HeadlessBassist

Your finish looks great to me. Lovely colour too. I tend to prefer Nitro or hand stained finishes on Jazzes, as they always sound completely different. It's as if the nitro allows the body wood to 'speak' and resonate.

There was a very interesting edition of All About The Bass [I think it was the one comparing lots of outboard Preamps] I watched the other day, where the supposedly 'funny man' who sits in between Lee & Cici actually mentioned that "Jazz basses need a little help" and took the bass and treble up to about 2 o'clock. This makes the whole thing sound richer and punchier, without really accentuating the 'scoop'. Good quality passive Jazz basses usually have very natural low mids and the active ones do sound empty if they're not present. I use the same method of eq-ing my passive Jazzes and usually get fantastically rich sounding results.

Same here. I have very dry hands (they never seem to get sweaty), but after playing flats for a few minutes it feels like they’re sticking to my fingers. Again, Yukl The only thing worse is those latex strings you get on U-Basses. They are truly weird.

In some cases they hide the extra routing for the battery under the Scratch Guard, in front of the volume control.

1. Keep the ones that you can't imagine yourself being without, or which you love the sound of. (In my own personal case, I keep the ones that earn me money. Everything beyond my core 6-7 is up for grabs.) 2. I currently have 9 basses stored in a very small music room/extension. Nae problem. 3. The Spectorcore might be a little on the soft side for metal material, but with that bity EMG, will probably hold its own in the average rock band. 4. Nah. You're just a bass player who wants to be fully equipped. Nothing wrong with that. Btw, I forgot to add... "He who dies with the most toys wins!"

My thoughts exactly. 😎👍

That’s what Roger’s Preamps were always meant to do - make a Jazz-style Bass much more present and punch through. They have very well chosen frequencies, whereas the Fender Preamps are more polite and sit back more. I always liked my Dimension Elite, but the preamp never really did it for me. The increased top end was welcome, if polite sounding, but the frequencies weren’t as well chosen as a Sadowsky.

As the learned Stub Mandrel said, you need the two J-type pickups to get the full range of Jazz bass sounds, although a short scale P&J will get you there. My American Performer Mustang does a monstrous Jaco sound on it's back J pickup. SM was perfectly correct - usually, the P&J configuration cancel each other out to a degree and give you a rather 'plinky' sound. The humbucker can work in the bridge position combined with a split coil up front, though. Try one of those Sandberg premium basses with this setup combined with a good onboard preamp and it sounds fantastic. Basses with HS combinations (humbucker at the bridge and single coil J at the neck) never sound that punchy to me.

I've never really been a flat wound player, as I've always found that singers and wind players pitch off the top end overtones of the bass, so very clean rounds are usually in order when playing live. More recently, I picked up a lovely Vintera II Mustang which came strung on LaBella flats. They made the bass sound terrible and dead with zero tone. They had so much tension that you couldn't even bend a string without serious effort. So I changed them for a set of new Thomastik Jazz Flats which had previously been on my old American Professional Precision for about half an hour, which was sold to a fellow performer some three years ago. The difference in the Mustang is huge. Playable, flexible and lyrical sounding. It may convert me to flats yet! Oh damn - I just ordered another set of 40-95 Elixirs for my main Jazz. Ah well.

Judging by the perfectly smooth curve of the crack, it just looks like a 'duck tail' join where the glue failed. It can happen.

I had a go on their configurator this afternoon. The pickup choices are very confusing. I had to go and look them all up, but ended up with P90 and a Jazzmaster at the bridge. Colours are quite limited too. They do sound good, though, but not 1.5x my American Performer Mustang.

Lovely basses. Did you clamp the neck for a day or two while the glue set?

+100 percent. Double bass 1-2-4 fingering over three frets below the 7th position, then one finger per fret from 7th position upwards. Keeping the LH thumb behind the neck helps with hand shape, too.

That Sire will sound good through the TC. Hope you enjoy it

Congratulations! What bass are you playing through it?

TC Electronic is a great choice if you can bag one. Good luck! 😎👍 The suspense is killing me...

Not actually my gig, and nor was I playing So I had a lovely evening going to see and support my mate who I've been playing with in a trio for over thirty years. Paul is an amazing guitarist, but plays bass for the 'Beat Club', and was playing one of my Jazz basses. So I had a highly pleasant evening of being an 'Audient', sitting and listening and drinking my blackcurrant and soda water. C2B0436F-F3D3-42F8-BA6B-500CF3A614FA.MP4

I'd also look for a used TC Electronic BG250 combo. They definitely punch well above their weight. The 2x10 is the best of the bunch, but the 15 and 12 are very capable in a band situation too.

Agreed, PinkMohawk. I'm sure there are extra options we'd all like to make our perfect Fender Bass. As for me, I'd want a selection of previous model pickups, such as the original V-Mod and Pure Vintage Custom Shop 64's. I'd also like the option of the small/tall Vintage Reverse Tuners. We're a picky lot, aren't we?

That'll be £3000 please, Sir.

These are fantastic playing and sounding basses, congratulations Nilorius. 😎👍