in the basschair on this gig. Just out of curiousity, has anyone here played there and can give me a heads up on the stage and live room size. Cheers

They fit in micro compact Smart cars too. Thought you'd need a really compact combo. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=double+bass+in+a+smart+car&&view=detail&mid=46269B5E3740DEC5D22C46269B5E3740DEC5D22C&&FORM=VRDGAR

I have that strap too. It's nicely padded and doesn't dig into my shoulder and my bass weighs in at 14lbs!

For my rack mount bass rig, which has a separate pre and power amp, generally I have the master on full and adjust the input gain to get the volume I need, then any further adjustments live I do that from my bass. I normally don't go for real loud stage volume but this this method gives me a great clean articulate sound and the PA deals with the rest. However I can't do that option with my mesa boogie walkabout head as the background hiss is too high when the master gets anywhere near being at full level. So when using that head I probably have the master on about half and bring up the gain and volume on my bass to suit.

Yeah I agree it does, but there is no way I would be lying on the pub floor to take the picture without the perspective distortion. 🙂

They take a lot of weight. I have this rack which weights 56kg and my big baby 2 doesn't have any problems holding that up.

I have considered a custom a few times but because of the cash outlay on one, I want to be absolutely sure I know what I'm trying to get from a personal custom I cannot get from a bass that was not custom made for me. I have a few basses that were custom made for someone else and they feel fine for me even though I had no option to try them out before I bought them and that has also influenced my decisions. But the idea having one is a good one if you get it right.

I'm just curious as to why most DB players I see live use small speaker cabs when electric bass players generally go for bigger cabs. Is there some other aspect of physics at play that I am unaware of? The DB strings are about 42 scale length and seem at least the same thickness as electric bass strings so I would have thought they would have a bigger impact on a speaker. I'm a beginner with a EUB and a PJB Briefcase that I practice through which is fine at low home levels. What say you?

Agreed though I do wonder if anyone has gigged with one and hit it with that wattage and the cab and their hearing survived!

The weight was the big factor in my offloading my PH cabs. I still have the 1x15 but that was because it was the hardest one to sell and incidentally the one I used the least. I used the 4x10 the most but I found that with the low end I needed for reggae it couldn't stay clean and loud and i'm not into the edgy sound. For everything else I never found any problem with the sound extremely thick, clean crisp and punchy. Kind of miss them sometimes just for their sound but loving my BF cabs.