Bassman Steve

Much obliged Beedster, I didn't feel able to use the words I actually meant so thanks for correcting me. :-)

I'm one of those daft individuals who is happy to cart around a Bass 400 (or 400+) and accept it as a price worth paying but I fairly recently bought an Ampeg PF500 (and matching 1x15) and have been more than happy to use that for recording or gigs where the Boogie rig is too big (physically).

500 quid?? A man with a sense of humour at least.

[quote name='rubis' timestamp='1348911235' post='1819650'] I bet he's got a tiny todger [/quote] Note to self - must get that Ashbory rubber string bass. :-)

Gosh, thanks for the compliment - very grateful for a valued opinion from one of my peers. Mind you, you were subjected to the full effects of two very nice 15" EV's in that Boogie rig.

I use the 1x15 cab you mention and the amount of thump out of it amazed me. So much depth and clarity.

I should add that I think I did very well on the auction as the finish time was a bit strange (to the UK) and so I had little competition from here.

I have one too - wonderful bass. I think the stock item has some issues with the pre amp for the piezo pick-up in the bridge but most have probably been upgraded by now. Great combination of sounds from the Lace Sensor and piezo pick-ups too. I paid about £500 for mine from E-bay (came from Japan).

It's no lightweight but I first played through a Boogie Diesel 2x15 in 1989 and have not used anything else since - and nothing has ever sounded like it (to me)

Rick, you're making me feel dreadful. I want you to post nothing until it's finished, then just one small picture and never mention it again!! :-) If I knew how to do it (or had the equipment) I'd measure whatever you measure on pick-ups and give you the readings for the genuine slab pick-up I have in my bass. If you would really find it helpful, tell me what I need to do and I'll try and get it done. That would settle the pick-up question for certain.

+1 for the PF500 and 1x15. I have been slightly wary, given the numerous doubts over reliability, but mine is great and the sound is terrific - loads of bottom end.

All this talk makes me want my one back now :-( Mind you, it's got a Seymour Duncan Quarterpounder in it!!!

Very interested in this project, as a previous owner of one of these (would love to have recorded the serial number to see if it's on your list). Are there 2 at V'n'R now or are those the most recent 'sightings'? Steve

I have been down that route and tend to agree. The days of investment are gone I reckon, instruments are just too heavily priced for there to any room for inflation. A mint condition instrument will always be more valuable and a stack-knob Jazz will always command more than a Precision of the same year etc. My advice (FWIW) is find an instrument you like and buy that. Play it and enjoy it and eventually sell it for maybe a little more than you paid but remember you've enjoyed playing it for the time you have it.

Good spot! It does rather doesn't it?

Just managed to fit the Bass Doc red tort plate to my 'wreck' bass. So now it looks like this (see pics). Much better than the white guard it had before.

Howard made me a 70's pattern red tort scratchplate for a '73 P-bass and it's a dead ringer for the real thing. I genuinely didn't think it could be done but I am stunned at the quality and Howard has been very communicative and a pleasure to do business with. The price was exceptional and was less than inferior products out there. Howard, please retire immediately or I think you'll end up bankrupting me!! Steve

Did I not read somewhere that Hendrix actually used Marshall bass 4x12's? Maybe you need to turn your idea on its head and look at bass 4x12 territory.

RW's a god if only for that wonderful Mastermind when he interrupts Ian Lavender giving his name (Youtube it if you don't know what I mean). Have all the named albums too - an absolute musical genius.

My main gigging basses are the 3 older P-basses (66, 71 and 73) so a little over the grand mark. Purely because they're the most comfortable (old slippers and all that). That said, I have also gigged the other basses and have sold some very nice earlier basses precisely because I didn't gig them.

Just bought a Y box from Tim. Paid Wednesday evening, parcel turned up on Friday -couldn't have been any quicker. Nuclear prrof packaging too. Thanks Tim, pleasure doing biz. Steve

Just to add to the older thread - both basses were sunburst and he had both stripped. I rememberf seeing the band at Portsmouth Guildhall on their first tour and thought the two sunburst basses was the coolest sight on the planet. Probably the actual reason I take two sunburst basses with me to gigs - rather than the spare 'in case' excuse I tell other people who ask!!