LukeFRC

[quote name='gafbass02' timestamp='1333331765' post='1600178'] Silver thunderbird Dammit. What the hell can i sell now !!? I've nothing left to flog argh!! [/quote] ??? 1990 Fender MIJ modded jazz bass '08 Fender cij '75 reissue jazz, 'bassmaster funk', fender kingman, zoom b9.1ut, MarkBass MoMark 800, Bergantino Ae210's OBBM, monster and Zaolla cables, gramma pad, Wizard 'GAFfer' pickups, igig cases. .... you've one too many jazzes, ill take that off you!

First Wal bass I've seen that looked nice enough to get me thinking if I could afford it.... I can't someone else might be able to... http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/wal-pro-bass-mk1-1978--perfect-working-order/99581988

bingo, i was going to say late 60's early 70's japbcrap

mmmm I would love one of these, or maybe a 5

In that photo! The thick black wire going from the switch to the blend control. The core is soldered to the lug of the pot, where is the braid with the ground wired too? i think it should go to the body of the pot but it doesn't look like it does

first thing I would do is check the pups are actually working. Unsolder them, check resistance- and just solder them straight to a jack socket and try it. If you can hear the bass wired up straight then the pups are working. Then once you have worked out if the problem is there you can go over the circuit and check each part. If you did stick new pickups in it then you would totally dismantle it anyway so you might as well do that now!

[quote name='Al Heeley' timestamp='1333360254' post='1600408'] Hoiw cool would it be to fit 2 different circuit pre-amps in one bass then be able to toggle in between them? [/quote] would work if you have very colourful cuitcuits. if you had too reasonably neutral sounding circuits then parametric eq points might be more useful

I highly recommend musikding for parts

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1333558191' post='1603574'] Where MK's "1,000 notes per hour" thing is concerned - it's just a "showpiece" thing that he does at L42 gigs . I doubt he thinks to himself "OMG check me out, I'm so fast at doing this". The only thing is, that a lot of people have conceived it to be "the cool slap thing to do" and have taken it beyond the pale (and can't even do it in time with a drummer..). The other thing with MK is that he's one of the very few bass players who actually use the slap technique as part of a band's sound (it's also a shame that his fingerstyle playing is overlooked so often). In a real world playing situation, it's not something a bass player would put all over someone's record unless it was specifically asked for (mind you, Becker & Fagen didn't want it on "Peg", got it anyway & were none the wiser until later on...). [/quote] I just looked up a youtube video about the making of Peg, never really heard much of Steely Dan before but good video- and great groove. Maybe slap became divorced from groove with a lot of folk who can't groove to begin with?

remember the first time you saw a footballer do a stopover dummy- that fella knew exactly what he was doing and why he needed to show some skill. The next week down the park fellas are waving their legs all over the ball all over the pitch for no real reason.

[quote name='brick' timestamp='1333475093' post='1602332'] aye i spent endless hours playing about with it before i replaced with a delano pre have been playing about with the mids today to trying to get a bit more cut, have a practice tomorrow night and will see how that helps never thought to check the battery will try that also, cheers for the advice guys [/quote] what sort of cut do you want? A warwick like aggressive low middy growl at the front of the mix? A stingray like highs cutting through? J bass like highmids? How new and what type of strings?

hard to say, i would have said about that. If it does go above that why not just go for the one on here? 1991-1996 will maybe be slightly different but not really

[quote name='jenzuwin' timestamp='1333539770' post='1603119'] I see! Thanks. Worth going for then? [/quote] yes depending on the final price

stunning bass btw

91 will have it at the top too

Good contender for the delano hybrid system to be fitted in

and is the blend pot a double decker one? (6 points of contact) or a single decker one (3 points)

is the switch supposed to be a coil tap (2 pos) or a series parallel single coil (3 pos) ?

how much electronics do you know? If the pickup is fried I couldn't fix it but everything else you should be able to fix I would have thought. I would be able to and I'm no expert

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1333537000' post='1603011'] I agree. Though I'm thinking vol vol tone? [/quote]thats cos you have more experience making basses than me! He's also got a warwick fortress advertised on here for £350 which isnae a bad price

actually the routing underneath has been done well

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1333535672' post='1602963'] Not really as you could just as quickly revert back if you had a new pick-guard as no mod needed for the MM pup as it is already routed. Wonder if it still has the MM preamp (not sure if that would work with other pups). [/quote] you would have thought there would be a blend knob in there for the jazz, so my guess is not. Question I have is why wouldn't you just sell your musicman and buy a jazz?