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Seems straightforward to me. If you play with guitarists, who also bottom out on an E, you do not neet a lower tuning at all. If you play with keyboards, there [i][/i]might[i][/i] be a case to use BEAD. In my case, I play with two guitarists, so I have no need at all. And I don't want a 5/6/8/12/ *other insane number of strings* string bass.

DH, I tried it (Bassman) this morning again, and it was better behaved, though still noisy. The plan to let it dry out may be working. When you talk about the caps, one assumes you mean the big mains supply ones under the pressed cover on the outside of the chassis. These must be original, they are brown cardboard covered ones, and look like nothing I've seen made in the last 20 years. I don't think it's a hard job to renew them. The other plan is to change the valves. The preamp ones are possibly the ones in it when I got it in 1987. I don't know if the 6L6s in there have ever been changed, but the driver valve has changed in the last 15 years, there is a "Groove Tube" in there. Apart from that, get the damp out......

Watched the Led Zeppelin DVD this morning before work. Low and behold, two Acoustic 361s being used by JPJ at the 1970 Albert Hall gig! And at this time, I know that the bass (Page's guitar was) wasn't even miked up to the PA at all...... There is lots of stuff on that unofficial Acoustic website. The 361 actually only lasted from 1968 to 1972, and was replaced by the 371 rig, which had a more conventional head and passive cabinets, but these were still 1x18" folded horns. All the bands later in the 70's probaly used the 371, I'd have thought.

I've just got my Bassman 100 back after 15 years. It is a bit sick at the moment, having spent 10 years next to a tumble dryer. I'm going to have to dry the paper fibre tag boards out. The 135 was made after the 100, from 1978 to about '81. The 100 lasted from '72 to '78.

Cheers Balcro and all, I think a facsimilie of the cabinet is possible, by all means.

You'll be wanting a nice Fender Jazz next, won't you?

Anyone have general arrangement drawings of the 361's folded horn arrangement? Dimensions of the cab would be good, but at a guess it's probably 1200ish high, 650mm wide, and 500mm deep front to back? If I remember what I previously read correctly, the speaker is at the bottom, facing backwards and up into the horn chamber???? This is the sort of thing that gets built in the shed, just for the hell of it....

The Hartke question was just out of interest, really, and one wonders if they bothered to spec two different PSUs. As for the Fender Bassman, I have to say that the paper-fibre tag boards were not the shape I remember the last time I saw inside it 20 years ago. My friend, who has had custody of it for the last 15 years, has stored it in a garage next to a working tumble dryer for the last 10 years....I think it has got damp. I tried it at home, and it makes an alarming humming boom, the power valves glow blue and get hot. But it does just make a sound when an instrument is plugged in. I think I'll have to dry it out before trying again. Ta.

That was all very very interesting. I'm almost tempted to tear up to Derby myslf to get one of these old beasts..... The cabinet design hasn't really been used again in a bass rig (or has it?), but the function of the porting was to throw the sound out into an auditorium, but I guess they really became obsolete with the onset of better PAs. Interesting that Acoustic does exist again, and may reissue the 360/361.

I'm kind of amp oriented today, due to buying a new Hartke 3500 head, and getting my old Fender Bassman 100 head back tomorrow. Pastorious was fairly famous for using and Acoustic 360 preamp with at least one 361 powered speaker cab. I believe JP Jones also used used them with Led Zeppelin in the early 70's. It was a curious arrangement, with the 360 "head " being a preamp driving a power amp (200W I believe, quite high powered for the late 60's) in the 361 speaker cab. Very forward looking, indirectly, as powered speakers are very common these days for PA. I've never seen one out there. I have to presume some measure of rarity on this old rig?

Now, I have just nailed a Hartke HA3500 at a price well below the hikes filtering through at the minute. I'm more than sure it'll be loud enough anyway, but the rush in which I hit the buy it now button eliminated any consideration of the HA5500. I suspect that the 3500 and 5500 probably share a common PCB. That means I reckon that the only probable real difference is the number of MOSFET power transistors in the output section of the amp. Anybody out there able to confirm my thoughts, or even actually done such a mod to their amp? Apart from that, I'm also picking up from an old friend my Fender Bassman 100 head I bought 21 years ago, and sold to him 15 years ago for £70. I'm buying it back for £100(!) Only thing is, it's a bit sick, lots of noise when used. Resistors in preamp section?

