Tweedledum

I love the sound of the singlecoil P-Bass. "Spacious and warm, thumpy" - yes, that's a very good description. My absolute favourite is the '54-'56 version. It's got the small singlecoil pickup, fat maple neck with a soft V shape, and a contoured body, which makes it much more comfortable to play than the 1st iteration P-Bass with it's chunky slab body.

On 17/07/2019 at 15:20, MoJoKe said:

7.4 lb on my bathroom scales!!!!

Wow, that is light!

On 23/06/2019 at 12:38, Drax said:

definitely worth a visit if you’re into the vintage thing, Andy’s prices are on paper not the cheapest, but he sources great instruments 

Absolutely. Great guy, fun to deal with. He sold me a great bass.

I think I need to buy some more basses from him before ... you know ... it's getting more complicated ... if it happens at all, that is.

On 04/03/2019 at 12:48, cd_david said:

The sad thing is, it’s my rig 😂

 

Few rigs are worthy to be framed. Your's definitely is.

18 hours ago, bigsmokebass said:

Which one is it? 

Oh, I forgot to mention. It's the 1965 Sunburst on the left.

Just traded a Jazz Bass for another P-Bass. Total count is now 3.

8 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Also violin players seem to manage without frets.

Good call.

Yes it's an acoustic preamp but I read somewhere that it's supposed to work with electric bass as well.

19 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

Fishman Platinum Pro

How do you like the Fishman? I'm thinking about getting one for gigs where we go all in-ear/no backline...

That '71 would fit in my stash perfectly since that's my YOB. Great collection @walshy

On 05/11/2018 at 19:25, walshy said:

Heres my Fender collection-

66 Jazz, 71 P, Custom Shop 5, 76 P

64 P, 70 P, 69 P

 

 

 

 

17 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

how does it play? 

It plays reasonably well for a Jazz Bass of that era. There is the usual ski jump that 90% of the late 60's/early 70's Jazz Basses suffer from. But it's not too bad. With the action set to my liking, there is some fret buzz on the A string in the 18th and 19th fret, that's it. And to be honest: who plays up there? I don't.

Most of all, this bass sounds fantstic. Very even tone all across the fretboard, it's got clarity and growl, the sustain is great, and there's no noticeable dead spots! Seriously, this is one of the good ones.

On 07/12/2017 at 08:07, Tweedledum said:

Now that I think about it, I don't have a decent Jazz Bass at the moment.

I need to quote my self here. The blatant lack of Jazz Bass in the household has been mitigated!

1970 Jazz Bass, Olympic White, matching headstock.

Warmoth offers single coil P-bass necks and bodies. The body comes in '51 (slab) or '54 (contoured) style.

'69 P-Bass, Glock B. A. C., two 1x12" custom Sieben Audio cabs w/ EV M12L. unfortunately this rig doesn't get much workout these days since I do 90% of my gigs with in-ear monitoring.

AB stands for Afterburner, yes. All ABs are made in Canada, so they can be customized, which makes it sometimes hard to differenciate the lines as Bigwan already mentioned. ABZ is the most basic of the three, AB1 is the intermediate model, AB2 is top of the Afterburner line. NG and Combustion are both made in China. The main difference is the pickup position. The bodies are routed for 3 pickups and there is a "3X" upgrade kit available.

Specs and standard features can be found on the dingwall website http://www.dingwallguitars.com/

Very nice bass! Congrats!

I too think it looks best without the PG.

On 14.5.2018 at 12:08, Machines said:

I thought individual switches for each pickup (on/off) would work a treat, and to be fair they do that in the Canadian models.

Those aren't on/off switches, they actually toggle the pickup coils serial/parallel, which is quite handy because it adds a different voicing to each pickup. Anyway, I think it would be cool to have a three way switch "serial/parallel/off" for each pickup.

On 17.3.2018 at 13:47, Brewer62 said:

 

What happened to the missing screws?

8 hours ago, Jecklin said:

I wonder if a re-issue of this would be on the cards in much the same was as old smoothy?

I thought the same thing. MM enthusiasts would be all over it.

'64 Models mostly feature the Transition Logo. Until '63 the Spaghetti Logo was more common.

Late 64 (like mine) necks have Perloid dots in the fretboard and clay side dots.

On 3/12/2018 at 12:58, simontdo said:

the last owner bought it around 1970 in pristine condition, and subsequently had the body stripped purely because he was not overly keen on the “girly pink” colour (Shell Pink).

That is so sad. Nice instrument, though.

Any insight whether or not the decal on the headstock is original?

P.S.: never mind, this is a JAN 64, so '63 specs rather than '64.

GLWTS!

20 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

So this is what I've been totin' for the last month or so.

It's a Handbox WB-100, and it's really rather lovely.

Thread here: 

Lovely! 

19 hours ago, Sandy 5 said:

Dingwall, maybe Warwick and Musicman

What would I buy? Definitely a Dingwall, if I didn't own one already.  Extremely well built instruments, lightweight and easy to play. High end in every respect.

As for high end amplification: I play my Dingwall through a Glockenklang Bass Art Classic. Since you're looking for a compact gigging amp, I suggest the Glockenklang Steamhammer or one of the "Blue" series amps rather than the Bass Art Classic.

https://www.glockenklang.de/en/products/products_bass.htm

The current Mexican Fenders are good value for the money, too.

I really like this one: