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i'm using one of these with a decent set of over ear cans' and no speaker connected , It works a treat .... its a tiny 5 watt amp but sounds excellent , based on an SVT amp model. http://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/nanolegacy/74.html When i can plug it into my Cab ( 8 ohms) its capable of getting very loud indeed far too loud to use with somone else in the house . i've even got one on my pedal board for rehearsal, which means all i have to do is connect it to the cab in the studio :-)

I'm running a great sounding set of black nylon tape wounds on my acoustic bass , http://www.daddario.com/DADProductFamily.Page?ActiveID=3768&familyid=20&sid=d2ff4991-393a-443e-8863-aeeb13aea87e Really helps against the loud finger movement noise that this sort of instrument can be prone too , and helps gives me that acoustic thump i'm looking for from my Aria AMB ... You can still dig in to get a more modern sound too if i raise the mid and treble when plugged in, but most of the time this instruments for lazy desk based jamming .

Darn I'm in Kingston and would have loved that aria, i have a bit of a soft spot for them , if it falls through let me know . lyle

Honestly its not much that can go wrong on a passive bass going on my personal experience a good guitar tech would probably look at replacing the pot , because either the soldier has become loose on the wire or the pot is very close to failing Any guitar tech is probably going to cost you a minimum of £50 pounds , However I'd strongly urge you to take a look as it yourself , you can learn an awful lot ... and its actually ridiculously easy . All you need is one of these , because if a wire has come loose a its a minute job with a soldiering iron to just re- melt the solider and get a good contact. [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/duratool-ZD-407-40-Soldering-Iron/dp/B00XMRPMUG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1453478206&sr=8-2&keywords=soldering+iron"]http://www.amazon.co...=soldering+iron[/url] Failing that you could replace the whole Wiring Loom yourself with one of KiOgon's famous soldierless looms :-) If you muck up with the solidering iron ... its still going to be £50 at the tech ;-)

Urgh I hate you Stevie-D thats my birthday bass ... and in the right colour combination as well >.< How much :-P

I'm a relative youngster in my covers band , the others are late 40's our front man, turned drummer ( due to losing our drummer) Can play all of instruments to a far higher standard than the rest of the band . He's frequently telling me that I don't have to do it perfectly like the original we are looking for the feel of the song , key phrases and the such but there are occasions where i FLAT out don't know a song we are going to learn . Fortunately modern technology is amazing i;ve got me a subscription to Songster http://www.songsterr.com/a/wa?ref=499253 Which basically does the tascam trainer thing , where you can slow down , loop and basically learn the part ... If songster doesnt have it ... youtube and spotifiy usually will . Remember you're auditioning for a covers band ... if you have advertised yourself as the second coming of flea they will expect you to slap ... Otherwise lay down a solid groove make sure you know the root's for the chords at the very least , lock in with there drummer ... and you'll be fine. never sacrifice the time-feel to hit a note.

I' didn't call it 50hz hum because were more familiar with the term , 60hz hum , but yes cheap ass pick-ups with a cheap ass unshielded loom sat a little too close to my amp in the living room ( volume quite low to not irritate she who would be obeyed) Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... required me to change my volume / tone settings to make it go away ... since getting a loom upgrade the Hum ... she is gone :-P and i can set the pickups to my old settings and sit mere inch's from my speaker .

Sorry Chienmortbb... I dont agree with that in the slightest , with a quality loom , pots and control's which are far more usable my stock rubbish ... the tone control went from an on off button that seemed to turn on at about 50% and get even more nuts at 100% ... to a gradual control that add's brightness as i roll it. The 60 Hz hum that i'd get from my single coils is totally gone due to them being properly shielded .. and he offers whatever cap's you want ... so if you want a grease-bucket he can do it ... if you want vintage he can do that ... Yes of course upgrade the Pu's but the loom makes a huge difference too ...

i'm going to second what Conan said ... about Kiogon's custom loom's His noiseless soldier less loom has changed my cheap jazz basses life ... major props to that man . Incidentally Bexhill on sea .. We used to vacation just up the coast from you in Normans bay .

I run flats on my Jazz , and my Stringray type 5 , the only thing that doesn't get this treatment is my T-Bird ;-) With a brighter flat like a chrome .. i get a huge variety out of the jazz .... I think the easiest way to tell is how do yo want your bass to sound If like me you find that tone knobs are much more likely to be set to 1 -3 rather than 8-10 , Then you'd benefit from using flats ;-) Putitng flats on the Tbird just seems like a bad idea :-P though

KiOgon ... is that an Aerodyne in disguise .... Fenderbots ... Roll out ? ?? !!

Hah Hah , the thing that i find on my five is that the string spacing is if anything ... Too tight.

As Long term lurker in this thread and frequent peruser of public peace ... i'm strongly considering pulling the trigger on one of his stock Elwood C's in the rather fetching white rabbit guise Does anyone within 30 mins or so of london have one of these ... i could try ? Im concious of the fact that he uses a 40mm rather than 38mm neck and after being burnt on a bass i didnt play before buying i'd really rather lay my claws on one.

