Jean-Luc Pickguard

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='338670' date='Nov 27 2008, 05:23 PM']I would guess it will be less fender-like, probably a paddle-shape or something hoogly like a johnson.[/quote] Spooky

[quote name='Buzz' post='355218' date='Dec 15 2008, 05:53 PM']Oh, just as a heads up, you don't have to buy a Mac to run any of the Mac OS's now, Apple relased their OS's for normal laptops a couple of years ago. Dual boot as you see fit and get a much better specced laptop for your money.[/quote] 'Fraid not- they only sell the latest version of MacOS as an upgrade for Macs. Any monkey business to make a 'hackintosh' is unlicensed and unsupported.

To confuse the issue my unlined fretless precision is anything but precise in my hands.

In my experience Vista is such a shoddy pile of sh*te that my next machine is likely to be a macbook. Vista was terrible for music production when I tried it so I had to make my PC boot into XP to run cubase. I had no problems mixing an album on cubase 4 on XP which was originally recorded in a studio running cubase SX2 on a mac, so cross-platform compatability is not necessarily an issue. Also with a mac you can run bootcamp to boot into windows while you wean yourself off it, or run windows apps seamlessly using parallels or vmware fusion.

My '81 Precision (S8.. serial) that I bought new for £260 in 1982 is monstrously heavy due to cheaper Northern Ash being used instread of Leo's preferred Swamp Ash, the pick up sounded weedy compared to my other Ps (Is this due to cheaper wire of the wrong gauge being used?) and had dodgy frets that buzzed & rattled from new. I swapped out the Pickup for an EMG (not very good until I ran it at 18v) and Martin at the Gallery sorted out the frets. Its great now, but for the first 20+ years of its life it was a bit of a dog (but a very nice looking cherry sunburst dog).

[quote name='Liam' post='353892' date='Dec 13 2008, 09:23 PM']Hi there, I'm thinking of a new one in the new year, not spending a great deal of cash, but these are the two I'm thinking of: Ibanez GSR300 or Squier Classic Vibe 60s Jazz Bass in Olympic White I normally play an Aria Pro Tab 60 and a Fender Precision through a Trace Elliot AH300SMC with a 2 x 10 and a 1 x 15 cab. Love the Aria, but leaning more to the Precision with my current band[/quote] To answer your questions: 1. No I don't own either of the basses listed 2. My advice would be to list the basses you're asking about in the thread title

[quote name='thebeat' post='353501' date='Dec 13 2008, 12:39 PM']...was the bass playing equivalent of wearing my girlfriends pants..[/quote] The consequences of the wife finding a pair in your jacket pocket?

[quote name='redzombie' post='353468' date='Dec 13 2008, 11:57 AM']Anyway, this thread's about Tokais, what I'm getting at is I want to find a shop with one I can go try.[/quote] I've seen & tried Tokai T-birds in Regent Sounds & Rokas in Denmark Street, but as they tend to rotate stock around the MusicGround-owned shops they might be in one of the other shops.

Although we're called 'Obviously 5 believers' we're not a Dylan tribute band and usually do one or two Dylan songs each gig. One of my favourites is "tell me momma" from the "judas" era '65/'66 tour and until fairly recently only available on bootlegs from that tour (afaik).

What about Rick James? [spoiler]...Oh yes he mostly used it for photos & Oscar Alston played a musicman on Rick James tracks[/spoiler]

[quote name='beerdragon' post='352612' date='Dec 12 2008, 12:08 PM']Sorry to be a pedant but i know he played bass in the Buggles who had a hit with Video killed the radoi star are you sure he was in the Glitter band?[/quote] Its mentioned on the [url="http://www.zttaat.com/article.php?title=6"]ZTT web site[/url]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='352144' date='Dec 11 2008, 09:01 PM']CDsourcing charged us £500 for 500 copies - pressed CDs with one colour silk screen print on a white base with jewel cases & full colour front & back with b/w print inside the foldout 'booklet'. Excellent quality and very fast problem-free turnaround.[/quote] They'll do 1000 with printed & pressed CDs, full colour 4 page booklet for £649.75 inc vat & del

CDsourcing charged us £500 for 500 copies - pressed CDs with one colour silk screen print on a white base with jewel cases & full colour front & back with b/w print inside the foldout 'booklet'. Excellent quality and very fast problem-free turnaround.

