Jean-Luc Pickguard

I tried one (fretless) before getting my CR5M. If I had the money I'd have bought both. If you liked the CR4, but couldn't get on with the scale I think you'll probably love the OmniBass. I can't believe how much the prices have shot up since I got my CR5M.

[quote name='ficelles' post='1307373' date='Jul 18 2011, 02:34 AM']The best ever guy I saw on one of these was a support act for Kevin Bloody Wilson at the Hexagon in Reading some time in the 90s... forget his name but he was an American comic telling the bluest jokes you can imagine while not only riding a unicycle but at the same time juggling an axe, an egg, and a giant dildo. Had to be seen to be believed. ficelles[/quote] He was juggling an axe, an egg AND Jeff Berlin?

I use a guitar tuned like a banjo with no low E string - like Keef

Thanks for clearing that up. The dead spot stuff was a red herring, so clamping something to your headstock won't solve your problem. When you say you "messed around with the truss rod", do you mean you were following any directions on how to adjust it and understand the prinicples of what the truss rod does & how it does it? or were you giving it a tweak to see what happens? If the latter it is unlikely you'll be able to set the optimum amount of relief correctly and in that case it's worth letting someone more experience take a look. where are you based? perhaps there's a BCer local to you who foes his own setups who can have a look?

[quote name='henry norton' post='1302340' date='Jul 13 2011, 01:57 PM']Whoaahh!! Hold on before you go clamping overpriced weights to your headstock (or cheap G clamps for that matter). From the wording in your post it sounds like you're suffering from the string choking because of uneven or worn frets. There's a big difference between that and a tonal dead spot, which is actually quite rare and usually fairly subtle on an electric bass wherein the strings play ok apart from one or two positions when all the life and 'ring' seems to go out of the note. Bad fretting has only one proper cure, that's a proper levelling and set up. Genuine dead spots can be sorted by something as simple as a change of strings as it's to do with resonance but I wouldn't attempt any kind of cure 'til the bass was set up correctly.[/quote] Good points. It does sound as if the bass needs a setup - we all zoomed in on the words "dead spot", but that could well be a red herring as the sypical symptoms of a dead spot aren't mentioned. The OP doesn't mention setting the truss rod if the relief is incorrect, no amount of setting the height at the bridge will help and messing about with the intonation will only affect how out of tune it is over the neck.

My highway 1 jazz had a deadspot that sucked the life out of playing a C on the 5th fret of the G string. I have a fatfinger on it now & the deadspot disappeared. There is an easy way to try this in principle if you don't know anyone who can let you try a fatfinger and don't want to shell out for one before knowing if it'll help: Get down to the local poundshop and buy one of their sets of tiny cast-iron mini G-Clamps. Put some blu-tak/rubber/card/felt on the clamping surface to protect the bass and attach it to the headstock - It will work just like a fatfinger to shift the deadspot away from where you'll hear it. Of course the G-Clamp will look fugly & ridiculous, so once you've proved to yourself whether the science works or not, you can decide whether buy a fatfinger with confidence.

He should listen to some bauhaus / love & rockets - David J has his own sound.

[quote name='ped' post='1299850' date='Jul 11 2011, 01:01 PM']Ben mentioned something to me about a kernel issue or something[/quote]

****ing Liberty Basses Not sure if it was a model or a sub brand, but I think Liberty was a range of budget electric guitars & basses by tanglewood.

Never heard of this happening before - are you sure its the bridge actually bending? What kind of bridge its it? With a standard Fender BBoT or a copy, I'd imagine you'd need a ridiculous amount of string tension to bend it. Are the bridge screws good & tight & holding it on properly? If not, perhaps the screwholes need packing with the old toothpick & glue trick. Can you post a piccy of it?

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='1298230' date='Jul 9 2011, 02:05 PM']And note the Non-Standard bridge (can't see what it is) and some sort of switching- What do [b]2[/b] switches do on a precision? Series/parallel, maybe. What's the second? On/Off? [/quote] Looks like it *might* be a Badass It looks like its only got a single pickup, so apart from a series/parallel the only other thing I can think of that would use a switch would be some kind of a preamp.

[quote]RRP: £399.99 | SAVE: £160 Chase Price: £127.49[/quote] I wonder whether its the original price, the discount, or the selling price they've got wrong.

If you don't like the pickups on a squier, you can replace them & still be within budget. I wouldnt need to though as the tone when I tried the jaguar sounded great to my ears even with the stock strings

I know where I'm not wanted

I tried a squier Vintage Modified Jaguar short scale bass recently and I wouldn't hesitate to use one live (I usually use a Fender Mustang). You can pick one up for £190 which is fantastic value.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1295768' date='Jul 7 2011, 11:02 AM'][/quote]Nice! I bet I'm not the only one who this pic made an impact on back in the day...

