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One fairly bog standard Midnight Blue (looks more like about half ten to me but there you go) Mexican Fender Jazz. Got it on the cheap off the bay , I think because the logo was scratched. Dude was trying to get rid of the Mex serial number I reckon. Here it is.....well, was. So - a bag of bits various arrived this morning and along with a couple of odds and sods hanging around the tool box I've.. Replaced the Logo with a 70's jobby and given it 7 coats of varnish Added a second string guide - as is my want with Fenders to stop the A rattling under my ham fisted assaults Bunged some Dunlop straplocks on it - save me looking a wilf by dropping it on my foot , as did happen once in York. Screwed a nice shiny pearloid pickguard on - 3 of the screwholes were in the right place!! Got 3 chrome knobs on it with pearl inserts in the tops - and round the back the neckplate has been changed to one from a 70's fender guitar with the nice big 'F' and the placcy cushion. Best of all - installed a pair of Wizard 84's. I wasn't sure witch (eh...eh...!!) ones to get - these or the 64's' but noodling around in the spare room here these sound like the dogs warlocks (!!!) I await one of you to come up with an unwanted Badass for it - buggered if I'm forking out 50 brick for a new one. Quick word on the Wizard installation. Thought that the neck one might need a fettlette , it being the correct size unlike the Mex original . Not a bit of it. Instead the bridge one needed persuading in by shaving bits off the underside of the pup cover with a kitchen knife. Prospecive purchasers might bare that in mind. So here it is now. Don't know if it's bass 'porn' as such. More like a bird in the Star with her kit still on but unbuttoned in the right places.
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Just bought a MIM Fender Jazz 4 off the bay which I'm tarting up a bit so these parts from it are going begging if anyone wants to make an offer on them. UPDATE To go.... Both pups The bridge The white pickguard available in a week or so - the machines I've mentally written these off in terms of cash so make a daft offer and you might get lucky. I just can't bare them kicking about the house. -
Explanation required , I fancy. Mr Shuker did a fine job , but later in life it aquired scribe marks in the fret positions which are a hinderance to me. They're light enough to be sanded out , and I have little enough money invested in it to 'risk' attempting it myself. I honestly think I could do the job in the time it takes me to drive to the mucky end of Sheffield. Just want to know about grades of paper required , poss lubricants etc. Hints and tips really. I get a lot of pleasure from fettling things myself but I've never had a go at a fretless board before. Refinished a few bodies, but this is ebony , harder wood than I've worked in the past. Of course I could get Jon to do it - just want to do it myself , partly because the poor sod has got orders til the next century from the likes of us BCers and I want it sorted soonish before I lose interest in it and flog it for peanuts.
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Nobody seems to want my fretless shuker so I'm going to have a crack at getting ris of the scribed fret lines myself. It's an ebony board and I'm wondering if anyone's any experience of grades of sandpaper - tips etc to refinishing a fretless board.
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The solution's in the question. Run the Marshall and the H+K together and you've everything you want.
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We've had a DB tech active bin for about a year - shamefully I can't recall the model number but it sounds like the same fella from your description. It was bought to bring in a little subbiness to bigger rooms by being used in addition to our normal PA (turbosound) but it's so good it's practically made the Turbosound bass cabs redundant , and they're bloody good cabs to start with. If you want a more informed opinion go to the contact link here on our website.. www.drblue.co.uk put 'FAO Rod' in the subject box.He's our guitarist ,researched and bought the DB and has a lot more knowledge in the PA dept. than I.
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It makes me want to learn how to surf!!
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[quote name='Jamesemt' post='149359' date='Mar 1 2008, 10:30 AM']I understand what you are saying about the Shure, but what if me singing doesn't work? It's only a thought at the moment (having NEVER done it before...)[/quote] There's another eeason to buy a used SM58 - if it doesn't work out you'll get your money back no bother. Doubt there's many mics about you could say that for. If you do buy used - unscrew the pop shield - rinse out the bit of foam in hot water and mild disinfectant , chuck the pop shield in the same brew then scrub it with listerine. Don't buy silly specialist mic cleaning products - use what's under the sink or in your bathroom. Do make sure the foam's dry before you screw it all back up. I had an expensive AKG. It went in the theft 2 years ago and scrambling round to put enough kit together for the next gig I bought a cheap AKG (about £60 new) for £25 used. Still using it - it's great. Can't for the life of me remember either mic model numbers. I'm anoraky enough about basses to start on something else!!
