Cosmo Valdemar

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1283447' date='Jun 26 2011, 10:32 PM']Best phone. Talk to Jeff, its funniest.[/quote] +1. They built me a couple of 4x12s a few years back to match an old Marshall Superbass I had. Jeff's pretty hilarious, has a tendency to drift off mid sentence though! Sound as a pound

[quote name='mercuryl' post='1286664' date='Jun 29 2011, 05:07 PM']Hi. Has anyone here ever placed an order with Fender, via their custom shop, for a bass to their own specification? I'm thinking of ordering a Precision bass to my own exact spec - black, 4-string, maple fingerboard, medium relic, overwound passive p-bass pickup, brass hardware, black pickguard, neck between P bass and J bass. Cost won't be an issue - but I'd like to know if anyone has done this before, what did it cost, time from order to delivery and your general impression of the experience. ....... and did the bass end up being what you wanted?[/quote] Considering how close that is to a standard bass, plus a few minor alterations, you would be paying hideously over the top for the Custom shop to make you one. You could get a new Roger Waters sig and upgrade the hardware and electronics. Maybe get a luthier to slim the neck?

I know a guy who works there, he posted a job vacancy ad for them, if only it wasn't in bloody Epsom!! Pretty much my dream job right there.

[quote name='kedo' post='1285425' date='Jun 28 2011, 04:55 PM']Thanks again nottswarick. I use a Fender custom shop NOS 1964 limited edition Jazz bass[/quote] There's no reason you couldn't get a wonderful sound with that bass and your Ashdown. When they were being designed, the Fender Jazz was used as the test bass throughout, so it's really as if the amp was designed to make that bass sound great. One question though - what strings do you use? If the jazz has decade-old flats on it's going to sound pretty indistinct from the off... Also, my hint for the Ashdown heads - I always found them to sound best with the shape preset off- which, weirdly, has the switch pressed in. A little bit illogical if you ask me. When I first got the head I did a whole tour with the shape EQ engaged, all the while believing that it was off. Should have just trusted my ears I suppose.

Link doesn't work anymore so I'm guessing it's been pulled.

[quote name='dc2009' post='1284352' date='Jun 27 2011, 05:15 PM']Bass cellar, perchance?[/quote] Congratulations! Now, simply send me your address and your FREE peanut will be on the way to you! Bloody villain that man was. Reprehensible liar. Still, I'm glad your bass doesn't suffer form that unfortunate issue! I remember it was a wonderful, grunting beast. Don't know if you're familiar with the band 3 Colours Red, but their album 'Revolt' was recorded with the 4 string variety, and it sounds excellent, a big influence on me buying one. If I ever see a 4 string version for sale I'll be straight on it!

The reason I play bass. Can't believe it's been 9 years. I still have the newspapers from the day at home. I'm going to drink some Remy Martin from a cycle flask in his honour tonight.

[quote name='dc2009' post='1283628' date='Jun 27 2011, 05:20 AM']@ Cosmo Valdemar, one or two posts of former owners also repeated the exact problem you had, which some reckon was caused by a 4 string pup being put in to do the 5 string, and the A being the string that missed out on the J.[/quote] I'm sure it was that. I remember now the guy in the shop telling me this was normal practice in bass manufacture and that it couldn't be helped. He also convinced me that the P pickup (which had no issues) was the only one you really needed for my kind of music (at that age I probably had a Fear Factory shirt on). Being utterly naive, and already in love with the bass, I took it. First person to guess which reputable London bass trader that was wins a peanut.

When I was at school, there was a little guitar shop up the road where we would frequently 'miss' chosen lessons to go and look round. They had a very early Wal in there, single pickup, scratchplate, wide headstock and everything. It was about £350 and it hung on the wall for years. Yes, I regret that one.

Do Fender still make the Mexican 50s Precision? AFAIK they are the same as the Roadworns but 'pre-beating'. A lot cheaper too. I would happily say that the one I played was the best-feeling P bass I have had the pleasure to hold. The neck is the stuff of dreams.

[quote name='danweb22' post='1280616' date='Jun 24 2011, 10:15 AM']Ah I was hoping someone was able to do that! lol[/quote] I can't see anything other than 'WB'...

I enjoyed that. Any chance of 'Dyer's Eve'?

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I don't know why the term 'self-indulgent' has become so derogatory - as far as I am concerned, the finest music is self-indulgent, i.e. composed for self satisfaction and for the sheer joy of it, rather than for a target audience. When I shut myself away and start working on ideas, I'm not thinking of anybody but myself.

Sounds like my ideal band! Shame I'm a bit far away.

[quote name='Maverick' post='1274201' date='Jun 18 2011, 10:21 PM']Completely unimportant point, but he's back to the Marcus Miller in their latest live vids. I'm kind of glad, thinking that Mendez's bass looked really cool is how I first discovered Marcus Miller [/quote] From Opeth to Marcus Miller in one move. So he's back with the Fenders then. To be honest the last time I saw them was at High Voltage almost a year ago, and he used Sandbergs throughout - I think it was the J style one with the MM pickup at the bridge. Although, true to Opeth form, you could hardly hear the bass!