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Am i too late to put in my recently acquired Trace rig?? And yes, the amp face does light up. [sharedmedia=core:attachments:181791]

[quote name='Opticaleye' timestamp='1426270480' post='2716476'] I have an early VM (soft aged) but in a band situation I find the blend of P and MM pickups, in the positions they are in, not useful. I preferred my old TM blend of J and MM. The Umbo's (at least the aged ones I have) are much more vintage and woody sounding and very versatile. The 3 position switch is very useful although I don't use the centre mid cut position. You can get a lot of really good passive tones from clean "Jazz" to dirty "P" The Umbo also has a thinner body to my Sandberg TT. The Umbo uses Alnico II pickups instead of the usual Alnico V's on Fender jazzes and there's a bit more complexity in the mids. I'm not so keen on Delano ceramic pickups personally, and I replaced my VM pickups with Alnico Haussels. [/quote] Thanks for this... considering the amount of money I am potentially parting with and the lack of these there is to try in lefty its very useful info!

Ebony fretboard, or maple. Rosewood is what everyone else has. Badass bridge, walnut top at least... Matching headstock would be ideal.

Its my fruit bowl. Been looking for it ever since moving house.

Great tone, like the song too.

You've nailed it for me - but I'm a sh!tty guitar player.

For me both basses sounded good (excellent playing BTW!) but bass 2 had a more "full" sound, which is something I'm after in a next bass.... Still liked Bass1 but bass2 just has something I'm looking for at the mo so that's where I leaned. Having said that, I used to own a Streamer LX and had no idea that bass 2 was the Streamer... Had no idea bass 1 was short scale - like you said most shorties go for the thud sound rather than anything more complex.

I have a lefty 90's MIM Jazz in midnight wine. I think the only remaining original parts are the body and neck. It has Schaller tuners, a hand-made bone nut, a Jaco Pastorius monogram neck plate (I know...), Fender chrome straplocks, chrome knobs, a Badass II Bridge, a Fender chrome pickup cover on the neck pickup, a black pickguard, and Bartolini pickups. It sounded good on the stock pickups but I thought this was a cheaper way of mixing up the tones I can get from my basses, its certainly added a clarity of tone but the originals were not at all bad. I may end up selling this soon if I invest in a new bass to treat myself purely because I haven't had it from new and so it doesn't entirely feel mine, if you see what I mean? Plus I can only justify one fretted bass in the house.

hi i've just dug this up as I'm itching to pull the trigger on a new bass now that I know what pennies are coming my way this month. I'm left handed so getting hold of nice basses to try is difficult but i played a Sandberg California VM recently with ebony fretboard and loved the feel, the neck was perfection and it was just so easy to play... I can't really slap but i managed to on this with ease... Anyhow, I spec'd up an Umbo and had Thomann give me a price, I'm now mulling over my options as buying a VM from Thomann's stock would save me around £400. Are you able to offer a comparison of an UMBO to the VM? Obviously the VM has 2 band active EQ, but I'm intrigued by the passive system in the Umbo... Any insight offered is gratefully received! Thank you

Enjoyed the event, never been to one of these before. Being a lefty the girlfriend wasn't too bored following me around as I ended up playing only one of the four lefty basses I saw there. We saw Lee Rocker who was very, very cool a few snippets of Yolanda Charles having a blast jamming on the Elixir stand, and saw Mark King. When I left there was one bloke complaining about all the queues and saying it was a waste of time but I disagree - we were hardly hanging around at all and queueing to chat with Lee Rocker and Mark King for them to sign some stuff is ok in my book. The constant drone of basses being slapped at high volumes was a bit irritating when they were close to performance stages though.

Can anyone recommend tuners to go on one of these? Fender replacements are too big

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1425395274' post='2706885'] Are you looking at the Ubox or their new stock, because unless they have changed their policy recently they don't sell new MiJ Fenders abroad. [/quote] Whaaaaaaaaaat?! A few months ago they were still selling new MIJ Fenders abroad, and sure people on this forum have bought from them

I can't see properly on the image but under the "Spirit" logo I think it says "my other instrument is a keytar"

Hi everyone... the endless pursuit of the perfect bass continues. I have often looked through Ishibashi and drooled over their lefty Fender basses... But now my bonus is coming in they appear really really low on stock!!?? Anyone know if there's something afoot? Or if there's an alternative? Or is the universe just conspiring against me to force me to pay for heating and nonsense like that?

Wish i had bought the kack-handed one in the old musicyo days... I'd buy one near that price

A bassist has a genuine need for the following basses as a minimum: two fretted jazz basses one strung with flats, one strung with rounds; two fretted precisions, one with flats one with rounds; a fretless bass, possibly a jazz; one with decent active electronics for a modern hi-fi sound; a vintage bass; a custom made bass; a bass with exotic woods; a semi-hollow; an acoustic bass; a headless bass; a bitsa frankenbass; an acrylic bass; a keytar; a bass that nobody else has; the bass everyone else has; a broken bass that's always in the process of being fixed..... and a Hofner.

A fret less p bass has a surreal beauty that words just cannot do justice to. It certainly looks the business hope it sounds as good!

Well played Paul S!!