Jean-Luc Pickguard

I used to use two cabs with an ashdown Mag300, but I wanted something smaller & more convenient. Now my Schroeder 1212L and Markbass LMII are loud enough that I can be 'too loud' for any pub gig if I wanted to.

Not bad for a rig I can carry with my bass from the carpark to the stage in one trip.

[quote name='BottomE' post='1186364' date='Apr 3 2011, 12:37 AM']For blues just think sad funk [/quote]
Careful - it could go a bit Jamiroquai with that advice

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' post='1185635' date='Apr 2 2011, 10:41 AM']The Brandoni kits sound interesting, is that the original neck?[/quote]

Yep - I went to the warehouse & picked out the sunburst body & finished fretless neck with ebony board - there was an upcharge for this of course.

I didn't use all of the hardware that came with it as I had some Fender Hardware & eventually upgraded to hipshot lollypop tuners. The stock pickup I got as part of the kit appears to be a Kent Armstrong Alnico one - or something very similar which sounds very nice indeed. I was going to chuck in an 80s EMG, but liked the passive one so much and couldn't be bothered to route the body for a battery that I used the standard one.

My Tele was made using all the standard bits - although I paid a few extra quid to get a lacquered neck. I dyed & Danish Oiled the body. I can't post a pic as its out on extended loan to a mate who seems to like it a lot.

Brandoni's Fender style bodies & Necks were all Japanese-made when I bought mine (I can't tell the difference between the sunburst body of my fretless & the one on my 1990 MIJ '62RI Fender P except for the grain pattern). Not sure whether they are still selling MIJ ones, but my impression was that they had a huge number in stock.

The best quality I've found for an affordable self build is:
[url="http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/kits.asp"]http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/kits.asp[/url]

I've built a fretless P bass & tele guitar - both are comparable to my MIJ Fender Precision & tele in quality.

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reminds me of my old crate powerblock.

Could have been a fake - there was one on ebay a while ago.

Six Days on the Road - Flying Burrito Brothers / Taj Mahal
The Weight - The Band
Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Big River - Johnny Cash
Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash / The Band / Nick Cave
Baby, Let’s Play House - Elvis Presley
All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan / Jimi
Under My Thumb - Rolling Stones
From a Buick 6 - Bob Dylan
Gone Gone Gone - o5b original
I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan
Stir It  Up - Bob Marley
Knocking on Heavens Door - Bob Dylan
Ophelia - o5b Original (not the Band song of the same name)
Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
Let’s Work Together - Canned Heat

Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones
Man Of Constant Sorrow - from 'O Brother Where Art Thou'
Your Cheatin’ Heart - Hank Williams
Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
You Ain’t Going Nowhere - Bob Dylan & the Band
The Joker - Steve Miller Band
Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash
If I Lose - The Band / The Stanley Brothers
Move It On Over - Hank Williams
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Woody Guthrie
Cry Cry Cry - Johnny Cash
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Get out of Denver - Bob Seger
I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller / The Clash
Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
All Over Now - Bobby Womack / Stones
Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash

Definitely a bassballs. I used to get the exact same sound out of mine. Unlike David J I never found a use for it as its an really stupid and annoying sound.

I don't normally take a second bass, but in the rare occasions I do it's usually an ashbory as it weighs nothing and takes up no room in the car.

I don't play my '81 Precision much as it is made of lead cunningy disgused as ash, but I wouldn't part with it as to raise the money for it I had to endure a summer of working in bejams between leaving school and furthering my studies. The other one I wouldn't part with is my CIJ mustang. It only cost £300, but when I first got it I took it to the Gallery for to have the frets levelled, so now it plays wonderfully with TI324s.

Let the breadheads take a bigger share, but charge them a fee for every lead your website generates.

I really miss seeing bands who look like this

Perhaps a bitzer someone put together?

I want the daphne blue mustang on the product info page, but without the stupid squashed slug things.

They were [b]much[/b] better with John Fogerty before they shortened their name.

When I had weekly jazz bass classes I'd left my bass [b]on its side[/b] at the front of the class so the tutor could use it (he only had an electric plank with him that day). Some idiot of a girl hadn't noticed this blummin' great piece of wood on the floor & tripped over the endpin causing it to resemble a giant game of spin the bottle. The bass was alright, but I use a bass stand these days.

Double denim or whenever possible, triple denim

Are they all Rock mags? No Jazz Mags?

If the rest of them were any good, wouldn't the band have been gigging or at least playing at open mic/jam nights rather than rehearsing for er... nothing? They sound like a bunch of idiots. Don't give up bassing, get into another band or form your own. I'd recommend getting to a few local jam nights.

Its definitely worth learning to do a good basic setup. Especially if you have basses where the neck shifts at the onset of Summer & winter.

The only time I had that problem was when the nail on the index finger had been cut but the middle hadn't.

Absolutely bonkers - love it!

Shame I have no money

I put an EMG in one of my precisions in the mid 80s, but took it out as it sounded a bit characterless and muffled almost as if there was a compressor killing all the attack and dynamics. I put it back in a few years ago after reading that they can take more than a single 9v battery. Powered by 18v it sounds transparent and almost like a passive pickup but bigger,. Its worth trying the double battery trick - you can make a harness from 3x9v battery snap-clips for mere pennies from Maplin. I found that I couldn't actually fit two of the usual 9v batteries in my precision and I didn't want to route it out at all, so I stuffed a load of button cells (obtained by opening up a couple of 12v car alarm 'plipper' batteries) into an AAA holder and soldered on a snap-clip.

I wonder when the thread starter is going to edit the original post and change the thread title to "cock size"?

...Mine's twelve inches, but I don't use it as a rule.

[quote name='Count Bassy' post='1143278' date='Feb 27 2011, 01:31 PM']I think it's great. Personally I find this sort of thing a welcome relief from todays over produced, over dubbed, pitch corrected stuff. At least you know its being made by people rather a a computer.[/quote]
A big plus one to that.