Shambo

My fave Jazz colour combo. Black, rosewood, blocks & binding with a BWB or tort scratchplate. Had both an original 75 an a jap reissue over the years.

I wish Fender would update the 75 look to a modern passive version. Like an American Pro 2 FSR.

8 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

seeing it again is doing funny things to me

This bass is looking very familiar to me too.

I bought it off ebay and traded it with @grahamd for an amp in 2009.

Excellent quality instrument. IIRC the 'pro active' version was very rare.

When I think of Theivery Corporation I think of Shaolin Satellite. Takes me back to... jeez twenty five years or more, to when I first heard it on a Kruder & Dorfmeister DJ Kicks album. 

The K&D Sessions is one of my very favourite downtempo albums. You might like that one too.

Allow me to pose a question only for arguments sake.

So, you have a wooden guitar body that is heavy. Let’s say a 70’s Fender alder body that wasn't seasoned for long enough before it was wrapped in poly.

If you were to strip the body back to the bare wood and place it in a ‘drying chamber’ then wouldn’t the seasoning process resume as the wood slowly loses moisture content and therefore weight? 

Let’s just ignore shrinkage and glued pieces and anything like that.

Could you restart the seasoning process on an old piece of wood?

It’s something I’ve wondered about occasionally.

What the hell have I been doing with my life?

I'd be happy if we could just have some new Fender Pro II colours.

I'm not doing that Mod Shop if I don't know the weight. They might send me a boat anchor!

All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks

actually, it could have been You Really Got Me... sometime in the late 80's.

Why hasn't this sold yet?

Only my foolish hubris towards sunburst finishes has stopped my wallet from opening.

The S1 switch is a lovely little sonic bonus. GLWTS.

I'd be very pleased to add another one of Karl's hand-me-downs to my collection... as so very many of us have before. 😆

But I've convinced myself there's only room for one P in my stable, tempting though it is. ATB Karl, GLWTS!

Gareth sold me some used wall hangers in a swift and painless transaction. Many thanks Gareth.

I used to own a set of Wizard 84's and I thought they were dark sounding.

A lightweight Fender Pro II Jazz in black, with 70's style rosewood, blocks and binding... and extra points for S1 switch.

Doesn't seem like a wild ask to me but we're in custom shop territory and it wouldn't be my dream bass if it costs that much.

Having been stalking the For Sale section for a year or so looking for the right Jazz, I feel that only recently there's been an uptick in the amount of J basses for sale, but never any shortage of P basses. IMO.

This looks great. I've got one exactly like it with a maple board and it just feels... right.

GLWTS.

The £820 I paid for a Pro Precision a few years ago wasn't massively underpriced but it was a good price for the time.

Its value for me was massively enhanced though when it turned out that it was a total player; light, resonant, perfect fit & finish and already sporting a few pre-loved blemishes.

So good in fact, that I culled the herd in the knowledge that I'd be hard pressed to find another bass I enjoyed playing more.

In a roundabout way, it's saved me a fortune.

(I still can't help but occasionally pine for a Jazz to go with it)

I was tempted first time around... it still looks great.

4 minutes ago, lidl e said:

if we're talking fancy

 

 

Ooh la la !

Perhaps this is the sort of thing I'd have liked... if I had the readies. Not too big and attractive enough to grace most rooms. Is it ultimate enough though?

53 minutes ago, Bolo said:

Maruszczyk Barabass combo?

 

Or rather the Ashdown ctm drophead?

 

 

I like both of them, I've been eying the CTM drophead in the classifieds...but they might just be a touch overkill for a living/bed room noodle-along... for me.

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

Tecamp Puma 900 and Basschat Micro Bass Cab. Although I could have done a better job of a grille.

'scuse my ignorance, but what is a 'Basschat Micro Bass Cab'?

5 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

And "amp-less" setup that will secure consistency of that, that is giving me approximately the same tone whether I practice at home though FRFR studio headphones, at band jam/rehearsal through a FRFR PA speaker, or at a venue through their PA system.

 

Which happens to be what I sue currently. 

