HowieBass

I've yet to scratch my Stingray itch... I wonder how long I'll last?

I was listening to Dionne Warwick (singing lots of Bacharch - an album I liberated from my parents collection) when I was also listening to 80s post punk, new wave and indie material.

I've gone from years of using steel roundwounds to now only wanting nickel rounds and I won't go back... however, when it comes to flats, steel is just fine (I've yet to see nickel flatwounds anyway).

Well, this is easy listening for me... http://youtu.be/VR90gQ-SIaY

Pedal To The Metal

I always wondered why people played Precisions when they could use a Jazz (two pickups must be better than one, right?) but then saw how many people here showed their love for the P bass and I started listening closely to YouTube bass playing clips and getting my ear in for that special sound... so I decided I needed to try one... and I just love it! If I had to keep just one instrument it would be my Precision!

I've often wondered whether it matters if the silked portion of a string falls across a saddle... so I suppose if you string through the body you'd be more likely to get metal (string) to metal (saddle) contact...

I've also discovered the magic of the passive Precision - something about the simplicity of a single pickup and single tone control that makes it so well suited to rapid and direct changes in playing technique and style. I'm also particularly impressed with the quality of the Squier VM made (by Cort) in Indonesia. If I could own just one instrument it would have to be a P bass! And that black on black looks great

Free online Bass Musician Magazine http://bassmusicianmagazine.com/ Premier Guitar (free again) has some bass coverage too http://www.premierguitar.com/

I'd be interested to find out what the voltage needs to drop to before an active EQ starts misbehaving. I realise that this will likely vary from bass to bass (circuit to circuit) but I'm sure I've seen somewhere that voltages can drop down by a volt or so and the EQ circuit isn't fussed...

I think they also grounded the early pickup covers to offer some electrical shielding for the original single coil design...

Your domestic location rather demands a cover of this I think... http://youtu.be/f4Mc-NYPHaQ

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1398520663' post='2434931'] Handy to whack a sponge under the bridge ashtray, to damp the strings, like James Jamerson used to do. But originally, I think they were put there for purely aesthetic reasons. [/quote] According to Fender they were indeed something to mount the foam mute to so not entirely aesthetic... http://www.fender.com/news/the-precision-bass-in-the-1950s/ "The first commercial unit of the Precision Bass was produced in October 1951. It had a “slab” (non-contoured) ash body with two “horns” (as opposed to the Telecaster’s one; this provided greater balance and was subsequently adapted for the Stratocaster), a one-piece 20-fret maple neck fixed to the body by four screws (despite use of the technically incorrect term “bolt-on”), a single pickup, black pickguard, Kluson tuners, treble-side thumb rest, [b]a string-through-body bridge with a cover (with a mute)[/b], and two pressed fiber bridge saddles."

That's absolutely stunning! The black hardware really suits it.

I was about to suggest you take this stance; if it were me I'd be pretty pissed off with somebody with the attitude that guy seems to have and I think you're right to set things straight ASAP.

The siricote is the board pictured at the right? Whatever that wood is it has some lovely figuring anyway! I think the bass will look better with a fingerboard that's a little darker than the facing body wood and I reckon that siricote would look lovely with frets!

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It's not being sold by ex Co-op bank chief Paul Flowers is it?

Some people say they can be a little difficult to balance on your leg when seated, though I've never really had a problem with my fretted 5 string Curbow. EDIT: The serial on that fretless and on my Tanglewood (Cort) Curbow both start with '00' meaning it's an early one dating from 2000 and it'll have an EQ that remains active when the slap switch is engaged (later Curbows only have a preset EQ available when the slap switch is on which means they're less flexible). It'll also have a Mighty Mite rather than a Bartolini soapbar pickup - some owners actually prefer the Mighty Mite as it's reputed to be less trebly than the Bartolini.

Sounds like the wiper arm has somehow come loose? For the small cost and little effort involved you're better replacing it.

This is for a guitar but the procedure will be the same http://youtu.be/hNET0yt9J8E

It's a floating bridge like this isn't it? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-Spares-Bridge-Ebony-Violin-Club-Bass-H7220B-/191147254614?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2c8143a356

I've just had to look up 'heteroclite'

"Pull Up To The Bumper" is a great song - and not even about cars