Linus27

I'm a big Chorus and Flanger user. Which Flanger did you get?

I've personally never noticed any difference between different bridges. I've had Fender Precision's with a High Mass Bridge, standard bridges and ever the '51 design bridges and never noticed any difference whatsoever in sustain, playability or tone between any of them. The only difference tonally is the pickups where a '51 P-Bass sounded like a '51 P-Pass, a '72 Humbucker Telebass sounded like a Humbucker Telebass and a split coil P-Bass sounded like split coil P-Bass. In fact the best sounding Precision I have ever had is my Mexican Fender FSR 70's Precision which has a standard bridge and has sustain for days. Even our singer has commented on it. Its why its my main recording bass but I am sure that's more down to the 62 Custom Shop pickups and the Ash body.

That's pretty much why I bought one. I don't actually have a fretted bass, only fretless basses these days and don't play in a band that requires a fretted bass but useful to have one just in case.

I know, its stunning right and I quite like the Surf Green colour. The yellow that will also be available is quite nice but the green is just tipping it for me.

Not even close but then again, I just like collecting basses and trying new stuff so these are on my hit list, along with one or two fretless basses that a fellow BC member has. Soon to be released Fender Vintera II Telecaster bass. Fender Japan 51RI Precision Bass Fender Japan 57RI Precision bass Fender Japan 62RI Fretless Jazz Bass Ibanez Musician Fretless Bugera Veyron 1000T but just because I've heard great things about them.

I think £250 for a 40th Anniversary Squire Precision or Jazz that sounds and plays amazing and has had positive reviews from owners and the press can't really be sniffed at. Not much out there that's better at this price £250.

This is easy, it would 99% be Madonna 'Like and Virgin' and Madonna 'Madonna'.

You can buy mine in 10 years, I'll sell it to you for £999 🤣

I said it so many times but happy to get back on my soap box and have another rant in the hope that Fender might listen so here goes. Fender to make an unlined Fretless Jazz and Precision that isn't a signature model. Even if it's a Japanese or FSR model but a US standard would also be very welcome. Even better if the Precision was a 70's re-issue with the option of a rosewood or maple unlined fretless neck like the original fretless Precision they originally released. Just an unlined neck on a standard Jazz or Precision please, Japanese, FSR or US standard. The Franklin Precision is very nice as is the Pastorious Jazz but I don't want to be a Tony or a Jaco or want to spend that amount of money with someone elses name on my bass. Yes you offer other fretless basses but they all have lined necks which is great but give us unlined players an option without having to spend copious amounts of money on a bass called Tony. While I'm at it, Ampeg to make an updated, lighter version of their excellent PF500/800 range of amp heads.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of impact from this. These basses do seem readily available which is a surprise considering the buzz and positive reception/reviews about them. Plus, being a little special in the sense of being a 40th Anniversary Vintage Edition, you'd think they'd be snapped up by now. So I do suspect Fender over manufacturered and retailers have surplus stock.

Haha that crossed my mind as well

Although I don't mind the gold pickguard, I might try a black or red tort on it when it arrives.

Blimey, I was looking at these last month and it was £399, You can't sniff at £259 which includes free shipping so my order is in and confirmed. Big thanks for letting us know

Just to add that I read that that the Vintera II range is going to have an official launch of the 19th September. Fingers crossed, I have so much gas for the Telecaster bass

The quote says, The Lost Bass Project is appealing for information about what it describes as "the most important bass in history". Is it, is it the most important bass is history? Possibly although Jamerson's might have a strong case for that title despite being less well know, his might be the most important and McCartney's being the most famous.

For the LaBella Black Nylon I am using the 750N Light which is 50 - 105. For the LaBella Low Tension Flats, I am using LTF-4A 42-100.

I tend to move basses around a bit dependent on what type of band I play in. However, I do have one bass which is a keeper but that is because my dad bought it for me as my first bass, its been with me all through my musical career so is sentimental and has all my musical history in it. Plus its the best sounding Jazz bass I have ever played.

