LukeFRC

[quote name='Musky' post='675191' date='Dec 5 2009, 07:08 PM']It looks like the original pickups have been replaced and the the routing for the larger footprint filled, so it might have come with MB IIIs.

Luke, what's the serial number - the first digit (or possibly the first two) will give you the year.[/quote]

yeah replacement pups, made by 'shadow' whoever that is
serial is 3061192

oh and this i swapped with rasta for a POD, unmarked headstock aria pro 2. It's japanese so Ill stick it up here, someone may be able to tell me something about it.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='671732' date='Dec 1 2009, 11:50 PM']Yep - 70s, early 80s. MIJ Hohners were made by Moridaira until about 82 - 83 when they moved production to Korea. There may have been other Jap factories making Hohners but most of the ones I've seen are definitely Moridaira. If the P has a serial number sticker that looks like this:
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Then that confirms it's a Mori.

Got any pics, Luke?

J.[/quote]

yep....

there's basically two things you will be doing with your Eq.

firstly you are changing your flat signal to the room. Certain frequencies will sound louder than other. In an ideal world you would cut the ones that resonate to make everything flat sounding. (ie the sound your bass is making) This isnt massivly possible with simple amp Eq controls though so you're fiddling trying to find the closest freq. to the resonant one(s)

the second thing you are doing is sculpting the tone of what you are doing, some folk like lots of mids, others lots of highs (esp if slapping), some like to boost the bass, others cut it to make it controllable. This is to make you sound like you want to sound like, (as much as that is possible with the instrument, my P bass will never sound like Jaco)

all this is done through listening. Listen to a band playing and try and hear how the different frequencies interact accross the range of sound they are making.


two things to bare in mind:
- the room set up is more important than your sound. If you have 'your tone' yet it is uncontrolable in the space you are playing in you would be better off not playing. Don't be tone proud!
- Your tone may sound great in your bedroom, you may have spent 4 days wrestling with your pedal board settings, brilliant, but I (in my sound man's hat) don't care. The best tone is the one that fits with everything else in the band. Listen to some of the soloed bass tracks on the thread, some dont sound that amazing- but in the mix they work, thats what to aim for.

I stuck an ad up seeing if anyone wanted to swap my Bass pod xt live, lee did, mid-his wife giving birth packed and sent down a lovely fretless bass.
I'm excited, I hope he's excited and he's a top gentleman to deal with. A pleasure.

Luke

I guess this would be the place to ask... (captain japcrap mainly)

I said I would fix a bass for a friend, expecting an encore or stagg he came over nad dropped off a "Hohner bass" It's a pretty good P bass copy, Made in japan, ply body with 3 colour sunburst, maple neck and separate maple fretboard (fairly chunky with trussrod access at body end), BWB scratchplate, 7 screw bridge.... and bizarrely fender headstock shape, I would guess that make it quite old?

Bike boxes.... cut up stuck together....

suggest as you don't have to buy a box you invest in bubble wrap, the one time I shipped an amp from my parents to edinbugh a combination of a knock or two and 'interesting' design specs by tech soundsystem meant the tweeter switch broke off inside. bubble wrap is you friend

my two cents....

unless you're broke (and you have 5 basses in your sig so i guess you're not) your daughter is more important than playing covers in pubs.

[quote name='maxrossell' post='668247' date='Nov 28 2009, 01:37 PM']I dunno man, if I bought a bass that was described as "well looked after", which mitigates the "few dents in the neck" thing (every used guitar, even well-maintained, probably has some sort of little nick somewhere on the neck), but received a bass that was basically unplayable due to bad adjustment and a missing part, and had mystery blue stains on it and what deathpanda's describing as great big divots in the neck, I'd want a refund, because not only does the additional damage mean that I should have paid less for it, but also God knows what issues I'm gonna get down the line (a bad setup if left for too long can permanently damage a bass).[/quote]

actually i do agree. i was playing devils advocate, try get your money back if you can.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='642785' date='Nov 1 2009, 08:21 PM']The H & K guitar amp sounded amazing, never heard one before but it blews the Marshalls away.[/quote]

their bass heads are pretty good too, I have a Q600. If you see one give it a go.

Nice track, i'll be honest and say not massively my style of music but the bass playing I could appreciate! spot on!

First ever playing in front of anyone was about 6 months into trying to teach myself, in front of 80 or so folk at church. Scary as you cant be rock and roll and mess it up! And my mum and dad were visiting me at uni so were there. root notes all the way!

Me and a friend had been inspired by the franz ferdinand homecoming christmas gig and he support band the Fireengines. We decided to form a artschool punk band, all attitude and no skill.
It actually turned out I could play and so could she so we formed a 6 piece electro pop band (toy keyboard being the main instrument) and got a support slot at a gig at our uni bar, 'the Wee Red', we packed it out with our friends and played our 6 songs. Cheering afterwards our singer decided we should play another, we didnt have another but seeing that our first song was called 'Hi!' we did a song called "Bye!". It was fun.

hum is either from bass, lead or head.


touch a string. If the buzz goes it's the earthing.
turn down the volume on the bass. If it goes, its the bass or pups.
use another new lead. If it goes its the lead.

other wise its the amp, or the way you are using it.

try more gain and less volume on it. (or less gain more volume, but i guess it would be the other)

I went and tried the bongo that has been sitting in a local shop for a couple of years, I bought a set of strings and it was empty so i asked to have a go....

not massivly impressed, construction was fine, although the painted neck reminded me of a dan electro, but i couldnt coax any sounds out out of I would want to use. It sounded very clinical. I'm sure it's a lovley bass, and I don't mind the look at all, it just sounds odd.

