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Monday and clearly no love for vintage Trace gear bump

'Saturday Morning with no Hangover' bump

Apologies, I couldn't narrow it down to just one

1. Lemmy
2. Aston Barrett
3. Jerry Jemmott
4. Duck Dunn
5. Les Claypool

Still for sale seperately.
MKV GP11 AH150 head - £200
MKV 1518 cab with 400watt Celestion driver - £100 ono

Same person that's selling this one:
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=147046"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=147046[/url]

Bought a gold anodized P bass scratchplate from Gavin.
Great price and exactly as described. Deal with him in confidence.
Cheers man!

Now for sale seperately.
Here's a classic Trace head & cab for a reasonable price Bump.

Monday 'Now for sale seperately' BUMP

Saturday avo BUMP

Good price? That was a steal!

Mid-week "Inspector Clouseau" type BERMP!

Hi folks,

I'm also in the market for a good octave pedal for a new Electro/Dance venture and was leaning towards either the MXR Bass Octave Deluxe or Boss OC-3. The reason being I can actually try these two out.
I see there's plenty of positive feedback for the Boss OC-2 (I had one of these waaaay back in the day but never really got along with it) along with the EBS Octabass and the MXR Bass Octave Deluxe but no mention of the current Boss offering - the OC-3. Is it that bad a pedal or is it because there are better options out there?
Do you guys have any feedback/suggestions regarding the Boss OC-3 v MXR BOD?
Thanks

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='1308004' date='Jul 18 2011, 03:56 PM']Interesting stuff, Wikipedia says it doesn't sound like any tonewoods.... so how does it sound?[/quote]

It's really quite bright actually. A lot brighter in tone than my Jazz (ash/maple) or my active fretless Larkin Reacter (mahogany/ebony)
That may be because of the Luthite body & Ebanol board, the Bart pup & circutry or a combination of all but like Lfalex mentioned it doesn't really have an obvious tone unlike, for example, the aforementioned mahogany body/ebony board combo.
Either way I like it for both looks and sound and it suited the style of music I was playing at the time.

The body of my Cort Curbow 5 string is made of finest Luthite!
Luthite - Sounds like it could take down a Superhero at 200 yards!

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luthite"]Luthite on Wikipedia[/url]

My late 80's custom Larkin Reacter fretless 4B (the one in my avatar)
My 75RI Jazz and 57RI P could be replaced easily enough but getting another Larkin built would cost an arm and a leg

Cheers dude, I'll have a look on-line and see what I can find.
I'll also take the stock machines off and measure the holes in the headstock to get an idea of width I'll need.

[quote name='ossie' post='1307676' date='Jul 18 2011, 12:11 PM']I've sold a couple of bits and was going to try an get hold of a higher spec fretless, but to be honest, you've inspired me. I'll let it run on e-bay for this week and If it doesn't sell, I'm going to mod it like you have. Thanks for the inspiration. [/quote]

Glad to be of help Ossie
They're great basses and perfect for modding.
If you do decide to keep it and do it up make sure you keep us posted with plenty of pics in a build diary.

Bassdude - I felt the same about Squier til I actually tried the VM range. Fantastic basses for the money you'll pay. The only issue I had with the VM Fretless was the intonation high up the board but a set-up (which included having the board planed) and a new set of strings sorted that out.
The only other budget fretless I could get my hands on was the distressed 'Vintage' Jaco-a-like. Nice bass, played well but not as nice as the Squier. Also I just dont like that 'distressing' fad so I'm happy to say the Squier won.

[quote name='bh2' post='1307661' date='Jul 18 2011, 12:00 PM']That's it! Super looking Jazz bass... [b]I'd put some vintage style machines on there[/b], just my personal preference.[/quote]

I've actually been toying with the idea of replacing the stock machines with vintage ones but I'm a bit dubious about the amount of work that'll have to go into it versus the overall gain. From what I've read, both on this forum and others, there are no vintage-style machines that are a direct replacement for Squier VM's so I guess it would involve filling and re-drilling for the new ones. As I currently have no issues with the stock machines I thought it best to leave them as is although I gotta say the vintage ones you have look really nice.
(PS - if I'm wrong please feel free to correct me regarding the direct replacement machines for VM's and maybe even point me in the direction of a suitable replacement set if you know of any )

I recently modded my Squier VM Fretless.
Tort PG, Gotoh 301, fake grounding strip, pull-bar, Jazz Bass style knobs, neck pup cover, electrics replaced with CTS & Switchcraft units, replaced the original cap with an old PIO .05 cap off a 50's Telecaster, Series/Parallel switching and I had the fretboard planed as well.
The bass cost me around £250 a couple of years ago and the modifications and upgrades came to more than £100 so in essence I've paid over £350 for a VM fretless.
Personally I think it was worth it because it looks and sounds so much better than it did originally. (Not that it was a bad bass to start with )
Here's a before/after comparison:

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It's-Monday-and-I'm-back-at-work-so-someone-buy-my-wonderful-rig-and-cheer-me-up-please type BUMP!

[quote name='ossie' post='1306435' date='Jul 17 2011, 09:19 AM']Ooooh !
Maybe that's what I should do, looks great. They are great basses.
Cheers[/quote]

It can get quite expensive, depending on how far you take it of course, but it totally changes the look of the bass for the better (IMHO!)
Before the modding I would still play it but not nearly as much as I do now.
I was going for the '62RI look so here's what I did:

3 ply tort PG & screws - aftermarket so not much more than £10. Not a direct fit so needed slight alterations to fit around the neck and control plate.
Gotoh 301 bridge - £32 new off e-Bay.
1/4" copper tape to make the fake ground strip between the bridge and bridge pup - £2.00 off e-Bay.
Black plastic pull-bar & screws and Jazz Bass style knobs - next to nothing off e-Bay.
Chrome neck pup cover - less than a tenner new.

After I finished all that I decided to get the electrics replaced with better quality units and have the pups wired series/parallel with a push/pull, so I got a tech I know to replace everything with CTS pots & Switchcraft jack and wire the pups for S/P. I found an old .05 PIO cap (allegedly from a 50's Telecaster) on e-Bay and had him fit that as well.

All-in-all the modding cost me over £100, including all the work carried out by the tech, but it's definitely improved the look and sound of the bass immeasurably.

Cheers,
Ian

Fugly?!!
Man that thing is stunning!

Just-about-to-finish-work-for-the-weekend-type BUMP!

Yup, it is a great rig, I couldn't agree more! Just reluctant to part with it but She Has Spoken!
And yes, we had a chat not that long ago about Trace gear including your vast collection of heads & cabs.
Very impressive I must say. If only I was allowed to have that much TE stuff!

Nice bass. Very interested

I currently have a Trace rig for sale in the Amps & Cabs section so depending on how that goes I may be in a position to take this off your hands.
Would have to include delivery though as I'm in Edinburgh.

Cheers,
Ian