SlapbassSteve

Things I would have given for a bass of that quality for that little money when I started playing(and this is only eight years ago mind!)... I remember even in 2006 the cheapest bass I could find was a Boston P copy for £60 which was totally unplayable until I taught myself how to level the frets with knife-sharpening oilstone I'd nicked from my Dad's shed. £87 for a bass like that? Brilliant!

Ibanez make some nice stuff. I had an dark red/purple Artcore bass in for a setup the other day and it was a stunner! Was amazed to see them for only £230 new on the internet, I'd have priced it much higher from the quality.

Sold a pedal to Diego last week, payment was received with no problems and I would be very happy to sell to him again!

Definitely keep the original pickups! I had one a while back and upgraded the pickups to something fancy and expensive, and it lost all it's character to the point of barely sounding like a jazz bass so much as just a fancy set of pups. To this day my main bass(upgraded squier jazz) has a pair of stock 2003-2008 MiM pups installed and sounds perfect. If you like how it sounds already, leave them as they are. Badass II/Gotoh 201(/203... whichever's the heftier one) is the only upgrade you'll ever need, for just a little extra heft... but again, if you're already happy you're better off leaving it alone for now

Can't go wrong with a pair of Mackie SRM450's

Wow, I always said I'd never sell mine, but if the Squier jazz I paid £150 for new about four years ago is now worth £1200 I'll have to reconsider. Anyone here fancy a trade for a Fender Am std jazz+cash my way?

I've no idea, but I had one for a few years and really regret selling it, was an absolute bargain. Lot of bass for the money as per with HB stuff

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I'd agree with this, looks like wateroftyne beat me to this point but I remember seeing a video ages ago of Geddy Lee playing a P-bass, with the caption along the lines of 'Geddy Lee doesn't need a jazz bass to get the Geddy Lee jazz bass sound'... in actual fact what it sounds like is Geddy Lee playing a P-bass. Likewise if he started using any other type of bass, it wouldn't sound just like GL, more like GL playing *bass X* through *amp Y* It's the same with Flea, compare a track off BSSM to a track from Californication and both sound just like Flea but one clearly sounds like him playing a Wal/Musicman and one would clearly sound like him playing a Jazz... etcetc

I think I'm pretty much there now, I've done my 10,000 hours and spent a fair bit on lessons too mind, and there are always things I'm interested in for trying to tweak the sound(next up: Sansamp VT because I love the SVT sound) but for the most part I can get the sound in my head on each of my basses through pretty much any amp or PA. Only exception is the U-BASS as it's new technology and there's been no huge pioneers with them yet like there was with the likes of James Jamerson or Jaco on the electric, so in my head I've no idea how I want it to sound, other than like it's me playing it...