I think Rik (ESA) is after one, he messaged me asking about my floor one so may be worth dropping him a message.

having said that I however do realise it must be very annoying for you and am sorry you're not happy

er...
it has one grub screw missing, and is in need of a set up. Other than that the dings on the next he could claim he told you about.

The E string would be quieter if the A was lower and you lowered that side of the pup to compensate?

The guy dousn't know how to take care of instruments, he's an idiot, but it doesn't sound malicious. If you are the sort of person who plays a bass set up like that then presumably the dents are not going to be a problem for you.

Given that when you buy any bass you are going to have to set it up for you're playing style and change strings i figure you're out of pocket one bridge grub screw and a difference in how big small is.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='667642' date='Nov 27 2009, 06:06 PM']Even though I've thinned the herd drastically over the last year, 'Red' will stay with me now, through thick and thin. [/quote]

aw thats nice.
i need to name my natural one... 'nat'?

bizzarly I think the red SS1 warwick hunt started this thead off with he sold and I bought the blue one he had.

I sold the blue one, not massivly want it back!
My first bass was a 1997 status shark, tabacco sunburst with 2 pups and active electronics, I sold it (not on basschat) but it has since done the rounds through half of basschat.. one day...

PM sent,

I don't really need any amps or cabs....


things i would like, fretless things or short scale things, i may have to open my wallet too for them!

wee question george, where do you buy your basses? I'm guessing off the internet as there isn't that many shops in edinburgh?
the t bass isnt the trace t bass that was in live music a load of years ago was it?

[quote name='eude' post='660379' date='Nov 20 2009, 05:34 PM']Bannermans can be awesome for some bands, but more often than not it's awful...
I've played there with a band I was helping out for a while to all of 4 people.
I also caught a friend's band, who make a living playing and recording in Canada play to 2 people, myself included - during the freakin' Festival!...

Whistle Binkies is an interesting one, there's usually always a fairly reasonable and attentive crowd in there but they'd much rather hear Wonder Wall or Hotel California rather than anything original, and can be quite vocal about it.
One for the "Ugly Juke Boxes"...

My main problem with the whole thing in Edinburgh is that "promoters" don't seem to want to actually "promote" live music.
They're quite happy to blanket email folks via MySpace to arrange for 14 mismatched bands to play on one stage but they then let go of the reins, expect the bands to arrange the sharing of backline, if necessary amoung, themselves and even worse, most of the time, expect the bands to sell tickets in order to try and earn at least some cash out of it and threaten to take them off the bill if they're not keen to do so.
Has it always been like that?

We used to arrange a monthly Friday night at "particular venue" but we gave up as they insisted on charging us for the use of the room and an absent sound engineer, even though they would make a fortune on the bar, which meant we had to charge at the door to avoid it leaving us out of pocket.
We proved them wrong when we managed to convince them to let us have it for free for our Album Launch and the place was mobbed, partly because any passing trade could get in to check it out without being charged to get in. We where told by the duty manager that they had the best takings in that room ever on a Friday night that night and we foolishly assumed that we'd get the room for free from then on, but no, next month, right back to the same money grabbing arrangement.
So we decided to can it.

We tend to do wee acoustic shows these days in pubs that we know.
We play to folks who know the music, sometimes get in new folks, have great fun and always get paid, which is a rare thing in Edinburgh, plus at our next one, we'll be quickly followed by a Burlesque show...
Planning on arranging a on last decent sized (electric) "charity" gig before Chrimbo, but nothing concrete as yet.

End of Rant (sorry)
Eude[/quote]

i think i have seen a lot of bands get stuck at banamans level. they then get so stuck on promoting the little gigs there and stuff they don't work out how to get out of that loop onto something better.
same again with whistlebinkies

my old band honed what we were doing at the wee red and then went on to cab vol/king tuts type venues.
cab vol is a great place to play.

should possibly be more specific on the trades....
i was only using this for a nice OD sound and the tuner, so boxes that do thoses....
actually would consider anything else too, from cheap basses to bass parts...

i wonder how good a jazz bass mr shuker or some other respected luthier would be able to make for that much?

this one[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=54400&hl=pod"]HERE[/url] which I bought a few months ago...

why am I selling? Simply as I'm not using it.
It's a fantastic bit of kit which I bought to play with effects, I found out pretty quick that i don't really want to use many effects, really only a overdrive of the svt model, and the tuner (is that an effect?)
It ended up I was only using it for the amp sims and to tweek the sound of bluey which I have since sold.

Since then it's just sat looking unloved in its bag. It seems a bit pointless to keep it, I paid £170 including postage.
If anyone wants it fling me your pm's,

try me for trades too if you want.

Luke

i think in edinburgh you have to do it yourself. I've seen a fair few good bands get stuck ata certain level and struggle to make it bigger than that.
To avoid this I think only ever play bannermans once if at all!