JTUK

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1448269647' post='2913967'] Can anyone suggest anything to clean them with that might bring back a little brightness? [/quote] Meths is good. I leave them for a 48 hrs soak but the silks on some strings are a PITA and cause impurities in the cleaning fluid, IMO. This can add up to causing rust spots or stains on the string..so I find silks counter-productive....they get ragged and look terrible so no point at all being there on a decent string IMO. I use strings without them... Newtone don't use silks..thankfully, but I'd request they didn't put them on anyway in my sets. They also use decent metal.. which is a bug/theory of mine. I think there was a general downgrade on the quality on steel used..which is why I changed suppliers a while back.. That and debris floating in the meths can cause the strings not toi clean up as well as they should. How practical it is to change meths for each cleanse is your call... but I just throw it away when the oils that come off the string under cleaning gets too apparent ... I've heard medical alcohol..can't recall the product name..is another source, but presumably debris is more of an issue there so we are back to silks dirtying everything up again..??

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1445549845' post='2892416'] Nice... how does that combination sound? [/quote] Mine has a RW board and I think it is a great combination. No one needs 12-15 db on a pre amp, IMO, but it can be close to a passive sound which is what I want but it has a lot of tone shape as well, if that is what you want. I'm think I would want/need a pre with maybe 5 db max

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Willie Weeks did 'Get ready, get set' and 'Papillon' on the naughty album.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I listen to it on YT and my guess would have been Get Ready for WW... so I award myself a biscuit.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]All Star cast on the album, reviewing the credits..!!![/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Don Grolnick...my second fave piano.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Hiram Bullock, gtr solo on Get Ready,[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Hamish Stewert does a lot of gtr...[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Steve Khan and Jeff Mironov, Phil Upchurch[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Whitney and Cissy Houston..plus the Breckers.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I recall Anthony Jackson saying in an interview that he had never been so indulged in the studio to get his parts sorted..[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]For the cream of NY session guys of the day, the costs must have been outrageous if AJ says the time they had was so[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]much beyond the norm ..!!![/font][/color] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdfaUoTi2A&index=2&list=PLlvMFsiUEoe2v7gwBEc4icwysrSITePTr

What is the action like between basses?

I don't want a 4 str but I've seen some really tempting custom Fender that make you think. I wouldn't want a run of the mill Fender tho...so I'd be temopted to keep the bass you really like. Bands and musical situations change all the time....

Guy Pratt has done pretty much all the latest Ferry gigs IIRC..Not sure what the distibction is between Ferry and Roxy either, but I can't recall anyone else recently..??

For the sound I want, two weeks tops and playing every day but looking after them. Depending on what gigs I've got, depends when I actually change them. I've got 3 new packs ready to go.... but the thing that determines the strings are coming off is when they feel off...which is around 2 months. Forget what they sound like all gunked up.... they just feel awful. That is when they get cleaned. A good set of strings made using good core material (which is NOT a given, IME) will clean up 3 to 5 times before they need scrapping.

what is the wieght of the amp unracked... ? I can't see any bag being man enough..

If you are in London you have to visit the Gallery and talk to Sei. A quick train ride west will get to to BassGear which is right next to Twyford rail station. Both shops have loads of top end basses at any one time. I would give both a call and have a quick chat. I am a bit confused though... the tracks you've listed are modern basses...like a a Sei or Smith but you call yourself a Fender type of guy..? Certainly Martin P could make you either as he does Jazz clones as well as anyone IMO...as well as the modern Original and Flamboyants for the modern sound. Smith is Smith..and nothing sounds like it..but then it doesn't go anywhere esle either, IMO. I think you'll buy Smith in the end for that money, but both those shops should be the first place you start looking and talking. For me, that money would go on an Avella C, or a Sei J5 but that is staying close to the Fender Vibe. I'm sure a visit to both will set you on a path..both great shops with a great wealth of knowledge and stock. Sei can sell and make what you need... Bassgear stocks and sells. Google them both and call ahead as I'm sure their stock moves pretty quick. Thoroughly recommend both

The Naughty track is Marcus Miller... I remember that much. Anthony Jackson does Clouds..and Move me No Mountain as above Phil Upchurch is in there too..?? I thought he did a bass track.

