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Ok thanks - been offered one and so thinking about it. Any further wisdom, folks ?

Thinking of buying one, are they any good ? Don't seem to come up often in the marketplace here, can anyone advise a ballpark price for z used one ? Thanks

I'll take a turn - when is it available ? Thanks

[quote name='Greggo' timestamp='1349539689' post='1827524'] Yeah definitely I bet thats amazing. Me and missus have this ongoing joke about whether he'll play piano (she plays it) or guitar/bass. I hope he will embrace any musical venture as its been a passion of both of us playing music and be great for him to take up an instrument when hes older. I love spending time with my boy, hes growing up so fast and developing new skills daily (grabbing his feet is latest!) But there definitely isnt enough hours in the day to do it all as he comes first. Still, I did grumble to myself about postman! The parcel wasnt even for me [/quote] This is so spooky - my three year old loves instruments and we spent ages trying to work out what one she actually likes. I have a pic of her at 18 months plugging in my jazz bass. I think it will be drums . Partner keeps saying "it will get easier, you'll get more time to practice" but it does not seem to happen. However nursery tires them out more so you do get at least some earlier bedtimes Still waiting for a full nights sleep - was getting by in 3 broken hours a night at one point

I'm in central London at moment with my "gar" mad three year old. I might wander along to look tmrw

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1349553688' post='1827765'] Hold on,you mean a girl actually spoke to a bassist after a gig? [/quote] Even knowing its a bass, not a guitar, would be good enough for me. My partner of 8 years still can't tell the difference

I have the squier VM precision (Cort factory, Indonesia 2006) and it is just [b]amazing[/b]. Crisp, taut and like no other P bass i've tried. Its totally displaced my CIJ 62 reissue jazz.

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1312760306' post='1331584'] If you plan on buying without trying then don't get an SRX as they are the wide fingerboard models. The SRs are famous for their slim necks but the SRX is a bit of a beast in comparison [/quote] I didn't know that - if might explain why I struggled with an srX595 and its width. Still I sold it to a bass chatter who loves it so its gone to a good home

There's a sticky thread for this in the repairs nd technical issues forum - I had just this same problem and posted about it once solved

I have the yellow four string active. The only change I felt it needed was a copper foil lining for minor noise. Even the wood grain is quite nice. I assume its a good enough copy that a music man pickup would fit ?

Patrick pfeiffer explains this really well in bass guitar for dummies, available at your library

its on the lacquer - i had one. It is poly laquer so the colour is quite pale. Wirewooling the whole face of the headstock sorted it out, but the shadow was fairly tenacious

You could always get a Zoom B2.1 - it has a metronome in the builtin drum machne.

I have a Squier VM p bass, which has shielding paint in it and the standrd "duncan designed" pickups. It buzzes quite badly, but calms down a fair bit (but not totally) when I touch the strings. Tone up makes it worse. Is it likely theres a poor earth connection to the bridge ? second question, doesn anyone know if shielding paint is superior to copper tape with conductive glue ? I have some spare tape, and I'm tempted to add it but not if there is no gain thanks. EDIT - I solved my issues. I put extra shielding in, and tucked a little foil up so it reached the foil on the back of the scratchplate.I noticed that resistance from the bridge to the jack (0.50 ohms) was much higher than from the pots (0.009 ohms). Taking the bridge off I noticed that although the earth wire was in place, the exposed wire was twisted and quite slender so contact with the rough underside of the bridge was less than ideal. I pulled it through a little and put a piece of sticky copper foil over it to a ) stick it down and b ) widen the area of contact. This reduced the resistance from the now-refitted bridge to the jack socket to just 0.008 ohms. Bass now very quiet.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1347671474' post='1803969'] By Spinal Tap. Here's a picture of them performing it: [/quote] There's a reference to the real story behind this in "sabbath bloody sabbath"

I'd like it next please - makes me sixth I think

I'm not sure where I am in the list

Ive sent GS1000 a mesage about pickup/exchange as he lives fairly near.

My first bass was a noname copy and I really hated it, I've always played jazz basses and shied away from p bass necks due to concerns about width and profile. Couple of weeks ago I scored a cheap broken squier p bass on evil bay to do up. It turned out to be a stock Indonesian squier VM Precision in faded white/rw. It's brilliant in every way and so nice to play. I havent touched my jazz since - I finally "get" p basses

Poster above is quite right to warn about parcelforce and insurance but it's not quite true to say instruments are excluded from claims but the packaging requirements listed on their guidelines are so onerous they may as well be. No other courier is so demanding. The prosebass they carried for me looked like it has been machine gunned after they'd finished with it

that is a good idea,.