chris_b

I'd keep the Jazz bass and buy a Precision. If you really have to, I’d replace the pickup in that. I own a Sadowsky Metro Jazz and wouldn't change a thing. I also play a PJ. Those two have been my joint #1 basses for 8 and 14 years respectively.

Sounds like you got yourself 2 bands, one fronted by a female and one fronted by a male. And you need to be playing different gigs for each band. A nice diary filling situation.

OK, you've been offered 2 basses and you don't know which one to choose. Step one - play them both. Step two - decide which one feels, sounds and looks better than the other. Step three - if you can't make up your mind, don't buy either. You haven't found the right bass yet.

I completely missed Trace Elliot. Never owned or played one. So I don't get the "love". I was using Music Man and Dynacord gear at the time.

200 million??? I'd fire that accountant!!

Do what the pro's do. Have a wall of Blackstar for the audience and your favourite combo in an acoustic box back stage miked up for FOH.

Enlighten us then. . . . .

There is room for many styles of bass playing. I do a lot of root note stuff for one cover band and they love it. So does their audience. I also play in bands where the bass lines are a marathon. Always serve the song.

That’s the level of insight I get!!

An outboard preamp pedal might work without the effort and expense of modding. I have a Sadowsky SBP-2, which perks up a very ordinary sounding Cort.

Good call, but I'd suggest trying the Sadowsky preamp pedal. I have one and it's the more flexible option.

Is there any way ownership of the photos in the sales forums can be removed from the user's total when a sale thread is closed?

If you love the sound, why do you want to change it? I'd buy another bass to fiddle with.

Successful bands are popular because many people think they are good at what they do. If enough people think you are good then you are. QED As for Oasis, their songs are very popular with audiences and are easy to learn, so I love them.

My guess is they have to protect against tyre kickers. You get a lot of those in shops. I prefer Mono M80 Vertigo bags. IMO it's a gig bag. Do your homework, find a good one, that fits, and just buy it.

I've thought about this situation and plan A would be to switch to a keyboard bass.

Flats on a Precision, with a pick and the tone all the way up. Dave Richmond got this sound on a 60's Burns bass for Je t'aime. Same with Wilton Felder on I Want You Back etc, with his original shape 1969 Precision. The finger style makes it a rounder sound. And in all cases, thousands of pounds of studio equipment.

Wise words. Always buy stuff that is better than what it replaces.

I've played a couple of Overwaters and they are amazing instruments. Sadly too heavy for my back, ho hum!

If I say to the wife, "I like the look of that xxxxx", her reply has always been, "If it's that good, get it". Back in the 80's we were having a look around Peter Cook's shop, and I expressed an interest in a Fender Precision Special that was hanging on the wall. She bought it there and then!! She has about half a dozen dolls houses around the house, 3 or 4 quilts on the go and a garden full of flowers, oh, and I nearly forgot the shoes! We support each other's interests.

I played a Pino Precision once. Everything about it was better than any other Fender I'd played. A fantastic bass. Having said that the Standard Jazz bass I briefly owned, about 10 years ago, was good enough for everything I play.

With BF cabs it's mud in, mud out. I'd be looking at my EQ for that one. I reckon your band thinks you are too loud because they aren't used to the enhanced dispersion well designed cabs provide. When I sound check I'm setting up the bass for me, the stage and the audience. If I'm too loud I'll turn down, if the rest of the band starts up and they drown me out I'll turn up again. I play in a blues rock trio and regularly have to turn up during the first number, when I've worked out if the guitarist is on 11 or 15 tonight.

You can't hear a Two10, 8 ft in front of it? That's not normal. What music is the band playing? "I tend to have my sound pretty sorted". Have you changed cabs or any other gear recently? Is the band loud? Is the guitarist "stealing" your frequencies? My guess is your band thinks you are "so loud" on stage because the dispersion from BF cabs exceeds most other cabs. They can hear you because the design of the cab makes it happen. Another guess, your problem might be your EQ. I'd try a gig with no pedals and see what happens. I'd also experiment with the position of the cab. Maybe move it forwards on stage, maybe angle it away from the band.

You're missing the point. Demanding a dep turns up with the same instrument and trousers makes no sense. A dep is not a member of your band, he's sitting in and getting the band through a gig(s) that otherwise they would have to cancel. He gets you out of the hole so the promoter, the audience and the rest of the band are not disappointed. I'd be very surprised if any audience knows or cares when a bass player turns up with a 4 string bass rather than a 6 string bass. Of course no dep is going to be a clone and if that's what you demand, then all you can do is cancel any gig the whole band can't do. Most bands are not in that situation. Being a clone is not what deps or this thread is about.