[quote name='r16ktx' timestamp='1448008917' post='2912177'] Do you have any back line with these, and if not how do you handle monitoring? Also Yamaha state that the frequency response is 49Hz-20kHz @ -10dB and this handles the bass guitar fine? [/quote] I'd be sceptical of that and certainly not at any real band volume. I think they'd be fine for a little colour and bleed, but not the entire bass without backline help. You definitely will need backline unless a quiet acoustic band. You have to be reasonable with expectations..you are asking 2 115's to do a LOT if you put kit and bass and gtr/keys at gigging volume With good backline which provide most of the instruments sound, these will do ok...in a smallish pub but at the expense of the vocals...which is not at all ideal at all. IMO. We use to run 4 DX cabas, tops and subs, and even then the bass would stay out as well as most of the drums. If nothing else, it was too much to mic for pubs and you gained nothing.at all for you efforts. We did run a loud backline though, so there was no way the P.A would replace that and we just made sure the Vox were out front of everything and bleed keys and gtr and a kick, if poss.

[quote name='Sonic_Groove' timestamp='1297457854' post='1124353'] I think you will find Alan Spenner did all the studio bass -- Gary played live B [/quote] Spenner did the Live in Frejus gig with Andy Newmark on drums.. Prior to Tibbs, it was Graham Simpson, IIRC

I'll dig the album out for who did waht but I think the main section was Steve Ferrone and Anthony Jackson, IIRC. Willie Weeks did just the one track..??

Was long on my turntable as the 'best' album in my formative years and AJ was a BIG influence Happened to talk to Hamish Stewart about it at a local gig as he was BV on a few tracks. All round education....and in house stories.

I use an East pre mostly 'flat' and it is easy to tell as you switch it to passive to compare.

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1447846470' post='2910854'] They came with GHS flats up to circa 78 when they changed to GHS rounds. Mine also came with rounds in 1980. BE's was a 77 bass. IMO flats on a Stingray make the biggest difference to the timbre of popped notes and perhaps enable a bit more thump. If you bought yours new JTUK, 1982 is quite a late pre EB and well into the Jackson made period. [/quote] LIttle local store and it hung around I believe so anywhere around 80-82, I could probably date it by the music shop owners...but yes, new and with rounds. I believe it predated Music Mart in Canterbury...or certainly the end of that shop.

Zawinual... or though Jaco did use effects live, or certainly on his solo stuff...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1447754313' post='2909959'] Yes. Apparently he used the stock flats that came with the bass and never changed them, a la Jamerson. But I don't know if that's a fact or a myth. [/quote] Not sure they came with flats.. mine didn't. Around 82-ish

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1447668855' post='2909302'] Fortunately Nile Rodgers isn't trying to make Jerry Barnes play like BE. Full marks for letting JB be his own man. [/quote] 100% Currently my fave live bass player

Looks very nice... Ok, what is the deal on this..? How does this work... Genuine Fender parts?

Wouldn't have a problem with 722's

Are you saying Freedie Mercury was a technically great singer...or not?

12" Tops and a sub is just going to be enough to beef up the vox, add a gtr bleed and kick with maybe an o/h in a decent size pub. I'd suggest 150 people would be the limit size-wize for this P.A depending on the qulaity of your tops. RCF are ok...the benchmark is QSC in this mid level market, IMO. You wont be getting rid of any boxes with that size P.A...and a single 12/15 sub wont be man enough on its own to help with the bass much altho you could run a little line thru it to help...but you'll probably find the effort isn't tangible enough for the bass,

Talking about something that shouldn't really work but does... Saw a local band and the guy was using an SG bass with an Ampeg micro and it wasn't working... (the bass sound wasn't my cuppa anyway but it did nothing for the band mix and had their was no bass in the mix, basically, so the band sound was WEAK.....was crying out for a P-Bass, but there you go) Swapped it over for a micro dub bass with rubber strings and it transformed the band sound... Soon swapped back to the SG/EB0 and lost it again.. Qui

[quote name='Horizontalste' timestamp='1447584345' post='2908619'] I can highly recommend Jon Shuker. He painted my Stingray neck & the finish is second to none. [/quote] In house or shipped out..?