Jean-Luc Pickguard

Goodbye Maggie — The Monroe Brothers

Tell Me My Lion Eyes Are Wrong — James Carr

My first bass amp was made by Ohm and was bought in about 1983 secondhand from ABC music along with a Laney 1x15" cab. I had a wave of nostalgia seeing a similar amp for sale on the cash converters website, however this one has a built-in compressor whereas I am certain that mine inexplicably had a built-in flanger instead of the compressor. I cannot remember the model number of the amp I owned, however I remember it looking very much like the GA140 in the listing. Does anyone else remember these amps? Was there a version with a flanger or am I misremembering?

(Language) Timothy — UFO

That Was The President — Phil Ochs

Lady Marmalade — LaBelle

Can't Stand The Pain — The Pretty Things

I don't know anything about their basses but I think when I was a Student in the early 80s, I used to eat their boil-in-th-bag curries.

Can you post pics of your control & pickup cavities and your wiring? Are you able to check that the shielding is continuous with a multimeter, also using the multimeter to check that everything in the loom that should be grounded is also continuous? I can post some info on how to do this, but if you prefer to be hands-off, take the bass back to your luthier and tell him it is still humming.

You could be disappointed if changing your pickup doesn't reduce the hum. Have you checked the circuit? If the output jack is wired up incorrectly this can cause untold amounts of hum. Also shielding the bass's cavities (and the back of the pickguard) using copper tape with conductive adhesive — often sold as anti-slug tape, can work wonders in reducing hum.

My Ding-a-ling — Dave Bartholomew

Angels With Dirty Faces — Sham 69

Robert Plank

Spinal Fap

Wet Peg

About 80% of what I play

Doggin' Around — Jackie Wilson

I've never seen this style of bridge, it isn't the most aesthetically pleasing piece of irnmongery I've seen. I do however remember the 1982 Fender Precision Bass Special Walnut looking like this, having seen them at the time:

Piece of Shih-t(zu) — Wet Leg

The Jack (Russell) — AC/DC

Caribou — Pixies

I like the idea of the mod shop, but the options for hardware etc were far too restrictive for me. I found that (re)building my bitzer precision around a fender replacement neck allowed me to put together an instrument that has my favourite components.