LukeFRC

[quote name='Shockwave' post='840817' date='May 18 2010, 01:26 PM']I would say, make it neck thru, Musicman humbucker at the P position. Decent active electronics, Hipshot ultralite tuners, bound and blocked maple neck, matching ash headstock veneer. Keep it au naturele.[/quote]

what a warwick?

if you took the amount of basses ive owned, times it by the amount of basses i've played and then added the number of basses i've ever seen, i still think ive seen you sell more than that on here over the past few years!
Look at what you've kept and copy the best bits of them.
The best thing about my P bass is the chiming full tone it has, try and get that sound?

search freestompbox.org....

schematic trace.... [url="http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa211/bajaman002/VT911schematic.png"]http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa211/b...11schematic.png[/url]


except i've got this sneaking suspicion your circuit board will be surface mounted (i guess how they keep the costs down?) so good luck!

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='838586' date='May 16 2010, 02:13 AM']I'm sorry if this question has already come up but has anybody successfully modded a behringer VT911 to suit a bass? I've searched the web but only found mods for improving the pedal sound for guitar.
I have a Markbass Distorsore and love the sound of it but is way to big to fit in my board. I would like something smaller to give just a valve drive ( the key word is drive, not distorsion or fuzz, just a bit of bite in the signal) in the high freqs but maintaining my bottom end. I think a mod to make the VT911 able to act on the low freqs of bass plus a blend knob for fx/clean would be sufficient. Oh, and a new valve as well (i have a EHX 12XA7 at home). I have a few skills for soldering and have a very basic knowledge of electronics but not even close to define what kind of caps or resistances to apply here or there on the circuit. I'm willing to take the plunge and buy one to become a guinea pig for this experience.
Some help would be very appreciated.
Cheers[/quote]

do you have a schematic?
I wouldn't have thought it would be too hard?

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='840309' date='May 17 2010, 10:26 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-ELECTRIC-BASS-GUITAR-MADE-JAPAN-JAPANESE-MAYA-/260604402009?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cad3b9959"]Maya Precision[/url]

Interesting looking pickup, would that classify as a "lipstick" pickup?

This talkbass thread has a whole lot of discussion as to what a similar looking bass might be. One post says that the bass in the talkbass thread might be Korean not Japanese. Same for the one on ebay as per the above link?[/quote]


i think that would classify as a telecaster neck pickup they picked up from the production line next to the bass one!

yeah been looking at their site, they just don't have any info on the old stuff, and I think these are very old!
Oh well they sound alright

[quote name='Musicman20' post='839379' date='May 16 2010, 11:21 PM']I agree, and the fact im inbetween work isnt helping. Money isnt good at the moment, and I cant spend it all on rehearsals. Hmm, a chat is in order me thinks.[/quote]

thats the crux, I left the last band i was in for similar reasons.

[quote name='Musky' post='838625' date='May 16 2010, 09:13 AM']I didn't know Entwistle had used one of these. Then again he seems to have owned virtually every model of bass ever made, so it should come as no surprise.

Are some digits missing from that model number?

Edit: I've just realised that you said he owned the Rickenbacker version - I'll have to take back what I said about him owning every model of bass. [/quote]

it's in the book as a model 31, he had 2. The 4005 looks similar. You would have to ask someone with knowledge the difference, I just have a picture book!

one of the coolest basses ive seen for a long time.

should add they are electric bass pups.

In a housing similar to a guitar humbucker

A while back I swapped a bass for a POD on here.
It's a nice old aria, I think some version of a RSB deluxe.

Im looking to redo the wiring so it works better for what I want. But first wondered about the pups

They are humbuckers I guess, made by Shadow with a 70's or 80's looking shadow logo, and labled underneath

487 Shadow
Bass swinger




any clues?

[quote name='Musky' post='838498' date='May 15 2010, 10:32 PM']It's not actually a reproduction of a bass, but it's based on the 330 guitar. The fact that rickenbacker never produced a bass like this doesn't seem to stop Mr. Hall pulling the auctions though. [/quote]

I have the book of john entwistle's bass collection... he has a rickenbacker bass model 31 which is what this is based on. Looks lovely too!
Or the 4005

I have no idea why this hasnt sold yet, it looks lovely!

What kinda bass do you play?

I currently have two basses. The warwick streamer is amazing but I doubt it is ever going to nail a 'huge' sound, the notes have a lot of attack and the tone, while being amazing cuts through but doesn't fill the space.
My JV Pbass however does, it has the middy P bass thump, a load of low end, the brightness from the maple neck and most importantly a massive full tone (lots of harmonics) a bit like a really big piano. So find a really nice P bass.

i just saw that. Price seems steep though!

I was playing some song at church, the verses were quite long and the chords went A D E or something dead simple.
I was arranging the big old fold back wedges with my left hand while keeping the rhythm going with my right. I was impressed but dont think anyone else noticed!

19k for me.

If you want your hearing avoid mogwai gigs

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='834881' date='May 11 2010, 11:33 PM']Just been having a think about this, and I'm thinking cheap but really good basses are here to stay, there are still plenty about from the 80s Japanese golden age, and all the nice Squiers and such are about to stay, so the value of a nice but generic fender copy instrument may well not last, its value will only be in being old, as there are plenty of quality fender alikes, so eventually the value will be in old, unique and well made. I hope.[/quote]

come again?

Because nobody wants that particular bass at the moment?

I just looked at the add. I think if you replaced the original pups and went and bought the missing screw, and allen keys to change the knobs you could swap it as 'original', (and sell the other pups separately too)
Find out if you have the standard tone stack or not. describe the controls not just link to a manual, i don't have a clue from your ad if its an active or a passive pre amp (and it seems to contradict)
Look at what you are saying, try and sell the bass better. shorter sentances not in a colloquial idiom. talk more about what it is rather than what it isn't.
If you give an opinion explain better, why are the stock pups that bad; you have a jaguar, how is this more versitile; why isn't it for you? and so on

Its very white and very 80's which will put folk off, I would hazard a guess that it will not be as desirable as a standard looking Japanese Fender. Also I have no idea how much this model is worth, you've put a rough trade price of 650 on it which I think would put it in secondhand fender USA territory? As a point of reference I bought my '82 Japanese JV Squier P bass with a large Fender logo for less than that from someone on here a while back.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='833058' date='May 10 2010, 01:42 PM']Thanks Jon, as always.

Too much to do right now to research this one a bit and see if it's actually notable, reasonably priced (I suspect not), etc.

I'm getting tired of everyone always describing anything Japanese as "rare" though.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SD-Curlee-Bass-RARE-MIJ-/320529910094?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4aa112494e"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SD-Curlee-Bass-RARE-...=item4aa112494e[/url][/quote]

a rare way to string your bass though

A word of warning.... I played a gig last night backing a friend. They took a DI signal out before the amp. I didnt think and rather than a nice scooped sound which I had through their amp I have a feeling that they had a load of mids in my mix.

Nothing wrong with that except for the fact that with a big old mid scoop I would have been low in the mix and been classic backing bass (think jamerson), I was worried when they said they liked the music because it was funky! oh dear.

errr so a new neck will cost 500.
If you sold it with the repaired neck would you take a hit of 500 on the price you could sell it for? i doubt it.
Keep it, take it to some guitar builder and get them to check the neck, if you do sell it you may take a hit on the price but i would doubt it would be 500 euros worth!

going by the last page or so there is a definite central belt bias! oh well never mind

Notice how so many posters on this thread live within such a small radius of each other?

I have the body of a vox standard bass, its a sandwich of very heavy very hard european ash or something. If there is the smallest chance the guitar has the same body material its not worth a fraction of that!