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[quote name='Jamesemt' post='149359' date='Mar 1 2008, 10:30 AM']I understand what you are saying about the Shure, but what if me singing doesn't work? It's only a thought at the moment (having NEVER done it before...)[/quote] There's another eeason to buy a used SM58 - if it doesn't work out you'll get your money back no bother. Doubt there's many mics about you could say that for. If you do buy used - unscrew the pop shield - rinse out the bit of foam in hot water and mild disinfectant , chuck the pop shield in the same brew then scrub it with listerine. Don't buy silly specialist mic cleaning products - use what's under the sink or in your bathroom. Do make sure the foam's dry before you screw it all back up. I had an expensive AKG. It went in the theft 2 years ago and scrambling round to put enough kit together for the next gig I bought a cheap AKG (about £60 new) for £25 used. Still using it - it's great. Can't for the life of me remember either mic model numbers. I'm anoraky enough about basses to start on something else!!
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[quote name='Krysbass' post='147219' date='Feb 26 2008, 12:59 PM']I'm now considering buying another 4-string and carrying out the necessary mods to have it tuned BEAD. As far as getting strings goes, wouldn't buying a heavy-gauge 4 string set do the job?[/quote] A heavy 'E' string is probably 110 where a light 'B' will be 125. Think you'd find the 110 tuned down to B a bit flappy. Having said that I've regularly tuned a 110 down to D without much problem. If you're thinking of saving pennies , singles will probably work out as expensive as a set of 5s so I'd buy a set of 5s and save the G as a spare for the other bass.
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Mail the guy - ask if you can arrange your own courier collection if you win. If he says yes , and you buy it - www.senditnow.com £10.99 and another tenner gets you £500 of insurance.
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Classic , last night. The manager of the pub we were due to play did a runner on Weds leaving the pub chain with no option but to close it. The chain at least looked after us best they could by offering us a last minute gig at one of their other pubs 10 miles away that's never had bands on. No advertising at all. Turned up , set up , 4 punters. 4!!!! The landlady was so embarrassed. We did our first set after which she paid us in full , plied us with free drinks and re-booked us in a month, promising a publicity blitz! I was home before 11. And I missed the f*****g Masterchef final!!!! Bet I do 80 - 100 gigs this year , nice to get the worst one over by Feb!!
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I just haven't got round to having the work done on this that I intended when I bought it and I've finally decided I never will - so it's for sale again. I bought it used 2 years ago and most of the following is what Jon told me. He made it for a customer who ordered through a shop in the early days of his bass making. He remembers it quite well. The bolt-on neck is ebony on some sort of fancy maple. It has side dots in the usual place and fret lines scribed in. They are very light so could easily be removed or filled in so they can be seen better. The body is solid wenge and quite dark with an oil finish. The pup is a Kent Armstrong originally made for Goodfellow basses. Aside from the vol knob the guy wanted a strange combination of mid shifts. I've never worked out what's really going on but it does make for a huge variety of excellent sounds. 3 of the 4 are clicked in the mid position , the one that isn't doesn't seem to do anything much but maybe it's me being cloth eared. The electrics are Jon's own and are powered with a single 9v battery. It came to me with a Wilkinson bridge , over complicated and sold on - the brass mitey mite in the pic has been changed for a chunky black no-name job but you can have both. Condition is very good , no dings . You can see evidence of bridge replacement , ie the screw holes from the Wilkinson though I put 2 small screws in the holes for neatness. In a certain light you can see a small patch on the fingerboard by the heel end that looks to me like it was cleaned with wire wool or similar. Sure it would t-cut out. I never bothered because I was going to have the scribe lines sanded out. Fingerboard wear is minimal and mostly on the A string. I'm cutting my losses on this one so wanting a bit less than I have tied up in it - £300 would be nice and I'll include delivery though you're quite welcome to collect. That's a living,breathing Shuker for the cost of a Fender Mex folks. -
Audio Technica 1400series reciever and 1451 unipak transmitter. Adaptor , rack ears , manual , all in a placcy tool case for your delectation. Had very, very little use and when it did it was racked - bought maybe 6 months ago. I think it's a discontinued model now but I bought it new. Works great. I'm after some Jazz bass pups - see my ad for a Line 6 POD I'm flogging. Same deal - pups or £70.
