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I've got a rockbass corvette and agree with the differences. Chunky neck but more of a growl.

Yep, I bought Hamfist's 504 and love it. Playability is pretty much second to none. My practice routine these days is to practice on one of my Tanglewood-made Overwaters then swap to my Yammy and instantly everything's so much easier to play. That neck is just super slim and it's very nice and light too. The bridge pickup has a nice lovely deep jazz sound. I like rolling fully onto that pickup, putting it in passive mode and rolling off the tone for a lovely deep burpy groover. I know Hamfist loves the neck pickup and yep it does have a lovely almost P-but-with-something-special sound to it. It's very much like the neck pickup in my active Overwater in terms of sound. My preference is to put the pickup blend dead on halfway for some nicely scooped mids. I can also pop it in active mode, put bass and treble on full, scoop the mids out completely and I get a massively powerful tone. When I compare it to my passive Overwater classic (P/J single coils) the Yammy loses that single-coil zing that I'd love to get back somehow. Maybe I just need to pop my usual Overwater/GHS Bass Boomers strings on it. Perhaps fit a brass nut? Maybe chuck and EMG or other pickup in there? I need to tweak something for it to be perfect but that's just my preference. Or I could be trying to get a single coil sound out of a humbucker. I'd say try it against that Ibanez. Pinball on here has a lovely pair of ibbys (that sounds wrong!) that are just as nice to play and have that mid-range zingy growl that I like. Build quality is flawless. Where are you based? I'm in Bristol if you're nearby. You could pop over and try mine out.

Why do they always demo a bass like that? Every bass sounds the same when it's slapped - like it's been thrown down the stairs by a four year old.

Hmm, a lot of bass for the money... I've experienced: Yamaha TRBX: around £400 new. One of the best playing instruments I've ever played. Sounds great and is flawless in construction. Stands up well against £1200-1500 basses. Overwater Classic or Contemporary Jazz basses: £400-600 new. Beats any Fender bass I've ever played (and I've played a few dozen in various shops) for playability and tone. They're a little heavy, a couple of rough edges in construction on some earlier models but stands in between USA Fenders and UK Overwaters based on the consensus of opinion from those who have owned both the UK and Tanglewood-made ones. Any SGC Nanyo Bass Collection you can get your hands on. Easy to pick up for a couple of hundred and you'll soon question why people sell them.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1392808071' post='2372899'] When it's all said and done, this is a £90 Bass and I may be being a little CDO about it...... [/quote] Nice to see the letters in CDO in alphabetical order as they should be

I'm actually thinking of holding off to get a lighter Indonesian-made 121P combo now. My Yamaha TRBX was built in Indonesia and it oozes quality.

Wrong thread to be reading whilst chatting to my bandmates about our showmanship on stage.

Well worth it. In fact, I've heard people say it's worth the price of an iPad just to get the app. I use it to practice (at the moment) walking basslines over chord sequences of well known songs. Oscar Peterson's All Of Me is one of my favourites. Slip on the backing track, set the tempo at a nice pace and play along to the chord sequence on the screen. Easy peasy Plus as I converted to Android a couple of years ago we get all the different backing track styles included in the price (although it's a little more pricey than the iOS version).

Does anyone have any info on the state of the roads around Sherbourne due to the flooding?

I feel dirty now.

That was a pleasure to scroll through.

Welcome to Basschat Marco! So glad you've come on here to explain this to us and I hope you stay too and chat with all us lot. We're not a bad bunch I'm now still thinking of buying a CMD 121 P.

Hmm, I must clean my jazzes.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1392222082' post='2366147'] My home is my own domain, so the basses (and guitars) that I play most regularly are out on a variety of floor stands ready to be used. The ones that I don't currently play are stored in their cases. [/quote] Ditto.

I never knew Sir T played bass! He's my favourite author and now a new bass hero That song does indeed rock \m/

No need to apologies, this is all helping. That video is good. It was an eye-opener for me to see just how low the volumes were on all of the tracks. I've been trying to get mine all as high as I can without clipping. Then when he showed the master track at the beginning clipping badly I thought, that's just like most of mine. And what have I been doing? I've just chucked a limiter on there and... well yuk. A question though. Any idea why he's using a trim plugin and not just pulling the faders down? Or do they not do the same thing?

Precision players please note Simon Pegg's thoughts too: "Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning." (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/simonpegg260440.html) yukyukyuk!

Also, the waveform for the bass track from that song which probably shows I'm recording too loud? [attachment=155074:waveformbass.jpg]

Some brilliant advice, thanks everyone. I know where I'm going wrong. I'm plugging my bass into my Guitar Rig Session interface and turning up the input gain until it's just below clipping. In Reaper, I'm recording at around -3 to -1db. (I record mainly with passive basses so I'm pretty much always using the instrument in not the line in.) I usually start a track with drums from EZDrummer. If I go for a high velocity on the midi files the drum sound, without any EQ or compression can play back at around -0.5db. So this is what I'm trying to match my input signal to when I'm recording my bass. So this is obviously too high and I need to be pulling down the sliders on that drum track to allow me to record the bass at the -12 to -16db that's being recommended. Gain staging is something that I've not been doing at all. I record quite high and shove t-racks on the master channel to get it to around the same loudness as what I can hear from commercial MP3s on my PC. I need to do more homework about the various staging of "volume" (i.e. gain staging, what level to have my sliders in Reaper, when to and how to increase the overall volume at the end so it's as loud as a nicely done commercial release). This is what the mixer window looks like for this track which may give an indication to what I'm doing wrong (or right?!): [url="https://soundcloud.com/beautiful-skin/beautiful-skin"]https://soundcloud.c.../beautiful-skin[/url] [attachment=155073:mix.jpg]

Cheers MoJoke, it'll be good to get a feel for the size and weight of the 15" (I've seen a 12" one). I'm a little concerned that they're still the same price, yet cheaply made in Indonesia and are heavier now apparently. That kinda puts me off (see the MarkBass made in Indonesia thread). Hopefully you have some good news I'll be bringing my Yamaha TRBX 504 - you all need to try one of these beauties! I'll also be bringing my Rockbass Corvette and Dean Hillsboro Single and Zoom B9 for sale. (I paid my donation to sell on here.)

I call bullshit. Take Overwater as an example. Base price for a British made Jazz: from £2245 RRP for a Chinese made-by-Tanglewood Classic J: £399 Quality difference? From the 3-4 people I've chatted to who have owned both, not much. Certainly not the best part of two grand's worth. That's the difference between manufacturing in Europe and manufacturing in the far east - the end price. I'm in the process of selling some bases and my Ashdown rig so that I can buy a MarkBass CMD 121P but not if I'm getting screwed over with a cheaply-made far eastern one, no matter how many times they have to retest them. If they're making them cheaper, I want them cheaper. I'm happy to pay a few hundred quid for a Tanglewater. I'd be most upset of Overwater started charging £2000 for one of those. As would most people.