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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.

[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.