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NancyJohnson

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  1. I really like this configuration; I mean REALLY like. I've had a couple of J/P pickup basses and can't really say anything negative about them. I can't justify any more basses though! £999 at The Guitar Emporium. P
  2. Highly recommended trade with Ville. Smoooooth. P
  3. I've had a DJ5 since last December. I hate to say I can't comment on P5, but I just didn't like what it looked like when I saw it, it just looked [i]wrong[/i]. I've tended to use the DJ5 as my first choice bass since then. It's comfortable and versatile. Love it. P
  4. I built something from parts about a month ago. To be honest it was a lot of fun sourcing stuff from here and the US, but on the downside, the sourcing of parts kind of preoccupied me a little too much...it was rather like an addiction. That said, it plays really nicely (with a minimum of tweaking), although I'm waiting for the control plate to come back to me so I can really fire it up. There's a [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=53575"]thread[/url] over on the build area of the site. It cost about £120.00 all in. I'd like to do another, but my good lady says five basses is enough. On the upside, I've had two requests to build others. One from a mate and another from a student I teach. I might. P
  5. Should hopefully be able to make it. 01. Silverfoxnik: Roscoe Beck V, Wal Pro2e, BC Rich Eagle, Fender Jazz V Deluxe, plus my recently acquired Eden Metro Rig 02. Merton: Status Retroactive, Mikey's Singlecut Fanned-Fret Prototype, LH500 and Barefaced Vintage 03. OBBM: StRay5, MB F1, UL212, something else. 04. Hamster: BFM Omni15 tallboy, Barefaced Compact, Fender P with Thumper & Villex PTB 05. Alex Claber: '87 Warwick Streamer, RIM Custom 5 with 36" scale and Q-Tuners, Avalon U5/QSC PLX3002, GB Shuttle 6.0, Barefaced Compact, Big One, Midget, Midget T, maybe Big Baby. 06. Johnnylager: Spector Euro 4LX, KSD Jazz, LH-1000, Barefaced Big Juan, DHA Custom Shop VT2-Twin-EQ-Bass with Tech Tube valves & whatever other effects I have at the time. 07. Happy Jack: Lightwave Sabre VL, Hofner 500/1 (1964), Hofner 500/5 (1959), PJB Bass Buddy + headphones. 08. MacDaddy. Custom Shuker (hopefully!) and possibly Hamer Blitz or Iceni Zoot. 09. Stingrayfan: G&L Tribute L2000, Yamaha BB614, Hartke LH500, Warwick 4x10 10. Chris B 11. Cetera: Pre-Kramer Spector NS-2, Wal Mk1 Fretless, Fender/AllParts 70's Jazz, Tech21 Landmark600, GenzBenzNEOX212T 12. Andyonbass. ACG Recurve, ACG J-Type, Pair of BFM Omni 10.5's 13. Waynepunkdude Fender Jazz, SX P Bass, DHA-DI-EQ & Ampeg SVT 5 Pro 14. Jakesbass Alembic MK5 Deluxe, German Blockless Wonder 1880 Double Bass (and the '78 Jazz if anyone wanted a go) 15. 51m0n (& Plux if he's not gigging): Bergantino AE410, MarkBass sa450, Focusrite Compounder, Roscoe Century Std V, (If Plux isnt gigging) Berg HT210, HT115, Hartke LH500 16. Floyd Pepper - Markbass LMK, Bergantino HT112 & EX112, Stingray '91 2eq, Lakland DJ4, Stagg EDB, Epiphone Jack Casady and a Fender '54 RI Precision 17. davidmpires - Markbass F1, Barefaced Compact, Spector Euro LX 5, T-Bass by Status 18. molan - MTD 535, Spector NS5XL, Zon VB4, Alembic Rogue, Traben Bootsy Signature (!!!), Epifani UL502 & some Berg AE1x12's + who knows what else I may have by then 19. Platypus - Alleva Coppolo Jazz 5, Celinder Jazz 4 fretless, Tecamp Puma 1000 + a cab of some sort. 20. Prosebass - Current Builds at the time, Hofner S7B, Laptop , sequencing software , + amp and cab 21. Monz - Stingray 5 (la bella flats) Matamp GT200, Simms-Watt PA 100, Matamp 8x10 + Whatever else I have bought buy then 22. Alien - Schecter Stiletto 4, Peavey Grind 6, Hartke HA7000, Alien Audio 2x10 + other toys. 23. EssentialTension: Lakland Skyline Decade, Fender Tony Franklin Fretless Precision (and who knows what else) 24. silddx - Warwick Corvette $$ 4, Warwick Corvette Standard Ash active fretless 4, POD X3 Live, (I am praying I won't have it by then, but I will bring the Kopo Lina fretless 4 if I do!) 25. Phil_the_bassist: MMSR5 w/JE preamp, Sandberg Cali JM, Steinberger synapse5 w/ extra pup, various fuzz pedals and envelope filters, whatever amp I happen to own by then. 26. Stingray5 - My StingRay5, StingRay fretless and Tune TWB-6 plus any other basses in my signature pic if people let me know. I also have an Aria AMB-50B acoustic bass if anyone fancies a go? Could also bring my GT6-B. Plus ('cos it's small) a BLX-80 combo. And some cans...? 27. Urb - 1 x Sei 5 String Single Cut - 1 x Sei 4 string Jazz bass - EBS and Boss pedals 28. dave.c - Spector Rebop 4DLX EX, Spector NS2000-4, Gibson SGZ,Hartke LH500, Hartke Hydrive 410 29. WalMan - Wal Pro1/Custom conversion, G&L L2500 US, MarkBass CMD121H, Epifani 1x12 (not the neo one but I can't remember the initials just at the mo), Bass Pod xT Pro, Marshall SuperBass 100 head 30. Bottle - Ibanez ATK-305NT, Gallien-Krueger MB2-500, EBS Pro-line 4x10 31. Nancy Johnson (Paul) - Waterstone TP-12 Tom Petersson 12-String bass. Tech 21 Landmark 300/Ashdown MAG 4x10/Ashdown MAG 1x15
