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[center][size=4][b]Ladies & Gentlemen I present... drum roll... My Ernie Ball Music Man 25th Anniversary 5 strings HSS[/b][/size][/center]

[quote name='Alfie' post='774006' date='Mar 13 2010, 11:56 PM']That seller seems to have another "the one" for sale. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280477925368&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...ME:B:SS:GB:1123[/url][/quote] [b]Excellent! Take my advice and do as I did: phone him up, he'll give you a better deal than the ebay price [size=3][u](don't tell him I told you, be clever)[/u][/size] he will love to save himself paypal / ebay fees hence a phone deal is better for him too[/b]

That's the one I think [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-CONCENTRIC-VOLUME-TONE-STACKED-POT-62-JAZZ-BASS_W0QQitemZ380169023762QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar_Accessories?hash=item5883d6f112"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FENDER-CONCENTRIC-VO...=item5883d6f112[/url]

[quote name='Sibob' post='698821' date='Jan 2 2010, 04:44 PM']The 'South East' bash is generally held in Surrey around November time. But that's not to say a London couldn't be held by someone Si[/quote] Sorry I am new here, what is this bash all about? And why are people bringing their gear? Is this a... "show me yours and I'll show you mine?" type of thing? Thanks

[quote name='HMX' post='773862' date='Mar 13 2010, 08:30 PM']Just an update here. I took it into Mansons for a setup after putting the strings on. I went to collect it today and they said that there is upward bow in the neck and the truss rod is the tightest it can be - meaning major work or a new neck. They told me to take it back to where I bought it from - under warranty. But hey, guess what, Reverb no longer exists! They recommended that I pack the bass up, give it to them, they will send it to Fender who will put a new neck on and send it back. Makes me wish I never got rid of my Spector or Precision. So gutted here. £450 I won't see for a couple of weeks at least.[/quote] SH|T!! That is a real downer of a bad news. So sorry to hear that. And I thought it was a simple matter of muting unwanted buzz from the bridge springs. I hope Fender will sort out your neck.

Go to Maplin and get a small length of heat shrink tubing, cut 4 lenghts of tubing a little longer than the spring, remove each spring insert in a length of sleeve and then with a lighter get it to shrink over the spring cut off the excess. The spring will still... errr spring even with the rubber tubing around, only this time it will not be buzzing metal to metal no more.

Do you want my honest opinion? I would say if you are not bothered about what badge you get on the headstock then go for the Classic Vibe Jazz, it's got a lovely neck and a light weight yet resonant body, you would be saving a lot of money which you could invest in a set of "proper" pickups and electrics (pots & loom with capacitor) because the ones it comes with are below par. this is what I did to mine, See pics below: [b]Original guts[/b] [b]Replaced with Seymour Duncan Basslines Stacked humbuckers model STKJ1b & STKJ1n:[/b] [b]plus a wiring kit from ebay as follows:[/b] [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JAZZ-BASS-WIRING-KIT-HIGH-QUALITY_W0QQitemZ270534161395QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item3efd17b3f3"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JAZZ-BASS-WIRING-KIT...=item3efd17b3f3[/url] Now the bass plays and sounds way better than a MIM and I did try the real thing but decided to buy the CV instead.

[size=4][b]Here's the whole Squier Classic Vibe Collection[/b][/size]

I am in too! by the way..... [size=6][b]Who is Victor Vooten?[/b][/size] HAHA just kidding!

Understood, I make you right, then. Cheers pal In fact, when I've finished with these small modifications, i.e. the wiring and the pickups, I am prepared to let anyone who is interested, have a go at them, we can make it a soiree event somewhere in London, or better still, book an upstairs room in a pub, have a few civilized drinks and a laugh, I'll bring the basses and a combo. Anyone interested? Alternatively someone with a big house relatively close to London, I have no problem bringing the basses along within the M25.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='771137' date='Mar 11 2010, 12:04 AM']Do you just mean this particular Precision pickup? Because split P pickups are normally hum-cancelling aren't they?[/quote] That is what I originally thought, but he is right, I have just checked on the Squier website which says so too. [quote name=' Squier Website']The Classic Vibe Precision Bass ’60s delivers the true Precision Bass experience. Huge tone roars from its traditional split-single-coil pickup.[/quote]

[quote name='Alfie' post='771119' date='Mar 10 2010, 11:43 PM']What else are you going to do to it? You might get to the stage where you would have been better off just getting the Fender classic series fiesta red precision.[/quote] A new humbucking Seymour Duncan pickup and new pots / caps and proper wirings. thats all. The whole thing will cost below £60 all included

[quote name='Sibob' post='771109' date='Mar 10 2010, 11:35 PM']The stock pickup isn't a humbucker, just a standard split single coil, so I'm not surprised it's noisy!? Si[/quote] Ahh, bingo, that explains the racket from it! Cheers

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='771095' date='Mar 10 2010, 11:23 PM']Looks very nice though.[/quote] Thanks mate, I am very pleased too, when I finished with it, it will be lovely.

