gjones

I bought a set of mexican Jazz bass pickups from ebay which cost me the princely sum of £9.99. I was chopping and changing pickups at the time and decided, at that price, they were worth a try. Compared to the other pickups I've had in my bass they didn't get a very good score out of 10. These are the pickups I've tried in the last 2 years. American Vintage 9/10 (very stereotypical growly Jazz Bass) American Original 9/10 (quite rounded 60's style Jazz Bass) Wizard 64s 9/10 (very like the American vintage sound) MIJ Silver Squiers 9/10 (deeper rounded sound almost precisionlike) DiMarzio Model J 6/10 (very deep dirty sounding - not very typical Jazz Bass) Mex Standard 5/10 (not very exciting compared to the others - not much character) Squier standard 7/10 (decent all rounder - especially considering the bass only cost me £95 secondhand) Roadworn Jazz 10/10 (best sounding pickups I've owned - great character. Can do growly Jaco and deep John Paul Jones. These are made in Mexico so shows they can get it right if they want to)

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1372057414' post='2120974'] That does look nice. I got one recently and the tone is amazing - sounds more like a P Bass than any other I have picked up. Lightweight and relatively narrow neck, too. Gotta spread da lurve about Silver Series P Basses! [/quote] And Jazzes too. Silver Series basses are a real bargain in my opinion.

Buy a roadworn Fender. Every new dent increases it's resale value

I had to give up on a superlow action on my Geddy Lee, as it's very shallow neck always needed adjustment.

Nice.

Noel Gallagher's put down of Coldpay is a classic, 'music for bedwetters'.

The Dana Dixon Band at Belfast Blues Festival 28th, 29th, 30th June

The tuners on my 70's neck are stiff and I like them that way. The thing stays in tune for years at a time.

I own a Boss GEB-7 which is very handy to fine tune my amps EQ. It's simple and effective. I'm sure the Ashdown graphic sounds good but it does seem like you need to faff about with it a lot to get the best out of it.

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1371582998' post='2115910'] Is that a Fender? I saw that video the other day and wanted to know what type of bass it was. It looks rather groovy. Sounds it too! [/quote] Looks like it's a perspex Dan Armstrong body with a Fender style neck. The truss rod looks like a bullet 70's style one, so it may be a Fender neck with the logo removed? Like this one [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmn1HSKcHcI[/media] If you want a perspex bass, Charlie Jones (Goldfrapps bass player) gets his made here [url="http://crimsonguitars.com/gallery/charlie-jones-perspex-bass/"]http://crimsonguitar...s-perspex-bass/[/url]

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1371567735' post='2115621'] Masking the logo on a Precision seems to be a bit pointless really. Its so easily recognised, and Precisions are a sort of industry standard. So I cant see Fender giving a flying f*** really. Just drives home the point that, long term, Fender, unlike most boutique brands, are a bigger name than the artistes who play them. Surely tfor a biggish name bassplayer to be seen playing a Precision copy would be much mre effective c/w logo, and say, a Westfield , or well known copy brand T shirt would hit Fender harder. That way kids, who will choose what their heroes play at first, maybe wouldnt be so quick to aspire to owning Fenders. I'm not suggesting Westfields in particular, nor that they are as good bty ( although once set up nicely, some of em are much better than you would expect for the price) [/quote] Some brands pay [b]BIG[/b] money to get product placement. Just look at the Bond movies. Bond now drinks Heineken beer and wears Omega watches as a direct result of deals made with the producers.

Interestingly there's a lot of bassists who play Fenders but mask the Fender logo with tape when they play live. I'm assuming it's because they've tried to get a Fender endorsement and Fender have told them to 'Get the F*** outa here!'. So they've refused to give them free advertising. I noticed it again in the Daft Punk video of Get Lucky. Niles Rodgers has his logo masked off too. If he isn't endorsed by Fender he should be. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EofwRzit0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EofwRzit0[/url]

I've thought of it myself. And look Maplins have a case all made up for you already [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/19-inch-2u-case-30611?c=maplin&utm_source=gcs&utm_medium=gcs_search&utm_campaign=QZ90X&utm_content=Cases&%7Bifpe:_$ja=tsid:49900%7Ccgn%3A%7Badtype%7Dkw%3A%7CQZ90X%7D%7Bifdyn:_$ja=tsid:49900%7D&_$ja=cgid:7690035043|tsid:49900|cid:119049883|lid:21209467200|nw:{ifsearch:search}{ifcontent:content}|crid:26685291403&gclid=CMaX39es7LcCFVHMtAodb24AjQ"]http://www.maplin.co...CFVHMtAodb24AjQ[/url] Ignore the weird picture. It should be the exact size you need, a 2u 19 inch rack, which should fit an Ashdown head perfectly (by the way don't blame me if it doesn't).

Video of Scots bassist, Chris Agnew, singing a very silly song called 'I like to slap my bass'. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKTXBK3oPg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKTXBK3oPg[/url]

[quote name='Subfeeder' timestamp='1371478823' post='2114315'] Yes I did see that and was tempted. How is the volume of the EA Micro? I don't play really loud but would want something that would keep up with a loud drummer. Also not sure how it well it would work with Electric Bass. [/quote] The digital Ashdown MiBass has a semi parametric EQ, and also allows you to cut out the pre amp with a push of a button. When the EQ is flat there is very little colouring. It's also very light. Comes on 500 watss and 220 watts.

I once told a guitarist that sound engineers find bass much more complicated and difficult to get a good sound with than guitar. He just looked at me and laughed.

Pity Mr Le Bon can't sing in tune with the bass. Autotune must have been a dream come true.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1371342524' post='2112849'] But what does that have to do with anything. That's only relevant in a standing wave and just means that there will be nodes when the room is a multiple of whole, half, quater, etcl number of wavelengths long. It has much more to do with room size and where you're standing than just being further away from your cab. [/quote] It would work if you were in a field or in the desert. EDIT: on a windless day.