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[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1401054754' post='2459676'] Chuned. Haha EDIT: how can you tell it's hot? [/quote] My spider sense says his story sounds unlikely. And I read somewhere, that 80% of criminals in British prisons were bad at spelling.

The person who has written this ad is obviously a moron. If find it unlikely that this is an unwanted gift for an ungrateful son. My spider sense is tingling. [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/for-sale-guitar-fender-precision/1062152816#photo-content"]http://www.gumtree.c...6#photo-content[/url]

I played through one of these in a recording studio recently. I tried to lift it and it was so heavy, I thought it must have been screwed to the cab it was sitting on. It wasn't........

Thanks for that.

What you hear on that track is most likely just the Jazz bass straight into the desk. Whatever tone the bass players getting is at the whim of the sound engineer. It's unlikely to be the 'sound' of the amp he's using to monitor himself onstage. But saying that, Ed Friedland is a big fan of Genz Benz and he can get a very warm sound from them.

Space Trucking is an overlooked classic IMO. It's big and dumb, but fun. A bit like Ian Gillan http://youtu.be/hHOrpFeXUao

Yeah look like 70s type. Strings direct do a set for £60 http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/p/921749/fender-pure-vintage-70s-bass-tuning-machineheads/

The cheaper (£100) after market necks are not bad but they won't be as good as your Fender. If I were you I'd save my pennies and go for a Warmoth. You can't get better [url="http://www.warmoth.com/"]http://www.warmoth.com/[/url]

I bought a John East J-Retro from Russell. Perfect nick and posted like a flash. Deal with confidence.

If you've tested everything else, I'd test the cable from amp to cab. And maybe the connectors in the cab itself. Interestingly, valve amps aren't so sensitive to voltage fluctuations as their capacitors hold charge. Which is why they stay on for a while after you've switched them off. I found that out when I played at an outside venue with a generator which kept on going on and off. The lights would flutter, my amp would switch itself off, but the guitarists just kept on going, totally oblivious to the power problem.

Do you have a blend control? If not, try lowering the split pickup and making the single coil higher so you get more output and bite from the bridge pickup.

I usually have to get my ears syringed every 9 months. I tried one of those over the counter ear drops (Otex) which uses hydrogen peroxide to dislodge the wax. It didn't work and gave me an allergic reaction. These days I just stick to syringing.

I had one and loved it, but had to move it on before it gave me a hernia. They were originally supposed to have neodymium speakers fitted to save weight but it didn't happen.

Why sell a bass once, when you can sell it twice.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399194853' post='2441854'] It's the old story - in my humble opinion guitarists need no more than 30 valve watts at the very most. That will get you heard on the biggest stages. It's different for bass, of course. [/quote] My guitarist has a VOX AC30 and a Blues Junior 15w valve amp. He now, almost always, uses the 15 watter. I have him well trained.

As an example here is metallica playing their version of Whiskey in The Jar. You can see a bass player in the video but he might as well not be there. If he told the guitarists to 'turn the effin bass down!'. You might be able to hear him. By the way Phil Lynott is, at this moment, turning in his grave! [media]http://youtu.be/boanuwUMNNQ[/media]

Alternatively you could experiment by turning the bass down on the guitarists amps. I notice when guitarists I play with have very bass heavy sounds, my bass sounds indistinct or just disappears from the mix. But when they go to the back pickup or play a solo, all of a sudden my bass sounds loud and proud. The guitarist in one of the bands I play in has two guitars, one is a bass heavy Gretsch the other a trebly telecaster. I sound much louder in the mix when he plays the tele as apposed to the Gretsch.

Ding it now! Get it over with.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1398880289' post='2438644'] I will not permit our band to use deps anymore, they tried it once before, against my wishes and it was a disaster, we have all worked really hard to become the unit we are, if you start chopping and changing musicians every other gig, then to me, you are not a band just a bunch of journey men musicians. I am proud of our band and our reputation and will do anything to protect it [/quote] I'm with you there. You don't want a people in a band that are not ready to put the commitment in.

I remember when a friend of mine asked if I would dep for his bass player as he couldn't make the gig. The gig started and after the second song, who should turn up but the bassist I was depping for. He came up to me between songs and asked if he could get up and play a tune or two. I handed him my bass and he never sat down again until the gig was over. I just put his behaviour down to insecurity, as he was obviously scared of losing his job in the band (I should have realised he was serious when he turned up in leather trousers). At the end of the gig I got paid and he didn't, as his band thought he was as big a dickhead as I did.

The Fender TV15. Which unfortunately is no longer produced by Fender because it was too big, too heavy and not loud enough. But it sure was purty [center][attachment=161433:Fender-Bassman-TV-Duo-Ten.jpg][/center]

Handy to whack a sponge under the bridge ashtray, to damp the strings, like James Jamerson used to do. But originally, I think they were put there for purely aesthetic reasons.

I bought a scratchplate recently which wasn't shielded and my P bass buzzed (which went away when I touched bridge or metal jack plug case). Put my old shielded scratchplate back on.........no buzz. So I bought a sheet of copper shielding foil from a dude on ebay, stuck it to my new scratchplate, fitted it, and the buzz was gone. I thought about shielding the cavitys, like I've done on my Jazz, but it was no longer necessary as the buzzing was just a memory. This is the guy [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121304706142?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649"]http://www.ebay.co.u...984.m1439.l2649[/url]

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1398466278' post='2434540'] Well that didn't go well. 90 mins into Mr Axe jnr's first rehearsal with the combo, it gave up the ghost. Further investigation revealed that the amp itself is fine, but the speaker works only very intermittently. I am told it was being played at or near full tilt, so maybe the speaker is trashed - it is rated at 250W and the 400W amp would be expected to put out about that much into an 8ohm load. He is going to get one of the rehearsal room bods to take a look at it. We are hoping it is something simple like a loose connection. The Sale of Goods / warranty route is a bit of a non-starter because of the cost of getting the thing back to Blighty. If it [i]is[/i] Donald Ducked, his options would be to replace the driver with a more powerful unit (although there would be no way of knowing how well it would match the cab), or extract the MiBass head and acquire a different light-weight cab with a higher power rating. For the moment though, he is understandably gutted. [/quote] A word in the right ear might get you the help you need http://basschat.co.uk/user/11294-ashdown-engineering/