 

And it looks like this on written form:

 

 

As said currently in the process of completely re-arranging my setup, so only my always on pedals that gives me my basic "clean" tone, and the pedals that gives me my overdriven and distorted tones are currently set up, but this is pretty what it is going to look like (mind some of the pedals are place holders, as the online pedalboard manager app lacked some of the pedals in my setup):

 

 

 

And this is my preferred instrument of choice:

 

 

A 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, feauturing a just 28.6" scale length, Poplar body, and a Maple neck with a Jatoba fretboard, the stock neck J pickup have been disconnected, as it was faulty, and the stock bridge J pickup has been wired directly to the jack output socket, and it is strung with Elixir Nanoweb coated nickel-plated roundwound hex steel core guitar strings, gauge .080 - .062 - .046 - .036 - .026, tuned in tenor bass, G standard, tuning, that is as 3 half steps above the 5 upper strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning.

 

I named it "Mr. Growley - The Noodlemancer".

 

Dude. That is an impressive pedalboard. No good for my bedroom though... I'd fall over it when I woke up in the night for a piss.

24 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

Honestly the best decision I made was the purchase of a couple of active compact studio monitors. I use RCF Ayra5's and they sound better than anything you'll ever play through live, handle kick and bass with ease and innocently look like a couple of hifi bookshelf speakers. They'll double as a soundbar for your TV if you want to leave them in the living room.

What do you plug your bass into?

34 minutes ago, Pea Turgh said:

The plant needs a water, but here’s my wife-friendly living room entry - Peterson combo from the early 80’s.

Small, vintage'ish looking, wood stain, doubles as a side table... who could object. Love it.

I was wondering what the good peoples of Basschat's ultimate bedroom practice rig would be?

Well not bedroom exactly, as bonus points would be given for looking good on display in the living room, but in the sense that it's never expected (or loud enough) to be gigged and doesn't take up too much space. 4x12" need not apply.

Personally, I'd be noodling along on a precision with flats to anything that takes my fancy, so perhaps something like an Ampeg PF-20T and a tall skinny unknown type of cab for me.

What about you?

On 23/02/2024 at 12:48, jezzaboy said:

Kwik fit. Around 2005 my wife took our Ford Focus in for its mot. They said to her it needed £600 worth of work as the brake disc, drums on the back, pads  and shocks needed changed. Took it to a local garage that was recomended by a friend and it passed its mot easily. And the garage has looked after our cars ever since. The mechanic in my local place said that KF were notorious for trying to rip folk especially women off.

On 23/02/2024 at 13:28, JazzyJ said:

I found myself in the unfortunate situation of working for Kwik-Fit for a few months after they bought out a decent fast fit that I had been with for 13yrs. What we were told to do by management to rip folk off was shocking. I didn't hang around long. AVOID at all times.

That reminds me of possibly the worst service I ever got.

I booked a full service & MOT at my local Kwik-Fit. Three months in advance to coincide with a week off I'd booked to do some life laundry.

At 10am I parked my Fiesta out front and went in to reception to ask for said service & MOT and the chap behind the counter immediately proclaimed that "we don't do servicing here 'cause we don't have a servicing engineer".

OK I thought, that's a bit crap. You took my money and you had plenty of time to warn me. Perhaps they quit recently? I don't know, but I'll still needed an MOT regardless.

"Yeah, the thing is, the MOT tester hasn't turned up yet either. You can leave your car and see if they turn up in a bit. I'll give you a ring if they don't".

Reluctantly I agreed, left my keys and went to hop on a bus. Half an hour later on said bus, they called to tell me the MOT tester had rang in sick, so I should fetch my car.

I got on the next bus back and went back into reception. Chap behind the counter booked another MOT for 10am two days later.

I pulled up two days later and the whole building was still locked up. I approached the car out front and inside were two young lads in kwik-fit shirts smoking a joint and giggling.

"Yeah mate. The fella with the keys hasn't turned up again"

I drove home defeated and rang Kwik-Fit customer services to tell them my whole sorry story. Thing is, they immediately apologised profusely, booked me in for the service and MOT at another Kwik Fit on the other side of the city and gave me a partial refund. The other place did a great job and turned it round in two days (my car failed and needed two new rear suspension springs which they fitted free of charge).

That's when I learned that all Kwik-Fit's are not created equally. Some are good and some are beyond bad.

They don't make my sh*t list created from my own hubris, but they're on a different list of companies that I can't trust.