  6. Yep, the same bass - I love the beginning of Don't Rush, but aside from Lizzy (which we do in the band but with a different arrangement), I haven't listened to those recordings in a while. New strings, straight into the desk. Yummy P [quote name='stinson' post='556921' date='Jul 31 2009, 10:43 AM']Stop teasing me with this thing! Is this the bass used on the Last Thee Standing recordings? If so it has an absolutley monster tone, not sure what else you were using with it. Very tempting [/quote]
  7. I had English Garden on vinyl and CD. God knows where it went. Five star album. P [quote name='RhysP' post='553212' date='Jul 27 2009, 09:08 PM']See if you can find the original version by Bruce Woolley & the Camera Club, there's a lot more guitar in it (it's more sort of XTC-ish). It's on the album "English Garden".[/quote]
  8. I'd like to try a Thunderbird for a jam just to see if I actually liked it...but even then I doubt if I really liked it I'd go the whole hog and get a Gibson; probably one of the new Epiphones, I'd like some lighter cabinets...my 4x10 is breaking my back!! P
  9. For the life of me I don't know why people love old strings. Anyhow, been on my Lakland for three jams, lots of life left and unboiled! PM me if you want them. P
  10. OK my final post here. The pickups just don't seem to be doing what I want; it's way too quiet, so for now they're out and a pair of MIJ Jazz pickups (that came with the body) are in. Everything is as it should be...the output is nice, loud and duuurty. They don't look so pretty in those massive cavities, but they'll do for now. Maybe some day I'll try again. Steve (Spartacus), cheers for your help and the PMs...at least I've become a bit more adept with a soldering iron, if nothing else. Best P
  11. D'Addario make an SL (super long) string - I had issues with the Lakland. I paid £24.50 plus about £7.00 shipping for two sets of EXL170-5SL from the US (eBay). They last for ages. P
  12. I always use a wide Levy's - black, neoprene material. Cheap, comfortable, long, long-lasting. P
  13. [quote name='Spartacus' post='540608' date='Jul 14 2009, 07:05 PM']OR IF YOU WANT TO SAVE SOME TIME CHECK IF THIS WORKS AS PARALLEL WIRING 1. Desolder the white and red leads from the pots. 2. Solder the black/yellow to the same point where you soldered the red in your pic 3. Solder the white/red together and solder that to the lug where you soldered the white in your pic How does that sound now?[/quote] First off, let me just put on record that the information on this forum is priceless, so thank you for this. I've gone the route above...the output of the bass has increased significantly and dare I say it, it sounds quite lovely, but (always a [i]but[/i], eh?), the bass is pretty noisy; some buzzing/humming. In an attempt to troubleshoot, I de-soldered and re-soldered each pickup in turn and then the tone control and none of this has really had an effect. Tried bypassing the tone altogether, still humming. Checked the ground wire to the bridge (on and off) and it's still the same (I've never soldered to the bridge). **Edit** Well after I posted last night, I took another look - the issue with the noise may just have been something to do with simply being too close to the amp - by this I mean my other basses are just very quiet. If I move away from the amp, the buzzing pretty much disappears, which is fine. It might be down to the pots being a little old, too much soldering etc. I have some new pots around and may go the route of taking everything off at some stage and use new pots, but right now everything seems OK. I'll repost later today if I suspect there's any problems! Thanks for your help...much appreciated. Cheers P