To be honest i can get that angry sound out of a few of my bass's my Epid Tbird with different amounts of tone depending on the song and the bass slightly dropped on my Eq and the mids raised a bit more than i use for smoother stuff, getting the grow from it is as much about right hand position .. i play between my pickups but slightly closer to the bridge the more bright it want it to be and run through the Tube screamer patch from my zoom B3 ... Instant Angry and very usable sound used for Ace of spades ,(even more mids and more gain) / Chelsea dagger ( with the tone pot on 10 and mid's dialed back a little bit) For rock you cant beat a cheap n cheerful T-bird.... Second hand they go for around £150 in top nick and less for that the more beat they are , ( especially the older korean made ones like this which tbh are a lot better than the later stuff (MIC) [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epiphone-thunderbird-bass-/262233895528?hash=item3d0e5bb268:g:~ZkAAOSwLN5Wkooh"]http://www.ebay.co.u...ZkAAOSwLN5Wkooh[/url] that's from the unsung factory looking at the neck plate .. one considered to be one of the better at quality. They make you feel like a loony with that giant plank strapped to you ... and part of what channels that aggression ... is the angry 13 year old inside escaping into the practice room ... theres an easy fix for the neck dive on these as well due to the bolt on construction.

Here try this from its from my [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]Te 7215 smc GP7 This is the photo i use when some Muppet has been messing with it to annoy me in the storage room.[/color][/font] https://goo.gl/photos/SeFMNTCbtN46Brz76 Input volume at around 2-3 oclock ish just under where my clipping light is and use the master to deal with volume ... https://goo.gl/photos/SeFMNTCbtN46Brz76 Completely contradicts what the others in the forum are saying about cutting 50hz but ... gives me what i want out of the amp.

I did my similar no name bass upgrades with no issues the pickup swap from the stock's no names to some duncan designed , hand me downs from a Squire Vintage modified that someone had gone for Quarter pounders ... it plays wonderfully as the neck was already a dream and the pickup and loom / pots upgrade from kiogon meant its a great bitsa now for those gigs where the status should not go. I could not find a pick-gaurd to suit the screw holes are all in the wrong places and as i was looking for a cheap solution didnt want to get a custom one made , so instead i followed somone's suggestion to cover it in sticky back vinyl ... worked a treat ... Here's a couple of quick snaps .... the vinyl peel's off really easy and i have loads spare ... 4 Meter roll was 4 pounds. [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/synthaside/media/DSC_0677_zps4aidylbg.jpg.html"][/url] A close to see my slightly less dodgey work with a craft knife and the white gaurd underneath giving a BWB 3 ply kind of effect [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/synthaside/media/DSC_0680_zpsggy4utbw.jpg.html"][/url]

Actually i'm looking at the regulations on these wouldn't bass chat come under a small society ... [i]im bored its lunchtime :-P [/i] 3. Meaning of society and local authority lotteries Society lotteries 3.1 Society lotteries are lotteries promoted for the benefit of a non-commercial society. Such societies are organisations that have distinct aims and objectives and meet the definition of a non- commercial society set out in the Act. 3.2 A society is non-commercial if it is established and conducted for charitable purposes, for the purpose of enabling participation in, or of supporting, sport, athleticsor a cultural activity for any other non-commercial purpose other than that of private gain. This seems to require registration but no fee's for that registration unless the lotteries .[list] [*]may in a single society lottery exceed £20,000, [*]or the proceeds of previous lotteries in the same calendar year have already reached or may, taking into account the lottery in question reach £250,000 in one calendar year. [/list] The other caveat is the cost of registering for basschat because its a " REMOTE organisation" looks to be around [b]£40[/b] and at least [b]20%[/b] of the proceeds must go to the organisation in every lottery So .... lets say a £1000 bass would be 50 tickets @ £20 800 pounds of the proceeds would go to the owner of the bass and 200 to bass chat to make it legal. I [b]VERY[/b] much doubt one of the organisers at basschat wants to go to the hassle of registering for a remote operators licence and manage these kind of sales ... and that too many people would be happy losing a 20% cut of the sale proceeds to basschat every time one of these went up ,people would want it rolled into the costs of ticket sale. I'd say this is a non starter and anyone doing it on facebook / other unregistered Charity is actually breaking the law unless they are registering with the gambling commission :-P Source here . http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pdf/Promoting-society-and-local-authority-lotteries.pdf

I'm pretty much is the same quandary at the moment , I want a jazz bass I love my Bitsa ... but ultimately its reached its best bass it can be , I got a little money from the collect family for birthday and Christmas So i went down to guitar guitar in Epsom because I knew they would have lots of Mim's to try .... Did feel really good I loved the satin neck on the one I tried it felt like a wonderful instrument and it was very difficult to leave without it which we did because I'm more of an agonizer and hate the idea of paying top money for a bass in the shop that after consulting the serial number has been there for 2 and a bit years . Let me put the cat among the pigeons ... and add the other reason why I walked away http://www.public-peace.de/index.php/bass-guitars/maruszczyk/elwood/4-string People are speaking incredibly highly of them I would really really love someone who has some fender J's to do some in depth comparison but the way people talk about them they seem close to american standard quality ??? Price wise once you get that converted from euro's its only 40 quid more than what I was looking at paying for a MIM but you get it shipped and a nice bag and strap ... Im torn.

YES... please

I did just this myself about 6 months back , picked up an OLP mm3 5 string as a part exchange trade on here I'd strongly recommend one of these. i believe there called the olp MM3 cracking basses you can see why they were pulled by Ernie ball , they punch WAY WAY above there weight especially if your more of a passive guy like I am , massive and very usable sound .... and very tight string spaces so if your used to a jazz nut the neck isn't too much of a handful i believe the .string spacing is something like 16mm . I think there definatly around 150-160 2nd hand and totally worth that.