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[quote name='witterth' post='585538' date='Aug 31 2009, 01:40 AM']I've been playing for 26 years, mostly professionally and like you I'm still scratching the surface.[/quote]
Totally.
I've been playing for 30 years & I feel like I know less now than I did when I started.

Got any pictures of it?
If it's one of the late 70s ones they're very good Japanese made instruments. Princes' main guitar (his telecaster with the tort scratchplate) is actually a Hohner from this range.

I've never tried a wireless unit for bass that hasn't compressed the f*** out of the sound.

The other thing to bear in mind if buying a wireless unit of any sort is that with the government selling off the wireless channels the frequency ranges used by these units are going to get very crowded - the chance of interference with vastly increase & you may even end up having to buy licences for them in the not too distant future.

Just out of interest, I was wondering if anybody on here bought a secondhand JD Supernatural from the Bass Centre in Wapping - I part exchanged my one in May 1989 and I wondered if it ended up being owned by anybody on here.

It has a cherry finish, bound neck & headstock, ebony fingerboard, UFO/Planet inlays. I can't remember the serial number but I think it was a palindrome (reads the same backwards as forwards).

[quote name='johnbob' post='584301' date='Aug 29 2009, 09:01 AM']I owned a Jaydee some 20 years ago, the necks were very "unstable" then.[/quote]
Same here. I had a lovely Supernatural (before it became the Mark King model) with the planet & UFO inlays, bound neck & headstock & inlaid JD logo.
I ended up getting rid of it as the neck was a bloody nightmare - I swear I spent more time adjusting the trussrod than I did playing the bloody thing.
To be honest I found it to be a bit of a one trick pony too; it was great for slapping but sounded terrible for anything else.

This isn't one that was posted on the forum. I saw it listed on a Japanese music shop website whilst trawling the internet for Zon porn.
This Zon Legacy was built for the winter NAMM show this year and is made from mango wood, which I think looks absolutely gorgeous.

Personally I think that bass is ugly & cheap looking - the sort of thing you'd get on Ebay for £349.
I just don't like those thin, elongated horns & the way the pickups are crammed together.
Looks like it was painted with Hammerite too.

I've got nothing against more bass modern designs, I don't think this one is a very good example of one.

[quote name='simwells' post='583006' date='Aug 27 2009, 10:45 PM']I've always liked the idea of having dockable pedals so they'd mount straight into a docked pedal board (or single dock enclosures for indivdual units) that connected up just through docking.[/quote]
Korg did this ages ago.

Great company - I always get my strings from them.
I know what you mean about the name though.......

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='580112' date='Aug 25 2009, 12:42 PM']Geezer was and still is a huge influence on my playing. The first real bass player who's style I latched onto.[/quote]
Same here.
He was the first player I really listened to when I found out there was such a thing as a bass guitar.
Great to see him getting a good few mentions in this thread.

A piece of bass gear we all agree on.

[quote name='Jase' post='581477' date='Aug 26 2009, 03:15 PM']That's the bit that freaked me too, just made me think Julius was playing bass for a split second, in the same split second I thought it was a rare Jaco vid, then at the end of the split second got my head around it [/quote]
You certainly pack a lot into your split seconds........

There's very rarely enough of any interest to me in either publication to make me hand over the cash for them.
I can go for long periods of time, sometimes years, without seeing a copy I think is worth buying.

I didn't realise that Julius was the drummer - I just saw the guy that is the spitting image of Jaco on bass & assumed it must be him.
To be playing in a band with a guy that is obviously trying very hard to be your late father must be really weird.

That's spooky.

Try sending a PM to Ped.
He's had Basschat T-shirts made before so he could maybe give you details of who did them.

Það var ekki mér

[quote name='Rich' post='580392' date='Aug 25 2009, 04:30 PM']A good amp should give you a useable basic tone without having to crank the sh!t out of all the EQ knobs, sliders, buttons, whatever.[/quote]
I'd agree with that. I never even use the EQ circuit on my ABM & all I've ever had are very positive comments about my bass sound when I've gigged with it.

Never had a single problem with it either, unlike my Trace Elliot (one of the very old ones with the black painted wooden case) which was a total nightmare.

It will undoubtedly play like sh*t too.
The worst bass I've ever played is a Hofner. Absolute complete and utter crap.

[quote name='thebeat' post='579500' date='Aug 24 2009, 08:24 PM']Andrew Bodnar played bass on that track.[/quote]
Did he really?
I always thought it was Nick Lowe himself playing bass on that.

What are you going to be wearing?
Choose a bass that'll stand out from your outfit, ie not a black bass with an all black outfit.

(That sonic blue jazz is pretty lovely. I'm not a huge fan of Fenders but I LOVE their custom colours).

[quote name='NancyJohnson' post='578475' date='Aug 23 2009, 07:49 PM']Geddy Lee pretty much has the tone nailed for me. Rickenbacker, Wal, Steinberger or Fender Jazz makes little difference. You all know what he sounds like...

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As much as I love Geddy Lee I've always thought his Wal tone was bloody awful.

It is impossible to give a definitive answer to your highly subjective question.
It was your own idea of what a "good bass sound" is that made you not like the basses.
That's all there is to it.

If you're worried about it you could always stick some fabric tape around the part of the lead that touches the body.
Not all guitar stands will react with a nitro finish (some of them actually use this as a selling point) - it tends to be the cheaper one that do.