Jazz Bass 65

I tried the same, it was brand new and in my opinion due to the serious lack of tone variation it was at best a very expensive power amp nothing more, the midrange did virtualy nothing.

I've enjoyed my visits to Matamp, Jeff is straight up and very down to earth, If you want the real McCoy (Amps like Matt Mathias intended) then a visit to Matamp is the plce to go, they'll even tell [u][b]you[/b][/u] to put the kettle on.

Hi in the 70s when our band were contemplating upgrading our PA and instrument cabs I managed to get in the good books with a UK speaker producer who agreed to supply me with louspeakers at trade price for cash in hand. it was then that I realised just how much you paid for the wooden box that the speakers were loaded in. £499 GBP/750$USD for a very famous leading brand 4x10 loaded with 4 £9.50/15$USD. I started building my own and then for other people including a young Def Leppard (Geoff Allan father of Rik Allan comes to most of our gigs), below is a recent example of a cab that I built to go with an Orange amp

[quote name='Austin7' timestamp='1330722061' post='1562323'] ^ It would be my guess Paul chose the Hofner because it was cheaper, although I suppose other factors could have been involved. It's my understanding, though, that Hofners were pretty cheap at that time. Also, since he was in Germany anyway, that's were they could be bought the cheapest. [/quote] Hofners were generaly cheap starter guitars/basses the Violin bass was around £35 GBP around 55$ USD at the beginning of the 60s, in those days the problem was low wattage handling speakers, the best that you could get in the UK was the Goodmans Audiom 90 18" 50 watts.

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1325207992' post='1481069'] Ive heard stories of them being neck heavy, EB3s even more so - even the epiphone versions are sub £150 brand new nowadays. Ive never known why, seem a bargain to me. I fancied a new epiphone EB3 but having had a neck heavy telecaster bass once it put me off. Shame though, cool looking basses. [/quote] Out of nostalgia I bought and EPI EB3, just about everything about it was bad, neck dive bridge working its way out of the body, the controls were to most extent ineffectual and the finish was poor. Although early makers of Bass guitars they were mainly jumping on the 'Beat Boom' bandwagon with the SG shape series nobody cared about short scale length way back as 99% of playing took place much lower down the neck, a belated attempt to reduce the muddynes was made when they moved the neck pickup away from the end on the neck.

I fancied one but none of our stores had one for me to try.