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That was quite unusual. I stopped and started again with a different mindset as my first attempt just made me think Vic is a bit of an old hippy!

It's also a really neat way of stopping intentional damping.

Take them out. Probably saves 2-3grams in weight. Then get the screws and covers and throw them into the sea.

I'm sure they still tried to offer the previous owner £50 for it though.

It wasn't a background / restaurant gig. It was a rock venue.

I think so too - but you know Talkbass and their opinions.....

Yup. A very busy music pub. Apparently we were so loud they got their entertainment licence revoked by the local authority. So really nobody got asked back. That was back in 1993 iirc.

Guy Pratt's "My Bass and Other Animals" is very amusing. EDIT: If you prefer audiobooks, then he reads that one himself and does a great job. Quite nice to hear it in his voice when a particular anecdote brings back happy memories.

Agreed. I've load loads of their stuff and never had a problem. Always quick to answer questions too. And unlike other companies they actually lowered their prices when supply chain issues got better. The rest just left them high.

They are absolutely fine on trad large tuners. Just not on mini tuners like Ibanez use. Will be fine on a JMJ.

Duff's intro bass part on Sweet Child Of Mine. Loads on that. Everything Type O Negative ever did. I swear Pete Steel played Chorus as the instrument and just used a bass to do it. It's a funny effect. Used badly and it just makes everything sound like crap Jaco or generic rock from 1985.

I like a lot of their pedals. Never had any trouble with them. I had that amp too, no problems for me but I didn't like the Tube Tone drive sound. Was neither tube sounding or more modern and it needed a completely different EQ setting for the drive being on or off. I liked the concept though. It just needed doing properly!

https://www.cashconverters.co.uk/shop/music-tv--video/musical-instruments/guitars--string-instruments/bass-guitar/054400261222 Just in case someone wants this cool little thing.

@bassben1 We need more info to help. Can we have photos and a clear description of your signal path?

Also - there are 2 takes available. The regular release and the alternate take that has higher drive and aggression levels. Apparently from really over driving a rack compressor with anything they could throw at it. I'm fairly sure it was the same bass on both versions, just played even harder with more dirt on it.

There's a lot of online speculation about what bass he used. Some thinking Alembic, others a Stingray. A large amount think it was either a fretless jazz or a fretless Stingray - with the clank being from the strings hitting the pickup and not the non-existent frets. He does play very hard. My old band used to play it and I studied it a lot and I think it's a fretless too but I didn't have one so I played it on the Status I had a the time. The drive is very much like the input drive on an old Reel to Real recorder with loads of cut on the deep lows and highs. These days I get the tone with my JPTR Jive pedal and then EQ and it's bang on with a bass with a bridge pickup. It's a great line and it's also really annoying that AM's current bassist doesn't play Flea's line.

Should fit fine. Be aware Fender do not do final fret finishing on their spare parts so you might have to do that. But that’s the same with every supplier.

Close your eyes when adjusting EQ. Forces you to only use your ears.

To be fair I'd never heard of Pirate Studios until this thread. Not a surprise after looking at their website as I'm not near any of their places. Mind you, my last band had 25 people in it so we didn't fit anywhere other than hiring school halls and the like.

Well, it's not on 9V batteries for smoke detectors that work properly.

I have EMGs in mine with the ABC active balance control. Mid position isn't scooped and is very useful. If I want scooped then I just reduce the mids on the 3 band. Definitely throws me for half a song if I pick up a trad passive jazz though!

I had a J Retro Deluxe with a pair of stacked J pickups: the neck one sounded quite P like. I did find the preamp to be a bit bass boosted / scooped when set to the mid points on the controls so if it is an option to have a flatter starting point I would go for that - especially for P tones as that really is all about the mids. Not tried that preamp with a MM type. The only thing in my mind is that the right settings for the MM might be quite different to those needed for the P. MM often benefits from a bit of bass boost and a bit of a scoop and that normally kills a traditional P tone. If the plan is to use one or the other pickups then I don't see any downsides, but a mix of the two might be more difficult to dial in easily. Sounds like a great project though. When I was planning my PingRay I did think about having both P and MM but I prioritised the MM placement to match a 70s stingray and then meant the P pickup would need to be slightly closer to the neck than its usual position. So I didn't bother with the P. I did think about solving the problem by using a 51 P pickup instead as that was small enough to also go in it's traditional position. But in the end I just stuck with the MM. I might do it in future though - just for fun!

The lowest paid for Moises lets you adjust guitar, vocal, drums, bass, other. So I tend to remove the bass and boost the drums for easier practice and leave the rest alone. More expensive subs do more tracks and try to split up keys from brass and so on but I don't need that. As with all similar stem splitting apps it can get confused sometimes. Like Metallica's 'For whom the bell tolls' the bass intro doesn't get reduced as it is high register and distorted so the app thinks it is a guitar. But overall it's a brilliant bit of kit for practice. Practising with a PC has more options including some free ones like Audacity but I'm not aware of any good mobile device options, or ones that have such an easy interface. https://moises.ai/ It will also tell you chords and key information as a tune plays along. I think it costs me about £35 per year. Can also pay £4.99 per month instead if you only want a month or two. Just don't click on the pro version by accident as that is about £250!

That should be fine. Don't forget to change the FX loop settings in the stomp otherwise your backing track will go through all your FX and sound like crap! It's in the Global Settings. Then if you fancy treating yourself - something like the amazing Moises app will let you remove the bass from your tunes and boost the drums and so on. It's an amazing practice tool. It's not free but there are different sub levels. It will run on your phone easily as all the processing is done server side. You can even save the versions of the songs but with the bass removed if you want. With a bit of effort you could get a 1 or 2 month sub to Moises and save a couple of hundred of your favourite tunes with the bass removed and then just stick them in your iTunes library for future use. No need to keep the sub going unless there are new tunes you want to do.