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[quote name='El Molusko' post='1361975' date='Sep 4 2011, 05:55 PM']so don't kick my *ss if my english is too bad [/quote] You can start by using the correct English word for posterior. It's ARSE!!! not that poncey American word ass Welcome to BC

[quote name='Floyd Pepper' post='1360205' date='Sep 2 2011, 06:08 PM']The Mex 60's Roadworn Jazz is a nitro finish. Tried an American Vintage and several others but walked out the door with the Roadworn. Nice weight, comfortable neck and very playable. Great bass[/quote] I've always been a bit sceptical of the factory relic thing but the RW seem to be amazingly good basses. Never heard a bad word about them. I was looking for a Jazz recently and I came close to buying one but in the end I liked the colour of the sunburst on the CS '64 and I managed to find a used one at a decent price.

If it's called a Roadworn then it's Mexican but the Mexican reissues are finished in Poly AFAIK. Confusing innit

[quote name='notable9' post='1360152' date='Sep 2 2011, 05:27 PM']Hi all, Im going nuts! Im interested in getting a Road Worn jazz bass in nitro but cant seem to figure how many different types their are. I can see the Mex 60's one is popular but is there a RW jazz in the American 62 Vintage series, which i would prefer i think. Gratious thanks Ian[/quote] The AV series doesn't have any relicked basses in the range. The Roadworn are all Mexican EDIT: The AV series are all finished in nitro though so buy one and use it for a few years and it'll be roadworn

[quote name='dc2009' post='1352930' date='Aug 26 2011, 07:45 PM']As for not giving more colour choice in the hope more people will buy CS models, I can't really see that as true - surely if you want a custom colour on an off the shelf fender you get it resprayed for up to £250 rather than spending £1000s more on a CS version? I love the sparkly orange that MM do on the bongos, and those Big Als come in some interesting colours too. I love the deep blue and green Warwick do, no reason why fender couldn't do any of these![/quote] Do people really spend £1000 on a bass and then another £250 to get it sprayed a different colour. Not a chance. For that sort of money you are getting close to Boutique builder territory. Fender are never going to offer the J or P in sparkly orange, because Fender are all about tradition and I would bet that sunburst is still their best seller. If James Jamerson played a sparkly orange Precision then it'd be in their catalogue.

[quote name='chris_b' post='1352618' date='Aug 26 2011, 03:43 PM']Really? Since Leo left it looks like Fender have favoured the dart board method for figuring everything out![/quote] Yes really. They still offer all the colours on guitars so they haven't forgotten they exist. If they don't offer them on basses then there's a good reason for it. These things don't happen by chance. For instance they used to offer LPB in the 1990s on the US Standard but discontinued it and it's now only available on the Mexican range. Multi million dollar corporations like Fender exist to make a profit and if they were making money on it it wouldn't have been discontinued. Colours like Shell Pink and Seafoam Green might be desirable to a few people on BC but I doubt there is enough mass appeal to justify producing them. One of Fender's main USPs has been their link with the past. You can look at footage from the 1960s and 70s and see classic bands with the same instruments you can buy today, so that means black, white or sunburst. Custom colours were rare. That kind of endorsement keeps Fenders selling, especially to people of a certain age

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='1351560' date='Aug 25 2011, 05:28 PM']Yep, sure there would be a big market for all those lovely old colours but perhaps this may reduce their custom shop sales.[/quote] +1 to this. I've always found the range of colours a limited. With the exception of white and sunburst I'm not too keen on any of them. Even the sunburst seems very dull compared to the CS sunbursts. I'm sure the range of colours hasn't happened by accident though. Fender have a lot of very highly paid marketing bods figuring these things out.

[url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/tech/manuals/abm_manual.pdf"]This[/url] one covers the EB180. I don't think they do a seperate one for the 130watt version Edit: So you've tried Ashdown's website. Are you sure there is a manual for the EB130. It looks like they do one manual to cover everything. The pre-amps are pretty similar

[quote name='ironderby' post='1346687' date='Aug 20 2011, 08:34 PM']Okay so the head is: 4 ohms output power 2x500 rms into 4 ohms, the cab i would like is a 4x10 (4ohms) am i alright to connect them, will anything blow? thanks[/quote] If you mean is it ok to connect the 2 outputs to a single cab, the answer is only if the amp is bridgeable. If it's not then you will blow something. Edit: If you're talking about the LG1000 then it's not bridgeable, so to get maximum juice out of the amp you need 2 cabs rated at 4ohms each

You may find the pre-amp needs a fair bit of driving to get sufficient volume out of it if you're gonna be playing metal [url="http://www.finnbass.com/showthread.php?t=7469"]User Review[/url] This is the 350 version but AFAIK they have a common pre. Bearing in mind it has two O/P channels you would probably be better off with a pair of 2x10s Also it is a different pre-amp to the MAG/ABM series so don't expect to get the Ashdown tone from it.

