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[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1361983867' post='1994048'] Is this a pilot that Jerry Peek is playing? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcn5QsHCi_4[/media] [/quote] yep, he's playing a 1984 with emgs and optional available kahler bass trem. guild dropped the pickuguards one year later. I had one of these early maple neck pilots in red and it was great. sold it to finance my sei jazz 5 though.

any more thoughts?

thanks so far. if microphone, then which one? I'd like to have a little mobility, too, so a solution with a clip or some adhesives (I've seen something like this on some nylon guitars) would be good?

nobody?

hi gang, I recently was able to score a '82 EKO B.A/4 fretless acoustic that sounds really nice and is a joy to play. unfortunately it doesn't have a pickup. Does somebody know a good pickup system for an acoustic Bass? Since I already own some preamps - also a L.R. Baggs Para DI, I was thinking that maybe the K&K pure bass might be a good choice? thanks for any suggestions!

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1361136205' post='1981758'] From what i've seen on the internet i don't think it's far off what these go for. I often look on a Guild forum (i have a Guild Pilot) and these JS-2 basses have been advertised in the U.S. for $1500. Whether they get that much of course i don't know. There are two Jetstar JS-2 basses advertised by UK dealers at the moment for £1100 and £1500 so the one on ebay doesn't seem overpriced. [/quote] since I am a moderator on [url="http://www.letstalkguild.com"]www.letstalkguild.com[/url] my suggestion is US$ 800-900 for a good js even with acorns is more realistic, but of course you have to be patient.

anyway the one on ebay is too expensive. there also was a longscale version of the js available, but if also with the acorns I don't know. it was the equivalent to the gibson eb (right?) series, also available as guitars (equivalent to gibson sg) but the guild humbuckers are superior to the muddy gibson pickups, infact justin meldal johnson prefers them to the later dark stars made by frank hammon - he plays a starfire bass reissue from the 90ies woth these humbuckers. unfortunately the longscale version usually had a neck dive, if I remember right.

I confess, I am a gearstalker. I love gear and love to know what you can do with each toy, so I always take a look on the gear of other musicians.

great shep, you even manage to get better everytime. thanks a lot for the insight. cheers.

for me a bassist is a good player if he improves the music he is performing with his style. it is all about music, not only about chops, not only about scales, not only about theory, not only about perfection. it is just this little thing to add done with the right energy that makes you love that piece of music you listen to.

I don't have 1 main bass but 4.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1360510180' post='1971423'] Very interesting what you've done to your Pilot. If it works for you and does the job then that's excellent and worth the trouble. I have a 1984 Guild Pilot and although i have more expensive basses it is probably the nicest to play. They are still amazing value for money. [/quote] jep, the pilots are great basses. I have sold my 1984 and 1993 5er pilots to finance some custom basses though. but the fretless will stay.

[quote name='BassBod' timestamp='1360492726' post='1971070'] That sounds great to me...I don't hear much struggling! I've always enjoyed the EMG sound on fretless, but it can be "generic" and not very personal. Never played a Pilot (or a Guild even) but now I'll have to try one out if I ever see one for sale locally. Thanks for the review [/quote] Thank you BassBod, you are too kind!

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1360458045' post='1970886'] Basically, it comes down to various things imho. What amp have you at the moment? What do the band think of it? Is it portable enough? Has it got enough features for your re quirements( ie have you out grown it?) When I started out, I was more focused on what bass I should have. My previous amps were either bought off friends , or bulky things bought from Loot magazine . These were fine when I played the odd birthday gig. However, when I joined a band with a view to play regularly , I was told by Mr. Guitar , that my Alligator drum amp(which was ok for bass also) was not suitable and I should get a proper bass amp. I did this, and eventually ended up with my Aguilar head and cab. I was thinking of keeping this , just lik e. a guitarist sticks with Marshall or whatever. Having said that, I do w onder if I should. stick to studio monitors and sell this as I am no longe r in a band. [/quote] what you should do is to get rid of the spaces.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1360454784' post='1970853'] The original Pilot basses were extremely under-rated. Superb value instruments! [/quote] yep, so true. my fretless is the 2nd last Guild Bass of 4 I had. I only sold the 2 other pilots (1 1984 and a 5-string) to be able to pay for some custom instruments. Pilots are some of the best used basses you can get for small money. But what can I say, for a while I owned 9 guild guitars and basses and only one other bass, now there are still 4 guild guitars and 2 basses left and hopefully will never leave.

short answer. you can't have too much of anything if you know how to use it.

SInce my Pianist said that he really wants me to play fretless more often after I had taken my old Guild Pilot fretless to a rehearsal of my still new Jazz Trio, I took the plunge. I never liked the original EMG pickups much because of the bad tone blend and the somehow compressed tone that they produced which never showed the liveliness of the bass when played dry. I love the Nordstrand NJ4SE in my Frankenjazz but didn't want the typical "jaco" sound at all and after an intense research and great consulting of Adrian Smith from Nordstrand, I bit the bulled and ordered a BigSplit-4 for the bridge and a NP-4 for the neck position. I had my trusted luthier install them with passive Vol-Vol-Tone controls. Now, what can I say, I made everything right. Not only does this new bass now show even more of my unabilites in fretless playing, but it also rewards me with all the great nuances in tone and articulation that I was missing with the EMG's. Finally this fantastic playing bass also delivers all the great tones I ever wanted, I' am very happy. but decide yourself... some pics - before: ...and after: ...and yes, the P-Pickup is not in the correct position under the strings, but I didn't want more woodwork to be done on the bass. After listening and testing very precisely for a while I don't hear any disadvantage in sound, so this will stay. [url="http://snd.sc/WWrQw2"]HERE[/url] you can decide for yourself if you like the sound (with almost 2 years old Thomastik Flats, which even seem to become better with age). I love it!

I just recently picked up my fretless more often in my trio and I love it, too.

guild pilot 4-string. most underrated high quality basses ever.

I would love to play more gigs where I'd need more than my 1x12". But I don't see I'd ever need more cabs.

For a while I used an aguilar tonehammer pedal with a db opera lyric 212 (12" with tweeter, 220W) for rehearsals and gigs with a small choir and semi acoustic band (cajon, no drums) it worked, but never was really good. I with the others on the lacking bass. plus: usually the tweeter on a pa-cab is not seperately adjustable, so you will always hear unnecessary noise from it.

welcome andy. and let's not forget LeFay and that Martin Peterson is from Germany, too!