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[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='461861' date='Apr 14 2009, 10:44 AM']If you allow your cab to acoustically couple with a hollow stage, the stage can act like a resonance chamber which is what causes the extra boominess. By isolating the cab from the hollow stage, you can control the lows a lot better with the benefit that your sound can have more focus.[/quote] This is what the Gramma Pad does

[quote name='bassman2790' post='461762' date='Apr 14 2009, 06:52 AM']OG...you've topped me in 'Name-Dropping' Top Trumps That'd be something though. Even if you never rang him, just to have his number in your phone like Batman, to call upon in times of trouble I very much doubt that he'd drive all the way to the midlands to help a poor wretch like me and it might not be the best idea. If he sounded good with my gear when I can't get a decent sound out of it, the demoralisation could cause me to give up playing altogether. [/quote] ha ha Sorry, i just know a man who knows a man ... I had no idea who he was at first. He did a few house band gigs i was at, playing a Kramer Ali neck, and old TE head and a Vox 18 (or maybe a 15) speaker - all of it, including Burke, looked like it had a good time in the 60's .... Someone filled me in with the details and now I know I also have a Budgie gretest hits CD .. Nice guy, very unassuming and I'm sure if you paid him for the gig and expenses he'd probably consider it.

[quote name='bassman2790' post='461708' date='Apr 13 2009, 11:23 PM']Ask me Dad....I'm 47....I know who Burke Shelly is.... We're actually playing at a charity fundraiser in May to raise money for research into Parkinsons disease. The event is spear-headed by Pete Boot, one time drummer with Budgie. We had though about covering Breadfan as a tribute. I wonder if Mr. Shelly would like to come and have a blast through my gear. [/quote] I have his number if you'd like to ask him yourself ... :

The problem here is knowing what you need to change to get the sound you can hear in your head. I've been plagued by this for all my playing life. I've told this tale before but at one of the jams I go to there's a POS TE bass combo and a POS bass. 4 or 5 of us experienced bass players go an do "house bass" duties for several numbers each week. It sounds OK but then Burke Shelly (famous for being the voice and bass in Budgie - ask your dad) comes down and he makes it sound fabulous. Loads of it is in the fingers, his attack, his positioning on the strings, but also the settings he chooses on the amp and bass. He tends to play softer with it turned up louder where as I attack the thing with the amp master turned down lower. A lesson there I think.. By far the best sound I ever get is through my aincient 15 watt WEM Clubman practice amp. It's not even a valve amp. The trouble is I need that sound but from a 500 watt rig capable of throwing clean sound the length of a hall.

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='461667' date='Apr 13 2009, 10:37 PM']Yes and my dear (meaning expensive) wife is 35, aren't I lucky. Mind you, I've told her when she reaches 36 I'm trading her in for two 18 year olds[/quote] Carry on like that and you'll look as battered as your bass in no time

Oh and there's quite a few of us on here that just can't get the sound they want out of TE gear. The best value "sound investment" I've made in the last few years is the Gramma pad sonic isolator. Really makes the sound more controllable.

I'd suggest a few things. Firstly you were not hearing the other people's sound from the player's perspective. 2 feet in front of your cab it will sound totally different to down there in the mosh pit... I asked a knowledgable bassplaying mate to come for a rehearsal session and to widdle with my knobs with a free hand, matron. Made a big difference. Apart from that, of course, it's in the fingers and they would probably sound jus as good through your gear with your bass

[quote name='donhills' post='461420' date='Apr 13 2009, 07:13 PM']OK so here beginith the lesson on MIM classic series basses. For all of you lusting after a p bass, do yourself a favour and get a 50's classic series p bass. New about £460 if you hurry and used from £300 upwards. Here is what they say on the Fender forum about these basses:- [url="http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html?db=&topic_number=707395&lastpost=2009-04-1305:35:31"]http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html?db=&...9-04-1305:35:31[/url] For those of you lusting after a jazz bass, get a 60's classic series p bass, add £50-£100 to above prices. A simple way of differentiating between classic series basses and the normal MIM is generally the classic series basses is that the former will have a truss rod adjusting at the neck butt whereas the non-classic series basses will have truss rods adjusting at the head - where the tuners are. Am I qualified to venture this opinion? Well yes I believe I am. I have many Fender basses including original 60's and 70's basses, Fullerton and later USA vintage reissues and a recent CS jazz plus JV p's and j's plus later MIJ and CIJ basses. I also have the classic series basses - a 50's p, a 60's j and a Reggie Hamilton. These classic series basses are great basses. SO the one under discussion, may or may not be over-priced but I guarantee that it will be a great bass in a rare colour, and the equal of any MIJ, CIJ or JV bass and probably equal to many US Fenders. No affiliation to the seller. Hope this helps.[/quote] Thanks, That's helpful. Shame they didn't paint the headstock though ......

