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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?

Does anybody have any experience of putting humbucking/noiseless jazz pickups in a series circut? I can't make my mind up with what to replace my pair with. Despite shielding the cavities in my jazz, it starting to sound as though I'm carrying a lightsabre around my neck. When I practice, seems everywhere I turn to face gives off some sort of electrical hum. Turn away from my hifi and I'm facing my amp, turn away from my amp and I'm facing my laptop, turn away from my laptop and I'm facing a table lamp. It's got to the point now where I practice looking out of the window... people walking past must be thinking I'm a right wazzock.

I'm picking up a LMK2 with carry bag and speakon for £380 on Monday so...

I once prepped some organic vegtables that were taken to Highgrove and served for Prince Charles supper... who happened to be entertaining the Dalai Lama that evening.

I've pondered this too, and put it down to my percieved lack of available keyboard players and/or horn sections.

[quote name='Steve Amadeo' post='771332' date='Mar 11 2010, 10:21 AM']He must be good and therefore busy... he said I'd be be without my bass for a week to ten days....[/quote] Take a gander down at the Pacific Rd Arts Centre. You'll find his funny little shop is always a hive of activity, although I think the 10 days quote is just to cover his backside in case things get ultra busy. I was told it might be ready in 4... or at the worst 10 days. A g*itarist friend recently explained he needed a setup on a brand new instrument days before an important gig, and subsequently got it with hours to spare... but ended up taking it back after the gig because as he thrashed away, the E string kept jumping out of it's saddle and after the first song had to resort to his back up. I've heard some people swear by KGB as a whole, everybody praise Keith's work personally, whilst some people have expressed disappointment at work completed by others in his employ. Apologies to anyone who might be reading this thread in KGB's employ, that's only an opinion that's been expressed to me. I personally have yet to use them, but intend to in the near future.

I notice that shonky looking P bass listing has been pulled...

price... pictures... [i]honest[/i] description... location... it's just too much to expect from some people

Send me an SAE and 20p and I'll send you enough neoprene to make several mutes.

Maple... no rosewood... no maple... no rosewood... no... whichever way they come.

I'm interested in the Hagstrom as well. Buy it and tell us what you think!

[quote name='gareth' post='749283' date='Feb 18 2010, 08:52 AM']Thanks for all your comments I am awaiting a reply to my email from the seller and won't be doing anything further until this is received.[/quote] Q. Who wouldn't email a few snaps from a camera phone for £700? A. Only a scammer. Though not strictly legal, I think your strategy of not paying 'till you see some more pictures is a sound one. If the seller wants their money, they'll make the effort to send them and if not, then there's definately something fishy going on. A 'non paying' strike on ebay's got to be better than paying for a 'ringer' and all the nonsense that entails. Mainly though, I hope they do send you the photo's and that this proves the guitar to be a real. Like I said in my OP this guitar caught my eye because, if you swapped the scratchpate for a black one, it looks just like one I sold to Johnny Roadhouse in Manchester around 15 years ago. Something I've always regretted because, (although the years may be making me nostalgic), it was the nicest sounding and easiest playing jazzes I've ever laid hands on, and the black body and rosewood board/blocks & binding combination from this era is cool as f*ck, and rare as rocking horse sh*t.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='748210' date='Feb 17 2010, 11:21 AM']Do you think the seller is a BCer? [/quote] I never considered that. Doubt it though. A few decent snaps and an honest description could have made them a good sale here, or ebay, 'Faker' or not. If they were a forummmer here they should have realised [b]nothing escapes the collective beady eye of Basschat.[/b]

Although the seller is probably tearing their hair out, after reading some of the doubting comments in this thread, I don't blame you for taking this stance. I doubt the sellers going to give you any more informationthough, they could have done that in the original listing and drummed themselves up more bidders. Black jazzes of this era with the blocks & bindings seem very rare indeed, I hope it works out and I hope the guitar is real. Please let us know what happens.

Don't the Mexican 70's re-issues have a bullet truss rod on the headstock? I'm squinting at his picture and I can't see one.

That's a shocking twist in the story, and yet not entirely surprising. Wonder what other things has he been economical with the truth about? Musicians eh! *spits*