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Ive always loved the idea of three jazz pickups, i remember as a kid in the late 80's seeing an advert for a squire HM jazz bass which had three jazz pickups and a 5 way strat style selector i thought it was really cool. if the big al pickups were available on a sterling body i'd be drooling OH!! and of course the fender urge with a J/P/J setup now i'd love to try one of those, sadly discontinued!!

Thanks for that mate,they might be worth a try i do manage to get mr DR high beam B into the slot of my 2001 CR5FM but it is a squeeze.

If Spector,EBS. and DR strings would endorse me i'd be very happy to use them oh and possibly Ginsters pasties and banrock station

i must admit BASS#1 for me and i played a streamer lx for along time, #2 had a lot more bite, but i preferred 1 just goes to show it's all in the hands

Hi everyone just to mention i will be playing with my rock band "blind panic" and 4 other local rock bands at joshua brooks in manchester sunday march 27th, in aid of BEAT a charity helping the victims of eating disorders, there will be various kinds of rock to suit everybody. It would be fantastic to meet any basschatters there and have a beer and support this fine cause. cheers - Lee

Where you doing the show? i might pop along! ive been asked to play for this three times now and ive always been booked on somthing else a shame i'd love to play it, some really nice lines, mostly rock and roll and a lot of fun!! im jealous!!

Aye mate a long journey indeed!! you got there in the end though!! im still loving the spector it sounds fantastic, i doesn have the warmth of my smith though but the high end is there in spades the east pre does help the warm it up with a bit of treble cut and the bass boost is enormous, i do find IMO that EQ' ing a bass to make it warmer isnt the same as a naturally sounding warmth from the wood combinations (i try to use as little EQ as possibe, with the smith i didnt need any) it is quilted but the quilting isnt anywhere near as figured as your smith. Im not sure what the GN stands for but the MW stands for maple and walnut,as mine had a flamed maple centre block and core with a walnut top and back, the main diffrences between that and yours, is the MW is a bolt on neck and has a pau ferro fingerboard,while yours is neck through and has an ebony board, i think yours has a mahogany core and the quilt maple top, pickups and electronics are the same, yours i a much higher spec'd model, im not sure if ken still does the GN model, its a bloody killer bass though. Promise me you'll never be skint and have sell it (unless it's to me )

Congrats on the WAV derren, they are great instruments for the money, i had one for a while and loved it, but hardly used it, as i played a reading gig on it(i'd only had it three weeks as well) and my intonation was well off i lost my bottle after that and i relly regret selling it, i'll definately get another one (probably an NXT),keep gigging that beastie!!

Congratulations stewart, that is an absolutely stunning example, i absolutely adore ken smiths, and i will have a black tiger 5 one day, when i had my BSR5 MW it worked really well with my EBS HD350 and accugroove cabs as the heads high end worked well with the smiths warmth, and the cabs are very natural sounding, whenever i used mine, i always got compliments on the sound, it's not for everybody but for me its perfect. i set up a smith thread in the gear porn section, get some more pics for us to drool over really glad your dream came true, actually your little story has really cheered me up today- cheers mate

It looks almost olympic white in the pics, i do love sonic blue on a jazz!

[quote name='silddx' post='1146624' date='Mar 2 2011, 12:16 AM']I tell you what lads, it feels like sitting in front of a roaring log fire you built yourself from cherry wood, sipping a glass of the finest warm, rich and smoky single malt, and telling your queen you caught a 68lb common carp of the Donald Leney strain from Redmire Pool today, while she smiles at you with deep, lustrous shining eyes. That's what it feels like.[/quote] Do you know what! im happy for you thats got to be the best description of a bass tone feeling ever, and listening to your clips it does sound gorgeous!! i'll hopefully be putting an east pre and black beauties on my JV jazz next month. Many congratulations- does this mean an end to GAS

[quote name='J.R.Bass' post='1144322' date='Feb 28 2011, 11:45 AM']Trust it to be the weekend when i'm gigging at home!! If i'm back in time i'll definitely come along.[/quote] Would be great to see you