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='461424' date='Apr 13 2009, 07:22 PM']So you can get that one wrong too and left with an instrument you can't shift? I would say you need to know 100% what you want from a custom maker before you should go knocking on their doors![/quote] Wow, that's a very negative attitude. Chris has now done the requisite research to define what he wants. Jon can make that into an instrument.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='461370' date='Apr 13 2009, 06:02 PM']You can suggest this but it is wrong. [url="http://www.guitaremporium.co.uk/index.php?f=data_fender_japan_new_guitars&a=3"]http://www.guitaremporium.co.uk/index.php?...guitars&a=3[/url] 7th bass down, lefty fretless.[/quote] A there you go It's a sinister artifact

[quote name='obbm' post='461347' date='Apr 13 2009, 05:32 PM']Sorry but I was brought up to always tell the truth. BTW I'm 36. [/quote] ha ha yeah and I'm 110110

[quote name='Telebass' post='461335' date='Apr 13 2009, 05:12 PM']I think, and have for a while now, that it's mainly how you play, not what you play. My personal opinion? You probably passed over 15 perfectly good Precisions in search of something that doesn't, and probably cannot exist. It's in your fingers, mate. If it's not, you're going to be looking a long, long time. Better to be playing your basses than 'tone-hounding'.[/quote] I agree to a certain extent but if you have 2k to spend on a P bass then you should be able to get one that helps you as much as possible. Why fight the bass if you don't have to? Chris, just go talk to Jon Shuker, after this one, if it doesn't feel quite right

[quote name='Geek99' post='461327' date='Apr 13 2009, 05:00 PM']I own this bass now; its a 94 and has a mint (as in colour) scratchplate. I can confirm that whilst your back of heel decals look right when compared to mine, my headstock decal is much more detailed. Can I suggest that the neck has been refinished and this is a replacement logo decal? Mine also says "offset contour body" and "Jazz Bass ELECTRIC BASS" - the "Fender" decal is gold[/quote] Hi Mate Glad the Jazz is still working for you. I'm sure it's a left handed headstock thing rather than refinish of anything. The standard headstock decals don't fit the left hookers.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='461188' date='Apr 13 2009, 01:20 PM']Good afternoon Sir, did you ever get anything from him?[/quote] Sure, I got a nicely battered MIJ Jazz about 18 months ago, back when the pound bought a lot of Yen. He's called David and is a Kiwi living in Japan. He packs for armageddon and you get exactly what he says - and he does about 40 pictures of everything he sells on his auctions showing all the blemishes and any strange bits. I'd certainly buy from him again.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='461175' date='Apr 13 2009, 01:04 PM']I think it should be more like £500-550. I was lucky and got mine from an Ebayer in Japan, his name is chingo123, he has basses all the time but usually all right handers.[/quote] +1 for the value - unless left handers command a premium, and + 1 for Chingo123 too. Nice man to deal with and he offers different speed/cost of shipping too. [url="http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/chingo123/"]http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/chingo123/[/url]

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='461153' date='Apr 13 2009, 12:39 PM']Is it just me or is that BIN very high? Peter[/quote] Gosh, I didn't look at that .. That's a huge amount unless that's a non-export Japanese market personal import type, US pickup version ..

[quote name='Beedster' post='461121' date='Apr 13 2009, 12:01 PM']A Precision (non-Fender) is incoming.....[/quote] Oh the antici .....pation

[quote name='Leftbass' post='461105' date='Apr 13 2009, 11:40 AM']46 but feeling younger by the minute with some of these posts. Lol![/quote] Spring Chicken, mate

That looks right but for the Fender logo but that may be a left handed peculiarity ... You may want to talk to the Lefties as they may know more. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36318"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36318[/url]

Try a JJ Burnell Shuker. Sure it won't meet the "I'd also like it to be something I can sell for what I paid if I get skint in the future!" criteria but then you may never sell it OG

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='460905' date='Apr 13 2009, 12:06 AM']As near as I can establish by doing some on-line searching, the difference is that the classic series is available for 'LESS' new than this is used! [/quote] Ah. Glad you cleared that up WH ..

Well it's not me as OBBM has a few years on me

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='460665' date='Apr 12 2009, 05:34 PM']I'm uninitiated; what's the difference? [/quote] +1

[quote name='silddx' post='459542' date='Apr 10 2009, 07:17 PM']Can you post a picture of yourself so I can see if you're built like Scwarzenegger ..[/quote] I am, of course, but it's lighter than two Hiscox cases, and it's on wheels ...