LukeFRC

sage green isn't a bad colour.... some people may prefer it to black - why not ask for a swap?

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1376071342' post='2169429'] +10 to moving the pick up height. I have found a HUGE difference by just a tweak of a screw. I find it strange that you cant find enough low end from a P bass , because they are renowned for their low end. much more so than a GL Jazz, therefore, I surmise that you must alter the pup height in relation to your strings. Get the D+G side lower and raise the A+E, then low is at your disposal. Sorry if this sounds a bit condescending, but I really am struggling to comprehend how a P bass can be not giving enough "bottom" [/quote] A P doesn't have as much bass as say the neck pup on jazz. What it has is low mids, which sound like "bass sound" but are actually higher freq - if something about the set up, the amp eq or the cab flattens out this low mid bump then it would sound like it had little bottom end.

try screwing the pickup down a bit....

some of his other stuff isn't too bad! bit of a shame to wreck that kawai half moon guitar though

Tom, your review for basschat was more or less a copy and paste of your review that the company have on their website. Put it another way, their website has so little meaningful info your endorsement makes up most the sales pitch they make. If you don't get how turning up and copy and pasting that might come accross as (bad) marketing I don't know what planet you are on - I first read your op and thought you were some made up player imagined by a marketing department to push product...

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1375462321' post='2161851'] According to the spec posted on another forum, the amp goes down to 4hz or something, so pretty far from optimised, what with 4 octaves of wasted power below audible. High passing is pretty key to amps working well. [/quote] ouch! Like why - now I have no idea at all but would guess if this is car/bike stereo technology (hence the twin input and output) that it would be optimised to roll of most the bass - I mean if you're on a bike I can't imagine you get many low end woofers.... My guess its a typo and roll off at 40 Hz (or around) with the focus on the mids giving a nice hifi clean tone with little low end - a bit like a low fi version of the hi fi monitor I started a thread about last month.

[quote name='TomRichards' timestamp='1375453894' post='2161652'] Those are not micro buttons, but touch sensitive spots on the top. And the 1/8 inch jack is an input, for your iPod or MP3 player or any other source you want to run through it that uses an 1/8" input. I have a special guitar cable that is 1/4" to 1/8 that splits the mono signal to both channels, so it's kinda cool for me. Yes, this amp is definitely not everyones cup of tea. But I think it merits a look, as most power amps are really built for only line level inputs and do not have pre-amps optimized for instrument input directly. And, I think the button layout and functionality is different and cool. I once had a Tech21 Bass Power Engine bass cab that I paired with a SANSAMP preamp and it was killer! They were the only ones in my memory to actually design a pre-amp - powered cab (ne power amp) match for working together specifically. I sold that rig several years ago to fund a vintage bass purchase, but in hindsight probably should not have. I love raw sound. I want my metal necks to sound like metal necks, my Brubakers to sound like my Brubakers, my Backlunds and Retronix to sound like.... This is really a great concept. I need to post some video/audio. It is really a cool amp. I used the cables they provided me to bridge the amp 400W into 8ohms yesterday, and it was louder then my Hartke LH500 and cleaner, crisper. As Charlie Sheen would say, "Winning!" [/quote] touch sensitive spots/micro buttons - whatever you call them, I would question (perhaps unfoundedly) their long term durability. My comment bout the jack sizes was more their size relative to the whole box.... ie it's not actually that small - if it were the size of a fag packet then it would be interesting - as it is it looks quite sizeable. Don't get me wrong - it's an good idea for a fella sticking theiese in motorbikes to look to see how they would work with bass or guitar but I don't think it's a great design in terms of functionality and I have no idea in terms of audio engeneering how they have designed it - but based on the website there's little information. I'm guessing it's a class D amp modual of some kind, with some built in power optimisation to get the most out of it...

if they are the inputs on the front (two jack one headphone jack) it's not as small as you would think. It's only 1 lb lighter than my amp - so not that lightweight... and how many times have you had those micro type buttons fail on you in other applications? It might sound nice but looks like an ugly underpowered little box to me.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1375349947' post='2160035'] We try to keep temps as constant as possible but it's a tricky business. Loosely speaking we use minimal heat, and from small portable rads only, in the winter and just airflow without air-con in the summer. This kinda works but things still move around. It's usually spring and autumn when things are most noticeable though. [/quote] I think you work in a bit of a higher end music shop than the one I'm talking about

imo

no that's not normal.

I had dream once when I had one of them, well a Greco one

aye why not!

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1375218733' post='2158503'] Some great input here chaps, much appreciated... I wonder just how much of a current 'vintage' fenders value is simply the equivalent of inflation over the instruments lifetime? I'm guessing if one was looking for appreciation value in an instrument available new today, you would have to find something that was as new and original as a fender P was in the beginning. I mean were not talking about a new take on the bass guitar, were talking about an entirely new instrument as it was back in the 50's... Investment aside for a moment...and maybe I'm just a blinkered old bass enthusiast... I've got an itch for an old jazz... I think i'm just trying to justify it... Rob [/quote] just go for it!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1375207898' post='2158246'] It all depends what you mean by investment . Do you mean appreciating in value so you can eventually sell for a profit , or do you mean a minimal depreciation so you will get a healthy proportion of your money back if you want to sell ? The answer to the first scenario is "no , not in the forseeable future but eventually maybe, to some extent " . The second hypothesis is the most realistic in the sense that a good Fender will always sell for a decent price and they are perenially popular . I can't think of many basses that are as saleable as a U.S.A - made Fender , particulaly if you chose a desirable model and colour . [/quote] problem is at the current prices you're still going to take a hefty whack in resale prices - the new american vintage reissues are £1700 or so! Secondhand at the mo you could buy a custom shop fender and have change!

I quite enjoyed reading this thread at work when the boss went out. Modern fenders that I think will be worth a bit in the future? the Roscoe beck sig. and er that's it. unless something happens that makes something stand out then nothing made now really seems too exciting. What seems to be collectable is the stuff before or after a major change

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1375058905' post='2156311'] In this weather it's near impossible to keep an entire showroom's worth of stock in tune, with perfect action and with great intonation. Believe me, I've tried! [/quote] I went into a large guitar shop in a major northern british city and tried out about 10 different jazz basses. One of them had such a bad bow in the neck I felt I needed to tell the staff as I was leaving - like major bow, checking the fretboard is still attatched level. Anyway he rolled his eyes and told me that the shop is nicely heated when open - but cools down a lot at night. The fluxuations in temprature being so great they apparently had the frets lifting on a load of custome shop guitars..... beggers belief why he told me that!

Probably the fender sounds more like.... well like almost every bass they've heard on records.....

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1374914121' post='2154669'] There is a film in there, BRX starts building and selling fake Fenders on eBay only to fall in love with an old P bass after doing extension research to improve the fakes and ends up selling all his Gus basses to fund a road trip to refund all the buyers of his previous fake basses sold? [/quote] or he becomes so famous at building fake P basses that he has to tell the buyers that their "fake" is a fake but worth more than they thought.

Wal i think.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m_8a4xrQ6k

ooh are we talking steels or nickels?? Hex or round core? Personally I like the sound of round core steels from about a week after fitting them till they are dead. When they are dead depends on the string as different strings last longer than other - set of stadium elites lasted 3-4 months, set of DR Fatbeams lasted over two years on the P bass and then one day suddenly lost it.

see I know nothing - but I thought you could tell from the sharps and flats at the start of the bar?