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[quote name='badboy1984' timestamp='1366902663' post='2058809'] What i mean by clanky punch tone is the flea bass tone. I'm trying to get that tone on my jazz by boosting mids and treble and striking the bass with force but still no clank or that punch i'm looking for. I got to admit my bass is not low action. Will low action and abit of fret buzz will give me that funky punch tone? [/quote] Try lighter strings. I recently put light DR Hi Beam strings on my Jazz and at a gig last night I let a friend try out my bass on a few songs. From out front it sounded very like the sound you describe. Which I'm not actually very keen on - so I'll be going back to my medium gauge rotosounds for a deeper sound. Types of strings and gauges of strings probably have as big an effect on your sound as your bass or amp have. Also try to just use the bridge pickup with the bass turned up as it will have a punchier sound. With lighter strings you should be able get a lower action too.

I told him that if he was selling his rug I'd buy it.

I wouldn't be surprised that it probably was given to him by Jaco. But it doesn't look like there's any way he can prove it. Interestingly ,although the trussrod will be adjustable at the body end, the neck has no trussrod plug up at the headstock end. Usually aftermarket and Fender necks do. Maybe it [u]is[/u] a luthier built bass....who knows. But $45,000 is very, very optimistic.

[quote name='richrips' timestamp='1366895268' post='2058681'] Hi All, When I'm not playing bass to crowds of millions, I moonlight as a biologist. I'm currently a researcher studying Communication and Cognition in Jackdaws in Falmouth, Cornwall. We have a bit of a technical issue that someone on here may be able to solve. I have 100 nest boxes, spread over 3 local field sites, each with a condenser microphone and HD video camera installed. The cables for each of these go down the tree in which the nestbox is fitted, and the ends are weather-proofed and hidden at the base of the tree. I currently record sound on an Olympus LS-100: [url="http://www.olympus.co.uk/site/en/a/audio_systems/audio_recording/sound_music_recorders/ls_100/index.html"]http://www.olympus.c..._100/index.html[/url] which is of excellent quality. Video is of lesser, but acceptable quality and is recorded by a mini HDVR [url="http://www.rfconcepts.co.uk/mini_dvr_h720.htm"]http://www.rfconcept...ni_dvr_h720.htm[/url] The trouble is that I process and analyse a LOT of this stuff and having sound and video recorded on separate devices is a pain in the A%%%. So... Does anyone know of a portable recorder that has external inputs for audio (XLR) and video (Phono/jack/similar) inputs? I can't be the only person to need this, but searching google is proving fruitless at the moment so I thought I'd tap in to the collective basschat brain. Any takers? Help very much appreciated! Rich [url="http://www.wildcognitionresearch.com/people/richard-woods"]http://www.wildcogni...e/richard-woods[/url] [/quote] A friend of mine used his Zoom HD video recorder to video my band and I was very impressed (especially since most video camers microphones are not designed to pick up bass frequencies). [url="http://www.zoom.co.jp/products/q3hd"]http://www.zoom.co.jp/products/q3hd[/url]

[b][i][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]By the way, "milk creates mucus".[/size][/font][/color][/i][/b] [color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]He's certainly an interesting character..... [/size][/font][/color]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1366836112' post='2057995'] Had an interesting day. While I was away on holiday in sunny Australia, my band started work on a demo for my covers band. Luckily the singer has a studio in his garage (Yes I know) But I didnt have a clue that they had started work in my absence. The drummer had laid down 7 songs with the other guys without anything else being recorded. Today I go to overdub bass only to find I have nothing but a drum track to follow. They seem to think the bass should be done before the guitars. I agree to an extent, but I feed off the guitars and drums in a live situation. So with the singer giving me cues, I done 7 bass parts in 2 hours!! Not a very enjoyable experience for an old git of 48 The songs: ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY- KRAVITZ FEEL LIKE MAKING LOVE- B COMPANY CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION- T REX ARE YOU READY - LIZZY OVERDOSE - ACDC ZIGGY STARDUST - BOWIE BORN TO BE WILD - STEPPENWOLF [/quote] I had to do something similar with one of the bands I play with. But when I got to the studio there wasn't even any drums or vocals, just a clicktrack, going plippity plop and some piano. On one there wasn't even a clicktrack just a rhythm guitar and no vocals or other instruments. Nightmare! The tracks are now finished and I'd give them a 7 out of 10. Mainly because the rhythm is all over the place. It's not my band and I wasn't paying for recording time but I told them that if there was a prize for recording the totally wrong way they'd win it hands down.

