Shambo

Last night I won an ebay auction for a 30W Roland combo, collection only. (I'm always trawling the local collect only items on ebay, it's the best way of finding bargains). I contacted him a couple of weeks ago asking him if I would be ok to pay cash on collection, to which he agreed. Come the auction end and I fell asleep...and missed it. Some lucky punter got it for £69 quid. Then it was relisted. Alarm bells were ringing, but I hoped the previous buyer had just backed out. No feedback for the cancelled transaction was given or recieved. Second time around, I managed to stay awake and won the auction with a bid of £56. I immediately messaged the seller asking when would be convenient for me to collect and pay for the item. To which he's just replied... "hi i can not acsept £56 i could not put a reservie price on if you can offer an better price ill acsept its just because ive only had it for 3 weeks and used once so ill be lossing alot of money thanks" I haven't replied yet and obviously I can't make him sell me the item, but what can I do to make this situation as unconfortable as possible? I'm probably now at least the second person he's stiffed.

Sent my Jazz to KGB last week with a new set of Deep Talkin flats for a set up. Got my bass back after ten long, long days and it's playing very nicely. Well worth the thirty squids.

I've found the mexican jazz pups to be louder than the ones fitted in the standard american jazz, but as somebody above mentioned, 'pokey'. The american ones were quieter, but had much more depth to their tone. My MIA S1 jazz is now sporting Wizard '84's which are the slightly overwound version of the '64's. Treading a fine line between louder output and depth of tone, I've got plenty of growl now, (and in series, plenty of thump), but would recommend them as the only set of after market jazz pups I've ever bought. I suspect I would have been just as happy with the '64's. Reasonably priced too.

Yay! Not just me then.

It's the headstock decals on this one that don't look right to me... but I'm prepared to be proved wrong. What do the more knowledgable members of the forum think? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-precision-bass-/330430635979?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4cef335fcb"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-precision-bas...=item4cef335fcb[/url]

Hearing him backing BB King was the main reason I wanted to take up the bass.

[quote name='Golchen' post='816695' date='Apr 23 2010, 08:45 PM']Personally I suspect unions. Have you considered your cables working conditions?[/quote] I get the impression official M.U. cables would be terribly expensive and drink alot of tea. [quote name='escholl' post='816626' date='Apr 23 2010, 07:55 PM']This: [/quote] Mice eh?

I've bought cheap cables and I've bought expensive ones. I've never really noticed a correlation between cost and lifespan to be honest, (or maybe I've just been unlucky), or tone or signal strength for that matter. For me, they all shuffle off this *ahem* mortal coil sooner rather than later.

So here I am looking at another dead guitar cable. Nothing unusual there and it wasn't a particularly expensive cable, (a Planet Waves one with the brown card wrapping). It can't have been more than three months old and it hasn't had a tough life. It's never been accidentally yanked out of my bass or amp. It's never had a knot in it, always coiled properly, not extensively gigged only used for practice and the occasional jam. Never rolled over with a flightcase full of power amps or sat in a pool of beer. Always kept at room temperature. Only ever used by me, it's had a gentle albeit brief life. I'm at a complete loss as to why it's stopped working. It's not the end of anybody's world, I'm not even slighty irritated. Playing bass on and off for twenty odd years, it's obviously not the first cable I've killed. I'm just wondering if any knowledgable basschatters have any theories as to why other cables, (ie power) seem indestructable, yet musical instrument cables seem so fragile? Is it the inherent physics of designing instrument cables? Shoddy manufacturing processes? Inbuilt obsolescense? Alien magnetic pulses from outer space? All theories, practical or abstract, are welcome.

Settled for a pair of Wizard eighty fours and my S1 fuzzy thump has returned with a vengance.

That's a good idea. I don't think you have to do things like School Days though because it's not other bass players you're trying to impress. Rather some short snippets of instantly recognisable bass lines... and don't restrict yourself to just rawk either, (something like 'Around The World' by Daft Punk).

Ah that's a lovely bass and not too dissimilar to one I used to own, (and still covet). Sorry to hear about your friend but good that he wanted his bass to go to someone who would appreciate it.

You'll need a 1/16" imperial allen key. Not all allen keys are made equal though. I found a set of imperial keys at Wilco's for 99p, but they were poor quality rubbish that didn't fit and I ended up ordering one key for a pound off ebay.

I'm looking for a recorder for the same reasons and the Yamaha Pocketrak CX keeps catching my eye because, depending where you look, the price has come down to around £100. [url="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/38818-yamaha-pocketrak-cx.html"]http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/3881...cketrak-cx.html[/url] Anybody used one of these? I'm loathe to buy sh*te and pay twice.

I see a black body jazz with a maple board, a white body with a rosewood board... Where's the black body jazz with a rosewood board? Like the mexican 70's reissue? Bah!

Yeah, it's kaput alright. I can see a couple of mil break in the coil. If I'd have known it was so dainty I wouldn't have handed my screwdriver to my mate who wanted to adjust my pickup height. It needed sorting and I just hadn't got around to it yet. I didn't take my eyes off him and he wasn't rough with it...I suspect it was defective in the first place. Anyways, humbuckers in series? Is it a go'er? I'm not so sure and I don't want to make an expensive failed experiment.

Anyone?

[quote name='endorka' post='778928' date='Mar 18 2010, 06:01 PM']What may be your problem is that at lower volumes, the ear perceives less bass. Therefore you need to add some bass and/or low mids into your tone, either by increasing the low pass, or by increasing the lower frequencies on the graphic EQ. [b]There is a name for this psychoacoustic phenomenon, but I can't remember it [/b]:-) Jennifer[/quote] Fletcher-Munson sound curves? [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%E2%80%93Munson_curves"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%E2%80%93Munson_curves[/url]

Just bought a Little Mark amp off Steve. Nice chap who I'd be very happy to deal with again. Thanks Steve.

A minor frustration turned into a serious problem... nightmare. You have my sympathies and I hope it doesn't take too long to sort out.

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='773750' date='Mar 13 2010, 05:38 PM']It's just possible the old-v-new has resulted in an 'out of phase' situation if the resultant series switching is thin and noisy. Probably best to go back to a matched pair from the same era - I just happen to have a pair of USA Js from circa 2007 available if you're interested.[/quote] They certainly don't like each other, the older one bullies it's younger sibling. PM'ed. Anyone out there fitted noiseless/humbuckers into an S1 jazz? Did you like it?