LukeFRC

I was listening to some songs from my old band the other week and kinda missed my maple necked P bass, glorious Fender Japan '57ri sunburst with a gold plate I added (if you have it give me a shout!) ... so went looking on eBay at maple necked Precisions.... Years back I lived in Glasgow for a year and found an old beat up Cimar 1905 model Jazz bass from 1975ish bought it knowing a friend was going to have it, @Bassassin helped me fix it up, and it was just fun thing, fun to play and a bright bouncy sound.... nice. I regretted selling it to the mate (although he has loved it since.) And then in my search on eBay for a precision I found a Jazz like the cimar ... and stuck in a bid... and lost.... A week later I got a second chance offer and a few days later it arrives - sold as broken from someone selling for a family member. So other than knowing what it was maybe going to be like a bit of a risk... So it's a Japanese made 1975-76 ish Jazz bass, the headstock is branded Diplomat who I think were a kiwi distributor, but it's very close to both the other one and assassin's one - so Cimar/Ibanez/ Fujigen build probably. It's ash and maple, kinda cheap - pressed tuners that look cheap but seem to work well, square end bridge, the old curved end Japanese pickups, the most evil bridge design known to man, the pots which need replaced and just a bright engaging tone... first thing I found taking it out the box was wasn't far off being in tune that the neck relief was spot on. A good sign. Though the action was High. Then I noticed that the evil bridge had something missing... so the evil sticky out screws to adjust the height are on the bottom, with the nice rounded ends facing up (an improvement) - but the adjustment screws... erm... but the intonation was pretty much spot on... And then soldering the wires back - I imagin they were broken when the old owner tried to fix the dodgy pots... and it comes alive... And yeah they feel, look and sound like TI jazz flats on it too! So yeah my new precision bass ...

I think you may need something that can pass on midi so it gets both? No idea how it works with two bluetooth controllers though?

this is the link I couldn't find the other day... Guy in the DIY world started mounting effects on the enclosure lids https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/building-a-big-dummy-box-schmorg.8747/.

Electrical shielding the enclosures give?

How odd to have the pcb mounted on the footswitch and off board all the pots.

making no comment on the actual rod used, but there's nothing inherently wrong with a single action truss rod - I'm pretty sure that apart from some periods pretty much everything with a Fender logo on will have a single action truss rod like the one on the left ...

What Neepheid said - solder looks ok, if it's fixed when wiggled its mechanical and needs a new jack socket...

would you find a use for a hx one or something if the reverse delay doesn't work out?

My photo from 2008 - different tuners too

wow so similar - what serial number is yours? they can't be far between them

That’s what I was going for with the Aotearoa Intermodulator- homage to the unavailable original, and all black, because, well the link is my kiwi uncle introducing rugby to me… and also it looked cool.

This is getting silly. @Dood - you need to cover break up of amp models in a mini review!

Truthfully Jim.....

I was lent a stagg bass in bits that had been part of someone's CDT project, so I had to assemble and set up a bass before I could play it... played it loads before I had to give it back and had been saving... we found it hidden in the back of a shop in colchester where it had been sat for years, neck like a banana. I was a kid and my dad was working in colchester so had got a lift up with him, he came and bought it... turned up in his work suit and mentioned he was an auditor and the guitar shop owner was a bit unsettled and gave us a good good price. Played it for years till I bought my first Fender Presision (Japan) and then it kinda got retired. At that stage I probably didn't appreciate what it was... I think it was about then I discovered Basschat and realised there was a bunch of folk who would buy things from me and I could use the money for other things, this got sold and I picked up my first Warwick from @warwickhunt...

seeing it again is doing funny things to me

ahh my first ever bass. 🥰

didn't the originals have a tilt EQ and a switch to set the tilt point?

fixed

Depends how much gain the capturing thing has surely? Like it can capture from its full gain down - which might be an amp sweet spot you want to capture, but if you cranked the power amp and then captured it it would be from that gain level down so grainier?

Isn’t that the nature of captures vs models? captures the SVT again with the gain up a load to have a more gainy version?

is this a pedalboard? Asking for a friend...

It’s Dood- he the kind of guy who doesn’t queue to get in a club…