You'd have to have the ears of a bat to tell the difference. But I can tell the difference in this video for some reason? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w0SbaT0UbPM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w0SbaT0UbPM[/url] Maybe somebody with a physchology degree can explain.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1366826935' post='2057819'] Would a 74 Jazz have a bullet trussrod anyway? I thought they were quite a bit more recent than that, so the description is wrong but if it was right, the truss rod wouldn't be right for the period. [/quote] Late 74 along with the 3 bolt tiltable neckplate according to 'The Fender Bass' an illustrated history book. It has the bridge pickup in the 70s position and assume the stuff about getting a horrible respray is correct. It most likely is a 70s Jazz but I'd want to get my hands on it before I bought it, to make sure that neck could be realigned correctly. People aren't exactly queuing up to buy it. Probably for those very reasons.

I thought the same. I wonder if her bassface is a running gag in the band.

There's a big old gap at the top of the neck pocket the size of the grand canyon. He needs to loosen that neck and realign it or the G string will fall off the side of the neck every time someone tries to fret it. The last 74 I saw on ebay went for £1850, I doubt this will. And, although the description mentions a bullet trussrod, this neck doesn't have one.

Listening to Metallica I wonder why they don't just use an octaver (and keep it real low in the mix).

Try swapping the wires around. I had the same problem recently which was solved by doing this as I had wired them up out of phase initially. Remember to check the earth wire is connected correctly too. Also remember to use the pickups' screws to balance their output to your preference by adjusting the distance from the pickups to the strings, which makes a big difference. For example, If you want a bassier balance adjust the neck pickup to be nearer the strings than the bridge one. Or if you want a tighter sound set the bridge pickup nearer the strings.

[quote name='Max Dread' timestamp='1366495525' post='2053316'] Strange timing! Earlier today, I emailed a mate who's going to do some plastering for me. I've booked him in for the 4th May. Literally 7 minutes before your response he emailed me back and said "Star wars day is fine with me... (May the fourth be with you)". So the force it is I reckon! And just to be sure here, by that I'm guessing you mean "Go with the flow"? [/quote] Exactly!

Use the force Luke.

Just wrap it in bubblewrap and gaffa tape.

A few times drummers have got the rhythm so wrong (boom where the whack should be) that I've just stopped the song and got us to start again. It happens and audiences don't really have a problem with it. It's usually the musicians own embarrassment that makes them continue to grind their way through the song instead of stopping.

Looks like the real deal. The real bidders will be holding out for a last minute plunge. I reckon it will go for £1500 or thereabouts.

I've had a set of standard Mex pickups in my Jazz which were totally underwhelming and a set of vintage alnico pickups from a roadworn Jazz which were fantastic. So the answer is probably that they can be great but you get what you pay for. Just like everything else.

I'm on my 6th set of pickups in my Silver Squier Jazz. I've tried standard Mex, DiMarzio model Js, original 30 year old 1970s Seymour Duncans, Wizard 64s, Road Worn vintage Alnicos and of course the original Japanese Squier pickups. Each pickup definitely had their own character and were, in my opinion, very different to one another. But If I wasn't a bass player I doubt I would be able to tell one from the other. What I figured out in the end was, that by fitting a John East pre amp to my Jazz, I could get the cheapest set of pickups sounding like the most expensive on the market and everything in between. So the moral is, don't fork out for expensive designer pickups, buy a pre amp instead.

Keep on banging away at 'Hit Me' and your playing will get a lot better, that's for sure.

Anti-clockwise adds a bow to the the neck. Clockwise straightens it out. Try a quarter turn anti-clockwise, that should do the trick.

Not a very good demo. You can't hear the clean sound of the pickup, just the overdrive. Any old argos catalogue bass could sound like that if you put it through an overdrive.

I saw this a week or so ago and some people had actually bid over £70 for it. I wouldn't give £20 for it. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-body-early-1970s-sunburst-/200911399462?nma=true&si=vtAM%252BuCbJY1Bfduz9BlCwgooE70%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-Bass-body-early-1970s-sunburst-/200911399462?nma=true&si=vtAM%252BuCbJY1Bfduz9BlCwgooE70%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557[/url]