[quote name='Robert Manning' post='1335395' date='Aug 10 2011, 06:06 PM']what are grey imports?[/quote] Unofficial imports. I was looking for a CS Jazz recently and some of the American dealers state on their websites that Fender forbids them from shipping new instruments abroad, presumably to protect the dealer networks abroad and to maintain the price structure. I emailed a couple of them and they hinted that they would find a way to ship abroad anyway, so I expect this seller has an "arrangement" with someone over there to supply him with new basses

[quote name='Robert Manning' post='1335218' date='Aug 10 2011, 04:03 PM']Why would someone sell a new custom guitar though?[/quote] I was thinking about buying off him. Had a couple of conversations with him and he seems decent enough. He sells a lot of CS and AV reissues. I can only guess that they're grey imports. He describes them as new and I have no reason to doubt that but they are well below the price you would pay from a authorised dealer.

Or this [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=144229"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=144229[/url] and these [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=149937"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=149937[/url]

The MAG stuff is as good as anything else on the market at that price point so if you like the Ashdown sound how about this. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=149948"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=149948[/url] A 2x10 is always going to struggle against 2 guitars and drums though, unless they play quietly.

[quote name='clauster' post='1332514' date='Aug 8 2011, 06:29 PM']Get in touch with Alex at Barefaced, he will be more than happy to point you in the right direction.[/quote] Yes I did. It's partly his advice that's steered me away from the BB

Hmmm.. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. In light of this and what Alex says I'd probably be better off looking at the S12 or Compact

Sigh. I was hoping for a bit more information than "Yes I've got one" Never mind.

What amp do you use with it?

Isn't one enough? Why two Big Babys rather than the BB and the matching sub?

We could always do what the guy on Talkbass did. Went to his local Home Depot (B&Q to you and me), bought a plank of wood, mounted the neck, pickups, bridge and all the rest of the hardware from his fancy bass made of "Tonewoods" onto the plank. Then he recorded some sound samples and offered them up on the forum for a blind listening test and guess what... No-one could tell the difference.

[quote name='SlackAlice' post='1322086' date='Jul 31 2011, 12:26 PM']Angie (gullible )[/quote] Not really. The main beef about Denmark Street seems to be the contemptuous attitude of the staff to customers who aren't famous rockstars. Judging by your experience that at least seems to have changed

THe Compact seems to be the best seller out of the Barefaced range but we don't hear a lot about the Big Baby. The idea of the extra punch from that midrange driver appeals to me so I wondered if anyone is using one

[quote name='stevie' post='1321364' date='Jul 30 2011, 03:10 PM']I have to agree with Bill: Ashown's figures are pure fantasy. I've tested the driver in that box, measured its Thiel Small parameters and published its low end performance in an Ashdown cabinet on this forum. It has no low end to speak of - by which I mean below 100Hz - and it has a bad peak at around 100Hz, which is no doubt the boom that you were trying to get rid of. The MAG 15 may well be the cheapest 1x15 on the market, and it shows. If you were looking to add low end to a 4x10, it's not surprising you failed.[/quote] I've never actually used those cabs. I haven't fallen for the "add a 15 for more low end" for many years. If I was in the OP's position I would get a 4x10, which is exactly what I was suggesting and my response to Bill's post was agreement. Jesus H Christ. You really are a piece of work.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1321310' date='Jul 30 2011, 02:09 PM']Quoting it is one thing, backing the quote up with objective data is something else entirely. They don't. Not that Ashdown is alone on that point, as no manufacturers do so. In any event 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' remains the operative caveat. If the 115 does go 23Hz lower than the 410 that extension is obtained at the cost of sensitivity, so it would take two to four of those 115s to match the output of one 410. One of the laws of acoustical engineering is that power demand doubles for each octave of lower frequency extension. That being the case the notion that a single fifteen driven with the same power as four tens can significantly add to the low end just doesn't add up.[/quote] There ya go. So if you want more "Oomph" you need a 4x10