gjones

The reason why people rant on internet forums is because they can. In real life when your boss, the salesperson in the shop, the traffic warden, the person, listening to techno at frightening volume, sitting in front of you on the bus, piss you off......you have to hold your tongue. Because there are consequences to actually saying what you feel in REAL life. On the internet there are none. So when you get narked by the frustrating irritations in your, day to day, life. You can vent by coming onto off topic and letting it rip!

Bloody hell, they take themselves seriously don't they. Just send them a text or email saying 'Have I got the gig?'. If they um and arr then tell them you're not interested (unless you really need the cash). They sound like they may be numpties.

By the way, I thought Surbiton was a made up town, where Mr Bean and Frank Spencer lived. I didn't realise it actually existed in reality.

The better you are, the quieter you can play and still sound good. But saying that, there is a minimum volume you need to play at, to be able to play AC/DC tunes without them sounding sh*t.

I know of no guitarists who carry around DI boxes for their acoustic guitars. If it's an electric acoustic, with a battery powered pre amp, you won't need one. You can just plug straight into the desk. The worst case scenario is where you just stick a mic in front of your guitar and away you go.

A 'Grant' which cost me £50 secondhand. It was a Precision copy. They were imported from Asia, by a shop in Edinburgh called Grants, in the 80s. Some guy was trying to sell one on Basschat a couple of years ago for £400 as a collectible vintage bass. I can't remember his name but I do remember how he described it. [b][size=6]+++AWESOME+++[/size][/b] [size=4]It wasn't......[/size] Edit: I found that very ad. Heeheeheee...... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/175221-sold/

I prefer this song by Honeyblood, played at the Same Radio 1 big weekend. But maybe that's just because the singer is my niece Stina. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zr873

Nut slot height can also make a big difference to playability from open string to 5th fret. I've filed the nut on my Jazz bass and it makes it a lot easier to play. This video shows how a MIM standard bass leaves the factory with a nut that really needs a good seeing too (not sure about USA standards). http://youtu.be/cI9Y9MsmnEc

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1401145292' post='2460625'] While on the subject of dating Fenders any ideas on the date of this Jazz Bass? [/quote] My Fender book says 1967 until 74.

I haven't even looked at the basses for sale section for about a year. And that's coming from a guy who bought 9 basses in 3 years, between 2009 and 2012. But now my priorities have changed and I no longer have an insatiable urge to try new basses. I've settled with a really nice P bass and a really nice Jazz and I no longer have GAS for basses any longer.

[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.