Doctor J

Couldn't you just go to every guitar shop within a 100 mile radius over the next month and try out each of their bass stock?

I'd say you should expect the difference. Your bridge pickup is closer to the bridge with 70's spacing, meaning a less bassy tone, that's the whole point of using that spacing. I don't think you've measured the resistance of the pickups properly, because your average J pickup is about 7k. Check your soldering, because on my J with 70's spacing I have the bridge pickup 3mm from the bottom of the string and the neck 5mm to get a balanced output. You're never going to get the same bassy response from a bridge and neck pickup, but in terms of actual percieved volume, it sounds like there's something wrong if you have the neck pickup screwed right into the body.

That's what the "tug-bar" is for on early Fenders, Leo thought that's how the electric bass guitar would be played, the player would rest his fingers on the bar and play using the thumb to pick the strings.

I love this kind of thing. Someone created a thread a while back which compared an all-original pre-CBS Fender P to a recent SX and the snobbier types cried foul, that it wasn't a fair comparison because he had installed a Lollar pickup into the SX, entirely missing the point

That was horrible. Take some of the notes but none of the balls of the original, put it in cardigan and play it in a lift in a nursing home and that's what you get.

That is a really nice setup

Probably not, without knowing what you paid for it. This is the last one that sold here and he used some very advanced sales techniques http://basschat.co.uk/topic/112363-sold-esp-400-jazz-in-candy-apple-red-sold/page__hl__esp%20jazz

I think I read the synth was set at 44.1kHz instead of 48kHz or vise-versa or something along those lines, twas a technical f*** up rather than the chaps being able to play the right notes on the guitar.

What a horrible tease! Unwrap, man, unwrap!

I spent ages looking for the right head and finally setted on this Fryette Deliverance 60. It's a single channel amp, no unnecessary nonsense or ultra confusing options for a gobsh*te like me. It'll do sparkling clean to really crushing distortion and all loveliness inbetween. I looked at Mesas, Marshalls and everything else, this one just spoke to me and it's an amazing piece of kit. The cab is a Peavey Valveking 4x12, I was running out of money and needed a cab to gig so this was pretty cheap and did the job decently. I'd like to get the Fryette 2x12 in the future but the bank practically insist I pay the mortgage first. I've a delightful Ampeg 2x12" combo I'll add if I can find a pic. I did gig with it a couple of times but it was just way too heavy which is why I needed to source the head instead.

I like!

Is that a 22" ride? It looks huge.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1325874969' post='1489294'] Telling Bloc Party they were crap and I was leaving, I was right on both count but still...... [/quote]Hero!

[quote name='Clarky72' timestamp='1325866287' post='1489100'] Love old VH, not overly taken with later Hagar VH, but I do love Chickenfoot. [/quote]I can relate to this. I've been going back to the Hagar era VH with renewed interest since getting into Chickenfoot though. Nothing any of them ever do will top Eat 'Em And Smile, however. The laws of physics state it cannot be done.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1325856567' post='1488810'] Doctor J - loving the Bacchus Duke and the Tokai ES130. Any chance of some bigger photos? [/quote]Cheers. The pics are huge, I think the site has resized them. If you right click and "view image" (on Firefox at least) it'll show the full size.

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1325846902' post='1488560'] I quiet often get bruised legs from my home drumming practice, really should get a practice pad instead!! [/quote] Ahhhh bruised legs, that takes me back.

Just had an idea - maybe, to appease the naysayers, posts in there shouldn't count towards your overall total, like Off Topic

For the last few years I played in a band with a standard 25.5" scale guitar tuned to baritone tuning. Not quite the same thing and the purpose behind it was to play very heavy heavy metal, so it's probably not what you're looking for Anyway, a non-metal loving friend of mine who had an interest in getting a baritione played it and was dismayed, not that it was hard to play or sounded bad or anything like that, just that he had a hard time getting his head around the tuning and how he would use it in a more normal form of music, so try before you buy, is the message there, I suppose.

Who else can keep a beat? Here's mine, an old Pearl Export kit (22", 11", 12", 16" - proper 80's sizes ) I bought off the drummer in my first real band. I upgraded to a Pearl Masters 14" birch snare about ten years ago though the original Export steel snare sounded great, it kept detuning. Cymbals are Sabian AA apart from the XS crash and HH Ride.

What's that pointy headed Tele?

[quote name='Linus27' timestamp='1325799086' post='1488091'] I did hear about the 800 but never got to see one. I am interested now in seeing what they look like. The only other 400 I saw in the flesh was at a studio I was recording at. It was baby blue and fretless. [/quote]Ha ha found a Tele version on ebay [i]That[/i] in jazz bass form!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1325797811' post='1488050'] As you can see from the other thread I play guitar as well as bass. However for most of the 80s I was in an all synth band. This is me on stage in 1986 with my customised Yamaha KX5 MIDI controller which I used to play a Casio CZ5000 synth. [/quote] Were there any controls under your left hand or was that area purely for hanging on? Genuine question.

Indeed, thanks Ped.

When you're letting the side down, what do you do it with? I got a guitar about a year after I started on bass and took up drums about six years later. I'm not good at either but they're nice to knock about on. What about you?