Paul S

I have just got my hands on a Squier Silver Series precision - it arrived yesterday - and straight out of the case it is immediately promoted up the order. Weighs in at about 8.5lbs, 40mm nut width but shallow neck - extremely comfy. But the tone! That woody growl is present in buckets, more so than other precisions I have played incl. a USA Standard I had for some weeks. I don't know why it is so different from my 90s MIJ Fender (which is also nice but got some serious pimping to get there) - ostensibly they would be much the same? Anyway, it is the nicest P-bass I have played, ticks all my boxes and apart from a quick clean and set up later today I won't have touch it. Bought it for £200 - an absolute bargain.

Westone Thunder 1A fretless sometimes pop up and sell for £120-200 depending on condition. They are nice (if heavy).

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1361810891' post='1991253'] Ah, the SB3 does tend to be rather gentle in the mids for a P pickup (it's that modern big bottom end and sizzly high it's going for I think). It was the authority of the P's mids I was missing in the vid. All makes sense now. [/quote] Maybe it is my ears but I found a SPB-3 made my P-Bass more aggressive and middy rather than scooped.

I was chasing YouTube links the other day and rather enjoyed this - nice bass playing on a Danelectro. I guess that is light as a feather, also short scale. Is it muddy? A bit. Nice though. [url="http://youtu.be/pZ2SLTajOvc"]http://youtu.be/pZ2SLTajOvc[/url]

We cover this and, yes, it isn't everyone's cup of tea. Great to play, especially when the solo starts. I don't know about playing it with eyes shut, though - even Duff watches what he is doing on the vids I've seen. We recorded is as a demo - this is our previous guitar player. Listening to it again now I think we do it more accurately with the current guitarist. I wonder if this embed code works? [CODE] <a class="my_play my_27" title="Slither" href="http://www.myspace.com/bandxerocks/music/songs/slither-80573539" style="display:inline-block;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;width:27px;height:27px;overflow:hidden;text-indent:-9999px;background:url(http://x.myspacecdn.com/modules/common/static/img/playbuttonsprite.png) no-repeat 0 -85px;">Slither</a><script defer="true" src="http://www.myspace.com/music/buttons/js"></script> [/CODE] Edit, apparently not. Oh well.

I recently bought an Epiphone EB0 for not very much. This was my first short scale bass and I like it lots in terms of comfort and playability. Maybe I was lucky but the build quality was pretty good, too. For some reason I get on with the short scale quite well, even though I am not a particularly small chap. Equally strangely I can switch from 30" to 34" without blinking (switching from headstock to headless and back caused me all sorts of problems initially. not the same, I know, but nevertheless... ) I changed the pup to a Dimarzio, dropped in a KiOgon wiring harness with new pots (the tone actually does something now) and fitted a Hipshot Supertone bridge and it has transformed it completely. It doesn't do much but what it does, it does brilliantly.

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1361550771' post='1987423'] If I were looking at replacing the Badass I would probably go with a 'quick release' type rather than 'string through'. [/quote] Somewhere else that the Hipshot A style wins. Not cheap. mind you.

Yes, I tried that but ended up with my hand at the wrong angle. No pleasing some people, I know...

I don't like the BBOT as it seems to rub my hand in exactly the wrong place - I rest on the bridge a lot when playing (with a pick) - so I have usually replaced the bridges on basses I use a lot. I haven't tried a Badass but on my MIJ Fender Precision (and other similar basses) I have fitted a Gotoh 201, a Gotoh-a-like and a Hipshot A style Fender retrofit. Of those the Hipshot is the best by some way in terms of build quality and making a noticable difference to the sound and sustain. I see there is one offered for sale on here (not by me). I terms of value for money the Gotoh-a-like, at around £12 on eBay, was best - not as well made as the proper Gotoh but did the same job. These are changes that can easily be reversed and the bridges can be sold on again. I think it is interesting to try.

I bought a Silver Series P bass yesterday on eBay for £200, which I think is cheap. One went the day before for £185, which is even cheaper! If it is in good nick I would say £250? If you really don't need the money I would hang on to it as I am sure the value will increase.

There have been some interesting ebay listings recently. There was a sunburst early 90s MIJ Squier Silver Series P-Bass finished last night for £185. I would have bid on it but I like black basses and really don't like sunburst. Then this morning ANOTHER Squier Silver series P-Bass appeared, in black, BIN £200. So I did. I'd think that for £200 +/- these would be hard to beat. Alternatively buy a nice Westone Thunder bass, stick a Wizard Trad pup in it and you have all the P-Bass tones you could ever want.

Ah so - 180 yen is £127 Sounds better.

Thanks for that - not as expensive as I would have thought. Interesting! Edit - I looked on the Luminlay website and the 3mm green is 1800 yen, which converted to around £127! Where did you get yours?

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1359754456' post='1960024'] Does anyone Know how to share Google Earth files? I can and will do a simple map trace like that in the first thread , but I was thinking I could do a google earth trace so that it could be followed in detail but I cant suss how to share the route on Earth or whether peeps would follow it at such detail , I could easily do the route and save as a picture and refresh that for each event . Any prefs Jim / Bcers ? [/quote] Bit late with this but, yes - right click the placemarker file under 'places' on the left hand side bar and it gives an option to email it. Works a treat - I emailed my entire route of a recent Mexico trip, uploaded from a datalogger. Edit - I am sure I have missed it, but is there a running order for this yet?

Jose - those look nice. How long do they glow for? Did you charge them with a keyring light? and how much to buy/have fitted? I use the stickers but they do look a bit cheap.

I think both have made good and bad records. As mentioned, I think 'Love Bites' is a very good track. Bon Jovi have made some nice pop records. There is good and bad in amongst it all. Much the same as most bands, really - that is my exact feelings about, say, Led Zep or U2, too. But then music is so subjective. I don't get the snobbery thing - they do what they do quite well - there are a lot of worse bands out there as far as I can see.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1361183292' post='1982231'] It doesn't matter so long as you all use the same one. [/quote] ^^ this ^^. Once we've settled on which tracks we want to play we'll usually decide if there are any particular live versions of any tunes we play that suit us better or whether to just stick to the studio version. For example, we open with UFO's 'We Belong To The Night' and play in the style of the 'Live in Hammersmith' version, which has more aggressive arpeggio lead playing during the opening chords, but at the slightly livelier pace of the studio version.

[quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1361087604' post='1980730'] Or any one of the many great disco bass lines available: [media]http://youtu.be/T_3Jc54k1Es[/media] [/quote] I have never seen that Guy Pratt clip - has to be one of nicest, funniest clips about bass playing I have ever watched. Lovely story (he was obviously moved when recounting the tale), humour, nice little bit of playing. Thanks for that link.