72deluxe

Bump. I don't want to have to take this to the tip!

I tried this bass yesterday - it is truly a lovely instrument, and a bargain too!

Hello I am "selling" my Hohner Rockbass bass that is about 20 years old. I learned to play on it when I was a short, fat, obnoxious know-it-all child with a bad side-parting, and when my hands could barely reach along the neck. [i]The electronics are SHOT on it[/i], although my dad did attempt to do some soldering on it about a gazillion years ago, approximately. The pickups will probably need replacing as I recall the original tone being planky (but that might be me not knowing what a tone control was); in any case the wiring inside is ropey and not reliable (completely busy?). One knob also appears to be wedged on, so might need force/strength to displace it from the scratch plate - so all in all, it needs a good overhaul to say the least. I have no electrical skills at all so I can't do it. Hopefully you have! It was originally a fretted bass and had pretty bad action. My brother defretted it years ago but never really sanded the neck down or finished it properly, but it is still quite playable. The action is still pretty bad compared to expensive basses, but it certainly helped me get strength in the fingers. The fretboard is rosewood I think? But the body is nothing exotic. Probably chipboard..? In truth, I have no idea. It has some dings and dents on the body, and some have had attempted fixes with what appears to be blue touch-up paint for a Rover 200....? I seem to recall my brother using that anyway. The little circular holding piece by the strings on the headstock popped out due to the screw working loose, so I have remounted it half a centimetre towards the end of the headstock, [i]but it is something to bear in mind in case it flies out at a million miles an hour - you could lose an eye![/i] Anyway, it'd make a great project for someone and probably an excellent bass to start fretless for someone brave. [b]I am looking for £15 but open to suggestions if you can't stretch to that[/b] I comes WITHOUT a gig bag or any case, and I won't be able to post it (no boxes, sorry!). [b][u]I am in Droitwich, Worcestershire[/u][/b]. It would make a nice trip out for sure. As I can't demo the sound through the pickups (really no hope there), I put a rubbish dim-lit demo on YouTube through my phone. My cat is happily sat in the background. He loves basses. [media]http://youtu.be/4zIVyRbkA8k[/media] Pictures can be viewed at [url="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3vzHZmGDdwKZGR6ZVhqLVNERE0&usp=sharing"]https://drive.google...RE0&usp=sharing[/url] Thanks, Rich

Couldn't she buy it as a wedding present? Lovely bass.

Not really, but the Corvette has no preamp, and even the "active" Corvette with a preamp only has bass / treble boost and not the three-band like the FNA. Additionally, the FNA was the one that has the massive humbucker on it, so it sounds quite different to a Corvette (I have an active Corvette too!), and obviously with the Jazzman you can get a warm round tone thanks to the neck pickup. You can also route the electronics on the FNA differently (pickups in series in different orders or in parallel), whereas the Corvette only offers a blend between the two pickups. They are the same shape though. Flat. But I would say they are rather different instruments given the different electronics and pickups. The FNA Jazzman sounds much beefier than the Corvette to my deaf ears. I think the FNA should fetch a higher price than the Corvette due to the extra versatility of the instrument (you can boost the middles!) and if you have one with a fancypants EQ (not standard), it has a smile-curve EQ for quick slapping tone that you get by pulling the volume knob (it is a preamp bypass switch ordinarily). So yes without me blabbing on further, I would argue that FNA is superior to the Corvette (which is subjective, depending on what you're after in a bass obviously) and is quite a different instrument.

You don't see many FNA Jazzman basses coming up for sale - nor many of them in the wild! I'm glad to know they are around. You see far more Corvettes.

I would buy this in a snap if I had the money. It looks great. And would make a lovely addition to the unnecessary preamps I currently have. Hopefully one day I will be able to convince my poor wife that I "need" another preamp.

I have two of those cabs and they're great! I always found the 8 ohms to be annoying when hooked up to an amp where the amp power rating is given at 4 ohms because the amp struggles with the 8 ohm cab; it seems all amps give their ratings for 4 ohms. But paired with a beefy amp that puts out suitable power at 8 ohms, great! As stated, these cabs are rated for 600W at 8 ohms and will allow peaks up to 800W, which is bonkers (I don't know how long they rate their "peak" for - it might be nanoseconds!) So if you have two 8 ohms cabs and an amp rated at 900W at 4 ohms, you'll be shoving 450W into each cab, so deafening volume and well below the power rating for each cab. That didn't really make much sense, but what I am saying is that they're plenty powerful enough for pairing with many amps. I use one cab with a 900W (@ 4 ohms, 500W at 8 ohms) Genz Benz and it is deafeningly loud. Plus! they're covered in carpet so you can vacuum cat hair off them and not scratch them to death like vinyl-covered cabs. Anyway, combined with the HF tweeter in the middle, they're great all round cabs and good for slapping with that tweeter. It is adjustable at the back. They do product a low B but that isn't the fundamental note they're producing - they will produce the harmonics of the low B and fool your brain into adding the fundamental note, but I don't think there's many people in audiences with oscilloscopes and measurement microphones... In any case, a 4x10 cab is a great all round cab. The speakers are Eminence speakers but the beauty with older cabs is that they've "worn in" a bit and the speakers don't sound so harsh, as the speaker cones have aged and are happier to move, leading to a warmer/less harsh sound. I paid £600 each (!) for my German-made WCA 411s about 12 years ago (was it that long?!) but when they moved production to China, the price dropped significantly, and I gnashed my teeth in rage. I seem to recall that they started doing 4 ohm cabinets in China, but perhaps they made the 4 and 8 ohm versions in tandem? Anyway, great cab and a billy bargain I think. These fit in my Golf just fine, and are easier to carry by yourself if you lift them from the front (and don't wear a shirt, as you'll get buttons stuck in the grille). Does this have speakon connections on the back? Mine has XLR + speakons, both for input and output (so you can daisy-chain them, not sure why you would unless you had 4 of them????)

That Warwick Streamer P - Nut Signature III is the most beautiful bass I have seen. Pity I don't have any money, but I hope the sale goes well. Why not just keep them and play at home with smiles of joy? What is making you retire?