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That's just the way forming and joining bands happens. 99% of the people you meet are hopeless d*cks, and that's usually because 99% of people who reckon they're musicians are just hopeless d*cks. Keep at it long enough and you'll find the right people. Or you'll get impatient, like I did, and form your own band.

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[quote name='EBS_freak' post='469360' date='Apr 22 2009, 10:28 AM']You've managed to get [i]months[/i] out of it before failing...?[/quote] Not me man, I never owned one. Guy I know had a combo though. Most genius thing ever, the speaker was power rated so low it couldn't handle the output, so he had to run it real quiet or it would break. It bust the speaker eventually anyway. Funniest thing ever.

Yep. I just priced up a couple used items from Ishibashi, and I actually reckon I'd do better buying the same thing new over here thanks to the pissing exchange rate. Well done Gordon sodding Brown. I hate you with every fibre of my being.

Sounds like one of those one-off brands that larger guitar store chains have made for them in Indonesia and so on. Sound Control's used to be "Manhattan". It's a really cheap Precision copy, so although it might be okay, I'd expect it to be rubbish, especially the pickups.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='437109' date='Mar 17 2009, 01:21 PM']OK, so taking nostalgia as a starting point and projecting 20 years into the future where the teenagers who are currently making do with schecters, warwick rock basses and yamahas can actually afford something a little more high end, what noughties basses are they going to look back on and wish they'd really owned? Warwick Katana? Status Graphite S2? Spector NS-5XL? In the current music scene I can't see a lot of movement away from the vintage Fender market myself. I'm not aware of anything contemporary and distinctive which is drawing most teenage bass players away from that. Warwick was about as close as it got, in my view. But I'm sure there are some teen bassists on the forum who could describe what they think they'd like to own 20 years from now?[/quote] Hmm. When I was a teen all I wanted was modern-looking eyesores. I actually had a really sweet Hohner fretless Jazz copy in white with a tortoiseshell guard, but I traded it in for a hideous Hohner B-Bass V just because it was active and had a through neck and five strings. But at the time I thought the Jazz bass was uncool, and modern basses were cooler. I didn't realise that ten years later it would be pretty much the only bass I'd consider owning. I think people who know what they're doing stick with these vintage-looking Fender-style models because they're as close as you'll get to the original electric bass - The '51 P, the Precision and the Jazz, you can't really get away from how damn close to perfect they were to begin with - as with guitars, the only real alternative was the Gibson take, set necks, shorter scale-lengths, humbucking pickups and so on, but less democratic and more "luxury". You look at what happens with basses today: The ultra-modern, "exotic-fish-nailed-to-ladder"-style custom 5, 6 or more strings and all that, ultimately what they are is the same notion as the super-strat, i.e. you take the principle that was established with the Jazz bass and you push it so far into nerdy tonewoods and active EQ gadgetry that you can't even begin to imagine a style of music complex enough to warrant it, just like when you get a guitar that has 10 pickup configurations and a coil-split and a massive whammy bar and locking this and that and the other, and a top that looks more like a 15th century French dresser than a musical instrument. They're second-generation variants that started out with the ultra-light super-japs and went from there. On the other hand, whatever Gibson started for some reason never really happened. A few people still play Grabbers and T-Birds and you might even see a Les Paul bass here and there, but Gibson isn't really a name that springs to mind when you think "what bass could I get". Not sure where I'm going with this, but I guess that although the teen market is something that obviously needs to be catered to with the Yamahas and the SDGRs and the Rockbasses and so on, I think that most of the kids who stick with bass will eventually arrive at the same conclusion, which is that there's a good reason people keep going back to the originals. AND might I add, when you look at the signature models that are coming out these days that are aimed at teens, the dude from Green Day, the dude from Blink 182, the dude from Fall Out Boy, they're Fender Jazzes and Precisions.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='468972' date='Apr 21 2009, 07:57 PM']Anyhooo.... whats wrong with these.....? [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_bxr1800h.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_bxr1800h.htm[/url][/quote] Apparently they fail within months.

[quote name='mildmanofrock' post='467979' date='Apr 20 2009, 11:50 PM']I have an SVT 6 Pro and an SVT 410HLF. And I'm beginning to feel a bit foolish about it.[/quote] Dude, I wish I had that kind of gear to feel foolish about. I know what you mean though. I've had killer legendary high-end gear and felt foolish about it when someone points out to me that they got some new-brand stuff for half the price that is reviewing better in the trade literature. So I go sell the legendary gear and get the new stuff, and yeah it's great and all, but then I find myself wishing I still had my legendary gear, because playing music is about so much more than just having the most efficient gear. And time and time again, you'll see the same thing. One guy with his refrigerator full of rackable crap and a six-speed bass with fourteen dials on it and thru-neck and inbuilt coffee-maker and what have you, all through some space-age cab with cones made from perihydroxidephenalaminedisulphate - and then some old dude comes along with a beat-up Precision and some ancient amp with four knobs on it, and owns the sh*t out of the new guy's sound. Enjoy your gear for what it is, and don't worry about what other people are doing.

Awesome, cheers.

Thanks again guys - It just occurred to me, if I got it and I wanted to replace the scratchplate with a different colour, does anyone know where I'd find parts for that, or would I be stuck with having to get standard stuff and drilling some new screw holes?

Aha! The 1983 Jazz apparently has a one-piece scratchplate: So this would be a 90's reissue of that model, do you think?

Hey thanks for the info guys. Does anyone have pics of theirs for a comparison?

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170323247467"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=170323247467[/url] Claims to be a Mexican Fender. I've personally never seen a Fender Mex with a one-piece guard and strat-style knobs. Even if those two things are aftermarket, the screw holes are in the wrong place, and surely he would have mentioned that in the listing. Some of the guys on the Orange forum suggested it could be an old Squier (from back when they still had a bigger Fender logo and just Squier written on the tip) with the Squier logo rubbed off, but in that case, why would it say "Made in Mexico" on it? And surely it's in way too good of a condition to be a cheap early-eighties bass anyway. The headstock looks barely a couple years old. So it looks recent and it's in as-recent condition but I know for a fact that all Mexican Fenders within at least the last five years had a metal plate under the knobs. Lastly he's started it at £180, which indicates he knows that it's worth less than the £250 - £300 that most of these basses go for these days. I reckon it's just a cheap copy with an aftermarket logo slapped on it. What do you reckon? Or am I completely wrong and is it just an oddball model?

Excellent, thanks for your help.

Hey guys. Due to recent developments that I won't go into because it'll bore you, I'm taking over on bass in my band. Now, it's been some years (like eight or nine) since I played bass in a band. And last time I did, I was playing a Hohner fretless Jazz (nicest bass ever, I could kick myself into next year for selling it) into a Fender BXR100 solid state combo. Okay, so here's my question: Just how big does a bass amp need to get before it's loud enough to compete with a coupla 100w stacks and a mid-loud drummer? We're not playing particularly loud, either. Now in the interim between last time I played bass, I've gotten older, and to be honest I've been through a number of wattage permutations with my guitar amps, ending up with all of 15 watts from my Orange head. On the other hand, I've very rarely stood in front of a bassist who was carring much less than 180w. Usually more like 300w. In my dim recollection, the BXR100 (100w 1x15") did okay when competing with two 100w 1x12" combos and a fairly loud drummer, as in I had clarity and I could be felt and so on. So what's the score? I'm not exactly dripping money, if I was I'd just get a 300w stack and turn it down, but I wanna know how little I can get away with, given that price increases according to wattage. I'm talking solid state here, of course, I'm far from being able to swing valve stuff. Cheers.