SonnyBassPlayer

Soo this is my honest rig Ashdown ABM500 Evo II RC from 2007 in Gator retrorack case with a power socket mounted on the back to power the head, pedalboard and Mooer Radar; Gallien Krueger CX210 & CX410 @8ohms that I keep at rehersal place; I almost always ony take the 2x10 cab to gigs In front of that is just bass and pedalboard.

The Firemist Silver Jazz is one of the most beautiful Jazz basses I ever saw.. Online. Haven't met one yet in shops

This post just made me find out about this bass and I'm in love; I always had a thing for hollow bodies' but not enough to justfy owning one.. But I'm a P bass guy and this model triggers me over the top. I'll be waiting for a black or wood-ish color since red-scale colors are really not my thing.

They should be the very same bass except for the finish & wear.

I have very mixed feelings about these instruments because of my experiences. Starting from the most relevant to the post, I got a used 2021 50s P bass (single coil model) for a decent price, and after taking it home to set up with my favourite strings I realised that the truss rod turned but had literally no effect on the neck. After visiting my luthier who told me the neck was shot and not worth repairing, I got a deal on a Fender replacement 51 neck (mexican) and replaced the pretty, yet faulty, squier neck. This got me a bit mad but I'm glad I now have a kinda custom bass (the pickguard is handmade by me): Going back in time I also own a '70s Jacck from 2020 and a '60s P from the same year. The jazz has the truss rod bumping up the fifth fret, making playing on the 4th on any string extremely buzzy unless precisely set with light strings; the '60s P had the neck going up and down on its own and I got used to it. These instruments look great IMHO and sound very well for the price point, but I can't ignore the fact that the necks, apart from being very comfortable and pretty looking, are just rubbish structure-wise...

One of my favourite pedals is the EHX Hot Tubes and it's damn great for the 40€ I spent (used)

Some 3M 80345 pink polish should do the job.

I play various genres and own different basses, this is how I face it. My bigger concern is tuning since I have 4 bands in standard, one in drop-D and one in Eb std. My main bass is a mexi P with upgrades which I try to play in most projects. I use it for shoegaze, alt-rock and pop basically with the same sound: rounds, pick, light overdrive. I just close the tone a bit for alt-rock since it's acoustic and the pop band. I have a small pedalboard in fron of the amp which i use mostly on the shoegaze band. I could use the same bass in a fourth project which is a trash punk duo but I built a custom bass for that just for the heck of it. Another alt-rock acoustic duo plays in Eb so I use a second P bass, a CV 60s from 2019 setup as closely as the main one. The latest band I joined plays modern alt-rock full band this time, and plays in drop-D for which I use a CV 70s Squier Jazz. At the end of the day I'd just play the P bass all the way around but I dislike messing with the tuning, expecially owning more instruments. I will just detune the main P bass for the drop-D band but only for live gigs, I keep on rehearsing and studying on the Jazz. As far as the amps go, I use my ABM500 and GK CX210 cabinet for all full band gigs with almost the same settings and a Fender Rumble 100 combo for "acoustic" duo gigs. I just like having my tone as a sort of signature and as far as today has gone it has fit all my bills.

Oh damn this thread triggers me so much!!! Lovely idea. This is from my first band, we played '90s punk and this is where it all started for me; this is from the album we recorded in 2013 after 3 years of playig together, righ before splitting (as it always happens) Straight forward to 2020, this is the last release of my stoner/instrumental/desert trio Dune Rosse, right before the drummer moved and going on hiatus: Fun fact: I used the same P bass in both bands, the only difference being 9 years of experience & wear and the latest one being in C standard.

The perfect tone is something we'll never reach if not for a few days, and than as soon as we get used to something we start craving for something else... Just get a decent P bass (Squier CV, Modern Player w/upgraded pickup, or a Vintera) and you may be on the right path. In case you need to sell, part with the bass you use less.

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I'm the proud owner of an ABM500 EvoII RC from 2007 that I bought used about 4 years ago. I used it live with 4 different bands and genres, recorded stoner and shoegaze alike greatly. I added the Gator case last year during lockdown. It's very heavy but worth it IMHO.

