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I just had to learn this bassline and I think I've got it pretty accurate bar a couple of untight bits and a few accuracy discrepencies with the original - each fill in the mid section is different, and they are all ace. It took me a while to work out, thought it might be useful for someone to see what my hands are doing if they want to learn it (its how I often learn new tunes, seeing what other people are playing) The Boss OC2 is great fun, though I think I can hear clipping at times with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwp0plgD0_Y

Bought a Yamaha BB 2024cx from Ben. As described and well packaged. Cheers man!

That's me playing the white VM 5 on page one of this thread! I can't say enough about the quality of the SQuire VM range. For years I had completely ignored Squiers, probably because of the hunk of crap one I had in the early 90s - A P-bass, my second bass (looking back, it probably jsut needed a good truss rod tweak). The neck on this bass is great. The stock pickups were not bad at all and appeared to be alnico Vs with cloth wire. The wiring inside is top notch with good quality components. The tuners seem ok. The stock bridge is a bent bit of pot-metal, but no worse than on may fenders. Altogether a superb 5 string p-bass for not a lot of money - cant really see how it could be improved by spending an extra 1000 quid on an american on. There is no problems with the B-string on this bass either. Played live the sound is meaty, p-bass goodness all the way. I've been playing bass 27 years and have had dozens through my hands. The quality of modern budget instruments is outstanding, way better than back in the day. You get the odd dodgy ones, for sure, but good ones are excellent for upgrading into superb beasts. I have a VM 77 Jazz which has been suped up with a badass II, Delano PUPS, Hipshot tuners and a John East pre-amp. Great sounding bass and the neck is probably the nicest one I have on my many basses - action is sooo low with no fret buzz. Feels amazing! In fact, here's a vid of that bass (off topic, I apologise - remove if you want admin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NnCnqAF2SA

Thanks for all the advice guys. I'm not wanting to name and shame at all! RE: Not noticing unitl fairly recently. What can I say - I didn't look closely at the fret board! I couldnt get rid of the buzz and I wondered if it was jsut a bad isntrument rather than being a problme with the frets (I can set up a guitar properly). But could not get rid of the buzz despite adjusting the aciton and truss rod. It is not my main bass and only gets played on occasion. I was putting another bass to get sorted few weeks ago, so I thought I'd drop this one in too. Dood - bass was not bought from the original maker. I just thought it would be nice to get a re-fret and general sorting out (pots had gone etc) from the original makers. With a new one on order, I was planning to sell this one on - but I want it to be sorted for doing that. Its a classic bass, and hopefully when its sorted be around for a while. I think I'll just, politely, send them an email explaining the situation.

I bought it second hand and when I got it I realised it needed a re-fret. It was pretty much un-usable. I thought I'd be doing the bass right by taking it back to the workshop where it was made.

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Good communication and fast delivery of pickups exactly as described.

If anyone wants to hear Tonerider pickups in action: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1eiH5vVPjo&feature=youtu.be"]https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be[/url] (Big Country, Look Away) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWTOFS4AYMI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=wWTOFS4AYMI[/url] (Hot Water - no a great take but kept because my Dog came in and it amused me ) Total cost for this bass (BadAss bridge, Hipshot tuners, Tonerider pickups) - 420 quid and its easily competing with and american standard at a 1/4 of the price. The toneriders are pretty good I think. Not amazing but they sound pretty good

What are the pickups like on the affinity? I was surprised to find that the pickups in a recent Squire VM Precision V seemed to be alnico magnets as they did not have the usual fridge magnet stuck to the bottom like other cheap p-bass pickups. Sounded pretty good too!

Cheers Karl, I'll check them out

Anyone know where I can get one? There are "mirror" scratch plates available, basically plastic/acrylic with a mirror finish, but I'm after a real metal/polished chrome one. Cant seem to find anywhere that sells them!

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1480780788' post='3187106'] Yes new pot required, but in better news that one isn't attached to the preamp pcb so it's a relatively easy fix! Brightside! [/quote] Argh - It looks like it IS attached the preamp pcb. This could be an expensive fix!

Bit of disaster - I somehow managed to pull the volume knob of the stacked control on my Sire. The knob and the spindle have come out and I cant get it to catch inside - its just spinning in the tone pot. I cant figure out how to get it to re-attach. I dont know if I've broken it or just have figurted out how to reassemble it!