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1295245' date='Jul 6 2011, 09:43 PM']After seeing Merton's post, it occurred to me that I really should bring my new stage bass ... 01. Silverfoxnik: Roscoe Beck V, BC Rich Eagle, Yamaha TRB5 with Norstrand p/ups and Auderre pre, Hughes & Kettner Bassbass 600 head & SWR Triad.. plus old Peavey Head and 1x15 for the Jamming Room (unless anyone has something else we can use that's better?) 02. EssentialTension: Fender Precision 62, Fender TF Fretless P, Lakland Decade, Mesa Walkabout 12. 03. Waynepunkdude : Arsenal shirt, Nick Cave underpants, Sunburst Musicman Sterling H and Ampeg SVT 2pro G&K Neo412 04. Clarky: Currently Ampeg Baby Bass, Acoustic Image/Euphonic Audio rig; By September, who knows (watch the FS forum) 05. Truckstop: MIM Fender Jazz V, pimped Kay 2B; Gem/Ampeg rig; some effects 06. Urb - either Sei Jazz or Singlecut - and maybe some pedals - possible Genz Shuttle 9 07. dc2009 - Warwick CS Corvette $$ 5, Epi TB Vs (Reverse and non-reverse), my Dean if anyone actually wants a go, Trace Head, Marshall cab (heavy and big), various pedals. 08.Shockwave - Pedulla MVP5 Mean Green machine. 09. Sibob - '71 Precision, '73 Jazz, MIA Jazz 5 if there's interest, Barefaced Compact, Orange Terror, Pedal-board if there's interest. 10. MacDaddy - Custom Shuker & Hamer Blitz or Iceni custom. 11. Essexbasscat Roadworn somethingorother + Gs112. Amp - not sure which one yet 12. Plux - Berg HT210 & HT115 Hartke LH500 Ibanez BTB 13. 51m0n - Berg ae410, MB, Focusrite and Roscoe 14.seashell - MIM Fender Precision + some sort of Marshall practice amp (I'll look it up tonight) 15.Barneyg42- Some secondhand tat bought over the years! 16.Happy Jack - Double bass of some description + Status Graphite Streamline 5 17.silddx - Hohner B2ADB Headless Boat Paddle / Home Built Chris Squire Electra Evolution 18.TomKent - Fodera NYC Empire 5, Fender Jazz 4, Vintage Stingray 5, Fender P 4 Fretless, Fender P Fretted, Krampera KVB800 Rig, some pedals too.. 19. obbm - Shuker PJ5, ACG headless 5, Aguilar SL112, Ashdown LB, GK Microstack. 20.ped - Vigier Passion bass, BC T shirts 21. Merton - Stasusey basses of some sort, Eden WT550/GK MB200 and Barefaced Vintage (who's at 19???) 22. Jean-Luc Pickguard - NS-Design CR5M, Ashbory 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.[/quote]

[quote name='fender73' post='1294744' date='Jul 6 2011, 01:58 PM']Nice - i like both colours - Have they made them specially heavy too? [/quote] I don't think they can still get the same kind of ash that was used on my '81 precision, so I expect the bodies for these will be made from concrete with blocks of lead to make up the weight.

The tweeter went in the MAG 210 deep cab I used to have* Suddenly I smelt something burning and a lot of the treble dropped off - Ashdown sent me a replacement for £18 delivered which was simple to fit (I think it may have required a bit of soldering rather than being a quick screwdriver job). I noticed the new one had a big resister already soldered in parallel which the old one didn't have. [size=1]*it was my own fault - I was channeling John Enwhistle rehearsing our cover of substitute and went a bit mad with the volume, distortion & treble.[/size]

I've not been able to make it to a bass bash so far, but hopefully I'll be able to make this one - especially if the 'no slapping' rule is going to be enforced Not sure what I could bring that might be interesting? I'm sure my rig is pretty standard - LMII & 1212L [list] [*]might bring one or two of these: [*]Danelectro Longhorn (original Korean RI version) [*]Fender Ashbory with Pahoehoe polyurethane strings [*]NS CR5M EUB [*]'81 cherry sunburst precison with EMG p/up [*]Ebony boarded Fretless Precision (Bitzer) [*]Epiphone Pro-V Thunderbird [*]CIJ mustang [*]'72 musicmaster [*]Tanglewood rosewood reserve acoustic bass [/list]

I'd go for a good old PJ combo. My fretless only has a P & that has plenty of mwahh for my taste, but the bridge J seems to be the classic mwahh pickup.

why a whammy? I can slide my finger up & down a string on my fretless for similar results

I've now deleted all nekkid Beyonce pics I posted. Hope everyone enjoyed them while they were there

The pine thing is interesting - I s'pose it has to be a different type of pine to the soft knotty stuff used to make argos bunk beds. Isn't agathis classified as a type of pine? that's fine for instruments, so maybe this is something similar.