Iacopo San

Corts are beautiful instruments, but I always found them super meh in terms of sound. Very uninspiring and boring.

Have you look at Sire? They are beautiful crafted, in your price range, and to me they sound great. The M7 would definitely my go to bass if I were in the market for a 5 string.

https://www.andertons.co.uk/sire-version-2-updated-marcus-miller-m7-alder-5-string-transparent-blue?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlKmeBhCkARIsAHy7WVuKGjFVydsEb3zQ2kJ-0aYp1M4pfjKJJZpFiUqVXtasDErBWEmNWHcaAnhZEALw_wcB

I agree with most comments saying it sounds pretty terrible

Sold a pedal to Adam, great communication. 

On 12/02/2021 at 11:30, Rich said:

I'd not seen this before, but that is cooler than the other side of the pillow 😎 I bet it sounds the absolute pooches parts with flats on it. Can we have an update @Iacopo San?

It sounds the stinky poo with flats on, love it. Very vintage like.

Great example of delay pedal which does all the usual delay, reverse mode, loop and some more glitchy stuff if you are into it. Built like a tank!

Collection in London or I can ship of course, probably it'll cost £5.

2 minutes ago, paul_c2 said:

For someone to be overrated, they must be known. To be known, is an achievement in itself for a bassist.

What if you are Paul McCartney then! 🤯

1 hour ago, Cuzzie said:

we are talking small margins here, it’s like asking (if you like footyball) Who is better Pele, Eusebio, Best (no pun) Ronaldo (both) Messi, maradonna  - you would have them all in your team

Asking who is better is one thing. Asking who is overrated is what I don't understand. Overrated in which sense? It amazes you that they people think they are good? Or do you think they are way too successful for the way they play, or for what they contributed technically to the instrument? Or to music? Or they are way too reach for what they do?

I am not trying to be polemical here, I genuinely struggle to understand the way of measuring overrating. Or it may mean so many things for different people, that you end up with a list of 200 names for so many reasons, that in my opinion it becomes meaningless. 

On 17/10/2020 at 07:51, Cuzzie said:

Victor Wooten - he is a technician, but not a musician in the bass player sense IMHO.

Just because his sense of music is different from yours?

For example, I find him one of the most musical bass players out there, if not the best in that aspect. Especially when he talks about music, you realise how important being musical is to him when he plays, communicate a feeling rather than being fast and technical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHdo1qWNWI4

God, some of these names.......

I genuinely don't see the point in a post like this. People can come up with any name, I've read Pastorius, Paul McCartney and Geddy Lee.... I mean, I understand it's just opinions, it's a discussion, everything is subjective... But really? 

Walk on the wild side (Lou Reed)

I hope you don't mind a genuine question....

Why do you order a luthier made bass, personalised to your own needs and likes, if you don't know what you need or like? 

To me it sounds pretty stinky poo before and after.

12 (80%) 🙈

13 minutes ago, fleabag said:

Purpleheart centre strip on rear, and  Walnut cap with  Purpleheart sandwich.

Sounds like the new vegan Pret a Manger option.

5 hours ago, chris7273 said:

It works but I was very happy when I replaced this noisy, cheap built item by a Zoom B1Xon. 

There is another recent topic about this and other headphone amps. However, I wouldn't really call it noisy. I use it with a passive Precision bass.

Vox AmPlug is £30 and allow you to play along anything you connect through a AUX cable. It's been my only practice tool for the past 4 years as I live in a flat and can't have an amp.

Got some more photos... The holes by the bridge are for the bridge cover, which was missing together with the other bridge cover. However, I much prefer it naked like this.

40 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

Wow, that's proper quirky-cool! I'd be thinking flatwounds for that at some point.

Indeed! Got some ready to put on when I get to fix the nut. I haven't touched flatwound strings for 15 years, it's going to be fun!

Thanks. Not a super fan of edgy 80s basses, but this one looks good!

A couple of weeks ago I bought my first vintage bass, quite cheap off Facebook. It's a Jolana Iris bass made in Czechoslovakia sometimes in the 1970s I believe. I contacted Jolana to know a bit more about this bass and when it was made, as they still make guitars and basses, but I didn't get a reply so far. Since there isn't much info on this online, i thought I would share some photos and sound samples.

The bass is a short scale (30.5" I believe), very light. I suspect the body is made of some cheap composite wood. Bridge seems to work perfectly and it is very easy to adjust. Tuning pegs also work surprisingly well. Neck is not the straightest, but I am not surprised considering the age. However, there is no fret buzz along the neck, but it does buzz on the open G and A strings. It has a zero fret and the previous owner changed the nut at some point, so it looks like the nut is slightly too high and the strings don't rest fully on the zero fret. I hope I can rectify this easily by sanding a bit the nut.

A couple of cool features, as highlighted in this video I found you YouTube: 

The top part of the bridge is movable, simply kept in place but the pressure of strings. And the top strap lock  can be unscrewed to become a flat head screwdriver, which i thought was a very cool feature I have never seen anywhere else.

The pickups on mine are different from the blade style in the video above, so I suspect this may be a later version also made in the 1970s? if anyone has any more info about what sort of year this could have been made, it would be great. Also in the video he mentions that the pick up selectors has 8 different positions, but it's actually 4 that repeat twice. Also the tone knob does not seem to have any effect, so I may have to have a look inside to see if there are connection issues.

As I said, I recorded some samples of all the four pickup positions (two neck - two bridge), first fingers then with a pick. It's the roundwound strings the bass came with, I just got some Labella flatwound to see how he plays with those, I am hoping to get the full 70s deal with them. Looking forward to try them, I may post samples with them too.

Overall I am very happy with it. Not sure I can use the bridge pickup as I find it too thin and nasal, but I really love the neck pickup, sounds very 1970s for me. The person who sold it to me warned me that it could be quite noisy, but so far I find it very quiet. I haven't tried it with a distortion pedal yet.

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19 minutes ago, sykilz said:

Always wanted one of these. And to be fair, it does look fairly comfy too as the body is quite tiny where you pluck. These desperate times are screaming for bright shiny pointy guitars and bubblegum lyrics. 😉👍🤘👍

Interesting... What is it?

I actually find the P one of the basses with most characters ever. When you hear a P you know is a P, straight away. That's for me is character, so no boring at all. J slightly less, but still. Plus they are the basses they have been around for longer, so you have a massive choice of years, material, configurations, colours..... Too much fun to be even considered boring.

There are basses that sound boring and without character, generally most J replicas, especially if they cost £1500+, and I find Bartolini pickups the most uninspired, plain, boring.

Ditto! Bought some strings from Kris, he sent them on the same day and arrived super quick.

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2 hours ago, chris_b said:

Of course you can't and that's not what I said.

As I said in my first post the man isn't half as interesting as his music. Ignore the man, which is what I do, and listen to the music, or not, it's your choice.

I just quoted exactly what you wrote, so I don't know how you can say that you didn't say it.

I understand your point, but if I judge him as an alcoholic, for me he is a tool. If I judge him as a person, he's a racist sad man. If I judge him as a musician, it doesn't do anything for me.

If you like him, man, musician or alcoholic, that's good man. I don't want to argue. I was just expressing my view.

9 hours ago, chris_b said:

EC was an out of control alcoholic and people in that state can say and do anything.

Well....no. You can't say anything you want just because you are drunk.

And from what I remember, after that major incident he didn't really apologise. I agree with Davie, for me is a bellend.