Clarky

No worries Ad, get better soon!

[quote name='Leen2112' timestamp='1348006238' post='1808156'] How about this then....... [color=black]: [url="http://planetmosh.com/steve-hackett-genesis-revisited-tour-and-more-album-info/"][color=#0000ff]http://planetmosh.com/steve-hackett-genesis-revisited-tour-and-more-album-info/[/color][/url][/color] [/quote] Cheers! Hammersmith Apollo is 10 minutes walk from my house - think I'll get tickets for the May 2013 gig

My re-finned 1963 Precision (year of birth) [attachment=118757:P1040192.JPG]

I didn't actually buy anything from Nige but he was kind enough to lend me his wonderful Spanish guitar for my band's recording session over the weekend. A top guy ... and it was good - when I picked up the guitar - to see Mrs Silddx (Diane) up and about and with a great sense of humour, despite her awful recent trials and tribulations. Cheers Nige and Diane

Supper's Ready live, complete with quirky, can-only-be-English-sense-of-humour intro comments from PG [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4&feature=related[/url]

John East does a 3-band drop-in [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/East_Preamps_MMSR.html"]http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/East_Preamps_MMSR.html[/url]

Another lovely scratchplate from Howard! Cheers

OK thanks, have super glue. What would you sand it with? Many thanks

I recently picked up a Fender Jaco fretless bass from the forum and its a lovely bass in general ... but but one thing is irritating me. The E on the A string has a horrible grinding buzz to it. In natural daylight I can see that there is a slight dimple in the epoxy finish (about 3-4mm wide, directly on the 'fretline' and under the string) which is causing this (its either a manufacturing imperfection or a slight ding in a previous owners' hands). Its such a tiny thing that it hardly seems worth taking to the Bass Gallery to get fixed and I wondered if anyone has a quick easy fix. I was thinking maybe a tiny blob of clear nail varnish and some fine grit paper (no idea what gauge)??? Any thoughts people? Cheers Clarky

[quote name='Stacker' timestamp='1347867868' post='1805801'] Did [i]any[/i] of those models have epoxy on the 'board? Also, it's bloody confusing having three models. [/quote] I have a US Jaco fretless (I think its a US tribute model that has been relic'd after buying) and it has an epoxied neck Pics here (in chris2112's FS thread): [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/184831-for-salefor-trade-fender-jaco-pastorius-fretless-jazz-bass/page__p__1782125__hl__jaco__fromsearch__1#entry1782125"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/184831-for-salefor-trade-fender-jaco-pastorius-fretless-jazz-bass/page__p__1782125__hl__jaco__fromsearch__1#entry1782125[/url]

Me too

Onstage time 9.30pm. Several BCers coming along

Onstage about 9.50pm with a set of an up to an hour

Retro-tastic! Very very cool

I've been lucky to enough to own or play most of the basses I have coveted (Wals, Gibsons, Ricks, Shuker, Alembics, Alleva Coppolo's etc) and - after a long process of buying and selling - have ended up with three regular Fenders (P, J and fretless J). Can't really see me being after anything else. However, if there is one bass I'd still really like to have a play on it would be an Alembic Stanley Clarke

Well i swapped the strings over from Silver Slaps to Kolstein Heritage steels (which have been on a bass before, so not new) and unfortunately the result is the same, irrespective of blob size, placing, gap size and placement on the bass. Maybe the fact mine is an old bass (1880s) that has undergone many repairs is affecting the way it resonates and thus its suitability for the Ehrlund? The nearest I can get to a usable sound ends up much like the sound of a piezo with way too much top end (so much I can't really EQ it out)

Thanks Keith, it may be that the 'thunking' sound of Silver Slaps just doesn't translate well. I will try a spare Kolstein Heritage string but I can't do that until after Sunday (as we have a recording session and I need the bass set up as it is)

So far, nowhere sounds good. The irony is my experience with the Kolstein is much like you describe, ie, it sounds pretty good wherever I place it (within reason). On the flatback, it sounds - when not booming or too quiet - either hollow, compressed, reedy/nasally or chorus/echo-ey. Plenty of different sounds but none of them sound like a double bass "only louder".

Right chaps, tried turning preamp to 'high', smaller blobs, different sized gaps, different placements ... and what ever I do it still sounds worse than the Full Circle that was on there to begin with Thing is, it sounds great on the Kolstein but that not my main gigging bass ...

I bet his pants are crunchy too. Yuck. There's honest mojo and there's just bacteria-infested flith ...

OK thanks for the advice. I do have only a small blob of tack on each corner but I may have the overall pickup itself too close to the body (I guess the gap is 0.5mm). I will play around further with positioning, gap size, blobs etc and report back!