Kiwi

It's not behaviour I would expect to see! Question is...is it you or is it us? If it's us, I'd expect to see more than just one member having issues but that isn't necessarily cut and dried. Do you get the same thing happening with different browsers?

A national chain of music shops.

He's already got a career in hospitality - competitive BBQ-ing. https://www.youtube.com/user/bigpoppasmokers

Sort of - I definitely have regrets from not buying a bass when I had a chance to. I played a plain looking Celinder J Update 5 in the Bass Gallery back in 2009 I think it must have been. A time when I was selling off quite a few bits and pieces in preparation to emigrate. The asking price was 2250 quid and it was the jazz bass I had been hearing in my head. Full, snarly, crisp and it played like liquid Jesus butter. I've never played a jazz bass like it since. The only other time I had that experience was playing a Spector NS5CR owned at the time by a BC member who no longer posts on here. It was at a bassbash and I made a mental note to myself to grab it if it ever came up for sale. It did come up for sale and I missed it. Then it passed hands one more time and then came up for sale a third time and I jumped on it. It's been with Mr Shuker for a while to get a slight neck warp sorted but that was my main bass...ironically ever since I stopped gigging. The last one is Dood's Shuker 6 string headless. We compared his and mine at the LBGS one time - maybe in 2013 or maybe 2009. I can't recall. I remember humming and aaaahing over the spec, wanting something like my Smith but with a little more midrange. On paper, the spec was right but my bass never quite got there tonally. It's a fine sounding instrument but very piano sounding rather than snarly in the mids. I tried Dood's though and it was everything I'd been looking for. How much simpler my life could have been if I'd just asked Jon to copy Dood's spec...but it's not for sale so not totally relevant.

But it's a one piece top, isn't it?

Ironically, they probably did the original finish to the bass. Martin used them up until he switched to Simms.

Sei make the best wooden necks in the business IMO. And the flame maple/wenge necks sound particularly nice. I was sorely tempted by a black four in a similar spec many years ago. Seems like yours has a couple of body cracks though?!

@ped can probably advise.

Vox do a model called the HDC77 which is similar: GC is safe BTW, I've used three browsers to access GC and they've all been fine. Feel free to ignore the warnings. I'm looking forward to seeing how you approach the carved top. Gibson use laminates which are vacuum glued into shape over a mould.

So much this. It's my experience of using samples generally. The amount of time that auditioning hundreds to find one that makes you go 'ooh'.

It's a direct consequence of two things: 1) The neck is made from very stiff maple...possibly too stiff (it happens). 2) The neck pocket may also be well designed, making for an overall rigid and vibrant structure 3) The maple body may be too dense I'd put money on it probably being number three given the other aspects can be applied to other Fender Jazz basses which don't have the issues you describe. Using maple isn't always bad but it's very variable and for the cheaper models manufacturers will be less discerning in the wood they use. I have an all maple Spector and a strat with a maple body and both are fine instruments. But they use soft maple, not rock maple. Here are some suggestions: 1) If you don't need to slap, try half wound strings. 2) You could try putting a veneer of softer wood like mahogany under the bridge. This will loosen the acoustic coupling between the strings and instrument, making it less efficient at transferring (dampening) higher and lower frequencies. You'll need to adjust the string height to compensate for the raised bridge so if you like super low action it might not be feasible. 3) You could replace the bridge with something more vintage in design, for example bent steel rather than cast for example. The lower mass will transmit string energy less efficiently. 4) You could also install Bartolini 'darker' flavoured pickups and use a SWR SM400 amp to sweeten things up a bit (this combo is great with bright graphite necks in my experience).

Love it, particulary the singer - is that you as well? Or is it Rod Stewart...? Hmmmmm.

It's on reverb too, speaking of which did anyone spot this sacrilege? https://reverb.com/item/40657110-1985-yamaha-japan-bb-5000-5-string-neckthrough-broad-bass-w-emg-s-black?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=40657110

Yeah I know. BUT it's a great dance track and I'm surprised it took them so long to do one. In some ways I think they missed their calling in the noughties, more tracks like this this could have kept them relevant. However, admittedly, it's not exactly had the music press raving.

I wish Symantec was easier to uninstall than it is. In some cases, you need to download a special tool from an independent supplier to free the PC from the clutches of it's code. A bit like a virus. Kaspersky is leagues better.

Danelectro FAB Tone. It's a guitar pedal but it has one of the rawest, hottest, tightest distortions for bass I've ever heard. No muddiness at all.

Mostly wood plus bridge single coil pickup. The bass is almost entirely made from mahogany and I believe the fingerboard is some kind of composite or resin unless that's one of the originals, in which case it'll be rosewood. The single coil pickup adds some focus.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/301864544359 Fender have been offering the chrome on brass scratchplate for quite some time.

I deleted my post as I hadn't read earlier comments. Sorry.

We still do, mainly because they were fantastic value

Thanks guys, I have a couple of fEARless F112 cabs that do the trick and am pretty happy with them so far although they're not as light as the Barefaced equivalents.

I've not owned one but I've played through a couple. The light weight is a revelation. I'm not convinced on the cabs being transparent tonally, I can hear differences in the high end but Alex definitely maximises efficiency and the tonal differences between BF cabs and alternatives are not going to add up to much in the on stage mix. I don't own one because Alex has never been keen on tilt back cabs. I like tilt back because it helps to avoid most of my monitoring blasting past my knees.