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[quote name='RobTheBass' timestamp='1357744818' post='1927670'] that's the one [/quote] 2001 limited edition. Happy to help...

Is it one of these?

[quote name='RobTheBass' timestamp='1357743712' post='1927641'] I've since found out that a number of special edition Tele's were released between 1982 and 1988 that had the 4 digit number stamped on the bridge plate so I'm wondering if it was part of these - although a bass but it has been known as the Tele bass based on the 52 P with the Tele headstock...this dating would suit the bass. [/quote] I can't think of a bass meeting this description that was built between 1982 and 1988. Does yours have a P and a J pickup?

Fender will be able to help. Email the Custom Shop. We want pics!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1357728443' post='1927226'] Excellent idea WoT - and I'll come back here and make a crass and inappropriate remark about that reply. [/quote] Expression of shock / hurt / amusement / sarcasm / agreement* [size=2]*I will delete as appropriate when the context is available[/size]

Jimryan - I'm posting this as a placeholder. When you remember what your post was going to be, and you update your OP, I'll come back and edit this with a proper reply.

Here's a detailed diagram of my setup: fingers > bass > amp > cab

I think it's more of a wake-up call to shops to start setting basses up so they're vaguely playable before hanging them out on the wall. That way, if a bass is a dog, it's because it's a dog. Send it back. The internet is killing you all. Put some effort into it.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1357649738' post='1925909'] Yes. I notice this particularly on the last few Rush albums. i find them almost unlistenable at times. [/quote] Ah, tell me about it. Everyone going on about how Clockwork Angels is a return to sonic form. No it isn't! Listen to it! It's terrible! *hyperventilates*

Haven't read the thread, but I'd just like to say that it's the mastering that's boils my p*ss. It's all mastered for tin-pot car speakers or earphones bought from a market stall. It's like listening to wallpaper.

Nope.

Direct from Lakland. Works out about 21 quid shipped - they arrive in a week or so..

A lot of people get into fretless for the Pino / Jaco thing. Not me (although it is very nice). I just love the sound a fretless Precision makes. Uprighty, growly, with sustain... yum.

If I had a grand - and a few more quid for a refin - knocking about, and the chance to inspect it on collection, I would have loved that for a project.

Nowt wrong with the BBOT.

80s US Fender with a few tweaks. Nowt to be suspicious about.

Unvelievable. *shakes fist at Ibanez*

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1357226366' post='1919377'] Another thing, which I might not have experienced as I was usually using practice room cabs, (quite large ones) is that the power of the Streamliner was causing your cabs to start to compress as they couldn't take the full whack, which is totally understandable for any 2x10. [/quote] It's not an issue with the cabs. I think it's more a power management thing - the architecture just doesn't ring my bell. Bear in mind I had about 100 gigs over a period of a year to refine it and 'get used' to it, and a similar amount with the wretched (IMO) TC. The Streamliner was marginally more successful. It's a matter of taste, innit.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1357215165' post='1919121'] I really like a tight low end. I'm not into boomy bass tones. I can't see, unless it bass specific, where the issue is with the bass control on the Streamliner. Simply roll it back to about 10 o'clock. Done. Mids at 1/2, done. That's pretty much flat. Plenty of scope to boost the mids to crazy amounts. The 'everything at 12' that Markbass seemed to make popular isn't really any different. I found that the low control on the LM3 was at too low a freq really, and the low mid wasn't setup for the 'meat' area of low mids. It might be bass specific. None of my cabs seem to have a mid dip from my playing before having the Streamliner. [/quote] My main problem with the Streamliner was how it holds together. I could hear it, but like the TC RH450 (albeit not as severely) at volume it seemed to lose its shape. Something to do with the power management, maybe? I spent a year on it, tweaking it at every gig. All boooooom, and no b*****ks. In the meantime, plenty of other owners were posting about how much they liked it, so I just decided it wasn't to my taste. I'm back in the bosom of the Walkabout, which (in brochure-speak, at least) has nowhere near the output, but holds itself together with such steely resolve I don't have to be loud to be felt and heard.

Welcome aboard, kidda...