  14. OK, updates. First off, I've attached three photos, one of the plate, another of the bare cables from one of the pickups and finally the meter (that I loaned from work). Don't moan about my soldering skills! While it's messy, nothing is touching anything it shouldn't be. OK the readings. I did three readings with the meter set to the x100 ohm setting and recorded where the needle sat. The readings were: Cable colours/needle settings Red & White - 130 Black/Yellow & White - 80 Black/Yellow & Red - 80 In answer to another question, the black and yellow wires are pre-soldered to each other and were simply taped up and left to float. The red wire in both cases was soldered to the back of the pot, the white was soldered to the centre tab on the pot. Hopefully this means something! Thanks in advance... P
  15. Never really been a big Rick' fan, but all-black 4000 series are stunning. Lovely. P
  16. I've soldered the black and yellow together and run the red and white wires as per the Jazz diagram that Dave posted. I have sound - better sound - but the output [of the bass] is very woolly, a bit distorted and somewhat farty...there's not a lot of output either. It's very quiet. Both pickups are working independently now, in as much as I can turn the volumes up and down. The tone control works, but only really goes from super-woolly to woolly. On the upside, the earthing is fine! Not a buzz or anything. I'll have to put this on the back burner for a day or two - busy over the next two nights. Any further suggestions appreciated! Best P
  17. Cheers for the replies...soldering iron will be on in a couple of hours - I'm just back from Italy and haven't eaten anything in about 20 hours. Must get some food in me. P
  18. Can I just bump this if anyone can help. Cheers to Dave for the Fender schematic - already had that one! Cheers P
  19. All Jim Dunlop for me. For bass the blackie 1mm, on the 12-string bass the grey .88mm and for guitar the white .46mm. +1 to misrule for Sharkfins - I used to use these with my acoustic guitar. I didn't know they still made them. P
  20. I've been throwing together a Jazz style bass and as the existing body routs were kind of big, I bought a pair of Wilkinson MWM4C MusicMan clone pickups; the pickups came raw - no packaging or schamatics. A bit of honesty here too... don't actually know whether the pickups are active or passive (this only just dawned on me a few minutes ago); I paid until £25.00 the pair so I'm suspecting passive, which is fine. Everything on this build has been going quite smoothly until it came to actually getting some noise out of it! I'd like to run these is much the same configuration as a Jazz (V/V/T), but I can't find a schematic anywhere that will allow me to do this - I'm really not so worried about what the pickups can achieve when wired a certain way...I'm a straight rock player, so generally all the onboard bass controls are generally full on Anyhow, the pickups. They have four wires coming out of them coloured a (thick) black, yellow, red and white. The black and yellow wires are/were soldered together. I don't really understand the whole hot wire thing, so if anyone has a simple diagram that will help, or (if you're in a say thirty miles radius of Reading), I'll happily drive over and buy you a beer. Finally, I'm away now until the 13th. No PC so I can't post until I'm back. Thanks for any help P
  21. Thanks for the nice comments. Paint job all mine. I have some nice enough gear, but I'm no purist when it comes to DIY. The body was a transparent blue colour, I rubbed it down a bit, sprayed it white - a couple of coats - rubbing down with 240 grit paper between coats. Taped up the body with 3mm and 18mm Scotch/3M tape and sprayed it dark blue. I was quite happy with the results to be honest. Rubbed down again and applied two coats of clear coat. Deepened the neck pocket and attached the neck and it all just kind of worked. I shimmed the neck with a small bit of card and the action is great. The rout for the neck pickup [i]is[/i] enormous, plus there are screw holes in all the wrong places, so I've angled the pickup a little and it looks fine. With all this in mind, I need to locate a wiring schematic...the two Wilkinson pickups aren't wired right. I've e-mailed Trevor W. and hopefully he'll come back to me. I'm off on holiday tomorrow, so no updates for ten days. P PS/edit...With my graphic designer head on, I've done a headstock logo - I've christened it the Frank Einstein - Modern Prometheus Bass. Heh. Go look it up. Can I copyright that?
  22. I love JO5s. There was a red one on here a few weeks back. If I could have shifted my old Precision I think I would have gone for it. Sadly though, natural isn't for me, but have a bumpski. P
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