Strings are a difficult one for me as it depends on the bass. For my fretless Jazz I use LaBella Black Nylon which are fabulous and I've had a lot of compliments when I use this bass. For my main gigging bass which is a fretless Precision I use LaBella Low Tension flats. They sound awesome, really warm and balanced and again, I've had a fair amount of compliments. My other fretless Precision which I predominantly use for recording, writing and rehearsal's is strung with Rotosound 77 Jazz flats. These are probably my favourite sounding flats but do have the highest tension so tend to not gig with this bass. When I had my fretless Stringray, I struggled to find a string that I liked but when I switched to LaBella Black Nylon strings on it, the bass came alive and I never looked back. There are a few strings I'd like to to try at some point, a set of T.I's just because everyone raves about them so I wanna see what all the fuss is about and a set of Dunlop flats as per the other thread. They seem to be regarded quite highly. I did quite like Ernie Ball Cobolts but it was so hit and miss on getting a dud string that I went looking elsewhere and settled on LaBella's.

Just been looking at the One Control 360 pedal and it looks like I might be buying a new pedal. It looks really good 😁

I only play fretless these days and this is my board. I'm not totally finished with it yet but in terms of the pedals, I have the following. 1. Mooer Ambient A7 Reverb. Absolutely adore this pedal and it blows the TC Hall of Fame 2 that I previously had out the water. 2. Electro Harmonic Bass Clone Chorus. Really lovely chorus pedal which has the added benefit of having bass and treble controls. Previously had the TC Corona which I thought was awful and a Behringer Super Chorus which was good but noisy. 3. Boss OC-5 Octave. Simply the best. 4. Zoom MS60-B Multi-Effects. Not really using it much and still playing around with it but it does have some great patches. I'm more using it to play around with sounds to see if they work for me like flanger, compressor's, overdrive, amp sims etc. 5. TC Electronics Tuner. It's a tuner, it works and has never failed me. As for future pedals, for me, they have to enhance the sound of the fretless or create a nice subtle effect that's not too distracting so I'm considering a flanger, EBS Triple Envelope Filter and maybe a compressor and something like a Sansamp Bass Driver.

@Phil StarrI've just been reading your post about the LFSys Speakers that yourself, @stevie and @bussonetthebass were testing earlier in the year. As a fretless bassist who generally likes a very clean, warm and rounded tone, it has certainly got me very interested. I'm currently using a Barefaced Two10 with a Gnome 280w which I do really like or a MarkBass LM IV which has not grabbed me so much. I only use reverb, chorus and octave but its important that the sound stays clean and the octave especially keep the notes defined and doesn't go woolly or mushy. I play in a pretty busy acoustic three piece and we need to keep separation of frequencies between the acoustic guitar, vocals/vocal layers and then my bass. I play a lot of melodic fretless bass and need to maintain a very clear, defined sound whilst maintaining a full bass to fill that bottom end. At times I feel I don't always achieve this, especially with the octave pedal as it loses clarity. By pure chance, I used a Fender Rumble 500 at a festival the other week which I believe uses Celestion speakers and when I kicked my octave in, the sound was incredible. Even our singer mid sentence stopped singing, looked over at me and voiced "wow" at me and then kept doing it every time I used the octave pedal. He even left me and drummer to just groove at the end of one song with the octave pedal on as it sounded so good. So the LFYsys cabs sure look interesting and I'm assuming they are named after F1 circuits which as an F1 fan since 1979 who proposed to my wife on the grid at Monza, honeymoon'd at Monaco and driven Silverstone a few times spurs my interest a bit more 😁

This is super interesting, especially the point about if you like the 'au naturel' sound of your bass and how you have compared the EQ of the Elf, Gnome and Bam. I have the 280w Gnome and what you say the Gnome is flat, I actually find this to be too bass heavy for my liking and need to dial a bit of bass out. So my preference for a natural bass sound to my ears is different to the flat sound and how a coloured amp can complicate things even further.

That is such a great explanation.

My understanding is if you plug your bass direct into a power amp, you get a pure uncoloured tone and just the sound of your bass. You do however lack any controls to modulate the bass, mids and treble. If you plug into a bass amp, you are then restricted to the manufacturers pre-amp and the tone that they bring. So if you have an Ampeg amp, you get the Ampeg pre-amp colour, if you have a MarkBass amp then you get the MarkBass pre-amp colour and so on and so forth. Using a just a power amp, you get an uncoloured sound and then you can use the pre-amp of your choice to colour your sound, for example a MXR pre-amp, an Ampeg pre-amp, a Sansamp pre-amp and you are not limited to the colour of a pre-amp in a bass amp.

U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky. Totally blew me away the energy and rawness that the studio albums lacked although I still loved the studio albums.