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I don't get email notifications of PM's anymore either

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1391156457' post='2353798'] I assume from Chris' updated sig its not a Fender but a Yamaha BB2024. Can I collect my £5 now please? [/quote] It is indeed mate, and what an amazing instrument, does pretty much everything I need in a bass, does it with a passive circuit, and is as easy to play as was my old Modulus Flea, my reference point in this respect. I've spent the last two nights A/B'ing it against other basses, and the Yammy just blows them out of the water. In terms of PJs, nothing I've played by Fender or Sadowsky gets close. Of course, many of you will now be keeping a keen eye on the For Sale forum

I've finally found the Precision Bass I've been looking for

Not to my taste but you can't fault that guys commitment and I kinda enjoyed it

[quote name='Jonnyboy Rotten' timestamp='1390927769' post='2351400'] I think the seller refusing to be responsible for shipping also reduces the incentive for the seller to make doubly, doubly sure about packing the item well and offering the best possible protection. Otherwise they (in theory at least) could get away with a single layer of bubble wrap and a few bin liners to send a bass guitar through the post without worry of comeback if (and in all likelihood) when it arrives at the other end damaged. [/quote] This increasingly I find I will only do deals with folks I 'know' from here - and that includes both buying and selling - because there's an increasing number of people on the forum who, to my mind, push the limits of what is reasonable behaviour between two private individuals.

[quote name='BassBod' timestamp='1390647573' post='2347847'] Wal Pro/Precision [/quote] Spot on.

Or someone emailed her and offered £500 outside of ebay

[quote name='NightGoat' timestamp='1390559840' post='2346760'] Hi all, I own this baby for about 25 years. Never had any clue which brand or what year she was build in. Through the years I did some research so now and then but I was never sure. It is probably from japan, maybe made somewhere in the 70s? Ideas are very welcome Some additional information: Natural finish, neck through body, one truss rod, skunk stripe, dots on fingerboard, unbound body/fingerboard, stereo output, no serial numbers, tuning gear is replaced ¨Schaller¨ [/quote] What a lovely looking bass

Gotta laugh, apparently one did pop up for £200 BIN earlier today http://basschat.co.uk/topic/227954-marathon-bass-on-ebay-l200-bin/page__fromsearch__1 With due respect to BetaFunk this was a bit of a freak event. It does however prove that it can happen

It wasn't BIN, it was an auction starting at £200

[quote name='randythoades' timestamp='1390554621' post='2346645'] Thanks for this. I realise that it is a different concept and you are right, this was probably the guts behind my question. I am just not sure how it would fit dynamically. I have physically played the songs at home on DB and trying to play the same lines doesn't quite work both in sound or feel for that matter, but in some ways that was my point. At the moment I prefer playing the DB over the bass guitar and wanted to almost pick one as my go to instrument, but didn't want to upset the dynamics of the band as they play off and relate to the electric bass. Rock and pop groups with a DB isn't something I have seen often, hence my curiosity. Perhaps this is a question I need to raise seriously with the others as it will have more effect on them than I perhaps realised at first. I suppose I can take both to a jam and give it a try. Will test their skill as players (and mine) to see if they can cope with the dynamic change and see how it goes for a couple of weeks. I just like the idea of being different. [/quote] It's pretty easy to make a DB sound like an EB through use of appropriate strings, PUP and amplification. You're spot on though, the key question is whether it adds anything. As the folks above have made clear, even in the most DB friendly genres, there are likely compromises to be made in making the switch, and those compromises build the farther away from 'DB-friendly' is your band's music. However, there are no rules, this is music not science, so do what works for you.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1390499587' post='2346118'] But when say that you would "modify" your lines, be ready for some pretty radical modification. IME trying to play electric bass lines, even simplified ones, on a DB frequently just doesn't work.The physical demands of the DB and the very different tonal qualities mean that you often end up playing something really quite different. [/quote] Ha ha, yes, our attempt at the Stones' 'Miss You' is probably a good example of the above However, with the right strings, the right action and the right PUP it was nothing like as hard as I thought it would be to play some rock/pop. Wild Nights, which I imagined would be pretty hard to play, was actually surprisingly easy, and For What It's Worth was outstanding, actualy worked so much better on DB (I'm not necessarily saying it sounded good mind!). For me the key thing was that if I wanted the DB to sound like a [i]real [/i]DB, which for me would have meant higher action, mic or bridge PUP, different strings and a different style of playing, I doubt I could have done it. When we gigged the above set, the DB probably sounded more like a electric fretless (it was also going through a Walkabout), just looked a lot better

Yep, we used to do a set of originals (alt-Americana apparently), and then a set of pop/rock, tracks we did included Fans (Kings of Leon), Round Here (Counting Crows), For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield), When You Were Young (Killers), Wild Nights (Van Morrison), Dancing In the Moonlight (Thin Lizzy), Bad Things (Jace Everett), You Can Bring Me Flowers (Ray Lamontagne), I could go on. I found a mag pickup at the end of the fingerboard made life a lot easier in terms of both amplifying the instrument and getting a sound that fitted with the tracks.

[quote name='geoffbassist' timestamp='1390426666' post='2345436'] This thread is awesome, thanks for the great info Simon. [/quote] It's going to be very useful I'm sure, not just for recording but for live sound also. I sold my old DB recently and was telling the new owner about a gig I did a few years ago. It was in a long and relatively narrow old '50s ballroom. The sound-guy didn't have a clue and all he was getting from the DB was feedback. The guitarist popped to the toilet and when he came back out I was playing away with the drums, 2nd guitarist and singer, and although the soundguy had cut the DB signal while he tried to work out what to do, the guitarist came back to the stage saying that the bass was actually cutting through loud and clear out front in a way that it certainly wasn't on stage. We did the gig with the DB unplugged and, whilst my hands were pretty f*****d by the end of it, and whilst I had to really concentrate, folks at the gig - a few musos included - appeared to really like the sound. It was the night I realised that DBs weren't designed to be heard close up, but to be heard a distance from the instrument. As Si has made clear above, it's getting the balance between that optimal distance from the instrument and the acoustics of the room that's the challenge for live and recording. And whilst it sounds very scientific, I've no doubt that it's an art in real terms.