Right..... it's indeed a lovely bass and now that I have spent the last hour adjusting the action and the correct neck curve it plays like butter however, sadly playing it through the amp confirmed my suspicions, there is a lot of static when touching the strings on and off, this is meant to be an humbucker but it bucks f*** all hum! There seems to be hardly any earth or screening and I will have to have it done, for sure. This pickup sounds ok'ish but you need to warm it up with the amp eq controls otherwise it's brittle and thin, I didn't expect it to sound great, I hoped it would, but it doesn't and after my experience with the other two Classic Vibe, the Jazz and the 51 reissue, both needed new guts so I knew this one would have been no different. On the plus side, considering that the rest of the instrument is well constructed and the neck is lovely, the neck pocket is the best out of the 3, sorting out the pots and wirings and fitting a new pickup is not going to cost me an eye and as I said in my previous posts I had planned for this even before I bought it. all part of the fun.... oh and on looks, having seen that Hank Marvin Salmon Pink beauty (hehehe) I have decided that a white p/guard is more at home than this cheap looking tort which looks like someone puked a whole kebab on it

[quote name='Musicman20' post='771037' date='Mar 10 2010, 10:40 PM']Nice colour. I might look at one of these. Are they officially being released?[/quote] Not yet but they will be soon, hell they are not even advertised on the official Squier website!

ok the seller was bad, but don't worry fella ANY wood can be repaired, I have seen headstock snapped off and glued back stronger than before. Of course is going to cost you cash but take it to a reputable luthier and he will work magic on it. Oh and if the seller is local go kick his ass!

here we go lads! Enjoy Click on the links below [url="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CaptMoto/SquierP?feat=email#slideshow"]http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CaptMoto/Squ...email#slideshow[/url] [url="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CaptMoto/SquierP?feat=directlink"]http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/CaptMoto/Squ...feat=directlink[/url] small taster.... Right I've had no joy in trying this through an amp as I've had to rush back to work to take a ship in as my colleague has fallen sick, and now that the crisis is over, I have taken it to work with me and taken loads of pic and from playing it unplugged I can tell it needs a little set up as the neck is too straight and need a bit of a relief, and the saddles need to be raised slightly as the action is a bit too low, apart from that, thanks to the basswood body it is light and yet resonant, the neck is the right shape, not too chunky not too thin, just perfect. I'll be at home in a couple of hours and then I'll plug it in, meantime all the silly stickers have gone and it looks quite the part but, I do declare this is not Fiesta Red, this is Salmon Pink or Pino Palladino Pink whichever you wanna call it but if this is Fiesta Red then my name is Susan.

I got a text from "'er indoors" says fed-ex delvered a great big box. Guess I am leaving work now, had enough for the day. Pics to follow shortly.

[quote name='matski' post='769011' date='Mar 9 2010, 11:18 AM']Sounds like crap. No wonder he bungs so much fuzz on...[/quote] agreed on the sound, but could funk with a plank, and that is what matters!

[quote name='Sibob' post='769788' date='Mar 9 2010, 09:41 PM']Thanks for saying that, it's a proper pet hate of mine when people say they want to change the pickup before they've heard (or even received) the bass lol Si[/quote] Well perhaps seing as I own both of the other 2 Classic Vibe basses which they do, the 51 reissue P and the Jazz, I already have sufficient experience with my finding in regards to their "electrics", they did come with very cheapo sounding pickups, and I've had to fit duncans to put them right, I have no doubt this new Precision will also be in the same ball park. Squier have done a great job on the woods, the necks and even the bridges are pukka, but evidently they've had to cut corners somewhere and obviously the wiring, the pots and definately the pickups suffered as a result. So much so that they even claim to have used Alnico magnets but my luthier told me its a load of old blx, because he checked them out and told me they are ferrite or magnetite which are actually as common as most magnets found in fridge magnets, speaker magnets etc etc nothing as fancy as alnico I hate to say. But I am willing to give this P bass a fair chance before I swap p/ups Meantime this is how my 51' reissue P was delivered. It took me 2 days to work out why it was buzzing like hell until I lifted the pickup and found this horror Cold soldering and already showing "rust" in places this type of soldering is simply below acceptable and won't do no good to your sound, hence I have had to have both the Jazz and the '51 P rewired and fitted with the correct "period" pots / waxed cloth wires, now they are quite and noiseless and the Jazz is a killa! I tell thee!

[quote name='bh2' post='769711' date='Mar 9 2010, 08:54 PM']Are you going to keep it stock or mod it someways?[/quote] Not a lot really, just the pickup, I need to hear it first, if it sounds thin, or unbalanced, its going to get this pickup: [url="http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/basslines/vintage-1/spb1_vintage_fo/"]http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/bass...pb1_vintage_fo/[/url] But as I've said I'll have to give it a go first and see. (hear)

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='769597' date='Mar 9 2010, 07:23 PM']My thought exactly. I guess Bass5 will be able to tell us soon.[/quote] Well that is an easy one, I did ask the gentleman on the phone when I was ordering mine, what does it say on the back of the headstock and he confirmed that it's the same as the other 3 Classic Vibe's i.e. [i]"Crafted in China"[/i]. in fact except for the colour there are no differences in quality and parts. It's exactly the same as the Sonic Blue Precision.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='769251' date='Mar 9 2010, 02:03 PM']Slick work by a sly dog. We are prostrated with envy and admiration in equal part.[/quote] Why thank you Sir, Things like that you've just got to snap them quick, aintcha?