I would love to be able to sound like Paul Kassoff (Free). And I love Malcolm Young's (AC/DC) rhythm playing. And Neil Young for both his acoustic and very eclectic electric work. Am I allowed three?

Here is one without looking too hard: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Bass-Black-Guitar-MIJ-Fender-Japan_W0QQitemZ230322056188QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item230322056188&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Precision-Bas...A1%7C240%3A1318[/url] and another [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squire-Precision-Bass-Made-in-Japan-By-Fender_W0QQitemZ130285389105QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item130285389105&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squire-Precision-Bas...A1%7C240%3A1318[/url]

QUOTE (teaser360 @ Feb 4 2009, 09:40 AM) <snip> no P**S taking im a new bass player and only started playing 18 months ago at the age of 43, see you can teach an old dog new tricks. thanks guys any help info would be appreciated I've been playing for 22 years since 16, and I am still crap! I suspect that there are plenty of 2nd hand Mexican Fender Precisions out there for the sort of money you want to pay, and if you are really lucky, you may be able to land a Japanese Fender P bass for less than £300. Mex are fine, I've had two(Jazz) , and had no real complaints. If you can find a Japanese one, or a Squier silver series(also Jap) cheap, buy it and run away before the vendor realises his error!

Well I always thought MIJs had the serial number at the base of the neck, not on the bolt-plate. It probably is an early one, the machine heads are the type with the elongated (winding button) shaft rather than the "shorter" gohto machine I am more familiar with on Japanese Fender basses. I'm a spotter!

Like all bass players should be, I am at all times most aware of the drummer. Likewise, he always complains most if he cannot hear the bass. Most of us know that bass/drums is in some ways the most intimate musical relationship in a pop/rock band. It is always a good feeling when the foundation we lay allows the guitars to do their stuff over it. After I joined this band, I knew my work was done when the (lead) guitarist (to whom the band belongs) said in conversation to other people that this was now the best line up he'd had, but couldn't put his finger on why.

Jazz bass or Precision bass! Plenty of Squires or 2nd hand Fender Mexicos out there. I play a Jazz in a Indy band, and if I were in a metal/hard rock band, I'd play... a Jazz

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='393852' date='Jan 28 2009, 05:28 PM']Perverts.[/quote] Spotters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

You'll probably find that as quality control measures waned in the later 60's and 70's, the workers just devised their own ad-hoc system to sign off finished work, instead of the date stamps that were formerly around. At the time it would have meant something to the operator concerned, and the next guy on the next process, but it is probably now of little value now, unless it is known that "PB" or "RS" only worked in neck finishing between Jan-August 1971 (for example). But, like many factories, personnel were probably moved around to cover sickness, leave, etc. Oh and I wish I was so privileged to take classic basses to bits! They were considered old cheap tat when I started playing in the 80s (sigh), a time when you couldn't give away a Gibson EB-3..........

Now I know a bit about this subject, and also an awful lot about 1st century AD Roman military equipment, but this is train spotting! Spotters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='390582' date='Jan 24 2009, 06:50 PM']Its not lime as in the fruit but lime as in those trees in cities that cover your car in sticky crud. And its pronounced like the fish which is an unending source of frustration.[/quote] I suppose you could make something out of citrous tree wood, but I was talking about the latter in the above! (i.e. not the fruit tree)

Top is a 2007 JB-62, currently fitted with USA standard pickups. Still looking for similar pickups to below, Bottom is my old MIJ Squire Silver series with a 2007 62 neck and US/Jap 62 reissue pickups fitted. This one sounds fabulous. This why I'm thinning down on the other Jazzes. Too many, and these do the job perfectly, even if they are basswood bodied (actually lime wood).

There is a Wikipedia page on it There was something in the original manufacture license/contract that said if the factory changed, Made in Japan would be substituted for Crafted in Japan for the new manufacturer.

If you read my letter in BGM in the issue with the female Subways bassist (Charlotte ----?) on the front, you will know I would only try what I would do in a band situation.......THUD THUD THUD Those who widdle and slap and pop incessantly on bass should be playing guitar?

His first bass made was the P-bass His 2nd being the Jazz Bass. That's right. Leo Fender got the the electric bass pretty much defined in 1950 with the Precision, then he fiddled with it a bit in 1957 to produce the one still made today, and then refined that in 59-60 to produce the near perfect Jazz! Oh and then the Musicman Stingray and the G&L L2000?