[quote name='yorick' post='351638' date='Dec 11 2008, 11:37 AM']Ah, i'm blessed with the wit and wistdom of tBBC on my thread.... Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!![/quote] It must indeed be a great honour to have someone with the wit & wisdom of Finbarr Saunders on your thread.

[quote name='lateralus462' post='351584' date='Dec 11 2008, 10:54 AM']imo red and white fenders look cheap - blue is much better[/quote] I thought that when I got my white one - I was after a blue one, but found a secondhand white one a lot cheaper so bought it. I think it looks much classier after replacing the ugly dark torty pickguard with a custom aged pearl one & putting on a vintage-style thumbrest. [attachment=17064:mikeys_mustang.JPG]

When I was after a T-bird I tried Tokais, Epiphones and Gibsons. I bought an Epiphone one (Alpine white). I preferred the weight, the neck feel and that you can shim it. Mine doesn't neck dive as I relocated the front strap button. I didn't do a side by side comparison of the tokai & Epiphone as shops that had the tokai didn't have the epi & vice-versa. The tokai is still a very nice bass, but the epi suited my requirements better.

I used to use red Grolsch bottle washers, but I now use shower hose washers on all my basses. I think they are are much better as they are smaller & thinner, and as they are made of black rubber they don't stand out. Screwfix do packs of 20 for a quid.

Ok its for charidee, but I can't get my head around how anyone would want to pay so much for this. Its not as if its actually one of Stings basses, just a standard CIJ sig model with a scribble on the Pickguard. I like the sting bass, but I'm always put off by the 12th fret pearl block with the printed signature. Having the pickguard autographed as well would really ruin it. Surely it can't be that difficult to get Mr Sting to sign a pickguard. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Japanese-Fender-Sting-Signature-Bass-Autographed_W0QQitemZ250333663104QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item250333663104&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1298|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]Autographed Sting bass on eBay[/url]

[quote name='karlbbb' post='348234' date='Dec 7 2008, 11:45 PM']I quite like the Behringer Limiter/Enhancer, it's working well for me now, but will be upgrading to a BBE OptoStomp as soon as I can afford it.[/quote] I've tried loads of compressors, but the Behringer BLE100 bass limited/enhancer is my favourite.

Time for a recount of mine: [list] [*]'81 Cherry Sunburst Precision [*]Blue Fender Ashbory [*]Black Fender Ashbory [*]'86 Hohner B2A Cricket Bat [*]Fretless 'bitsa' Precision [*]MIJ '62 reissue Fender precision [*]Fender Highway 1 Jazz [*]Alpine white Epiphone thunderbird [*]Danelectro Longhorn [*]CIJ Fender Mustang [*]Squier Vista Musicmaster [*]'71 Fender Musicmaster [*]Peavey Millennium AC BXP 5 string [*]Violet-burst Daisy Rock Elite [*]NS-Design CR-5M upright [*]Stentor student double bass [*]a one string electric upright thing [/list] brings me up to 17 plus I keep my daughter's three basses strung & set up for her. [list] [*]Daisy Rock Heartbreaker [*]'71 Fender Musicmaster [*]Another Violet-burst Daisy Rock Elite [/list]

That appears to be a mid to late 70s one with a replacement pickup. On ebay it would probably go for a little over half the price listed on a good day.

I play fingerstyle and slap or use pleckies, so I make sure its comfy for that, saying that though it depends on the bass. I play my Ashborys are quite high up and almost vertical as they are so small but the thunderbird has to be as low as it can go on the longest neoprene strap I could find. I did move the front strap button to cure the neck dive though. My favourite gigging bass, a mustang is as low as it can go on a standard levys suede guitar strap, which results in the classic [b]CYN[/b]* height. [color="#808080"][size=1]* CYN= "cover your nuts"[/size][/color]

I wipe my strings over with fast fret & a cloth before & after playing. I use Thomastik Jazz flats which take a couple of months to get played in then then just sound perfect pretty much forever. In the dim & distant past (20yrs ago) I used to use rotosound roundwounds, but I recall I really couldn't stand the sound of new ones - If I wanted to sound like a harpsichord I'd be playing one instead of a bass.

A bit of sponge cut to size does the job. mmm sponge

How about something like one of those tascam headphone practice thingies with amp modelling and MP3 playback.