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Got D-tuners on a precision, a jazz and a thunderbird. When they're properly adjusted and setup they work very well.

My daughter thinks he's busting for a wee

Flats. Preferably TI JF344 (JF324 on the mustang) If I wanted my instrument to sound like a harpsichord, I'd play a harpsichord. I prefer my bass to sound like a bass

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Just an idea: I don't know if there are many players going that don't already do their own setups, but If anyone wants a free setup on their own bass while learning how to do it as a one to one tutorial including trussrod tweaking, bridge & pickup adjustments and possibly neck shim, I'm happy to do that - maybe we could have a setup bar if there's much demand & anyone else wants to throw their hat into the ring?

If the main consideration is to a something electric that sounds good for pizz, but is played upright, look at how 'horizontal basses' are made and which ones give the best DB sound and maybe use ideas & elements of their construction in the EUB. Out of my bass collection I'd say my danelectro longhorn sounds best for blues etc and can sound more double-bass like in a band setting than my ns cr5m even though it has a 30" scale and the body is made of ply & hardboard. I think this may be because the body construction gives less sustain and a dull thud-type tone.

Shingai in the Noisettes uses one

All of my Planet Waves cables came from sound control iirc. The spring on one did cause my musicmaster socket to develop an intermittent crackle/cutout - Turns out the socket had been replaced at some point with a cheapo flimsy one. I put a proper switchcraft in and its perfect. Never had an issue with these cable in a bass with a switchcraft jack.

Hopefully it was a shill bid and he bought it himself. Its been reported to ebay, but i wouldn't be surprised if it pops up again. On reflection it looks like the body etc was probably from a Squier Classic Vibe 60s P, but the neck isn't the correct one for that bass and still looks like a cheapo copy.

If is ever was a £600 bass then I'm a banana! [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Road-Worn-Style-P-Bass-Precision-Bass_W0QQitemZ150364739772QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item23026fd8bc&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]Fender Roadworn-style bass[/url] It looks more like a £100 Jim Deacon or similar chinese bass wrecked with a clumsy relic job & he's trying to pass it off as a fender, but spinning a yarn to distance himself from the consequences. edit: sent him the following: [quote]Sorry Mate: Looks like your missus should get a refund - she was ripped off. This looks more like a cheap chinese copy. The headstock shape is totally incorrect for a Fender as is the truss rod access. Its was probably worth about £100 before being trashed.[/quote]

I use Thomastik TI JF344s flats on mine. Blummin' perfect. Works well with the D-tuner on it as well.

Denmark street isn't worth visiting for me these days. A bloke in Wunjo (when they were around the corner) once told me that I wrong and the Precision in the window was DEFINITELY a '79 as it has an S9 serial no. Of course any self respecting fender geek will know it it could be as late as an '81 and to be sure you'd have to take the neck off to check the date stamped on the body end. Later they wanted £1300 for a 70s mustang bass in trashed condition. It didn't look reliced in a cool way, but like it had been found in a dumpster. It was filthy and had nail varnish over paint chips. It was totally unplayable chunks out of frets & rusty strings. What a joke! Apart from that I find Wunjo the friendliest and best of the street though. Music Ground offered me £200 for a '80s MIJ tokai korina flying vee & flightcase a few years ago. It would have probably sold for at least £600 retail and they weren't interested in a commission sale. I sold it privately the next week for £550. I bought my 1990 MIJ '62 reissue Precision in Andys. I think I probably paid over the odds for the time, but it was exactly what I was looking then (about eight years ago). I later definitely got ripped off with a shoddy & overpriced setup & soldering job on another bass by the miserable cnut that used to have a workshop in Andys - which prompted me to learn how to to that stuff properly for myself.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='566080' date='Aug 11 2009, 05:58 PM']I've got one a millenium bxp 5 string and it is indeed pretty good. It plays well, sounds good with the active pickups and it's proven to be reliable. The string spacing is a bit narrow but for £200 really it's not a big problem at all.[/quote] If thats what you're playing in your avatar Edward, I have one exactly the same down to the colour. Excellent value for £200. I used to have an irrational dislike of Peaveys, but this one won me over when toured all the Music shops in central London one Saturday & played every 5 string bass under £600 originally intending to buy a G&L tribute.

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[quote name='grumble' post='561629' date='Aug 6 2009, 12:16 AM']are they 'fun' to play ?[/quote] Oh Yes! Great rubbery fun with a deep fundamental tone. Great fun for turning up with to jam nights. Often people that have never seen one before take the piss a bit and then come back to ask all about it once they've heard the massive rich bass tone flowing from the speakers. The most important thing to remember though is that although it has lines, it plays in tune if you treat it like an unlined fretless and play on the dots between the lines.

If you're plugging it in and putting it through fx that might make it feed back, you could try reducing the feedback by sticking a CD over the soundhole woth blu-tak. Also might get a better sound by fitting a magnetic pickup.

The rick-shaped one is cool, but a dano longhorn one would be even better. I enjoy playing my stock ashborys, but whenever I turn up somewhere and someone has not seen one before I always get the same 'fisher price' comments followed by astonished looks when they actually hear it.

The Wizard thumpers are well regarded around these parts for replacing a stock precision pickup.

[quote]very similar to the one Sting used when he was with the police[/quote] Wot? Similar in that it has four strings and is made of wood? My first bass had tuners like that. It was a jazz copy and was badged as 'yamato'. it wasn't a very nice bass.

I replaced all my grolsch ones with shower hose washers.

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='559780' date='Aug 3 2009, 10:56 PM']the non-export Fender jap stuff.[/quote] +1 Particularly the many colour choices for MIJ Mustang basses.

[quote name='Lew-Bass' post='559493' date='Aug 3 2009, 06:30 PM']I'm planning on getting an Ibanez SR500L in the near future, tried a righty in dolphinmusic today and it was great. I've had a quick scour and I can't find any second hand ones on the net in the UK, so I'm going to end up getting it new from an online store (unless one crops up on the bay or here!) Both nevadamusic and GAK have it for sale at a very similar price, £439 and £442 respectively. So which one should I buy it from? Does anyone have any past experience with either? And if so did the bass come set-up? If somethings wrong are they easy to deal with? Opinions.. past personal dealings.. fire away! Thanks [/quote] Why not buy it from Dolphin seeing as you've already tried one there? If they don't have the exact one you have perhaps they can get one in & if their price is higher than you've seen elsewhere perhaps there's some haggling room.

I should be able to make it. Probably bring a couple of Ashborys, an NS-design CR5M & danelectro longhorn.

It might come in useful as doorstop.

I've bought some nice japanese-made necks (& bodies) from [url="http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk"]Brandoni[/url] in Wembley. I would definitely see if they had what I wanted next time I need a neck. The quality of the these is very good. They were about £100 each & are very similar to Fender MIJ parts.