My best purchase for this year had been a Mooer Radar cabsim that I'm sticking on ther back on my ABM head with my own cabinet's Ir so that I can always have my mic'd sound available. Also my customized Thomann P bass kit:

Sooo I completely forgot to update this thread. As I took the bass to the luthier, he confirmed the neck was shot as the truss rod had no action: it would have needed replacement, a kind of expense I wasn't keen on taking for such bass. I went ahead and bought the Fender neck after recieving confirmation about the heel measures, as I thought that once I had an expense, it could have very well been a decent upgrade (mostly because the Fender neck was 40% off). It wasn't an easy fit after all because the neck heel screw holes had to be moved, and since I decided to keep the Squier tuning machines he kinda fought with the headstock as the holes for the tuning machine trees had to be slightly enlarged. He complimented the neck quality wise, also telling me that since it hadn't been sitting in a shop with the string tension ruining it in case of lack of care, it would keep very stable and straight. I was scared the finish would be too pale as I love vintage looking necks, but it's got a nice tone while still being not dark and I really appreciate it. As I played it a few days I deecided I needed a different pickguard, and since I couldn't find what I was looking for I made myself a matte black one. Here's the bad boy. All things considered it turned into a really good instrument, the tone is very nice (yet I'm thinking about a pickup upgrade, mostly to kill the hum) and this Fender replacement neck is really awesome. The shape is very chunky yet incredibly comfortable to play. That's all folks.

Good day, I'm looking for some information regarding this very neck sold by Fender https://shop.fender.com/it-IT/parts/electric-bass-parts/necks/replacement-necks/fender-1951-precision-bass-neck/0990202921.html I just got a used Squier Classic Vibe '50s (2020) P bass and the neck is probably shot since the truss rod won't have any effect on the curvature. Since I bought this bass to be in C tuning, I could solve the problem by using almost standard gauge strings, which would put very little force over the neck, being tuned two steps down and call it a day the cheapest way. Clearly the thought of not being able to play it in standard if I wanted or to fine tune the setup is very annoying. Of course I bought it used quite cheap so returning is not an option. The point is that I'm thinking about the chance of upgrading it with a better neck since I really like the bass apart from this deadly problem and I can't find the Fender neck heel measures anywhere and I'm not really into taking another chance. Did anyone do the same swap? Anyone got a contact I could ask this info to? I already wrote to an Italian dealer selling this very neck and they can't get me the data....

I really enjoyed my tea & biscuits in my browser instead of the usual cookies and I'll definately divide my forum time between TB and BC! Cheers 🍺

There's so much inspiration in these post for nice pedals, must control myself or my wallet will cry. Anyway, I'll do my best at enjoying what I own: This is my current board, used in two different projects. From the left, I got an always-on Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop to always have my sound lightly overdriven. I truly love how that pedal shapes the bass tone. I'm a pick player not into large fat sounds anyway and it really suits. Than the Team Awesome Fuzz Machine which, of course, fuzzes. Alternatively I have a standard Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop set up for for a more overdriven tone, and at the beginning of the chain (yes indeed) EHX Bass Clone chorus & Holy Grail Max reverb. Tuner's a TC Poly black mini. I play alt-rock/90s/acoustic/shoegaze/indie/post-rock&punk with this one. This is instead the old pb I used in my instrumental post-rock/desert trio: I used a P bass tuned in C standard with Re'62 pickups and 50-110 Rotosound flats, resulting in a very low output. I boosted it with the HotTubes (always on) to feed it to the COG Knightfall 66 on which had two levels of gain set; one of the two was my always on/standard tone. Than I had the Pog2, Freeze and Helix for weird/trippy sounding sections, and the Blower Box for the most distorted tones. I did some swells too with the Dunlop volume. This has only been used on that very specific band since it was all fine tuned to work with that bass and bandmates. Damn, I miss them.

Short scales are simply getting rid of those "chaper, begginner-aimed" tags they had for decades IMHO. There are many great quality SSs that envy nothing to longer scale basses nowadays and probably people just like them. When they came out there wasn't much choice and for example the Musicmasters were actually cheaper and beginner-aimed..

I've owned a Bronco for about 5 years as I always wanted a shorty on a budget. I must admit I really love how it looks since it's got that '70s derp (pretty much that being simple looks, contrasting colors, and maple) but I never really used it much because the E string literally kills all the others.. I actually like the sound and this defect really bugs me. It's got an interesting story: I was planning to visit New York in 2016, and I really wanted to come home with a bass. Since long scale wouldn't fit my luggage I looked up cheap SSs and found this one in California; I had it shipped to the nearest Guitar Center to the room I had, got it home by walking, and than to Italy with me. I must say I suffered elbow pain since using it at rehersal holding it *higher* than my other basses about one year ago, thus having my arm do a tighter angle. I wish I'd play it more but it absurdly literally kills me since than..

I will never sell my first P bass, which has been my second bass overall. I bought it a few months after starting to play because I knew I wouldn't stop any time soon (it's been 13 years) so I put most of my pocket money in it. I pretty much learned to play on it, played my first and latests gigs, recorded 4 albums. It feels like a friend.