Bassman68

Had a Mexican Fender Jazz (The one with 5 in a line headstock) for a couple of years around 2000. The neck felt ok(ish) but the B string wasn’t the best? It lacked a lot of definition, only really working with a tapered B string but could never get a low enough action, even when I got a Badass bridge. I was using it for mostly Pub-work to give my Warwick Thumb 5 a rest…Was night/day comparing the two.. Ended up trading it in for a Stingray 5, which is now my ‘workhorse’ 5 string.

I’m pretty sure that the Affinity series come with Ceramic pick-ups, my white PJ certainly does… They’re a bit of an acquired taste, being quite bright, but get the height right & they can sing. I found the maple neck quite bulky but I swapped the neck out for a 70’sCV which is somewhere between a Jazz & a P-bass width, but lovely & slim in depth. As others have suggested, get a good set-up done & see how you get on before shelling out on too many upgrades? Otherwise you might be better off saving for a better quality instrument in the long run…

I’ve been on a search myself over the last year for a compact, sturdy stand for when I fly with my bass. The best I have found, that doesn’t wobble is the Hercules Travelite. It folds flat & I can fit it in the front pocket of my Gator Pro gig bag, I’ve used it at a couple of festivals & it impressed me that much that it now lives in the bottom of my Pelicase as a spare emergency stand on most of my regular gigs or if I’m travelling light.. It even supports Jazz bass bodies as there is enough back/body support, if you move the bass ‘off centre’?

The Bass Centre Wapping, coz that was just haloed ground in the 80/90’s but also my two favourite local music stores that actually catered for bass players .. Monkey Business in both Southend & Romford, also honourable mention to Honkytonk music Southend, where I bought my first two basses..

I went through a stage of ‘always on’ but so subtle a setting, you’d only really notice on bass only moments. It’s more to give the bass tone a 3D effect, I’ve done it in the past with subtle flanging effects, only really noticing the effect when chugging 8’s or 16’s? I only stopped using the effect due to limited space on my pedal board but that will be resolved very soon…

Hi Julian I’ve got a few pedals knocking about (Behringer) Limiter/enhancer,Chorus & a BDI if they’re of any use? Steve

Yup, been there…done that Amp rack with GP12 & 500w power amp, 1048 & 1518 cabs Warwick Corvette pro (when they first come out in ‘93)

Might well have been, I tried Status’ own brand a couple of year’s ago (The later branded ones) couldn’t get over the discrepancies of string length in various sets, so went back to using Elites DB strings..At least they fit & tune -up?

It does state long scale on the Amazon site?

Did my first gig with backline for over 18 months, Saturday night….. Didn’t like it! My usual gigging set up is IEM’s on theatre stages, this was a small pub gig. I couldn’t get used to the dynamics of a cab behind me, it all sounded unbalanced? I’ve sold up most of what backline I possessed admittedly, so only had a MB head & 15” cab & the stage was quite small, so most of the sound was going past my knees. I was sending a feed to FOH as well, so my amp was only for monitoring purposes, but with trying to listen out for click,vocals & electronic drums, it all sounded too live to me! 😄 The answer should’ve been to go IEM but the last time the band played at the venue, we ran everything IEM but suffered with wi-fi issues ..

Ordered, will do for my P-basses..

When Status first started marketing strings back around 1990 (Their Hyper-active range) they used GHS…Boomers if I recall? I don’t know if they changed supplier but might be worth a shot?