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I have a Line 6 POD , minty condition , with the transformer and the instructions that's not getting any use. I want some passive Jazz pups. Wizard or SD's for example but I don't know what else you may have. Happy to do a swap here but otherwise £70 so I can buy some Wiz 84's with the cash.
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Funnily enough , I've just been writing my memoirs - catchily entitled 'Famous rockstars I've shared a bag of onion bahjis with outside a pub in Wakefield' Chapter 1 is called 'Neal Schon out of Journey' Run out of relevant material for the rest of the book though!
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It's great , isn't it. Bet they're into fits over on www.statii.com I wouldn't worry about stickers too much - they come off. I had a vintage 60's Jazz that had been wasted with penknives and cig ends. The timeless phrase 'Your Mabel's m*nge box' was scratched deep into the front. Not much I could do to that beyond a value destroying re-finish so I sold it on for vast profit through V+R.
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[quote name='Pedro1020' post='147244' date='Feb 26 2008, 01:52 PM']Can anyone tell me if this neck is straight or bowed? can't quite tell, but strings are damn high. will it need to be adjusted?[/quote] Looks to me like the action's too high and the pup will need dropping a bit , hard to tell from a photo though.
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I currently sing lead vocal in about a third of the set and backing vocals on the rest. I've always thought a bass player , and any other musician , should support the song first and foremost. A song , to me , is melody and lyrics. If you're singing I think you get a good feel about where to place fills etc to support the song better - just as important is when not to. It can be very hard trying to sing and play a recognised bassline that often seems at odds with it. One I've had bother with is ZZ Top's 'Cheap Sunglasses' that we now play in both bands. I practised hitting the Bflat that was giving me trouble by highlighting the words in the lyrics that I sing over those Bflats with a highlighter pen - then hiting the Bflat and stressing the word at the same time - after a while it sunk in and it's quite natural now. Good for any musician to sing the song they're playing anyway while they're practising- I always did. And remember - if you practise bass for an hour a day , but never practise singing at all - why would you expect to be as good a singer as you are a bass player??
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I believe I'm right in thinking the pickup cut out is a Strat fit. Endless sounds to be had there then , given the number of after market pups that drain the cash supplies of our more widdly friends. Strat Humbucker?? Gibson sound , Gibson look , Gibson scale (I think) - all in a much nicer and better looking bass to play (IMHO) than an EB.
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[quote name='Soulfinger' post='144904' date='Feb 22 2008, 11:25 AM']And I´d probably be happy with any of the basses niceguyhomer has owned over the years. [/quote] Doubt you'll have to wait too long
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[quote name='David Nimrod' post='141683' date='Feb 16 2008, 07:50 PM']Beautiful... I've always thought a bridge cover really finishes off a 'P' [/quote] Well....it finishes your set early should you need to change a string in a hurry. Can't even get the old one off never mind the new one on. None of which matters in this thread though which is about Alan's Precision. Looks well cool to me. Simple,clean lines , a kick too from the Wiz pickup I should think. Been wondering how they would compare to the Dunc QP on mine which I always think is a bit over aggressive.
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It wouldn't break my heart to walk into my spare room and see Wateroftyne's row of sunburst Fenders or Rich's crafty,versatile collection.
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Thumb rest below the strings - how does it work?
Dr.Dave replied to Perry's topic in General Discussion
[quote name='spinynorman' post='144329' date='Feb 21 2008, 12:58 PM']It puts the "proper bass players use their fingers" debate in some sort of context. I wonder what sort of market research Leo did for that design choice. Does anyone play bass like that?[/quote] Part of his thinking was that jobbing guitar players would use his invention enabling them to get more work - I suspect they may have played that way at the time. Many will have been used to a wrap round thumb pick rather than a loosely held plectrum. BTW - proper bass players use their ears , whichever bit they choose to sound a string with doesn't really matter much.